21/04/2026
Harmony and Help Group turns 5 today.
To mark this milestone, I Mirriam Tenyane will be sharing a 5-part reflection on the journey, what it took, what it cost, and what it has become thus far. Not just the business side, but the personal decisions, the faith, and the discipline behind it.
This is Part 1.
The Decision - When the Calling Would Not Quiet Down
There is a question I am asked often: “How did you know it was time to leave corporate?” The truth is , God told me to leave three years before I actually did. The instruction was clear, and the voice was persistent, but so was the doubt. There was fear, procrastination, and confusion. More than anything, there was the weight of responsibility.
I was a breadwinner after all. I had built a life. And the question that kept confronting me was simple, but heavy: “If I walk away, who takes care of everything… and everyone?” In hindsight, I realise something fundamental, I had, in that moment, forgotten the true Owner of all things. The One who gives, sustains, and determines time. I delayed not because I didn’t hear, but because I was trying to understand with logic what required faith.
When I finally moved, it was not gentle. It was a push, a decisive, undeniable push from Him. And it was painful, lonely, and, to be honest, dramatic. I left my employer after 20 years and 1 month, with no farewell, no long goodbyes, and no closure in the way I had imagined it would be.
For someone who had built relationships, led teams, and grown alongside people for two decades, that kind of exit cuts deep. The separation was abrupt, the silence was loud, and the scars were real.
But in that moment, I came to understand something difficult, yet necessary: not every transition comes with closure, some come with instruction. And obedience does not always feel graceful in the moment. Sometimes, it feels like loss before it reveals itself as alignment.
Five years later, I can say this with certainty: the decision was never about being ready. It was about being willing. Sometimes the move is not strategy, it is surrender.
And that surrender changed everything.
Stay tuned for Part 2 of the journey tomorrow - The beginning.
