Mum in Stilettos

Lessons for women owned businesses from Octavia Spencer’s Self Made Series: The Life of Madame C.J Walker.

Lessons for women business owners from the Netflix series Self Made, based on the life story of Madame CJ Walker.

Easter 2020, our hope renewed

The cross equals loves

When all this is over challenge..

When this is all over, I am visiting Nyanga. It’s a beautiful place, the route is scenic, I grew up there and most importantly, my parents live there.

Find your own version of parenting during times like these!

Do not be overwhelmed by the amount of advice out there when it comes to working from home with children. Just find your own version that works for you. We haven’t been through this road before. We are all learning as we go.

My song of the moment

No doubt the last few weeks have not been easy on a lot of us. For me working from home, home schooling and trying to keep a positive mindset in a foreign land has been challenging. Even though this is the second country we have lived in with my hubby and children away from ourContinueContinue reading “My song of the moment”

Now we know who the real heroes are.

As the saying goes, ” you don’t know what you have till it’s gone”. Seems it has taken us this crisis to understand just how important some professions are.

Country in lockdown? – how to be at peace in the middle of the uncertainties…

How do you maintain your peace in the middle of the storm?

My tribe of girls…

Celebrating the women in my life is not a one day thing.

Motherhood….8 years on

Today marks 8 years of motherhood for me. If you see me being extra today, bear with me. Read the story of Minana, then you will understand!

And the hustle continues..

Side hustle series…

Everything else + the side hustle

Why you need a side hustle

The holidays are over…and it’s back to school

Getting back into a morning routine after a long holiday especially with school going children can be a challenge. With a bit of planning, you can get your 2020 school morning off to great start.

Burnout… Final Post

This is my third and final post on burnout. In the first post I wrote about symptoms of burnout and in the second post I wrote about causes of burnout. Today I will write about some of the ways to deal with burnout. I am a working mom of three. My children are 7 andContinueContinue reading “Burnout… Final Post”

Burnout… part 2

Today I am continuing with the series I started last week on burnout. In my previous post I wrote about some of the symptoms of burnout. If you did not get a chance to read that post, you can find it here. Burnout…Part 1. This is a 3 part series. Today I am going toContinueContinue reading “Burnout… part 2”

Burnout…Part 1

This was one of those very intense weeks for me. Not in the sense that I had a lot to do, but more in terms of the depth, intensity and the demands what I was working on put on my brain power. Weeks like this happen often for most working mothers and before you knowContinueContinue reading “Burnout…Part 1”

2019…my year of #boldmoves

2018 has come to a close. This is the time when most people are pumped up about the changes they want to make in their lives and the goals they want to achieve in the new year. This probably explains why gyms are full in the first weeks of January yet this somehow fizzles outContinueContinue reading “2019…my year of #boldmoves”

What are you thankful for?

Thanksgiving is an American holiday that started around 1619 as a celebration and thanksgiving for the good harvest. This year the holiday is being celebrated on Thursday 22nd of November. I really like the idea of giving thanks and gratitude and actually setting aside a day to do this. In the busyness of life, sometimesContinueContinue reading “What are you thankful for?”

Why I Consider Motherhood A Stretch Assignment

A stretch assignment is defined as a project or task given to an employee which is beyond their current knowledge or skills level in order to “stretch” the employee developmentally. It challenges the employee by placing them out of their comfort zone in order to learn and grow. Whilst not proposed by an employer, iContinueContinue reading “Why I Consider Motherhood A Stretch Assignment”

I wish I had known….

Before I became a mother, I had my own perceptions of what I thought motherhood involved. I never really understood the decisions and choices that mothers around me were making and therefore made judgments that when I look back I had no basis for making. Hey I am only human… I remember visiting my sisterContinueContinue reading “I wish I had known….”