Category: Life Event
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Why my role models in life are ordinary, everyday, amazing people
I prefer to look at the ordinary people closer to home – the heroes I bump into as I navigate through a world that is filled with as much joy as tears, as much heartache as happiness.
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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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Let’s hear it, live & loud, for the good old-fashioned phone date
Let’s consider the alternative: a string of WhatsApps that would have taken hours of back and forths to communicate the kind of things we were sharing, and a number of emoticons and gifs which didn’t quite capture the nuances we could achieve with our voices.
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How I miss the wonder years of lying in bed with my children
It’s the nights that turned into weeks that turned into months that turned into years that you spent in my bed. Hours spent feeding you, changing your nappy, and then letting you sleep in the bend of my arm.
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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: How Penny Heyns cried into her goggles before going for gold
But Penny Heyns pushed herself, even when she could find little joy in the pursuit, and the agony paid off when she stood on the podium twice to earn her place as South Africa’s Golden Girl in Atlanta in 1996.
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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.
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Podcast: Graeme Joffe on the good, bad, and ugly in South African sport
As a participant, spectator, commentator and reporter for CNN, Highveld 94.7, and now his own sports journal, SportsFire Daily, “Joffers” has been able to turn his love for sport into a multimedia 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”.