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Hosted by Mmamabudusha Thema · 🇺🇸 US · EN-ZA · 17 episodes
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On Pivoting is a space for thoughtful, grounded conversations with people navigating the intersection of work, identity, and purpose.Each episode is a dialogue: slow, reflective, and intentional. We explore the decisions, doubts, pivots, and quiet convictions that shape how people live and work, beyond titles or outcomes.
Mmamabudusha Thema hosts On Pivoting, a society show with 17 episodes published.
In this episode of On Pivoting, Mmamabudusha Thema explores the quiet pressure to constantly perform, to be more confident, more interesting, more successful, or more acceptable.Why do we leave some conversations feeling
What happens when the dream you worked so hard for no longer feels like home?In this episode of On Pivoting, Mmamabudusha Thema reflects on the quiet and often painful experience of outgrowing the life you once imagined
In this episode of On Pivoting, Mmamabudusha Thema reflects on the quiet seasons we often mistake for failure. The pause. The delay. The changed timeline. The season where life does not seem to be moving as quickly as we
Victor Namwandi spent years building a career as an actor and model before experiencing a loss that changed the direction of his life.In this episode of On Pivoting, we explore grief, identity, career changes, entreprene
In this episode of On Pivoting, we sit down with writer Siya Khumalo, author of You Have to Be Gay to Know God , for a deeply reflective conversation on faith, identity, sexuality, belonging, and the courage to stop hidi
What does it mean to live a life that actually feels like your own?In this episode of On Pivoting, Dabu Madiseng unpacks the tension between freedom, expectation, and the quiet voice inside all of us that knows when we’r
From electrical engineering to computer science, this is a story about choosing again and choosing better.In this conversation, Bongiwe Mokati shares how a gap year, self-doubt, and starting from zero led her to a path w
There comes a point where you look at your life…and you don’t recognise yourself anymore.After losing her father, Lerato Raphela turned to drugs as a way to cope. What started casually became something that slowly took o
In this episode of On Pivoting, Linda Dube joins us for a deeply honest conversation about grief, resilience, and what it means to keep going when life doesn’t pause. While completing her Master’s degree, Linda lost her
What does it actually mean to have a relationship with yourself?In this episode of On Pivoting, Lucinda Valentine explores self-connection beyond clichés — from disconnection and emotional overwhelm to learning how to re
In this episode of On Pivoting, we sit down with Sindeka Mandoyi, a children’s author, literacy activist, and founder of the Chosi Chosi Book Club.But this conversation isn’t just about the work.It’s about what it costs
In this episode of On Pivoting , we sit down with Sivuyile Pharela — a Digital Anthropologist exploring identity, society, and what it means to exist in an increasingly digital world. From leaving psychology after just a
In this episode, we sit down with Sanele Mlambo for a conversation on the quiet pivots of early adulthood, the subtle, often unseen shifts that shape who we become.We explore what it means to come back to yourself, quest
For most of her life, Hazel was known as the high achiever. The one with good grades. The one people believed in. The one who was expected to succeed. But when she got to university, that identity began to collapse. Haze
What happens when you return to the places that raised you… and realise you don’t fit anymore? In this episode of On Pivoting, I sit down with Noentla Khumalo — spiritual healer, cultural producer, and founder of Umseben
What does it feel like to step into a new environment and quietly ask yourself: Will this place see me? In this episode of On Pivoting, I sit down with Matsetsebale “Tsetse” Tleane to explore the power of geographical pi
So many of us build our identity around what we do. In this episode of On Pivoting, I sit down with Thapelo Masebe for a reflective conversation about identity beyond titles, productivity, and ambition. We explore what h
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On Pivoting is hosted by Mmamabudusha Thema. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 17 episodes.
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