Diana Granoux

If you love travel (and South Africa) as much as I do, you'll enjoy this first season of the Leopard Podcast 🎙️. I released all episodes at once so that you can binge listen 🎧

Instead of buying a new car, take your old one to Glautier Auto Detailing. They took great care in ensuring every part of my car was spotless, from the exterior shine to the immaculate interior cleaning. Highly recommended local business (Joburg). glautierdetail.co.za

2023 was a breakthrough year for @LeopardVoyage. Our 384 clients spent almost 4,000 nights on a holiday planned by us. That is a significant milestone for us and tested our limits, and I am happy to report that each holiday ran seamlessly 😃 Read more: leopard.voyage/2023/12/31/wha…

@EMukumbo @WarrenIngram @SimonPB @KristiA @JustOneLap @Richards_Karin @worldisee Congrats on this significant milestone Ess, and well done on helping inspire more South Africans to follow in your footsteps! This can make a significant difference to our country!

To @WarrenIngram thank you for writing a book that inspired me. To supersaver Julia, thank you for sharing your journey on 702. To @SimonPB and @Kristia @JustOneLap thank you for the Fat wallet show. Stealthwealthy for the blogs. @Richards_Karin & @worldisee for your wisdom.

In 2004, I was doing better than ever financially, and my company, BrainQUICKEN, was distributed in perhaps a dozen countries. The problem? I was running on caffeine, working 15-hour days, and constantly on the verge of meltdown. My girlfriend, who I expected to marry, left me due to the workaholism. Over the next 6 months of treading water and feeling trapped, I realized I had to restructure the business or shut it down—it was literally killing me. This is when I began journaling on a few questions, including “What would I want to do, have, and be if I had $10 million in the bank?” and “What’s my real target monthly income (TMI)?” For the latter, in other words: How much does my dream life—the stuff I’m deferring for “retirement”—really cost if I pay on a monthly basis? After running the numbers, most of my fantasies were far more affordable than I’d expected. Perhaps I didn’t need to keep grinding and building? Perhaps I needed more time and mobility, not more income? This made me think that maybe, just maybe, I could afford to be happy and not just “successful.”

What looks like discipline often involves a carefully created environment to encourage certain behaviors. And what may look like poor choices is often just someone trying their best to use willpower to counter their environment. Environment determines behavior. Your 'environment' isn't just physical. It's mental. It's not just whether you have chips in the house; it's also what you read, who you hang out with, and the stories you tell yourself on repeat. Eventually, everyone loses the battle with their environment. If you look behind anyone who makes consistently good choices, you'll see they are masters of their environment, not mastered by it. Create your environment before it creates you.

What a privilege to work with these talented women to build a company in South Africa! #womensday2023

I had an amazing time seeing #tanzania with @AsiliaAfrica

Measuring company growth in invoice numbers 👉 linkedin.com/posts/dianagra…

I am so proud of this amazing team and all we have achieved together. None of it would be possible without the hard work of these women, and Rhoda-Ann who couldn't make it to the bush!

Maintenant je suis #française et sud africaine et très fière d’être les deux 🇿🇦🇫🇷 Je suis contente de faire partie de la #communauté #française dont je partage les valeurs. 🙏 @EmmanuelMacron

@FinanceGhost Finding the right people! I've been lucky but it has not been easy.

What has been your greatest challenge in scaling your business? I'm genuinely curious. Mine has undoubtedly been my time - the only truly finite resource.

An inspiring good news story to brighten your day!

Just to put it in perspective - the GDP per capita in SF was USD 289,990 in 2021 compared to SA's GDP per capita of USD 7,055. We are worlds apart, but it was so encouraging to hear how people dream of coming to Africa! #tourism @gotosouthafrica

@Investec I've already had extensive discussions with your customer service people. I just thought I would warn others about high bank charges here.

@dianagranoux Hi Diana, sorry to hear about your experience with us. Please can you send us a DM with further information so that I can assist further?

Disappointed with @Investec. R8,000 in forex fees on a transaction that was reversed. I got no value from those fees. Maybe time to look at @BankZeroSA. Banking fees in SA are WAY too high - both in personal and business banking.

@danielcrosby You have a cult following here in South Africa 🇿🇦!

What's that? You want to listen to the 36th most popular podcast in South Africa and 192nd most popular in Portugal?! You got it - Dr. Emily Koochel on the future of financial psychology. standarddeviationspod.com/episodes/2023/…

Outside the Twitter head office in rainy SF. It's been interesting to be in SF during the collapse of SVB, and to stay with a startup founder during this time. Risk is everywhere as an entrepreneur, but you can't let it paralyse you into inaction.

There are so many things I love about the Delta. The variety of activities on offer is one of them. Read more below.

My best cost saving tip for holidays, is travelling in shoulder season!

Handcrafted gifts for the attendees of our event in San Francisco and the Bay Area are ready to be packed! Kay spent days carving these little meerkats out of jacaranda wood. They will be put into bright, African print bags, sewn by a local designer, Jessamine.