Tings and Things is hosted by Jonathan Mbaya and Simba Tsumba, two lifelong friends. Our Podcast transcends borders and strips away all the filters from the perfectly edited and curated lives we have become accustomed to online. As a duo, we manage to open up a platform to have real conversations that touch upon what it means to live and learn, alongside occasional guest appearances from some of the most dynamic people across industries and our Tings & Things family. We found that through our travel and adventures, our struggles as young adults were not unique to us. Tings and Things was designed to share those experiences since those were not being discussed by traditional media outlets, and alongside our back and forth banter and undeniable chemistry, we have found the perfect formula to exhibit the everyday stories of life in an everyday conversational way.
As people we’ve had multiple parking tickets running a red light is not something we should be proud of. In the context of this episode running a red light can lead to a lot of days in therapy. We se…
Your boys are starting to age like fine wine and through this maturation, our minds have become illuminated. We didn’t just get here, it has been an active process and this is how we got here
“Intentional” is another one of the buzzwords that we have been hearing and are we being intentional by talking about being intentional? Okay we need to chill but you get the vibes
Your boys have been galavanting around Southern Africa recently and decided to catch you up on our adventures, here is our post-mortem report from all the shenanigans
Devon is a creative director and a music manager who is currently taking over the scene right now. He is currently working with such an amazing roster of artists. We pick his brain on his creative pr…
We sit in a really weird intersection between having friends that can bar you to death and friends that can’t count a bar. However this raises the subject of having honest conversations with your fri…
How do you actual make tangible process in this thing we call life? It is really simple, take "small bites." Start your day by going smaller. Even smaller than that. Begin with the thing you hate th…
Ladies and Gentlemen, clout is one hell of a drug. We see it a lot in some of the spaces that we frequent. It is time for an open and honest conversation about the clout and how the pursuit of it can…
This is about to be some foolishness. Going through the journey of feeling out a new person and understanding your compatibility or lack thereof is an interesting process. It may take a week may take…
Sometimes you leave your lights on and boom rushing out for that 8 am meeting and your battery is dead. Life can be like too and a handy pair of jumper cables is exactly what the mechanic ordered to …
As avid comic book readers in our youth, one of the worst parts about growing up is understanding that superheroes aren’t real. Elon Musk could be Iron Man if he wanted, but that is a different story…
Yo, we all have that one friend that is perpetually single and the funny thing is they always have the solution to your domestics. In this episode, we unpack some of the advice the “coaches” gave us …
Big man tings, we blinked and Skype vanished. Literally, it happened overnight, but this is a story that we have seen one too many times before. Nokia, Yahoo, Blockbuster, and Skype to name a few. Ad…
Ah, self-sabotage isn’t an easy one to navigate at all. It can manifest in some interesting ways, and to a certain extent, some of this behavior has been somewhat normalized. We have fallen victim to…
Let's unpack what this last looked like for us. The good, the bad, and the ugly.
The pursuit of perfection is something that is crippling us and it is truly becoming our own worst enemy. Through this episode, we unpack the pursuit of perfection, and how we should navigate these m…
When you take ownership of your life in your hands and begin to take the first step, you will see things will start improving. Every day, with each action, you’ll narrow down the gap between what you…
Being in a relationship can be tough, ultimately it takes two to tango to make a winning partnership. Teamwork makes the dream work, but there are so many things that you can learn/unlearn on your ow…
Drinkcember is the season to drink, eat, party, be merry, let your hair down, dance like you just don’t care…you get the gist. For so many people in our audience, they get to travel home and see some…