We all have a unique leadership style that best empowers us to be successful at work but so few of us actually discover what it is as truly leverage it. Authentic Power is the second key in my Abundant Leadership framework and it’s all about discovering your unique leadership blueprint and applying it to your career with intention and unapologetic gusto.

We each have a responsibility to ensure that we are able to perform well by intentionally designing the way we work in a way that works for us instead of feeling stuck in delivery, collaboration and decision-making approaches that hurt our performance and wellbeing.

In today’s episode, I walk you through how to take the principle of leading authentically and make it a practical reality in your daily work life.

Topics discussed:

• The 4 dimensions of your leadership blueprint
• How to customise your leadership approach for each dimension
• Using Human Design as a tool to uncover your unique leadership approach
• Several client examples of how they are approaching opportunity creation, managing their diary, collaborating with colleagues, etc in an authentic way and the results they’re getting

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Leadership is a performance sport. It takes focus to deliver long complex projects. It takes clarity to make swift, clear decisions without a lot of information. It takes emotional grounding and maturity to stabilise a team in crisis. It takes endurance to work against tight deadlines late into the night and weekend.

How are you supporting yourself to show up at your best? Is your current way of working sustainable or are you one stressful situation away from burning out or your performance taking a knock? No one is coming to force us to take care of ourselves so it is in wisdom that we must learn to press in and lead ourselves.

Topics discussed:

• The 4 areas of our lives that we cannot afford to not take care of
• The power of daily practice vs. sporadic self-care
• The need for holistic self-care – spiritual, mental, emotional and physical
• Practical examples you can start integrating into your morning or evening routine today
• 5 tips for how to make your daily routine stick

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Who is in the driver’s seat of your career – you, or your fear, insecurity and limiting beliefs about the world? So many of us, myself included, have been conditioned to believe things that do not support us to build the careers we truly want and show up as leaders in a way that helps us to have the impact we desire. I call these rogue beliefs – mental agents that operate quietly in the background sabotaging our lives. 

But we have a way out. By mastering our mindset and empowering ourselves to consciously and deliberately write new more empowering stories about ourselves and life, we can finally change the direction of our lives. We can finally take over the reins, become self-leaders and steer our lives in the direction we want to go in. Let’s explore how.

Topics discussed:

• The incredible power of the subconscious mind
• How to replace disempowering beliefs with empowering ones
• The key requirement you can’t miss if you want your brain to trust a new belief

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All of us want abundance – growth, confidence, security, fulfilment and a sense of living our purpose. And while many of us have careers and leadership roles that look good on paper, the feeling of flow, expansiveness, sustainability and deep meaning is elusive. Work feels hard, leadership feels complicated, and we don’t feel truly successful.

Following hundreds of sessions with coaching clients over the years, I’ve developed a pathway to abundance that can help us get to a place where we can start to feel clear, confident, secure and enabled to truly thrive as our authentic selves in our careers. 

This pathway has 3 keys: Mindset mastery, authentic power, and performance enablement. Let’s explore what this looks like and how you can bring it to life in your career and leadership journey.

Topics discussed:

• What abundant leadership is and how to experience it
• The 3 keys to abundance and how to identify which one is lacking in your career
• The imperative for leaders to manage ourselves as deliberately and consistently as we manage the businesses we lead

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We’ve been together for 2 years through 50 episodes on the Abundant Leaders Podcast. Thank you so much for being with me in this amazing journey!

I’ve learned so much about trusting my voice, showing up authentically, speaking about what I think truly matters rather than what is conventionally focussed on, and having the courage to do it my way. Through critical illness, format changes, experimenting with different formats, segments and interview approaches, this podcast has been a place of learning, giving and receiving. 

By tuning in to each episode, you’ve supported my vision for growing the number of healed, confident, abundance-oriented leaders in Africa’s corporate spaces. 

You’ve helped me see, quantify, and embrace the value I bring and the message I have to share. 

And you’ve given me a fun, safe space to explore, experiment and be myself. 

Join me as I celebrate my journey and share 5 powerful leadership and business lessons I’ve learned from my journey.

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50. Don't wait for motivation: A better way to achieve more

Many of us get to mid-year and run into a slump. We haven’t achieved the goals we laid out for ourselves nearly as fast or as diligently as we imagined we would when motivation was high in January. What relationship do we have to have with ourselves, with motivation and productivity expectations, or with the fear, inertia and resistance that naturally comes up when we are moving towards something new or something more?

Instead of berating ourselves, throwing in the towel or barrelling down a fruitless path, can we pause and consider a different approach? A more realistic, calm, steady approach that works with who we are, not against it? Today I explore a different way of addressing that proverbial mid-year slump to find renewed momentum towards our goals.

Topics discussed

• The myth of consistency and how it blocks our progress
• How knowing I’m a Manifestor archetype in Human Design and have an open sacral centre has helped me to design and execute my goals in my own way using execution sprints - leading to way more completion than when I was trying to be “consistent”
• How inertia and hesitation to act is sometimes fear of failure and taking risks
• What we essentially need to believe about our ability to survive, and the value of the journey vs the destination in order to stare risk in the face and take it on 
• What my Human Design value creation archetype (i.e., my profile lines) taught me about how I’m designed to overcome risk, and the mental blocks that can get me stuck and losing momentum

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Join Momentum my mid-year leadership workshop on 29th July 2025 where we are diving back into the vision and goals we set for 2025 and infusing them with new energy, overcoming any inertia or mental blocks that have made our goals feel out of reach, and picking that right next action that will bring us back into making our dreams a reality. If this empowering recalibration feels like what you need, I can’t wait to see you.

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Today is an informal conversation with my close friend, Warren Ndlovu, about the unconventional path he’s taken to doing the work he loves and the obstacles he’s overcome along the way. Warren is an early-stage climate tech strategy and operations executive with a background in derivatives structuring at Absa, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, and fintech and telecoms at Econet Global (now Cassava Technologies).

His journey has taken creativity, courage, adaptability, a thick skin, a willingness to play the long game, and the focus to always keep the big picture in mind when he faced setbacks. If you’re struggling to break into the work that you long to do, or are a generalist with a non-linear path who has struggled to own your story, join me in this inspiring conversation. 

We openly discuss

• How hard it was to find a foothold in the sustainability sector – and how he finally broke through
• The strategic choices he made as he pivoted into diverse roles seeking to gain the experience and exposure he needed
• The choice to do a joint MBA and Masters at The Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania, using education to establish himself as a sustainability and climate expert
• What he would do differently if he could do it all again

Learn more about Warren on LinkedIn.

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As we mature as leaders, people increasingly look to us for caring, empathy, a sense that they matter and are being managed in a humane way. Indeed, it’s our job to be emotionally intelligent and understand how much the way we treat others impacts their performance and wellbeing and the company’s culture and desirability to prospective hires.

But no one talks about caregiver burnout – the burnout that happens when leaders over-give and extend themselves past their limits. If you’re seen as the go-to person in your company and everyone loves how you make them feel, but you’re crumbling under the pressure to be there for everyone, do it all, and you wonder when will there be time for you – something needs to change.

Let’s discuss:

• What *true* caring leadership is and isn’t
• The fallout when we over-give – and how it can hurt our reputation and performance
• 4 strategies you can use to stop over-giving, people pleasing and perfectionism (hint: two involve boundaries and healthy selfishness)
• Putting it to practice in a personal way: How I use 3 of my specific Human Design strengths to be a caring leader in my own unique way and avoid burning out by trying to imitate others

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Today I’m joined by a fellow student from my Harvard days, Susan Lieu – a management consultant turned author, playwright, and performer. She joins us to explore how unhealed intergenerational trauma shapes how we lead, the choices we make in our careers, and our ability to live a life that’s authentic to our values instead of focussed on survival and pleasing our families. 

We have a deeply vulnerable, soul-elevating conversation about how hard it is to go against the grain and follow your calling into the life that you were truly created for, even if it upsets people you love. 

Susan and I also discuss her critically acclaimed memoir, “The Manicurist’s Daughter,” and the wisdom she’s gained from writing about how her mother’s death during a tummy tuck changed her life and her family forever.

Topics discussed:

• Intergenerational trauma, the cost of silence and protecting our families secrets
• Overcoming the fear of pivoting careers from corporate to the arts as an A-type high-achieving financially-driven Harvard graduate
• How hard it is to find enoughness in your leadership and career journey, and as a parent
• How Susan brought more fulfilment into her career by discovering her top 3 values
• The role our careers play in our personal growth stories and the unfolding of our soul’s highest purpose

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Themes: Trauma-healing, trusting your career path, leaders of colour, career fulfilment, self-worth, inner work

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Many of us have been raised to believe that hard work, focus, practicality and responsibility are the keys to success. As a society we most celebrate the rags to riches stories that involve grit, resilience and hustle. But what often goes undiscussed is that these great inventors and business mavericks were often following their hearts – or the calls of their soul. The grit etc was in response to the scale of desire that thrummed within them for something different, more, exciting, wondrous, impossible, but oh so true to their soul’s purpose and heart’s desire.

As leaders we so often struggle to harness the incredible power of our hearts’ desires in favour of ruling ourselves with our heads and following the proven method. The wild unknown path terrifies us, and thus its gift of newness, fulfilment, expansion and purpose alignment is lost to us. How do we learn to listen to, trust and follow our hearts in our career pathways and leadership approach and trust that we will be successful?

Topics discussed:

• What is lost to us when we rule with our heads over our hearts
• Our reptilian brain’s need for security and guaranteed returns and why it leads us down the beaten path and away from our hopes and desires 
• How to heal your relationship with desire, the unknown, your sense of duty and fear of loss to let your desires bring you success
• My story of bringing strategy vs desire, mind vs heart, duty vs passion into harmony so that they work together for my highest good

Themes: Mindset mastery; owning your desires, heart-centred leadership, mind vs heart-based decision-making, trusting the unknown, self-trust, career expansion

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