I aspire for a fulfilled life that does not require for me to switch off from any one of my roles but be able to move through each responsibility I have with fluidity.
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Art of Balance
Search for: Art of Balance career / home / Relationship / Self-care Art you in? I’ve been invited many times to speak on the concept of balance. I think when people look from outside in, they see this person who has it all figured out. As I type this,...
10 Tips For Starting Your Own Side Hustle
1. Analyse your time usage and where you can steal time or cut down activities to invest that time back into your side hustle Before deciding to start a side hustle, it is important to assess your schedule and look for moments in your day that can be...
Trust Your Gut: Gut & Liver Health
My Story I’ve always been one to listen to my body and allow it to cue me towards good health and function. But lately, no matter how much I tried, eating healthy, fasting, drinking plenty water, moving more… you name it, my body was just not happy. I was feeling...
Fallacy or Fact: Working From Home Is Productive
This past year was atrocious to the whole world and at the moment, no one wants to revisit the memories created during the height of the COVID19 pandemic. Nevertheless, that painful period educated many of us. We learnt new words like ‘Zoom dysmorphia,’ ‘Comorbidity,’...
Feb Editor’s Note: Growing in Love Where You Are Planted
Olwethu’s February Editor’s Note.
Start Up Your Dream Jar
It was December 2018 in Cape Town and we were on holiday with the family. We had a magnificent Airbnb in Fresnaye that was overlooking the ocean. But we spent a few of our days driving out to Llandudno to visit friends who had rented a house out there. We spent some...
What We’ve Learnt About Our Relationship During Lockdown
Lockdown on the most part has been good to us as a family. But not without some speed humps. Our family is from the Eastern Cape and every Easter, June and December Holidays we would make the long road trip down there from our home in Polokwane (then Pietersburg) and...
Olwethu speaks to the Gauteng Chair of the Literary Association of South Africa- Tumelo Motaung. Their discussion runs the gamut from how to get kids and the family reading to the politics and concerns of multilingual literature as well as the importance of...
This week’s episode deals with really tough subject matter. The phenomenon of women outing their abusers online is one that we see a lot of and in many ways this episode is looking for the best way to navigate this sometimes treacherous terrain of sharing details of...
This episode is all about how we can deal with fussy eaters and make sure kids get maximum nutritional benefit from the meals we cook at home. Whether it’s kids who refuse to eat their veggies or children with allergies- this is all about getting useful tips on how...
On this episode Olwethu sits down with Raelene Rorke to discuss raising girls vs raising boys. Is there a real difference between the two or is each child a unique experience all unto themselves? They share insights and contrast their experiences as the mothers of...
Olwethu talks to Zimasa Mabuse about career decisions and how to stay in a field of study or to follow your yen and pivot to something else. Essentially- how can we take dramatic and unexpected decisions (according to some) responsibly, effectively, with maximum...
The Sit Down with Olwethu Leshabane is a podcast for women everywhere who are exploring The Art of Superwoman. Olwethu unpacks and explores everything that affects women… work and career, relationships and love, parenthood and marriage, WOMENOMICS and lifestyle....
Tips for Black Career Women
As a young black woman in an industry that is dominated by white men, it is so hard to stay on course and maneuver our way through without feeling like giving up or giving in… I have been blessed enough to be surrounded by and to be intentional in seeking out...
Pregnancy, Body Policing… And Rape Culture.
Images taken by Trevor Stuurman “I celebrate my shifting form, grateful to be free, temporarily, from the feeling that any increase in my size is betrayal, horror or a source of shame.” This being my third pregnancy, I have come to fully embrace (finally!!!) the...
I’ve Disassociated Myself From Mrs South Africa, But Here’s Why You Should Enter In 2018
“How you gon’ hate from outside the club? You can’t even get in.” This Chris Brown jam always rings back at me when I think of whether to come at a subject that has to do with exclusion. Because here’s the reality, most of the time we are critiquing from the outside...
