February is the month of Love. In this Guided Meditation series, Love Languages for the Soul, I invite you to experience Love as a sanctuary within, an inner refuge that nurtures, protects, and restores. Love is not always something that is external.

In this first episode, we journey into Your self-created Inner Sanctuary, a sacred space inside the psyche where you can feel safe, grounded, and connected to your Higher Self. Here, guides, ancestors, and power animals may appear with messages of love and protection. Each visit is unique, offering lessons, renewal, inspiration and Visions.

This practice is simple yet profound: find a quiet, comfortable space, allow yourself to soften, and explore the sanctuary within. Return as often as you need, morning, evening, or whenever you seek grounding and connection.

Join me in creating your own sanctuary of self-love and healing, and let this journey leave you feeling refreshed, uplifted, inspired, and ready to begin again.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertcobbs/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-sumrow-869516183/

In this episode, I sit down with Robby Cobbs and Kyle Sumrow from TechMySchool, two humanitarian entrepreneurs whose lives are defined by service, sacrifice, and purpose. With backgrounds as teachers and years of experience serving across the globe, including Africa, they bring a rare blend of heart and vision to the work of education.

Robby’s journey began during a sabbatical in Puerto Rico, where he witnessed firsthand how under‑resourced the schools were, including those his own children attended. In a moment of conviction, he gave up his boat savings to seed what would become TechMySchool. Kyle, aligned in mission from Texas, joined him and together they’ve built an organisation now reaching over 40 schools, impacting 5,000 students every day, and empowering 500 teachers each month.

Their philosophy is simple yet profound: technology holds no bias. It is the bridge across inequality, and they are determined to make that bridge accessible to every child and teacher they encounter.

This conversation humbled me deeply. We explore how Robby’s upbringing in adversity, abuse, and poverty shaped his resilience and drive to give back, and how both he and Kyle embody what it means to live in alignment with purpose, sacrificing personal comfort for the greater good.

It’s a story of courage, conviction, and the belief that education, when resourced with dignity, can transform lives.

Breaking moulds, building mountains of courage.

In the Spirit of honouring the African women that are Building, I could not have run the series without doing this episode with my Mum, Mama, Mamzo. She has and continues to Build a Legacy of Grace & Strength and is not afraid to challenge the perceptions, templates and conditioning that many women continue to face. I am proud to be her daughter.

In this powerful episode of She Builds Mnandi, Dr. Vanita Richard shares her extraordinary journey. From growing up as an Indian woman in apartheid South Africa, to becoming a teacher of Home Economics for High Schools in Lenasia, meeting her husband, and stepping into activism with courage and conviction. Moving from Teaching into Matthew Goniwe, Pilo and working with and being inspired by Prof. Mary Metcalfe. She reflects on the challenges of raising a family while standing up for truth and justice, and the profound losses she has endured, including the sudden passing of her husband (Benjamin Richard) in May 2024 and losing both of her sons to mental illness (suicide). At 73, she climbed to Everest Base Camp, with my Dad's ashes, embodying resilience and the unbreakable spirit that has carried her through a lifetime of struggle and triumph.

This conversation is a testament to legacy, courage, and the power of living one’s truth no matter which chapter in life you find yourself in.

#ForLegacy #ForMum #ForDad #forAllComrades #SouthAfrica #apartheid #Sophiatown #Lenasia #Lens #SADTU #PTL #BeingIndian

In this episode, we sit with Lungile Maile—Nubian Smarts founder, EdTech innovator, and fierce advocate for Africa’s children as tech creators, not just consumers. Lungile’s work through Nubian Smarts is reshaping how under-served communities engage with STEAM (A for Art yay) education, from culinary coding and VR classrooms to AI hackathons, and AI-powered WhatsApp tools for teachers, parents and Business Operations - especially Manufacturing.

We explore the soul behind the software: how Lungile blends manufacturing grit with ancestral vision, how she builds playful yet powerful learning experiences, and why democratizing tech is a spiritual and strategic act. This conversation is a call to educators, parents, business owners, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and dreamers—to co-create a continent where innovation is local, joyful, and radically inclusive.

Lungile Maile Nubian Smarts contact details:

Mobile: +27 73 748 3166 (South Africa)

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lungi_maile?igsh=MTNyNzRsOHB0b3czcg==

She Builds Mnandi is a series honouring and showcasing African female entrepreneurs

My first guest for the series is Carmen Ely, Founder of of Play With Me ZA. Carmen created her boutique intimacy shop in Johannesburg to empower women through sensual self-awareness—born from her own journey of reclaiming pleasure after a few painful and healing life experiences.

Play With Me ZA isn’t just a sex shop—it’s a feminine, elegant, and emotionally intelligent space that invites women to explore intimacy with grace and curiosity.

Come and play with us In this evocative episode, as I sit down with Carmen—entrepreneur, sensuality guide, and cultural disruptor—for a raw and reverent exploration of pleasure, reclamation, and radical intimacy. What begins as a story of personal transformation unfolds into a layered reflection on Carmen’s divorce, her struggle to prioritise her own pleasure, and the unexpected evolution of her adult toy store into a healing sanctuary.

Carmen shares how her business became less about products and more about the deep, vulnerable conversations with clients—conversations that helped them confront shame, guilt, and cultural conditioning around sexuality. Now, she’s expanding into the creation of dungeon spaces: intentional, consent-based environments that honour kink, edge-play, and the full spectrum of erotic expression.

Throughout the episode, Carmen gently invites listeners to dip their toes into their own edges—to explore the blocks, beliefs, and inherited scripts that shape their relationship to intimacy. For her, communication is the cornerstone of any erotic or emotional connection. It’s not just about what we do, but how we speak, listen, and co-create safety.

This episode invites listeners to meet themselves at the edge—where curiosity becomes courage, and healing begins with truth.

How to reach Carmen Ely and Play with Me.ZA

https://www.instagram.com/playwithmeza/

https://playwithme.co.za/?srsltid=AfmBOoqRVpFGdlsoO0YkrKHaoZKaxi0I7T2e39JpHJux2ZnLADyEsKgB

Lynda Williams founded the Evolved Woman Program—a 12-week coaching journey designed to help professional women reconnect with their feminine energy, build emotional resilience, and create soul-aligned lives. 

She works with emotional and energetic alignment, clearing subconscious blocks like imposter syndrome and burnout, reclaiming self-worth and alignment that goes beyond external definitions of success. 

Lynda's journey resonated with my own and her personal message touched me. 

"Your podcast always sparks honest conversations about modern womanhood, and I truly admire your approach to these nuanced topics. I thought about reaching out, as my own path might resonate with your listeners. From losing my dad to suicide at 18, to pushing through divorce and two intense burnouts running a million dollar PR agency, I've experienced firsthand the pressures ambitious women face behind their polished exteriors.

What ultimately changed my life was creating the Evolved Woman Method, after my own setbacks with love and relationships. I walked away from a successful business to focus on helping high-achieving women find love and fulfillment—as I did myself—without having to dial down their ambition. Today, my coaching program is sought after by accomplished women worldwide and guides them through overcoming patterns that keep them from real connection.

Lynda"

Lynda Williams, Founder, Life & Business Coach

Lynda Williams Group Ltd

Founder of The Evolved Woman Program

Podcast Host: PS I Love Me

The perfect way to close out Women's month in South Africa.

Today’s guest is someone whose presence arrived not through algorithms or marketing funnels, but through resonance. Nancy Griffin, founder of Women Worth Wellness, reached out to me via email—unsolicited, unexpected, and at first, I’ll admit, a little suspicious. I’ve had my fair share of strange requests lately, so I asked for a Zoom meet and did what any discerning woman would do: I checked her LinkedIn.

 What I found was a woman whose work deeply aligns with mine—uplifting communities, integrating emotional intelligence into financial empowerment, and redefining wealth as something far more expansive than numbers on a spreadsheet.

Nancy is a Certified Financial Planner, a legacy architect, and a fierce advocate for women reclaiming their worth—emotionally, financially, and spiritually. She’s worked with Boomer women, their daughters, and now their granddaughters, helping them design lives and legacies rooted in wellness and wisdom.

 In today’s conversation, we explore the sacred dance between self-worth and net worth, the emotional terrain of money, and how giving back becomes a pathway to wholeness.

Shahd Alasaly is a living dedication and prayer for healing community through collective resonance and recovery.

Her team, namely Katie, found Dopamine Dialogues and wrote

this email to me... which is why we now have this episode.

Thank you Katie for introducing us.

"Hi Sarika, 
The stories stitched into every garment can sometimes say more than words, and no one embodies that philosophy better than Shahd Alasaly. With a rich background as an author, educator, and sociologist at the University of South Florida, Shahd’s work bridges research, fashion, and human resilience. She focuses on trauma, displacement, betrayal, and collective healing, especially within collectivist communities, an angle that brings fresh depth to conversations about belonging and transformation. 
As founder and creative director of Blue Meets Blue, Shahd launched a humanitarian label in Chicago in 2015, dedicated to empowering refugee artisans through luxury, modest fashion collections deeply rooted in healing and cultural preservation. Now in Tampa, she is relaunching with a sharp focus on Syrian brocade, traditional embroidery, and building meaningful employment for refugees in the U.S. Her recent journey to Syria, where she partnered with local textile artisans rebuilding after war, gives her firsthand insight into cultural survival and hope. 
Every Blue Meets Blue piece tells the story of survival, dignity, and craft, a powerful lens for your Dopamine Dialogues listeners exploring memory, collective recovery, and creativity as a force for justice. Beyond fashion, Shahd is the author of A Kids Book About Humanitarianism and is developing a children’s series on the refugee experience. Her commitment to ethical sourcing, sustainability, and storytelling creates a rare blend: someone who truly lives the connection between creative expression and empowerment. 
Would love for you to consider Shahd as a future guest. 
Best, 
BMB Team

This episode is a call to soften, to witness, and to lead from the heart. It’s for anyone who believes that healing is communal, that leadership is energetic, and that love is the most radical strategy of all.

And of course, I got emotional. I ugly cry when I am deeply humbled.

Love

Sarika

In this raw and soulful conversation, I sit with sacred intimacy coach Tamara Carter, to explore the sacred power of the yoni—our portal of creation, pleasure, and emotional truth. With courage and compassion, Tamara shares her journey of healing from sexual abuse, shining light on how deep-rooted shame can fracture our connection to sensuality and self-worth.

Together we unpack how both women and men reject their yoni energy, and what that means for living fully, feeling safe in our bodies, feeling safe in creating and experiencing the joy of orgasmic life force. There are a few emotional moments where I share vulnerably about my miscarriages, my own shame around sexual intimacy and the emotional threads of unworthiness tied to the sacral centre. We are inviting listeners into a space of remembrance and radical healing.

We also explore how energetic disconnection often begins in the emotional and etheric body—manifesting physically in ways that disconnect us from our birthright of creation and pleasure. The conversation moves through grief, reverence, and transformation, ultimately asking: What would it take to truly heal the yoni?

💫 This episode wasn’t planned—but it arrived divinely aligned with August, Women’s Month. A time to remember, reclaim, and rise. May you listen gently, reflect deeply, and if you feel called, reach out to Tamara for intimacy coaching or sacred support.

www.sacredintimacysecrets.com

Calling all entrepreneurs and brave souls. This episode is a love letter to those building slowly, with care. 

I am joined by Tina, a powerhouse of note—entrepreneur, counsellor, and creative force—for a conversation that pulses with authenticity, ritual, and renewal. Tina shares her journey of building a business that’s woven from healing work, lifelong learning, and a fierce devotion to showing up fully—as herself, for herself, and with others.

From sacred morning coffees that anchor her day, to village-style, person-to-person connections, and her delectable homemade toasted baked sandwiches that nourish more than just the body—Tina invites us into a world where entrepreneurship becomes a sacred, sensory, and relational experience. Her energetic presence radiates freedom held within form, balancing soul and structure with grace.