Feels emotionally exhausted from carrying the weight of everyone else.
Better Than Yesterday
How to Take Intentional Steps to the Self You Envision
A deeply honest and transformative guide for women learning how to reconnect with themselves through grace, reflection, Ubuntu, and intentional becoming.
What if becoming better than yesterday was never about perfection? What if it was about learning how to return to yourself with more grace, awareness, courage, and compassion?
You belong here.
A reflective space for women returning to themselves with grace toward the self they envision.More Than a Book
Better Than Yesterday is not about perfection. It is about learning how to return to yourself with more awareness, grace, courage, and compassion.
This work lives through reflection, storytelling, healing, intentional small steps, Ubuntu, community, and becoming without force.
Growth can be gentle. Presence is powerful. And returning to yourself, again and again, is not a weakness.
This Book Was Written for the Woman Who...
Is navigating change, uncertainty, motherhood, burnout, grief, or rediscovery.
Wants to reconnect with herself without shame or pressure.
Is learning to trust her voice again.
Longs for healing, reflection, and intentional growth.
Is ready to take one small intentional step toward the self she envisions.
You are not behind. You are not failing. You are becoming.
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Better Than Yesterday
How to Take Intentional Steps to the Self You Envision
A reflective guide rooted in storytelling, Ubuntu, emotional wellness, self-trust, resilience, and intentional becoming.
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Better Than Yesterday
Guided Journal
A guided companion journal designed to help readers pause, reflect, process, and take intentional small steps toward the self they envision.
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More Than a Self-Help Book
Better Than Yesterday is a reflective and empowering guide rooted in storytelling, Ubuntu philosophy, mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and intentional growth.
Hermence shares deeply personal experiences about identity, belonging, motherhood, marriage, cross-cultural experiences, sisterhood, friendship, burnout, renewal, grace, self-forgiveness, and learning to trust yourself again.
“Growth can be gentle. Presence is powerful. And returning to yourself, again and again, is not a weakness.”
Meet Hermence Matsotsa
Hermence Matsotsa is a speaker, leadership consultant, storyteller, and Ubuntu-centered facilitator dedicated to helping individuals and communities reconnect with humanity, intentional growth, emotional wellness, and authentic becoming.
Rooted in the African philosophy of Ubuntu, “I am who I am because we are,” Hermence creates spaces where women feel seen, heard, valued, and empowered to grow gently and intentionally.
Founder and owner of uBuntu Speaks, a global leadership and workforce consulting firm empowering organizations with the strategies, mindset, and competencies necessary to attract, build, and retain top global talent.
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Bring Better Than Yesterday to Your Community
The Better Than Yesterday experience is more than a book event. It is an intentional space for reflection, healing, mindfulness, conversation, meditation, sisterhood, Ubuntu in practice, and becoming without force.
- Book conversations
- Women’s reflection gatherings
- Loving-kindness meditation experiences
- Leadership and wellness talks
- Intentional growth workshops
- Community-centered healing spaces
What Women Are Saying
“This is a must read. It touches on so many topics that can relate to your personal journey. It is also a great book to read and discuss with a group. Highly recommend!!”
“This book was beautifully written and so inspiring and uplifting. I would recommend it to anyone who needs motivation or wants to become a better person.”
“Will touch you in 100 places alone before you get halfway through the 4-minute journey to self on page 73. I highly recommend this book be read by women ages 16-80. It's never too late to realign life’s trajectory.”
“What sets this book apart are the stories and practical tips to transform your life. I have begun implementing some of these and as the book states, I am taking small steps, but already I am seeing big changes. Love it!”
“Book was amazing from start to finish!!! I do admire the author’s authenticity. I’m so inspired!!!”
“This is a really great book. It makes you think differently (or at least stop long enough to think differently). It is so important to be intentional in our behavior and with what we do, since life is so very short! Get this book--you will not be disappointed! It's really great!”
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Free reflection prompt: “What is one intentional small step you can take toward the self you envision?”
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You Are One Intentional Small Step Away
Open the book when you are ready. And take one gentle step forward. Better than yesterday.
Know that I see you. I value you. I believe in you. And more importantly, you are enough, exactly as you are, as you continue becoming The Better the self you envision.
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“I am who I am because we are.”