Author: Rami Chuene
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Chatting Change Episode 10: Take a break! Why going for the gap can put you back on track
Between school and varsity and choosing a career, between tying the knot and finding a home and raising a family, there’s barely time to pause in the hurly-burly of modern life.
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Chatting Change Episode 9: Super-Planner Precious on Preventing & Surviving Wedding Day Disasters
Whether the Big Day is a grand traditional affair or a trendy contemporary celebration, every wedding is fraught with the prospect of the most carefully-calculated plans going wrong, wrong, wrong.
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Chatting Change Episode 8: Where do you stand, when living together turns to falling apart?
For young couples who choose to live together before or instead of getting married, it’s a tough question that must be tackled, no matter how happily they’re habitating.
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Chatting Change Episode 7: The heavy costs, financial & emotional, of striving to bring a child into the world
Love is the currency you need to raise a child, but let’s be honest: it takes a bit of money too.
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Chatting Change Episode 6: Multipreneur Mo Malele on making the most of yourself in today’s changing world of work
Toiling away from 9 to 5, confined and defined by the specs and KPIs of the job that occupies you, is no way to make a happy living in the digital age.
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Chatting Change Episode 5: How actress-baker Renate Stuurman found a way to bake her cake and eat it too
When you have too much month left over at the end of your money, and the bills keep piling up, there’s only one thing you can do. Or two things, or three, or maybe even more.
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Chatting Change Episode 4: Star realtor Thato ‘TT’ Mbha on finding a home for your dreams
Whether your dream home is a multi-storey mansion overlooking a golf course, a penthouse among the clouds, or a chic little lock-up-and-go in a gated estate, there’s a lot more to putting down roots than dreaming beyond your means.
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Chatting Change Episode 3: What you need to know about bringing up children in a multicultural household
In a country with 11 official languages, and a rich legacy of traditions, practises, and beliefs, culture is an anchor to ancestry and a bridge to the future.
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Chatting Change Episode 2: How to have those tough conversations about your Vat-en-Sit living arrangements
Call it co-habitation, call it moving in together, or call it, as we do in South Africa, “vat en sit”. Either way, it’s a living arrangement that calls for a lot of thought, planning, and serious conversation.
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Chatting Change Episode 1: Actress & solo mom Philicity Reeken on the art of being a no-drama mama
Parenting, as any parent will tell you, in-between the abundant joys and rewards, is drama.