It's school holidays...eeeek! In today's episode we offer you a dash of sanity as we chat to Usha Maharaj about survival strategies for parents at this time of year. Usha focuses on coaching, mentoring and inspiring women as leaders and parents who want to cultivate leadership in their children. We touch on practical tips you can use this year-end break and some food for thought on what it takes to parent our children in readiness for their future. Driving personal excellence is what qualified Chartered Accountant (SA), certified brain-based coach, non-executive director, life-long learner and corporate veteran with 16 years+ field experience in a global ‘Big 4’ Audit firm, Usha Maharaj is obsessed with. In her corporate climb to Executive Director, Usha has gone through all the major and minor challenges that any professional can experience in a high-performing, diverse and rigorous workplace. The five years spent as HR Director in the company afforded her the opportunity to develop and test her effective models and strategies to fast-track career success in high performing professionals. Having left corporate in 2014, she is now using her wealth of experience and expertise to inspire and instruct her clients to reject average and strive for excellence. Her new business, Meraki Evolution, specialises in developing women leaders and supporting parents to lead their children. To get in touch with Usha, check out the following links: Get the Thrive Guide for Helping Children Thrive: https://morewomenleaders.kartra.com/page/BYN43 Connect with Usha and Meraki Evolution on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/MerakiEvolution/ Connect with Usha and Meraki Evolution on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/merakievolution Connect with Usha on LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/ushamaharaj Subscribe To get the latest episode delivered straight to your mobile device of choice, subscribe to one of the options below or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoy our show, please consider leaving us a rating and review. This really supports our efforts to keep bringing you great free content. Thanks in advance!

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#36 Surviving School Holidays with Usha Maharaj

Have you ever thought about starting a vlog for your business or have been wondering how to get more out of your video content? In this episode, Belinda Doveston shares her top eight tips on how to get your vlog to do more for you and your business. Video is a scary place. It can be extremely expensive and requires specialist skills. Yet it is also essential as a tool to capture attention and share powerful stories with your stakeholders. Business vlogging is a massive untapped opportunity that can actually be done simply and on a small budget. For more information on Belinda, visit: https://apianlearning.com/team/belinda-doveston/  To learn about the services offered at Apian Media, contact media @ apianlearning.com or download the brochure: https://apianlearning.com/apian-marketing-services-v1/ Subscribe To get the latest episode delivered straight to your mobile device of choice, subscribe to one of the options below or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoy our show, please consider leaving us a rating and review. This really supports our efforts to keep bringing you great free content. Thanks in advance!

#35 Business Vlogging Top Tips with Belinda Doveston

Are you creative? YES YOU ARE! We all are...it's just a matter of discovering what our unique creative voice is. We are joined in this episode by Gary Hirson, who is a photographer, published children's book author and coach specialising in creative entrepreneurship. We chat about exploring our creativity and just how important it is for our children to have well developed imaginations. They are our future, after all. Enjoy! About Gary Hirson I am an IMAGINEUR. A Creative and an Entrepreneur. Believing in the power of the creative imagination and the need for goal-setting, I combine these elements and the need for grit and hustle in my Coaching philosophy, online courses, workshops and talks. I realise that Entrepreneurs, Creatives and Dreamers are our future. But it’s one thing to have an idea, dream or project, and it’s another thing turning it into a reality. It needs, passion, perseverance, overcoming rejection, facing criticism, Grit and the ability to hustle. I left the position of an Export Sales Manager in a listed company to pursue my dream of becoming a professional photographer. Alongside my photography business and successful running of two other businesses, which have subsequently been sold, I always dreamt of publishing coffee-table books with my name on them. Having now photographed and published two unique books, I realised my big dream. Along the journey I picked up a treasure chest of knowledge on how to make it happen - gold nuggets of information that I use for my future dreams. With the backing of my Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Life Transformation Coach credentials I have introduced goal-setting and self-belief tools to the youth via my three independently published and interactive children’s books. My books are now represented by an international publishing company – L’Harmattan. In addition, the tools I advocate in my books, online courses and workshops, I use, along with my experience as a Coach, to aid dreamers, entrepreneurs and creatives to best identify and achieve their goals. I live in Cape Town South Africa where I operate as an Imagineur, i.e. a Coach, Author, Speaker, Photographer, and where I’m partner to an amazing French woman with whom, among other things, I swim daily in the cold Atlantic Ocean. Contact Gary at https://garyhirson.com/ Subscribe To get the latest episode delivered straight to your mobile device of choice, subscribe to one of the options below or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoy our show, please consider leaving us a rating and review. This really supports our efforts to keep bringing you great free content. Thanks in advance!

#34 Creative Entrepreneurship with Gary Hirson

The word 'love' is still taboo in business speak, yet at the heart of great customer experiences is the love of the customer, a passion for purpose and a quest to make a real difference through service. We chat to Chantel Botha, CEO of Brand Love, about customer experience design and getting in touch with the real and deep needs of your customers from a perspective that makes sense to them. Chantel Botha is a brand and business innovator who obsesses over how customers connect with brands. She finds meaning in designing engaging and remarkable customer and employee experiences that creates value for brands and people. Chantel guides brands to find their experience essence. Once they have it defined, she uses design thinking to infuse it into every interaction with a customer or employee. She helps both corporations and people realign with their purpose. She applies her skills and experience to grow her client's businesses through showing them how to solve problems for their customers. Furthermore, Chantel holds a degree in business economics and computer science. She writes for various publications and speaks at conferences around the globe. She transforms people through experiential education programmes and personal coaching. Chantel founded a robotics academy that focuses on preparing kids for the future with technical and interpersonal skills. How awesome is that! For more information, visit Brand Love at www.brandlove.co.za. Subscribe To get the latest episode delivered straight to your mobile device of choice, subscribe to one of the options below or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoy our show, please consider leaving us a rating and review. This really supports our efforts to keep bringing you great free content. Thanks in advance!

#33 For the Love of the Customer with Chantel Botha

Agility is the big buzzword at the moment, and not without good reason. We live in interesting times, as the saying goes, and we have to develop new ways to deal with change and maximise the opportunity of these times. Yet what does agility actually mean? In this episode, our host, Belinda Doveston, shares her four phrase approach to making sense of agility - core strength, balance, endurance fitness and flexibility. For each aspect, she provides insight into how you and your business or organisation can become more agile. Belinda has a long history of working as a business architect and in the education sector. She now specialises in mixed media storytelling through writing, podcasting, vlogging and training. Check out her Apian Learning profile: https://apianlearning.com/team/belinda-doveston/  Here below are the links and references from the show: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century: https://www.amazon.com/Lessons-21st-Century-Yuval-Harari/dp/0525512179 Margaret Heffernan's Dare to Disagree: https://youtu.be/PY_kd46RfVE Agile Leadership: https://buildingteams.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Agile-Leadership-2-Day-Programme-2019.pdf Agile Strategy Online Course: https://apianlearning.com/courses/agile-strategy/ Subscribe To get the latest episode delivered straight to your mobile device of choice, subscribe to one of the options below or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoy our show, please consider leaving us a rating and review. This really supports our efforts to keep bringing you great free content. Thanks in advance!

#32 Agility Schmagility with Belinda Doveston

It takes a tribe, a village, to raise a child. And great things - the seeds of our future - require a collaborative tribe to bring to fruition. In this episode we chat to Janice Scheckter about community, collaboration and building cohesive platforms for good and responsible citizenry, be that in one's family, suburb, business or the larger human family. Janice Scheckter, CEO of Indigo New Media, considers herself a serial impact entrepreneur. Since the founding of Indigo New Media in 2013, she has co-founded multiple digital ventures that include A Better Africa (building an African education ecosystem), aparate.co (mapping and connecting farmers across the continent),  and iamcitizen.africa (connecting civil society for better collaboration and driving active citizenry), among others. Janice has also recently co-founded AWiA, African Women in Agriculture NPC, promoting women in agri-preneurship, which she chairs. The collaboration era and what it potentially represented in the world, captured my attention and I guess my imagination. I have read and written prolifically on collaboration and on the concepts of online communities and what can be achieved in terms of impact, better brands and a better place for us to exist in. Janice Scheckter Janice’s qualifications include B Journalism (with Political Science major) (Rhodes), Public Relations (with distinction, International Advertising Diploma (IAA)), Master facilitator, Wine diploma (Cape Wine Academy) and Advanced Wine Appreciation (Stellenbosch University), yet she considers her self-driven learning on collaboration and community to be the her most important learning to date. To get in touch with Janice and learn more about her inspiring communities, check out these links: A Better Africa: a-better-africa.com iamcitizen.africa: iamcitizen.africa aparate: aparate.co Blogs and posts: https://www.indigo.co.za/blog.shtml Subscribe To get the latest episode delivered straight to your mobile device of choice, subscribe to one of the options below or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoy our show, please consider leaving us a rating and review. This really supports our efforts to keep bringing you great free content. Thanks in advance!

#31 It Takes a Tribe with Janice Scheckter

Retirement - we are all going to get there, hopefully. Yet what does 'retirement' mean to you and how could we make our Golden Age one that is filled with joy, fun, inspiration and contribution. Hilary Henderson joins us to chat about her work as a retirement coach and brings great insight into the challenges and opportunities of our latter years. Hilary Henderson spent 10 years working as an Occupational therapist, mainly in the Psychiatric wards at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, then lecturing at UCT. She also managed a private Occupational Therapy Practice for several years. After completing her MBA, Hilary spent a year with a Management Consulting firm and then established and successfully ran her own Guest House with training facilities for 10 years. In recent years she attempted to establish a business growing exotic mushrooms, which never got off the ground, and has worked in the non-profit sector in management and fundraising. Her wide variety of experience helps her to understand what others are experiencing. Hilary was catapulted into retirement on her 60th birthday when her job became untenable, so she embarked on a journey to become a life coach. She landed in retirement with no preparation and quickly learned the importance of systematic preparation. Writing a book about retirement planning was a strategy to understand the transition on several levels and has taken Hilary on a journey to developing a passion for helping people ensure that their final act is the best part of their lives. To get in touch with Hilary or to get hold of her book, visit her website: https://nuhorizons.co.za Subscribe To get the latest episode delivered straight to your mobile device of choice, subscribe to one of the options below or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoy our show, please consider leaving us a rating and review. This really supports our efforts to keep bringing you great free content. Thanks in advance!

#30 Purpose-Filled Retirement with Hilary Henderson

Words are powerful. They can build worlds and dreams within the dream. Great stories take words to a whole new level. Today we chat to Lisa Bell about conveying your personal and business story, powerfully and clearly. Realising that writing was definitely a calling, Lisa Bell has always tinkered with words over the years, even from childhood. After successfully running and then selling her insurance brokerage in 2015, she focused on starting up her writing services agency, The Word Architect. With her background in insurance, as well as personal training, Lisa knew that to build up the business, she had to apply her gift of discipline and order. Her first port of call was to connect with like-minded creatives and other business folk. The internationally acclaimed business network, BNI, was on her list, and has been a big part of The Word Architect, helping it grow from success to success. Working under the appropriate name, The Word Architect offers various content creation services, covering the spectrum of online media marketing in the form of blogs, articles, social media and web content, and also offering services pertaining to document collation, such as resumes, portfolios, bios, mailers and corporate identity pieces. With a desire to provide the world with inspiring, educational and engaging content, The Word Architect constantly reaches out to other creatives, looking to always expand its collaboration opportunities. For more information, go to: https://thewordarchitect.co.za/ Subscribe To get the latest episode delivered straight to your mobile device of choice, subscribe to one of the options below or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoy our show, please consider leaving us a rating and review. This really supports our efforts to keep bringing you great free content. Thanks in advance!

#29 Architecting Your Story with Lisa Bell

We chat with radio and media personality, Lucia Dramat, who has recently joined the Radio Helderberg Breakfast Show team. Lucia shares with us her insights on finding her unique voice and exploring her areas of passion and encouraging others to live their best life and thrive! If you feel there is more you can do to find your own voice, then join us for the show. Lucia Dramat is an entrepreneur, radio presenter, public speaker, writer and encourager. She has an insatiable desire to do something big, bright and beautiful with her life. Big – makes an impact, bright – lights the way for others, and beautiful – bringing joy. Lucia loves to see people succeed and being part of their journey is the cherry on the cake. Without trying she is an encourager, so no matter what she does it always filters through. As a public relations professional, as a facilitator, event host and organiser, TV presenter, public speaker, radio presenter and blogger, every single avenue has been another opportunity to encourage and motivate people. Connect with Lucia for more information: https://fiftyloop.com/ https://www.instagram.com/luciadramat/   Contribution Compass The Contribution Compass is a profiling tool that enables you to understand both your area of maximum contribution to a team, company or organisation and how you can leverage the most value for yourself and for your organisation. You achieve this leverage simply - by investing your time in your area of maximum contribution, through what is referred to as your ‘natural energy’. Identifying, creating and sustaining your value, which you then leverage, is the cornerstone of working effectively with your natural energy. It requires that you have a deep understanding of your natural energy and that you actively seek to utilise that natural energy to create, build and deliver value – for yourself and others. On the 10th April 2019, Contribution Compass is hosting a one-day event to help you learn how to unlock your natural energy profile. Details are below.   Subscribe To get the latest episode delivered straight to your mobile device of choice, subscribe to one of the options below or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoy our show, please consider leaving us a rating and review. This really supports our efforts to keep bringing you great free content. Thanks in advance!

#28 Finding Your Voice with Lucia Dramat

Marko Rillo is the founder of the Serious Play Pro global community, Associate Professor at the Estonian Business School and recently published co-author of 'Serious Work'. As an early adopter and advocate for the Lego® Serious Play® (LSP) method, Marko has extensive experience in LSP, group facilitation, innovation and strategy. He joins us to chat about his newly published book, his experiences from working with students at the Estonian Business School and his insights on the future and how we can think strategically about what is coming. A fascinating and inspiring chat! To find out more about Marko, his book and projects: http://markorillo.com/ http://seriousplaypro.com/ Contribution Compass The Contribution Compass is a profiling tool that enables you to understand both your area of maximum contribution to a team, company or organisation and how you can leverage the most value for yourself and for your organisation. You achieve this leverage simply - by investing your time in your area of maximum contribution, through what is referred to as your ‘natural energy’. Identifying, creating and sustaining your value, which you then leverage, is the cornerstone of working effectively with your natural energy. It requires that you have a deep understanding of your natural energy and that you actively seek to utilise that natural energy to create, build and deliver value – for yourself and others. On the 10th April 2019, Contribution Compass is hosting a one-day event to help you learn how to unlock your natural energy profile. Details are below.   Subscribe To get the latest episode delivered straight to your mobile device of choice, subscribe to one of the options below or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoy our show, please consider leaving us a rating and review. This really supports our efforts to keep bringing you great free content. Thanks in advance!

#27 Serious Fun with Marko Rillo

Belinda Doveston is delighted to be your guest today and share with you her thoughts on the Competency Gap - that in-between space when you are learning something new that is not yet familiar. She shares her insights on why we need to keep creating competency gaps to accelerate our growth and when there is a dark side to the gap. If you are feeling stuck, personally, professionally or in your business, this is a must listen episode to encourage you to challenge what you know and jump off that cliff towards new learning! For more information on Belinda, visit her profile on Apian Learning and check out her latest course, the first to go live on Apian, Agile Strategy. Also check out these book links she referenced: Uncommon Service by Frances Frei and Anne Morriss 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari   Subscribe To get the latest episode delivered straight to your mobile device of choice, subscribe to one of the options below or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoy our show, please consider leaving us a rating and review. This really supports our efforts to keep bringing you great free content. Thanks in advance!

#26 The Competency Gap with Belinda Doveston

In today's episode we chat people, leadership, performance, future technology and 'hacking HR' with Deborah Hartung. What a delight of a chat it was! Deborah Hartung is a consultant, coach, author and keynote speaker from Johannesburg, South Africa.  In addition to being an HR influencer and active global participant in changing the Future of HR, Deborah is the Hacking HR Johannesburg Chapter Liaison. A popular writer and contributor for Thrive Global, Lionesses of Africa, Future Females and Women on Topp, Deborah is a major advocate of advancing and empowering women in leadership and in addition to keynote speaking and her writing, she also hosts the GirlBoss Guide Podcast. Passionate about people and technology, the human experience in the workplace and the opportunities for the advancement of humanity in the digital age, Deborah has almost 20 years’ experience in HR and leadership development coaching. She works with corporate leaders to radically transform culture, engagement and workplace performance in as little as 90 days, through a combination of HR tech, people data platforms, capacity building and coaching interventions. Deborah is the creator of the DIRC Model of performance and culture management/improvement, a world first methodology. A truly adaptable agile and comprehensive performance management methodology that measures Delivery, Innovation & Growth, Relationships and Corporate Citizenship (Culture). Especially popular with young or first-time leaders, entrepreneurs and women in leadership, Deborah encourages all those she meets to align with their purpose and to be brave enough to be authentic in all their interactions.  A popular writer, she writes about life, love, leadership, workplace culture, the future of work and the importance of making the world a kinder, more tolerant place. Deborah is committed to ensuring that her children - daughter, Reagan and son, Owen – have as many adventures and experiences as possible. Amongst her friends she is known as the woman who always needs at least SPF50 sunscreen and someone who can trip and fall whilst barefoot and stone cold sober. A big fan of tequila, craft beer and MCC, Deborah loves entertaining friends and is secretly a rather big fan of baking. Get in touch with Deborah: Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/deborah_hartung Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/dhartungspeaks LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin/com/in/deborah-hartung-2b25619 Web: http://www.deborahhartung.com Future of HR Summit and Awards: http://futureofhr.co.za/ Subscribe To get the latest episode delivered straight to your mobile device of choice, subscribe to one of the options below or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoy our show, please consider leaving us a rating and review. This really supports our efforts to keep bringing you great free content. Thanks in advance!

#25 Hacking HR with Deborah Hartung

We see industry disruption, agility and change as being essential in today's dynamic landscape. Barry Doveston shares his approach to disrupting the flooring industry through free online education, an engaged community and a marketing platform to accelerate growth opportunities. These lessons apply to all industries. He also shares what vlogging is and how this has been pivotal in the journey of disruption. Barry Doveston has over 14 years of experience in the flooring industry. He has developed focused expertise and demonstrated commercial return on investment in three main areas: products, branding and market development. His associates and clients describe him as a passionate ‘flooring nerd’ with high energy who is driven and creative. From a team standpoint, he highly values engagement, rapport and a positive team spirit and believes that one should not forget to have fun whilst chasing your goals. Check out Flooring Africa at https://flooringafrica.com/ and his vlog at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTmmyzPh_F83R7GpB-EMZkA. Watch Casey Neistat and Dan Mace here: https://www.youtube.com/user/caseyneistat and https://www.youtube.com/user/DanTheDirector1. And the legendary Seth Godin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdUeq09cGJ0&feature=youtu.be Women in Tech Africa Summit: 18-19 March 2019 Also, we’re excited to be partnering with Women in Tech Africa on the 18 & 19 March in Cape Town – brought by creators of the Women in Tech World Series! Join us and 500+ tech professionals like Google, Huawei, Microsoft 4Afrika and more at Women in Tech Africa on the 18 & 19 March in Cape Town ! Use our exclusive discount code APIAN15 and get 15% off tickets for Africa’s largest women in tech conference, Women in Tech Africa - be empowered & supercharge your career! Check out the event details: click here. Subscribe To get the latest episode delivered straight to your mobile device of choice, subscribe to one of the options below or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoy our show, please consider leaving us a rating and review. This really supports our efforts to keep bringing you great free content. Thanks in advance!

#24 Industry Disruption with Barry Doveston

What do you do when every kind of major life challenge hurls itself at you at the same time? In this episode we chat to Linda Remke, founder of Valueneurs, who so courageously shares her journey of overcoming great obstacles through reaching out to being coached and becoming a coach to help others. She inspires through her story of being the victor and not the victim. As a seasoned entrepreneur in the advertising, marketing and communications industry for over 20 years, Linda has acquired diverse experience in mobilising concepts and strategies to market. During her career, Linda and her teams have taken over 500 brands, and brought companies and products to market, providing creative solutions, mentorship and guidance to each one she has worked with. Her vast experience in understanding ‘people dynamics’ at all levels, together with qualifying as a Life and Executive Coach, and through EVEOLVE®, has allowed Linda to provide a unique offer to market of personal and business brand coaching and mentoring. Helping people to understand, accept and assert themselves appropriately, is core to her interventions. And, she achieves this by using her Value-based EQ model and framework. This methodology accelerates self-awareness and self-management, which translates directly to personal accountability within the workplace and life in general. As a COMENSA Master Practitioner, visionary and strategist, as well as having a special ability for innovation, Linda gave birth to another offer to market called VALUENEURS™. Due to her immense passion for adding value to lives and businesses, this new platform promises to offer an accessible, affordable and accountable business model that will reach more deserved, under-served and remote entities. The mission is to help grow people, which ultimately grows businesses, and in turn grows opportunities for job creation. Get your values assessment here: https://www.valueneurs.co.za/values-exercise/ To get in touch with Linda and her team: https://www.valueneurs.co.za https://twitter.com/valueneurs/ https://web.facebook.com/valueneurs/ https://www.instagram.com/valueneurs/ https://linkedin.com/company/18235550 Women in Tech Africa Summit: 18-19 March 2019 Also, we’re excited to be partnering with Women in Tech Africa on the 18 & 19 March in Cape Town – brought by creators of the Women in Tech World Series! Join us and 500+ tech professionals like Google, Huawei, Microsoft 4Afrika and more at Women in Tech Africa on the 18 & 19 March in Cape Town ! Use our exclusive discount code APIAN15 and get 15% off tickets for Africa’s largest women in tech conference, Women in Tech Africa - be empowered & supercharge your career! Check out the event details: click here. Subscribe To get the latest episode delivered straight to your mobile device of choice, subscribe to one of the options below or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoy our show, please consider leaving us a rating and review. This really supports our efforts to keep bringing you great free content. Thanks in advance!

#23 Victor Not Victim with Linda Remke

Clear communication is one of our greatest challenges and most powerful opportunities. Yet, let's face it, we learn most of what we know about communication from our parents. Eeeek! In today's episode we discuss communication with John French, and unpack simple strategies to improve the results we get because of better communication. John is one of South Africa's most respected communication strategists and communication skills coaches. Having amassed 23 years of across-the-board experience in the communication training industry, John has created some of the brightest performers in every profession and industry and has radically improved the bottom line of organisations he has partnered with. With a background in Law, Public Relations and Speech and Drama, John has the necessary knowledge and experience to look at communication both holistically and strategically. Communication is a very intricate human science. Over the decades, John has developed training methodologies and communication models to help our clients break through their limiting fears and barriers to achieve communication and career success. Find out more: www.communicationguru.co.za If you would like to join the mailing list for launch news of new courses on Apian Learning: subscribe here. To indicate your interest in the Agile Strategy five-week or three-day programme: subscribe here. Subscribe To get the latest episode delivered straight to your mobile device of choice, subscribe to one of the options below or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoy our show, please consider leaving us a rating and review. This really supports our efforts to keep bringing you great free content. Thanks in advance!

#22 Clear Communication with John French

Join Belinda Doveston and her special guests in an engaging conversation about building purposeful people, agile teams and great organisations. Each episode features different practical approaches and powerful insights to support you to develop as a leader and to create meaningful change while inspiring your team and having fun! This podcast is published Apian Learning – an online learning platform dedicated to high-impact business and team building e-learning courses. At Apian, the focus is on making a difference – practical, effective and life-changing learning experiences. Founded by Belinda Doveston, Apian Learning celebrates all you busy bees with short courses, fun learning, standard pricing and certification.

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