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Ladies and gentlemen, Lesukho Ranko. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Hey everyone, welcome back to my YouTube channel. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
If you're new to this channel, my name is Lesukho Ranko, and on this channel, it's all about learning growth and contribution. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
I haven't done an intro in a minute. I don't even know where to focus. Mato, we think the camera. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
I'm a little bit nervous. You know what I mean? | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
The thing is, there's one thing about being on YouTube consistently that gives you this confidence that I can speak in front of a camera. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
But right now, I am finding my feet because it's been a while. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
I did say that I'm going to do a mini catch-up because I kind of want MIA, but for valid reasons. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And I also have been going through a lot of transitions. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
I wanted the sit-down to also not be extensive. I also didn't want to bore you guys with it a lot. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
But at the same time, I have had a lot of new subscribers on this channel generating itself. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Not even me putting out content. I have been trying to put out short videos. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
So long-form content has been very difficult to capture during my changes. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
I've been quite active on my other platforms like LinkedIn and Instagram. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And I've also been active on the offline space. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
So I think trying to squeeze in YouTube is a bit of a stretch, if you know what I mean, because YouTube editing videos and also trying to create content and come up with the schedule of when to post, how to post, what to post. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
We are doing a lot. But I wanted to do a quick catch-up. How am I? | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
You know, I think I wanted to break it down into like a few categories. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
I even have notes, but the main ones that I want to focus on are the ones that I wrote down. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
But I'm going to start off with a question of how am I? | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Where have I been? What have I been doing? How am I? I am okay. I am good. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
I'm a little bit fatigued because obviously the year is coming to a close. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And when you reflect and look back at all the things that you've been involved in, personally speaking, na, I've been in the warfare room. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
You know, over and above that, I've been receiving blessings at the same time. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
You know, there's a post on my Instagram, I think, where I spoke about this year has challenged me to hold on to the tension between pain and joy all at one go. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
So in some instances, I feel like I'm okay, I'm happy. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And then when somebody looks at me dead in the eye and says, Lesero, how are you really? | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Yo, dik lady, then I cry because I feel like it's those people that really see right through me and they can tell that girl, you are not okay, you are doing a lot. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
But today, I am actually feeling refreshed. I am working from home. I am in my safety net. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
I am in the comfort of trying to get back into stability, trying to get back into routine. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
So that sense of certainty and stable ground is making me feel like you know, stampo saga sani because I don't know how I'll be feeling. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
But today, I'm good. So let's start off with the main one: career. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Yo, career, the scope of my career has been a lot, guys. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
I know I'm a CASA, and I always tell people I never want to lead with my designation because it kind of puts you in a corner. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
You know, the minute you say you're a CASA, people have their own conclusions about what that means or how you are or how you should be. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And so I always like leave that to the last of my intro. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
But obviously, if you follow me on my YouTube, the base of my YouTube was my CASA journey. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And so when I am talking about my career, there's a lot of transitions that I have been going through personally. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And I've been trying to redefine how I would like the CASA to be received by you guys, you know, and also by people that don't necessarily follow me on my YouTube but meet me for the first time, you know, because they get a little bit weird at art. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
They're like, girl, you don't look like a CA. I don't know what that means. I don't know if I don't look smart enough. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
I don't know if I don't look corporate enough, but I am a CASA, okay? | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And I think the last for me event of my season, if I could call it like that, for the year, was Bridge the Gap, of which I posted a video, a snippet about what Bridge the Gap was about. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
There was also like a detailed video where I went into content as to what I'm going to be covering on the day. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And I've posted a lot of reflection videos on my LinkedIn as well as on my Instagram page, Learning Growth and Contribution about Bridge the Gap. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
That was a major highlight for me because that was my event. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
That was Lesija's idea coming to life and saying, guys, look at what's going on in my mind. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
I want to see it manifest. And I was able to do that with the help of so many other people, so many other sponsors. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
I cannot even say it was a one-person show. It was a many people show. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
At the end, I was ready to call off that event, you know, because one thing about the enemy, he does not want you planting seeds. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And Bridge the Gap was like an event of planting seeds. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And I realized how impactful and how helpful it was for the people that attended. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And I'm hoping that next year I'm able to do these corporate events, not only in the Johannesburg region, but in other regions. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
But we're going to talk a little bit more about the structure of Bridge the Gap for 2025 and the plans that I have for it. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
But Bridge the Gap, amazing. I've also been doing a lot of media stuff. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
So I did a podcast with Psyka on personal branding, and the episode was sponsored by Zero. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
So basically, they brought in three phenomenal ladies in the media space to talk about personal branding. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And we got to understand what personal branding looks like today in 2024. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Because yes, everybody has social media, everybody can construct a narrative of who they need to be or who they want to be. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
But personal branding is more than just creating a social media portfolio. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
It's basically your values, how you carry yourself, even when people are not looking. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
You know, what is your character? What is your integrity looking like? You know, what is your person? Hmm? | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
When people are not watching you, oh man, you know, personal branding is about authenticity. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Personal branding is also about making sure that when people see you, they see the fullness of you. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
So it's not as easy as people might make it out to be and think that you can just grab a camera and create a personal brand. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Even for me, when I was doing Bridge the Gap, it was hard for me to also narrow it down because I realized that because I didn't have a solid foundation of what my personal brand was about, I wanted to do a lot, you know. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And personal branding needs you to be very clear as to who are you, what do you want to provide, what do you want to sell, what do you have to offer, what is your value proposition? | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
When we look at you, who are you? Whomst are you, you know? | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And so that podcast was absolutely amazing for me. In that same week of Bridge the Gap, I was inaugurated. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
That's the English. I was inaugurated into the Golden Key Honor Society. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Yo, that one was intense, guys, because honestly, for me, God has been very, very generous this year, you know, in as much as I have been in the wilderness where He's been pruning me so that I can bear more fruit at the same time. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
He's been blessing me. This Golden Key honorary membership was out of the blue. It was very unexpected. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Niki says, because I mean, you know, my testimony, I always say that I used to be a very diligent person and I used to lead with my academics. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
So, all of a sudden, when you are becoming an honorary member for your social impact and not your academics, because I mean, we beg, I would have been like, oh my gosh, I'm a Golden Key member because I'm so smart. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
But now it was more alongside the work that I've been doing on my platforms, and that was very validating and reassuring because I knew that what I'm trying to achieve is important. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
But when you live in a traditional way of life, people want to box you and make you do things in the traditional way, right? | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
So, YouTube, LinkedIn, doing Bridge the Gap, helping students, mentoring. It always seemed like it's an afterthought. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Do it when you knock, when you knock out, do it in your personal time, in your free time, you know. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Don't do it as a serious thing. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And for me, I think the Golden Key kind of gave me the confidence to know that those things that I'm doing after work mean more to me than when I'm at work. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And so I don't want to treat them like that. You know, I don't want it to be an afterthought in my mind. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
For you, yes. But for me, this is what I would like to pursue. And I cherished that day. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
It was very difficult because obviously I was stressed about Bridge the Gap. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Also, my mom got very, very sick the week of Bridge the Gap. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
I don't want to even say the week, the month of Bridge the Gap, guys. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
I'm not ready to talk about that testimony as yet because we're talking Korea, but I was just trying to say when I was receiving that award, I was not fine. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
I was not fine. But that was another career highlight for the year. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Another thing is my episode on Daily Teta Ed. Yo, Luna. We shot this episode. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Shot this episode a while ago, maybe, but it was a long time ago. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And I shot it with three other CAs, and it was about the CA journey and the complexities, and how to help other students understand what this journey is about, you know, and give them information to say what you need in high school, which university offers the CSA stream. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
It was very detailed and informative. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
And I was getting a little bit nervous because it seemed like when I told people I'm going to be on TV, I didn't think they took me seriously because I was like, Daily Teta, when is the episode airing? | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Please do not call me a deceiver. Because I was waiting for this episode. I even posted behind the scenes. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
There was a short video that I did a while ago, but eventually it aired and it was so amazing. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
It was well received. Obviously, being on national TV is a big thing, it's a massive thing, you know. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
When you think about it, national TV. This is YouTube, okay? This is global TV. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
But in the traditional sense, a lot of people nationally still watch TV. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
So that was also quite interesting to be a part of and to share with the other CAs that were there. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
Another thing is, I've been doing a lot of speaking engagements. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
I think I spoke at AGSA, I spoke at VITS for AEWCA, and that one I was talking about strategies to advance in your career. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet | |
I thought it was so ironic because when they had asked me to speak on that, in my mind, I was thinking, guys, I don't know if you know, but I'm going through a lot. | lesego | Not supported with pagination yet |
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