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A breast cancer diagnosis can change your life in ways you never imagined but sometimes those changes can lead you somewhere quite extraordinary.

This week on my Good Things with Brent Lindeque podcast, I chatted to Aileen Lamb, the former CEO of New Media, who was diagnosed with breast cancer on Women's Day, at exactly the same age her own mother had been diagnosed.

Thankfully, her cancer was detected early but the experience made her reassess her life and ask herself one important question... "If not now, when?"

And that question changed everything.

Aileen decided to pursue a dream she'd carried for years, immersing herself in the world of perfumery and eventually launching Heirloom Perfumery, a proudly South African fragrance brand. And she's giving back too, with 5 percent of online sales going to Project Flamingo, which supports women receiving breast cancer treatment in public hospitals.

This conversation was incredibly meaningful for me as my own mom has just finished radiation treatment for breast cancer, and with October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, it felt like an important story to share. We also spoke about finding your ikigai, a Japanese concept meaning your reason for being, and how even the scariest experiences can sometimes push us towards a new purpose.

What I loved most is that Aileen's story isn't really about cancer. It's about everything that can still happen afterwards and the wonderful possibilities waiting for us when we decide to follow our dreams.

You can catch our full conversation on Good Things with Brent Lindeque, available on YouTube and your favourite podcast platforms.

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Rory Steyn had one of the most extraordinary jobs in South African history: protecting Nelson Mandela.

Appointed to lead Madiba’s personal protection team in 1996, Rory travelled with him locally and internationally, getting to know the man behind the global icon and witnessing moments most South Africans never got to see.

His remarkable career later took him to six Olympic Games and multiple Cricket World Cups, while his passion for giving back led him to create the African Icons, supporting children of police officers killed in the line of duty.

This week on Good Things with Brent Lindeque, Rory shares those incredible Madiba memories, the lessons he learnt along the way and the stories from a life spent protecting others.

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What if we were all just a little more careful with each other, a little more thoughtful with our words and a little quicker to check in on someone who might need us?

That is the message behind KY-ND, an initiative created by Jen Rowe in honour of her son, Ky, who died by suicide in August 2022.

Jen wanted to keep Ky’s kindness moving through the world, and it started with something incredibly simple: a bench at his school. The idea is that if you see someone sitting there alone, you sit next to them and just be there. Since then, KY-ND has grown into a community, with benches, T-shirts that start conversations and more than R55,000 raised for Operation Smile South Africa.

Jen joined me on this week’s Good Things with Brent Lindeque poddie to talk about Ky, grief, love and why our words and actions matter more than we may ever realise.

Her message is beautifully simple: notice people, check in, choose your words with care and, whenever you can, be a little more KY-ND.

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South Africa’s next Olympic champion could be sitting in a rural classroom right now, with no athletics track, no equipment and no idea how talented they actually are.

Former Olympian and World Champion Matthew Quinn is trying to change that through Track+Field, a programme taking athletics into schools across all nine provinces and giving young South Africans the opportunity to compete.

One of those youngsters is Thabo, who attended a school without an athletics programme. He discovered javelin on YouTube, carved himself a stick and taught himself how to throw. Through Track+Field, he finally got the chance to compete against other young athletes.

It’s particularly important when you consider that Parliament was told this year that more than 9,000 South African schools have no sports facilities at all.

Matt’s mission is simple: find the kids nobody has discovered yet, give them an opportunity and, perhaps, find South Africa’s next world or Olympic champion along the way.

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September is Will’s Month in South Africa, and while talking about death and our own mortality might not be the easiest conversation, getting your affairs in order is incredibly important.

This week on the “Good Things with Brent Lindeque” podcast, I chatted to Grant Fietze from Capital Legacy about why having an up-to-date Will matters and how it can make an incredibly difficult time easier for the people you love.

Capital Legacy has drafted more than 1.6 million wills since launching in 2012, helping South Africans make estate planning simpler and more accessible.

It’s a conversation about death, yes, but really, it’s much more about life, love and looking after the people who matter most.

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Gugu Zulu was my friend. I still consider him my friend. Ten years after we lost Gugs on Mount Kilimanjaro, I finally had the opportunity to sit down with Letshego Zulu and talk about that mountain, the man we both loved and the incredible life she has built since.

A year after losing Gugs, Letshego returned to Kilimanjaro and reached the summit in his honour. From there, she began the incredibly difficult journey of picking up the pieces and choosing to live, something she would later write about in her memoir, I Choose to Live: Life After Losing Gugu.

Today, Letshego is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, mom and formidable endurance athlete. She runs, she cycles, she takes on massive challenges and she uses her story to inspire women across South Africa.

She's strong, funny, adventurous and just a really lekker South African.

Gugs would be incredibly proud of her. I know I am.

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This week on Good Things with Brent Lindeque, I sat down with one of South Africa’s best-known futurists and trend analysts, Dion Chang.

I thought we were going to spend the whole conversation talking about business, technology and artificial intelligence (AI).

And we did talk about all of that... but so much more!

Dion has built an incredible career spotting the signals that tell us where society is heading. He started out in fashion and media before founding Flux Trends in 2006, and today he describes himself as a “professional cage rattler”, helping businesses understand the cultural, economic and technological shifts happening around them.

But we also spoke about pups.

Dion has been tracking the rise of the DINKWADs (Dual Income, No Kids, With A Dog). It describes couples who are choosing pets over children, but it also points to something much bigger: the changing definition of family and the increasingly important place our animals hold in our lives.

Dion is also trained as an end-of-life companion doula and has done work around pet bereavement, so we spoke about how losing a beloved pup can genuinely be one of the hardest losses a person experiences.

So yes, we spoke about what the future might look like, but one of the loveliest trends Dion is watching has nothing to do with technology at all.. it has four paws, probably sleeps on your bed and is already very much part of the family.

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There’s a South African platform changing the way we think about the people who help keep our homes running.

AskMandla is a WhatsApp-first fintech platform helping households formalise domestic employment, making it easier to manage contracts, UIF registration, payroll, payslips and leave.

And that matters because domestic work is real work. Something as simple as a payslip can give a domestic worker formal proof of income, which can open doors to banking, insurance, savings and credit.

I chatted to AskMandla’s Peter Adolphs on the Good Things poddie about why calling someone “part of the family” is wonderful, but making sure their work is properly recognised and protected is even more important.

It’s a clever South African solution making it easier for employers to do the right thing, while giving domestic workers the dignity and financial recognition they deserve.

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Nkosi “The Rugby Guy” has become one of South African rugby’s most infectious superfans, building a growing online following through his massive personality, his love for the game and some pretty incredible encounters with his sporting heroes.

Nkosi lives with cerebral palsy but he has never allowed that to define what he can do or dream about.

In his own words, “Yes, I’ve got cerebral palsy, but that doesn’t stop me from doing what I love to do.”

And what he loves is rugby. His journey has seen him meet Siya Kolisi, sharing those now-famous massive hugs and even receive a Springbok cap and jersey from Rassie Erasmus. More recently, his adventures have stretched beyond rugby too, including teaching Bryson DeChambeau a very South African “Howzit, boet!” at LIV Golf.

Nkosi is also working on a documentary series about schoolboy rugby while continuing his own medical journey, but behind all the sporting moments is a young man using his platform to show others what is possible.

And this week, Nkosi joins me on the "Good Things with Brent Lindeque" poddie to talk about the man behind “The Rugby Guy”, the dreams that have already come true and the many more he is still chasing.

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A South African idea born in Johannesburg is changing the way people get help in an emergency.

Warren Myers is the Founder and CEO of AURA, a technology company launched in 2017 after he recognised a frustrating problem: we could get a taxi or even a pizza faster than we could get emergency assistance.

AURA uses technology to connect people in trouble with the closest vetted security or medical responders, and today that network has expanded from South Africa into Kenya, the UK and the United States.

The company says its network has helped save 8,900 lives, with an average response time of around 7 minutes, and Warren's bigger vision is to eventually create a global emergency-response network where technology can get the right help to you, wherever you are.

I sat down with Warren for this week's Good Things with Brent Lindeque to talk about the journey from a South African problem to a homegrown solution now making an impact around the world.

Here's how to experience AURA for yourself, with a test call: https://shorturl.at/NdQcI

Or, to check whether you have one of their partners' products and access it now, click here: http://share.aurasos.com/

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