Roseanna Hall and She Connects Unite to Redefine Success for Zimbabwean Women
At She Connects, the influencer, content creator and model connected women’s economic empowerment with the mental-health support systems needed to sustain success through life’s highs and lows.
At the beginning of August, influencer, content creator and model Roseanna Hall joined She Connects as a panellist at its 2026 Beauty, Wellness and Lifestyle Conference and Expo in Harare. Roseanna, Miss Universe Zimbabwe 2026 and founder of Beyond Survival Sisterhood, came to speak to women actively building businesses, careers and financial independence, and to ask what helps the woman behind the success remain well.
Held on 1 August at Cresta Oasis, the conference brought together women entrepreneurs, professionals, beauty and wellness practitioners, SME owners and young founders seeking their next level of growth. The event was graced by representatives from the Ministry of Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises Development, bringing public-sector attention to a gathering centred on women’s enterprise, health and opportunity.
Who Supports the Woman Behind the Success?
Roseanna was speaking to women already taking steps to empower themselves economically. Her question was not whether ambition mattered, but what helps a woman remain well enough to sustain what she has built through life’s inevitable highs and lows.
Drawing on her degree in Psychology, her expertise and experience in mental health, Roseanna publicly disclosed during the panel that she suffers from anxiety.
Her disclosure surprised some attendees who knew the confident, polished and successful woman they saw publicly, but did not know what she sometimes carried privately. That reaction reinforced her point: mental-health struggles do not always resemble the person experiencing them, and visible success does not make a woman emotionally invulnerable.
Roseanna went on to describe anxiety and depression as silent killers when women have no safe spaces in which to speak honestly about their troubles. She connected that silence to the stigma that still surrounds mental-health conditions in many African communities, where fear of judgement, misunderstanding or being labelled can leave women carrying distress alone.
“Self-care is like tending to the garden of the mind.”
– Roseanna Hall
For Roseanna, tending to that garden means giving mental wellbeing the same attention women give their ambitions. Strong relationships, honest conversations and access to support cannot remove life’s difficulties, but they can help a woman speak and avoid carrying everything alone.
That understanding sits at the heart of Beyond Survival Sisterhood, Roseanna’s women’s mental-wellness advocacy initiative. Her work seeks safer conversations in which girls and women can discuss difficult experiences without shame. It speaks to women facing a crisis and to those who appear strong, accomplished and economically empowered while privately navigating anxiety, pressure, grief or emotional upheaval.
A Connection That Began With a Flyer
The collaboration began after Roseanna Hall’s team saw the She Connects flyer and recognised an organisation whose work aligned naturally with her advocacy. The team reached out, Roseanna agreed to join the conference as a panellist, and a shared interest in women’s economic empowerment and wellbeing quickly became clear.
At the centre of She Connects is founder and CEO Lurydis Rukudzo Bingandadi. After eight years in the diaspora working with leading global beauty, wellness and skincare brands and franchises, Lurydis Bingandadi returned to Zimbabwe and saw talented women without the platforms, professional networks and international exposure that matched their potential. She Connects was created to close that gap and position Zimbabwe’s beauty and wellness industry for wider markets.
Roseanna and Lurydis Bingandadi connected quickly. Both are Zimbabwean women who moved to South Africa and spent years working in the beauty industry there. That shared experience gave them a common understanding of the opportunities, pressure and resilience involved in building visible careers across borders.
They also discovered a shared desire to expand women’s opportunities while protecting the health and wellbeing needed to pursue them. Their meeting opened possibilities for future cross-border collaboration connecting Zimbabwean women, brands and wellness initiatives with wider Southern African networks.
Roseanna’s Miss Universe Zimbabwe 2026 platform gives this message a wider audience, but the substance she brought to She Connects did not begin with the crown. She brought academic grounding, personal honesty and experience across beauty and media. Her appearance showed the kind of partnership she can build with organisations: visibility anchored in a contribution that serves their purpose.
After Roseanna finished her panel discussion, the programme continued before concluding with a powerful dinner and closing remarks from organiser Lurydis Bingandadi.
Together, Roseanna and She Connects offered a broader definition of empowerment. Economic power helps a woman build her future. Mental wellbeing and strong support systems help her navigate, enjoy and sustain it. At a platform built on the belief that women bloom together, Roseanna’s message was clear: the woman behind the success should never be left to struggle alone.
