July 25, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
What do you stand for? If we do not know what we stand for, what we are willing to act for, even if it harms us, or costs us, then we do not know ourselves. What is the final straw that will break you? What is too much? Age gives us the opportunity to learn this. We...
July 22, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Moral choices Moral choices are hard. They test our character. Capitulation to immorality, sanctioning cruelty, violence and discrimination is not something you do once every while, when the horror becomes ‘too big to ignore.’ It is something we must commit to at the...
July 20, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Perhaps humility? Leadership for a world that works for everyone. Humility enables spaciousness. There is room for another…another opinion, another voice, another perspective. Humility begins from the place of “my voice, deed, act is only one possibility...
July 19, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Kissing the dirt I recently had a conversation with someone who had been captivated by a big vision and was told by a person in my network that I was an expert in the area of the vision. In other words, my referring person had positioned me as having the skills and...
July 18, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Hypernormalisation Is a term coined by Alexei Yurchak, a Russian anthropologist who used the term in his 2005 book Everything was Forever, Until it was No More: The Last Soviet Generation. Many of us know the experience of hypernormalisation without knowing there is a...
July 17, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Why do we need empowerment? Women need empowerment. People of colour need empowerment. Those of different and diverse abilities need empowerment. Yet I wonder, why? Empowerment against the power structures? Are we addressing the power structures that created the need...
