Lifestyle FeaturesNovember 4, 2015

Jean-Jacques Annaud and Wolf Totem: full audio interview

In a Q&A in Durban pending the preview of Wolf Totem at the 2015 Durban International Film Festival, Jean-Jacques Annaud shares some of his 3-D “secrets” with journalist Wanda Hennig. He also talks, broadly, about making Wolf Totem, the relevance of the film to China, Mongol culture, French kissing with wolves, wolf whisperer Andrew Simpson, ice sculpture horses, his relationship with religion and a lot more. Enjoy!

CoachingFebruary 12, 2013

The Top 10 List from Bea Fields ‘Wild West of Blog Marketing’

Persistence and regular blogging are key to SEO success and effectively marketing your business, leadership coach and social media / blogging pundit Bea Fields said […]

CoachingMay 27, 2012

South Africa opts for mediation over litigation

Alternative dispute resolution in labor management, contract negotiations and generally in unionized environments has deep roots in SA. But mediation has lagged in other areas. […]

FeaturedMarch 18, 2012

Why there is life and hope in Msinga

Life does not get much more desperate than in KwaZulu-Natal’s dirt-poor Msinga region. HIV/Aids and TB are rife, Aids orphans are a norm, few economic […]

CoachingOctober 6, 2011

Inspiring quotes from Steve Jobs: 1955 – 2011

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of […]

CoachingJanuary 5, 2010

Visualizations, creativity and the incredible oneness of being

An inner journey can be more spectacular — and revealing — than a trip around the world. And a weekend spent doing something you really […]

HeadlineSeptember 10, 2009

Alive in South Africa: When an expat goes ‘home’

What is it like to return to your roots, your soil, for the first time after you’ve emigrated and made a new life in Australia? […]

FeaturedJuly 5, 2009

Botti Beautiful

You know you’re a jazz superstar when you make a slow, dark, moody, melancholy record and it tops the charts.
Story by Wanda Hennig Photo courtesy the artist First published in Black Diamond Living magazine

We all know Sinatra, Paul Simon and Sting. Most of us, however, didn’t know trumpeter Chris Botti until late in 2004. Strange when you think that his first professional gig was with Sinatra; that for five years, starting in 1990, he played the world with Simon; and that he joined Sting as a featured soloist in 1999 and the two have collaborated ever since.

CoachingMay 12, 2009

Keeping Up Appearances

A great many people were surprised when they heard who was getting a $100,000 extreme makeover. Why would a successful, talented, bright — and at face value, super-confident public figure — enter the ugly duckling contest?
Story by Wanda Hennig First published in Black Diamond Living magazine It started with a routine morning scan of East Bay newspapers — part of the standard daily work drill for Devi Lanphere, CEO of the Antioch Chamber of Commerce in east Contra Costa County. This time the piece that caught her eye might not, at first glance, have seemed work-related. It announced an extreme makeover contest. Read more …

CoachingJanuary 25, 2009

How to rekindle sexual passion when the fire is dead

It’s late at night and you’re in bed. The body to your left, pushing gentle zzzzs, radiates a comfortable warmth. The radio to your right plays softly. Your mental meanderings are suddenly jolted into focus by Rod Stewart’s voice. It’s golden oldie time and he’s warbling on about passion. “I need passion. You need passion. We need passion. Can’t live without passion.”

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