Category Archives: Career Development

According to LeanIn State of the Black Women in the Workplace Report, Black Women have the worst experience in the Workplace than any other demographic. The picture is not too different in the South African Workplaces, evidenced by the scant representation of Black Women in leadership positions in South African Corporates. One of the mainContinue reading “Free Webinar Invite”

Unlearn! We all have a duty to unlearn in order to heal ourselves, relate better with one another and to create the change that will enable the next generations to inherit a better world than we had found it. Just as those who have come before us have done. Living in a WhiteSupremacistCapitalistPatriarchy as BellHooksContinue reading “Unlearn”

The Phantom is here Trevor Noah was asked by a guest in his show what the difference was between racism in the US vs in South Africa. He said that in South Africa the advantage is that Apartheid was visible, brazen, discrimination was real and in your face; while in the US it was invisibleContinue reading “The Phantom is here”

Whatever platform has been afforded to you use it to be a change maker, be the voice of conscience, call people up to their humanity. Because when we oppress others, when we cause harm to others; we inadvertently cause it to ourselves. Whether we believe it or not, or like it or not, we areContinue reading “Disrupt!”

I am not sure if people come into our lives to teach us something about ourselves. I am weary of believing that’s the absolute truth because it may take away accountability from people for their bad behaviour. Absolving them of their faults because ‘every thing happens for a reason’. I think this one of theContinue reading “Observing our rejection of Ourselves”

When you have been taught that humility; being a good girl means shrinking yourself to take up as little space as possible; You might realise too late that you have been abused and you should have cried out. A lot of Black women are getting sick mentally and physically and end up dying from theContinue reading “Cry out, Speak up, Protest”

At some stage you need to divest yourself from needing to prove anything to anyone. You need to step away from showing anyone that you are not whatever or that you are whatever. You need to stop performing and start living your life, stepping into your greatness, fulfilling your life’s calling. You need to setContinue reading “Close the curtain, get off the stage, and be about the business of doing you.”

Believe in the power of your own ideas. I was reading one Peggy Macintosh’s essays where she made the above statement, that young people should believe in the power of their own ideas. Not only should they believe in them. They should pursue them, expand them, look for clues that success always leave behind. SpendContinue reading “Believe in the power of your own ideas”

Freedom from the fear of disapproval by others.Part of my own healing, growth and Self-reclamation as a Recovering People Pleaser is to be comfortable with being disapproved of by others. Not only the disapproval of others but the acceptance of my own character flaws. I have walked around all my life with a dominant storyContinue reading “Freedom from the fear of disapproval”