Editor’s Note: Summer Edition no. 248

by | Editor's Notes, Print Articles, Summer 2024

2025. Its’ Time…

Odyssey Magazine publishes the 250th edition in July 2025 (a quarter of a million editions) and we commence our 49th journey around the sun. In celebration of this unwavering commitment to conscious living over almost five decades we will be launching the Annual Conscious Living Awards on 1 March 2025, when entry questionnaire and application forms will go live online and we will close the nominations 21 May 2025.  The award ceremony will  take place on Saturday evening 19 July 2025 at the North Coast KwazuluSpirit Festival 2025.

The age of consciousness has dawned, the time for all of us take responsibility and move forward  with unwavering courage and authentic and ethical purpose. What a joy it is, as a conscious community’, to be able to influence and better the lives of those around us. Unless we resist the ‘what’s in it for me’ pervasive culture that has defined leadership, our personal spaces and lifestyles for so long, truly conscious living will evade us.

The time has come for the litmus test of conscious, ethical and purposeful businesses practices, to be applied to all business – corporations to solopreneurs – and all of the beautiful beings within them. It’s time for us to recognise and honour the  authors, influencers, speakers, coaches,  healers and industry changemakers.

We are ‘over-the-moon’ to be hosting the Annual Conscious Living Awards  welcoming  a new chapter into our world of conscious beings, visionaries who exhibit resilience and responsibility and a commitment to conscious living. In honour of our 250th edition , the prize values will exceed R 250 000. Full details and application forms will be provided online when this Odyssey initiative kicks off 1 March, on all social platforms and in the autumn edition of Odyssey Magazine.

2025 holds infinite potential and we share stories and provide solid input on superabundance, in which we encourage the release of a scarcity mindset and explore manifesting more than sufficient of everything we need and desire in 2025. We journey through mystical intuition, travelling with one of our leading authors, to ‘the other side’. Wellness Within takes us into Africa, showcasing the thought leaders and a with wealth of retreats and immersions that exist in not only South Africa but on the continent we call home.

Debra Robins

Debra Robins

Odyssey‘s custodian & editor

Debra Robins is a savvy and insightful corporate jungle escapee, wordsmith, author, publisher and magazine editor, Debra is passionate about upliftment through the power of the written word. Former natural healer, teacher and healing academy principal Debra blends together extensive expertise in wellness, both in the corporate and personal contexts, as well as over 25 years’ experience in driving and delivering corporate wellness initiatives for local and global corporations. Student of law and corporate consultant by trade, naturopathic practitioner by design and magazine editor by choice. Debra is honoured to be the custodian of Odyssey Magazine