HUMHR Career Insights

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HUMHR Career Insights is a global career and professional development podcast designed to help professionals, leaders, and entrepreneurs navigate today’s evolving world of work. Each episode delivers practical career advice, workplace insights, and real-world strategies to help you grow, pivot, and excel no matter your industry, role, or stage of career. We explore topics such as career growth, leadership, personal branding, entrepreneurship, the future of work, skills development, resilience, and workplace trends. Through in-depth conversations with industry experts, senior leaders, entrepreneurs, and global professionals, listeners gain actionable insights drawn from lived experience, not theory. Our guests share lessons learned, career turning points, and practical tools you can apply immediately. Whether you are early-career, mid-career, returning to work, transitioning industries, building a business, or leading teams, HUMHR Career Insights equips you with the clarity, confidence, and knowledge to make informed career decisions and thrive professionally. 🎧 Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and all major podcast platforms. 🍵 Support the work: If you’ve found value in HUMHR Career Insights, you can support the show in a small, one-time way by buying me my favourite tea on Patreon. 👉 https://www.patreon.com/posts/buy-me-my-tea-150067047?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

  1. 4d ago

    Building Legacies : Property, community and trust with Thompson developments CEO | Jonathan Thompson

    Most people cross a border chasing opportunity. Jonathan Thompson crossed one to build it. He grew up poor in America, selling door to door at eleven to pay his own way. He trained as a minister, married a Zimbabwean, and moved to Chipinge in 1999 to pastor a church and work with an orphanage. He stayed through the land invasions and the hyperinflation. Then in his forties, in a city he had only just moved to, he wrote real estate exams by hand and started his career over. Today he runs Thompson Developments and is Executive Director and part owner of Chas Everitt Zimbabwe. His team helped deliver Hopeville and King City, a development roughly ten times the size of the Bulawayo CBD. Weeks before this recording his company won the national Best Emerging Business award from the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce. This is not a masterclass on property margins. It is a conversation about resilience, about what happens to your identity when you completely swap ecosystems, and about how you build a legacy when the ground beneath you keeps shifting. IN THIS EPISODE The moment he realised his business was profiting from Zimbabwe's decline, and what he did about it Why he sat exams in his forties after twenty years of experience How to check an estate agent before you send a single dollar home Why he believes home ownership is what holds a community together Practical ways into property when you do not have capital Victoria's Court, and the loss that reshaped how he sees the work CHAPTERS 0:00 The developments that took the money and never delivered 4:24 Selling door to door at eleven 9:01 How they protect diaspora money 11:24 The hyperinflation years 12:12 The conversation with his wife that changed the business 12:34 Writing real estate exams by hand in his forties 13:55 Hopeville, learning the trade on a job that barely paid 14:14 King City, ten times the size of the Bulawayo CBD 16:52 The one tip for the diaspora 22:18 Why home ownership keeps people from leaving 26:32 The career pivots, from the pulpit to property 30:15 Winning the national Best Emerging Business award 34:34 Victoria's Court, building in his daughter's memory 41:29 Cyclone Idai, and the houses they built 52:36 You have to put back into people 1:00:49 Thompson Developments and Chas Everitt explained 1:06:46 The partner who died, and why he built his own thing 1:10:06 The dream, the baby giraffe, and choosing Zimbabwe 1:14:22 How to actually start investing in property 1:20:42 Fire round Recorded in Bulawayo, the City of Kings, on the HUMHR Career Insights Across Borders Tour 2026. Watch the video version at https://youtu.be/odXT9bG2vA0 GUEST Jonathan Thompson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-thompson-24730a22b/ HOST HUMHR Career Insights is hosted by Batje Chibafa, a certified career coach and HR consultant. https://humhr.org | https://linktr.ee/humhr | https://www.patreon.com/c/HUMHRCareer Studio provided free of charge by Educate. Educate, funding the future. DISCLAIMER: The content in this podcast and on this webpage is not intended to constitute or substitute for specialized professional advice, including legal, financial, medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Never disregard relevant professional advice based solely on the information presented in this podcast or channel. Furthermore, all opinions expressed by guests are their sole views and do not represent those of the channel or its host. Nothing here is financial or investment advice. Figures reflect the speaker's own experience at the time of recording. Markets change. Consult a registered financial advisor and a registered estate agent before you invest, buy or transfer money. Recorded 21 July 2026. Copyright HUMHR 2026.

  2. Jul 28

    Nobukhosi "Buhle" Tshuma: From Bulawayo to the Comrades Podium | HUMHR Career Insights | Across Borders Tour 2026

    She started running in 2012 to lose weight. Her first 10km took over an hour. In April 2026 she crawled across the Two Oceans Marathon finish line. Two months later she became the first black woman to stand on the Comrades Marathon Up Run podium in the race's 105-year history.  Nobukhosi "Buhle" Tshuma grew up in Makokoba, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Orphaned young. She moved to Swaziland at 10 and to South Africa at 14. She turned professional in 2016 under coach Hendrick Ramaala. She is wife of 2023 Two Oceans champion Givemore Mudzinganyama, and she runs for Entsika Running Club in Tembisa.  In this episode Batje Chibafa sits down with Buhle to talk about: - How a girl from Makokoba became a Comrades podium finisher - What it means to cross borders and build a career from nothing - The Two Oceans moment the whole world saw, and what happened next - Faith, family, and finishing what you started - What she wants young Zimbabwean women to know  Recorded in Johannesburg as part of the HUMHR Career Insights Across Borders Tour 2026.  Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major platforms. Watch on YouTube: @humhr3715 Follow HUMHR Career Insights: Instagram: @humhr2021 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/humhr Website: humhr.org  #HUMHRCareerInsights #AcrossBordersTour2026 #NobukhlosiTshuma #Comrades2026 #ZimbabweProud #CareerInsights #WomenInSport

  3. Jul 14

    Sue Nyathi on Quitting Finance at 40 to Become Netflix's #1 Author

    She wrote her first novel at 13. One handwritten copy, passed around her class at Girls' College - and nobody ever lost it.   Fourteen years after self-publishing The Polygamist, it became a Netflix series - number one in 16 countries around the world.   In this episode of HUMHR Career Insights, Batje Chibafa sits down with Sue Nyathi in Johannesburg - the first stop on the Africa Across Borders Tour 2026.     They talked about: - Writing by night while building a 20-year career in finance - The rejection letters that almost ended everything - Leaving corporate at 40 with no plan B - A spiritual awakening during COVID - The phone call in 2022 that became Netflix - What it means to be a social anthropologist - The 4 Ps: Perseverance, Passion, Persistence and Providence   CHAPTERS 00:00 Welcome | Johannesburg, South Africa 00:48 Netflix #1 in 16 countries 02:38 The Polygamist: written 2010, self-published 2012 03:43 The two-page rejection letter 07:53 The novel she wrote at 13 - one handwritten copy 11:14 Writing as a lens on society 16:24 Quitting finance at 40 - with no plan B 19:57 COVID, silence, and a spiritual awakening 23:35 Learning the business of writing 37:44 Discipline over inspiration: 8am to 3pm, every day 40:17 The Polygamist's impact: book clubs, healing, controversy 49:39 The Netflix adaptation 61:12 Kenya: when the government took notice 63:09 French translation rights 65:33 What would 13-year-old Sue say? 65:51 Fire round   GUEST: Sue Nyathi | Author | The Polygamist, The Gold Diggers, A Family Affair, An Angel's Demise   HOST: Batje Chibafa | Certified Career Coach | Founder, HUMHR   Subscribe: YouTube @humhr3715 Instagram: @humhr2021 Website: humhr.org Linktree: linktr.ee/humhr

  4. Jul 7

    Season 4 Finale: I Interviewed an AI About Your Career

    For the Season 4 finale, Batje Chibafa sits down with a guest unlike any she has had before. No flight to catch, no green room. Her guest is Claude, Anthropic's AI. They talk about whether AI is coming for your job, what it means for humanitarian careers, why entrepreneurship is not the answer for everyone, the recruiter double standard, and the question that stopped the whole conversation: Is AI even made for Africa? Claude also reflects on Season 4, shares its favourite episode, and answers the question Batje saved until last: how much water did this conversation cost the world? HUMHR Career Insights helps purpose-driven professionals navigate career transitions, build on their strengths, and find work that matters. Globally.   If this episode moved you, three things help us grow. Subscribe. Rate. Share with one person who needs to hear this.   CONNECT WITH HUMHR Watch and subscribe on YouTube: youtube.com/@humhr3715 Join us on Patreon: patreon.com/c/HUMHRCareer All links: linktr.ee/humhr Listen on Podbean: batje.podbean.com Batje on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/batjechibafa HUMHR on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/humhr Book a conversation: humhr.org   Subscribe to HUMHR Career Insights and stay inspired.

  5. Jun 23

    Trust in Recruitment. The System Needs an Overhaul. | Batje's Take #13 | HUMHR Career Insights

    I posted a reel about 172 job applications and 3 responses. The comments did not say "wow." They said "me too." Person after person. Different country. Different industry. Same silence. When that many people recognise themselves in one experience, you are not looking at a bad day. You are looking at a broken system. In this Batje's Take, I dig into the trust that has broken down between those who are hiring and those who are being hired — and what it will actually take to fix it. What I cover: Why the ATS is not an efficiency tool. It is a silence machine. Is AI interviewing innovation, or is it the same problem at a higher speed? The difference between using AI to prepare for an interview and using AI during one. One is smart. One is misrepresentation. What the Readiness Room at HUMHR is built on. What a real recruitment overhaul looks like. If you have been screened out, ghosted, or went through a full process and heard nothing — this one is for you. And if you work in HR or talent acquisition — this one is especially for you. Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Visit humhr.org to book a conversation or join the Readiness Room.

  6. Jun 16

    Be a Pioneer. Be a Weed. | Lizz Mhangami | HUMHR Career Insights

    Be a Pioneer. Be a weed. Weeds survive where other plants cannot. Dandelions are food. Being a weed is not a consolation — it is a strategy. In Part 2, Elizabeth Mhangami goes deeper on what it really means to build a career on your own terms: entrepreneurship as a mindset, the donor consulting model that works without a pocket of donors, why return-to-office mandates are a career equity issue, and the self-worth conversation that changed everything. What we cover in Part 2: Why letting the jobs go might be the best career move you ever make What Elizabeth actually does as a donor consultant — it is not a pocket full of donors The weed metaphor that will change how you think about your career Why return-to-office is a career equity issue, not just a preference "If you need to see me to consider me for a promotion, there is a misalignment there already" No one treats you worse than you treat yourself — the inner critic work The coaching turning point: cortisol, inflammation, and finally trusting what you were seeing Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Follow HUMHR on Instagram: @humhr2021 | humhr.org

  7. Jun 9

    : AI, ATS and the Hiring System: Was It Ever Built for Us? | Lizz Mhangami

    She sent 172 job applications. Got 3 responses. Not because she wasn't qualified — but because the AI screening systems never read her CV.   In this episode, Elizabeth Mhangami (Principal Consultant, NDISU) joins Batje Chibafa in studio to talk about what is really happening in hiring — the ATS arms race, who AI was designed for, and whether the tools shaping the job market were ever built for the Global South.   What we cover in Part 1: Why personalising AI tools quietly takes credit away from your own work The 172-application job search story that predicted today's hiring landscape ATS, AI, and the arms race: first we used AI to beat ATS — now we need AI to beat AI Why grant funding and hiring share the same broken trust problem How Elizabeth uses ChatGPT as a strategy consultant, not a shortcut Data centres, Zimbabwe's lithium, and the real ethics of technology Hazel's question from South Africa: does any of this AI actually work for the Global South? Follow HUMHR on Instagram: @humhr2021 | humhr.org

  8. May 26

    Batje’s Take #12 | The Career Operating System Nobody Talks About

    What keeps you grounded when the title disappears? In this deeply reflective episode of Batje’s Take, Batje Chibafa unpacks one of the most powerful themes from her conversation with humanitarian leader Rudo Kayombo, faith as an operating system, not a performance. From leading humanitarian work across 18 countries to navigating life after executive leadership, Rudo’s story explores what happens when identity is no longer tied to position, status, or a paycheck. Batje reflects on: Why leadership does not require pretending to know everything The danger of building careers on image instead of rootedness What career transitions reveal about identity Why saying “I don’t know” can actually strengthen leadership The importance of succession planning and building leaders beneath you How faith, purpose, and being grounded can shape long-term career decisions This episode is especially relevant for professionals navigating transition, leadership pressure, uncertainty, burnout, or reinvention. If you are currently in a season of change, this conversation may give language to what you are feeling and remind you that your worth is bigger than your title. 🎙️ Listen to the full two-part conversation with Rudo Kayombo on HUMHR Career Insights. 📌 Connect with Batje Chibafa on Linkedin 📌 Follow HUMHR Career Insights for more conversations on careers, leadership, entrepreneurship, and purpose-driven work. #CareerTransitions #Leadership #FaithAndWork #HumanitarianCareers #CareerCoaching #LeadershipDevelopment #HUMHR #BatjesTake #PurposeDrivenLeadership #NGOCareers #WomenInLeadership #CareerGrowth #PersonalDevelopment

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HUMHR Career Insights is a global career and professional development podcast designed to help professionals, leaders, and entrepreneurs navigate today’s evolving world of work. Each episode delivers practical career advice, workplace insights, and real-world strategies to help you grow, pivot, and excel no matter your industry, role, or stage of career. We explore topics such as career growth, leadership, personal branding, entrepreneurship, the future of work, skills development, resilience, and workplace trends. Through in-depth conversations with industry experts, senior leaders, entrepreneurs, and global professionals, listeners gain actionable insights drawn from lived experience, not theory. Our guests share lessons learned, career turning points, and practical tools you can apply immediately. Whether you are early-career, mid-career, returning to work, transitioning industries, building a business, or leading teams, HUMHR Career Insights equips you with the clarity, confidence, and knowledge to make informed career decisions and thrive professionally. 🎧 Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and all major podcast platforms. 🍵 Support the work: If you’ve found value in HUMHR Career Insights, you can support the show in a small, one-time way by buying me my favourite tea on Patreon. 👉 https://www.patreon.com/posts/buy-me-my-tea-150067047?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

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  • Creator
    batje
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    58
  • Rating
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    HUMHR Career Insights