Go Deeper with Coach Alicia - Unpacking Your Values-Driven Life.
Welcome to Amandla - The Power Within's brand new segment: "Go Deeper"! In this series, host Mpeo Nkosi teams up with Coach Alicia Pieterse of Nurturing Growth Trading to explore the burning questions that arise after guest interviews. Get ready for actionable insights, practical tools, and authentic conversations that will empower you to live a more intentional and fulfilling life.
In this inaugural "Go Deeper" episode, Mpeo and Coach Alicia tackle the question: "At what point do we start living a values-driven life, and does it even matter?" Inspired by a conversation with Melusi Tshabalala on the episode “Magenge we need to talk”, Mpeo reflects on the importance of integrity and the challenges of aligning actions with core values. Coach Alicia shares her expertise, offering practical tools like the "Wheel of Life" to help listeners identify, prioritise, and evolve their values.
Key Discussion Points:
• The concept of living a values-driven life and its significance.
• How survival mode can overshadow awareness of personal values.
• Using the "Wheel of Life" tool to prioritise values across different life aspects (financial, family, spiritual, health).
• The challenges of narrowing down values and the influence of socialisation and conditioning.
• How values evolve with life stages and the importance of flexibility.
• The power of understanding what you don't want as a starting point for self-discovery.
• Navigating value clashes, especially within family dynamics.
• The difference between "what" you want to achieve and "how" you want to achieve it.
• The importance of aligning your actions with your values for a more fulfilling life. Nurturing Growth Condensed Enneagram Personality Test · Nurturing Growth article on values and Wheel of Life Tool · Nurturing Growth Trading Coaching Circles · Alternative Wheel of Life resource · Alternative Enneagram personality test resource
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MAGENGE WE NEED TO TALK
Navigating Middle Age: Male Vulnerability, Relationships, & Self-Acceptance.
In this insightful and funny conversation, Mpeo and Melusi Tshabalala (Author of 'Magenge We Need to Talk' and 'Melusi's Everyday Zulu') explore the complexities of male identity in middle age. Melusi candidly shares his journey from the chaotic energy of his younger years to a place of self-acceptance and reflection. They discuss the challenges men face in expressing vulnerability, the importance of open communication in relationships, and the unique pressures of modern marriage and fatherhood.
This episode is a must-listen for men seeking personal growth and deeper connection. Learn how to embrace vulnerability, strengthen relationships, and achieve self-acceptance.
Key Discussion Points:
From Fun to Seriousness: Melusi's transition from a care-free youth to confronting anxiety and life choices in his 30s.
Male Vulnerability and Communication: The societal pressures that prevent men from openly discussing struggles.
Marriage and Relationships: Melusi's perspective on the importance of treating marriage as a partnership.
Parenting and Fatherhood: The challenges and rewards of raising children.
Self-Acceptance and Personal Growth: Melusi's journey to self-acceptance, including his experience with alcohol and other habits.
Seeking Professional Help: The importance of seeking professional support over relying solely on friends. Follow Melusi's hilarious daily anecdotes and learn isiZulu while at it · Purchase 'Magenge We Need to Talk'. Read, enjoy, laugh, and learn.
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I GOT UNSTUCK AND QUIT MY JOB
Exploring Transformational Coaching and Overcoming Self-Limiting Beliefs.
In the inaugural episode of Amandla with Mpeo, host Mpeo Nkosi invites guest Alicia Pieterse, an executive coach with over 20 years of experience, to discuss transformative coaching and personal growth. Mpeo shares her journey of transformation through coaching, detailing the profound impact it has had on both her professional and personal life.
This episode dives deep into various coaching modalities, exploring themes of self-limiting beliefs and the inner critic, and how to get unstuck.
Key Highlights:
- Mpeo’s personal transformation and the journey that led her to start the podcast.
- Discussion of coaching modalities: meta coaching, Enneagram coaching, mind-body coaching.
- The impact of self-limiting beliefs on professional and personal development.
- Insightful dialogue on the inner critic and how to nurture self-compassion.
- Differentiating coaching from therapy and understanding their respective focuses.
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Welcome to Amandla with Mpeo
I’ve spent years walking the path of self-discovery. From becoming a young mom at 21 to burning out in my career (probably more than once). I’ve experienced episodes of depression, the endless churn of anxiety, the highs of success, and the annoying, quiet voice of self-doubt and imposter syndrome. I’ve tried to juggle all the roles I inhabit in this body that is starting to do the strangest things — I am being a mother to 3 boys, a wife, a sister, a daughter to an ageing parent, a friend — and as I get older, the more daunting it all feels – like the clock is ticking in surround sound on everything.
I have so many questions about the insanity that is middle life and why no one talks about it!
I realise I’m not alone in this search - in these questions about life, love, work, and purpose that just feel different now. I am truly grateful for long, vulnerable conversations with friends and the therapy that is great music on full blast to help me navigate my journey to this point. In all of it, real connection has made the difference and being curious is helping me face my life head on. And that’s how Amandla (The Power Within) was born.
In this podcast, I invite you to journey with me. Join me as I engage in raw, honest conversations with thinkers, authors, creators and many others who have asked the same tough questions and dared to dig deeper. Together, we’ll explore what it really means to find strength within ourselves and live intentionally.
So, let’s go there. Let us discover more about ourselves and our world and unlock the power that’s waiting inside each of us. Because it’s already there — it’s just waiting to be awakened.
The Power Within.
A podcast about the questions we all face as we navigate life, love, work, purpose, and the absurdity of middle life. Together, we’ll laugh, learn, and dig deep into what it means to face this season with courage, grace, and authenticity.
Let’s unlock the power that’s already within us.
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