5 Branding lessons from Disney’s Encanto

It’s easy to feel like you don’t fit in when you haven’t found your purpose. The takeaway I got from this is how important it is to share your journey once you have. Be a lighthouse for others and help guide the other weirdos. These are your people – and they’ll be your biggest supporters.
I was thinking of you in the shower this morning…

You were running through my mind, during my morning shower.
After I had stepped in, let my hair down, decided I could go another day without shampoo, tied my hair back up and then looked down at my legs, contemplating if I should shave or wait for lockdown to lift so I can get to a much-needed waxing session (spoiler alert: I’m still rocking the Chewbaka look), I got all reflective…
How to make money and get online during South Africa’s COVID-19 Lockdown

If lockdown being extended for another month or two is making you want to sh*t yourself because you “can’t make money while your clients are at home”, then you’ll want to pay attention…
We don’t need no education…

In a world that is ever-changing, shouldn’t the education system be too? This is precisely why I started putting together courses and retreats with real and practical teachings that actually work. There is no one-size-fits-all solution for any business, but it’s important to know how to jump in and see what works.
The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship

I started my own company when I was 23 years old. Like any entrepreneur, I was a dreamer.I had this image in my head of this well-oiled business machine that was going to make me millions of rands and set me up for life. 6 months later, I was crying into a bottle of vodka, […]
There is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all recipe for success!

I have a confession to make… It’s almost 11am and I am still in bed! It’s a cold, wet, windy day in St Francis Bay.I can barely hear the ever-present crashing of waves over the howling and rattling of my kitchen blinds. So, I have closed all the windows, tucked Bruce (my dog) into a […]
Swingers, pineapples and branding – Is your pineapple upside down?

How to weed out the shitty clients with 5 simple steps

Shitty clients exist, no matter what business you are in. If you’re in the service industry, these are the customers that don’t tip the waiter for no apparent reason or complain that their table order of six full meals has taken longer than 15 minutes to get to the table. If you’re in retail, this […]
I quit my full time job to start my own business and then couldn’t afford toilet paper

Dear Small Business Owner You are a **cking champion!Why? Because starting your own business is haaaard!(That word was “ducking”, obviously) Never doubt yourself. You made it this far. You gave up working for someone else and that already makes you so strong.The sad news is that it can be lonely.Sometimes the people closest to us can […]