Sisterhood of the Travelling Mgowo

As the weather shifts and the days get shorter, many of us start to feel a familiar heaviness. In this episode, we’re having a real conversation about navigating "the funk", from identifying the early warning signs of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) to managing the overwhelming weight of overstimulation.

In this week’s episode, we revisit a conversation we had seven years ago and reflect on just how much life has changed since then. From our mid-twenties to our early thirties, we talk about the personal and professional shifts that shaped us — motherhood, navigating deep loss, and learning to move away from loud, half-formed opinions toward a life that feels more grounded, intentional, and private. We also share why having a strong community matters, and how we’ve come to value the humanity and effort behind the journey, not just the outcome

In this episode of Sisterhood of the Traveling Mgowo, we delve into the concept of the "passive woman" and the impact of passivity on personal development and community. We explore how societal structures, specifically patriarchal conditioning, often encourage women to remain passive to be considered "good" or desirable

This week, we expand on the idea of community and how we show up in the spaces that hold us. If the price of community is inconvenience, how much are we paying before we ask our community to pay it forward?

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Navigating adulthood means outgrowing things, people and spaces that no longer fit who we are becoming. This conversation delves into the responsibility we all individually have to cultivate our own sense of belonging as adults - it is up to us to find the spaces where we feel most like ourselves.

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What happens when our social media feeds make us more jealous instead of more inspired? In a digital world geared to show us constant imagery about the how the other side lives, it is difficult not to get consumed by feelings of lack and inadequacy - the gateway to envy. This week, we discuss and maybe even intellectualise emotion to get more comfortable with it in an effort to recognise it and move past it.

When last did you confront your own envy? Let us know below! Find us @smgowo on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook for more.

This week we ask: we’re always screaming “be real”… but what does that even mean?

We unpack our relationship with authenticity, what it means when people in our lives are not being real and how quickly we can resist it when it’s uncomfortable or costs us something.

We regret to announce the passing of “the squad.” 🕊️

Cause of death: growth, difference, whyling and outgrowing the need to be the same.

On this episode, we talk all about going from squad centered friendships to more individual friendships.

So tell us, have you experienced this?

Why do some people withhold when they have enough to give?

In this episode, we get into something we’ve all experienced but struggled to name —rationing. The quiet, calculated way people hold back resources, opportunities, information, or support based on what they think you have or don’t have. The generosity that comes with conditions attached. The help that never quite arrives.

We unpack where this behaviour comes from, what it says about the people who do it, and share our own experiences of being on the receiving end of it. Because this is something that happens in workplaces, in friendships, in families — and we think it’s time we talked about it openly.

In our very first episode of this new chapter, we sit down to do what we do best: talk. Honestly, openly, and without a filter. We get into where life has taken us since you last heard from us, what's changed, what hasn't, and why — after everything — we knew we had to come back to this microphone.

Ngumbuyo ke Lo. We're back.