Iyanla Vanzant is an author, spiritual teacher and TV talk show host
IT WAS a talk about finding your purpose in life, having a vision and staying on it.
Iyanla Vanzant - author, spiritual teacher and TV talk show host whose bestselling books In the Meantime, Acts of Faith and Yesterday I Cried - made it a spiritual revival.
What makes Vanzant great, is her accessible demeanour. Her talks are like deep sessions with intimate friends.
Whether it's challenges about relationships, money or love, Vanzant has been through it all herself and this is what makes the teachings in her motivational books so believable.
A storyteller of note, she uses clever analogies much like our own Gcina Mhlophe to simplify compounding life issues.
To demonstrate the need for hard work and proper vision for success, she talked about the bear and the fox in what sounded like a nursery rhyme.
She explained the bear's characteristics of hard work before hibernation as all the dirty jobs one has to do like a bear, plus the cunningness of a fox that is needed to lay a good foundation for success.
"You need to go to all the low places and cover all the ground, and not everyone is prepared to do that (to succeed)."
Vanzant urged the audience to have a vision that is greater and grander than material gains and the need to serve others.
"This is not about doing a job, after all, a job means just over broke."
And she is funny as heck. She peppered her speech with her love for shoes, her obsession with sales and her teapot collection.
There was singing, laughing and crying and Vanzant waved off her audience barefoot as she took off her shoes halfway saying, "They always look good on sale, don't they?"
It was hard to talk after Vanzant, but Shanduka chief executive Phuti Mahanyele's insights on the need to invest in our youth for our economy to flourish, was sobering.
TV host inspires purpose
Iyanla Vanzant is an author, spiritual teacher and TV talk show host
IT WAS a talk about finding your purpose in life, having a vision and staying on it.
Iyanla Vanzant - author, spiritual teacher and TV talk show host whose bestselling books In the Meantime, Acts of Faith and Yesterday I Cried - made it a spiritual revival.
What makes Vanzant great, is her accessible demeanour. Her talks are like deep sessions with intimate friends.
Whether it's challenges about relationships, money or love, Vanzant has been through it all herself and this is what makes the teachings in her motivational books so believable.
A storyteller of note, she uses clever analogies much like our own Gcina Mhlophe to simplify compounding life issues.
To demonstrate the need for hard work and proper vision for success, she talked about the bear and the fox in what sounded like a nursery rhyme.
She explained the bear's characteristics of hard work before hibernation as all the dirty jobs one has to do like a bear, plus the cunningness of a fox that is needed to lay a good foundation for success.
"You need to go to all the low places and cover all the ground, and not everyone is prepared to do that (to succeed)."
Vanzant urged the audience to have a vision that is greater and grander than material gains and the need to serve others.
"This is not about doing a job, after all, a job means just over broke."
And she is funny as heck. She peppered her speech with her love for shoes, her obsession with sales and her teapot collection.
There was singing, laughing and crying and Vanzant waved off her audience barefoot as she took off her shoes halfway saying, "They always look good on sale, don't they?"
It was hard to talk after Vanzant, but Shanduka chief executive Phuti Mahanyele's insights on the need to invest in our youth for our economy to flourish, was sobering.
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