Living Content
This podcast is a safe platform that explores deep meaningful conversations on holistic wellness. It covers topics on healing, wellbeing, intentional living, self-development, and different self-care modalities accessible to the modern woman. The host, Olerato, shares tools and resources to help women navigate their personal healing journeys and feel more empowered to live lives rooted in self-trust, self-love, and understanding.
Episodes
Becoming Visible Without Losing Yourself
In a world that constantly tells us to "be more visible," how do we step forward without slowly becoming someone we no longer recognise?In this episode of Living Content, we explore the tension between hiding and performing, and the quieter path that often goes unnoticed: rooted visibility. Together, we unpack the difference between being visible and being truly seen, why authenticity is
The Elder Daughter Tax | The Leadership burden nobody talks about
What happens when being responsible becomes part of your identity?In this episode, we explore the hidden cost of always being the dependable one—the one who carries, solves, anticipates, and holds everything together.But this isn't just a conversation about what you've carried.It's a conversation about what you're building.Together, we unpack the difference between leadership and over-functioning,
You Belong in the Room
How do you convince yourself that you belong in the room when your past keeps telling you otherwise?In this episode, we explore the relationship between identity, self-belief, and the evidence we use to define ourselves.Many of us are living from outdated beliefs formed by past experiences, rejection, disappointment, survival mode, or the expectations of others. Even when new opportunities arrive,
I Went Quiet for 3 Years - Here's What Changed | And on Leading your Life
After three years away, I'm returning to the podcast for the beginning of a new era.The conversations we once had here were rooted in healing, understanding our stories, tracing the origins of our pain, and doing the inner work required to become whole. But healing was never meant to be the final destination.This season asks a different question:What do we do with everything we've learned
Our New Podcast trailer!
Old and yet New.Our new Podcast trailer ✨I can't contain my joy for this new Era, and our first episode going live next week.📆 9th of June.Remember to tune in.❤️
53. Our Season's FINALE: On podcasting and life in hindsight | Attachment, Entitlement, Consistency and What we define as failure
This is our season's finale. I have less words to share.
Thank you for choosing to spend your time here every week. I hope you find a message that resonates with you on this episode to affirms your journey too.
Until next time, do take care.
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52. Reclamation of Self: w/Phumeza On healing for self, my girl and the collective Sisterhood |+ Seasons and Discernment
She is soft spoken but loud when it comes to what she stands for. I met her in 2019 at a black women hosted Table talk and she was sitting right opposite me with the most beautiful smile and bald head. In our conversation we realized we both had platforms that shared conversations with women, and so we kept in contact since. So today I am excited to bring you our conversation which we both had bee
51.Books Chats and Chill Episodes: The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
Today’s episode comes in between the series because it’s long overdue. It’s been a while since I brought you a new episode with Omphile for our Books Chat and Chill episodes. We in fact recorded this episode in April and it was meant to go live in May but life happened in between and here we are in June hence it just couldn’t wait any longer. This is the second episode.
On this episode we sat down
50. Reclamation of Self: w/Elyse On Human Design | Embracing our unique Soul's journey and purpose
In today's episode with my guest, we discuss a topic that is pretty close to my heart which is embracing our unique essence. My guest today is an incredible woman who is supporting visionary Women of Color to remember their soul mission and find the courage to pursue it, so that they can increase their abundance and social impact. My guest today is Elyse Preston!
Elyse is a Soulful Business Mentor
49. Reclamation of Self: w/Anesu On belonging, spirituality and entrepreneurship | +Life lessons from being on SurvivorSA S8
Today I am in conversation with someone whose work inspires me so much even more after this conversation we had. With a gentle and big heart, today I am in conversation with Anesu Mbizvo.
Anesu is medical doctor currently working as a yoga teacher and yoga studio owner in Johannesburg South Africa. She has a wealth of yoga teaching experience and has been teaching vinyasa, hatha, meditation and yi
48. Reclamation of Self: w/Siphokazi Veti On honouring and trusting the process | Journaling as a practice and telling our stories
Today I am in conversation with one of our favourite writers whose words encourage self-love and self-care and centers women in her work. Quite a few of you have been waiting for this conversation to air after I shared that she was one of the guests coming for the series.
Today I am in conversation with Siphokazi Veti who is a wellness facilitator and writer. She is the founder and owner of
47. Reclamation of Self: w/Zandile Ndhlovu On a search for self and finding home in the Ocean | The beauty represented by Sunflowers
Today I am in conversation with Zandile Ndhlovu who is South Africa’s first Black African Freediving Instructor, and the founder of The Black Mermaid Foundation, an organization seeking to create diverse representation in the Ocean Arena, her work centers around enabling access to Ocean spaces to the local ocean facing communities in hope to diversify Ocean spaces recreationally, professionally an
46. Reclamation of Self: w/Siphilile Khumalo On Living your Dharma | Welcoming the energy of abundance as women of colour
Today I am in conversation with Siphilile Khumalo who I’ve had the pleasure to work with on our last year’s retreat with Among the Lilies. Siphilile is a psychology student at Wits University and the Founder and Director of Zelanga Africa. She is a certified yoga and meditation teacher trained at Nature Yoga Sanctuary (Chicago). She felt a compelling need to obtain a psychology degree after return
45. Reclamation of Self: w/Vuyo Khumalo On Healing our money stories and the pursuit of freedom | Living a fulfilling life
Welcome to the first episode of a series I have created where I interviewed women who I have been inspired by their work, their healing journey and the way they hold space. In this series I uncover ways in which the work that they do has been part of reclaiming self and how it expanded beyond self to being of service to others.
Today I am in conversation with Vuyo Khumalo who is a behaviora
44. Reclamation of Self: Series Introduction
Today is the introduction episode to a series that I have been recording with some amazing human beings who are doing incredible work in the inner and outer world, and I have been so blessed to know and have worked with some of them. They have been my teachers, my guides and people that I have been deeply inspired by their work. I will be releasing the series weekly starting from next week.
We are
43. What makes us feel like the imposter | Embracing your full self and being a student
Today’s episode is one that I have been looking forward to share, it was also one that was requested.
Most of us experience this but what makes us feel like we are imposters even when we have all the proof to show that we qualify. This feeling of being inadequate, not enough or that people will find you out that you are as flawed sometimes plagues us. On this episode I share my view on it.
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42. Slowing down | Allowing your business to be your healing instrument too
Today’s episode is a bit of a vulnerable one. Slowing down is scary but sometimes necessary to gain clarity and to order your steps.
Thank you for deciding to spend your time here. Do enjoy listening.
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41. Books Chats and Chill Episodes: What Happened to you? by Dr. Perry and Oprah
Today is our first episode of Books Chats and Chill episode, where I unpack books alongside Omphile (from Bookamoso). On today's episode we are unpacking the book What Happened to you by Dr. Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey
The book highlights the importance of acknowledging and addressing what happened to us in order to understand the role it plays in explaining our behavioral patterns and to restor
40. Self-care or Self-sabotage | When what we regard as self-care can be self-sabotage
There's a thin line between self-care and self sabotage. But do we always see it when what regard as self-care is actually self-soothing or numbing ourselves. I had an interesting conversation with my husband that sparked the interest to relook at how I define self-care and what is self-care really.
This is what I unpack on today's episode.
Do enjoy listening. Remember to rate and review the podca
39. Evolving, Changing and Transitioning | The Power of letting our rigid ideas break to transition into new form
On today's episode I talk about the power of letting our rigid ideas break to transition into new form. I also take it to church.
Lean in to listen, do remember to share what resonated with you from the episode on the reviews.
Thank you for deciding to spend your time here.
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38. Building Self-trust | Learning to lean on your own ability and inner knowing
Do you ever doubt that you can make the right decisions for yourself?
Sis, I used to. In the earliest days of my relationship with my husband I leaned on him a lot to make most of the decisions, even more, to help me with my own. I didn't trust that I was capable of making the right decisions for myself neither did I believe that I was capable of fulfilling the promises I made to myself
Over the p
37. The journey to self-acceptance | Finding harmony within self
How to cultivate self acceptance and How will it benefit you
The journey to self-acceptance does not happen overnight. Learning to be okay with all of you can be hard at times, but with practice, patience and being deliberate about it you can learn the art of self-acceptance.
On today's episode I share my own personal experience with self-acceptance, how denying yourself of that can hinder y
36. Loosening the idea we have about self | How we hinder ourselves from living as our highest self
What would you allow yourself to do if you loosened the idea you have about yourself, and still held your life as important?
Imagine the freedom that this would give you, to explore your whole self. This is one of the ways that you could come to knowing yourself better this year. Releasing yourself from the idea you have derived about yourself, and going for the thing you have not allowed yourself
35. A holiday Meditation: Finding something to be grateful for here
As the year comes to end, what are you finding in your life to be grateful for?
My intentions with this meditation is to help you see gratitude different, to find the countless things to be grateful for in your life if you are struggling with finding any or more. This meditation is for cultivating gratitude and therefore abundance.
This is the final episode for Season 2. It’s also the last of the
34. Yvette - On Living Consciously and healing our trauma to live lives we truly deserve
This is our last guest episode for season 2 and we will be starting again a new season next year. To be the first to know when the podcast will be back for season 3 do sign up for the newsletter and you will also get to know of the topics that will be covered in the new season.
On today’s episode with my guest Yvette Ratshikhopha, we talk about her book living Consciously, ways in which we self-sa
33. A holiday Meditation: Holding space for your boundaries and honouring your values
This 12 minutes long guided meditations will help you with setting and honouring your boundaries, and believe that you are worthy of enjoy this holiday with so much love and peace
Boundaries may sound isolating, the word itself sounds like you are closing everyone out, you are building this big wall and no one can have access to you and by doing so you will lose people. We are socialized to be alw
32. Wanga - On womb wellness and our innate ability to heal ourselves
I want to bring guests that can help us heal holistically, I know there are so many women on this kind of journey of healing but this conversation touches on how linked every part of ourselves is and how we can gain the power to heal ourselves holistically. My guest today is the modern kind of wise women from the village that I wish I was introduced to years ago. She’s been in my journey and she i
31. A holiday Meditation: Holding space for joy even through grief
Welcome to our first holiday season special episodes. These episode are guided meditations to help you honour the season you are in with self-care, love and acceptance while making space to celebrate life this holiday season.
This 15 mins guided meditations is meant to help you welcome in joy, release with love what you have lost in this year and make room for the gifts that this holiday season ha
30. Busie - On redefining motherhood, nurturing self and affirming our innate worthiness to thrive
Today’s episode is a guest episode which I am excited for you to listen to.
With my guest today, Busie Sholo we dive into redefining motherhood for yourself, pursuing your dreams beyond motherhood and nurturing self.
I think being a parent makes you realize that life is just as much about learning as it is about unlearning. Understanding that as a parent you are your child first reference of what
29. The gifts I derived from retreat – On anxiety, worthiness and community
I am so excited to be back and replenished to share with you about The Art of Being retreat in collaboration with Among the Lilies.
In this episode I share gifts or lessons that I personally derived from the experience. There was a whole lot more but I wanted to share the ones that landed deeply with me.
The retreat was a 3 day gathering experience but when I zoom out, the retreat was
28. Losego - On self-love and the power of Affirmations
On this episode with my guest Losego Motshele we talk about the work she used to offer centered around Innerself work - using Affirmations as part of the tools. In this episode she shares ways in which affirmations can be a great tool in our lives, and when it's best to put down the tool and use what works for the season you are in. This conversation was a paradigm shift on the conversation of aff
27. Lerato - On taking up space, cultivating self-love and self-care through Yoga
In this episode with my guest Lerato we discuss the importance of representation and taking up space in the Wellness spaces, and cultivating self-love and self-care through the yoga practice. Lerato shares her journey coming to the work and the space that she holds now.
My intentions with these guest episodes is to explore conversations that affirm the intangible things we are innately worth
26. Boledi - On healing through ease and connecting back with nature
In my exploration and unpacking of the different healing instruments or modalities that are at our disposal I had a conversation with Boledi Tladito talk about healing through ease and connecting back to nature, therefore connecting back to our heritage and ancestral wisdom.
In today’s episode I sat with Boledi to explore this conversation.
Boledi is a Community-based Counselling Psychologist, lec
25. ZU. - On Music as a healing instrument, her motherhood and mental health journey
In today's episode I have Zu. as our guest. She is someone that I have followed their work for years since my varsity days. So I was very honored to have them as my guest today. Her story enlightening, but I love how it also shares the human in the story in ways in which one can relate which I always find beautiful. So I am excited for you to listen to the episode.
In today’s episode with Zu., We
24. Rina - On Identity, Authenticity, Inner child healing and becoming a mother
Today’s episode is a guest episode, I sat down with Rina to uncover her healing journey. This conversation was recorded a few months back.
Rina is a healer, artist, teacher, creative entrepreneur, a vibe curator, storyteller, and a fairy godmother. She’s a passionate autodidact whose dharma lays in sharing knowledge with her community. She has healed her way through an autoimmune disease
23. On our worthiness to receive
In today’s episode, I transition from last week’s episode on our innate worthiness to be seen to now talk about our innate worthiness to receive. I want these next episodes to affirm our innate worthiness and be a remembrance for all the things we’ve lost touch with that we deserve simply by being and without the need to labor for it.
In this episode, I share why I often find it very hard to recei
22. Learning that it is safe to be seen
In this episode I share about healing through being seen by ourselves first, therefore, healing as a collective.
I have come to learn that sometimes the things we long for the most are often the things we resist the most, like being seen.
As a person who was constantly bullied, I received that as rejection and the hardest thing is being rejected while being yourself. So naturally, it felt sa
21. Why you may need boundaries in your life?
It must be that the synonym for Peace is Boundaries
The way I see it boundaries help with simplifying our lives and therefore grants us peace of mind. I never knew that asking for peace would mean setting boundaries, not only the easier ones that would not cause any discomfort but more so those ones. To set them and learn to reinforce them.
Today’s topic reminded me of my childhood
20. On Acceptance, Trust and Surrendering to life
The Podcast is officially back! Welcome to Season 2!
I am excited to be back.
In South Africa, we celebrate Women's day on the 9th of August and this makes the month Women's month. So let me start by saying - Happy women’s month, I hope you always know that you are loved, celebrated and that your life matters. But I that you never wait to be celebrated to celebrate yourself too.
In today’s episode
19. Lessons on love, purpose and reframing how we tell our stories
This episode is our final episode for Season 1 and I have so much in my heart, but a huge part of it is gratitude. I am grateful to my Devine Source who I got to co-create this Podcast with, who found my broken story and still said I will use you for good. I am grateful to you who somehow found this podcast in time and have been part of the sisterhood. I hope the podcast helped you start or c
18. Buyisile - On conflicted dependency, learning to build independence and constructing a sense of self
In this episode, I sat for a conversation with Buyisile Mncina. Buyisile is familiar to my guest chair, we once created a 4 part series called Psychology matters which covered 4 topics to assist women as they navigate their motherhood, work-life, relationship, and business journey currently hosted on The Journey Unearthed podcast.
Buyisile Mncina is a practicing counseling psychologist,
17. Phumza - On joy, naming ourselves, language and contextualizing our stories
In this episode, I sat for a conversation with Monica Phumza Mankayi. She is currently working as a UX Content Writer in the banking sector and moonlights as a Mental Health Advocate when she is not writing articles, poems and helping people with their social media platforms.
Her career has been supported by her psychology background and her avid love for a well-written story. Her aspirations
16. Nkhensani - On Reiki healing, motherhood, and plant energy
Today’s episode is a guest episode, I sat over zoom for a chat with Nkhensani Rikhotso. Nkhensani is an interior plant stylist and educator, Mother, reiki practitioner, UX UI Manager, and social impact advocator.
She studied BCom Accounting and in allowing her journey to unfold she built her career in the digital tech space. With holistic healing being a huge part of her journey, she started her
15. Kamogelo - On healing through art, identity and unlearning
Today’s episode is a guest episode, I sat over zoom for a chat with Kamogelo Walaza, I met Kamogelo years ago through a mutual friend, we met through art and our recent reunion was also through art but we also had a beautiful healing conversation on what had transformed, changed and what had shed in our lives. So I decided to invite her over for a conversation in healing through art and to uncover
14. Twenty-Eight things I know for sure
Today’s episode is a solo one. As you may note from the title of the episode I am sharing 28 things I know for sure and you can for sure count Rest as one of the things I am listing.
I started doing this in 2019 and this year will be the 3rd year. What has been beautiful about doing this is that you are able to see how far you’ve come, what has changed, how you may be looking at things diffe
13. Cont. with Mpumi - On inner child healing and cultivating joy
This is Part 2 of the previous episode, where I sat down with Mpumi Mayisa to uncover her healing journey. In this episode, we dive deep into her inner child healing and how she's cultivating joy in her life.
You can listen to the first part of our conversation here.
Thank you for being here.
You can follow Mpumi on Instagram: @mpumi_dee and Among The Lillies @among.the.lilies
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12. Mpumi - On the awakening and a return home to self (Part 1)
Today’s episode is a guest episode, I sat down with Mpumi Mayisa to uncover her healing journey. This is one part of our conversation, the second part of this conversation will be released on Thursday this week.
Mpumi Mayisa is a poet, photographer, podcaster, educational art program designer, and event curator based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is passionate about using her gifts to advocat
11. Peggy - On reclaiming self through healing and the gifts for healing
Today's episode is our first guest episode, I invited Mapule Peggy Ntsepe for a conversation on healing. We journeyed through her healing journey as she unpacks some of her childhood trauma, her journey back to home to self, the work that she does, and she also wraps up this episode with her beautiful affirming words. For me she is such a well of wisdom and I love how she shares, after our first I
9. On finding self-belonging and inner security
In today’s episode I unpack on finding self belonging and inner security first. By that, I mean learning to belong to yourself first and asserting that inner child in you that she is safe. Self belonging is being in a relationship with yourself and getting to know who you are the same way you would if you were in a relationship. Part of getting to know ourselves better requires sitting with our in
8. Granting ourselves grace and self-care during this period
Today’s episode I am going to sound like a preacher, it’s a light-hearted episode on granting yourself grace and self-care during this pandemic. Today’s question is from Gontse (@gee_letsapa) and she asked “When life is not working out, how do you extend to yourself the same grace you can easily extend for others.”
~Show notes~
[00:00] - Intro
[03:30] - Missed off-ramps and granting ourselves grac
7. Embracing our different experiences and defining what success looks like for you
Today’s episode is about embracing different experiences, opinions, and ideas to life and defining what success looks like for you. I have gotten to a point in life where I have learned to appreciate that things are not always black or white, true or false and there will not always be one true answer, one solution or one formula to life. And that I can define my own success just the way it pleases
6. Self-sabotage and learning to believe different about yourself
Today we are talking about why and how we may be sabotaging ourselves. Why do we have little worth for ourselves and often shrink into smallness. We will look at what that can look like, what is the reason we do it, and how to stop.
I also shared some beautiful words from two creative women, both as affirmation and to celebrate how powerful you are even when you are still learning to believe that
5. Learning to love yourself the way deserve
Happy new month! We are now within the month of March. Here’s to a new soul replenishing and transformative month. May these new 31 days open to you another layer of yourself to show you the greatness that you are capable of.
Today I wanted to talk about learning to show up for yourself in ways you needed someone to, by that I mean learning to grant yourself the love you needed someone to gr
4. Choosing Joy regardless and unpacking what Joy is
Sometimes healing can be about learning to embrace a good thing when it finds you, sometimes it can be about learning to make room for what you are hoping for, sometimes it can be about learning to hold on to new nurturing believes that remind you of what you deserve and sometimes it can be about learning a new and healthy way to go through hardship. So whether it’s in learning how to embrace joy
3. Self-forgiveness, a gift you deserve
Today’s episode is about forgiveness, one of the pillars I believe to be critical in genuinely living a content life and living light, unburdened by our pasts. Today in particular I wanted us to talk about self-forgiveness because only when we are able to truly forgive ourselves which is the most hardest part of forgiveness, so shall we be able to forgive others and release any bondage holding us
2. Our desire to please
Very often our desire to please is a symptom of a very deeper issue. How I see most of our toxic beliefs and things that we have to learn to unlearn is that, there must have been a point in your earlier life where you first experienced what would be a seed and with every similar experience or triggering situation the roots of the seed infiltrated your life and way of being to entrench themselves e
1. Morphing into the new
When I came across a note on social media written "don't be afraid to be seen trying", I knew I needed to plug up the courage to start again. Though this very often comes with its own fears and all. I was able to do it because it was bigger than me. This note reached me at the right time and in my mind, it settled as "don't be afraid to be seen doing it again".
In this very first episode, I g
Living Content - Official Trailer
Welcome to the Living Content podcast. This podcast is to affirm and give permission to my African sisters who like me, for many years didn’t know how to hold space for healing, joy, and love. Who didn’t know that joy is for them too and they too deserve the luxury to heal in safe beautiful spaces that honors and recognizes our wounds. This the place where conversations about healing are made less
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