Good Things with Brent Lindeque 📺

What if we were all just a little more careful with each other, a little more thoughtful with our words and a little quicker to check in on someone who might need us? That is the message behind KY-ND, an initiative created by Jen Rowe in honour of her son, Ky, who died by suicide in August 2022. Jen wanted to keep Ky’s kindness moving through the world, and it started with something incredibly simple: a bench at his school. The idea is that if you see someone sitting there alone, you sit next to them and just be there. Since then, KY-ND has grown into a community, with benches, T-shirts that start conversations and more than R55,000 raised for Operation Smile South Africa. Jen joined me on this week’s Good Things with Brent Lindeque poddie to talk about Ky, grief, love and why our words and actions matter more than we may ever realise. Her message is beautifully simple: notice people, check in, choose your words with care and, whenever you can, be a little more KY-ND. 🎧 Watch and listen to the episode on all our social platforms (like all of them). 📆 New episodes drop weekly. 🏡 Powered by BetterBond. Filmed at Primedia Studios. ❤️ Stories that matter. Conversations that count. All about South Africa's Good News Podcast! ❤️🇿🇦

South Africa’s next Olympic champion could be sitting in a rural classroom right now, with no athletics track, no equipment and no idea how talented they actually are. Former Olympian and World Champion Matthew Quinn is trying to change that through Track+Field, a programme taking athletics into schools across all nine provinces and giving young South Africans the opportunity to compete. One of those youngsters is Thabo, who attended a school without an athletics programme. He discovered javelin on YouTube, carved himself a stick and taught himself how to throw. Through Track+Field, he finally got the chance to compete against other young athletes. It’s particularly important when you consider that Parliament was told this year that more than 9,000 South African schools have no sports facilities at all. Matt’s mission is simple: find the kids nobody has discovered yet, give them an opportunity and, perhaps, find South Africa’s next world or Olympic champion along the way. 🎧 Watch and listen to the episode on all our social platforms (like all of them). 📆 New episodes drop weekly. 🏡 Powered by BetterBond. Filmed at Primedia Studios. ❤️ Stories that matter. Conversations that count. All about South Africa's Good News Podcast! ❤️🇿🇦

September is Will’s Month in South Africa, and while talking about death and our own mortality might not be the easiest conversation, getting your affairs in order is incredibly important. This week on the “Good Things with Brent Lindeque” podcast, I chatted to Grant Fietze from Capital Legacy about why having an up-to-date Will matters and how it can make an incredibly difficult time easier for the people you love. Capital Legacy has drafted more than 1.6 million wills since launching in 2012, helping South Africans make estate planning simpler and more accessible. It’s a conversation about death, yes, but really, it’s much more about life, love and looking after the people who matter most. 🎧 Watch and listen to the episode on all our social platforms (like all of them). 📆 New episodes drop weekly. 🏡 Powered by BetterBond. Filmed at Primedia Studios. ❤️ Stories that matter. Conversations that count. All about South Africa's Good News Podcast! ❤️🇿🇦

Gugu Zulu was my friend. I still consider him my friend. Ten years after we lost Gugs on Mount Kilimanjaro, I finally had the opportunity to sit down with Letshego Zulu and talk about that mountain, the man we both loved and the incredible life she has built since. A year after losing Gugs, Letshego returned to Kilimanjaro and reached the summit in his honour. From there, she began the incredibly difficult journey of picking up the pieces and choosing to live, something she would later write about in her memoir, I Choose to Live: Life After Losing Gugu. Today, Letshego is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, mom and formidable endurance athlete. She runs, she cycles, she takes on massive challenges and she uses her story to inspire women across South Africa. She's strong, funny, adventurous and just a really lekker South African. Gugs would be incredibly proud of her. I know I am. 🎧 Watch and listen to the episode on all our social platforms (like all of them). 📆 New episodes drop weekly. 🏡 Powered by BetterBond. Filmed at Primedia Studios. ❤️ Stories that matter. Conversations that count. All about South Africa's Good News Podcast! ❤️🇿🇦

This week on Good Things with Brent Lindeque, I sat down with one of South Africa’s best-known futurists and trend analysts, Dion Chang. I thought we were going to spend the whole conversation talking about business, technology and artificial intelligence (AI). And we did talk about all of that... but so much more! Dion has built an incredible career spotting the signals that tell us where society is heading. He started out in fashion and media before founding Flux Trends in 2006, and today he describes himself as a “professional cage rattler”, helping businesses understand the cultural, economic and technological shifts happening around them. But we also spoke about pups. Dion has been tracking the rise of the DINKWADs (Dual Income, No Kids, With A Dog). It describes couples who are choosing pets over children, but it also points to something much bigger: the changing definition of family and the increasingly important place our animals hold in our lives. Dion is also trained as an end-of-life companion doula and has done work around pet bereavement, so we spoke about how losing a beloved pup can genuinely be one of the hardest losses a person experiences. So yes, we spoke about what the future might look like, but one of the loveliest trends Dion is watching has nothing to do with technology at all.. it has four paws, probably sleeps on your bed and is already very much part of the family. 🎧 Watch and listen to the episode on all our social platforms (like all of them). 📆 New episodes drop weekly. 🏡 Powered by BetterBond. Filmed at Primedia Studios. ❤️ Stories that matter. Conversations that count. All about South Africa's Good News Podcast! ❤️🇿🇦