Category: Starting a Family
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Podcast: EWN’s Katy Katopodis, on balancing life with the news
But as much as Katy thrives on the adrenaline of the ever-shifting agenda, she admits that she herself has had to be kick-started into accepting the challenges and opportunities that have defined and driven her career.
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Podcast: Drama queen Rami on how to alter your ego
An all-round entertainer since her schooldays, Rami has effortlessly made the transition from acting to singing, and the title of her debut album sums up her attitude to taking up a challenge: “From Fear to Love”.
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Podcast: Graeme Smith on Loving Change before, during and after cricket
Graeme took charge of his teammates, coaches and staff on tour at the age of 22 – something that was set to change his life forever. Since his retirement from international cricket in 2014, his responsibilities shifted to his family.
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Podcast: Jo-Ann Strauss – from glam girl to modern mommy
Ruda Landman caught up with Jo-Ann in Cape Town to chat about her change journey, which hasn’t stopped since she wore the Miss South Africa crown in 2000.
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Podcast: The story behind the girl who couldn’t say no
Ruda met up with this inspirational mother to hear her story and find out more about her book, The Girl Who Couldn’t Say No, as well as Young Mom Support, the social support group Tracy started to help pregnant and parenting teens navigate this huge change moment at such a young age.
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Podcast: Comedian Marc Lottering on living life of laughter, change after change
A thread of laughter ran through the entire interview, but it never negated his deeply thoughtful view of the world, and of himself.
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Podcast: How one amazing woman found a home of hope in Hillbrow
Khanyisile Motsa, affectionately known as Mam’ Khanyi, is the founder of Home of Hope in Berea near Hillbrow. More than a shelter, Home of Hope is an awe-inspiring initiative aimed at taking street children, child prostitutes and abandoned teenage mothers off the streets.
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Podcast: How ProVerb worked his way from underachiever to hip-hop hero
Growing up in Kimberley in the Northern Cape, he struggled at school, whiling away his free time by rapping freestyle with his friends. He turned his skilfully rhyming words into action when he moved to Joburg in 1999 and began entering rap contests and talent shows. Having discovered his niche in sound engineering, he found…
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Podcast: Katlego Maboe on how the flip of a coin can Change your life
As a member of the acapella group, Flip a Coin, he has enthralled audiences on Idols and the Huisgenoot Skouspel, and his portfolio as an engaging, multilingual TV presenter ranges from 50/50 to Strictly Come Dancing to the SABC3 magazine show, Expresso.
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Podcast: Angel Jones on why SA expats are flocking back home
We met in June 2015 at the BrightRock studio in Johannesburg to talk about the “brain gain”, the harsh realities of life abroad, and the challenges of making a new home and a new life in the happy-sad land we call South Africa.