VERSION 1.O INSIGHTS Issue # 61 | 21 December 2024 Hey Reader!👋🏼 💐 I recently wrote about mindfully taking stock of what needs to be changed and clarifying what's in store in 2025. In this short one today, I'm taking that a bit further and deeper on a journey to enacting and visualizing about how 2025 could really look, sound, feel, smell, and taste like. Ready? Take another relaxed self-care moment to ask yourself the following questions. What do you want your life, as a whole, to look like?...
12 days ago • 2 min read
VERSION 1.O INSIGHTS Issue # 60 | 14 December 2024 Hey darlin'👋🏼 💐 You know, spending time with my friends always reminds me 1) to be grateful for them, and 2) how important it is to have a community of accountability (designated or not) around us to grow. I like what others call it: personal board of advisors (PBA). Even the Bible puts it eloquently: Without counsel, plans go awry, but in the multitude of counselors they are established (Proverbs 15:22). Your PBA could include friends/family...
19 days ago • 3 min read
VERSION 1.O INSIGHTS Issue # 59| 7 December 2024 Hey darlin'👋🏼 💐 So, Michelle Obama has a show out on Netflix as an executive producer. I did tell you I enjoy studying people's behaviour, especially in dating shows. The show is called The Later Daters, about late middle age to elderly (56 - 70) people navigating the dating jungle 2-20yrs after their last relationships. One thing's for sure though, we all battle the same issues in relationships - unhealed minds. No matter how well-intentioned...
26 days ago • 5 min read
VERSION 1.O INSIGHTS Issue # 58| 30 November 2024 Hey darlin'👋🏼 💐 Goodness gracious me, why is 2024 rushing to a close? In general, why does time just collapse once the year hits July? Don't get it. The holidays are upon us, and I hope those who celebrated Thanksgiving had a fabulous one. Honestly, this is a holiday we should all observe... Before everyone scurries to make New Year's resolutions with much anxiety about what they didn't achieve this year, I thought I could share with you what...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
VERSION 1.O INSIGHTS Issue # 57| 23 November 2024 Hey 👋🏼 💐 She probably will be smiling from ear to ear as she reads this. My friend Vhutsh, that is. She, and a couple of other friends, have many times in the past said that I think like men. Their men to be exact. Weird, right. At first I was like ok, it is what it is. I had accepted that I had a mechanistic, mathematical, black/white and man-like way of thinking, as one ex so brilliantly put it. But it began bothering me that these friends...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
VERSION 1.O INSIGHTS Issue # 56| 16 November 2024 Hey 👋🏼 💐 I don't usually touch on politics, let alone those of other countries, but I don't live under a rock, and we're all connected. A chord has been struck with the recent US election results, and we have US sisters in our V1.O family. I'm also part of a couple of their online communities. And I hear how this turn of events has been affecting them. Some ladies are said to be considering joining the 4B movement, which originated in South...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
VERSION 1.O INSIGHTS Issue # 55| 09 November 2024 Hey 👋🏼 💐 So, I'm wondering about a few things with this revenge body and outfit phenomenon. Rachel Kolisi reminded me of this issue this week. Or what the headlines and social media said about her, likening her dress she wore to a Prince William event to the one worn by the late Princess Di shortly after Charles announced he had been unfaithful. Now I don't know if it's true or not, about her wearing the dress as a revenge look, at least I...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
VERSION 1.O INSIGHTS Issue # 54| 02 November 2024 Hey fam💐 My very first article in Women on Business is about letting my lady leaders know that they don't have to carry the burden of hyper-masculinity at work. That they really can begin leading in their femininity, it's been proven good for business performance. I used to agree on 'be feminine at home, and be masculine at work'. Not anymore: at all times, lead with femininity, but lean into your masculinity when the moment calls for it. As a...
2 months ago • 1 min read
VERSION 1.O INSIGHTS Issue # 53| 26 October 2024 5 minute read Yaaay! Fam, we are 1 year old!!! Last year, 28th October, I sent my first love-letter, wide eyed, just wanting to share my healing journey and help heal. 'If consistency had a name..', wrote one of my friends when I shared about the anniversary. And that was the intention. I've never really been one to start a thing and not finish it. I may take my time, go at my own pace, but I start what I'll finish. I thoroughly enjoyed writing...
2 months ago • 6 min read