Yesterday saw me sharing the stage at the Sanlam Innovation Day with some pretty hard hitters in the corporate and social media world! Andy Gilder from the gocashless project, Hannes Van Rensburg the CEO of Fundamo and Justin Spratt from Internet Solutions were my fellow speakers amongst others!
It was quite something to sit on a truly mind expanding conference and get some insight into the speed with which the world is changing and how companies like Sanlam are looking ahead and innovating.
As always I felt incredibly blessed to have the opportunity to share the story of how we funded 'Journey' by pre-selling it and giving 10% to women empowerment and artist upliftment along the way. The lessons the project taught me, mean that I now get to stand on stages like the one yesterday and talk about how innovating and following a crazy idea has transformed my life. It is incredible to consider that I am doing it all over again and that we already have over 100 Future Owners of our next album 'From Africa With Love' from 6 countries around the world!
As I always say in my talks - "it's what you don't know that following a dream holds in store for you, that will really shape and create the experience into what it needs to be. So above all else - just start - just say "I CAN" and trust that life will deliver you all the lessons and support you need to get where you are going!"
I'm looking ahead... are you?

