Category: Ruda talks change
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Meet the kid from Koster who grew up to dress Thuli & a Kardashian
Gert-Johan Coetzee’s scale of ambition was matched by a natural talent for working with fabric, and he was still a high school teenager when he started a sewing business, designing and making matric-dance outfits in his North West farming town.
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Podcast: Bronwyn Nielsen, anchor in a sea of Change
She sat down, anchor to anchor, with Ruda, to chat about change, ambition, the joys of working in a field that doesn’t feel like work, and the challenges of bringing up a family in the frontline of the global business and media revolution
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Podcast: How tough guy Clint made his way from Backstage hero to the brink of superstardom
Clint owes his raw, natural talent as much to his formative years in a rough neighbourhood in Paarl in the Boland, where he learned how to think quickly on his feet in situations “where you are scared to be yourself and scared to look different”.
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Podcast: How Graeme Richards danced his way from darkness to light
Graeme has worked his way through the industry with zestful determination, trying his hand at everything from continuity announcer to video producer to online entrepreneur to morning-show presenter.
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Podcast: How fitness guru Lisa Raleigh discovered the secret of living life well
Lisa is a model of the benefits of health and wellness, not just as a practical philosophy, but as a pathway to a thriving career.
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Podcast: Meet the Hollywood actress who became a knitwit for Madiba
If the name Carolyn Barkhuizen doesn’t immediately ring a bell, in the way that “Charlize Theron” does, it may be because fate works its changes in the strangest of ways. Carolyn, now known as Carolyn Steyn, is an accomplished actress who moved from her hometown of Joburg to find fame and fortune in Hollywood.
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Podcast: Move over Trevor, here come the new Goliaths of comedy
With his engaging manner and down-to-earth, wryly observational humour, Nicholas has turned laughter into a way of making a living and loving what you do. He sat down with Ruda to talk about the Change Moments that have defined and redefined him.
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Podcast: How Brent Lindeque turned a #NeckNomination into #GoodNews domination
Ruda caught up with this rising events management entrepreneur, radio- and social media personality to find out exactly how hungry the world is for good news.
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Podcast: How Giggling Gourmet Jenny Morris put the rude & the nude back into food
“I dream of food every night,” Jenny Morris tells Ruda in this lively, entertaining interview, in which she reveals her recipe for living life to the full, and relishing every moment of change that comes along.
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Podcast: How Amore Bekker trekked her way from sheep shearing to stardom
Hetta Bekker was invited to tell her story about her stint as a sheep shearer on radio, and that led to an audition that she passed with flying colours, even if she later had to change her name to Amore for her big break.