Everyday Thriving for Women Zebra Blue & Tshukudu Consulting

In this final episode of Season 1,  we dive into one of Caroline’s favorite topics: cultivating confidence. We chat about how we define and think about confidence matters, share our own self-doubt struggles and how we overcame them, and offer some practical, doable confidence building tips.



Caroline Hopkins heads up Zebra Blue's women's empowerment and leadership initiatives, and is dedicated to supporting smart, caring women leaders to identify, hone and lead using their unique gifts. She is an accomplished international trainer, facilitator and professional coach with over 25 years of experience in supporting people in their professional and personal growth.

Connect with Caroline at https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolinehhopkins/ or caroline@zebrablue.co.za or www.zebrablue.co.za

Mmabatho Nkambule is the founder and owner of Tshukudu Consulting, a small consultancy with a focus on leadership training, coaching and communications. She has close to 20 years’ corporate experience working in industries ranging from insurance, healthcare, and information technology spending approximately half of that period specifically in the organisational learning and development space. She is a strong advocate of mentorship and coaching as a way to support emerging leaders.  

Connect with Mmabatho at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmabathonkambule/ or mmabatho@tshukuduconsulting.co.za or www.tshukuduconsulting.co.za

In this penultimate episode of the first series of Everyday Thriving for Women, the big question is ‘to empower or not to empower?’.
Caroline and Mmabatho grapple with why the notion of ‘women empowerment’ is problematic for them and offer an alternative perspective on this topic.



Caroline Hopkins heads up Zebra Blue's women's empowerment and leadership initiatives, and is dedicated to supporting smart, caring women leaders to identify, hone and lead using their unique gifts. She is an accomplished international trainer, facilitator and professional coach with over 25 years of experience in supporting people in their professional and personal growth.

Connect with Caroline at https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolinehhopkins/ or caroline@zebrablue.co.za or www.zebrablue.co.za



Mmabatho Nkambule is the founder and owner of Tshukudu Consulting, a small consultancy with a focus on leadership training, coaching and communications. She has close to 20 years’ corporate experience working in industries ranging from insurance, healthcare, and information technology spending approximately half of that period specifically in the organisational learning and development space. She is a strong advocate of mentorship and coaching as a way to support emerging leaders.  Connect with Mmabatho at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmabathonkambule/ or mmabatho@tshukuduconsulting.co.za or www.tshukuduconsulting.co.za

What if the opposite of ‘independence’ was not ‘dependence’ but rather ‘interdependence’?
This week’s episode continues where we left off in Episode 5. We talk about the perils of being hyper-independent and how a shift in our identity as nurturers allows us to receive support from others.



Caroline Hopkins heads up Zebra Blue's women's empowerment and leadership initiatives, and is dedicated to supporting smart, caring women leaders to identify, hone and lead using their unique gifts. She is an accomplished international trainer, facilitator and professional coach with over 25 years of experience in supporting people in their professional and personal growth.

Connect with Caroline at https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolinehhopkins/ or caroline@zebrablue.co.za or www.zebrablue.co.za

Mmabatho Nkambule is the founder and owner of Tshukudu Consulting, a small consultancy with a focus on leadership training, coaching and communications. She has close to 20 years’ corporate experience working in industries ranging from insurance, healthcare, and information technology spending approximately half of that period specifically in the organisational learning and development space. She is a strong advocate of mentorship and coaching as a way to support emerging leaders.  Connect with Mmabatho at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmabathonkambule/ or mmabatho@tshukuduconsulting.co.za or www.tshukuduconsulting.co.za

In this episode, we share how we were both raised to be strong, independent women and how that has helped us succeed. But. . . there’s also been a cost. We explore how being too tightly tied to this identity has paradoxically limited our professional success and the depth of our relationships.



Caroline Hopkins heads up Zebra Blue's women's empowerment and leadership initiatives, and is dedicated to supporting smart, caring women leaders to identify, hone and lead using their unique gifts. She is an accomplished international trainer, facilitator and professional coach with over 25 years of experience in supporting people in their professional and personal growth.

Connect with Caroline at https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolinehhopkins/ or caroline@zebrablue.co.za or www.zebrablue.co.za



Mmabatho Nkambule is the founder and owner of Tshukudu Consulting, a small consultancy with a focus on leadership training, coaching and communications. She has close to 20 years’ corporate experience working in industries ranging from insurance, healthcare, and information technology spending approximately half of that period specifically in the organisational learning and development space. She is a strong advocate of mentorship and coaching as a way to support emerging leaders.

Connect with Mmabatho at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmabathonkambule/ or mmabatho@tshukuduconsulting.co.za or www.tshukuduconsulting.co.za

Have you ever played ‘two truths and a lie’? You probably know it as nothing more than a fun icebreaker, but did you ever think that it could also be an effective concept to recenter yourself in stressful moments? In this episode we talk about anxiety and we give you the breakdown of a simple technique that will not only allow you to interrupt your own ‘worst case scenario’ thinking but will also give you practical steps on how to move forward with greater clarity.



Caroline Hopkins heads up Zebra Blue's women's empowerment and leadership initiatives, and is dedicated to supporting smart, caring women leaders to identify, hone and lead using their unique gifts. She is an accomplished international trainer, facilitator and professional coach with over 25 years of experience in supporting people in their professional and personal growth.

Connect with Caroline at https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolinehhopkins/ or caroline@zebrablue.co.za or www.zebrablue.co.za



Mmabatho Nkambule is the founder and owner of Tshukudu Consulting, a small consultancy with a focus on leadership training, coaching and communications. She has close to 20 years’ corporate experience working in industries ranging from insurance, healthcare, and information technology spending approximately half of that period specifically in the organisational learning and development space. She is a strong advocate of mentorship and coaching as a way to support emerging leaders.

Connect with Mmabatho at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmabathonkambule/ or mmabatho@tshukuduconsulting.co.za or www.tshukuduconsulting.co.za

In this episode, we chat about that tricky thing we can do to ourselves - choosing to do something that in the moment feels like it will recharge us but actually ends up depleting us even more. Caroline shares how she was tricking herself and some choices she is making now instead that are making all the difference.  And, in case that resonates for you, we offer these three questions to help you stop tricking yourself.

What are clues that your “be kind to yourself” strategy is actually depleting you?

Get curious about the need you have been trying to fill/meet through that behavior or activity?

What is an alternative way to get that need filled that nourishes/rejuvenates you?



Caroline Hopkins heads up Zebra Blue's women's empowerment and leadership initiatives, and is dedicated to supporting smart, caring women leaders to identify, hone and lead using their unique gifts. She is an accomplished international trainer, facilitator and professional coach with over 25 years of experience in supporting people in their professional and personal growth.

Connect with Caroline at https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolinehhopkins/ or caroline@zebrablue.co.za or www.zebrablue.co.za



Mmabatho Nkambule is the founder and owner of Tshukudu Consulting, a small consultancy with a focus on leadership training, coaching and communications. She has close to 20 years’ corporate experience working in industries ranging from insurance, healthcare, and information technology spending approximately half of that period specifically in the organisational learning and development space. She is a strong advocate of mentorship and coaching as a way to support emerging leaders.

Connect with Mmabatho at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmabathonkambule/ or mmabatho@tshukuduconsulting.co.za or www.tshukuduconsulting.co.za