Kagiso Msimango - The Goddess Bootcamp

There are no coincidences.

I wrote this book because you conjured it, from a deep knowing that you are meant for a different life one you are head over heels in love with. Hence you now hold this book I wrote for you.

I wrote this book for me too, because I am bored with hearing powerful, talented, intelligent, capable women routinely use words such as okay, fine, alright, whatever, and phrases such as it could be worse and good enough, to describe, endure and justify their lives. Weve ended up with pseudo lives through our willingness to settle for less, or other, than our hearts truest desires.

I wrote this book to empower, inspire and support women to choose juicy lives of pleasure, passion and purpose, where WOW! moments are the rule and OK moments the exception.

Women are the worlds biggest untapped natural resource. Alas, we are mainly ignorant of our value and power. We could be likened to a subsistence farmer who works himself to the bone, surviving on the bare necessities. All the while, the land he owns is teeming with precious natural resources and, if he knew diamonds lay beneath his rugged hands, his life would change in an instant if he so wished.

Bruce Muzik, an international success coach from South Africa, likes telling the story of time he spent living in a township. During a personal development seminar, he uncovered a fear of black people. To conquer this fear, he accepted a challenge to move to the Cape Town township of Gugulethu for a month. He ended up living there for six months. Word got around about the Umlungu living in the township and people came to see him. Many asked him for money. Initially, he gave it to them, but after a while realising that he had turned into the local ATM he refused. Instead, being a successful entrepreneur, he offered to teach the people how to make their own money. Bruce says in those six months only one person took him up on the offer. Yes, out of hundreds of poor people who had an opportunity to empower themselves, only one took up the offer. Three hundred years of oppression had taught black South Africans that they were inferior, unworthy and incapable of being, doing and having certain things. In some cases as with Bruces township neighbours this conditioning was so ingrained that people didnt even try to seize an empowering opportunity that presented itself on their doorstep, in a democratic South Africa. After only a few hundred years of institutionalised disempowerment, many black South Africans have internalised it. Now consider that femininity has been demoted, demeaned, and degraded for millennia overtly, now only in a few countries, but in sophisticated and subtle ways, in many more. Imagine the damage of thousands of years of feminine oppression on our sense of worth and power as women! As a life coach, specialising in the personal development of women, I see how much we struggle with internalised disempowerment. What disturbs me most is that we are generally unaware of it, making its effects insidiously potent. As they say at AA, awareness is the first step to recovery. You conjured this book because you are ready to recover.