Blogs & Insights From Mama Gold
A Tribute to Teams
People often ask me, “To what do you attribute your success as a serial entrepreneur?”
It is an interesting question. My husband and I have six companies/collaborative ventures between us. We are both serial entrepreneurs. And along the tumultuous road of the past 26 years, we have both learnt massive lessons.
But the three things that I attribute most to the success of some of our companies, alongside the hard-learned failures of joint ventures, are these…
On Visibility
I have found stepping into greater visibility this year both challenging and, at times, scary.
The old voices in my head kept taunting me: “Who do you think you are, to be so out there?”
“Why?” you might ask. “You seem to be seeking out such visibility?”
We all have backstories, and mine is that I grew up excruciatingly shy, almost ashamed to take up space. I was the plump, spotty one in a sporty, academic family. I often felt alien in a family of high achievers—both on the sports field and in the academic world.
Footprints
It was a late afternoon on a breathless day. We made our way down the rough-hewn steps over rocks and fallen trees to the secret beach hidden below. My husband and I were in a wilderness area whilst visiting our daughter in Australia.
The Wisdom of the Mountains
I recently attended the Global Speakers Summit in Bali. It was a bucket list experience, hearing from some of the top speakers in the world, many of whom have been professional speakers for 20 – 30 years.
As a “soul speaker,” one speaker really stood out at the convention, even among all the accomplished speakers.
World of Assumptions
Last week, my global Public Relations company asked me whether I would comment on the headline statement that read, “We won’t be silent as apartheid is perpetrated against others”. It was a headline extracted from a speech made by President Cyril Ramaphosa to the United Nations.
I responded by saying, “I think that is too controversial for me to comment on.”
Bringing The Darkness into the Light During Mental Health Month
The aim of declaring October as Mental Health Awareness Month is to educate the public about mental health and reduce the stigma and discrimination that people with mental illness often face.
Having grown up in a family challenged by bipolar and neurodiversity, I am keenly aware of how hard it can be.
