On Pivoting is a space for thoughtful, grounded conversations with people navigating the intersection of work, identity, and purpose.
Each episode is a dialogue: slow, reflective, and intentional. We explore the decisions, doubts, pivots, and quiet convictions that shape how people live and work, beyond titles or outcomes.
How to Root for People Without Comparing Yourself to Them | Mmamabudusha Thema
What does it really mean to root for someone, especially when their success brings up something uncomfortable in you?In this episode, Mmamabudusha Thema reflects on the difference between simply celebrating people once they succeed and actively supporting them while they are still becoming. From sharing opportunities and making introductions to saying someone’s name in rooms they are not in. This episode explores what meaningful support can look like in practice. It also looks at the harder side of support: learning to celebrate someone else without turning their progress into a measure of your own, recognising when comparison becomes resentment, and remembering that another person’s timeline is not commentary on yours.
13 Oct 2026
What keeps love alive? | Mmamabudusha Thema
In this episode, Mmamabudusha Thema reflects on what happens when familiarity replaces discovery in long-term relationships. From curiosity and communication to resentment, conflict, intimacy and the importance of continuing to see the person beneath the roles they play, this episode explores what it really takes to stay connected as two people grow and change.Maybe long-term love isn’t about recreating the beginning. Maybe it’s about continuing to meet each other as the people you are becoming.If you’ve been in a long-term relationship, what do you think keeps two people connected after the newness is gone?
6 Oct 2026
Things Take Time To Build | Mmamabudusha Thema
In this episode, Mmamabudusha Thema, host of On Pivoting, reflects on the pressure to have everything figured out by a certain deadline, especially as the year begins to wind down.
She explores the difference between something that isn’t working and something that simply isn’t finished, the quiet power of consistency, and why progress is often happening long before we can see the results.
Maybe you’re not behind. Maybe you’re just in the part nobody posts, the part where the thing is still becoming the thing.
What are you building right now that you’ve decided to give more time?
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