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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.
Reflection: Ten Financial Lessons For Your Relationship
Art of Superwoman hosted a webinar this past weekend, tackling issues linked with money and relationships that a lot of couples grapple within their unions, especially during the pandemic. Money is the leading issue that couples clash over and evidence highlights that...
Reflection: Five Ways To Recover From A Financial Setback
Conversations around finances have always been tricky to navigate but are extremely crucial to have as we journey to setting ourselves up to reach our financial goals. As we prepare for this week’s Art of Superwoman Webinar on The Pandemic’s Effects on Finances and...
Different Year, Same Struggle For Women
First published in Sunday Times, August 2020 - a year later after writing this piece I can rewrite it and it would still be relevant. So I ask you as a South African woman, does your workplace have a deliberate acquisition and retention strategy for women? Does your...
The Key To Reaching Your Financial Goals: Tag Teaming With Your Financial Advisor
Who do you absolutely trust with your personal finances? Is it your spouse, lifelong best friend, sibling or no one at all? Who do you rely on, to talk you out of a bad financial decision or perhaps steer you in the right direction for a major financial shift in your...
National Savings Month Series (Pt 5): Saving Money Through Stokvels
‘Tshitokofela’ is the Tshivenda word for Stokvel. I heard this term being thrown around a lot in my late childhood and teenage years. I witnessed my mother join different stokvels year after year, and sometimes she’d be part of more than two at a time. When the...
National Savings Month Series (Pt 4): Four Money Saving Lessons From Frugal Living
Before we could easily access print publications online, I remember how we would eagerly wait for the weekly delivery of the Sunday newspaper at home. So, this is how we would split and rotate the newspaper. Dad would have the first dibs of the current affairs...
National Savings Month Series (Pt 3): Windfalls & How Not To Blow Them
In part two of our savings month series, previously, we dug deeper to find out common excuses that we often have when the savings topic comes up. Through the advice of financial advisers we are now knowledgeable about how to overcome those excuses. In part three...
National Savings Month Series: What’s Your Excuse For Not Saving? (Pt 2)
If a fortune teller drew you closer to their crystal ball, laying out a picture of what your financial future looks like, would you be impressed? Well I guess some of us would be hoping she makes up a glorious future and sells us dreams because reality is well… bleak....
More Than A Number’s Game
Someone once said, there is no force more powerful than a woman determined to rise and as we celebrate National Chartered Accountants Day, which originates from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), celebrating their 73rd Anniversary today, we bring...
National Savings Month Series: Here’s The Topic That You’ve Been Avoiding: Saving! (Pt 1)
Growing up, my parents always told me about saving money. Without revealing my age, R5 when I was in school could get me two packets of small chips, sweet iceblock, and bubblegum. My dad gave me R5 as pocket money, and he always told me to save at least R2 from the R5...
Ladies, Let’s Normalize Being The Breadwinner
If this blog post was published in the 1950s, it would raise some eyebrows mainly because of how traditional beliefs were hammered into shaping perspectives and observing the hierarchy that defined gender roles. The typical stereotype for women to take care of...
Keeping Your Own Purse In Your Relationship Part 2
Ladies, let’s talk. While we might agree that there’s some progressive changes in the perceptions and lived realities of power dynamics in relationships today, when it comes to finances, we do experience some form of limitations. In most instances, it is the woman...
Keeping Your Own Purse In Your Relationship Part 1
Historically, women are not expected to be financially independent in their relationships. It’s often a taboo that they would have an amount of money kept away for themselves and be able to exclude it from a relationship, especially when married in...
Hi! My Name Is… And I’m A Shopaholic 2.0
… let’s continue from where we left off shall we? Oniomania, a new word we learnt from last week’s Womenomics blog post about the financial implications of being a shopaholic, which Financial Advisor, Sheila-Anne Robey simply defined as the act of being a consumer...
