Business Breakfast with Carina Bruwer and Keller Williams Explore Atlantic

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Topic: Swimming Against the Current

Carina Bruwer is one of Africa's most decorated female open water marathon swimmers, an internationally renowned musician, a successful entrepreneur, and a mother of three. Known for boldly venturing where most do not, whether in the ocean, business, or life, Carina inspires and motivates audiences through her incredible stories of courage, transformation, and altruism.

Carina's extensive ultramarathon swimming resume includes crossing the 36km English Channel, the Gibraltar Straits, False Bay, Nelson Mandela Bay, Walker Bay, Bonifacio Straits, Messina Straits, Triple Country (France - Monaco - Italy), Robben Island, and dozens more, with most of her swims being firsts and/or record-breaking feats. This International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame nominee, ranked as one of the World Open Water Swimming Association's "Top 50 Most Daring, Courageous and Audacious" open water swimmers globally, founded Swim For Hope.

Carina's music career has been equally trailblazing. Balancing precision with rule-breaking, she developed a new style of performance that revolutionised instrumental music in South Africa and beyond. Her innovative approach has taken her across the globe, performing on international stages and with global icons.

In the entrepreneurial realm, she has founded several successful businesses, each becoming a pillar in its respective industry. As a powerful and engaging motivational speaker, Carina captivates diverse audiences worldwide with her tales of resilience, overcoming adversity, and reaching beyond one's limits to achieve personal greatness. Drawing from her experiences Carina delivers impactful keynote speeches and motivational talks to corporate teams, educational institutions, nonprofit organisations, and community groups. Clients include top South African and international organisations including Momentum, YPO, PPS, Woolworths, BestMed and NinetyOne along with many local universities, educational institutions, and non profits.

With her unique blend of passion, authenticity, and humour, she inspires individuals and teams to push beyond perceived limitations, embrace change, and strive for excellence in all aspects of life.

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Breakfast Seat

Attendee ticket for in-person access to the breakfast experience

Standard Price R 200

Speakers

Carina Bruwer
Speaker, Marathon Swimmer, Musician and Creative Producer
https://carina.co.za/
Carina Bruwer is an internationally renowned musician, founder of the award-winning instrumental group Sterling EQ, and successful entrepreneur who has developed a number of small businesses in the entertainment industry. When she isn’t breaking boundaries in the creative fields, Carina makes waves in the ocean, where she has broken many local and international records as a long distance open water swimmer, specialising in distances between 10 and 40km.

Carina’s extensive swimming CV includes crossing the English Channel, False Bay, Walker Bay, the Gibraltar Straits, Bonifacio Straits, plus many more firsts and record breaking feats. Ranked as one of the World Open Water Swimming Association’s top 50 most "daring, courageous and audacious" open water swimmers in the world, Carina founded Swim For Hope in 2014, in order to raise funds and awareness for selected South African organisations through her swimming challenges. The project has raised close to R1 million since its inception, as well as millions in media value.

Known for boldly going where most do not - in the ocean, as well as in business and life - Carina inspires and motivates people everywhere through her incredible stories of courage, transformation and altruism.
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Sponsors and Partners

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Keller Williams Explore Atlantic
When you choose to work with a Keller Williams (KW) agent, you’re partnering with a highly trained professional backed by the world’s largest real estate company, consisting of over 200,000 associates globally. This extensive network ensures your search is in the hands of the most resourceful real estate professionals.

Keller Williams is a technology company that provides the real estate platform preferred by our agents’ buyers and sellers. We think like top producers, act like trainer-consultants, and focus all activities on service, productivity, and profitability.

At Keller Williams, we are dedicated to building careers worth having, businesses worth owning, lives worth living, experiences worth giving, and legacies worth leaving. Choose Keller Williams Explore Atlantic for an unparalleled real estate experience.
exploreatlantic.kwsouthafrica.co.za/
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Venue Sponsor

Protea Hotel by Marriott® Cape Town Waterfront Breakwater Lodge
Immerse yourself in the pristine beauty of South Africa at Protea Hotel Cape Town Waterfront Breakwater Lodge. Housed in a historic 19th-century building, our hotel boasts an unbeatable location in the heart of the city, within view of the majestic V&A Waterfront and Table Mountain. All of our spacious, well-designed hotel accommodations provide thoughtful amenities like free Wi-Fi access, deluxe bedding, a flat-screen TV, room service and a mini-fridge, while some rooms feature sensational views of the V&A Waterfront.

Our hotel is closely linked with the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business and offers first class conference and function facilities at highly competitive rates. The hotel also features 18 conference venues, 24-hour secure parking – 250 parking bays, airport transfers can be arranged, laundry service, four public lounges, gym, spa, and business centre.
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Nexia SAB&T
Nexia SAB&T is one of the leading black-owned audit and advisory firms in South Africa and part of the 8th largest international network of accountants and business advisors, Nexia International. The firm was established in 1994 and has grown to offering a full range of services ranging from accounting, audit and tax to specialist corporate and SMME advisory solutions.
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Sure Travel
The Sure Travel brand is one of the most recognised and respected names in the Southern African travel industry, with over 80 agencies in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana. For over 30 years our travel consultants have been making holiday dreams come true and today we are Southern Africa’s largest independent travel agency brand.
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Shed Studios
We're a start up production house in Plumstead, Cape Town, with a small audio visual studio designed to bring ideas to life.
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Paysoft Impact
Paysoft Impact is a web based application that offers the collection of debit orders, receipt of electronic mandates from donors and the issuing of 18A tax certificates to donors.

Our web application is an advanced and secure tool used by organisations to grow their recurring income and streamline their document management whilst offering tremendous value to their donors.
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