Director Woman Fastrack, July 2022

DIRECTOR WOMAN MAGAZINE JULY 2022 EDITIONfastrackTHETHANDOEDITION DIRECTOR WOMAN FASTRACK MAGAZINE THE THANDO EDITION AVAILABLE ON WWW.TYPE4GIRL.COMJULY 2022 EDITION + THANDO MOKOENA: WANSATI woman [noun]

DW ED'S NOTE GIRL JUST WANNA HAVE MONEY Starting this month, we're doing what we call Focus Editions. These editions will see us feature only one woman and zoom in on her journey. A duplicate of the focus Edition cover story will also be uploaded on www.type4girl.com a week after the Edition. This means we'll be focusing on getting in more content that appeals to our readers and shifting from doing multiple person features. ANYWAY, THANDO? She is really something! I'm not going to give anything away, but I guarantee you you will understand the heading of my note as soon as you start reading her feature story. I hope you'll get to liking our new format next month. :) See you soon then. The very best, Masekane N. CHIEF EDITOR Director Woman Magazines 4 l MAY 2022 www.type4girl.com

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DW BOSS BABE COLUMN BY MMINA GABOURY COLUMNIST | @BOSSBABECOLUMN if you're new here, I'm Mmina. This is my diary, I’m a struggling aspirant Boss Babe. I have some really good news to share with you. MY COLUMN IS ALSO PUBLISHED ON WWW.TYPE4GIRL.COM! So, you never have to wait for the next Edition of Director Woman for new content. Simply visit the website and sign up! And you’ll be notified everytime I post something. Or just follow @bossbabecolumn on IG. Be gentle with thyself. Love, Mmina G. 4 l JUNE 2022 www.type4girl.com

DW BOSS BABE COLUMN BY MMINA GABOURY COLUMNIST | @BOSSBABECOLUMN THE PROBLEM WITH THE PREFECT LAUNCH: IT PROBABLY DOESN'T EXIST Hey babe. OH MY WORD! I just want to feather before it can be all systems go. quickly put some respect on people This month, I'll be sharing some of my who've launched a startup. That 'just experience with an unsuccessful launch start' sh#t is hard. Trust me, I've tried plan and the tips I got from my new if, twice now without success. trusted business coach. See, I'm a perfectionist. So everything My article titled The problem with being a single wandering duck has to be in perfectionist trying to launch a startup will line perfectly, down to every last be up on www.type4girl.com later this week! 5 l JUNE 2022 www.type4girl.com

THANDO IS THE NEXT BIG THING IN THE BEAUTY INDUSTRY, SHE IS THE FOUNDER AND CEO TBM COSMETICS. ONLY IN HER MID- TWENTIES, SHE’S MADE CONVINCING STRIDES IN HER QUEST TO NOT ONLY BE FINANCIALLY FREE, BUT TO BE UNAPOLOGETICALLY, FILTHILY FINANCIALLY FREE AND THEN SOME. THANDO Mokoena

DW THANDO MOKOENA the As it so often goes, her mother wanted effortlessly awesome rockstar was born to see her further her education and get in the East Rand in 1996. “My mom was a stable job working at an office, and she very young when she had me. I grew up shares that she is far from being and in both the East Rand and Witbank academic and traditional nine-to-fiver. because my parents weren’t in a “Me and academia are a terrible relationship when they had me,” she combination. I am a practical and begins. Thando shares that despite creative person, I’m very good with my growing up between two families, she hands and I love working with my had a ‘beautiful’ childhood. “I was hands.” blessed to have both sides of my family taking care of me, I was raised by a After her course Thando fell pregnant, village, literally.” and that threw a spanner in her plans. “I had to go back to the drawing board and EVEN AS A TEEN, the proud business figure out what to do. So I defaulted to owner always knew she needed to have doing nails. I love being a mom and I money. “I was raised by a woman who knew I needed to find something I could had money, my aunt had a lot of money. that wouldn’t take away from me being a I used to look at her employees and present mom,” she says. think to myself I don’t want to be them; I have to be her if I want to get the kind of Thando then went on to train as a nail money I want.” tech at Young Nails in Witbank, and that came with her second child. She shares After highschool Thando took a course that she fell into deep depression during as a flight attendant, even though it that time and couldn’t function. “I was a wasn’t always her first choice. “Five, six zombie. I still knew what I wanted but I years ago, being a nail tech or making had to really fight through depression your own beauty/skincare products and anxiety before I could get back to wasn’t considered a real career.” the grove of things.” Soon after, she also got her feet into the world of skincare; and raising a child with skin problems proved to be a blessing in disguise and allowed her to truly prove the integrity of her products. 7 l JUNE 2022 www.type4girl.com

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True love DW THANDO MOKOENA www.type4girl.com fairytale is a fitting description of what Thando and her husband, whom she had nothing but praises to sing, represent, at least to their children. The rising star shares that although she fell pregnant right out of high school, she believes it was all in God’s plan. The pair met in high school and are still going strong. She says about their story, “He was everything I could ever want, but when you’re so young you often doubt things because how am I already thinking this is the one or thinking about marriage?” 9 l JUNE 2022

TBM Cosmetics FOUNDER, THANDO MOKENA THE ABOVE TEXT IS NOT MEANT TO REPRESENT THE LOGO FOR TBM COSMETICS. IT IS A CAPTION FOR THE IMAGE SUPPLIED TO US REPRESENTING WORK DONE BY TBM COSMETICS.

DW TSHIDI RADEBE THANDO FORMALIZED TBM girl boss COSMETICS in June 2021, making The experience of being your own boss is often a beauty products. Although she has little different from what we imagine when we a supportive husband who would read success stories. Thando was raised in a give her the world if she asked for family of entrepreneurs, so not a lot of things it, she was determined to build came as a surprise to her and she knew to something that was hers, by anticipate a lot of the challenges that often came herself. This is not to say he didn’t her way. One of the expected yet unexpected pain help where he could. As a graphic points of running a business for her was handling designer and photographer, he difficult clients who sometimes expect her to assisted with the branding and perform the impossible. “But I understand content elements. Without the because I am also a customer in my own capacity capital to really start anything, she and sometimes I recognize that I would probably spread the word that she was react the same way if my delivery was delayed for making skincare soaps and it just some reason,” she says. As it were, consistent so happened that someone placed delivery/manufacture has been her biggest an order. Thando knew she challenge yet. Besides her constant mental health wouldn’t make any profit from that struggles affecting her consistency as she makes particular sale but she needed the her products herself, finding a reliable and learning curve so she used the affordable vendor for natural ingredients hasn’t money to buy what she needed and been easy. produced a final product and in her words, “it spread like wildfire.” And so, the rest is history. 11 l JUNE 2022 www.type4girl.com

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DW THANDO MOKOENA my TBM launch A year after first making things official, Thando exclusively shared with Director Woman that she was planning a big launch for the first TBM Cosmetics Clinic, a milestone that didn’t come very easy. We joked with her about how, people looking in from the outside, would kill for whatever prayer she made. But having heard all about her struggles, we can all agree that it may very well be true that nothing worth it ever comes easy. WHEN IT COMES TO BALANCE AND As many balls in the air as Thando has, HARMONY, Thando does it all for her she’s had more! She tells us she initially brand, from the social media decided to drop her makeup brushes and management, to PR and marketing. “I focus on growing TBM Cosmetics, but don’t know how I do it, but I’m doing it. overtime decided to merge Lush Beauty When they say God’s grace is upon a Studio and TBM Cosmetics instead of person, they’re talking about me,” she doing away with it. Thando is also a laughs. YouTuber and she shares that she’s planning to return to the platform. But most importantly, she adds that she knows she’ll have to find balance and harmony within her before she can spread that healthy harmony to her work life. What cause do you stand for? Thando is abundantly blessed, and she is looking to spread those blessings to the underprivileged. She and a couple of her girlfriends started the Agape Foundation. It is still new and they’re still figuring out their mandate and focus. In June, on Youth Day, Thando and one of her friends celebrated their birthdays with an Agape Foundation Charity run at a children’s home in Witbank where they donated sanitary products, food and toys.

14 l JUNE 2022 DW THANDO MOKOENA What is your TOP TIP to teen Thando? “START NOW, make your mistakes now, while you’re young, just start now.” How do you want to be REMEMBERED? “I want people to remember me by the effect of my presence, my smile. I want to touch and transform people by simply being present around them.” editor's note I actually always enjoy the interviews with the women we feature, and every woman I chat to, always makes me say, ‘this has to be one of the very best interviews I’ve ever done.’ Thando is just such a pure soul. I asked her what she does to relax and in true Thando fashion, she said she relaxes by finding more ways to make money and I can never be mad at that. Plus, she sounds so fulfilled chasing bare maximum. AND she dropped a gem from her husband somewhere during that particular exchange, YOU CAN’T CHEAT THE GRIND. I love me a woman who is not only prepared to, but isn’t shy to work for her money, until her money works for her. After chatting for a couple of minutes about how great my voice is and how much I now adore her, I found out her friends may not always appreciate how fabulous she is so I will close this feature piece with this little note to her friends: please, this girl is a warm fluffy goof- ball, she’s amazing, take her out for lunch and give her money, now! www.type4girl.com

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