📜Business & Neuroscience Coach 🧠Helping leaders & sales teams stress+burnout less 🎙 Radio/TV Presenter 🎤Keynote Speaker/Emcee 📨Bookings: [email protected]
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Here's the part leaders don't want to hear: #burnout doesn't improve because your top performer tried harder.
It improves when the conditions around them change.
Full stop.
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I call this the Burnout Tax.
The cost you pay in resignations, disengagement, and quiet quitting when you keep treating a structural problem as a personal one.
#Burnout
Then ask yourself honestly:
Is your team burned out because they can't cope, or because you haven't changed anything they've been asking you to change? #burnout
American style & Hong Kong style - because one 2Mahjong obsession simply wasn’t enough.
What began as me falling in love with this beautiful, strategic, slightly addictive game turned into @AfricaMahjong - a space to help more people learn, play, connect&laugh around the table.
📢 I’ll be hosting #Mahjong workshops in Johannesburg and Cape Town within the next month.
If you’d like to join, reply “MAHJONG” and I’ll share the details.
🥺 Not in JHB or Cape Town?
No problem - I’ll also be putting together an online workshop for the rest of the country.
Every Monday, I play Mahjong...at a local seniors' association.
It's the only place I can find a proper #Mahjong table, and honestly, it's the highlight of my week.
If you've never played...⬇️
The laughs, the stories, the sharp minds, the gentle competitiveness...it's great for memory, focus, and your mood, but mostly, it's just good for the soul.
It's the best reminder that staying mentally fit doesn't have to be serious or intense.
Sometimes it's simply about showing up, playing a game, and enjoying the people around the table.
#MahjongMondays #healthymindset
For years, I thought something was wrong with me.
I was constantly in Hyper-Achiever mode, always pushing for the next goal, the next result, the next level. And I genuinely thought that was serving me.
Working with a #MentalFitness and business coach changed that.
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That experience led me to study mental fitness and #neuroscience, building on my Master’s in Business Communication and my background in Industrial Psychology and Human Resources Management.
It also changed the way I coach.
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Today, I take a far more holistic approach. I don’t only coach the business challenge; I coach the person navigating it.
The biggest shift for me was realising I didn’t need another strategy.
I needed to understand what was driving me.
#WorldMentalHealthDay #MentalHealth
The MC is usually the last booking on the event plan. It shouldn't be.
Here's what separates someone who reads a run sheet from someone who runs the room. ⬇️ #emcee
📧 Get in contact with me to book the right #EMCEE fit for your year-end event.
DM or Email [email protected]
A great event can survive a bad coffee.
It rarely survives a flat room.
Because an #emcee isn't there just to introduce the next speaker.
My job starts before I say their name.
It's reading the room.
Knowing: ⬇️
And occasionally...it's filling three unexpected minutes while someone backstage is desperately trying to fix something.
That's the part I love.
Because great emceeing shouldn't feel scripted.
It should make the whole event feel effortless.
If you're planning an event and want someone who can hold the room, handle the unexpected and keep the energy moving, I'd love to be part of it. #emcee #mc
📩 [email protected]