One Word Could Change Everything: Pepe Marais on Finding Your Purpose

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This week on my "Good Things with Brent Lindeque" podcast, I sat down with one of South Africa’s most celebrated advertising minds, Dr Pepe Marais, the co-founder of Joe Public.

We spoke about his incredible career, the challenges of building a business, almost losing everything to bankruptcy and how those experiences completely changed his understanding of success.

We also chatted about his new book... an idea. One Word. Pepe believes that every person and every organisation has one defining word that gives them purpose and he even dreams of helping South Africa discover its own word!

We also discovered that we share a philosophy about doing good. Pepe calls himself "aggressively good" because he believes that making a real difference requires more than just good intentions. And I absolutely love that!

It's a fascinating conversation about purpose, success and using whatever influence we have to make life better for others.

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