Last week, I was excited to be sprinkling fairy dust over Adrian Loveland at the launch of his first documentary called Jo’burg Unhinged.

Adrian has spent the last 3 years working on this awesome documentary. As a patriotic Jo’burger, Adrian, as the lead character takes you on a real trip through the ups and downs, highs and lows of Jo’burg and gives a very balanced view about this World Class African City.

Well done on turning your documentary dream into reality, Adi!

Watch The 2 minute Trailer

Watch the 8 minute Trailer

Mike Walker loves wearing a multi-coloured beanie (those woollen hats) on cold, wintery days. Mike Walker also loves his Granny (Gogo = Zulu for Granny). He combined these two loves, to form a project, Gogo Beanies, that is now creating hundreds of jobs and lighting up people’s lives.

A few years ago, Mike would visit his Gran weekly in her old age home and one day had an inspired thought “Gran could knit him some beanies for winter”. So, on the next visit, he took along some wool and she happily knitted her grandson some woolly beanies. He was delighted, she was delighted! And when he experienced her delight he realised that he should get more wool for her to make some more. Thus Gran was on a roll of making beanies and the question arose of “how many beanies can one man really wear?”

So Mike started giving some beanies to his friends. The other grannies in the old age home became inspired by the delightful energy of beanie making and they, too, began to knit beanies. All the time Mike kept taking more and more wool and more and more beanies were being knitted and soon Mike and all of his friends had more than enough beanies. The Grannies, however, didn’t want to stop because making beanies gave them a feeling of purpose and it was at this stage that Mike had another inspired thought “what about giving beanies to orphans for winter?” Thus Gogos made beanies and Mike gave beanies to orphans and Gogo Beanies was truly born…

To cut a long story short (too late, I know!), M-net has recently sponsored R 2 million to the project but with a slightly different spin – now not only Gogo’s knit beanies but women in rural areas can knit beanies and the R 2 million will ensure R50 goes to the knitter for every beanie knitted.

So, suddenly, Mike’s project has gone from just making Grannies and Orphans happy to now

1x beanie = a job for a day!

That’s the power of following your passion!

A BIG Fairy Godmother Wand Wave to Mike Walker for following his passion, spreading love and taking just one step at a time on a powerful journey.

Help Mike to keep grannies and the unemployed kitting and to keep orphans warm…

visit the Gogo Beanie Website or become a FAN on Facebook

A Daring Dreamer – Michelle Anderson, did the Dream Mapping and Goal Setting Workshop in Cape Town in May.  She was in the midst of a divorce, suffering from depression and really uncertain about her future.  The workshop and the Growing Wings program has catapulted her in 6 months into living a  life that she loves!

She has recently launched an AWESOME online magazine called O2 Mag – and it really is a blast of fresh air for the soul.  Filled with inspirational articles from a range of experts, I highly recommend it…. it is certainly a resource to help you live your dreams.

Download September Issue of O2 Mag

Astrid Fleming is a DARING dreamer.  She came to a Dream Mapping and Goal Setting workshop in 2007 and this year she has just launched her first novel called “White Nights” which is a dream come true for her!

Here’s an email she sent through to me…

Most gorgeous Donna,

Thank you sooooooooooo much for your divine support! You are such a darling. You’re absolutely right, this is a HUGE dream!  It’s amazing how one gets derailed by life, corporates and everything in between and then the universe gives you a massive shove (I suspect much like your epiphany on the bus, though mine happened on a yoga mat!) and you end up in exactly the right place!

And then the universe supports you! Exclusive Books has been wonderful, completely supportive and very enthusiastic. They’ve come up with ideas, suggestions and are stocking more copies of the book than I could possibly dream. Thank you so much for putting the story of the novel in your newsletter! I can’t thank you enough! My obscenely marvellous goal for this year (and yes, it makes me tremble with the audacity of it!) is to get White Knights picked up by an international publisher, launched internationally, and to land a major 2 book deal… so that I can focus entirely on the next novel which is hovering in my dreams. I tremble with the excitement of it! Grin grin grin.

Sending loads of love,
A

And I was fortunate to attend her recent book launch and this is what she had to say

A little about the book of course….

White Knights tells the tale of Emma Cooper, an ambitious young investment banker who leaves her family in London and her long-time love in Africa to make her millions on Wall Street. There she finds that corporate finance is far less glamorous, and the Big Apple far more rotten, than she ever expected.

To read more about Astrid’s Journey and to buy the book (hint, hint)  CLICK HERE

Towards the end of 2005 Verity got clear on her dream or what I call a WIG – a Wildly Improbable Goal – which is to be an international singer/ songwriter who inspires millions of people through her music and through her music is able to make an incredible difference in the world.

So the first step to realising her dream was to record an album, but in the cut-throat and difficult music industry Verity decided that she wouldn’t let the industry get her down, but instead she would do things differently to realize her dream…

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One of my first ever Fairy Godmothering duties was to help an actor who wanted to become a World Famous Stand-up Comedian. The job was to wand-wave and to kick-start him on the path to his dreams.

That was a few years ago and over a number of delicious burgers at Royale in Cape Town, with many scribbles on sheets of paper and a whole lot of wand-whacking to get him into action, Nik Rabinowitz took the super courageous step of putting on his first one man show called “One Man, One Goat”. The show was very well received in the original little theatre space that he used in Obz cafe. And as his courage grew and he took more action and his popularity grew too (funny how action tends to yield results!). And I flushed all over with Fairy Godmother pride when earlier this year I sat with 200 other people and watched Nik do his one man show in Jo’burg, which he packed out every night for a month!

And now Nik is back with a new show and is truly living his dreams

For those dreamers who are in Cape Town, go and watch the show and support Nik as he dares to live his dreams. Of course, he will keep you in stiches in the process…