Best Apian Learning Podcasts (2024)

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#36 Surviving School Holidays with Usha Maharaj 46:44

4+ y ago46:44

46:44

It’s school holidays…eeeek! In today’s episode we offer you a dash of sanity as we chat to Usha Maharaj about survival strategies for parents at this time of year. Usha focuses on coaching, mentoring and inspiring women as leaders and parents who want to cultivate leadership in their children. We touch on practical tips you can use this year-end br…

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#35 Business Vlogging Top Tips with Belinda Doveston 41:17

5y ago41:17

41:17

Have you ever thought about starting a vlog for your business or have been wondering how to get more out of your video content? In this episode, Belinda Doveston shares her top eight tips on how to get your vlog to do more for you and your business. Video is a scary place. It can be extremely expensive and requires specialist skills. Yet it is also…

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#34 Creative Entrepreneurship with Gary Hirson 37:55

5y ago37:55

37:55

Are you creative? YES YOU ARE! We all are…it’s just a matter of discovering what our unique creative voice is. We are joined in this episode by Gary Hirson, who is a photographer, published children’s book author and coach specialising in creative entrepreneurship. We chat about exploring our creativity and just how important it is for our children…

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#33 For the Love of the Customer with Chantel Botha 51:03

5y ago51:03

51:03

The word ‘love’ is still taboo in business speak, yet at the heart of great customer experiences is the love of the customer, a passion for purpose and a quest to make a real difference through service. We chat to Chantel Botha, CEO of Brand Love, about customer experience design and getting in touch with the real and deep needs of your customers f…

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#32 Agility Schmagility with Belinda Doveston 38:17

5y ago38:17

38:17

Agility is the big buzzword at the moment, and not without good reason. We live in interesting times, as the saying goes, and we have to develop new ways to deal with change and maximise the opportunity of these times. Yet what does agility actually mean? In this episode, our host, Belinda Doveston, shares her four phrase approach to making sense o…

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#31 It Takes a Tribe with Janice Scheckter 43:28

5y ago43:28

43:28

It takes a tribe, a village, to raise a child. And great things – the seeds of our future – require a collaborative tribe to bring to fruition. In this episode we chat to Janice Scheckter about community, collaboration and building cohesive platforms for good and responsible citizenry, be that in one’s family, suburb, business or the larger human f…

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#30 Purpose-Filled Retirement with Hilary Henderson 47:46

5y ago47:46

47:46

Retirement – we are all going to get there, hopefully. Yet what does ‘retirement’ mean to you and how could we make our Golden Age one that is filled with joy, fun, inspiration and contribution. Hilary Henderson joins us to chat about her work as a retirement coach and brings great insight into the challenges and opportunities of our latter years. …

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#29 Architecting Your Story with Lisa Bell 47:00

5y ago47:00

47:00

Words are powerful. They can build worlds and dreams within the dream. Great stories take words to a whole new level. Today we chat to Lisa Bell about conveying your personal and business story, powerfully and clearly. Realising that writing was definitely a calling, Lisa Bell has always tinkered with words over the years, even from childhood. Afte…

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#28 Finding Your Voice with Lucia Dramat 42:13

5y ago42:13

42:13

We chat with radio and media personality, Lucia Dramat, who has recently joined the Radio Helderberg Breakfast Show team. Lucia shares with us her insights on finding her unique voice and exploring her areas of passion and encouraging others to live their best life and thrive! If you feel there is more you can do to find your own voice, then join u…

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#27 Serious Fun with Marko Rillo 42:51

5y ago42:51

42:51

Marko Rillo is the founder of the Serious Play Pro global community, Associate Professor at the Estonian Business School and recently published co-author of ‘Serious Work’. As an early adopter and advocate for the Lego® Serious Play® (LSP) method, Marko has extensive experience in LSP, group facilitation, innovation and strategy. He joins us to cha…

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#26 The Competency Gap with Belinda Doveston 32:32

5y ago32:32

32:32

Belinda Doveston is delighted to be your guest today and share with you her thoughts on the Competency Gap – that in-between space when you are learning something new that is not yet familiar. She shares her insights on why we need to keep creating competency gaps to accelerate our growth and when there is a dark side to the gap. If you are feeling…

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#25 Hacking HR with Deborah Hartung 38:00

5y ago38:00

38:00

In today’s episode we chat people, leadership, performance, future technology and ‘hacking HR’ with Deborah Hartung. What a delight of a chat it was! Deborah Hartung is a consultant, coach, author and keynote speaker from Johannesburg, South Africa. In addition to being an HR influencer and active global participant in changing the Future of HR, De…

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#24 Industry Disruption with Barry Doveston 42:29

5y ago42:29

42:29

We see industry disruption, agility and change as being essential in today’s dynamic landscape. Barry Doveston shares his approach to disrupting the flooring industry through free online education, an engaged community and a marketing platform to accelerate growth opportunities. These lessons apply to all industries. He also shares what vlogging is…

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#23 Victor Not Victim with Linda Remke 46:34

5y ago46:34

46:34

What do you do when every kind of major life challenge hurls itself at you at the same time? In this episode we chat to Linda Remke, founder of Valueneurs, who so courageously shares her journey of overcoming great obstacles through reaching out to being coached and becoming a coach to help others. She inspires through her story of being the victor…

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#22 Clear Communication with John French 40:46

5y ago40:46

40:46

Clear communication is one of our greatest challenges and most powerful opportunities. Yet, let’s face it, we learn most of what we know about communication from our parents. Eeeek! In today’s episode we discuss communication with John French, and unpack simple strategies to improve the results we get because of better communication. John is one of…

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#21 After Robots, Then What? with Tricia Jones 42:48

5y ago42:48

42:48

Tricia Jones joins us to chat about human growth, finding heart in the workplace, leadership and of course….what happens when the robots come. As founder and managing member of a people-development and coaching business, Capacity Builder, Tricia is as passionate about people personally as she is about their development professionally. Her practice …

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#20 Private Company Boards with Carl Bates 33:03

5y ago33:03

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We chat to Carl Bates, founder and chief executive of Sirdar Global Group, about high-performance boards and directors in private companies. We learn more about Carl’s ground-breaking book on the subject, Traversing the Avalanche. To download your copy of the e-book that Carl referred to in the podcast, entitled The High-Performance Director, click…

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#19 Creative Confidence with Abigail K 44:57

5y ago44:57

44:57

Today we chat to Abigail Klopper, or Abigail K, who is known as the “Confidence Crusader”. Abigail has spent more than a decade building her freelance, specialist women’s portrait photography business…and her confidence! She shares her inside view of what building confidence is all about and lights us up with her passion for inspiring confidence in…

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#18 Ubuntu Leadership with Kerryn Powell 46:40

5+ y ago46:40

46:40

Ubuntu is a complex word that expresses a deep philosophy that as it goes with me so it goes with you and the group. In this episode we discuss ubuntu leadership with Kerryn Powell and learn more about her doctoral research in this area. Kerryn also shares inspiring insights into overcoming limitation and striving to become all that we can be. Kerr…

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#17 Skin in the A-Game with KK Diaz 52:19

5+ y ago52:19

52:19

We chat to KK Diaz about entrepreneurship, growing enterprises and what it takes to scale businesses. As a published author, KK has a wealth of experience in guiding business growth and the obstacles along the way. KK Diaz is a business coach and strategist, 3-times published author, angel investor and speaker. He is the originator of the methodolo…

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#16 The Collaboration Dance with Kgomotso Sekhute 41:07

5+ y ago41:07

41:07

We explore collaboration and leadership development in today’s show with Kgomotso Sekhute. Kgomotso is a clinical psychologist, executive META coach, people and culture strategist and entrepreneur accelerator. She shares deep and powerful insights into how we can make workplaces more meaningful and the massive value of collaborative projects where …

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#15 Knowledge is Power with Jacques Velleman 48:10

5+ y ago48:10

48:10

Reading is one of life’s greatest pleasures! In the first episode for 2019, we chat to Jacques Velleman about knowledge and his passion for getting books to those who need it through The Business Book Club while supporting South African authors in the process. If you love books, join us for this inspiring conversation. Jacques is an experienced bus…

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#14 New Year’s (Re)solutions with Belinda Doveston 40:42

5+ y ago40:42

40:42

In a wrap-up of 2018, I share with you five agile strategies you can apply to the year ahead for both your personal goals and for those of your organisation or team. These strategies aim to mitigate our natural tendency to forget what we set out to do and to accelerate our capacity to do wonderful and meaningful things with our year. Make 2019 coun…

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#13 Vaporise that Glass Ceiling with Usha Maharaj 48:58

5+ y ago48:58

48:58

Usha Maharaj joins the podcast to chat about developing women leaders, overcoming obstacles and driving high performance. She shares insightful ideas on how we can improve opportunities for women in the workplace and how to take responsibility for leading that change. We also celebrate the coining of the phrase ‘glass ceiling’, now 40 years old, by…

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#11 Ain’t No Mountain High Enough with Lisa Gering 44:21

5+ y ago44:21

44:21

Join us on an adventure up the mountain as we chat to Lisa Gering, who discovered a passion for mountain climbing and will soon tackle the greatest peak of all (nudge nudge). Lisa is an accountability coach for entrepreneurs with REAL Entrepreneur and she shares both her experiences from the mountain and how those lessons can be applied to entrepre…

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#10 The Story of Your Brand with Sascha Polkey 50:50

5+ y ago50:50

50:50

Sascha Polkey, founder of Rabbit in a Hat Communications, joins us to chat about PR, marketing and the magical art of communicating your brand story clearly and loudly in the marketplace. With extensive experience in public relations and a passion for the arts and creative collaboration, Sascha shares practical and powerful insights on the converge…

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#9 Listening Deeply with Robyn Jackson 44:48

5+ y ago44:48

44:48

Listening is an act of generosity! So come join us as Robyn Jackson shares her experiences as a leader and executive coach and how Nancy Kline’s work on the thinking environment is so critical for leaders in creating the right thinking space for effective teams. After selling her national business interests in 2012, Robyn Jackson has been managing …

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#8 Purposeful Leadership with Rae Bougardt 45:48

5+ y ago45:48

45:48

Rae Bougardt from LeadStrong joins us today to talk about purposeful leadership and he highlights how critical it is to lead with purpose and indeed seek your own purpose. Rae is a philosopher at heart, driven to help others find meaning in the workplace through purpose. At LeadStrong he serves as a speaker, facilitator and business and talent stra…

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#7 Lego® Serious Play® (LSP) with Michel Cloosterman 52:38

5+ y ago52:38

52:38

We chat with Michel Cloosterman, who was the facilitator trainer who trained me through the Association of Master Trainers in 2016. We met in Karlsruhe, Germany, as I traipsed from Cape Town, South Africa to do my certification. From there, this amazing journey began! Michel joins us to share how he got into Lego® Serious Play®, what it means to hi…

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#6 Bridging the Social Divide with Karen Barensche 35:55

5+ y ago35:55

35:55

Karen Barensché, Regional Coordinator for URI Southern Africa, joins us to share her social perspective on community and enterprise, and how the powerful bridging work of organisations such as URI are making a critical impact. Our moral responsibility to the environment and to social upliftment is one we cannot ignore. Yes, we could throw money at …

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#5 Boards that Cultivate Safe Liminal Spaces with Roger Hitchcock 48:25

5+ y ago48:25

48:25

We chat to Roger Hitchcock about boards, directors and governance and the environment that leaders should create. In this safe space, as created by great leaders, critical conversations and challenging views can truly emerge. This is the ‘liminal space’ or the confusing zone between leaving the old behind and moving into the future that is waiting …

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#4 Happiness at Work is Catchy with Kerstin Jatho 42:32

5+ y ago42:32

42:32

In today’s episode we celebrate happiness at work. I affirm that through today’s session, listening to Kerstin Jatho, we are going to learn about happiness at work and how to create a viral movement of changing and transforming the level of happiness in the workplace. I have known Kerstin for many years as we have worked together in varying places,…

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#3 Companies Don’t Perform, People Do with Ann Baret 55:18

5+ y ago55:18

55:18

Welcome to Episode Three of Show Me the Honey. In today’s show we chat to Ann Baret, who works closely with teams and is inspired to support teams in creating value through overcoming conflict and accelerating the performance of the individuals who collectively drive success of the organisation. Before we get to the interview, I would like to share…

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#2 It’s Just Not Me with Colin Brett 50:29

5+ y ago50:29

50:29

Today our guest is a very dear friend of mine, Colin Brett, who came all the way from the United Kingdom and spent a morning with me in my home studio. We had this fantastic and meaningful conversation about all kinds of things, principally focused on the filters that we have in life – the things we keep telling ourselves about who we are and what …

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#1 Introduction to the Podcast 3:42

5+ y ago3:42

3:42

Thank you for joining me for this introductory episode to the Show Me the Honey Podcast. Yes, it’s tongue in cheek. Yes, it’s cryptic. And here you’ll find out more about what we really aim to achieve with this podcast. I, personally, am obsessed about podcasts – you can learn while driving, you can learn while cooking, or doing whatever it is that…

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