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Good Things with Brent Lindeque 📺

I'm Brent Lindeque (also known as the Good Things Guy) and this is Good Things with Brent Lindeque, a podcast and vidcast dedicated to sharing the stories of South Africans who are doing remarkable things.

Each episode features honest, uplifting conversations with people who are making a real difference... in big ways, small ways and everything in between. These are the stories that deserve to be heard: stories of resilience, kindness, innovation and hope.

This series is all about changing the narrative. Reminding us that there is so much good happening in South Africa. And that sometimes, we just need to turn up the volume on it.

🎧 Available on all major podcast platforms
📺 Full video episodes on YouTube

Let’s tell better stories. Together.
Weekly English South Africa Personal Journals · Daily News
99 Episodes
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Honouring Tiny The Mighty's Legacy by Inspiring Hope

There are no words that have been invented to explain what it’s like to lose a child. The nightmarish heartache of it. The unexplainable trepidation that follows. The child may be gone, but the years the child were meant to live remain behind, solid in the mind like an aging…
31 May 2022 22 min

Rare Bears of South Africa!

There are the cutest teddy bears being made locally which not create jobs but also much-needed awareness for Rare Diseases South Africa. The Rare Bear Project is all about supporting their community. From providing support to families with rare diseases, to creating jobs and income-generating opportunities to the women of…
24 May 2022 13 min

Exclusive Interview With The Disney+ South Africa Team!

From She-Hulk to MoonKnight, Obi-Wan Kanobi, Hocus Pocus 2, Will Smith’s Welcome to Earth, The new Mighty Ducks series, The Mandalorian, WandaVision, and so many more… Disney+ has just launched in South Africa, and I am lucky and honoured to have an exclusive interview with Christine Service. The GM of…
17 May 2022 15 min

Keeping hope alive, even in times of tragedy!

On Thursday the 27th of September, Karen Landi became a crime statistic. The day started like any other for her… some charity work, looking after South Africa’s most vulnerable, and most importantly teaching the youth of today to be better tomorrow. Little did she know that as the sun set,…
3 May 2022 49 min

Where To From Here? Catching Up With Graeme Codrington!

What exactly are these proposed new health regulations? Why are South Africans so angry? And where do we go from here? Graeme Codrington joins Good Things Guy to chat about the state of the nation.  Yeah, it's a controversial conversation but there are three key points that stand out: Get…
19 Apr 2022 22 min

How a South African Used Facebook and WhatsApp to Make a Positive Difference!

Good Things Guy partnered with Meta, and over the last couple of weeks, we’ve asked South Africans to send in their feel-good-lekker stories so we could share them with you. And this week, we’re featuring Naomi Schauer, who used WhatsApp to create a kindness movement that connects people to each…
12 Apr 2022 12 min

Wheelchair to Walking: I started walking because I was frustrated!!

In 2005, Shaun Hide was knocked down on the highway after experiencing trouble with his vehicle. He was dragged for approximately 900 meters and spent 3 months in hospital. Shaun's led a relatively normal life since then and achieved so much with a 'broken' body, even learning to walk on…
5 Apr 2022 47 min

Random Acts of Kindness... and driving HOPE!

#DriveHope was created from a desperate cry for help in a post on Facebook. When Karen Denny, Divisional Executive for Liberty’s Digital Marketing team, first read it, her heart sank. An elderly woman had anonymously poured her heart out, searching for help after she was sexually assaulted by a relative…
15 Mar 2022 21 min

Kim Nicola Stephens And Finding Humour through the Pandemic!

Kim Nicola Stephens is fast becoming our favourite author during South Africa’s COVID-19 lockdown… because we need laughter more now than anything! She has given us the top 10 middle-class quarantine categories, a hilarious depiction of how confusing level 4 actually is, the beauty truths of the burbs during the…
8 Mar 2022 15 min

How a South African Got Involved With The Tinder Swindler

Brands rarely step out of the box to be brave with new ideas, but when Mike Sharman and Glen Biderman-Pam pitched an idea to bring a South African version of the Tinder Swindler to life in a hilarious skit, the Sixty60 team didn't blink for a second and the return on…
1 Mar 2022 17 min

How Can I Help You? Drama Delinquent And Making A Difference!

You may know her best for her outspoken comments on most social topics, under the pseudonym “Drama Delinquent”, but Natasha Huckfield is not just about shock-twitter… she’s also about helping, and she’s going us on the Good things guy podcast to talk about her good CV deeds. Natasha saw a…
22 Feb 2022 21 min

On The Frontline - How The Public And Private Sector Collaborated For SA!

In January 2022, Discovery celebrated a significant milestone - one million COVID-19 vaccine doses administered through its nine vaccination sites. Set up as surge capacity sites in the early stages of the government-led COVID-19 vaccination programme in South Africa, these sites have administered COVID-19 vaccinations to all South Africans, whether…
15 Feb 2022 22 min

These 4 Crazy Guys Are Travelling From Kenya to Cape Town in Tuk-Tuks!

Are they a real production company? No. Have they made a documentary before? No. Are they prepared to drive 2 Tuk-Tuks from the Equator to Cape Town?… Ummm, that would be a ‘No’ as well. Kenya may have been removed from the UK’s red list – but Africa is bleeding…
14 Dec 2021 19 min

Rebuild SA - The Incredible Women behind the Movement

It is been over 3 weeks since Gauteng and the KwaZulu-Natal provinces faced devastating social unrest that brought both fear and more uncertainty. This at a time when the country’s still battling a pandemic and trying to revive its battered economy. But at the same time, we saw the tide…
30 Nov 2021 27 min
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