Category: Tying the Knot
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Podcast: Prof Nicola Kleyn, Dean of GIBS, on turning crisis into opportunity
She sat down with Ruda to talk about shattering perceptions, the personal crisis that made her leave a high-power job in the corporate world, and the art and science of helping business get down to business.
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Podcast: Arthur Goldstuck on how we’re finally living in the real world of Star Wars
The little town of Trompsburg in the Free State lies not too far from Bloemfontein, a city famous, among other things, as the birthplace of JRR Tolkien, author of the Lord of the Rings series. But Trompsburg can lay claim to its own scribe of legend and lore: Arthur Goldstuck.
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Podcast: Prof Jonathan Jansen – “I get bored quickly, and I thrive in places that are difficult”
“I have never worked in a situation in which I felt comfortable,” he says. “Culturally, or socially or linguistically.” But he has never been able to resist his calling, and the challenge of turning it into an opportunity to transform others and himself.
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Podcast: How Kass Naidoo hit the glass ceiling of South African cricket for a six
Kass Naidoo made her debut in the commentary box at the 2003 Cricket World Cup. Of course, it wasn’t so much a dream as a defiant plan of action, which Kass brought to life by sharpening her skills and knowledge, learning from colleagues and mentors, and refusing to let negative criticism get her down
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Podcast: Bonnie Mbuli on fame, reinvention & rediscovering happiness
Bonnie’s journey has led her from bright lights to dashed dreams to divorce and the darkness of clinical depression. But she is a survivor too, resilient and determined, a blazing star about to embark on the third act of her remarkable story.
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Podcast: Black Like Herman: Joburg’s Hair to the Throne
Where do great entrepreneurial stories begin? With a dream, of course. But they also need a space for their genesis. For Joburg’s newly elected Mayor, Herman Mashaba, business began in the boot of a car.
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Podcast: The hair-raising story of how Khulile built her business
Between her busy days and her fast-growing sideline, Khulile Vilakazi-Ofosu found the time to sit down with Ruda for an insightful chat about ambition, opportunity, and the hair-raising life of a modern business executive.
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Podcast: Is Seth Rotherham South Africa’s answer to Richard Branson?
Ambitious, restless, driven, and above all, happily in control of his holiday-obsessed life, Seth Rotherham is a model of how to make it on your own terms.
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Podcast: Given Mkhari – Media power-player, ‘coward with conviction’
It sounds like risky business, but Given, Mkhari a former teacher, ad industry executive, and talkshow host, doesn’t think of himself as a risk-taker. “I’m a coward with conviction,” he tells Ruda.
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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.