✦  HER AGAIN · 03 October 2026 · get your ticket  ✦

Welcome to a space where you can say your dream out loud.

I'm Gavaza Mongwe: data scientist, author and founder of The Lead Club. I started out in geology and rewrote my career into data science, so I know what it takes to move from the life you fell into to the one you actually want. I help women get the dream out of their head and onto paper, then build the discipline to run with it. This is my home on the internet: my journey, my writing, my shop and my community, all in one place.

"If you have a noble dream, pursue it with all you have."

Gavaza Mongwe

Top 30 Finalist

Mrs South Africa 2026

Author

Take the Lead, the 90-day career journal

Founder

Evolve & Excel · The Lead Club

The Monday Blog

Career, books, faith and growth, every week

The Journey

The crown stopped being about me.

At first this was about me. Now I know it is for the people. When I say yes to my dream, every woman watching gets permission to say yes to hers. From 100 incredible women nationwide to the Top 30, this road has been about community. Come along with me, cast your vote, and watch the journey unfold.

"A dream you can articulate is a dream you can pursue."

Say it out loud. Write it down. Then run, relentlessly.

HER AGAIN, 03 October 2026

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In the Media

The journey, as the press tells it.

Our Shop

The Shop.

Take the Lead is a 90-day journal that turns a career goal into a plan you can actually work. Alongside it, personalised letters and gifts made by hand at my studio, Evolve & Excel.

The Lead Club

Not for perfect women. For honest ones.

Most of us can say what we don't want. This is a room where you get to say what you do want, out loud, to people who take it seriously. We work in 12-week sprints with weekly check-ins, so what you say on Sunday turns into something by Friday.