Dr. Yvonne Maphosa
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Award winning AUTHOR // PhD // Food Science // Chemical Engineering // Lecturer // Globe Trotter // Nerd // Akon's Wife // A Rebel // Summited Kilimanjaro
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I did the Devil’s Pool again 😍 It’s pure magic. Look at God! 🙌 📍 Livingstone, Zambia 🇿🇲
Dr. Yvonne Maphosa170,342 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce
Did the Devil’s Pool AGAIN (for the 3rd time) 😍 Living life on the edge 🥳 📍 Devil’s Pool 🇿🇲
Dr. Yvonne Maphosa73,335 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce
Checking into Amalinda Safari Lodge in Matopos 😁🇿🇼 Come, let me show you the room 😜😁😍 From reception, up a small hill, through a cave and to a gorgeous spacious room perched high up on a rock, with a rain forest shower, outside tub, views to die for, a swing bridge leading to day beds and all meals served hot and fresh. Heaven, I tell you! 🙌🪄😍 🎶 Holiday - Akon
Dr. Yvonne Maphosa31,824 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
I don’t like cameras mina 🙈 Talking in front of the camera is painful for me. Make that EXCRUCIATING! 😂 But when Samke TheGirlsTable said there are kids who need you for their school project, I was like, “Ok, I’ll do it” Then pep-talked myself: ‘You got this, Voe. Do it! You can do it! Think of their marks. You got this!’ 🧘♀️ Their marks over my comfort 😂 …and I loved every second of it.
Dr. Yvonne Maphosa23,483 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
What a beautiful, laid-back year. I worked and rested in equal measure, I laughed hard and loved hard. And I travelled! I ate croissants in Paris, ate too much cheese in Amsterdam, had amazing fish in Mozambique, swam at the edge of the Victoria Falls, had ice cream in Zambia, lunch in Botswana, coffee in Kenya and bitterballen in Den Haag. I fell in love with windmills and canals, trains and bicycles, and enjoyed European winter. Netherlands was a second home 😍 And I finally explored Cape Town like a tourist and went home every chance I got. And I went to the gym, hiked Lion’s Head religiously and went to church. And my career catapulted. I wouldn’t even know where to begin expressing my gratitude because it wasn’t just hard work, it was my seniors at work vouching for me, motivating for me and dropping my name in high places. It was my postgraduate students working hard and cooperating. It was my supervisor saying: “I feel like I photocopied myself in you.” And her pushing me in her footsteps -Guiding me on Funding, Ratings, Publications, Patents, Roping me into high-value projects and mentoring me like a mother. I got ALL the fundings I applied for. Like all of them said YES. I’m still speechless. I got NRF rated (Super huge for my career). I was granted a patent for the nanocomposite I produced during my PhD by South Africa, UK and USA, and the university poured funds into me moving to commercialisation (This happened after I wrote an email to the VC one 3 am. I woke up regretting how ‘harsh’ I had sounded and wanted to walk up to his office and ask him to delete the email before reading it - Long story 💀 But turns out I had just been assertive and not rude, so yay! “Sign here, here and here.”) In all the cities I went to this year, I wrote the way I think - endlessly, deeply and utterly silly sometimes. I wrote my heart out and fought hard against impostor syndrome. I finally published my 6th novel, made progress on The y in your man is silent 3, finished my other novel (Lelani), finished my non-fiction book (about my childhood) and wrote my novel (The Praying Mantis) on my Facebook page. And I got the Outstanding Author award, making me a Multi-award winner… It meant the world! I also finally stopped focusing on the next goal and slowed down. I savoured every moment as it happened and was present in real life. I looked out of airplane windows, went to spas regularly and drank a lot of tea. I also stopped trying to lose weight and ate my heart out. This year, I gave myself the love and kindness I give other people, and I was very gentle with myself. Through it all, God carried me and loved me as if I was His only creation. And I made many connections on and offline. And as always, I enjoyed Twitter a LOT. All that made the year so so beautiful 😍 Also refurnished my house and renovated just nje for no reason at all 🤭 Oh, and I LOVED and allowed myself to be LOVED 😍 And I took many pictures of innuendos 🤭🤣 Chilling and working just enough has been fun, but resting is over. Next year, we go hard!💪 The best is yet to come 🤞✨
Dr. Yvonne Maphosa22,731 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
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