Kagiso Msimango is the first woman in Africa to become a certified Imagine a Woman (IAW) facilitator-coach, a coaching protocol designed specifically for women. She founded the Goddess Academy to support, inspire, and empower women to believe in, choose, and create lives filled with pleasure, passion, and purpose.

The Goddess Bootcamp

Okay is a Four-Letter Word. You are Meant for More

By Kagiso Msimango

Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd

Copyright © 2012 Kagiso Msimango
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-920601-04-1

Contents

Introduction,
How to Make the Most of Goddess Bootcamp,
Session 1: Seek the Goddess,
Session 2: Happen to Life,
Session 3: Know Thyself,
Session 4: Choose You,
Session 5: Change Only You,
Session 6: It’s Not All You,
Session 7: Free Your Heart,
Session 8: Feed Your Soul,
Session 9: Exalt Your Body,
Session 10: Change Your Mind,
Session 11: Say “Yes!” to Life,
Session 12: Learn to Receive, Graciously,
Session 13: Say “Yes!” to Pleasure,
Session 14: Travel Light,
Session 15: Mind Your Language,
Session 16: Love You, More,
Session 17: Embrace Your Femininity,
Session 18: Remember Yourself,
Session 19: Own Your Sexy,
Session 20: Live on Purpose,
Session 21: Just Do It,
Session 22: Commit to You,
Be Okay with OKness,
Goddess Bootcamp Crew,
Endnotes,
About The Authors,

CHAPTER 1

Seek the Goddess

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge.

~ Andrea Dworkin

Where should we begin our path to the juicy land of WOWness?

Let us start at the beginning and, when we get to the end, we’ll stop.

There we find God, but before we get to Him, let me share some trivia with you. Did you know that sprinting a mile in less than four minutes was considered impossible, until Roger Bannister did it on 6 May 1954? Incredibly, within three years, 16 other people also achieved this “impossible” feat. It is amazing what you can achieve when you have someone to look up to, a role model who can bring out the best in you.

Role models inspire us to aim for and achieve dreams that would otherwise have seemed beyond our reach. Whitney Houston witnessed her cousin, Dionne Warwick, release hit after hit and dreamed of being just like her. She went on to become the most awarded female artist of all time. Renowned film director Woody Allen says he watched the Marx Brothers’ films hundreds of times and imagined himself being just as funny and talented. He is now an award-winning screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author and playwright whose career has lasted for more than half a century.

Often, the influence of role models is starker when it is negative; such as when boys who have only hip hop videos and local criminals as beacons of success aspire to thuggery, or girls try to metamorphose into skinny blondes with flowing locks, thanks to a surfeit of images of airbrushed Barbie clones and not enough of women who look like them. It is well researched and documented that the Barbie image favoured by toy manufacturers, fashion houses and advertising agencies has had a significant negative impact on many women’s self-image, but few have examined the even greater damage to girls and women resulting from the lack of a God in our own image. The most prevalent religions of our time portray God as male, and is God not the ultimate role model? Where do you go after God, how much higher can you aspire?

The impact of the lack of a god in our, female, image has carved a deep scar in women’s self-worth and clipped our wings. This is the ultimate glass ceiling. We are in the business of creating; every day we all wake up and engage in various activities. What we are really doing is creating our lives. What do you associate creation with? For many people creat