Sisters in South Africa are certainly doing it for themselves, with more and more women – including a lot of moms – who have started self-publishing their books. In recognition of these amazing women, we assembled the author avengers and decided to showcase them on The Great Equalizer. We’ve also teamed up with the lovely ladies from Love Books, in Melville, as well as Kids’ Book Club – a genius online subscription service that brings age-appropriate children’s books to your door.
Read MoreThis Christmas, The Great Equalizer has partnered with Sensational Kids to bring you a specially curated list of educational toys. What’s more, Sensational Kids is offering all our listeners a 10% discount on orders made before 30 November 2018. Just use the discount code #TALKINGCHRISTMAS2018 at checkout to redeem your voucher. So guys, let’s get cracking on that Christmas shopping!
Read MoreFor a brief moment in time, on one glorious Joburg morning early this November, I felt cool. Cool and chic and effortlessly awesome. Being in the company of our Episode 8 guests, the duo that make up social entrepreneurial art club Being Frank, upped my game considerably. For two short hours I forgot about the strange colour of my son’s shit that morning and that I’d jammed to The Wiggles and Mr Golden Sun halfway to the interview before realising I could put my own music on. I was in the presence of Awesome People doing Awesome Things.
Read MoreSo… kids’ birthday parties. I’m totally lying about this being any sort of guidebook or survival to navigating these milestones. I keep telling you guys that we at The Great Equalizer don’t know what the fuck we’re doing. We’re just like you, dude. Effing clueless.
However, we did we have a lot to cover in this episode. And we have some thoughts left over (believe it or not). So, essentially, what did we learn?
Read MoreIn this week’s episode, Sam interviews mom-boss, graphic designer and children’s book illustrator Megan Bird, who this year illustrated not one but THREE books for Imagnary House. These include a locally illustrated version of Alice in Wonderland, a picture book called What on Earth Am I? (written by Lara Salomon) and her most recent addition, a chapter book called The Brave Turtle (written by Brad Harris). (Pic by Bernard Brand)
Read MoreI decided to kick off The Great Equalizer’s blog posts with a wake up call... My own wake up call. Isn’t that what parenting really is? Getting kicked upside the head when you even start to think that you’ve got your shit together? Getting the rug pulled out from under you the second you let yourself get the slightest bit smug?
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