Ambitious Women Must Overcome The Need To Be Liked ft. Vuyiswa M'Cwabeni
To My Sisters
To My Sisters
4.9 • 917 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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In this episode, your favourite online sisters Courtney Daniella and Renee Kapuku are joined by Vuyiswa M’Cwabeni for a powerful conversation on identity, focus, and the freedom that comes from letting go of people pleasing. Together, they unpack the pressure women feel to be liked, understood, and everything to everyone — and how that can quietly hold you back from building the life you’re truly called to. From navigating career, motherhood, and reinvention to dealing with opinions, guilt, and expectations, this episode will challenge you to get clear, stay focused, and become the woman you’re meant to be — regardless of who approves.
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| 0:00.0 | There are so many different paths towards success, and you can be the woman you're called to be, whether people like it or no or not. |
| 0:07.0 | As a black woman who grew up in white environments, we must be self-aware to another level. |
| 0:15.0 | You strike me as a woman who doesn't care much for fitting in. |
| 0:20.0 | Other people's thoughts of me just haven't been important. |
| 0:23.6 | Wow, that's really interesting. |
| 0:24.6 | Too many times people are so focused on the noise. |
| 0:28.6 | It takes energy. |
| 0:29.6 | How you came to be the woman that you are? |
| 0:31.6 | I met the worst version of myself. |
| 0:34.6 | I was part or caught up in a large corporate scandal on the work front. |
| 0:40.5 | It's definitely given us so much to think about. And it can only come from being ruthless. |
| 0:45.5 | I'm rubbing the book ladies. Hello and welcome to the To My Sisters podcast. I'm Renee. I'm Courtney and I'm Vuiswa. |
| 0:57.3 | Oh, beautiful. |
| 0:59.5 | And we are your online sisters and hosts of The Two My Sisters podcast. We are all about promoting |
| 1:04.3 | the wellness, growth and development of a community of sisters around the world. And in today's |
| 1:08.9 | episode, we are joined by a woman who is doing it all. |
| 1:12.9 | Literally. And I'll put that label on you for real. I think somebody who has succeeded in |
| 1:18.7 | corporate, succeeding in entrepreneurship, venturing into the women's wellness space. I think you |
| 1:24.4 | host a lot of achievements, but we want to know the woman behind it all and how |
| 1:31.7 | you actually built this life where we can actually term and title you, that girl. |
| 1:37.8 | Because Vizua, you are that girl. |
| 1:40.4 | Let me tell you that. |
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