‘We reached our health goals’

MIKIE MONOKETSI (41) turned to healthy eating as a way of relieving stress and shedding some weight. Her extensive research into health led to her launching her own natural-based herbs and spices business.

Before falling pregnant with her daughter, Mikie was a regular at the gym. She’d clock in a few sessions of cardio a week, which was all she needed to stay in shape. However, after giving birth, she gained a significant amount of weight. Added to that were other problems she faced in 2011. ‘I watched my business go down the drain, followed by my marriage soon afterwards,’ she explains. Mikie and her (then) husband, who was also her business partner, had invested their life savings in a company they tried to build, so when the business fell through, they lost almost everything. ‘I slipped into a deep depression. I was heartbroken and