TV Interviews

Business Day TV: Small Biz MBA - Budgeting

 

SABC 1: Rise Talk Show

 

SABC 2: Morning Live Interview

Women's Movement Television Network: 21 Answers To Emotional Freedom series

 

Radio Interviews

 

Radio 702, January 2015: "Money Woes: How to Survive the Tough Month Of January" 

Radio 702, December 2014: "On the Emotions Behind Spending Money You Don't Have" 

Radio 702, October 2014 - "The Burden Young Professionals Face In Sending Money Home" 

SAFM: Interview with Shado Twala

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SAFM: Interview with Nancy Richards

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Magazine Interviews

Edgars Club Magazine - January 2015: "New Year, New You" 

O Mag South Africa - April 2014: "The Anxious Woman's Guide to Financial Freedom"

Khulula, February 2014: "Marriage and Money"

Khulula, January 2014: Scrimping and Saving Your Way Into 2014

The root cause of our behaviour and emotions is our thoughts or consciousness. From a young age we look at the way our parents, family and society spend and make money and we form opinions about money. Not only that; we solidify our opinions with emotions. For example: let’s say you grew up seeing your parents fighting about money and maybe they even split up because of money. You may have come to the conclusion that money breaks up relationships, and this thought is accompanied by hatred of money or fear of money for the power it has.
Things I do on rainy evenings in #ChiangMai, #Thailand - get my journal and sit on the porch of one of my fave #vegan restaurants as I write, dream, eat good food and watch rain fall. This journal was a gift from one of my #MoneyMagic course students that I met up with in #Penang last month. She gave it to me cos it says "Fall in love with your life" and she joined the course after doing the "Fall on live with your bank account challenge." : : And yes its 🌧 in Chiang Mai today...basically rains daily. Whats your fave thing to do in the rain? #womenwhotravel #femaletravel#girlswhotravel #travelnow #soulsearching#travellover #travelgirl #travelmore #passionpassport #wheretofindme#travelandlife #roundtheworld #wheretofindme#passportready #blackgirltravel #blackgirltravels #blacktraveller
Over the weekend I did a 3 day water #fast as part of my monthly new moon fasts. I broke the fast yesterday with fruit salads (my pet hate but I was trying to do the healthy thing even though all I wanted was veg soup). I am still recovering from this fast. It was beyond difficult...not cos of the not eating but rather the emotional things it unearthed. See I had the brilliant idea to do #tantra #yoga, #MoneyMagic meditations, breath work and all that during this fast. On day 2 I saw flames. Literal flames cos I guess when the mind is not focused on digesting food, it has time to analyse itself and find the deeply buried ish you wanna keep at bay. My entire nervous system was on fire for 3 days. I could barely sleep cos memories and emotions and sensations just came to the surface. I spent 3 days waking up with some emotion or a vivid memory in the middle of the night and then having to inner child and/or inner teen work or just vipassana so my body could calm down and I could go back to sleep. My emotions felt like electric currents running through my body...I am officially avoiding anything that can make me angry cos I refuse to ever feel the physical sensations of anger that I felt on Sunday. It was like being in vipassana only worse. The other water fasts I did before this one were so awesome - my skin glowed and my hair looked and felt wow. This fast - my skin and hair looked like I had been through a battle field, which in a way I had... I spent 2 hours yesterday doing a home facial (chemical free) and a hot oil treatment for my hair. So yeah my skin looks good today but I doubt thats from the fast. First thing I did this morning was abandon all fruit and raw foods...I went to get myself some good veg soup at a cool #vegan restaurant near my house and then I went shopping for vegs. So yeah I am moaning about the fast but I feel emotionally lighter and I am being more productive cos of it.
My latest discovery is the Thai Traditional and Complementary Center in #ChiangMai. It's basically a hospital for traditional medicine - I went there for a #massage. But this is not just for massage. I had to see a doctor, get blood pressure taken, weighed, height measured and was asked about my daily habits and the pain in my body and the doctor then felt the muscles. And then told the massage therapist what to focus on in my massage. And also told me how often to get a massage and what changes to make to my work routine. They also do #acupuncture and a bunch of other natural #healing things. And they have a little #herb store. And did I mention that this is all connected to the Center for Medical Excellence at Chiang Mai University? Fam, #Thailand works for me shem. I keep thinking I wanna move to #Vietnam or #Penang next year but maybe I should accept that this is working for me.
I live in #ChiangMai, #Thailand for the food. Not gonna lie or front. This place had ruined me. Ruined completely. The #vegan in me is actually finding it hard to live elsewhere.
The behind the scenes of this #travel life...I have yet to unpack. Got home (#ChiangMai, #Thailand) so tired yesterday and did what I ALWAYS do when in my own space...just dumped the case in the living room and opened all the apartment windows and then showered and went to eat. Today I had a coaching session so I just looked at the case and asked myself: would you rather focus on guidance on how to best coach your client or would you rather unpack? Well...guidance and coaching won that debate. I will probably unpack in 3 days. Hopefully by tomorrow evening cos right now my case is in my yoga spot. I love to do yoga in the morning as I watch Doi Suthep mountain. Unpacking is so hard for me though. Always has been. Do you prefer packing or unpacking stuff?
So I am following guidance from spirit to center the next leg of my expansion journey by focusing on #selfcare and prioritizing my body and womb's wellbeing. So today I got a tummy, womb and ovarian massage. I love getting Chi Nei Tsang and Hara Shiatsu for my tummy but this was soo amazing. The combo worked for me. Now my next focus is to sleep early and rest more cos #healthiswealth. And I want to really honor this body for all it does for me. Thank you #Penang #Malaysia for allowing me to be still and to hear what my body needs.
In the #MoneyMagic course we have these spirit of money meditations. For some people these are the hardest meditations and for others they are a wow. Why? Because they energetically reveal to you your current relationship with money. There's a lot more to it but thats the gist of it for me anyway. The students have a different take of it. When any of the studenys find themselves in a deadlock with their finances or just want to improve their finances I sometimes send them ti these meditations. And they either love me or hate me based on what answer they are given. So I took my own advice and went to the meditations. I was told to go back to getting weekly massages and to do more #selfcare body work. Funny cos ai have been getting weekly massages for the last 5 years then my uncle passed end of December 2017 and I stopped and forgot about this self care routine. Not sure why. But thank goodness for the inner work. Cos human touch is healing and massage has soo many health benefits. Today I got the most relaxing aromatherapy massage. I fell asleep during the session. That's never happened to me before. And I never associated #Penang with #massage but now I do. Another reason to move to this island.
I don't own a credit card or have any store cards. People are always shocked that I #slowtravel with just my debit card and do everything cash. I have been doing this since I became debt free 4 years ago. This has taught me to really work on my #finances. And I have this course...the #MoneyMagic course that kicks my butt. And students that are over zealous in doing the work so I have to do the work. I am actually the bad student in my own money course. I see my students have breakthroughs and share wow insights and I'm like "I need that in my life" and I start doing the work. I also have an unrelenting financial advisor who makes sure I prioritise #saving and #investing. She absolutely refuses the idea of me with a credit card...my personality is spontaneous so she gets me and gives advise tailored to me. Like she contacted me via Skype when I was in Bali cos I was giving her one word responses on her emails...cos the retreat had just happened lol. So she was worried cos I was silent. But now I'm happy to talk again cos Im rebuilding my savings and she can see I'm back on top of ish. And then there's my poor sister, my friends and Aunt Ray who have to listen to my dreams and any new finance goal I set. So my point is: my finances have been a journey but it has been fun because I have a tribe to support me on this journey. Sometimes it takes a village (a tribe). A support system is necessary. Sometimes we need to go out of our way to build that system or we need to tell/teach the people in our lives how to support us so we can start living the lives we dream of. I had to learn to do both.
Arrived to a gorgeous apartment in #Penang, #Malaysia yesterday evening. I watched the city lights as I listened to the sounds of the ocean from my bedroom window. So this is home for the next 15 days. Thanks to some amazing friends. Gratitude is my name.
The last week was physically hard for me. My last few days in #Bali were hard for me. The day we hiked Mount Batur was just weird on my body. I got to the top and it was freezing and I instantly felt like crying and felt queezy and literally lay down on the bench inside the little tent. Then I was offered a sandwich that I just could couldn't swallow. I kept chewing until I gave up. It's like every fibre of me was rebelling against this food (gluten is not my friend). The trekking guides took pity on me and offered me a Balinese breakfast of rice and greens. I had NO troubles eating that. After the hike I got a headache (the worst headache I have ever had) that lasted 5 days, until I left Bali. I also had this insane lump in my throat that jus wouldn't leave until I landed in #Malaysia. I also struggled with nausea and the air in Bali started feeling heavy for me on some days. I remember getting back to Canggu and just having this feeling like my body was heavy with a cloak of sorts. I called my sister saying I was feeling like something happened to me on that mountain and I was upset cos I also had memories that were not from this life. Luckily my family is used to such things and we are a people that live between worlds so this was just a normal conversation. My sister pointed out that I have a lot of fire in me and then I was on my period on a full moon, climbing fire. Water and fire elements. A lot was going on. The minute I touched ground in Kuala Lumpur, my physical symptoms abated and I'm sleeping a lot better. So here I am a week later trying to digest the experience and grateful for #volcanoes, full moons, periods and sunrises.