Anele, founder of Sweet Thymes, joins Bobby and Rehema to explore food as love, legacy, and a lived purpose. From accounting to the kitchen, this episode traces a journey of nourishment, community, and choosing joy over convention.
Food is one of our oldest languages — a way we express love, preserve memory, and care for one another.
In this episode of The Spirit of Alchemy, hosts Bobby Forssman and Rehema Isa sit with Anele, founder of Sweet Thymes, to explore how nourishment became both her calling and her practice. Trained in accounting but shaped by her family kitchen and a deep curiosity for food, Anele shares how she chose to leave corporate life in order to build something rooted in joy, care and community.
Together, they explore growing up between worlds, honouring ancestral food knowledge, building a business alongside motherhood and creating work environments where women can thrive. This conversation reflects on village, legacy and the long view, planting seeds you may never personally harvest but trusting that they will feed generations to come.
An intimate and grounding episode about choosing softness in a hard world, and discovering where food becomes love.