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When it comes to your emotions, Who Holds the Remote control?
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When it comes to your emotions, Who Holds the Remote control?

Emotional Responsibility, Boundaries, and the Power to Change Your Relationships “They made me angry.” “They triggered me.” “They always push my buttons.” We say these phrases so casually that we rarely stop to question them. But inside those everyday statements is something profound. When we say someone made  us angry, we are quietly handing them control over our emotional world. We are suggesting that our internal state lives in someone else’s hands. And that leads to one powerful question:...

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blame the bloody Immigrants - Silence, Courage, Misinformation & the Responsibility to Stand Up & Protect The Truth
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blame the bloody Immigrants - Silence, Courage, Misinformation & the Responsibility to Stand Up & Protect The Truth

In recent weeks, public conversations around immigration, identity, and belonging have become louder, sharper, and more polarised. Words like “colonisation,” “burden,” “invasion,”  and “outsiders”  are being used casually in mainstream spaces often without context, evidence, or empathy and when narratives like this spread, we need to pause and ask: Who benefits from this story? Who is being blamed? Who is being distracted? And who is staying silent? History has something important to teach us...

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⭐ Leadership Practices for Self-Care: Protecting Your Energy, Presence & Impact
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⭐ Leadership Practices for Self-Care: Protecting Your Energy, Presence & Impact

Leadership is not just about strategy, execution and performance. It’s about capacity . Your capacity to think clearly.Your capacity to regulate your emotions.Your capacity to lead with presence rather than pressure. And make no mistake your capacity is fuelled by self-care . Self-care is not a luxury. It is leadership infrastructure. Below are L2M Coaching’s Leadership Practices for Self-Care  a practical guide for leaders, parents, coaches, and anyone who carries responsibility. ⭐ 1....

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Understanding Shona & Ndebele Spiritual Worldviews: Amadlozi, Mudzimu, Mashavi, Spirit Mediums & Mwari / Nkulunkulu
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4 min read

Understanding Shona & Ndebele Spiritual Worldviews: Amadlozi, Mudzimu, Mashavi, Spirit Mediums & Mwari / Nkulunkulu

Amadlozi, Mudzimu, Mashavi, Spirit Mediums, Traditional Healers, and Mwari or Part of the Understanding Shona & Ndebele Culture  Learning Series by L2M Coaching A relational way of understanding life In both Shona and Ndebele cultures, life is understood as relational rather than individualistic . A person is not seen as a standalone unit, but as someone shaped by: Family and lineage Community and land History and memory Responsibility to past and future generations Spiritual language within...

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The Weight We Carry: Reflections on Stress, Responsibility and Looking After Ourselves
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The Weight We Carry: Reflections on Stress, Responsibility and Looking After Ourselves

I’m deeply grateful for the invitation to speak at a recent Men’s Wellness event focused on “The Weight We Carry: Men, Pressure, Stress & Looking After Ourselves.” It was an honour to be part of such an important conversation, alongside passionate facilitators and community leaders who are committed to creating safe spaces for honest dialogue and wellbeing. While the event was centred on men’s experiences, what stood out to me most is this truth: Stress does not discriminate. It affects men...

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Leadership Lessons fromfrom Our January Book Club book:  Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Reflections
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Leadership Lessons fromfrom Our January Book Club book: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Reflections

This week our L2MCoaching One Book A Month Leadership Book Club  session focused on Things Fall Apart   and it was, without exaggeration a powerful and deeply engaging conversation. Before diving into the lessons, I want to begin with a genuine thank you . Thank You to Our Book Club Community To everyone who attended the session and to the facilitators thank you.The quality of discussion, reflection, honesty and contribution was exceptional - 90 mins was not enough we ended up extending the...

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