She Has Been Pouring Into Everyone Else...

... WorkingMama Is Creating Space for Her to Finally Pour Back In.

The WorkingMama Wellness Edit arrives in Cape Town on 13 June 2026 as an intimate, medically-informed and editorially-curated wellness experience for professional women who are tired of being told to just breathe and book a massage.

By Elize Fisher

Founder, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, WorkingMama® Magazine

Can I be honest with you for a second?

I created The WorkingMama Wellness Edit because I kept watching the women around me achieve the most remarkable things, building businesses, raising children, leading teams, showing up for everyone, while quietly, privately, running on fumes.

Not one of them was complaining. That is the thing about high-achieving women. We are brilliant at holding it together. And not always great at letting anyone know when we are not.

I wanted to create something different. Not another networking breakfast where you hand out cards and pretend everything is fine. Not a generic wellness morning with a green juice and a gratitude journal. Something that actually gives women permission to sit down, breathe, and have the honest conversations we usually only have with our closest friends, if we are lucky.

That is what The Wellness Edit is. And I genuinely cannot wait for it.

Why This Is Not Like Anything Else You Have Been Invited To

Cape Town has no shortage of women’s events this June. There are networking mornings with coffee and bubbly, empowerment conferences with big stages and bigger audiences, and retreat weekends that ask you to take a week off and fly somewhere remote.

The Wellness Edit is none of those things. Here is what makes it different:

A doctor in the room.

Dr. Chanell Marthinussen is a Cape Town women’s health advocate who will give you the practical, no-nonsense health conversation most of us have been putting off. Not a panel. Not a sponsored slot. A real clinical voice, talking to you directly about your body, your health checks, and why you keep putting yourself last.

A conversation about the cost of always being “the strong one”.

Kay Cheytanov, founder of 3RC, speaks from lived experience about anxiety, motherhood, menopause and what happens when the emotional load becomes too heavy to carry alone. This is not a talk about pushing through. It is an invitation to stop performing strength and start practising it differently.

Movement, not a gym class.

Certified Pilates instructor Les-Lee Robinson leads a grounding session designed to bring you back into your body, not push it to its limits. Arrive in activewear. Leave feeling like yourself again.

Fifty women. That is it.

This is not a conference. There is no crowd to hide in. Real conversation requires a room where you feel seen, and a room of 50 curated women makes that possible. The connections made here tend to last well beyond the day.

The V&A Waterfront. InUWell. A Saturday.

InUWell is a calm, elevated wellness space designed for exactly this kind of day. It is not a hotel ballroom. It is not a community hall. It is somewhere you will actually want to be, in a city that reminds you why you live here.

Other events will leave you with a goodie bag and a business card you will never follow up on. The Wellness Edit is designed to leave you with something harder to put on a lanyard: a clearer sense of what you actually need, and the knowledge that you are not alone in needing it.

About the Event

The WorkingMama Wellness Edit is an intimate wellness experience created by WorkingMama Magazine for professional women balancing careers, businesses, leadership, motherhood and personal wellbeing.

Rooted in WorkingMama’s editorial philosophy of whole-life success, the event is built on the belief that ambition and wellbeing are not in competition. They are, in fact, deeply connected. When one suffers, so does the other.

The event is deliberately limited to 50 guests. Big rooms make for polite conversations. Small rooms make for honest ones.

Guests can expect:

• Expert-led wellness and mindset conversations
• Honest discussions around anxiety, burnout, identity and women’s health
• A grounding Pilates session with certified instructor Les-Lee Robinson
• Genuine connection with like-minded professional women
• A calm, elevated setting designed for reflection, restoration and real growth

Attendees are encouraged to arrive in activewear, because at WorkingMama, performance and self-care were never supposed to be opposites.

Featured Speakers

Kay Cheytanov   |   Founder of 3RC

“The Strength to Stop Holding It All Together”

Kay speaks from lived experience about anxiety, motherhood, menopause and the hidden cost of always being the one who holds it all together. Rather than encouraging women to simply push through, this session invites attendees to listen to their bodies, honour their limits, and redefine what strength actually looks like.

Dr. Chanell Marthinussen   |   Cape Town Doctor and Women’s Health Advocate

“Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself”

Dr. Chanell unpacks the importance of prioritising women’s health in the midst of busy professional and personal lives. Her session focuses on practical, preventative health awareness, including simple self-checks women can do independently or with their doctor. The conversation encourages women to stop placing themselves last.

Event Host and Wellness Facilitator

The event will be hosted by Elle Williams, radio personality and founder of eleanor.africa.

The grounding Pilates session will be facilitated by certified instructor Les-Lee Robinson, a calm anchor in the middle of a day designed to make you feel something good.

Event Details

Date:   Saturday, 13 June 2026

Venue:   InUWell, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town

Capacity:   50 guests only

Dress code:   Activewear encouraged

A Note from the Publisher

“The Wellness Edit was created because so many women are achieving professionally while quietly running on empty personally. At WorkingMama, we believe success should not come at the cost of a woman’s health, identity or peace. This event is about creating space for women to pause, reconnect with themselves and have honest conversations that remind them they are not alone.”

-- Elize Fisher, Founder, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, WorkingMama Magazine

Media Enquiries

Elize Fisher

Founder, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief

WorkingMama Magazine (WorkingMamaZA Pty Ltd)

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