Episode 14 - Nurse, Midwife and Owner of a children's clothing brand.

06/14/21 • 42 min

Health Professionals Outside the Box Podcast

Bonani Mapundu is a Nurse and Midwife by background and owns a clothing brand called Yanafella. She also undertakes consultancy work for small to medium sized organisations and facilitates workshops and speaking engagements to help aspiring creative entrepreneurs turn their craft or hobby into a business.
We discussed:
1. How she has leveraged her passion for creativity into running a children’s clothing brand business.
2. What she did to prove her clothing business idea would work .
3. Questions to ask when sourcing fabric and important costs to factor.
4. How outsourcing some tasks to a virtual assistant has been an important step in managing her business.
5. How her business uses influencer marketing to increase brand awareness.
6. Challenges she has encountered along the way.
7. How to become expressively creative.
8. What her consultancy services entail and further qualifications she had to attain.
9. What helps her stay organised and motivated.
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Connect with Bonani :

Website: https://bonanimapundu.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iambonani/ OR https://www.instagram.com/yanafella/ ==============================
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Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/fisiwe-guga-muvirimi-26572436/
Music: Basic Implosion by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3420-basic-implosion/
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Mitchel Chatukuta is Physiotherapist by background, currently working as an Epidemiologist, Occasional Editor and Board Member at Disability and Society (Journal).
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1. What led him to purse Public Health and Epidemiology.
2. The additional qualifications he attained following his Physiotherapy degree .
3. The work he does as an Epidemiologist and what he finds most fulfilling .
4. Skills he has transferred from Physiotherapy to an Epidemiology.
5. Life lessons learnt on reflection and his next career path.
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1. How ICRIT came about and the services offered.
2. How the organisation stands out from the competition.
3. The many ways the organisation invests in their staff/employees to ensure that they provide high quality care and support to clients and maintain job satisfaction.
4. How the quality of care delivered is measured.
5. His responsibilities as a Director.
6. Important lessons learnt about leadership, his weaknesses and what he could have done different.
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Website: https://www.icrithealthcare.co.uk/
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