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Marta Mulongo, founder, MM Coaching (Mozambique)
Marta Mulongo, founder, MM Coaching (Mozambique)
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Mary Nyaga, founder of LorMar Florium (Kenya)
Be confident in yourself!…
Mary Nyaga, founder of LorMar Florium (Kenya)
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by Lori Milner
It's still possible to step into 2021 with confidence!
“The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but on significance – and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning”- Oprah Winfrey
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Aasiyah Ravate, founder of Home Cooking With Love (Mozambique)
Startup Story
For many people, cooking is an expression of love, and for entrepreneur Aasiyah Ravate, founder of Home Cooking With Love in Mozambique, that is certainly the case. Every day, she prepares delicious meals and snacks for her customers that are both delicious and convenient.
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By the Lionesses of Africa Operations Dept
We were shocked to read this week (here) that plastic, or to be more correct, plastic microfibers, have not only been found at the lowest depths of the ocean in the Mariana Trench, at the highest points of our Mountains on the top of Everest, but now even across the Arctic. We as humans have now polluted the entire planet with plastic!
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Shanicia Boswell
Book Review
One of the best things an entrepreneur can do is tell her story, and that is what author and mompreneur Shanicia Boswell is doing in My Piece Of The Pie: A Collection of Stories From Black Women Entrepreneurs. When a creator vocalizes how she has turned lemons into lemonade, it will in invigorate another to keep going. My Piece of the Pie delivers eight dynamic experiences and perspectives of entrepreneurship from passionately engaging African American female entrepreneurs. Each author curates a piece of her story to reveal the triumphs and sacrifices to demand her piece of the pie.
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Jane Bisset, founder of We are Food (South Africa)
Startup Story
A passion for cooking on the part of Jane Bisset collided with a demand for high quality convenience meals and a desire to create impact. All of this led to the creation of We are Food, a frozen meal production wholesale and retail business launched in South Africa.
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Monica Musonda
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Java Foods, a food-processing market leader in affordable nutrition
Corporate Lawyer turned entrepreneur, Monica Musonda is the Founder of Java Foods, a Zambian based food-processing company that provides affordable nutrition to the Southern African market. Monica currently serves as non-executive director on a number of boards including Airtel Networks Zambia Plc & Zambia Breweries (where she is chair). She is the recipient of the 2017 African Agribusiness Entrepreneur of the Year award, a 2013 Young Global Leader (World Economic Forum) and Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellow. Forbes Magazine and Africa Investor named her as one of the leading Young Power Women in Business in Africa in 2013 and 2014 respectively.
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by Tatiana Casaca
For Alejandro Pávez, knowledge is perception and cognition of the message by the subject around the object. Knowledge is born as a result of the conscious preparation of information. It is a broader concept rather than information, and to obtain it one must ponder, evaluate and relate to the information. This allows us to make predictions, make decisions, and take action.
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Tasneem Ebrahim Latib, founder of Chill-e Organics (South Africa)
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Chilli relishes and sauces have long been a favourite with food lovers, and no more so than in South Africa where they often the accompaniment of choice at mealtimes. For entrepreneur Tasneem Ebrahim Latib, founder of Chill-e Organics, this love of the chilli presented an exciting business opportunity. Today, her brand and much loved range of chilli sauces, chutneys and mayos are exciting palettes around the country.
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by Suret Alive
Female entrepreneurs are often under considerable pressure to not only create businesses, in what was previously known as a man's world, but also to generate steady income all whilst looking beautiful. This adds pressure to the many roles we already fulfill as women.
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by Marjon Meyer
EQ is not natural for most people and needs to be consciously developed. Fortunately, as we grow older, wisdom also sets in. Using simple terms, EQ is being mature and wise.
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Adele Dejak, founder of Adele Dejak (Kenya)
Adele Dejak, founder of Adele Dejak (Kenya)
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Siwela Sweetness Masoga, founder of Siwela Wines (South Africa)
Be passion driven!…
Siwela Sweetness Masoga, founder of Siwela Wines (South Africa)
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By the Lionesses of Africa Operations Dept
One of the things we all learnt in 2020 was what was meant by the ‘R’ number - the rate at which a sick person will pass on (in this case) COVID-19 to others. According to ISGlobal the average ‘R’ for an infected person with CV19 is around 2.5 in each 5 day period of incubation. An ‘R’ of less than 1 is good because it means that the number being infected is growing smaller, but over 30 days will still infect others, and thanks to the brilliant Visual Capitalist looks something like this…
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Tonya McNeal-Weary
Book Review
In her new book, Women Going Global: Real-Life Stories of Women Entrepreneurs Doing Business Across Borders, Tonya McNeal-Weary invites you to be inspired by the stories of trailblazing women who have succeeded despite the societal biases that attempted to hold them back.
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by Lori Milner
“Your job isn’t to get people to like you but for you to like yourself” - RuPaul
In an article on CNBC.com, a survey showed that 69%, of employees are experiencing burnout symptoms while working from home. Despite work burnout, the majority (59%) are taking less time off than they normally would, and 42% of those still working from home are not planning to take any time off to decompress.
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Mary Nyaga, founder of LorMar Florium (Kenya)
Startup Story
Everyone loves flowers, for their homes and their offices, and in Kenya, entrepreneur Mary Nyaga, founder of LorMar Florium, is harnessing the power of technology to bring flowers to everyone’s lives. The business combines a flower subscription business using silk flowers, with a new app called Flowerhood, creating virtual floral arrangements and messages for customers to send to their family and friends.
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Edna Reis, founder of Active Wellness (Angola)
Startup Story
Companies and organizations know that their strength lies in their people, and it’s why employee wellbeing is key to their success. Helping employees to avoid burnout and ensuring they have support in managing their mental and physical balance is important. In Angola, entrepreneur Edna Reis, founder of Active Wellness, has created a business to meet this growing demand for better health and wellbeing in the workplace.
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Chioma Ukonu
RecyclePoints, a waste recycling social enterprise changing lives and the environment
Chioma Ukonu is an award-winning social entrepreneur with over a decade of hands-on experience and international exposure in environmental sustainability, women empowerment, youth employment, business leadership, circular economy, government and community engagement. She is currently the Co-Founder/COO of RecyclePoints, Nigeria’s foremost waste recycling and social benefit venture that motives post-consumers to recycle by creating value from their everyday waste. Chioma, who is well known for her strong business acumen, has received business training from various prestigious institutions around the world including the Said Business School, Oxford University in the United Kingdom; Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, USA; and Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) of the Pan Atlantic University Lagos in Nigeria. Chioma has built RecyclePoints, which started from her kitchen, to a major stakeholder in waste management in Africa, creating over 230 green jobs and recycling over 100,000kg of waste monthly, whilst sustaining RecyclePoints as the social currency that converts waste to wealth.
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