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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.
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...
This episode of The Sit Down is all about Womenomics! Olwethu has a candid and informative chat with Nicolette Mashile (TV presenter and founder of Financial Fitness Bunny – a Financial Education agency that seeks to simplify Financial and Consumer Education on...
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...
Networking Within Your Industry
Whether you’re starting out as a junior or are years into your particular industry, networking is important and very crucial to staying relevant, top of mind and getting to know who is who. So today look around you and your space and identify who are the people that...
Open Letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa
This year’s Valentine’s day ended for many of us with the words: “ I have therefore come to the decision to resign as President of the Republic with immediate effect.” I don’t think a sweeter romantic melody could have surpassed that. Not even Luther...
Spring Clean Your Life & Make Boss Moves
Being on the heavier side of 25 has really been eye opening for me. I have come to realise the value and importance of personal peace, setting standards for engagement. Walking into meetings with objectives (very clear ones) but having an open mind to what the outcome...
Career Roadmapping
In order for us to have a purpose and mission to work towards, I feel we need to have a career roadmap. For those that are employed, this is especially important in order to not find yourself caught in a rut and feeling unprogressive in the career you are in. Although...
Relooking at Mentorship for the future
I was recently invited as a panelist, by a fellow blogger who has become a friend – Zimasa from The Corporate Canvas, at their first annual networking event. The first question Zimasa asked me during the panel discussion portion of the event was: What comes...
EquaLiberty
I was invited by Liberty Investments to speak to the ladies in their Cape Town office this woman's month and keeping with my 2017 theme of EQ (Emotional Maturity), my talk went as follows: I took a look at the brief rationale: Liberty and Equality, as both a company...
The Black Millennial Digital Entrepreneur
Follow my blog with Bloglovin …apparently that’s what they call us – The black millennial digital entrepreneurs aka the BMW or even the DoERs. Apparently we’re characterised by our smarts, creative, business savvy, culturally astute, collaborative and family...
How To Deal With A Situation Of Things Going Pear-Shaped
Few things, beside tax and death, are guaranteed in life. Outside those things, nothing is guaranteed. In your career and education or even personal life and finances, at least one thing will go wrong. I, for one, know this for sure. I went back to school last year...
My Pursuit of Discovering My Purpose
Most of us don’t even know what the heck we are going to do with their lives. You get out of school and slap bang into the real world. Then we sort of spill or fall into jobs that happen to us… Before we know it we’re making money and paying bills. Between 18 and 23,...
Young Women & Our Finances: Womenomics
Here are some facts you may not know: Black women have to work seven hours more in order to earn what their male co-worker makes. Black women are also more inclined than any other group to assist friends or family financially. Women in general are more likely to work...
Challenges that face women in the business world
Gone are the days when entrepreneurship was considered a mans world, women are in the for the kill now. But we have challenges that hinder us from fully integrating us into this world we were previously never accustomed to being in. Here are the challenges: Women...
