The Brain and Brand Show

Timothy speaks to Tracey Swanepoel, author of The Leadership Riptide and How to Escape. They explore the power of building a leading brand by understanding narrative and storytelling/messaging. In this week's Cyber Health feature, Rianette Leibowitz from SaveTNet talks about the social video platform, indi.com and mobile app, which has launched in Africa. What is the buzz about?

Timothy looks at the history of women in ICT and how more women can impact the field positively. He offers strategies and tips on how women can integrate into the ICT sector. He speaks to Rianette Leibowitz, who became the first runner up of @GovTechZa Women in ICT awards 2016.

Timothy explores how laughter is used as a language to connect people, heal the body and boost the immune system. Why do women laugh more but there are more male comedians? Learn why laughter is beyond a medicine and how important it is to laugh more. In the Cyber Health Feature, Rianette Leibowitz shares how you can get arrested for videos which go viral on social media and what to consider if you want to create funny videos.

Why being on the cover of a leading magazine still matters... As well as how to position yourself to be on the cover, the do's and dont's... Guest - Ndalomedia (Destiny Magazine), Marketing Exec, Onke Dumeko - takes us behind the scenes and we discuss the secrets of choosing cover stars.

Rianette Leibowitz presents unBranded this week and she interviews speaker and author Colleen Larsen on the subject of gender mainstreaming. Colleen is one of the leading voices for the sustainable advancement of women in the corporate and entrepreneurial space in South Africa today. In her weekly Cyber Health feature, Rianette shares reasons why your number could be banned from WhatsApp, and the new chat feature for group messages which will alert you if your name is mentioned.

Farah Fortune stands in for Timothy to discuss Building Your Brand as an Artist/Entertainer with guest DJ Akio, an artist manager of 10 years. What are the wins and fails of elevating your artistic voice? Then Rianette tells us about the Wolfpack Cyber Academy on the Cyber Health feature.

Is your Brand Unconventional? Does society see you as an Outsider? What do you do when you don't look like the Social or Professional Norm? If you don't subscribe to the social norms... perhaps your hair is different, your style is different, your speech and your overall image challenges others and even frightens them... what do you do? How do you brand yourself inside the politics of being different - an outlier? Timothy chats to Harvard MBA Carice Anderson and Zipho Sikhakhane.

Timothy looks at how art in Africa has shaped Brand Africa and how the future of Brand Africa can be elevated by a deeper understanding of African Art, with guest Pulane Kingston. In the Cyber Health Feature - an experiment showed that men can’t leave their phones alone and that women wait twice as long to touch their phones, but none of us last more than a minute!

Blogs officially hit the WWW in 1997. Beyond personal influence, blogs and bloggers are transforming every dimension of society... Timothy looks at how a blog can elevate your personal brand. Then Rianette Leibowitz continues with her list of top 10 cybercrime survival tips in this week's Cyber Health feature - why you shouldn't stayed logged in to your social media accounts and more.

How can an MBA degree impact and grow your personal brand? Timothy chats to founder of Africa's first MBA Indaba, Eric Wright. Also catch the Cyber Health feature with Rianette Leibowitz.