Sta-Sof-Fro hosts the final motivational seminar
For 6 months Sta-Sof-Fro opened the floor for women to engage and share words that could change a fellow woman's life.
For 6 months Sta-Sof-Fro opened the floor for women to engage and share words that could change a fellow woman’s life. The intimate seminars were geared at breaking stereotypes and creating dynamic dialogue.
Having a full-time career and having to balance the usual everyday life, which is different for every woman, could end up too much sometimes and some women just seem to have it all together. Which cues the all-important question on every woman’s lips.
This is the question the third panel of the #WearYou speakers came together to share their truths and tips on the “what, how and why” of their balancing act.
The seminar featured, a medical doctor and fashionista Dr Nandipha Sekeleni, fitness guru Mapule Ndhlovu as well as media personalities and businesswomen Palesa Masiteng and Lerato Sengadi.
The ladies shared their experiences in career and life, took the guests through their personal journeys as women with a lot on their plate and connected with the guests as they revealed the real them.
Speaking at the seminar, Sekeleni said that she grew up in a small village where there was no hospital, but that did not deter her from achieving her dream of becoming a medical doctor.
“I always wanted to become a medical doctor but there was no hospital in my village and I wanted it so much, I had to do some research and learn, but fortunately there was a local pharmacy which I worked in while I was a teenager and used to get paid only R50, for being there for the entire day, but I wasn’t there for the money, I was eager to learn and that’s where I got a lot of courage to study Bachelor of Health Sciences,” said Sekeleni.
She also managed to keep the fashionista side of her as a Medical Doctor.
“For me, the balance was instilled by the grace of God. Being raised by a single mother, when things are tough, you find yourself being taken to your aunt, the next thing you are with your granny.
“It was not easy being raised by different women with different characters, you don’t know what to become because you are in different places, you just become ‘whatever’. I started running because I was depressed and couldn’t express myself in the household,” said Ndhlovu.
“But I did not complain, instead, I told myself that in every obstacle there is an opportunity, and that is how I became who I am today,” she added.
Masiteng, who is also a model, said that she started modelling at 16 and that her mother used to enter her in pageants. But she studied Bio-Technology to live up to ‘society’s expectations’, she graduated and started working, but she later realised that it wasn’t who she is.
“I had to find Palesa, had to do everything for her and had to put her first. I started going to the gym, nurtured my modelling career, went back to school and studied towards a degree in Brand Communication, I now have my own business,” she said.
The advertising and marketing graduate, Sengadi who was a contestant on the second season of the reality competition Big Brother Africa, in 2007 said that being yourself is the best you can ever be.
“After trying lot things, becoming a copywriter being on Big Brother, studying media law at the United State of America, I finally found myself and that’s when I started flourishing. Be yourself and always remember that journeys are different, there is no manual,” she said.
The hair care brand foresees keeping this movement alive with plans to involve more leaders in various industries on the continent, to share their personal experiences, truths and narratives as a real woman in an ever-changing world.
If you missed the seminars, view the updates on the Sta-Sof-Fro Instagram page.
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