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Send us Fan Mail Rahel Demant is the co-founder of XR Bootcamp, a global academy for VR/AR development and training. She co-founded VR First, a global network organisation of over 850 universities and 410 Science Parks. Since its foundation in 2016, she has led the program to a network of thousands of developers. XR Bootcamp further supports the extended reality Creators community with free and op...

Send us Fan Mail Isabelle Gerard is an Agile Leadership Coach for the Addeco Group.  Based in France, her mission is to coach teams to become new leaders in a changing business landscape. Her mission is to help teams embrace a new mindset and adopt new ways of working where everyone has a place and a role.  Essentially Isabelle is determined to reinvent traditional traits of leadership to somethin...

Send us Fan Mail Vidya Munde-Müller was voted as one of Germany's most inspiring women over 40.  Born in an Indian slum she was the first woman in her family to go to college.   She shares her key lessons born from taking risks as the Founder of smart donation and engagement platform Givetastic . Vidya has learned from her mistakes and has it as her life goal to make the world a better place...

Send us Fan Mail Forty three years ago, Margaret Hirsch helped found the family’s mega appliance store, Hirsch’s in South Africa. Today, Hirsch’s own 19 Hirsch branches nationwide, it's quite an achievement for the company's humble beginnings. As Executive Director at Hirsch’s, Margaret has evolved into the brand's ambassador. Margaret is a champion of women’s empowerment, having be...

Send us Fan Mail What's it like to forge a career in a foreign country, without the support structures and networks?  Over the next few weeks, we chat with various women who are forging a career in a foreign country and we go into their mindset of how they overcame the culture shock, the language barriers and all the structures that prevent foreign women from climbing the corporate ladder.  I...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever zoomed out of your life and asked yourself what am I chasing?  What is this thing called success?  When I turned 30 success was something so different from what it means to me now.  I was single, almost done with my degree and felt like a failure, because I was comparing my success to what society dictated success to look like.  10 years later, I revisit the definiti...

Send us Fan Mail Reverse mentoring helps bring the best women to the top. Even today, it is important to encourage young women and provide them with a female role model. Men still occupy the important leadership positions in the media, business and politics. Meet Anastasia Barner, a young female founder of the platform, FEMENTOR.  Recognizing that not every young woman has the support, be it for f...

Send us Fan Mail In the hilarious and poignant book Empty Cages: Keys to Finding Freedom , South African based author, Jess Basson discovers why she went from being a spirited, quirky, confident little girl to a thirty-something mom struggling with depression and limited self-belief. Jess lifts the lid on how the early years of motherhood impacted her mental health, with honesty and humour. She un...

Send us Fan Mail In 2021 Angela Roeckerath, a mum of 3, successfully completed her MBA studies. The topic of her master thesis was 'Narcissism in leading positions - difference between female and male narcissism. She was a part of a team of six that conducted the world's largest study on narcissism in Germany. This study made it to the front page of the Harvard Business Manager. Angela ...

Send us Fan Mail HOW TO SHOOT YOUR SHOT?  I love when people share their stories of how they got a new position or secured a new client, just by being the first one to reach out and offer their services. Hearing people's thought processes and how they approach situations, whether they follow conventional wisdom or not.  I love how some people train their brain to face their fears or the intru...

Send us Fan Mail Some say that the Will Smith and Chris Rock incident at this year's Academy Awards will forever go down in history as one of the most chaotic moments that shocked 15 million viewers worldwide.  But are we really shocked?  Nonhle Beryl and I weight down on the situation because it reveals some deeper truths when looked at from a different perspective.  And more positively what...

Send us Fan Mail Sarah Meier, Founder and CEO of Working Parent, found that returning to work as a new mother, there were more challenges than she expected. It took her a long time to find her way. But this also made her realise that more support is needed for working parents. Sarah's organization fills that gap that is able to support families and the companies that employ parents. The aim i...

Send us Fan Mail She Splains is a satire segment looking at the world's top stories in gender inequality.  Featuring:  - Is Alexa sexist?  - South Korea's new President's gender agenda - The Gender Pay Gap Bot  - Child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in Germany  - Kim Kardashian's advice to women  Tell us what you think about this episode.  Like,  Share it and leave a commen...

Send us Fan Mail Berlin based, Regina Schönberger is the founder of Wild Woman Underwear - a sustainable and ethical underwear brand that aims at making women feel comfortable in their skin. She is designing the kind of underwear that celebrates the beauty of women's bodies while being an eco-conscious brand. Her business only launches in September 2022, but Regina has taken a different appro...

Send us Fan Mail Feeling stuck already in the New Year? Need some tips to live life a bit more abundantly?  I share some of my experiences of how I took some risks to ensure that this year didn't become about me waiting for life to happen, but rather me dictating how I wanted it to play out. Given we are living in uncertain times, but still we can manage the risks within our control.  Take a...

Send us Fan Mail Mariana Herselmann, an accountant by trade and a serial entrepreneur who established her own accounting practice some 32 years ago.  Through her accounting practice she was exposed to various businesses and this exposed her to new entrepreneurial opportunities.  Through one of her clients, a veterinary clinic, she entered the pet food industry and grew her brand into a franchise....

Send us Fan Mail She started blogging about consumer tech back in 2007, she has since stood out as an award winning tech journalist covering a range of topics from mobile, gadgets, apps, how-to’s, travel to cars. Some of the brands that she’s worked with include Nokia, Microsoft, Samsung, Mercedes Benz and BMW.  But what I was really curious about is what’s like to be a brown women in  the tech in...

Send us Fan Mail What makes strong women become friends?  In this episode I chat with my dear friend Liedewij Alting about our decade long friendship.  Funny thing is, we have never lived in the same city and yet have succeeded at making so many memories, in different places, over the years.  We talk about how to make long distance friendship work and how to support each other in our personal grow...

Send us Fan Mail New York bestselling author and podcaster, Rob Bell joins us for conversation on how to live life differently, going against conventional wisdom and giving yourself permission to follow your intuition.  Rob Bell is an author of 11 books including Drops Like Stars, Love Wins and Everything is Spiritual. His podcast is called The RobCast and was named by iTunes Best of 2015. He’s to...

Send us Fan Mail New York based, Karen Altfest started her career in the 80's with few female peers. She recognised that financial advice for women was needed. Karen is a principal advisor at the company she runs with her husband and son. Together with her team, they manage over a billion dollar in client assets.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Olwethu Leshabane, is a 31 year old career woman, wife and mom of 3 boys. She is a marketing and communications specialist with strong experience in PR & digital strategies. Olwethu is also a Media Entrepreneur, Maternal Health a d Women Empowerment Advocate, Model (who has featured on various TV adverts), Cleanfluencer, Blogger/Podcaster ( www.artofsuperwoman.com ), YouTuber...

Send us Fan Mail From surviving riots in South Africa to floods in Germany and heatwaves in parts of the US and Canada. It's been the kind of week, action movies are made of. With loads of adrenalin  rush resulting in less sleep, it's also brought much anxiety to deal with. Psychologist  and mental health blogger, Rakhi Beekrum discusses how to self-care in times of crisis. How do you co...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever doubted where you're supposed to be, if you should move or stay.  Here's some of the things that have helped me decide whether to move or not.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Raised in the North End of Hartford, CT where drugs and violence dominated her environment. Both of her parents were drug addicts. According to statistics, Catherine Latoya Grant-Alston was suppose to be in jail, on drugs, or dead by the age of 21. However, here she is an international industry award winning Finance Practitioner with an MBA.  Her story  succeeded society’s standar...

Send us Fan Mail South African born author, Shubnum Khan chats to us about her latests book,  How I Accidentally Became a Global Stock Photo and Other Strange and Wonderful Stories . This memoir takes the reader on a journey around the world. Whether it is teaching children in a remote village in the Himalayas, attending a writers’ residency where the movie The Blair Witch Project was shot, gettin...