Watts Involved

Journalist Sarah Bullen and her filmmaker husband Llewelyn seemed

In this episode, I chat with Carryn about the future of work and how this may impact corporate companies.

In this episode, I chat with the CEO of Future Forex Harry Scherzer. We discuss who Future Forex is and dive into what they do.

Crypto Asset Arbitrage is the process of buying a crypto asset on an offshore exchange and instantly selling it on a South African exchange at a profit. This is possible because crypto assets typically trade at a 2-5% premium in South Africa.

With Crypto Asset Arbitrage you’re not directly investing in the crypto asset, but rather capitalising on inefficiencies that exist in the local market.

In this episode, I chat with Tramayne about his book The Shepherd And The Beast, the hero's journey for leaders.

The hero’s journey is for everyone. We all need to be leaders in a world awash with people’s opinions and personalities. We are hyper-connected, but we are becoming less human.

We are all stepping into the journey and finding the guidance and lessons to grow as a leader and a person. And along the path, we find our mentors and face our trials. We are distracted, and we fail – we are human, after all. In the chaos, we eventually find the balance required to grow. This is a book about facing demons and meeting mages.

The Shepherd and The Beast is about the universal truth that binds us; we are all the same, just on different parts of the same mythological journey.

The Tyranny of Growth is a modern epic that exposes the lie of economic growth. It provocatively recounts how the 2008 global financial meltdown and  COVID-19 pandemic have become the leading cause of governments’ and multilateral institutions’ global spectacular failure. It brilliantly explains how a single number – GDP – came to have such bewildering power over our lives, despite its ruinous consequences. But ultimately the book strives to illuminate a new way of imagining the world.

An extract from Unlocked by Tracy Loubser

“Trapped in a passionless marriage.

So, we become liars. We become liars trapped behind scriptures and moral facades. We learn to hide ourselves behind our reputations, as long as we look good to society. We put others and their aspirations before our own.  We are taught that if we make a promise before God, then that covenant is cast in stone, even if your feelings do not align. That if you were once out of integrity, you can never go back. Even if it means you become a blatant, perpetual liar. We learn that there is no point of return; and no turning forward either.  We learn that where we make our bed, we sleep. We learn that there is no justification solid enough to even tempt squeezing our new, evolved, wiser self through the cracks of a promise once made.

We are told that we are warm when we are cold; that there are many things to be happy about, when we feel sad.

When we cry out that we are hungry – hungry for more – we’re told we should be grateful for the fill we already have on our plates.

We are told how to feel. And we are told how not to feel.

We are moulded into an expectation of uniformity; homogenised into a fictitious ideal of normality.

So, we stay.  And we pretend.

We mask and we ache. With a smile. We laugh when all we really want to do is cry. We close our eyes and focus on the positive and turn away from the knowing – a constant gnawing groan from somewhere deep inside of us. We tell ourselves that we’re being silly – a hopeless reiteration of what we’ve been told is silly. We turn a deaf ear to the loud hungry pangs from our gut.”

n The Rise of the Sharing Economy, Kevin Govender shares his insights and expertise on the evolution of the sharing economy, consumer behaviour, and alternative business models, and empowers consumers to rediscover and realise the enormous benefits of access over ownership, and the potential savings in time, money, space and the opportunity. Access is a cultural and socio-economic phenomenon that is transforming businesses, consumers, the way we live, work, learn, consume, commute and play.

Access is the new ownership. 

In this episode, we discuss the state of South Africa and what we as ordinary South Africans can do to start a movement for positive change.

In this episode, I chat with Terry about her book White Trash My Year As A High-Class Call Girl.

This is an incredibly raw and real account of a year in the life of the author. In my opinion, a book that took incredible bravery to write and is a must-read.

About this book:

In this episode, I chat with Phakamisa about his latest book entitled Native Merchants The Building Of The Black Business Class In South Africa.  This is a fantastic book and has a look at history not many of us are aware of.

Dispossession of fertile, mineral-rich land is correctly repeated as the root cause of the economic precarity of Black people in South Africa.

http://www.nb.co.za/en/view-book/?id=9780624091592

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