78. Kensi Nobanda on Travel, Formula 1 & Choosing Joy
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She grew up in exile across five African countries, built one of the most decorated marketing careers in South Africa, and somewhere along the way decided she was going to live life at full speed.
Khensani Nobanda has been to 87 countries, stood in the Monza pits while Red Bull engineers played reggae, lost her passport in Cappadocia and somehow ended up on a yacht on the Bosphorus, and turned 40 on Halong Bay surrounded by 40 of the people she loves most.
But the thing that made me want to have this conversation was not her CV.
It was her energy.
This episode is about Formula 1, the 50 Before 50 list, Istanbul, travel philosophy, work life integration, choosing joy now, and refusing to wait for life to begin.
Khensani Nobanda has been to 87 countries, stood in the Monza pits while Red Bull engineers played reggae, lost her passport in Cappadocia and somehow ended up on a yacht on the Bosphorus, and turned 40 on Halong Bay surrounded by 40 of the people she loves most.
But the thing that made me want to have this conversation was not her CV.
It was her energy.
This episode is about Formula 1, the 50 Before 50 list, Istanbul, travel philosophy, work life integration, choosing joy now, and refusing to wait for life to begin.
Chapters
- 00:00 — Introduction
- 02:00 — Living life on your own terms
- 04:00 — Growing up in exile
- 06:00 — Dracula's castle and reading as a gateway to travel
- 09:00 — The 40 Before 40 list
- 13:00 — The 50 Before 50 list
- 17:00 — The passport story
- 21:00 — The yacht on the Bosphorus
- 23:00 — Why Istanbul
- 27:00 — Falling in love with Formula 1
- 30:00 — Abu Dhabi vs Monza
- 34:00 — Work-life integration
- 36:00 — Presenting from Cannes in a T-shirt
- 38:00 — Her message to every woman waiting
