Dopamine Dialogues: Sarika Richard

• She Builds Mnandi: Ep 2 NubianSmarts_Tech as a Partner in Legacy : with Founder and Visionary Lungile Maile on AI, what this means for Community, and the Future of African Education

  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]: https://www.instagram.com/lungi_maile?igsh=MTNyNzRsOHB0b3czcg==

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• She Builds Mnandi: Ep 1_PG18 Play with me.ZA with Founder Carmen Ely

  She Builds Mnandi is a series honouring and showcasing African female entrepreneursMy first guest for the series is Carmen Ely, Founder of of Play With Me ZA. Carmen created her boutique intimacy shop in Johannesburg to empower women through sensual self-awareness—born from her own journey of reclaiming pleasure after a few painful and healing life experiences. Play With Me ZA isn’t just a sex shop—it’s a feminine, elegant, and emotionally intelligent space that invites women to explore intimacy with grace and curiosity.Come and play with us In this evocative episode, as I sit down with Carmen—entrepreneur, sensuality guide, and cultural disruptor—for a raw and reverent exploration of pleasure, reclamation, and radical intimacy. What begins as a story of personal transformation unfolds into a layered reflection on Carmen’s divorce, her struggle to prioritise her own pleasure, and the unexpected evolution of her adult toy store into a healing sanctuary.Carmen shares how her business became less about products and more about the deep, vulnerable conversations with clients—conversations that helped them confront shame, guilt, and cultural conditioning around sexuality. Now, she’s expanding into the creation of dungeon spaces: intentional, consent-based environments that honour kink, edge-play, and the full spectrum of erotic expression.Throughout the episode, Carmen gently invites listeners to dip their toes into their own edges—to explore the blocks, beliefs, and inherited scripts that shape their relationship to intimacy. For her, communication is the cornerstone of any erotic or emotional connection. It’s not just about what we do, but how we speak, listen, and co-create safety.This episode invites listeners to meet themselves at the edge—where curiosity becomes courage, and healing begins with truth.How to reach Carmen Ely and Play with Me.ZAhttps://www.instagram.com/playwithmeza/https://playwithme.co.za/?srsltid=AfmBOoqRVpFGdlsoO0YkrKHaoZKaxi0I7T2e39JpHJux2ZnLADyEsKgB

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• The Evolved Woman Method_A Journey to self-worth and conscious partnership_with Lynda Williams

  Lynda Williams founded the Evolved Woman Program—a 12-week coaching journey designed to help professional women reconnect with their feminine energy, build emotional resilience, and create soul-aligned lives. She works with emotional and energetic alignment, clearing subconscious blocks like imposter syndrome and burnout, reclaiming self-worth and alignment that goes beyond external definitions of success. Lynda's journey resonated with my own and her personal message touched me. "Your podcast always sparks honest conversations about modern womanhood, and I truly admire your approach to these nuanced topics. I thought about reaching out, as my own path might resonate with your listeners. From losing my dad to suicide at 18, to pushing through divorce and two intense burnouts running a million dollar PR agency, I've experienced firsthand the pressures ambitious women face behind their polished exteriors.What ultimately changed my life was creating the Evolved Woman Method, after my own setbacks with love and relationships. I walked away from a successful business to focus on helping high-achieving women find love and fulfillment—as I did myself—without having to dial down their ambition. Today, my coaching program is sought after by accomplished women worldwide and guides them through overcoming patterns that keep them from real connection.Lynda"Lynda Williams, Founder, Life & Business CoachLynda Williams Group LtdFounder of The Evolved Woman ProgramPodcast Host: PS I Love Me

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• Women, Worth and Wellness with Founder Nancy Griffin

  The perfect way to close out Women's month in South Africa. Today’s guest is someone whose presence arrived not through algorithms or marketing funnels, but through resonance. Nancy Griffin, founder of Women Worth Wellness, reached out to me via email—unsolicited, unexpected, and at first, I’ll admit, a little suspicious. I’ve had my fair share of strange requests lately, so I asked for a Zoom meet and did what any discerning woman would do: I checked her LinkedIn. What I found was a woman whose work deeply aligns with mine—uplifting communities, integrating emotional intelligence into financial empowerment, and redefining wealth as something far more expansive than numbers on a spreadsheet.Nancy is a Certified Financial Planner, a legacy architect, and a fierce advocate for women reclaiming their worth—emotionally, financially, and spiritually. She’s worked with Boomer women, their daughters, and now their granddaughters, helping them design lives and legacies rooted in wellness and wisdom. In today’s conversation, we explore the sacred dance between self-worth and net worth, the emotional terrain of money, and how giving back becomes a pathway to wholeness.

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• Humanitarian entrepreneurship: A refugee story of collective recovery with Shahd Alasaly_Creative Founder of Blue Meets Blue, Story Teller, Author, Kind Human

  Shahd Alasaly is a living dedication and prayer for healing community through collective resonance and recovery. Her team, namely Katie, found Dopamine Dialogues and wrote this email to me... which is why we now have this episode. Thank you Katie for introducing us. "Hi Sarika, The stories stitched into every garment can sometimes say more than words, and no one embodies that philosophy better than Shahd Alasaly. With a rich background as an author, educator, and sociologist at the University of South Florida, Shahd’s work bridges research, fashion, and human resilience. She focuses on trauma, displacement, betrayal, and collective healing, especially within collectivist communities, an angle that brings fresh depth to conversations about belonging and transformation. As founder and creative director of Blue Meets Blue, Shahd launched a humanitarian label in Chicago in 2015, dedicated to empowering refugee artisans through luxury, modest fashion collections deeply rooted in healing and cultural preservation. Now in Tampa, she is relaunching with a sharp focus on Syrian brocade, traditional embroidery, and building meaningful employment for refugees in the U.S. Her recent journey to Syria, where she partnered with local textile artisans rebuilding after war, gives her firsthand insight into cultural survival and hope. Every Blue Meets Blue piece tells the story of survival, dignity, and craft, a powerful lens for your Dopamine Dialogues listeners exploring memory, collective recovery, and creativity as a force for justice. Beyond fashion, Shahd is the author of A Kids Book About Humanitarianism and is developing a children’s series on the refugee experience. Her commitment to ethical sourcing, sustainability, and storytelling creates a rare blend: someone who truly lives the connection between creative expression and empowerment. Would love for you to consider Shahd as a future guest. Best, BMB TeamThis episode is a call to soften, to witness, and to lead from the heart. It’s for anyone who believes that healing is communal, that leadership is energetic, and that love is the most radical strategy of all.And of course, I got emotional. I ugly cry when I am deeply humbled. LoveSarika

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