September 17, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
What breaks you and why this is the key to your strength We all have our breaking points. Our soft underbelly. The places we can be shamed and humiliated. But their flavour and access points are usually different for each person. One person may be iron-willed at work,...
September 15, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Making things I have always been a maker and creator. As a child, crafts like crochet and sewing. The ever-present writing. Baking, learning the craft of alchemy of weird ingredients, an apprenticeship in synergy. Over the last six weeks, my partner and I have been...
September 14, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Toxic gossip It works like this. Something happens. People often fabricate stories about what happened, without speaking to the people involved, asking questions, or verifying the evidence to support their claims. The more drama, the more the gossip. Gossip is...
September 10, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Governance for wisdom, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Red lines Are supposed to be symbols of thresholds crossed that go beyond what is right, true and decent. When we cross a red line, we have stepped into the territory of wrong, bad, criminal, hurtful. As young children, we work the red lines to gauge how far we can...
September 9, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
This is on us “When you say that, darling, that’s fake news. [Crosstalk.] Be quiet. Listen. You don’t listen. You never listen. That’s why you’re second-rate.” Said a man to a woman this week. Patronising to the extreme. Rude. Arrogant. It is a disgusting way to...
September 7, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Together we dance Today is Father’s Day. Like all days of celebration, it lands lightly with some and heavily with others. While many gather with family, others feel the emptiness of families torn apart. To be a father is, like all roles, changing. Many men...
