Dear friends On Friday night, in solidarity with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez we drank a rather delicious 2013 R. López de Heredia Rioja Reserva Viña Bosconia. We ended the…
Dear friends Last week’s letter, Self-Doubt and Success: What J.M. Coetzee Teaches Us About Becoming, was a step outside our normal flow. I was, perhaps unsurprisingly, filled with doubt as…
Good morning friends This time last year, I decided to up my social media game. An Instagram page was created for the newsletter. Two things happened. One, it felt performative.…
Dear friends If you need a smile (who doesn’t?), this video of two playful leopard clubs may do the trick. If you’re more of a fashion-loving sort, then these collabs…
Good morning good people I hope you’re well. The last few weeks haven’t had a lot of space for segues into art, wine and food, and today is not that…
I apologise. I know that all effective conversations have four components – establishing relationship, deepening understanding, exploring possibilities, and agreeing action. Last week, I ignored this. It was a month…
In January 2020, I started writing strategy, soul, and self – a weekly letter that shares insight and inspiration from my coaching practice. As the letter developed, I included snippets…
Would it be unfair to claim that Kirstenbosch’s Botanical Gardens is the world’s most beautiful concert venue? I don’t think so. I can’t think of a better one. The…
I started writing my weekly letter in January 2020. Somewhere along the way, I started to share the work of artists that had moved me. It wasn’t intentional. It was…
A powerful way to shape strategy, personal or organizational, is to ‘visit the future’. By doing so we enrich our understanding of what we can do to generate the future…
I had started writing a different letter to you this week and then, as I watched this sunset from a friend’s porch in the Banhoek Valley, this letter started to write itself and…