Dopamine Dialogues: Sarika Richard

February is the month of Love. In this Guided Meditation series, Love Languages for the Soul, I invite you to experience Love as a sanctuary within, an inner refuge that nurtures, protects, and restores. Love is not always something that is external.
In this first episode, we journey into Your self-created Inner Sanctuary, a sacred space inside the psyche where you can feel safe, grounded, and connected to your Higher Self. Here, guides, ancestors, and power animals may appear with messages of love and protection. Each visit is unique, offering lessons, renewal, inspiration and Visions.
This practice is simple yet profound: find a quiet, comfortable space, allow yourself to soften, and explore the sanctuary within. Return as often as you need, morning, evening, or whenever you seek grounding and connection.
Join me in creating your own sanctuary of self-love and healing, and let this journey leave you feeling refreshed, uplifted, inspired, and ready to begin again.

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In this episode, I sit down with Robby Cobbs and Kyle Sumrow from TechMySchool, two humanitarian entrepreneurs whose lives are defined by service, sacrifice, and purpose. With backgrounds as teachers and years of experience serving across the globe, including Africa, they bring a rare blend of heart and vision to the work of education.
Robby’s journey began during a sabbatical in Puerto Rico, where he witnessed firsthand how under‑resourced the schools were, including those his own children attended. In a moment of conviction, he gave up his boat savings to seed what would become TechMySchool. Kyle, aligned in mission from Texas, joined him and together they’ve built an organisation now reaching over 40 schools, impacting 5,000 students every day, and empowering 500 teachers each month.
Their philosophy is simple yet profound: technology holds no bias. It is the bridge across inequality, and they are determined to make that bridge accessible to every child and teacher they encounter.
This conversation humbled me deeply. We explore how Robby’s upbringing in adversity, abuse, and poverty shaped his resilience and drive to give back, and how both he and Kyle embody what it means to live in alignment with purpose, sacrificing personal comfort for the greater good.
It’s a story of courage, conviction, and the belief that education, when resourced with dignity, can transform lives.

Breaking moulds, building mountains of courage.

In the Spirit of honouring the African women that are Building, I could not have run the series without doing this episode with my Mum, Mama, Mamzo. She has and continues to Build a Legacy of Grace & Strength and is not afraid to challenge the perceptions, templates and conditioning that many women continue to face. I am proud to be her daughter.
In this powerful episode of She Builds Mnandi, Dr. Vanita Richard shares her extraordinary journey. From growing up as an Indian woman in apartheid South Africa, to becoming a teacher of Home Economics for High Schools in Lenasia, meeting her husband, and stepping into activism with courage and conviction. Moving from Teaching into Matthew Goniwe, Pilo and working with and being inspired by Prof. Mary Metcalfe. She reflects on the challenges of raising a family while standing up for truth and justice, and the profound losses she has endured, including the sudden passing of her husband (Benjamin Richard) in May 2024 and losing both of her sons to mental illness (suicide). At 73, she climbed to Everest Base Camp, with my Dad's ashes, embodying resilience and the unbreakable spirit that has carried her through a lifetime of struggle and triumph.
This conversation is a testament to legacy, courage, and the power of living one’s truth no matter which chapter in life you find yourself in.
#ForLegacy #ForMum #ForDad #forAllComrades #SouthAfrica #apartheid #Sophiatown #Lenasia #Lens #SADTU #PTL #BeingIndian

Breaking moulds, building mountains of courage.
In the Spirit of honouring the African women that are Building, I could not have completed the series without doing this episode with my Mum, Mama, Mamzo. She has and continues to Build a Legacy of Grace & Strength and is not afraid to challenge the perceptions, templates and conditioning that many women continue to face. I am proud to be her daughter.
In this powerful episode of She Builds Mnandi, Dr. Vanita Richard shares her extraordinary journey. From growing up as an Indian woman in apartheid South Africa, to becoming a teacher of Home Economics for High Schools in Lenasia, meeting her husband, and stepping into activism with courage and conviction. Moving from Teaching into Matthew Goniwe, Pilo and working with and being inspired by Prof. Mary Metcalfe. She reflects on the challenges of raising a family while standing up for truth and justice, and the profound losses she has endured, including the sudden passing of her husband (Benjamin Richard) in May 2024 and losing both of her sons to mental illness (suicide). At 73, she climbed to Everest Base Camp, with my Dad's ashes, embodying resilience and the unbreakable spirit that has carried her through a lifetime of struggle and triumph.
This conversation is a testament to legacy, courage, and the power of living one’s truth no matter which chapter in life you find yourself in.
#ForLegacy #ForMum #ForDad #forAllComrades #SouthAfrica #apartheid #Sophiatown #Lenasia #Lens #SADTU #PTL #BeingIndian

In this episode, we sit with Lungile Maile—Nubian Smarts founder, EdTech innovator, and fierce advocate for Africa’s children as tech creators, not just consumers. Lungile’s work through Nubian Smarts is reshaping how under-served communities engage with STEAM (A for Art yay) education, from culinary coding and VR classrooms to AI hackathons, and AI-powered WhatsApp tools for teachers, parents and Business Operations - especially Manufacturing.
We explore the soul behind the software: how Lungile blends manufacturing grit with ancestral vision, how she builds playful yet powerful learning experiences, and why democratizing tech is a spiritual and strategic act. This conversation is a call to educators, parents, business owners, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and dreamers—to co-create a continent where innovation is local, joyful, and radically inclusive.

Lungile Maile Nubian Smarts contact details:
Mobile: +27 73 748 3166 (South Africa)
Email: [email protected]
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lungi_maile?igsh=MTNyNzRsOHB0b3czcg==