Episodios

  • The Traveller | Thebe Ikalafeng

    The Traveller | Thebe Ikalafeng
    Nov 22 2025
    Crossing Borders and Connecting Africa.
    Thebe Ikalafeng is a branding icon who set the agenda for the industry at the dawn of our democracy and continues to pioneer it to this day. As the founder of Brand Africa, the African continent is now a major focus in his life's mission. He is The Traveller, having touched soil on every African country. From Kimberley to the world, his mission is impact. Email Solid Gold · For links to buy this book
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  • Upstairs Downstairs - A Musical Memoir | Karina Marais

    Upstairs Downstairs - A Musical Memoir | Karina Marais
    Nov 22 2025
    A first-of-its-kind musical memoir that blends storytelling with lyric readings and original songs.

    “Knock-knock, anybody home?”

    For 20 years, Karina Marais and her partner have lived apart together in a shared residence—his bachelor pad upstairs, her retreat downstairs—connected by a staircase that links their spaces while preserving their independence. No unannounced visits, no dull routines—just passion, freedom, and a love story shaped on their terms.

    In Upstairs Downstairs, Marais shows how they successfully manage a Living Apart Together relationship where love, ambition, and independence coexist. But her memoir isn’t just about love after divorce—it’s also about passion and daring to dream. Some of her dreams took flight, others fell short, but she didn’t want to leave this world without chasing them.

    That drive makes her jump out of bed every morning, a trait many aspiring entrepreneurs share. Through multisensory storytelling with words, lyric readings, and music, she brings to life the emotions behind love, loss, and the pursuit of dreams in this South African memoir. Email Solid Gold · For links to buy this book
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  • Walking Wild | Jose A Neves [Read by Matthew Dalton]

    Walking Wild | Jose A Neves [Read by Matthew Dalton]
    Oct 18 2025
    Hiking the Length of Kruger National Park Hiking the Length of Kruger National Park.

    Walking Wild is not your typical safari -- no game drives, no cool sundowners and definitely no fences. Instead, it's 605 km of dust, sweat and unforgettable moments as an unlikely group of strangers sets out to walk the entire length of Kruger National Park.

    Over six stages and three years, they walked from Crooks' Corner in the far north to Malelane in the south, averaging 20 km a day with heavy backpacks and only the wild for company. Led by two armed guides, they braved blistering heat and violent storms. At night, as hyenas nosed their tents and lionesses strolled right through camp, some slept soundly -- others lay wide-eyed, waiting for dawn. They drank from murky trickles in dry riverbeds, navigated thick riverine bush teeming with hippo, buffalo and crocodiles, and slowly learned to read the bush -- from the smallest antlion to the distant roar of a lion.

    But Kruger's wilderness is not without its challenges. Poachers -- both criminal syndicates and those in search of bushmeat -- move in the shadows, rivers bring pollution from beyond its borders, and conservation battles rage on.

    Walking Wild captures the magic and the madness of life on foot in one of the world's most iconic national parks. It's a story of adventure, camaraderie and deep immersion in the wild -- a journey that leaves no one unchanged. Walking Wild is a testament to resilience, discovery and the deep connection between people and nature. If you've ever dreamed of experiencing Kruger beyond the safari vehicle, this book is your ticket to the trail. Email Solid Gold · For links to buy this book
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  • Rise of the Warrior Leader | Claudio Chiste

    Rise of the Warrior Leader | Claudio Chiste
    Sep 24 2025
    Critical Skills for leading people.

    In the minefield of leadership literature available today, this book provides clarity, adding fresh and unique insights to critical leadership skills. The author draws upon his own unique experience from an unforgiving environment, forged from his background in the military and the international corporate world.

    This book is for you if you:
    ·Want to be an effective leader.
    ·Are willing to transform into the change you wish to see.
    ·Are committed to improving the lives of those you lead.
    If this sounds like you and you are willing to do what it takes, you are invited to take an inner journey of self-reflection. Self-reflection is critical for leadership development. In the process, improve your personal and professional life and discover practical tools.

    Increase mental resilience – These unpredictable times place more demands on people mentally, emotionally, spiritually and possibly even physically. This is the ‘new norm’ for which mental resilience is essential.

    Build a sense of trust and safety - Unlike mainstream leadership literature which tends to focus mainly on the vision of the leader, this book also focuses on the leader’s ability to build trust and provide a sense of ‘safety’ by ‘holding the space’ in these times of VUCA.

    Inspire Ownership-driven Leadership - The Selfless Leader sees the Collective as fellow stakeholders. In times of crisis, ‘self-preservation’ for the Selfless Leader is ‘collective preservation’, seeing the people as an extension of oneself. This book enables a sense of Ownership for you.

    Own who you are. Own the mission. Own the result. Email Solid Gold · For links to buy this book
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  • The Apron Flag | Terence Sorour [Read by Malcolm Gooding]

    The Apron Flag | Terence Sorour [Read by Malcolm Gooding]
    Sep 22 2025
    The story of the Jameson Raid.

    Johannesburg, 1895. Driven by a sense of injustice over the treatment of fellow Uitlanders, Harold Sandal is determined to take a stand against the South African Republic.

    He helps the Reform Movement to covertly recruit for an impending uprising backed by Cecil Rhodes.
    Harold quickly fears for his and his family’s safety. He realises he may have jeopardised long-standing relationships, including his friendship with his neighbour who rides with Boer commandos to stop the Raiders.

    His inner conflict grows when the Jameson Raid ends in failure with dire consequences for those involved.

    The Apron Flag tells the fictional story of Harold Sandal and others set against the dramatic backdrop of historical events that culminated in the second Anglo-Boer War. Email Solid Gold · For links to buy this book
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  • 52 Big Questions for Business Leaders | Mike Stopforth

    52 Big Questions for Business Leaders | Mike Stopforth
    Aug 16 2025
    Unlock a new dimension in leadership by asking better questions.

    Answers are overrated. In an unpredictable world, asking the right questions is significantly more powerful than clinging to stale, dated answers. What you knew yesterday won’t always take you where you need to go. Great leaders stand apart because they know how to ask themselves and their teams questions that spark insight, challenge assumptions, and drive action.

    52 Big Questions for Business Leaders isn’t just a collection of prompts and provocations – it’s a guide to sharper, more intentional thinking. Whether you’re leading a start-up or a global enterprise, the questions in these pages will help you pause, reflect, and lead with clarity.

    Drawing on decades of leadership experience, Mike Stopforth infuses wisdom, wit, and practical insight into the art of inquiry – because crafting big, beautiful questions is a skill worth mastering. This isn’t a book to read once and shelve; it’s a tool to return to whenever you need fresh perspective, focus, or inspiration.

    In the end, great leaders aren’t defined by the answers they give – but by the questions they dare to ask.

    Mike Stopforth is a serial entrepreneur, speaker, and facilitator who thrives at the intersections of leadership, technology, and impact. He is the MD of Second Rodeo, a specialist advertising agency, and the founder of Beyond Binary, a digital leadership academy. Previously, Mike started Cerebra, Africa’s leading social media agency (acquired by WPP), and co-founded Afrigator.com (acquired by Naspers). He writes Elegant Disruption, a monthly newsletter for over 4 000 business leaders, and hosts the popular One-Eyed Man podcast. Based in Cape Town, Mike holds an MSc in Social Business and Entrepreneurship from the London School of Economics and Political Science and, in his spare time, runs a family-friendly Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu studio in the Southern Suburbs. Buy on Spotify (US CAN UK NZ AUS) · Email Solid Gold · For links to buy this book
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  • After the Fires | Nozipho Tshabalala

    After the Fires | Nozipho Tshabalala
    Jul 18 2025
    Nozipho Mbanjwa-Tshabalala is a high-performing, excellence-driven, successful black woman. At any given time, she knows what is expected of her, how well she is doing, and what is next on her list of goals.

    Being in control of everything in her life was crucial to her survival and success. For the most part, it had always served her well until it didn’t. After The Fires is an inspirational memoir where Nozipho shares her deeply personal journey about managing life as the “golden girl” and what it takes to have it all.

    The book begins with her receiving the news of her mother’s passing while she stood on the biggest stage of her career. This event sends her into a spiral that leads her to reevaluate her ideas of success and what it costs to achieve it. Raised in a challenging political time in Pietermaritzburg KZN, the world was not her oyster. It was a series of miniscule gaps of opportunity that could not – must not – be squandered. And if she did her best, she could have it all. Now in her 40s, she has realised that what she needed to survive, may not be what she needs to thrive.

    Ultimately, it’s a story of growth, courage, and letting go. The memoir also touches on her familial journey, the emotional and physical challenges of infertility, and how she learned to surrender control. Email Solid Gold · For links to buy this book
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  • Khanyisa and the Cloud | Melisa Ndlovu

    Khanyisa and the Cloud | Melisa Ndlovu
    May 8 2025
    Khanyisa and the Cloud is a story about a young girl with a cloud that only she can see. Some days, it floats in the background—other days, it feels heavy and hard to shake.

    Though invisible to others, Khanyisa’s family begins to notice its shadow and, little by little, helps her find ways to navigate it.

    Lovingly written by Melisa Ndlovu, in consultation with clinical psychologist Lungile Lechesa, this book opens the door for parents and children to talk about the feelings that can be hardest to name, showing that no cloud stays forever—and no child should have to face theirs alone.

    Read by Nina Hlalo. Buy the paperback version here · Connect with Melisa · Nina Hlalo- Voice · Email Solid Gold · For links to buy this book
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