Some shifts you choose. Some choose you.
Either way, life on the other side of change is possible. And it looks different for everyone.
Shift Happens with Richard Sutton. Launching 18 May 2026.
Watch/listen on primediaplus.com, the Primedia+ app, Spotify & Apple Podcasts.
You know it’s going to be a good panel when you’re excited to hear what’s being said… as one of the panelists 😉
Here’s what we’re talking about:
A Better Way
In a world that feels relentlessly stressful, how do we stay hopeful, energised and open to possibility?
Bridget McNulty (Daily Glimmers), Richard Sutton (Shift Happens) and Zuraida Jardine explore simple but powerful ways to reconnect with joy, purpose and resilience, and to live not just successfully, but deeply and fully.
Bring it on! Franschhoek Literary Festival starts on Friday! 💫
@franlitfest@zuraidajardine@realrichardsutton
Stress can make you 20% more powerful.
✦ Power output ↑ 20%
✦ Strength ↑ 10%
✦ Metabolic rate ↑ 20%
More than any performance optimising drug.
Stop fearing stress. Start harnessing it.
#ShiftHappens #StressScience #MindsetShift
He was born in a hut in rural Qumbu.
No birth certificate. No ocean. No blueprint.
Last week he sat across from me — the man who just won the Cape2Rio yacht race. 3,300 nautical miles across the open South Atlantic.
Then on the return voyage the mast came down.
~800 nautical miles from Rio. They abandoned ship.
Rescued at sea.
He told me about it like it was just another thing that happened.
@sizatusibusiso spent his first nine years herding cattle.
No birth certificate until he was 20.
First time on a sailing boat at 13 — he swam back to shore 100 metres out. Because he hated it.
Then something changed. He started saying yes.
Yes when he wasn’t ready.
Yes to rooms that he thought weren’t built for him.
Yes to the ocean when everything said: not for you.
Not a plan.
A posture.
Won on handicap. Won on courage.
He never said he overcame the odds. He said he never accepted the odds were real.
Shift Happens Podcast — launching end of May.
Sibu is one of the first voices you’ll hear.
What’s the one yes that changed everything for you?
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@primedia_broadcasting
#ShiftHappens #Cape2Rio #SibusisoSizatu #SayYes #Resilience Podcast OpenOcean AfricanExcellence SouthAfrica PersonalGrowth MindsetShift Leadership Sailing OvercomeTheOdds Cape2RioRace
My take away from my conversation with @earlybmusic - if you dream it, you can become it! There is always a way.
#resilience #humanpotential #highperformer #shifthappens #transformation
What would my 16-year-old self say to being invited to speak at the Franschhoek Literary Festival?
He wouldn’t believe it. Not because he didn’t want more — but because he couldn’t see how it would happen.
Barely getting through school. More doubt than direction. Holding on to something he couldn’t yet name.
Me? There? It wouldn’t make sense.
What would I say to him?
Thank you. For staying.
For not letting failure become identity. For continuing when stopping would’ve been easier.
The discomfort you’re trying to avoid? That’s the work.
Face it, and over time, it changes you.
You don’t need a perfect plan. You need consistency. You need to stay open enough to evolve.
And one thing I learnt late:
Let people in.
None of this is individual. Not the growth. Not the opportunities.
Standing on that stage is built on people — Pan Macmillan, my editors, my proofreaders, my family.
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Shift happens. Slowly. If you stay.
#resilience #shifthappens #selfleadership @panmacmillansa #humanpotential #growth
A saying I have lived by for years now…
Do the things you have to, so that you can do the things you want to.
#shifthappens
#healthylife
#dohardthings
#resilience
Do the hard stuff.
For as long as I can remember, I have had a SERIOUS FEAR of confined spaces.
No trauma. No defining moment. Just a resistance to caves, tunnels, tight air. I have avoided them where possible.
Today I went 2km underground into a gold mine.
If I am going to work in this environment and speak about pressure in this context, then I need to experience it fully. Not from a boardroom. Not from a slide deck. From the shaft.
In the weeks leading up to it, I noticed the anticipation building. The mind is efficient at constructing worst-case futures. It rehearses them with detail (normally 2am in the morning)
Standing in the cage before descent, I felt it. The narrowing of space. The shift in temperature. The awareness of depth. The very human instinct to step back, out or away.
That is the moment we often negotiate with ourselves - I didn’t. It was never an option.
I prepared carefully (using many fo the tools in shifthappens).
Box breathing before we entered.
Ashwagandha (from @natroceuticssa ) earlier in the morning.
A repeated affirmation - have got this, I have got this…
A clear mental image of my family.
Not to eliminate fear - that’s unrealistic. But to regulate it.
About ten minutes into walking underground, something changed. My breathing steadied. My field of vision widened. I was asking questions. Listening properly. Observing systems, not just sensations. The physiology had settled.
What struck me most was the composure of the miners. No drama. No commentary. Just disciplined, skilled work in an environment that demands respect. You cannot posture underground. The environment corrects you quickly.
Four hours later, back on the surface, I expected relief. What I felt instead was energy. Something had recalibrated internally. A clear recognition that the fear was real - but it was never in charge.
And perhaps the most surprising part of all - I loved the experience. Something I would never have anticipated.
There is a difference between avoiding discomfort and training your nervous system to handle it.
Today was a reminder of that.
#ShiftHappens #Resilience #SelfLeadership #highperformancehabits #humanpotenial
