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Abundant Leaders with Tenji MoyanaDon't wait for motivation: A better way to achieve your goals50. Don't wait for motivation: A better way to achieve more Many of us get to mid-year and run into a slump. We haven’t achieved the goals we laid out for ourselves nearly as fast or as diligently as we imagined we would when motivation was high in January. What relationship do we have to have with ourselves, with motivation and productivity expectations, or with the fear, inertia and resistance that naturally comes up when we are moving towards something new or something more?Instead of berating ourselves, throwing in the towel or bar...2025-07-2849 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana49. Warren Ndlovu: The non-linear journey to doing work you love, succeeding as a generalistToday is an informal conversation with my close friend, Warren Ndlovu, about the unconventional path he’s taken to doing the work he loves and the obstacles he’s overcome along the way. Warren is an early-stage climate tech strategy and operations executive with a background in derivatives structuring at Absa, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, and fintech and telecoms at Econet Global (now Cassava Technologies).His journey has taken creativity, courage, adaptability, a thick skin, a willingness to play the long game, and the focus to always keep the big picture in mind when he faced setb...2025-07-081h 11
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana48. Is being a caring leader burning you out? + 4 strategies to fix itAs we mature as leaders, people increasingly look to us for caring, empathy, a sense that they matter and are being managed in a humane way. Indeed, it’s our job to be emotionally intelligent and understand how much the way we treat others impacts their performance and wellbeing and the company’s culture and desirability to prospective hires.But no one talks about caregiver burnout – the burnout that happens when leaders over-give and extend themselves past their limits. If you’re seen as the go-to person in your company and everyone loves how you make them feel, bu...2025-06-2651 min
ALIVE with Tenji39. Gemini season: Own your voice, express your truth, explore new identitiesGemini is here and bringing the energy of self-expression, playfulness, evolution without the pressure to define oneself, and trusting your voice. Today I share my experience learning how to let go of old identities and rigid philosophies and expectations of myself, and how to embrace curiosity, an adaptable sense of identity, and self-definition instead of being defined by the beliefs held by my family, romantic partners, jobs, and religion. It’s about the courage to define myself and express who I am even as I continue to change and explore new truths. For the astrology-curious, we d...2025-06-0758 min
ALIVE with Tenji38. When exhaustion goes deeper than the body: Advanced self-care using Human DesignHi hi! I’ve realised that when my tank is beyond empty and I’m teetering close to shut down, more intense - and less conventional - self- methods are needed to truly regulate my system and nourish me back to life.I realised that so many of us limit self care to physical practices hoping they will automatically replenish our hearts and minds as well. But what we need to do is take a targeted approach to each aspect of ourselves - mental activities for an overstimulated mind, energy practices for an overwhelmed aura (espec...2025-06-0757 min
ALIVE with Tenji37. Chronic illness, healing my relationship with my body, past life karma and manifesting healingI have endometriosis and it’s been the single biggest challenge I’ve experienced in my life. But it’s taught me how to stop trying to control and change my body, and how to be in healthier relationship with it. It’s also brought me into deeper spiritual reverence for the wonder that is the human body’s ability to survive and be steadfastly committed to the soul’s purpose. And most recently, it’s revealing a major past life karmic lesson I have to heal about disempowerment and a sacrificial lamb relationship I’ve had with my growth path and...2025-05-111h 01
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana47. Susan Lieu: Intergenerational trauma, releasing outdated career goals and creating your own leadership identityToday I’m joined by a fellow student from my Harvard days, Susan Lieu – a management consultant turned author, playwright, and performer. She joins us to explore how unhealed intergenerational trauma shapes how we lead, the choices we make in our careers, and our ability to live a life that’s authentic to our values instead of focussed on survival and pleasing our families. We have a deeply vulnerable, soul-elevating conversation about how hard it is to go against the grain and follow your calling into the life that you were truly created for, even if it upsets...2025-04-2057 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana46. The power of following your heart – and why it’s hard for us to do as leadersMany of us have been raised to believe that hard work, focus, practicality and responsibility are the keys to success. As a society we most celebrate the rags to riches stories that involve grit, resilience and hustle. But what often goes undiscussed is that these great inventors and business mavericks were often following their hearts – or the calls of their soul. The grit etc was in response to the scale of desire that thrummed within them for something different, more, exciting, wondrous, impossible, but oh so true to their soul’s purpose and heart’s desire.As leader...2025-04-201h 01
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana45. From No to Yes: Overcoming the fear of change that keeps you stuck in your career and leadershipChange is hard – even when it’s good for us. We often unconsciously resist it for months until it uses suffering to force our hand. Why do we resist it so much and what can we do to help ourselves to better accept the writing on the wall so that we can be decisive, accept a new paradigm, and return to being in flow and, ultimately, on the path of success and abundance?Today I use a live example from my own leadership and business journey that has challenged me to let go of the more popular and...2025-04-201h 02
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana44. Does your career vision need an upgrade?How do you think about the vision for your career in an ever changing world?When you are constantly evolving, conditions are ever changing and your ability to take action on your goals is sometimes compromised by the limitations of circumstances in our lives, how often do you step back to reassess?Is your true expansive vision or your “rogue” limited vision (e.g., insecurity, fear, lack) running your career?If you have a vision for your career, do you also have a vision for your leadership style and experience?Do you...2025-04-2046 min
ALIVE with Tenji36. Truth is not absolute: Letting go of certainty and finding freedom in not knowingIn this episode I’m waxing lyrical about the nature of truth and whether it serves us to try make truth absolute. I believe that this is something we do to try cope with reality and to try to feel safe. But the need for right and wrong, black and white, truth and lies, and absolute knowing and certainty limits us. It only separates us from others, makes us struggle to accept reality, makes us make premature declarations of knowing when we have no clue at all, makes us more likely to make mistakes, keeps us small, and makes us...2025-03-171h 11
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana43. Carice Anderson: Intelligence is not enough to advance at work – master the art of differentiating yourselfCarice Anderson is the Global Head of People Manager Strategy at BlackRock. She is also an executive coach and author of “Intelligence Isn't Enough: A Black Professional’s Guide to Thriving in the Workplace”. As people of colour, so many of us spend the early part of our careers spinning our wheels because we believe that if we put our heads down, work hard, stay humble and build the right technical skills, we will succeed. But it’s never that simple. Carice joins us to discuss how important it is for us to know ourselves, and be delibera...2025-03-1738 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana42. Planning 2025 based on the career season you’re in: Planning for Success Part 2Today’s episode is close to my heart because last year I was in a career winter and it would have helped so much to have realised it sooner so that I could have managed my expectations and leaned into trust.
One of the bravest things that we can do as leaders is trust the season we’re in to bring us what we need instead of trying to force it to bring us what we want. Just as Earth moves in seasons and cycles, our careers go through times of expansion and new beginnings (Spring), success and...2025-01-231h 03
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana41. Choosing your leadership theme for 2025 | Planning for Success Part 1Join me as we explore a different way to set annual goals. Last year I decided to plan my year based primarily on 4 themes instead of a list of goals and it transformed my growth. I was able to consistently show up to the theme more than I had ever been able to show up in the past for a long list of daily actions. It also brought me more balance to how I managed my energy during the year. Instead of consistently pressing for achievement and change, I left space for reflection on the theme, learning about its...2025-01-2151 min
ALIVE with Tenji35. Codependency 2: Breaking unhealthy dating patterns & emotional avoidanceIn today’s conversation I share the culmination of 5 years of discovering and beginning to overcome my unconscious emotional avoidance one failed relationship at a time. I explore the origins of emotional avoidance, including parentification, unhealed childhood wounds, good-girl conditioning and attachment styles. I discuss unravelling repeating dating patterns and mistakes, deciding enough was enough, and finally becoming willing to be seen and loved as an imperfect woman with healthy needs worth meeting and not as the impervious Florence Nightingale one-dimensional archetype that I people-pleased and parentified myself into in order to avoid punishment and rejection. Phew, tha...2024-12-1955 min
ALIVE with Tenji34. Codependency 1: Navigating conflict and platonic relationship endingsA little update on my life turned into a reflection on recent platonic relationship endings that have rocked my world and made my world the last few months. I achieved something I never would have been able to had I not stood for myself and found my voice in some of my closest relationships. But it took time for things to unwind and for me to accept the relationships had to end, so of course they were ripped out of my bloody hands when I finally reached my limit and said No. It’s ok for things to...2024-12-1951 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana40. Mindset cleansing to support rest and growth; releasing the disappointments of 2024Get 20% off when you join my year end leadership retreat, Taking Stock: Celebrating and Releasing 2024, before Friday midnight. Use code “LUCKYME” at checkout.
As ambitious high-performance leaders, we often get to the end of the year stressed, overwhelmed, exhausted and carrying all the baggage of our failures, disappointments, and negative emotions into the new year.
From this place we make choices and set plans to have a better experience in the coming year, but we are still carrying the same beliefs, perspectives and emotional energies that were the result of challenging experiences we had th...2024-12-0531 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana39. Major business update: Podcast changes, launching events, focus on leadership self-masteryGet 20% off when you join my year end leadership retreat, Taking Stock: Celebrating and Releasing 2024, before Friday midnight. Use code “LUCKYME” at checkout.
I’m back to the podcast after a brief break for creative rest. This week is an unusual episode. I’m coming to you with a major business update to keep you informed of what is changing in my universe and how you can continue to get support from me on your leadership journey.
I officially announce the launch of the Abundant Leaders Circle – an event-driven space of learning, self-reflection, intimate con...2024-12-0547 min
ALIVE with Tenji33. Clawing your way back to joy after an impossible lossHow do you move on from the loss you never thought you could survive? How do you make sense of it? When your very foundation is obliterated, how do you find new ground? How do you believe that love is safe and become willing to let joy in again when it feels like it is that very love that caused you so much pain?
Not having the answers to these questions and the fear that extreme loss will destroy us makes us try to avoid grief at all costs or bypass it by trying to process it a...2024-11-241h 11
ALIVE with Tenji32. Oracle cards aren’t evil! Here’s how to use them for clear guidance, support and inspirationSay it with me: Oracle cards and tarot are not evil. Lol!
For real though, when I was a Christian and for a long time after, I was convinced they were a tool of the Devil used to derail and cast spells of misfortune over my life! It was terrifying.
I have since learned through research and my own experience that they are not – they are merely a tool for receiving guidance and wisdom from whatever deity/greater force you believe in. They are powered by the intention and energetic frequency of the user and will...2024-11-231h 19
ALIVE with Tenji31. Trusting life: What happened when I decided life loves meDo you believe you live in a hostile universe or a benevolent one?
Trusting life is so hard when you’ve experienced a lot of loss, pain, insecurity and disappointment. But I’ve discovered that repairing our life wound is essential in our spiritual and personal development journeys if we are to become who our souls came here to become, or if we finally want to experience peace and a holding, sense of security and aliveness unlike any we have ever known. The unexpected thing I’ve also learned as a result is that when we finally trust l...2024-11-221h 09
ALIVE with Tenji30. It’s time to learn how to be happyGuys, I’m a hun who has experienced a lot of pain in life. Death, sorrow, suicidality. Heartbreak, burnout, bullying as a teen. Chronic illness, financial loss, loss of purpose. SO many things. And it all made me generally run sad, pessimistic, and anxious. But I’ve done A LOT of healing work on myself and I feel capable of facing anything life throws my way. I feel secure in my heart and spirit. I feel big and expansive and open and trusting of life and the love I have found in my life. I think it’s time to let...2024-10-1158 min
ALIVE with Tenji29. What do you do when you’ve built the wrong life?So, what do you do when you’ve built the wrong life? So much happens to us in life that changes who we are – we heal our hearts and past trauma, our values change, we settle into more of ourselves – truer versions of ourselves, we grow up, life happens to us and changes our priorities, and suddenly the life we built, that was once perfect, just no longer serves us anymore.
And we suddenly feel stuck in a life – a career, job, lifestyle, friendships, a neighbourhood, financial obligations, a religion, a relationship, etc – that just doesn’t fit anymore...2024-10-1154 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana38. Tamara Makoni on inclusive leadership, growing up black but different, and not competing with each otherTamara Makoni is the Founder & CEO of Kazuri Consulting. She is an inclusion & culture advisor, facilitator and speaker who helps organisations use diversity, equity and inclusion to empower diverse teams and achieve strategic objectives.
Today we explore how we can be more inclusive as leaders by unpacking our pasts and confronting our unconscious biases. As black leaders, we think a lot about whether or not we’re being included, understood and empowered to thrive but don’t always see how we aren’t including others who may have different economic backgrounds, sexual orientations, ethnicity, etc. We unpack why th...2024-09-1255 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana37. Owning your power as a female leaderIt’s Women’s Month in South Africa and this episode is for the ladies! My fellow female leaders, it is time to heal our relationship with power so that we can rise up and have the influence we are here to have. In my journey as a leader, I have struggled to own my voice, take up space, stand in the spotlight with all eyes on me, and go against the grain. I’ve asked for permission instead of taking what is mine. And, heartbreakingly, I have coached so many C-suite women who struggle with the same thing. Impost...2024-08-2942 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana36. Audrey Kusambiza Bolo on leading vs. managing and building happy teams that perform wellAudrey Kusambiza Bolo is the Global Talent Acquisition Director for One Acre Fund while moonlighting as a a talent consultant & team well-being coach in her company, Your Truth Coach. She joins us to discuss how to build healthy, happy teams that also perform well. Key to this is distinguishing between management and leadership to help us elevate from being primarily focussed on delivery oversight and output management to also managing the strategic vision, team culture and health, and our team’s ability to thrive holistically. We explore how leaders can make this transition successfully, and the emotional and social sk...2024-08-161h 06
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana35. Use neuroscience and epigenetics to overcome your leadership insecurities and limiting beliefs about your careerAre you ready to have unshakeable confidence in yourself and finally have a breakthrough in the management and leadership challenges you’ve struggled to overcome for ages? The scientifically proven fields of neuroscience and epigenetics have given us the hacks of the century!
Neuroscience has proven that, through the power of our words, we can rewire our brains to change how we think and approach life and thus easily and rapidly create any new behaviour we need in order to have what we’ve always wanted.
Epigenetics affirms this principle in the field of biology. Say we want to superc...2024-07-2655 min
ALIVE with Tenji28. Letting go: Forgiving ourselves, others, and life for not being perfectI’ve had to learn to let go of the illusion of perfection that I spent my whole life chasing. Forgiving myself for not always getting it right and not being amazing. Forgiving life for not being amazing to me and what I always dreamed it would be. And forgiving other people for just being human and colliding into me in ways that really hurt me. We’re all doing our best and life is what it is. I just want to be more loving towards myself and people by not holding us to an impossible bar that we’ll neve...2024-07-1457 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana34. Marika Messager on conscious leadership, overcoming survivor mode and finding your powerMarika Messager is a consciousness researcher, teacher, advisor, and the founder of ConsciousLeadership.org. She was previously Head of Cash Equities at Société Générale. She joins us to discuss what conscious leadership is and how it helps us to bring more of our humanity to how we lead. We talk about letting go of outdated leadership archetypes and returning to a place of quiet confidence in our humanity, personal story and natural way of behaving – something she learned the hard way as a young investment banker on a trading floor dominated by men. We also explore how to...2024-07-1057 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana33. How to find your purpose the easy wayIf you’re anything like me, you’ve fallen into the trap of believing that your purpose is something that you do or achieve when you’re in a great job doing work that you’re passionate about. But what happens when you’re doing work that you’re passionate about but you aren’t happy? Or you build your whole identity around what you do and something unexpected like chronic illness or parenthood fundamentally limits your ability to give your all to it or to work in the same field in the same way? What happens to your ability to liv...2024-06-2047 min
ALIVE with Tenji26. Is marriage the right choice for everyone? – with Lee NguniMost of society assumes that everyone should want to get married. It’s seen as the end goal of every successful woman’s life, and the obvious culmination of any happy relationship. But why are we really getting married?
Today I’m sipping bubbles and snacking on nibbles with my friend Lee Nguni! Lee shares my view that we – especially women – should only get married if it makes sense for US.
We chat about her relationship journey, finding love after divorce, choosing for now not to get married to her partner of 7 years, what we see in othe...2024-06-171h 24
ALIVE with Tenji27. Does needing love to be unconditional actually help us build healthy relationships?Video episode. I have found that trying to love unconditionally has kept me in unbalanced relationships for way longer than I should have been because I was focussing so much on how I was loving the other person and not enough on how I was being loved.
Has this happened to you?
I’ve been finding that a more supportive definition for me is “complete love” not “unconditional love” – which means loving myself as much as I love the other person.
Then I can say are we both being loved completely? Is there balance here...2024-06-1649 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana32. Marjorie Ngwenya on believing we’re limitless, taking on challenging roles and finding purposeMy next guest, Marjorie Ngwenya, is a leadership coach, author and speaker and is a former executive at both Liberty Group South Africa and Old Mutual’s African operations. She was both the youngest and first black female President of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in the United Kingdom. She broke down her own internal barriers to embrace and subsequently thrive in her appointment and now she’s written a book to help us do the same.
Marjorie takes on challenges head on, bravely processes difficult emotions and is not afraid to let go of an ident...2024-06-061h 06
ALIVE with Tenji25. Listener question: How do I trust the process while waiting for a breakthrough? | VIDEOWe’re doing something different today! A listener sent in a question asking for advice as she navigates a long period of waiting for a breakthrough in her career.
She’s trusting the process and feels comfortable with her pace of getting active in the job market after a long period of downtime but worries she’s moving slower than everyone else – is something wrong? It doesn’t help that she’s getting pressure from family, too.
I share insights from my own journey with learning how to trust my pace, moving with the natural seasons of life, trusting that in the s...2024-05-0448 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana31. Inner abundance - not hard work - powers your level of success, joy and career freedomWe all want to feel great in our careers. We want influence, opportunities, confidence, satisfaction, a sense of achievement, purpose. We want abundance. But it can feel hard to really grasp. What does abundance mean? Is it even possible in a world that seems to have finite resources? I’m discovering on my own path that abundance is not something we get from outside, it’s something we create from within. And when we cultivate our inner abundance it becomes a powerful radiance that we bring into the world. And from that place opportunities, freedom and fullness flows – and that’s...2024-04-2651 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana31. Inner abundance - not hard work - powers your level of success, joy and career freedomWe all want to feel great in our careers. We want influence, opportunities, confidence, satisfaction, a sense of achievement, purpose. We want abundance. But it can feel hard to really grasp. What does abundance mean? Is it even possible in a world that seems to have finite resources? I’m discovering on my own path that abundance is not something we get from outside, it’s something we create from within. And when we cultivate our inner abundance it becomes a powerful radiance that we bring into the world. And from that place opportunities, freedom and fullness flows – and that’s...2024-04-2651 min
ALIVE with Tenji24. The art of manifestation and overcoming the belief that you only get what you work for | VIDEOThere are three things you need to know about me.
1: I have been working my whole life. 2: I hate the topic of “manifestation”. 3: I’m done with being a “good girl”.
About number 1:
Believing that I have to work hard for anything good in my life has left me exhausted and resentful and, as I have discovered, completely out of alignment with the fact that life is abundant and contains more than enough of all that we need. That we don’t earn good things because that would make good things a salary for our effort...2024-04-1347 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana30. Andrew Johnson on organising your life to find more balance, how to say no without saying no, and lessons from Brazilian JujitsuAndrew Johnson is a professional life coach and my second guest expert on the podcast. He joins us to discuss how he helps leaders to find more balance in their careers by mastering their calendars as a gateway to owning their time and clarifying their priorities. We discuss the importance of confronting the truth about yourself and life, managing your ego, and practicing being present in the moment in order to unlock your leadership genius, flow states and deeper trust in your body’s innate wisdom.
Topics discussed:
* Andrew’s work as a life...2024-04-111h 08
ALIVE with Tenji23. Spiritual awakenings, how to survive them and how they transform your lifeHow do we awaken to the truth of who we are as souls? How do we discover, accept, and lean into our power so that it can transform our lives? What does it mean to have a spiritual awakening? What does it look and feel like? What is its purpose, anyway? What does it mean to become one with the Universe and all it is and to birth new realities from that infinite power? How do we use it to manifest truer lives? And how do we survive how crazy, painful, exhausting and quite frankly terrifying spiritual awakenings can...2024-03-291h 06
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana29. The gift of fear and how to lean inFear shows up in so many ways in our leadership journeys - as imposter syndrome, fear of taking on a meatier role, fear of negotiating the right compensation package, fear of having difficult conversations, fear of taking the risk to dive into a new market or to recall a product that is no longer working, on and on. In order to lead successfully, we need to learn how to turn towards fear instead of away from it. When we’re able to lean in and ask fear what it’s telling us, it will always lead us into more – more g...2024-03-2844 min
ALIVE with Tenji22. Tenji at 40: 4 celebrations and 4 lessons from 4 decades of lifeThis is a special episode with a surprise guest at the end 😉. I turned 40 this month and something shifted in me this birthday. I arrived into a comfort with who I am that I’ve never had before. I’m a vibe. And I’m capable. And I’ve endured and survived so much. I’m ready for an era of joy, DEEP self-confidence and shining boldly as me on an even bigger scale than I ever have before.
Today I’m reflecting back on each decade of my life and celebrating something wonderful about who I was in that...2024-03-171h 03
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana28. Thokozile Lewanika on letting go of limiting identities and shaping your leadership legacy – Part 2Thokozile Lewanika is a coach, speaker and facilitator with a rich leadership career as a talent executive at Absa Group, Discovery Group and Novartis, and an organisational performance expert at McKinsey & Company. In Part 2 of our conversation, we explore the shifting motivation behind her career choices from primarily solving for making an impact to increasingly solving for happiness. She’s bravely transcending her identity as a high achiever, redefining what is considered a “worthy” career and creating a legacy that she can be proud of.
Topics discussed in Part 2:
* How Thokozile has made career choices, her dri...2024-03-0753 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana27. Thokozile Lewanika on navigating career transitions and succeeding in a new leadership role – Part 1Thokozile Lewanika is a coach, speaker and facilitator with a rich leadership career as a talent executive at Absa Group, Discovery Group and Novartis, and an organisational performance expert at McKinsey & Company. Today we discuss how she’s transitioned successfully in these meaty roles in order to have impact quickly and overcome setbacks. For Thokozile, a deep abiding faith in her ability to learn anything, as well as her faith in God, are some of the foundations that hold her mindset steady during change, emboldening her to take risks.
Topics discussed:
* Thokozile’s early career jour...2024-02-221h 01
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana26. 2024 is your year for empowerment and making bold strategic moves2024 is an opportunity for us to make significant strides by empowering ourselves to make bold, strategic moves in our careers, in how we lead our teams and in how we drive the business agenda. I share 4 key themes that are emerging as an energy for the year based on what I’m seeing in my coaching clients, podcast listeners, the leadership development community and social trends that are shaping the world of work. This is a wave of supportive collective energy that we can piggyback on and personalise to have the year we desire – whatever our individual goals are.
2024-02-0543 min
ALIVE with Tenji21. Why are so many marriages failing?Guys. Everywhere I look I see an unhappy or failed marriage or people going through monumental challenges in order to find marital happiness again. Is marriage all that it’s cracked up to be? Is the cost I’m seeing (the work, heartache, drama, danger) worth the benefits? I’m questioning whether or not I still want it.
Does marriage still mean to us and play the role in society that it used to? Should it? If not, what should it be instead? Is marriage the only noble path or singleness just as much a form of securi...2024-01-1157 min
ALIVE with Tenji20. Don’t be an overachiever in 2024Happy New Year, lovies! My blessing for all of us is that we don’t reject how hard we worked, the risks we took, the fears we faced, and the incredible strides we made in our lives in 2023 by entering into hustle and do the most energy in 2024. Let’s go easier on ourselves this year. Let’s create a soft place for us to land by being our cheerleaders and supporters, and by having REALISTIC expectations of what is possible for us this year. It will be a good year and a hard year. Let’s set ourselves up for s...2024-01-1129 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana25. You're the change we're looking forTraditional corporate culture, work culture and performance culture is not working for us anymore. It’s being disrupted by our growth – our desire for more freedom, authenticity, alignment, meaning, support and ease in our lived experience. If you’re growing in any of these ways, you’re playing a vital role as a trail-blazing paradigm-shifter on the behalf of humanity. Your role is important, the work you are doing on yourself will reap benefits if you keep pressing in to the difficult but brave work of challenging the status quo with your boundaries, inclusivity, self-awareness and authenticity. It may ruffle f...2023-12-2948 min
ALIVE with Tenji19. Part 3: My 10 go-to spiritual tools | VIDEO
Join me for a video show and tell of a super
comprehensive list of the tools I use to support my spiritual practice – 10 in
total! They ground me, sharpen my energy and hone my gifts, help me gain clarity, insight and wisdom, help me connect with my guides, and maintain my physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, as well as to learn and master myself.
I cover everything from Human Design, astrology and numerology, to crystals, essential oils and dream interpretation books and so much more. I also share the names of authors, pictures, and exactly where you ca...2023-12-291h 17
ALIVE with Tenji18. Part 2: My 12 favourite spiritual practices | VIDEOHere’s a rundown of the practices that support me in my spiritual walk and in life in general – 12 in total! From meditation to plant medicine ceremonies to nightly energy clearing and regular healing baths, I do a lot to support myself to remain energetically and spiritually clear, attuned and supported to do my work in this life. Hopefully you get some inspiration for your own spiritual path. As always trust your intuition but be open to experimenting to see what works for you.
Feel free to DM me for connects to practitioners or resources that I ment...2023-12-2345 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana24. Alinafe & Tenji on the myth that leaders must have all the answersAlinafe is back for the third installment of the Real Talk series. Alinafe Thupa is a management consultant and my dear friend. Today we discuss the problem with believing that leaders should have all the answers. We’ve found in our own experiences that the best leaders create space for their teams to explore ideas, problem-solve together, resourcefully gather insights from experts and, effectively, create a container in which the answer can be found. However, when we were new managers, we fell into the trap of thinking that we needed to know everything and have an answer to every qu...2023-12-211h 04
ALIVE with Tenji17. Part 1: My spiritual beliefs | VIDEOI choose not to be affiliated with any single religion or school of thought, but rather, I’ve taken bits and pieces from many of them to form an understanding of what is true that resonates with me. I’m ok with being my own leader and creating my own truth because I trust myself, I have discernment, I’ve cultivated my relationship with my intuition to a point that I’m comfortable letting it be my authority. Everything I believe feels right and expansive for me in a way that enables me to live well and to keep growing...2023-12-2049 min
ALIVE with Tenji16. Fighting for my purpose: Life with a chronic illness | VIDEOI have endometriosis and I’m in the thick of bad flare which is getting me down and making me wonder: How do I have a good life with this illness? How do I fulfil my desires and live abundantly and get to realise my purpose? Is there a lesson in here that my soul is inviting me to learn about the source of my strength and power and impact? (Clearly there is – and I think I understand some of it.) Am I failing to see how I partner with the universe to cocreate something that works? Can my spir...2023-12-0951 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana23. Job hunt the way you dateI’m online dating right now and discovering so many parallels between what makes for successful dating and what makes for a fruitful job hunt. In both cases, you have to be intentional, clear about what you want, clear and confident about what you bring to the table and honest about whether there’s a fit between what you’re offering a potential employer and what they have to give. Let’s have a fun but practical conversation and take notes if you’re planning to go back into the market soon.
Topics discussed:
* Underst...2023-12-0742 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana22. From Harvard to CEO Coach: Charles Cormier interviews TenjiI was recently interviewed by Charles Cormier on the CEO Wisdom Podcast. We discussed my career history, lessons I’ve learned from entrepreneurship and how I coach senior leaders to get results.
Topics discussed:
* My history in entrepreneurship as an interior designer and now as a coach and lessons I learned
* Struggling to market myself and fear of rejection limited my business’ growth
* The gift of being in flow and leveraging your most important skills
* The power of operational leverage for cash-lean entrepreneurs
* Running Kuva Perfo...2023-11-3027 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana21. Simbah Mutasa on the importance of community, our responsibility to our teams and negotiating values conflictsSimbah Mutasa is a Managing Director in Investment Banking at Bank of America, South Africa. One of Simbah’s foundational values is enabling the growth and expansion of the community he’s in. This has shaped how he approaches leadership, invests in his teams and defines success. He shows us that it’s possible and rewarding to be a heart-led people-leader in demanding corporate environments without sacrificing the bottom line.
Topics discussed:
* Leadership as a responsibility to grow and empower your team
* Negotiating values conflicts and coming to peace with decisions you reg...2023-11-161h 07
ALIVE with Tenji15. How do we stay connected when our growth pulls us in a different direction? | VIDEOMy first video podcast episode! Watch it on Spotify, or listen to the audio in the usual places. Stay tuned to the end of the video for a special message from our spirit guides and oracle card to support us.
I’ve done a lot to fight for my voice, my truth, to find my personal power in a family filled with strong personalities and siblings and parents who had a different experience of the same events. But, because we each experienced things differently, have different soul-level growth objectives, and are taking different growth pathways, have different ne...2023-11-1241 min
ALIVE with Tenji14. Do we really have to forgive others?Forgiveness is often spoken about as the only way to truly move on. But is it? What is forgiveness anyway? Is it coming to peace and acceptance? Is it taking someone else off the hook for what they did? Does it mean we must continuously expose ourselves to the scene of the crime or situations and people that wound us repeatedly? Is turning the other cheek really a virtue? Where do boundaries fit in? And what do we do when forgiving prematurely actually leads us into self-abandonment, thus blocking us from healing and our aggressors from feeling true remorse?2023-11-0450 min
ALIVE with Tenji13. Breaking dating patternsI came to the pod to talk about forgiveness but ended up giving an update on my online dating exploits. Lol! I’ve met an interesting guy who’s bringing such different energy into my world that I think he might be the pattern breaker, should I choose to progress with him. I’ve always gone for a certain type of guy and it never works out. This feels like an opportunity to pick something different. Therapy has helped me to see and value guys like this, and to show up with more of the type of energy that can ha...2023-11-0436 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana20. How to overcome your leadership insecuritiesI have spent my life searching for safety and security. I’ve looked for it in financial security, the approval of others, the prestige of my role, the value of my skillset, my ability to perform and deliver, on and on. Many of my clients have felt the same and it’s led all of us nowhere because the trick to safety, acceptance and belonging is that it lives within us. We will never find it in anything external to us, but it requires us to be brave enough to go within, to back ourselves, and to never be the...2023-11-0248 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana19. Alison, Rehema & Tenji – we’re best friends who started a career support group just for usIn the second Real Talk episode, I’m joined by my girls Alison Cohen and Rehema Kutua. We’re best friends from college with a standing monthly date to coach each other on our businesses and careers. It’s lonely at the top and entrepreneurs and leaders feel it significantly. Fewer people check in on you, offer you honest developmental feedback, invite you to informally socialise at work or feel comfortable creating space for you to be vulnerable.
Alison, Rehema and I wanted to avoid this so we created a structure that could hold us in safe...2023-10-191h 03
ALIVE with Tenji12. Human design: A map to your soulIf you’re in my inner circle or pay any attention to my Insta stories you’ll know how much I LOVE Human Design. It’s the one archetyping system that has given me the most comprehensive view into who I am not just from a personality and strengths perspective, but also from an energetic and spiritual perspective. (And I am a personality test junkie so I know this one is special!)
I believe that one of our main purposes in life is to be ourselves. This is the spiritual path.
Human Design has helped me accept traits that I though...2023-10-151h 11
ALIVE with Tenji11. SuicideLife is real. And hard. So hard for so many of us. Yet we survive the moments that will pull us into the void and come back willing to be here, to keep trying, to keep living and angling ourselves towards life and the gift of being alive.
This podcast is about what it means to be ALIVE and to live well. But what happens when it’s hard to keep ourselves alive?
I’m a suicide survivor – that’s what I call myself as someone who has considered suicide at different points of my life. I’...2023-10-1559 min
ALIVE with Tenji10. Beyond the mind: The nature of consciousnessAs I advance on my spiritual path, I’m discovering more about consciousness i.e., our awareness of what is. There’s more than just the mind, which is what we typically refer to as conscious or subconscious awareness.
There are 5 more levels of consciousness, in fact. The 3 individual ones are: somatic (body), spiritual (soul) and non-mind (a mysterious beauty I recently discovered that is hugely powerful). The 2 collective ones are: the collective mind (what we call collective consciousness) and what I call the universe (all that is, including and beyond Earth and this dimension).
It’s...2023-10-081h 00
ALIVE with Tenji9. Let’s talk about sex, babyI’m talking about it all –
How respectability politics set us up to fail in our marriages.
How single sexually-active women are villains.
How men want ladies in the streets but freaks in the sheets yet they marry sexually inexperienced women.
How women’s vagina’s belong to their fathers then to Jesus, then to their husbands and then to the grave when their husbands die - but never to themselves (a farce!).
And how hard it is to own your sexuality when you’ve received so much shame-filled conditioni...2023-10-0748 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana18. Are you in a role or company that enables you to thrive?Bringing our full selves to work and leveraging our uniqueness as a source of differentiation and competitive advantage is a game-changer for driving our performance, impact, and resonance as leaders. However, we aren’t always in spaces where we are able to fully be ourselves or our unique approach and way of leading isn’t celebrated. What then? How do we determine if we’re in the right company, role set-up, and team/relationship dynamic that supports us to thrive as our best selves? If we aren’t well enabled, what can we do about it? And if it’s time to...2023-10-0548 min
ALIVE with Tenji8. Why did our souls choose the parents we have – for better or worse?This is an ode to my parents – my late father, Dr Kombo James Moyana, and my living mother, Marcia Petricia Moyana.
Our souls choose our parents. It blew my mind when I discovered this because my parents were both my first loves (I idolised them) and my greatest heartbreak (they broke my spirit).
They’ve left me with so many gifts of character, values, support and rich experience, but they also left me with a legacy of trauma, insecurity, feelings of unworthiness and deep wounds to heal.
But this is what my soul inte...2023-09-231h 04
ALIVE with Tenji7. Can we have the lives of our dreams? Why is hoping for ease so scary?I was raised believing that hard work = success, that we earn everything we have, that we can get what we need but wants are another story, that life is generally hard and nothing good comes easy, that at any moment we can lose everything we have so we have to be austere and humble…
It’s led me to distrust flow, to settle for less sometimes, to horde resources or be quick to downgrade so that I make sure I don’t run out…
But more than this, it has made me d...2023-09-231h 00
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana17. Amira Elmissiry-Sulai on knowing what you bring to the table, stillness and leading in times of crisisAmira Elmissiry-Sulai is a lawyer, investor and development professional with unshakeable confidence in what she brings to the table as a senior leader. She knows her strengths, celebrates her ethnic and gender diversity and is deliberate about creating environments that support her and others to thrive. Stillness is a fundamental skill that helps her to return to herself and to be able to steer the ship during turbulent times.
Topics discussed:
* 3 things Amira knows she brings to the table
* Why we can’t afford to not find our voice
* The...2023-09-2157 min
ALIVE with Tenji6. I hate patriarchy. Why don’t men realise that they hate it too?Guys. Patriarchy has us in a choke hold. All of us. Men and women. I hate seeing what it does to men – how much they suffer because of it. But the feminist movement is coming for them too and asking them if they’re coping being as disconnected from their feminine energy as we were from our masculine energy.
There’s a beautiful invitation for men to find healing and more freedom if they can let go of the stigma that patriarchy has placed on feminine energy and open up their hearts to acknowledge their own suf...2023-09-1955 min
ALIVE with Tenji5. The joys and perils of online dating – Part 2 The joysYour girl is on Bumble and LOVING it. This is the best online dating run I’ve ever had. Hot men, smart men, sparkly bantery connections, down to earth people. It’s so nice. But I’ve also been on a date with a guy who refused to take off his sunglasses during the entire date! And the other guy who called my spirituality pagan LOL. That went nowhere. I’m experiencing a lot and seeing the fruits of all the work I’ve put into my growth coming to bear in how I show up and who I match with...2023-09-1648 min
ALIVE with Tenji4. The joys and perils of online dating – Part 1 The perilsYour girl is on Bumble and LOVING it. This is the best online dating run I’ve ever had. Hot men, smart men, sparkly bantery connections, down to earth people. It’s so nice. But I’ve also been on a date with a guy who refused to take off his sunglasses during the entire date! And the other guy who called my spirituality pagan LOL. That went nowhere. I’m experiencing a lot and seeing the fruits of all the work I’ve put into my growth coming to bear in how I show up and who I match with...2023-09-1640 min
ALIVE with Tenji3. Why is finding love so hard?I’m single at 39 and spent most of my 20s and 30s feeling ashamed at “not being able to make love work” and falling prey to all the ways that society tells a woman she’s at fault or less-than if no one has chosen her. Even though I never lacked marriage options and proposals, relationships never stuck for me. Discovering and unpacking my trauma and learning what my soul’s intention is for this lifetime (my dharma) has brought me peace, self-forgiveness and an empowered way forward.2023-09-1144 min
ALIVE with Tenji1. What does life mean? How do we live well?I started a podcast. It's hilarious because I already have one - but this one is different. On this pod, I'm talking about what life means and how we live well. I'm chatting about spirituality, personal development, what I'm learning about life and what I'm experiencing e.g., visiting a shaman for the first time, joining Bumble for the Nth time... It's casual, fun and easy conversation and sometimes it gets deep when things don't make sense or life gets hard. In this episode, I'm informally introducing myself and talking about all of the above plus a bit of...2023-09-1036 min
ALIVE with Tenji2. What is the purpose of life? Is love real?I had an existential crisis in December 2022 and it led to the most paradigm shifting realisation that love isn't real... well what we think love is is not what love actually is. And if love isn't what we think it is, is finding, being and dwelling in love the main point of life? If it isn't, then what is?
Deep questions.2023-09-1030 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana16. Hustle culture and the myth of productivityWe’ve been raised to believe that the harder we work, the more successful we’ll be, the more money we’ll make, the faster we’ll rise up the ranks – the more valuable we are. But is that still true? We’re squarely in the era of the knowledge and experiences economy, which means value is created not in terms of widgets produced but something more intangible. The game has changed and it’s inviting leaders to let go of a hustle productivity mentality, and start focusing on meaningful outcomes, experiences and value created.
Topics discusse...2023-09-0739 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana15. Alinafe & Tenji on non-linear careers, breaking free from expectations and your golden threadThis is the first conversation in the Real Talk series and my first visitor is Alinafe Thupa, a management consultant and my dear friend. Today we explore a belief we were both raised with that the best way to have a strong, stable career was to pick one company, work steadily up the ranks then retire as loyal employees. But neither of our careers have looked anything like this. We’ve had to break free from our parents’ expectations and fears to chart new paths for ourselves. We’re trusting our own decisions and following our true norths to create...2023-08-241h 00
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana14. 5 steps I took to recover from burnout sustainablyWe’re suffering from a global burnout pandemic and I have not escaped it. I burned out 3 times before I realised that I was the root of the problem – what I believed about work, high-performance, myself and others was at the heart of the choices I was making in my career and the extent of ownership I was taking for my outcomes. Join me as I share the 5 things I have done progressively over the past 5 years to sustainably eliminate burnout from my story.
Topics discussed:
* What is burnout and what form do you have?
* My burnout story from J.P...2023-08-1052 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana13. Ida Achiume Shiaka on what leading inauthentically does to our mental healthThis is my first expert interview and I’m joined by Ida Achiume Shiaka, a mental health consultant, coach and advocate, and the CEO of Mental Wealth. Many of us have experienced imposter syndrome, lack of confidence, and feeling the need to shape-shift in order to belong, succeed, and avoid rejection. But at what cost? Ida shares her personal story of struggling to fit in, her journey to finding herself again, and the impact of not being our authentic selves on our mental and physical health, and our emotional wellbeing.
Topics discussed:
* Ida’s sto...2023-07-271h 06
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana12. How to avoid leaving too soonWe’ve spoken about the shadow of being too resilient (Episode 9) but what happens when we leave too soon? We can miss out on a chance to grow, to exercise our agency, rally support around us, and renew stagnant situations if we pull the plug too early. The balance we need to find as leaders is knowing when to press in because more is being demanded of us, and when to cut our losses and leave a bad situation. Let’s explore this delicate balance together so that we don’t forgo personal growth opportunities or fall victim to tempor...2023-07-1343 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana11. Accepting your limitations makes you a stronger leaderWe are under the illusion that we can do anything, overcome anything, become anything. I believed I could. But we can’t. And life shows us this everyday but we often butt heads with this reality because it can make us feel weak, scared, uncertain of the future, and like our dreams are at risk. Yet, it is in accepting this reality that we can begin to be resourceful, mindful of how we spend our time and more likely to build products, teams and strategies that succeed and last because they proactively solve for reality and limitations.
...2023-06-2953 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana10. Charmagne Mazhindu on redefining success, trusting yourself and the power of vulnerabilityIn the second Real Leaders conversation, I’m joined by Charmagne Mazhindu, the Regional Marketing Lead for Sub Saharan Africa at Amazon Web Services. We explore how our definitions of success change as we grow and evolve in our careers and how much of the safety that we seek in financial success and career progression should really be found in ourselves. Charmagne shares how much who we are from within shapes our sense of fulfilment in our careers, our ability to build followership how readily we can make bold moves for our businesses and ourselves. This rich conversation was th...2023-06-1554 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana9. Is being resilient stopping you and your team from thriving?Resilience is a virtue – in its highest expression it makes us adaptable, resourceful, scrappy and results-focussed. However, sometimes it can go too far by making us habituate to hardship and desensitise to suffering. We then fail to notice or respond when changes are needed to bring about more ease and flow so that we can perform better and deliver better experiences to our teams, clients and ourselves. In this episode we ask: Is your ability to “thug it out” working against you? If so, what can you do about it?
Topics discussed:
* The impact protracted hardship has on our sense o...2023-05-3039 min
Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana8. Kundayi Munzara on freedom, values-based decision making and your competitive advantageIn this first conversation in the Real Leaders guest series, I’m joined by Kundayi Munzara, co-founder and executive director of Sesfikile Capital, as we explore what it can look like to be guided by your strengths and what matters most to you. For Kundayi, a deep desire for freedom has shaped his career opportunities, the sale of his business, and how he leads his teams and makes decisions. Join me as we go under the hood in this illuminating interview.
Topics discussed:
* Liberation is one of his guiding values - how he sol...2023-05-1657 minAbundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana7. Owning your “softness” is the key to unlocking EQ, social skills, psychological safety and much moreFeminine energy has a bad rep. So much of corporate culture and the patriarchy tell women and men that displaying “feminine” traits is soft. Yet these are the very traits that help us to nurture strong talent, collaborate, adapt to shifting trends, take risks, co-create answers that are more fit-for-purpose, and many more critical leadership skills. Our “softness” is actually critical to our ability to perform and lead well. How do we undo the damage so that we can integrate the gifts of this energy into our leadership toolkit?
Topics discussed:
* My story – can you rel...2023-05-0349 minAbundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana6. Is your definition of expertise holding you back from leading?When we’re in more junior roles, our value comes from our ability to deliver operationally i.e., technical execution and sharing highly specific content knowledge. But once we become senior managers and leaders, our value comes from our ability to enable value creation against the company’s strategic goals – this requires a different type of skill. It’s helpful to redefine what “expertise” means so that we upgrade our understanding of our own expertise and can bring it to bear so that we don't feel like imposters, undersell ourselves, or miss out on great opportunities.
Topics disc...2023-04-2547 minAbundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana5. Hack your subconscious to overcome your growth limitationsThe biggest key to our success as leaders is our ability to continuously grow so that we can take on new challenges. We must stretch ourselves and lead in new ways – but how do we do this when the old us keeps showing up with their old behaviours, mindsets and limitations? If you’re feeling stuck in an old pattern of leadership despite all of your best efforts to evolve, it may be time to hack your subconscious mind – your growth superpower – and ask it for help.
Harness this proven behavioural science method to accelerate your grow...2023-04-2043 minAbundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana4. Discover your influencing style and increase your personal powerWe all have a style of influencing others that comes most naturally to us. This is how we exert our personal power in order to build support and drive results in our roles as leaders. I’ve observed 3 styles of influencing that we all fall into - which is yours? Do you embrace and trust your personal style – even if it looks different to what we’ve been taught is the “right way” to show power and have leadership impact? Is fear, imitation or self-editing getting in the way?
Topics discussed:
* What are the 3...2023-04-1147 minAbundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana3. Transitioning successfully in your careerWe move on constantly in our careers – to a new role, team, job, company, career path... Sometimes it goes well, but when it doesn’t it can leave us floundering in the new role, struggling to pick up momentum again and wondering if we made the right choice. Grief, acceptance and not throwing out the baby with the bath water can help us successfully navigate difficult transitions
Topics discussed:
* Grief sabotages us later if we don’t let ourselves feel it
* Move towards abundance instead of away from fear
* How not to burn down the house
--Book a free 1x1 coach...2023-03-2742 minAbundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana2. What if finding your purpose doesn't make you happy?We believe that finding our purpose will make us happy so we chase it our whole lives. But what if we get there, and find that something is still missing? We can find lasting fulfilment, peace, and flow if we focus instead on living in continual alignment with what gives us meaning. Let’s explore what this could look like.
Topics discussed:
* How societal expectations can set us up to be miserable
* How focusing on purpose can limit us
* The things we sacrifice in pursuit of purpose
* What life could look like if we focused on meaning
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Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana1. A new vision of abundance for leadersWelcome to the Abundant Leaders Podcast with Tenji Moyana. Let’s explore what it means to lead and live abundantly – to have business impact you can be proud of, flow and authenticity in your leadership style, fulfilment in your career and life, and wholeness in your relationship with yourself.
Topics discussed:
* How this podcast will support you as a leader
* Who I am
* An empowering vision for abundant leadership
* Where you can find me and get support
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Book a free 1x1 coaching discovery call or r...2023-03-2735 min