🙋🏽♀️Like this Episode? Text me 🎯 PART 3/3 - The MAIN Character Method™: How to Embody Unstoppable Authority Ready to own every room like Beyoncé owns a stadium? This is where everything clicks. We're breaking down the complete MAIN Character Method™ framework that transforms brilliant people from invisible to impossible to ignore. Think you can't have that level of aura and embodiment? Think again. You ARE capable of main character energy—you just need the right method to unlock it. The MAIN...
🙋🏽♀️Like this Episode? Text me 🎯 PART 2/3 - Why Brilliant People Hide (Spoiler: It's Not Humility) We're diving deep into the real reason brilliant people stay invisible: the fear of judgment that makes you defer to everyone else's narrative except your own. You know that voice that says "What I have to say is stupid" or "Who would want to listen to me anyway?" Time to call BS on that voice and understand what's really happening underneath. Because when you hide behind other people's s...
🙋🏽♀️Like this Episode? Text me 🎯 PART1/3 - Getting Clear on Your Vision Tired of nodding politely while dumber people mansplain your own brilliance back to you? Tired of saying 'someday I'll write that book' while the same plain vanilla people publish plain vanilla stories that become bestselling books? Stop studying success in theory and start dissecting it in practice. We're reverse-engineering how expert storytellers you actually admire built their visibility and platforms—not...
🙋🏽♀️Like this Episode? Text me 🎙️ BONUS EPISODE from our podcast sisters at Shades & Layers What happens when the dream your mother sacrificed everything for becomes your personal nightmare? Johannesburg-based filmmaker Karabo Lediga explores this haunting question through her debut feature film "Sabbatical" – a raw portrayal of a 30-something woman forced to return home after professional failure, confronting how her elite education created distance from her mother and the psychological...
🙋🏽♀️Like this Episode? Text me Season 1 Finale with my Mom! This is it — Episode 10 and our Season 1 finale! And who better to close out this incredible season than my own mother, Maki Makhene, MSW? (But since I love you, I'm dropping a fun bonus episode next week with a very cool surprise! 👀 Stay tuned.) In this deeply personal conversation, my mom and I dive into: 🔍 High-functioning depression — you're crushing it but running on fumes 🔞 Life after 60 - your best life at e...
🙋🏽♀️Like this Episode? Text me Real Talk - My Story Behind The Mic This personal episode reveals the mistakes, missed chances, and mindset shifts that shaped who I am as your host. I'm pulling back the curtain and sharing my story—the hard lessons I learned in my 20s and 30s so you don't have to. What you'll learn: My biggest regrets from my earlier decades - and how they became my greatest teachersMindset shifts that completely transformed my perspective on successWhy I'm passionate a...
🙋🏽♀️Like this Episode? Text me The True Cost of Being a Female Entrepreneur 💼💥 Tired of pretending it’s all fine? You're not alone. In this episode, I sit down with Yvonne Biggins to unpack her latest research on the real challenges women entrepreneurs face—and the powerful, creative ways they push through. We get into: 📉 Why only 1.8% of UK equity funding goes to all-women teams 👩👧👦 The pressure of being in the "sandwich generation" 📈 Why 97% of women enjoy entrepreneurship, despite the o...
🙋🏽♀️Like this Episode? Text me Balancing A Corporate Gig & Purposeful Side Hustle with Sewela In this episode, we’re joined by the powerhouse that is Sewela Langeni—a full-time corporate leader and the founder of one of Johannesburg’s most beloved bookstores: Book Circle Capital, nestled in the heart of Melville. 📚 We talk about what it means to build something beautiful and necessary in a place still shaped by its past. Sewela is doing what so many dream of—balancing a high-level ...
🙋🏽♀️Like this Episode? Text me 🎙️ ON TODAY's EPISODE - Becoming An IVF Mom While Building a Business What happens when a Type A, high-achieving entrepreneur faces the one thing she can’t plan, schedule, or control? In this powerful episode of Madame Speaker Says, we get real about becoming moms while building businesses. I'm joined by my brilliant friend Courtney Montague for a raw, funny and soul-stretching convo about her journey to motherhood through sperm donation—and my own story ...
🙋🏽♀️Like this Episode? Text me 🎙️ ON TODAY's EPISODE - Creating a World Without Bias by Anu Gupta “What would it feel like to live in a world without bias?” It’s a simple question—with radical power. In this episode, Anu invites us to pause, reflect, and imagine. Because if people can dream up colonies on Mars, surely we can dare to envision equity right here on Earth. 🌍✨ Where our mind goes, our energy flows. What if we gave ourselves permission to feel the world we want before we build it?...
🙋🏽♀️Like this Episode? Text me 🎙️ ON TODAY's EPISODE - Unlearn the Grind: Presence Over Productivity with Dr. Kate Otto Chebly What happens when you realize the voices that shaped you—school, church, whitewashed "success"—never actually had you in mind? Kate Otto joins me to unpack the toxic productivity scripts so many of us grew up with, especially as ambitious girls in all the wrong environments. We get into what it takes to deprogram—to save yourself, in your 30s or whenever you wake up...
🙋🏽♀️Like this Episode? Text me “She said, ‘They’re not really Black.’ I said… ‘Oh really?’” Instead of clapping back, Sarah Crowell told a story—and changed the room. In this episode, visionary artist and cultural strategist Sarah Crowell joins me to talk about the power of storytelling, the politics of belonging, and what it really means to lead creatively in a world that wants to put us in boxes. We talk about how she dared to be a creative thought leader as an artist, and how Sarah uses m...
🙋🏽♀️Like this Episode? Text me 🎙️ ON TODAY's EPISODE - Grief as Rocket Fuel with Carla Fernandez What shifts when you really understand that time is temporary? In this powerful episode, I sit down with @renegade.carla—grief worker, storyteller, and author of Renegade Grief and Try Not to Cry at Work—to talk about what it means to live with that knowing. We get honest about grief, presence, and the sacredness of everyday moments—like the mundane phone calls with your mom that one day, you won...
🙋🏽♀️Like this Episode? Text me 🎙️ ON TODAY's EPISODE - Exit Strategy with Alicia DeLia Tired of the grind? Wondering if there’s more to life than hustle and high costs in the U.S.? There is. And Alicia DeLia of DeLia Impact Advisors is here to prove it. In this episode, we’re talking real options for living better and freer—abroad. Whether you’re dreaming of raising a thriving business and happy babies beyond U.S. borders, or just craving a taste of international life, this convo is your per...
🙋🏽♀️Like this Episode? Text me 🎙️ ON TODAY's EPISODE - Your Power Glow with Felicia Walker Ever walk into a room and feel like your brilliance is dimmed by burned out skin? You're not alone—and this episode is your glow-up intervention. Beauty editor, entrepreneur, and founder of ThisThatBeauty, Felicia Walker joins me to share her signature approach to radiating power from the inside out. From boardrooms to brunches, your beauty and presence should speak before you do—and Felicia brea...
🙋🏽♀️Like this Episode? Text me Madame Speaker Says is the podcast for women of colour ready to own the mic, drop that book and get paid like a legend. Join Magogodi oaMphela Makhene - author, speaker and coach - for real talk, shortcuts and receipts to help you lead with confidence — on stage, on the page and way beyond the 9–5. No caucacity, no crusty old school leadership. Edges snatched. Script flipped. No apologies. Fresh episodes drop weekly. Pull up. – Still not seen as the th...