The Pleasure of Becoming a Grown Woman: Your 30s, Age Gap Dating & Celibacy ft. Nandipha Mqoco

Whoever convinced women that life peaks in their twenties has some explaining to do. 😭 Because if you ask us? The thirties are kind of giving. This week, Nandipha Mqoco pulls up a chair at the A2B Café for a conversation about getting older, getting hotter, getting clearer on who you are and why there is so much more life waiting for women on the other side of 30. We talk about the freedom that comes with knowing yourself better, our changing relationships with our bodies, style, confidence, friendship, career and the pressure women feel to have life “figured out” by a certain age. And because we're still lover girls around here, we also get into love, dating and what romance looks like when you're older, wiser and perhaps a little less willing to entertain nonsense. 😂 Think Sex and the City, Girlfriends, Insecure-except this time, we’re the women in our thirties we grew up watching. 🥂 This episode of According to B is powered by Bernini. ✰ TIMESTAMPS✰ 01:00- Coming up 02:23- Intro  05:08- Bokang introduces Nandipha to A2B  06:10- Game: The starter- for the plot 17:50- The main: The conversation 18:17- How Nandipha felt on the lead up to 30 24:44- What Nandipha thought 30 would look like vs the reality 32:27- Nandipha on the importance of living alone 40:31- Nandipha’s approach to love in her 30s vs her 20s 46:59- Nnadipha’s concerns about millennials and their inability to understand consent 48:37- How Nandipha’s decision to date differently has affected who she can date 49:50- Nandipha’s celibacy journey 56:53- How dating changed for Nandipha changed when sex was off the table 01:00:03- Other forms of intimacy that Nandipha enjoys 01:04:13- What 20 year old Nandipha would be surprised by 01:05:45- What Nandipha would tell 20 year old her about navigating the 20’s 01:07:19- Dessert: Nandipha is gifted her Bernini tote bag 01:08:03- Outro ✰ SOCIAL MEDIA ✰ Bokang ➜ Instagram: @sheisbokang-https://www.instagram.com/sheisbokang  ➜ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sheisbokang    The B Word ➜ Instagram: @thebword_za -https://www.instagram.com/thebword_za  ➜ Tik Tok: @thebwordza https://www.tiktok.com/@thebword_za  Guest ➜ Instagram: @nandipha_mqoco-https://www.instagram.com/nandipha_mqoco- ➜Tik Tok:@nandipha_mqoco-https://www.tiktok.com/@nandipha_mqoco  ✰ BUSINESS INQUIRIES ✰ E-mail: [email protected]  ✰ TEAM/CREDITS ✰ Producer: Bokang Lehlokoe & Tshegetso Moepi  Videography: Shutter Scope Post Production: Palesa Radebe