We all have a unique leadership style that best empowers us to be successful at work but so few of us actually discover what it is as truly leverage it. Authentic Power is the second key in my Abundant Leadership framework and it’s all about discovering your unique leadership blueprint and applying it to your career with intention and unapologetic gusto.
We each have a responsibility to ensure that we are able to perform well by intentionally designing the way we work in a way that works for us instead of feeling stuck in delivery, collaboration and decision-making approaches that hurt our performance and wellbeing.
In today’s episode, I walk you through how to take the principle of leading authentically and make it a practical reality in your daily work life.
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Leadership is a performance sport. It takes focus to deliver long complex projects. It takes clarity to make swift, clear decisions without a lot of information. It takes emotional grounding and maturity to stabilise a team in crisis. It takes endurance to work against tight deadlines late into the night and weekend.
How are you supporting yourself to show up at your best? Is your current way of working sustainable or are you one stressful situation away from burning out or your performance taking a knock? No one is coming to force us to take care of ourselves so it is in wisdom that we must learn to press in and lead ourselves.
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Who is in the driver’s seat of your career – you, or your fear, insecurity and limiting beliefs about the world? So many of us, myself included, have been conditioned to believe things that do not support us to build the careers we truly want and show up as leaders in a way that helps us to have the impact we desire. I call these rogue beliefs – mental agents that operate quietly in the background sabotaging our lives.
But we have a way out. By mastering our mindset and empowering ourselves to consciously and deliberately write new more empowering stories about ourselves and life, we can finally change the direction of our lives. We can finally take over the reins, become self-leaders and steer our lives in the direction we want to go in. Let’s explore how.
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All of us want abundance – growth, confidence, security, fulfilment and a sense of living our purpose. And while many of us have careers and leadership roles that look good on paper, the feeling of flow, expansiveness, sustainability and deep meaning is elusive. Work feels hard, leadership feels complicated, and we don’t feel truly successful.
Following hundreds of sessions with coaching clients over the years, I’ve developed a pathway to abundance that can help us get to a place where we can start to feel clear, confident, secure and enabled to truly thrive as our authentic selves in our careers.
This pathway has 3 keys: Mindset mastery, authentic power, and performance enablement. Let’s explore what this looks like and how you can bring it to life in your career and leadership journey.
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We’ve been together for 2 years through 50 episodes on the Abundant Leaders Podcast. Thank you so much for being with me in this amazing journey!
I’ve learned so much about trusting my voice, showing up authentically, speaking about what I think truly matters rather than what is conventionally focussed on, and having the courage to do it my way. Through critical illness, format changes, experimenting with different formats, segments and interview approaches, this podcast has been a place of learning, giving and receiving.
By tuning in to each episode, you’ve supported my vision for growing the number of healed, confident, abundance-oriented leaders in Africa’s corporate spaces.
You’ve helped me see, quantify, and embrace the value I bring and the message I have to share.
And you’ve given me a fun, safe space to explore, experiment and be myself.
Join me as I celebrate my journey and share 5 powerful leadership and business lessons I’ve learned from my journey.
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50. Don't wait for motivation: A better way to achieve more
Many of us get to mid-year and run into a slump. We haven’t achieved the goals we laid out for ourselves nearly as fast or as diligently as we imagined we would when motivation was high in January. What relationship do we have to have with ourselves, with motivation and productivity expectations, or with the fear, inertia and resistance that naturally comes up when we are moving towards something new or something more?
Instead of berating ourselves, throwing in the towel or barrelling down a fruitless path, can we pause and consider a different approach? A more realistic, calm, steady approach that works with who we are, not against it? Today I explore a different way of addressing that proverbial mid-year slump to find renewed momentum towards our goals.
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Join Momentum my mid-year leadership workshop on 29th July 2025 where we are diving back into the vision and goals we set for 2025 and infusing them with new energy, overcoming any inertia or mental blocks that have made our goals feel out of reach, and picking that right next action that will bring us back into making our dreams a reality. If this empowering recalibration feels like what you need, I can’t wait to see you.
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Today is an informal conversation with my close friend, Warren Ndlovu, about the unconventional path he’s taken to doing the work he loves and the obstacles he’s overcome along the way. Warren is an early-stage climate tech strategy and operations executive with a background in derivatives structuring at Absa, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, and fintech and telecoms at Econet Global (now Cassava Technologies).
His journey has taken creativity, courage, adaptability, a thick skin, a willingness to play the long game, and the focus to always keep the big picture in mind when he faced setbacks. If you’re struggling to break into the work that you long to do, or are a generalist with a non-linear path who has struggled to own your story, join me in this inspiring conversation.
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Learn more about Warren on LinkedIn.
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As we mature as leaders, people increasingly look to us for caring, empathy, a sense that they matter and are being managed in a humane way. Indeed, it’s our job to be emotionally intelligent and understand how much the way we treat others impacts their performance and wellbeing and the company’s culture and desirability to prospective hires.
But no one talks about caregiver burnout – the burnout that happens when leaders over-give and extend themselves past their limits. If you’re seen as the go-to person in your company and everyone loves how you make them feel, but you’re crumbling under the pressure to be there for everyone, do it all, and you wonder when will there be time for you – something needs to change.
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Today I’m joined by a fellow student from my Harvard days, Susan Lieu – a management consultant turned author, playwright, and performer. She joins us to explore how unhealed intergenerational trauma shapes how we lead, the choices we make in our careers, and our ability to live a life that’s authentic to our values instead of focussed on survival and pleasing our families.
We have a deeply vulnerable, soul-elevating conversation about how hard it is to go against the grain and follow your calling into the life that you were truly created for, even if it upsets people you love.
Susan and I also discuss her critically acclaimed memoir, “The Manicurist’s Daughter,” and the wisdom she’s gained from writing about how her mother’s death during a tummy tuck changed her life and her family forever.
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Themes: Trauma-healing, trusting your career path, leaders of colour, career fulfilment, self-worth, inner work
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Many of us have been raised to believe that hard work, focus, practicality and responsibility are the keys to success. As a society we most celebrate the rags to riches stories that involve grit, resilience and hustle. But what often goes undiscussed is that these great inventors and business mavericks were often following their hearts – or the calls of their soul. The grit etc was in response to the scale of desire that thrummed within them for something different, more, exciting, wondrous, impossible, but oh so true to their soul’s purpose and heart’s desire.
As leaders we so often struggle to harness the incredible power of our hearts’ desires in favour of ruling ourselves with our heads and following the proven method. The wild unknown path terrifies us, and thus its gift of newness, fulfilment, expansion and purpose alignment is lost to us. How do we learn to listen to, trust and follow our hearts in our career pathways and leadership approach and trust that we will be successful?
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Themes: Mindset mastery; owning your desires, heart-centred leadership, mind vs heart-based decision-making, trusting the unknown, self-trust, career expansion
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Change is hard – even when it’s good for us. We often unconsciously resist it for months until it uses suffering to force our hand. Why do we resist it so much and what can we do to help ourselves to better accept the writing on the wall so that we can be decisive, accept a new paradigm, and return to being in flow and, ultimately, on the path of success and abundance?
Today I use a live example from my own leadership and business journey that has challenged me to let go of the more popular and conventionally accepted approach to leadership growth that has brought me so much success to date and embrace my evolution into a more holistic mind-body-heart-soul approach that departs from convention but is more true to me. I struggled to accept how I was changing despite seeing the measurable client impact like new jobs, promotions, successful business launches.
I hope my experience inspires you take the leap past anything stale in your career that it’s time to let go of.
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Themes: Mindset shift, career transitions, change, mind-body connection, leadership growth
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How do you think about the vision for your career in an ever changing world?
When you are constantly evolving, conditions are ever changing and your ability to take action on your goals is sometimes compromised by the limitations of circumstances in our lives, how often do you step back to reassess?
Is your true expansive vision or your “rogue” limited vision (e.g., insecurity, fear, lack) running your career?
If you have a vision for your career, do you also have a vision for your leadership style and experience?
Do you even have a vision? Maybe you’ve just had your head down trying to learn, achieve financial security, make a name for yourself, get a good review, not lose your job, get promoted. But now that you’re feeling more secure and confident, you realise you haven’t had an explicit vision or purpose.
Today I explore the nuances and complexities with creating and sustaining an empowering but adaptable vision that can motivate you but grow and change with you as you evolve and mature in your career and leadership journey.
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Carice Anderson is the Global Head of People Manager Strategy at BlackRock. She is also an executive coach and author of “Intelligence Isn't Enough: A Black Professional’s Guide to Thriving in the Workplace”. As people of colour, so many of us spend the early part of our careers spinning our wheels because we believe that if we put our heads down, work hard, stay humble and build the right technical skills, we will succeed. But it’s never that simple.
Carice joins us to discuss how important it is for us to know ourselves, and be deliberate about communicating and leveraging our strengths, while being deliberate about putting ourselves in the right environments that will support our competitive advantage to shine out.
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· Playing an active role in managing your career – at every stage of your leadership path
· Differentiating yourself despite prevailing stereotypes about black people in the workplace
· Making difficult trade-offs in your career – especially between your personal goals and professional ambitions
· Empowering yourself to change as you mature in your career and start wanting different things
Learn more about Carice, visit her website follow her on Instagram and click here to find out more about her *now released* course based on her book “Intelligence Isn’t Enough”.
Themes: Career progression, work-life balance, managing your career, black leaders, leaders of colour
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Today’s episode is close to my heart because last year I was in a career winter and it would have helped so much to have realised it sooner so that I could have managed my expectations and leaned into trust.
One of the bravest things that we can do as leaders is trust the season we’re in to bring us what we need instead of trying to force it to bring us what we want. Just as Earth moves in seasons and cycles, our careers go through times of expansion and new beginnings (Spring), success and attainment (Summer), change and slow down (Autumn), integration and rest (Winter). When we move with our seasons, we understand what life is asking of us and can show up for what is needed with intention, resourcefulness, the right mindset and security that we are in the right place and the right time, no matter what our circumstances may suggest.
In this episode I share
* A detailed deep dive into each career season and its impact on your energy levels, opportunity generation, internal vs external orientation, pace of career progress and more
* My approach to understanding the season you’re in
* Determining what your season means for how you invest your time and energy and calibrate your expectations
* How to combine career seasons with annual themes (listen to Part 1 in Episode 41) to set the right goals for your leadership and career that will actually make you successful in the long term
* Using the themes of your season to review your year in an empowering way that keeps your self-confidence intact - especially if you’re in a career Winter
Themes: Leadership, goal-setting, career vision, seasonal planning, annual planning, grounded mindset, self-leadership
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Join me in the Abundant Leaders Circle for “Starting strong: Setting your 2025 career goals”, an online annual planning workshop for high-performance leaders on Saturday 25 January 2025. Together we will avoid the overwhelm and overambition that sets us up for disappointment by setting inspiring but achievable practical goals for our year that align with our vision, honour the limitations of our demanding careers and put the right mindset and enabling support in place to help us to succeed. Find out more or visit www.tenjimoyana.com/startingstrong
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Join me as we explore a different way to set annual goals. Last year I decided to plan my year based primarily on 4 themes instead of a list of goals and it transformed my growth. I was able to consistently show up to the theme more than I had ever been able to show up in the past for a long list of daily actions. It also brought me more balance to how I managed my energy during the year. Instead of consistently pressing for achievement and change, I left space for reflection on the theme, learning about its wisdom, taking actions big and small, and leaving capacity for things to change.
Topics discussed:
* A practical way to use themes instead of goals in your annual planning for your leadership and career aspirations
* A detailed understanding of 9 core universal themes that govern the human experience
* Accepting the shadow that comes with the light of each theme
* Understanding your hero’s journey across your career and how to figure out where you are in your story arc so you can work with vs. against its energy
* Identifying which theme resonates for you in 2025 and how to work with it this year
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Join me in the Abundant Leaders Circle for “Starting strong: Setting your 2025 career goals”, an online annual planning workshop for high-performance leaders on Saturday 25 January 2025. Together we will avoid the overwhelm and overambition that sets us up for disappointment by setting inspiring but achievable practical goals for our year that align with our vision, honour the limitations of our demanding careers and put the right mindset and enabling support in place to help us to succeed. Find out more or visit www.tenjimoyana.com/startingstrong.
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As ambitious high-performance leaders, we often get to the end of the year stressed, overwhelmed, exhausted and carrying all the baggage of our failures, disappointments, and negative emotions into the new year.
From this place we make choices and set plans to have a better experience in the coming year, but we are still carrying the same beliefs, perspectives and emotional energies that were the result of challenging experiences we had the year before.
As leaders who want to keep growing, conquering new territory in our careers, reaching forth boldly into new opportunities, it is vital that we clear our minds and energy systems of all the thoughts, beliefs and emotions that no longer serve us so that we can create from a place of confidence, inner clarity, higher perspective and positivity.
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I’m back to the podcast after a brief break for creative rest. This week is an unusual episode. I’m coming to you with a major business update to keep you informed of what is changing in my universe and how you can continue to get support from me on your leadership journey.
I officially announce the launch of the Abundant Leaders Circle – an event-driven space of learning, self-reflection, intimate connection and community support for like-minded leaders.
I take you through the changes to the podcast you need to be aware of, my new and exciting events offering and a niched-down content focus on leadership self-mastery.
You will still be able to work with me in many of the traditional ways – 1x1 and group coaching, leadership development facilitation and leadership and talent development consulting.
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Tamara Makoni is the Founder & CEO of Kazuri Consulting. She is an inclusion & culture advisor, facilitator and speaker who helps organisations use diversity, equity and inclusion to empower diverse teams and achieve strategic objectives.
Today we explore how we can be more inclusive as leaders by unpacking our pasts and confronting our unconscious biases. As black leaders, we think a lot about whether or not we’re being included, understood and empowered to thrive but don’t always see how we aren’t including others who may have different economic backgrounds, sexual orientations, ethnicity, etc. We unpack why that is, our unconscious biases and what we need to do differently to bring about holistic inclusion on our teams.
Topics discussed:
* DEI and intersectionality
* Our personal stories about growing up black but different, including my own unconscious biases about Tamara!
* How colonisation, apartheid and slavery created mindsets of lack and competition for limited roles
* How black and African culture creates fierce in-group and out-group mentalities that make it difficult for outsides to fit in
* The mindset shift that will empower us to be more self-aware and inclusive
* Advice for how to better support the underrepresented members of our teams
Find Tamara on Kazuri Consulting, LinkedIn, YouTube and read her article on DEI and intersectionality
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It’s Women’s Month in South Africa and this episode is for the ladies! My fellow female leaders, it is time to heal our relationship with power so that we can rise up and have the influence we are here to have. In my journey as a leader, I have struggled to own my voice, take up space, stand in the spotlight with all eyes on me, and go against the grain. I’ve asked for permission instead of taking what is mine. And, heartbreakingly, I have coached so many C-suite women who struggle with the same thing. Imposter syndrome, low confidence and shrinking back is not our portion in life. It is our divine right to lead, to influence, and to want and have power without being shamed, judged or punished for it. In today’s episode, I take us on a journey that can help us heal our relationship with power so that we can have the leadership impact and experience the freedom that we were created for.
Topics discussed:
* How society sets women up to distrust our own power and judges us for wanting it
* What healthy power looks like and how vital it is to life
* Overcoming our unhelpful beliefs and stories about being a woman with power
* My story as a recovering permission-seeking, over-functioning people pleaser
* A few reflection questions that can help step into more of your power
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Audrey Kusambiza Bolo is the Global Talent Acquisition Director for One Acre Fund while moonlighting as a a talent consultant & team well-being coach in her company, Your Truth Coach. She joins us to discuss how to build healthy, happy teams that also perform well. Key to this is distinguishing between management and leadership to help us elevate from being primarily focussed on delivery oversight and output management to also managing the strategic vision, team culture and health, and our team’s ability to thrive holistically. We explore how leaders can make this transition successfully, and the emotional and social skills necessary to do so.
Topics discussed:
* How Audrey reframed her definition of leadership when she became a team leader
* The need to be strategic about the vision you have for your team’s culture and DNA
* Being intentional about showing up as the type of leader you want to be instead of leaving it to chance
* Embracing vulnerability and authenticity to build buy-in and form deeper connections with your team
* How to make time in our busy days to be strategic about how we lead people
Learn more about Audrey on LinkedIn, follow her on Instagram, and visit her website to learn more about her new team leadership workshop.
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