In this episode, we sit with Lungile Maile—Nubian Smarts founder, EdTech innovator, and fierce advocate for Africa’s children as tech creators, not just consumers. Lungile’s work through Nubian Smarts is reshaping how under-served communities engage with STEAM (A for Art yay) education, from culinary coding and VR classrooms to AI hackathons, and AI-powered WhatsApp tools for teachers, parents and Business Operations - especially Manufacturing.

We explore the soul behind the software: how Lungile blends manufacturing grit with ancestral vision, how she builds playful yet powerful learning experiences, and why democratizing tech is a spiritual and strategic act. This conversation is a call to educators, parents, business owners, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and dreamers—to co-create a continent where innovation is local, joyful, and radically inclusive.

Lungile Maile Nubian Smarts contact details:

Mobile: +27 73 748 3166 (South Africa)

Email: lungile@nubiansmarts.co.za

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lungi_maile?igsh=MTNyNzRsOHB0b3czcg==

She Builds Mnandi is a series honouring and showcasing African female entrepreneurs

My first guest for the series is Carmen Ely, Founder of of Play With Me ZA. Carmen created her boutique intimacy shop in Johannesburg to empower women through sensual self-awareness—born from her own journey of reclaiming pleasure after a few painful and healing life experiences.

Play With Me ZA isn’t just a sex shop—it’s a feminine, elegant, and emotionally intelligent space that invites women to explore intimacy with grace and curiosity.

Come and play with us In this evocative episode, as I sit down with Carmen—entrepreneur, sensuality guide, and cultural disruptor—for a raw and reverent exploration of pleasure, reclamation, and radical intimacy. What begins as a story of personal transformation unfolds into a layered reflection on Carmen’s divorce, her struggle to prioritise her own pleasure, and the unexpected evolution of her adult toy store into a healing sanctuary.

Carmen shares how her business became less about products and more about the deep, vulnerable conversations with clients—conversations that helped them confront shame, guilt, and cultural conditioning around sexuality. Now, she’s expanding into the creation of dungeon spaces: intentional, consent-based environments that honour kink, edge-play, and the full spectrum of erotic expression.

Throughout the episode, Carmen gently invites listeners to dip their toes into their own edges—to explore the blocks, beliefs, and inherited scripts that shape their relationship to intimacy. For her, communication is the cornerstone of any erotic or emotional connection. It’s not just about what we do, but how we speak, listen, and co-create safety.

This episode invites listeners to meet themselves at the edge—where curiosity becomes courage, and healing begins with truth.

How to reach Carmen Ely and Play with Me.ZA

https://www.instagram.com/playwithmeza/

https://playwithme.co.za/?srsltid=AfmBOoqRVpFGdlsoO0YkrKHaoZKaxi0I7T2e39JpHJux2ZnLADyEsKgB

Lynda Williams founded the Evolved Woman Program—a 12-week coaching journey designed to help professional women reconnect with their feminine energy, build emotional resilience, and create soul-aligned lives.

She works with emotional and energetic alignment, clearing subconscious blocks like imposter syndrome and burnout, reclaiming self-worth and alignment that goes beyond external definitions of success.

Lynda's journey resonated with my own and her personal message touched me.

"Your podcast always sparks honest conversations about modern womanhood, and I truly admire your approach to these nuanced topics. I thought about reaching out, as my own path might resonate with your listeners. From losing my dad to suicide at 18, to pushing through divorce and two intense burnouts running a million dollar PR agency, I've experienced firsthand the pressures ambitious women face behind their polished exteriors.

What ultimately changed my life was creating the Evolved Woman Method, after my own setbacks with love and relationships. I walked away from a successful business to focus on helping high-achieving women find love and fulfillment—as I did myself—without having to dial down their ambition. Today, my coaching program is sought after by accomplished women worldwide and guides them through overcoming patterns that keep them from real connection.

Lynda"

Lynda Williams, Founder, Life & Business Coach

Lynda Williams Group Ltd

Founder of The Evolved Woman Program

Podcast Host: PS I Love Me

The perfect way to close out Women's month in South Africa.

Today’s guest is someone whose presence arrived not through algorithms or marketing funnels, but through resonance. Nancy Griffin, founder of Women Worth Wellness, reached out to me via email—unsolicited, unexpected, and at first, I’ll admit, a little suspicious. I’ve had my fair share of strange requests lately, so I asked for a Zoom meet and did what any discerning woman would do: I checked her LinkedIn.

What I found was a woman whose work deeply aligns with mine—uplifting communities, integrating emotional intelligence into financial empowerment, and redefining wealth as something far more expansive than numbers on a spreadsheet.

Nancy is a Certified Financial Planner, a legacy architect, and a fierce advocate for women reclaiming their worth—emotionally, financially, and spiritually. She’s worked with Boomer women, their daughters, and now their granddaughters, helping them design lives and legacies rooted in wellness and wisdom.

In today’s conversation, we explore the sacred dance between self-worth and net worth, the emotional terrain of money, and how giving back becomes a pathway to wholeness.

Shahd Alasaly is a living dedication and prayer for healing community through collective resonance and recovery.

Her team, namely Katie, found Dopamine Dialogues and wrote

this email to me... which is why we now have this episode.

Thank you Katie for introducing us.

"Hi Sarika,
The stories stitched into every garment can sometimes say more than words, and no one embodies that philosophy better than Shahd Alasaly. With a rich background as an author, educator, and sociologist at the University of South Florida, Shahd’s work bridges research, fashion, and human resilience. She focuses on trauma, displacement, betrayal, and collective healing, especially within collectivist communities, an angle that brings fresh depth to conversations about belonging and transformation.
As founder and creative director of Blue Meets Blue, Shahd launched a humanitarian label in Chicago in 2015, dedicated to empowering refugee artisans through luxury, modest fashion collections deeply rooted in healing and cultural preservation. Now in Tampa, she is relaunching with a sharp focus on Syrian brocade, traditional embroidery, and building meaningful employment for refugees in the U.S. Her recent journey to Syria, where she partnered with local textile artisans rebuilding after war, gives her firsthand insight into cultural survival and hope.
Every Blue Meets Blue piece tells the story of survival, dignity, and craft, a powerful lens for your Dopamine Dialogues listeners exploring memory, collective recovery, and creativity as a force for justice. Beyond fashion, Shahd is the author of A Kids Book About Humanitarianism and is developing a children’s series on the refugee experience. Her commitment to ethical sourcing, sustainability, and storytelling creates a rare blend: someone who truly lives the connection between creative expression and empowerment.
Would love for you to consider Shahd as a future guest.
Best,
BMB Team

This episode is a call to soften, to witness, and to lead from the heart. It’s for anyone who believes that healing is communal, that leadership is energetic, and that love is the most radical strategy of all.

And of course, I got emotional. I ugly cry when I am deeply humbled.

Love

Sarika

In this raw and soulful conversation, I sit with sacred intimacy coach Tamara Carter, to explore the sacred power of the yoni—our portal of creation, pleasure, and emotional truth. With courage and compassion, Tamara shares her journey of healing from sexual abuse, shining light on how deep-rooted shame can fracture our connection to sensuality and self-worth.

Together we unpack how both women and men reject their yoni energy, and what that means for living fully, feeling safe in our bodies, feeling safe in creating and experiencing the joy of orgasmic life force. There are a few emotional moments where I share vulnerably about my miscarriages, my own shame around sexual intimacy and the emotional threads of unworthiness tied to the sacral centre. We are inviting listeners into a space of remembrance and radical healing.

We also explore how energetic disconnection often begins in the emotional and etheric body—manifesting physically in ways that disconnect us from our birthright of creation and pleasure. The conversation moves through grief, reverence, and transformation, ultimately asking: What would it take to truly heal the yoni?

💫 This episode wasn’t planned—but it arrived divinely aligned with August, Women’s Month. A time to remember, reclaim, and rise. May you listen gently, reflect deeply, and if you feel called, reach out to Tamara for intimacy coaching or sacred support.

www.sacredintimacysecrets.com

Calling all entrepreneurs and brave souls. This episode is a love letter to those building slowly, with care.

I am joined by Tina, a powerhouse of note—entrepreneur, counsellor, and creative force—for a conversation that pulses with authenticity, ritual, and renewal. Tina shares her journey of building a business that’s woven from healing work, lifelong learning, and a fierce devotion to showing up fully—as herself, for herself, and with others.

From sacred morning coffees that anchor her day, to village-style, person-to-person connections, and her delectable homemade toasted baked sandwiches that nourish more than just the body—Tina invites us into a world where entrepreneurship becomes a sacred, sensory, and relational experience. Her energetic presence radiates freedom held within form, balancing soul and structure with grace.

If you're thinking of pursuing a life in the arts and what this means as a career....

Prof. David Andrew shares his thoughts on the necessity of creativity in today's world, the evolving nature of artistry and the importance of embracing artistic sensibilities, even in non artistic professions.

David reflects on the shifting definition of art in the next 5 to 10 years, exploring his concept of "creative citizenry", a future where artistic thinking integrates into society in ways we haven't fully realized yet.

Through real world stories, including former students and where they are today...David illustrates how an education in fine arts is foundational in building critical thinking and creativity and how this can enrich the world today.