In The Grind Don’t Stop, episode 3 of this season of the We Should Be Writing Season podcast, we discuss ‘Hustle Culture’. This ideology reinforces hard work and no play; a lifestyle of glamour and “trusting the process”, often driven and preached by world-class entrepreneurs, celebrities and influencers. Co-hosts Mhlontlo Geleba and Karabo Mashaba interview Wits University student-entrepreneur and self-acclaimed hustler, Lesego Mpumelelo “Eggboy” Nzuza, who sells eggs to students in and around the bustling streets of Johannesburg, addressing student food insecurity while paying for his tuition fees and groceries. This episode takes on a hybrid format, to inform listeners about the motivational, financial, psychological and other aspects of Hustle Culture, while supplementing and contextualising these concepts with snippets from Lesego’s interview about his own hustle.
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Find out more about Lesego and support his egg selling business by following him on his Instagram page @eggboy_lesego_.
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Producers: Mhlontlo Geleba and Karabo Mashaba
Writers: Melissa Sima, Karabo Mashaba and Amanda Khumalo
Edited by: Matthew Nijland
Hosts: Mhlontlo Geleba and Karabo Mashaba
Music: Samples from the Envato+ YouTube channel
Graphic: Amanda Khumalo and Matthew Nijland
