A HUGE thank you from Fin24 to all the phenomenal women who made time in their busy schedules to write about the challenges they face on a daily basis in their work and family life, and who still manage to give time to others and realise their own dreams.
They’ve written about
empowering themselves and
others, inspired their sisters to be the
force for change, shared their
recipes for success and given their opinion on
pressing issues facing the South African economy.
They find life a
fine balancing act and feel it’s about
daring to take risks,
celebrating small victories, being
passionate about what you’re doing,
making sacrifices to get to the top,
mutual support and
never forgetting where you come from.
Their stories resonate what we all experience at some stage of our lives, and they’ve shared valuable lessons we can employ to make our lives a bit more manageable.
Lorraine Wagner pretty much summed it up with the list of lessons she’s learnt:
• Your life will not have one path; it will have many. On each one you will learn something new. Learn that one thing.
• All your dreams don’t come true. Some do, some were never meant to be dreamt in the first place. So get over it.
• Read. Read. And read some more. It fills your mind with a world that is waiting to be enjoyed. Read and enjoy.
• Be grateful. Be thankful for every opportunity you are given. Life owes you nothing. Period.
• Don’t job hop for a few rand. The old adage “a rolling stone gathers no moss” is still true, despite what the experts say.
• People are people. They have bad days and good ones just like you. You are not the centre of the universe. Know that.
• Respect your co-workers. You need each one of them - including the tea girl and office cleaner.
Thank you for making Fin24’s
Women’s Month campaign a resounding success.
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All the columns:
- Firing
on all cylinders - Lizé Lambrechts, executive head of Sanlam Personal
Finance
- Go
with the flow - Glenda Noemdoe, senior operations manager for Metropolitan
Wellness
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The
female factor - Ngao Motsei, group executive strategic human resources of
MMI Holdings
- Dare
to take risks - Kate van Niekerk, marketing manager of Norcros SA
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Seducer
or slavemaster - Jacqueline Allschwang, NLP coach and facilitator
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Knowledge is power - Mimi Viviers, key accounts executive at Connection
Telecom
- Sweet
and simple - Sandy Wilde, head of Sanlam icover
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Does money matter - Jessica Pryce-Jones, CEO of the iOpener Institute for
People and Performance
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Starting from scratch - Karen Short, founder and chairperson of By Word of
Mouth
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It's
all in alignment - Anli Kotzé, general manager at Ladbrokes.co.za
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Make
it a team effort - Lulu Letlape, executive head of group corporate affairs
at Sanlam
- Your date
with destiny - Anesu Machaba, executive
chairperson of Elah Capital
- My
untraditional role - Adrienne Taylor is director of research &
stakeholder relations at Hypenica
- Lessons
learnt the hard way - Lorraine Wagner, communications officer for
the SA Bitumen Association
-
Life
isn't like the movies - Judith Middleton, founder and CEO of DUO Marketing
+ Communications
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Ramp
up your fun factor - Marteen Michau, head of fiduciary and tax at Sanlam
Private Investments
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Map
your delivery plan - Jackie Carroll, managing director for Media Works
- It's
not about MBAs - Marilize van Niekerk, Roll-A-Gutter
- Fate
in our hands - Zelna Oberholster,
owner
of Funzelela Consulting
- V for Victory
- Karen Kelly, Xtreme Training Academy
- Fine
balancing act - Managing director of MUA Insurance Acceptances
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Small victories are sweet - CEO of Save the Children South Africa
-
Head
in the clouds - Marketing manager at kulula.com
- The
sky's the limit - Tsidi Luse, quality control manager at Lafarge's
Lichtenburg plant
- In
the driving seat - Dawn Nathan-Jones, CEO, Europcar
- Get
your hands dirty - Sandra Burmeister, CEO of the Landelahni
Recruitment Group
- Manage
like a woman - Wahida Parker, director of Equillore
- Four
tips for working moms - Glynnis Jeffries, head: business development
at Futuregrowth
- Don't
be an ice queen - Nicole Fannin, financial consultant at deVere
Group
- Women
a force for change - Amelia Jones, CEO of Community Chest