Episodes

Thursday Sep 11, 2025
Keep Blooming — Purpose, Gratitude & Women’s Advancement with Nox Magwaza
Thursday Sep 11, 2025
Thursday Sep 11, 2025
For Nokuthula “Nox” Magwaza, growth isn’t just business—it’s life itself. As the founder of Bloom Marketing, Bloom Infinite Digital, and Bloom Inside Out, she has spent over two decades helping brands land with cultural relevance while championing women’s advancement and authentic storytelling.
In this EO Ignite 2025 conversation, Knox shares why gratitude is her operating system, how vulnerability unlocks true growth, and why she believes EO is fertile soil for scaling both business and impact. She revisits lessons from her early career at Unilever, explains the seeds-and-soil metaphor that guides her leadership, and highlights how Bloom differentiates itself through purpose-led, human-centered creativity. Her message to fellow leaders: you are a seed—keep blooming.
This episode blends purpose, gratitude, and advocacy, showing how to scale while staying rooted in community and authenticity.
🔗 EO Durban: www.eodurban.co.za
🎙️ Produced by TIM Africa.

Thursday Sep 11, 2025
Putting the Client First — Ego, Service & Top-Rated TV with Mpho Lengane
Thursday Sep 11, 2025
Thursday Sep 11, 2025
Mpho Lengane, founder of Barker’s Media, has built a reputation for producing some of South Africa’s top-rated television dramas and reality shows. But for her, the real product isn’t just ratings—it’s national conversation. By putting rural, township, and urban perspectives on the same screen, she sparks dialogue that resonates across communities.
In this Ignite 2025 episode, Mpho opens up about the setbacks that shaped her—being fired three times in 2021, formalizing her business in 2022, and discovering that self-awareness and humility fuel real growth. She shares a pivotal boardroom lesson from Ocean Basket on the meaning of service, explains how she approaches sales and closing as creative disciplines, and calls for more interconnectedness across EO forums and events.
This is a candid look at ego, resilience, and service—and why putting the client first is the surest path to building lasting impact.
🔗 EO Durban: www.eodurban.co.za🎙️ Produced by TIM Africa.
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Episode Title (≤100 chars)
Episode 18: Keep Blooming — Purpose, Gratitude & Women’s Advancement with Nox Magwaza
YouTube Show Notes (with chapters)
In this Ignite 2025 episode, Nokuthula “Knox” Magwaza, founder of Bloom Marketing, Bloom Infinite Digital, and Bloom Inside Out, shares her journey of purpose, gratitude, and women’s advocacy. With 20+ years in marketing and a mission to build human-centered connections between brands and people, Knox explains why gratitude is her daily operating system and how vulnerability fuels authentic growth.
She traces her seeds metaphor back to Newcastle, recalls lessons from her time at Unilever, and reflects on the gap between European-led agencies and South Africa’s predominantly black consumer base. Knox also reveals why Bloom differentiates itself by putting women’s advancement at the core, and how AI-era storytelling can stay authentic and community-changing. Her Ignite message is simple yet powerful: EO is fertile soil for growth—keep blooming, because growth is the evidence of life.
🔑 Key Themes
Vulnerability & progress over perfection
Gratitude as a leadership operating system
Seeds & soil: choosing nurturing environments
Human-centered, purpose-led branding
Inclusive creativity reflecting SA consumers
Women’s advancement as a differentiator
EO community as fertile soil for growth & impact
Storytelling in the AI era that stays human
📍 Timestamps / Chapters
0:00 – Intro & Knox introduces herself
0:09 – Bloom Marketing, Bloom Infinite & Bloom Inside Out
1:05 – Ignite highlights: vulnerability & redefining success
2:18 – Gratitude in practice: service & developing talent
3:32 – Seeds metaphor & choosing the right soil
4:54 – Lessons from Unilever & inclusive creativity
5:30 – Purpose at the heart & women’s advocacy
6:01 – Human-centered stories in the AI era
6:12 – Message to future Ignite attendees
7:51 – Closing: you are a seed, keep blooming
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🎙️ Produced by TIM Africa at EO Ignite 2025 — capturing the voices shaping tomorrow’s entrepreneurial landscape.
Podbean Description (medium length)
For Nokuthula “Knox” Magwaza, growth isn’t just business—it’s life itself. As the founder of Bloom Marketing, Bloom Infinite Digital, and Bloom Inside Out, she has spent over two decades helping brands land with cultural relevance while championing women’s advancement and authentic storytelling.
In this EO Ignite 2025 conversation, Knox shares why gratitude is her operating system, how vulnerability unlocks true growth, and why she believes EO is fertile soil for scaling both business and impact. She revisits lessons from her early career at Unilever, explains the seeds-and-soil metaphor that guides her leadership, and highlights how Bloom differentiates itself through purpose-led, human-centered creativity. Her message to fellow leaders: you are a seed—keep blooming.
This episode blends purpose, gratitude, and advocacy, showing how to scale while staying rooted in community and authenticity.
🔗 EO Durban: www.eodurban.co.za
🎙️ Produced by TIM Africa.

Thursday Sep 11, 2025
Eggs, Income & Impact — Alice Chang on Scaling Hatch Africa Across Six Countries
Thursday Sep 11, 2025
Thursday Sep 11, 2025
Alice Chang believes that small flocks can drive big change. As part of Hatch Africa, she explains how providing dual-purpose chickens and feeds helps smallholder farmers across Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Ghana, and Côte d'Ivoire improve family nutrition, raise incomes, and create real choices—from education and healthcare to reinvestment.
Alice’s path spans the US, Shanghai, and Bain & Company before moving to Uganda to scale solar access. That experience led her to agriculture, where an income-first approach ensures sustainable impact. In this Ignite 2025 conversation, she also shares how EO practices like lifeline exercises and one word check-ins strengthen teams, and why resilience and connection are essential to leading in tough markets.
This episode blends management rigor with purpose-driven impact—a roadmap for scaling social enterprises at continental scale.
🔗 EO Durban: www.eodurban.co.za🎙️ Produced by TIM Africa.

Thursday Sep 11, 2025
From Jeddah to Durban — Real Estate, Angel Investing & Endurance with Samer Shaaban
Thursday Sep 11, 2025
Thursday Sep 11, 2025
For Samer Shaaban, Ignite 2025 is about more than attending his first EO regional event—it’s about connection, rejuvenation, and growth. A veteran of Jeddah’s real estate sector with over 20 years of experience, Samer reflects on his EO journey so far, from early forum experiences to embracing the Power Within theme of Durban.
He also introduces his path as an angel investor, focusing on fintech, SaaS, and gaming startups that can scale. His criteria? Character, humility, and coachability in the founders he backs. Alongside his business ventures, Samer shares how endurance routines like running and Ironman races serve as his personal reset, and why he’s exploring a podcast-as-mentoring model to pass on lessons and help founders avoid common mistakes.
This episode blends entrepreneurship, endurance, and investing, offering both practical filters and personal insights for growth-minded leaders.
🔗 EO Durban: www.eodurban.co.za
🎙️ Produced by TIM Africa.

Wednesday Sep 10, 2025
Prevent Before You Treat — Tech, Habits & Mental Performance with Steve Stavs
Wednesday Sep 10, 2025
Wednesday Sep 10, 2025
Steve Stavs believes the future of health is about prevention, not treatment. In this EO Ignite 2025 episode, he introduces Medicine 4.0: proactive, personalized, and performance-oriented health. Steve explains why clinical “normal” isn’t always optimal, why VO2 max is a true predictor of longevity, and how wearables can guide smarter training and recovery.
He also highlights the mental side of performance, introducing the concept of a “mental quotient” for entrepreneurs aiming to sustain creativity and resilience under pressure. With practical hacks—from circadian rhythm hygiene to high-quality sleep—Steve gives leaders a science-based playbook for staying sharp, healthy, and future-ready.
🔗 EO Durban: www.eodurban.co.za
🎙️ Produced by TIM Africa

Wednesday Sep 10, 2025
From Jeddah to Durban — Real Estate, Angel Investing & Endurance with Shabbir Barbhaya
Wednesday Sep 10, 2025
Wednesday Sep 10, 2025
For Shabbir Barbhaya, Ignite 2025 is both a first EO regional experience and a chance to connect across borders. A veteran real estate developer from Jeddah, he reflects on building trust in forums, finding renewal through endurance sports, and embracing EO’s theme of The Power Within.
Shabbir also shares his growing role as an angel investor, backing ventures in fintech, SaaS, and gaming, with scalability and founder character as his guiding filters. He explains how mentoring fuels his purpose, and why he’s considering a lightweight podcast as a natural extension of his coaching. This conversation blends entrepreneurship, endurance, and impact in a candid, relatable way.
🔗 EO Durban: www.eodurban.co.za
🎙️ Produced by TIM Africa

Tuesday Sep 09, 2025
Tuesday Sep 09, 2025
For Trevor Gowing, one bold pitch became the foundation for a company. As co-founder of Decode Development, he shares how a collaboration with Sea Monster led to winning the Lemonade Day US project, building a kids’ app and mentor/admin platforms, and resigning to launch the business. What clinched it? Visible commitment and skin in the game.
In this EO Ignite 2025 conversation, Trevor also introduces Decode’s model: bespoke software for purpose-driven companies, balancing off-the-shelf solutions with custom builds, and supporting clients through fractional CTO advisory and embedded engineering teams. He opens up about the challenge of marketing their successes and how they’re now turning everyday workflows into podcasts, clips, and SEO-friendly content.
This is a story of risk, resilience, and building from purpose—a roadmap for entrepreneurs turning big bets into sustainable growth.
🔗 EO Durban: www.eodurban.co.za
🎙️ Produced by TIM Africa.

Tuesday Sep 09, 2025
Tuesday Sep 09, 2025
For Louisa Garland, belief has always been the starting point—and sometimes the lifeline. Founder of Imperial Armour, she reflects on 25 years of building a company that protects lives with body armour and UN demining gear, all from a base in Durban. Louisa shares how her toughest season in 2018 nearly closed the doors, and how support from her children—and her own faith—helped her find stillness and resilience. The very next day, she received her largest-ever order.
In this EO Ignite 2025 debut, Louisa also opens up about her first EO conference, the community connections she’s most excited about, and the power of practicing daily affirmations when leadership feels heavy. This conversation blends purpose, impact, and perseverance—a reminder that breakthroughs are always possible when belief leads the way.
🔗 EO Durban: www.eodurban.co.za
🎙️ Produced by TIM Africa.