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After growing Sygnia Limited to a multibillion-rand financial services empire, businesswoman Magda Wierzycka is a well of intuitive wisdom and business expertise. In this engaging and insightful book, Magda tells the story of her life, describing her youth in communist Poland, her family's escape and their move to South Africa, her career in the financial services industry, the founding and success of Sygnia, and her role as an outspoken critic of corruption. As a woman in a male-dominated world, Magda often had to fight an uphill battle or a full-scale war to achieve success, but in the end she always triumphed. Now she shares the life lessons and business principles she's learnt over the years. This is a fascinating story that will inspire you to speak up, speak out, lean in, break out, and ultimately empower yourself to not only survive in life and business, but also thrive.

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Magda Wierzycka was born in Poland in 1969, and defected to Austria with her family in 1982, living for a year in a refugee camp. The family moved to South Africa in 1983 and she attended Pretoria School for Girls before moving to Cape Town, having won a bursary to study actuarial science at UCT. After working for a number of financial services companies, she became CEO of the African Harvest Group and then founded her own company, Sygnia Limited, and co-founded a UK-based venture capital firm, Braavos Investment Advisers. She has been an outspoken critic of corruption in business and in government. In 2020, Forbes magazine listed her among 'Africa's 50 Most Powerful Women'. She divides her time between Cape Town and London with her husband and two sons.

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