Our guest for Episode 7 of Change Voices is Nwabisa Makunga who will be talking to us about how to sustain yourself in a high-stress environment. 

We all have stress in the workplace and, quite frankly, a little bit of stress can be good as we push ourselves to do better in difficult circumstances. But what do we do when that stress becomes too much? When sustained stress leaves us feeling demotivated and overwhelmed? 

Nwabisa is the ideal person to talk about this topic, and to share some of her key strategies for coping. As the editor of one of South Africa's oldest newspapers, Port Elizabeth-based The Herald 
Our guest this week works in a high-stress environment and has pulled together some key strategies for coping.
 
In today’s episode we’re joined by editor of The Herald newspaper, Nwabisa Makunga. The Port Elizabeth-based publication is one of the oldest  in South Africa, having started in 1845, and is quite a legacy to be at the helm of. 
 
Tough and direct, Nwabisa is dogged in her quest to bring South Africans the news in all its nitty-gritty detail, while upholding the ideals of truth, fairness and integrity. This, at times, can take its toll.
 
Nwabisa talks about sustaining herself despite the pressure and shares some of her stress-management techniques with us in this episode.

You can find more information about the work we do and the @changevoices podcast on our website, frayintermedia.com or on our social media platforms @frayintermedia on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn, where our frayintermedia teams involved in the production of this podcast will be posting regular updates and sharing the lessons as we go along.

If you have any specific women in mind that you’d like to hear from or if you want to support our endeavour, please contact Paula directly at pfray@frayintermedia.com or direct message her on social media.

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Episode 7 - Nwabisa Makunga speaks about sustaining yourself in a high-stress work environment

This week the Change Voices team are at the offices of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, where Frayintermedia CEO Paula Fray is talking to the executive director of CSVR, Nomfundo Mogapi, about healing in the workplace.

Nomfundo is a registered clinical psychologist with a Masters degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She has extensive experience working in the field of traumatic stress and she has specialised in psychosocial interventions with ex-combatants, torture survivors and survivors of crime. 

In this episode Nomfundo explains why it is so important for leaders to be awake to their own wounds and the impact of these wounds on their interactions in the workplace.

She says leaders can be peace carriers or trauma carriers, and talks about creating working environments that facilitate healing, rather than reinforcing woundedness.

You can find more information about the work we do and the @changevoices podcast on our website, frayintermedia.com or on our social media platforms @frayintermedia on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn, where our frayintermedia teams involved in the production of this podcast will be posting regular updates and sharing the lessons as we go along.

If you have any specific women in mind that you’d like to hear from or if you want to support our endeavour, please contact Paula directly at pfray@frayintermedia.com or direct message her on social media.

Episode 11 - Nomfundo Mogapi talks about healing in the workplace

In this episode of Change Voices Frayintermedia CEO Paula Fray continues to explore the challenges, successes and lessons of leadership through the experiences of diverse women across Africa and beyond. 

Her guest today is Ghanaian social entrepreneur Regina Honu, who runs a West African tech business and is CEO of Soronko Academy, a training ground for young women in the field of technology. 

Soronko Academy is the  first coding and human-centered design school for children and young adults in West Africa. Regina has received multiple awards, including being named by CNN as one of the 12 inspirational women who rock science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM. She was also named as one of the six women making an impact in Africa through tech, and one of the ten female entrepreneurs to watch in emerging economies.

You can find more information about the work we do and the @changevoices podcast on our website, frayintermedia.com or on our social media platforms @frayintermedia on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn, where our frayintermedia teams involved in the production of this podcast will be posting regular updates and sharing the lessons as we go along.

If you have any specific women in mind that you’d like to hear from or if you want to support our endeavour, please contact Paula directly at pfray@frayintermedia.com or direct message her on social media.

Episode 12- Regina Honu talks about tech start-ups and women in STEM

Youth employment is a major socio-economic development issue across the African continent. Africa has the youngest population in the world, yet few of its government programmes are targeted at this demographic. 

This week on Change Voices, frayintermedia CEO Paula Fray talks to Misan Rewane, co-founder and CEO of West African Vocational Education, or WAVE.

Misan is one of the social entrepreneurs seeking to change that. Born in Lagos, she returned to Nigeria and became involved in vocational training and youth empowerment after graduating with an MBA from Harvard Business School. 

WAVE was started in 2013 and tackles youth unemployment by growing the supply of work-ready youth, while helping to increase the demand for entry-level staff from employers. A Stanford University graduate, Misan is passionate about supporting social innovators in scaling their impact sustainably.

You can find more information about the work we do and the Change Voices podcast on our website, frayintermedia.com, or on our social media platforms @frayintermedia on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn, where our frayintermedia teams involved in the production of this podcast post regular updates and share the lessons as we go along.

If you have any specific women in mind that you’d like to hear from or if you want to support our endeavour, please contact Paula directly at pfray@frayintermedia.com or direct message her on social media.

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Episode 13 - Misan Rewane talks about creating opportunities for young people

This week, we talk to Zambian Priscilla Chomba Kinywa who is a digital transformation strategist and a certified fitness coach. She is an co-Founder of ProjectFit, a charity entity in Zambia that aims to promote health and fitness among the general population. 

She has almost two decades’ experience in technology and innovation and focuses on helping large international non-profits ‘do good better’ by understanding and taking advantage of the opportunities presented by different technologies.

Her starting advice is all about goal setting. Just as the most common mistake that people make is setting unrealistic goals, the other mistake to not set any goals at all. She advises that we take time to define realistic and measurable goals.
Next, make it easier to maintain a fitness plan by following your own interests rather than the latest fad. 
Priscilla encourages us to draw on those around us in order to find the time to do things for ourselves.
It is important to define what motivates your fitness path and then, she says, you just have to make it happen.

Episode 14 - Priscilla Chomba talks about taking care of yourself as you work

In this week's episode of Change Voices, the CEO of frayintermedia, Paula Fray, talks to coach, mentor and trainer Shireen Motara about how organisations can ensure strong boards for good governance.

Previous episodes have explored personal strength and confidence, and how to strengthen the movements and organisations we belong to.

Shireen works with women leaders who seek to influence decisions at the highest levels of society, business and community. She has more than two decades’ experience in the non-profit sector as an advisor, researcher, manager, executive director, board member and consultant.

Beyond the fiduciary responsibilities that board members hold, this conversation has highlighted the critical of boards in sustaining organisations.

You can find more information about the work we do and the @changevoices podcast on our website, frayintermedia.com or on our social media platforms @frayintermedia on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn, where our frayintermedia teams involved in the production of this podcast will be posting regular updates and sharing the lessons as we go along.

If you have any specific women in mind that you’d like to hear from or if you want to support our endeavour, please contact Paula directly at pfray@frayintermedia.com or direct message her on social media.

Episode 15 - Shireen Motara talks about strengthening boards for good governance

This week our Change Voices host Paula Fray is in Uganda where she is speaking to CivSource CEO Jacqueline Asiimwe-Mwesige about giving in Africa.
Jacqueline oversees an independent advisory firm that is committed to nurturing a more sustainable, effective and connected civil society through accountable philanthropic practice.
She is a Ugandan and USA trained lawyer with a successful record of accomplishments in leadership, management, law and policy formulation, as well as advocacy and training.
Jacqueline’s vision of philanthropy goes beyond money and is a call to action for every leader to engage their teams in the process of giving. 
You can find more information about the work we do and the @changevoices podcast on our website, frayintermedia.com or on our social media platforms @frayintermedia on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn, where our frayintermedia teams involved in the production of this podcast will be posting regular updates and sharing the lessons as we go along.
If you have any specific women in mind that you’d like to hear from or if you want to support our endeavour, please contact Paula directly at pfray@frayintermedia.com or direct message her on social media.

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Episode 16 - Jacqueline Asiimwe-Mwesige talks about giving in Africa

Host Paula Fray is in Uganda chatting to Penelope Sanyu, Chief Steward at Femme Forte, about breaking the mould in order to be a catalyst for change.
A lawyer by training, Penelope is a young thinker, writer and author, who describes herself as an Agent of Positive Social Change and Transformation. 
She has dedicated most of her career building the capacity of young people to innovatively engage with and influence public policy in various spaces.

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Episode 17 - Penelope Sanyu talks about breaking the mould in order to be a catalyst for change.

Our Change Voices guest this week is the award-winning Agnes Igoye who is Uganda’s deputy national coordinator for the prevention of trafficking in persons and heads up Uganda’s Immigration Training Academy. She is also a 2018 Aspen New Voices Fellow. 

Agnes escaped human traffickers at age 14 when the Lord’s Resistance Army raided her village. Since then, she’s built a centre for human-trafficking survivors, trained over 2,000 law enforcement officials to counter human trafficking, and fundraised for and delivered almost 100 000 textbooks to educate vulnerable children. 

Not surprisingly, she has been named as one of New African Magazine’s 100 most influential Africans and is the winner of the 2016 Diane von Furstenberg International Award, University of Minnesota’s Distinguished Leadership Award for Internationals, and she made the 2017 Clinton Global Initiative University Alumni Honour Roll.

She met our host, Paula Fray in Kampala and spoke about challenging cultural perceptions and the influence of her father in bringing up feminist daughters. She also shares her story about the Lord’s Resistance Army, human trafficking and how she got inspired to build a rehabilitation centre for women survivors of human trafficking. 

Please be warned, some of these issues might be difficult to listen to. 

You can find more information about the work we do and the Change Voices podcast on our website, frayintermedia.com, or on our social media platforms @frayintermedia on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn, where our frayintermedia teams involved in the production of this podcast post regular updates and share the lessons as we go along.
If you have any specific women in mind that you’d like to hear from or if you want to support our endeavour, please contact Paula directly at pfray@frayintermedia.com or direct message her on social media.

Episode 18 - Agnes Igoye talks about combating human trafficking

Host Paula Fray is still in Kampala, Uganda, and this week she is speaking about supporting transformational leadership with Rita Atukwasa.
Rita is executive director of the institute for social transformation where she led a transformative leadership process with Uganda’s market women. Rita has extensive experience with public policy analysis, gender budgeting, mainstreaming, legislative analysis and drafting amongst others. 
We explored how her organisation helped market women develop an
APP though the process of transformational leadership.

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Episode 19 - Rita Atukwasa talks about supporting transformational leadership

The Change Voices podcast, hosted by fraycollge of communications CEO Paula Fray, explores the challenges, successes and lessons of leadership through the experiences of diverse women leaders across Africa. 

Season 2 uncovers themes of technology, business and journalism —
striving to challenge who leads and who speaks about leadership.

Episode 7 - Nwabisa Makunga speaks about sustaining yourself in a high-stress work environment

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