From natural hair blogging before it was a movement to podcasting long before it was mainstream, Ntsiki Mkhize has spent her entire life arriving in spaces early.

Today she is a social entrepreneur, author, speaker, mentor, and founder of Mentor, a global mentorship community for women navigating entrepreneurship, leadership, and social impact.

But her story did not begin in boardrooms or ecosystems. It started at a family table where she was encouraged to question everything, design her own path and live “on purpose, on purpose.”

In this episode of Listen To Your Footsteps, Ntsiki opens up about:

• Growing up with young parents who created room for her voice, her ideas and her tenacity
• Why she entered Miss South Africa as a teenager and later returned with an afro that challenged the norms of beauty and representation
• What it means to be “ahead of the curve” and why timing, not talent, often determines whether an idea succeeds
• The truth about burnout, reinvention, and rebuilding a mentorship ecosystem from scratch during COVID
• How her global mentorship platform, book, magazine and corporate work converge into a deeper purpose centred on women, youth, entrepreneurship and inclusion
• The role mentors have played in her evolution and how individuals and organisations can structure mentorship that actually transforms lives
• Why she is now being invited into tech, finance and policy spaces and what excites her about becoming a woman shaping Africa’s future
• The healing and grounding she found through swimming and free-diving after a traumatic experience

Whether she is building communities, writing stories, designing ecosystems or diving ten metres underwater to relearn trust in her body, Ntsiki shows that purpose is not an accident. It is a deliberate act. A daily alignment. A way of being.

This conversation is a blueprint for anyone trying to navigate purpose, timing, ambition and reinvention.
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Recorded at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Vodcast TV⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Show Music by ⁠⁠⁠Kweku 'Taygo' Baffoe⁠⁠⁠

Produced by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Ayob Vania