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🎙️ What if you stopped letting failure define you and started asking "what if?" instead?

On this episode of The Resonate Podcast, Michelle Expert sits down with Dr. Phindile Msomi Group CEO of Hazila Group, founder of Acumute Consulting, and the woman behind the newly launched Impact and Legacy Collective. They get into what real leadership actually costs, what resilience looks like in practice, and why she believes purpose has to come before profit not the other way around.

Dr. Phindi doesn't hold back. She talks about becoming a mother as a teenager, losing her husband shaped the way she thinks about business. She built a hydroponic farming company from the ground up and when COVID hit and wiped out her hospitality clients overnight, she pivoted to processing dried herbs just to keep going. She also opens up about why helping women in informal settlements build something of their own has become the whole point for her.

💡 Some of what they get into:

✅ Why just having a good idea means nothing it's the unglamorous, day-to-day execution that counts

✅ Why she sees a "pity party" as something she simply can't afford to throw

✅ Choosing curiosity over fear the "what if" mindset that keeps her moving

✅ Balancing the reality of daily survival with the sacrifices long-term growth demands

✅ Why getting your business formally registered early matters it's proof for investors down the line

✅ How something as simple as asking customers what they actually want can change everything

✅ Trusting faith and gut instinct when opportunities show up out of nowhere

✨ They also talk about:

    •    Her "Eco-farm port" an affordable, solar-powered hydroponic system made from recycled plastic, designed to help African women get into agritech

    •    Why she's more interested in building real, problem-solving community through the Impact and Legacy Collective than doing another surface-level networking event

    •    Why hearing "no" from a funder isn't a verdict on your worth it's just telling you what to fix next

    •    Her habit of staying endlessly curious and asking questions wherever she goes, because that's often where the next opportunity is hiding

If you're building something a business, a career, a comeback this conversation has a lot to sit with.

🎧 A genuinely honest talk about resilience, leadership, and doing things on purpose.

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