The Status Quo Conversations: Recent Episodes

Sinesipho Maninjwa

The Status Quo Conversations, is a platform for Black Women to engage, share and learn from each others experiences.

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After a long hiatus we are finally back . This is an episode we recorded to discuss the collapse of FTX .We discuss some of the events that are leading up to collapse, and also some of the developments in the south African crypto ecosystem.

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In this episode we chat to Beauty Influencer Foyin OG, we chat about her journey this far and what some of her future plans are.

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In this episode we sit down with researcher and author Naledi Mashishi to discuss her debut novel .Invisible strings published by Blackowned publisher Blackbird.

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In this conversation with Lindelwa Skenjana ,author of the book Black Girls Guide to Corporate South Africa. We chat to Lindelwa about her journey in Corporate and some of the lessons she has learnt along the way.

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This episode we revisit the contestants from Love is Blind, and see how things have evolved nearly 2 years later. We also discuss online dating, and our experiences in relationship in the modern word.

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This episode we revisit the contestants from Love is Blind, and see how things have evolved nearly 2 years later. We also discuss online dating, and our experiences in relationship in the modern word.

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This episode we have a chat with Broadcaster, Economist and now author Ayabonga Cawe on his latest book.The book is called the "Economy on our Doorstep". .. We also take some time to process the events of the month of July, with the looting and distruction in parts of KZN and Gauteng.

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This is a chat with our very first ever male guest Melvyn Lupega whois an actuary by training and is an experienced technology entrepreneur and executive, who has built businesses that serve customers across the world. He is a co-founder of GO1, o1, which provides curated online learning materials and tools to businesses using “playlists” that tap content from multiple publishers and silos, has closed a round of $200 million, a Series D . That valued the startup at over $1 billion.

We talk about a few things on the journey.

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In light of events of the past week, only enough a week before we had a conversation with Ziyanda Stuurman author of the book of Can we be Safe? the book she unpacks the complex and fraught history of policing, courts and prisons in South Africa. In her analysis of the problems nationally and in putting those problems in context with the rest of the world . I think its very

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This is Part 2 of the review , and we delve deeper and get a tad naughty.

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This is Part 1 of the review we did of the Netflix show Sex Life, we chatted through the entire first season. And had some lingering thoughts on the story line and the characters.

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This a brief explanation of my hiatus on the podcast. I sincerely hope I didn't loose too many of you...

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This conversation we have with the founder of Masodi organics which is a natural beauty care brand ie both hair and body. We talk about all the struggles that pertain to entruprenuership, small business funding etc.

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This conversation we discuss the mystical soft life chronicles. And how 5 professional career woman navigate the topic..

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This is our review of the year of 2020 and the planning of 2020. We laughed and We drank some champagne.

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This is a chat with one of my besties on the our experience of the South African Lockdown from Level 5 to Level 1.

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The Status Quo Conversations takes on reality TV latest obsession Love is Blind. We do an indepth review of the show.We provide some expect commentary , and lots of laughter.

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The Status Quo Conversations takes on reality TV latest obsession Love is Blind. We do an indepth review of the show.We provide some expect commentary , and lots of laughter.

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This is a conversation on the dynamic nature of black women, on the various roles we occupy.

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Its a new year, and the Status Quo conversations enter the forum of diet culture,

By definition :Diet culture is a system of beliefs that: Worships thinness and equates it to health and moral virtue, which means you can spend your whole life thinking you're irreparably broken just because you don't look like the impossibly thin

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This is a sitdown between girlfriends, reflecting on the year that was 2019. The Highs and Lows..

BlackGirlMagic #TheStatusQuo #2019Review #2020 #MBA #ExecutiveSuite #CA(SA) #MentalHealth #Mentorship

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The episode deals with the world of relationships, how we govern them and how we manage them.

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This episode is the most personal of all the Status Quo episodes thus far. Its a discussion amongs four women who have dealt with issues of Mental Health.

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The episode explores the opportunites and struggles of being a young black professional women in Corporate and Academia. In this case we exclusively talk to Charterred Accountants ie CA(SA)'s.

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The Love Series, is a roundtable discussio amongst four black women.Each with their own journey of Love.

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