Conversations Spoken In the Dark

Greetings everyone, and welcome to another episode of Conversations Spoken in the Dark. I’m your host, Hermence Matsotsa , Transformational Leadership and Career Transition Coach and Founder of uBuntuSpeaks. I created this podcast because too often, the most meaningful conversations — the ones about identity, healing, belonging, and how we live, learn, and lead — are whispered in the dark. They go...

Greetings everyone, and welcome to another episode of Conversations Spoken in the Dark. I’m your host, Hermence Matsotsa , Transformational Leadership and Career Transition Coach and Founder of uBuntuSpeaks. I created this podcast because too often, the most meaningful conversations the ones about identity, healing, belonging, and how we live, learn, and lead are whispered in the dark. They go uns...

Greetings everyone, and welcome to another episode of Conversations Spoken in the Dark. I’m your host, Hermence Matsotsa , Transformational Leadership and Career Transition Coach and Founder of uBuntuSpeaks. I created this podcast because too often, the most meaningful conversations — the ones about identity, healing, belonging, and how we live, learn, and lead — are whispered in the dark. They go...

What happens when adults are taught that play is childish, joy is indulgent, and rest must be earned? In this powerful episode of Conversations Spoken in the Dark , Hermence sits down with Tina O’Hoang —researcher, writer, and host of The Courageous Inner Beast podcast—for a raw and reflective conversation about reclaiming joy and challenging the invisible rules that govern how we show up in the w...

Welcome back to Conversations Spoken in the Dark with Hermence —a space where we speak the truths most often carried in silence, and where transformation is allowed to take up space. In this deeply soul-stirring episode, I, your host, Hermence Matsotsa am joined by Michelle Wincell O’Leary —Author, Therapist, Intuitive Guide, Master Alchemist, and Conscious Co-Creator. Michelle is a former mental...

Welcome back to Conversations Spoken in the Dark with your host, Hermence Matsotsa —where we ditch the filters and speak the truths we usually keep to ourselves. In this episode, I sit down with the bold and brilliant Jamia S. Dixon for a no-holds-barred conversation about dating after 40 and getting married at 50. Jamia keeps it real—from navigating dry dating pools and ghosting culture to holdin...

Welcome back to Conversations Spoken in the Dark —where we speak the truths so many of us carry in silence, and bring light to the parts of ourselves we've been taught to ignore. In this powerful, honest, and at times raw episode, I’m joined by Abigail White, RN, BSN —a medical intuitive, public speaker, and the founder of Breath of Life LLC , an intuitive guidance and wellness company that he...

On this episode of Conversations Spoken in the Dark —a podcast devoted to the real, raw, and often unspoken truths that shape our leadership, our lives, and our legacy—we step into a deeply personal and transformative story of parenthood, identity, and love. Bill Carmody , Positive Intelligence Coach, leadership strategist, and father, joins me to share his journey parenting a transgender child. W...

Welcome to uBuntuSpeaks Conversations Spoken in the Dark Podcast with your host Hermence Matsotsa, MPH, Ed . (She, Her, Hers) Today’s podcast, Do Your Employees feel Psychologically Safe? kicks off our Leadership and Workforce Development series where we will be having in-depth conversations with our guests about our mental, emotional, and spiritual needs around our jobs. Yes, the conversations we...

The entrepreneur journey is different for every woman entrepreneur, however one thing that all entrepreneurs at one point of their journey have experienced are conversations with themselves in the dark.  We have asked ourselves questions, doubted our decisions, fought with imposter syndrome, rejoiced  in our small wins, and privately cried ourselves to sleep with our failures and challen...

Welcome everyone to UBUNTUSPEAKS Special Father’s Day Celebration! Today, we are going to be celebrating the life, love, and lessons from four beautiful, inspiring, and committed fathers that I have had the wonderful opportunity to know and love! Not only do these fathers inspire me everyday but are shattering the myths that exist within our society about the presence, identity and roles of black...

Welcome everyone to UBUNTUSPEAKS Special Father’s Day Celebration Two Part Series! This Father's Day, UBUNTUSPEAKS would like to gift the world with the voices of Black Fathers!  Today, we are going to be celebrating the life, love, and lessons from Mr. Matt Prestbury, a beautiful, inspiring, and committed father of four.  He is the founder of The Black Fathers Foundation.  His foundation not only...

Today, we will be discussing the importance  of resilience in times of trouble and crisis with Author, RN, Speaker and HIV/AIDS Advocate, Rachel Karrington.  In the 1980’s at the height of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the United States, Rachel’s world was rocked at the young age of 21 when she learned of her husband's HIV positive diagnosis. Not knowing what would become of herself and 2 chi...

Is your mental, emotional, and spiritual pain keeping you up? How do we define pain? What are we doing to heal the pain? Guest Spiritual and Self Healing Advocate, Misty McCray discusses the power of self healing and the importance of looking deep within ourselves to find the tools to healing ourselve living our best unapologetic, fulfilling, purposeful lives. Self Healing is Possible!!!

Quieting the voices of regret and conversations we have with ourselves often in the dark is not at all easy. We may need to first define the feeling of "Regret" in our lives and adopt the art of forgiveness towards self and others as a strategy to letting go and moving forward with our lives.

Intoduction to uBuntuSpeaks Conversations Spoken In The Dark Podcast.