We all have a story to tell… here’s abit about mine!!!
Sustainability Entrepreneur • Life-Long Learner• Overcomer • Branding/Marketing/Communication Professional
This moment was a culmination of being hard pressed over the years but never crushed!!! One of the worst experiences I’ve ever had to face was the loss of my husband and Co-Founder of the now Award Winning Tshepiso Branding Solutions Pty Ltd , an assignment I can confidently say I was anointed and appointed for. One day when I was on a corporate high horse, My husband shared the vision for the business and how he saw us being a force and impacting lives. His belief in me really fuelled my fire. I remember during a time when I was studying Project Management, he casually said to me one day you’re going to be managing projects. Little did I know I’d be managing them without him. Nonetheless I chose to take the bull by its horns, we leveraged our complimentary skills and journeyed on for some time pre COVID (lived hand to month during COVID) and gradually increased sales post COVID. His passing left me shattered… to this day I thank God and my Tribe for anchoring me through it all. I’ve never stopped being curious, I’ve never stopped showing up, I’ve never stopped being bold and courageous, I’ve never shied away from an opportunity to network and forming relationships with like valued people, I’ve prayed and continue to pray without ceasing!!! Inspite of being grief stricken I held on and now here we are…because greater is He that is in me than any tribulation that’s in the world!!! Back to this moment, I shared what has happened post winning the Standard Bank Group sponsored South African Future Trust Woman in Business Award, some nuggets of how fellow entrepreneurs can position themselves to also we award winners and how God has carried and continues to carry me on this rollercoaster of an assignment. Interestingly the commentary off stage was all about the importance of Glorifying God in such spaces and not about the award itself 🙏🏽. I even unintentionally received extra brownie points (we met moments before speaking and I did my networking thing 🙃) from A GLOBALLY GLOBALLY RENOWNED AND MULTI-AWARD-WINNING CHEF SIBA MTONGANA, A CELEBRATED SOUTH AFRICAN CHEF, RESTAURATEUR, FOOD EXPERT, ENTREPRENEUR AND AUTHOR who I can now call a friend 🙏🏽. May we not despise humble beginnings, and remember that NO devil in hell can stop what God has predestined for our lives. God will ALWAYS be there to LIFT you up where you belong!!!