How do you go about uncovering your very own personal brand?

Here's a step-by-step guide to start thinking about it.

For more detail, check out: https://cherryflava.com/how-to-define-your-personal-brand/

What are the positive things that may come out of the #covid_19 experience?

Susan and I chat about some of the good things to come out of living through a lockdown.

In this podcast I chat to Susan about business opportunities in South Africa that are worth having a look at in 2020.

What are the growth areas worth considering for both entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs working in a big companies.

Links:

China host its 2nd ever import expo - https://cherryflava.com/china-hosts-its-second-import-expo-and-opens-their-market-to-the-world/

7 innovation-focus areas that offer significant potential to South African business in 2020 - https://cherryflava.com/7-sectors-south-africa-should-be-focusing-on-for-the-future/

9 South African small business opportunities in 2020 - https://cherryflava.com/9-south-african-small-business-opportunities-for-2020/

South Africa has a major opportunity in high-value agriculture - https://cherryflava.com/south-africa-has-a-major-opportunity-in-high-value-agriculture/

I interview Professor Philip Spies professor emeritus, and past director of the Institute for Futures Research, University of Stellenbosch. He is currently a wine farmer, consultant in futures studies, and part-time

lecturer in the principles of futures studies at the University of Stellenbosch.

Prof Spies has a wealth of wisdom when it comes to the practical application of futures thinking and I was lucky enough to have a chat to him on his farm in Wellington.

This podcast is part 2 of a 2 part episode.

I interview Professor Philip Spies professor emeritus, and past director of the Institute for Futures Research at the University of Stellenbosch. He is currently a wine farmer, consultant in futures studies, and part-time lecturer in the principles of futures studies at the University of Stellenbosch.

Prof Spies has a wealth of wisdom when it comes to the practical application of futures thinking and I was lucky enough to have a chat to him on his farm in Wellington.

This podcast is part 1 of a 2 part episode.

Susan and I chat about happiness - what is it, why do we all want it so much and what is the future of happiness.

Links for the show include:

https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2019/

https://www.theschooloflife.com/

https://www.brainpickings.org/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/philosophy

http://geldofcs.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/The_importance_of_a_certain_slowness.pdf

In this week’s show I chat to ad industry veteran Alexis Beckett about the future of advertising in South Africa.

Alexis has worked as a senior creative director at some of the countries biggest agencies and on ads that we will all recognise and has now decided to cut the strings and go freelance. This was our chat in a car, on a very warm Cape Town afternoon.

In this week’s episode I chat to Susan about subcultures and how they end up influencing larger consumer trends over time. Are subcultures dead or have they just modernised along with media and our complex, always-on lifestyles?

Today on the podcast I interview US futurist Peter von Stackleberg and explore the future of storytelling, the power of building imaginary future worlds and a strategic business tool and what skill your 16-year-old kid should be developing to thrive in the future.

This week on the podcast I chat to Susan Searle about the future of the clothing industry in South Africa. Amongst other things we talk about the social disruption that has put some many retailers around the world under extreme financial pressure and is set to have an impact in South Africa in the near future