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At the Nedbank IMC Marketing Is Business event, Carmen Murray sits down with Tiffany Markman to explore how AI is making us sound increasingly alike — and why the pursuit of safe, politically correct communication is stripping brands of their humanity, creativity, and colour.

From AI-generated corporate speak and digital disconnection to deepfakes and the weaponisation of our own language, this conversation challenges marketers to rethink what authentic communication looks like in the New RenAI²ssance. website · podcast studio · Join our community for free · Join our YouTube channel for more

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Carmen Murray, LIVE from the Nedbank IMC Marketing Is Business Conference, sits down with Suhayl Limbada, Chief Marketing Officer of KFC India, to explore why brands need to get closer to the cultures and communities they serve.

From embracing Africa’s unique identity to listening beyond dashboards, the conversation unpacks why marketers must be willing to take creative risks, understand local nuances and build genuine emotional connections. website · podcast studio · Join our community for free · Join our YouTube channel for more

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Carmen Murray sat down with Dawn Rowlands - dentsu CEO Sub-Saharan Africa to unpack a question we should all be asking:

Are we ambitious enough for the Africa we are about to build?

Because the next chapter is not going to wait for us.

We’re entering the dawn of an algorithmic economy, one that will challenge how brands compete, how businesses optimise, how budgets perform, and how we create differentiation when technology can increasingly replicate what once made us distinctive.

The question isn't simply whether African businesses can adopt AI.

It’s whether we are agile enough to imagine, create, and build what Africa will actually require next. website · podcast studio · Join our community for free · Join our YouTube channel for more

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Carmen Murray, LIVE from the Nedbank IMC Marketing Is Business Conference, sits down with T-Bose from Kaya FM to explore the future of radio, African identity and the power of authentic knowledge.

From Africa exporting its culture to the rise of cred-fluencers — knowledgeable experts shaping conversations in an age of misinformation — this conversation challenges how we think about influence, education, and the future of marketing. website · podcast studio · Join our community for free · Join our YouTube channel for more

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Carmen Murray, LIVE from the Nedbank IMC Marketing Is Business Conference, sits down with a content creator and communications professional behind Working Women Wednesday to unpack what women really need to thrive.

From being seen and heard in the boardroom to finding psychological safety, career opportunities and financial independence, one thing is clear: women don’t just need empowerment. They need the space and opportunity to become who they’re meant to be.

And the big prediction for 2050? Communications and marketing professionals will move from supporting businesses to leading them. website · podcast studio · Join our community for free · Join our YouTube channel for more

First published in 1905, this short story tells the tale of a young couple, Jim and Della, who are very poor but want to buy each other meaningful Christmas gifts.

This is another UPDATED demonstration (version 3) of a digital twin voice.

This version featuers Melanie Walker. Email Solid Gold · For links to buy this book

Marian Keyes is the world-renowned, bestselling author of multiple novels and collected essays. Her Walsh Sisters novels have been turned into a successful television series, and she has won the British Book Awards and Irish Book Awards several times.

Marian joins Fiona and Gail to talk about the challenges that women writers face and why she hopes that editors will never go easy on her.

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With DuduBloom More and Kamanee Govender, Johannesburg.

This episode is for people in Johannesburg who care about art, about women's safety, and about what it means to live in a city where violence against women is a daily reality. Host Christi shares why she is bringing together visual artist DuduBloom More and author Kamanee Govender at Candice Berman Gallery on 3 December, and why she believes artists hold something the rest of us need right now.

Christi revisits a conversation she had with DuduBloom More for her project The Remains of a Conversation, centred on the film Where the Crawdads Sing. What stayed with her was a single sentence Dudu spoke: it was neglect that affected Kaya the most. That insight, about neglect as the root of abandonment and trauma, connects directly to Kamanee Govender's debut novel Stern Gods, a harrowing portrait of abuse, incest, rape and survival during apartheid South Africa.

Christi reads from Stern Gods and reflects on how both artists have taken private pain and turned it into shared community story. She draws on the German philosopher Heidegger's essay The Origin of the Work of Art to explore why visual art and literary fiction reveal hidden truths about who we are and what we do to each other. She contrasts the structure of a novel with the openness of visual art, describing DuduBloom More's handmade cardboard disc sculptures and textile circles as objects of healing that move toward joy and lightness after trauma.

With twelve women murdered in greater Johannesburg in recent months, this episode is a call to action: come to Candice Berman Gallery at 223 Jan Smuts Avenue on 3 December, listen to these two artists, and be part of the conversation our community can no longer ignore. Stern Gods by Kamanee · DuduBloom More · 223 Jan Smuts · Sovereign Africa Art Prize · ChristiSa.com · Connect with Christi on LinkedIn · Follow Christi Sa on Instagram · Follow Saint Germain on Instagram

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