Konnected Minds Podcast with Derrick Abaitey

What if the biggest difference between people who build wealth and those who spend their lives praying for financial breakthroughs isn't how much faith they have or how many midnight prayers they attend, but understanding that social media is the most powerful tool for change in this era where even Elon Musk is tweeting, that the person with valuable products and services doesn't need to fast for money because money exists where value is exchanged not in heaven, and that the young person who thinks successful people teaching online means they have nothing else to do has been programmed to worship conspicuous consumption while missing the fact that some of these people they think are rich are trapped in debt with bank loans and gathered money they don't personally own?
In this raw and unfiltered conversation on Konnected Minds, we sit down with someone who reveals why we've built big businesses big investment big assets with no support from politics or even banks from ourselves, why we built families and have houses that are not a mortgage and we are free, why if you think we were not free we wouldn't be here spending two hours, and why if you ask that question it means that you are not intelligent because the force is in the words that we speak.
He breaks down why you think that any ignorant person who has never done anything will come here and speak this and it is changing people's lives and his life is not changing, why this is a person full of football and entertainment because they are not learning, why those who are learning will never ask such questions because they see and it takes one to see one, and why people think that if you have time to share some things it means that you're not busy but a lot of these guys that you think are busy have time to meet their friends and are on social media.
But he also confronts the brutal reality of what people mistake for success. Why some of them have two three friends and they meet them every time which means they are occupied but you have priorities, why what we didn't have when we were growing up we are giving to the people now we have to make them available so that people will not make the same mistakes that we made, why this does not mean that we are useless and we sit on social media talking nonsense, and why for him social media is a tool for change.
He reveals why the skill to be able to put the frameworks that has worked for you and then teach people and the skill to just make money is two different things, why there are some people who are popular and have the money as you know it but they don't have the ability to teach for people to understand, why it's not because they're busy because they have time to watch football move around chase girls but because they don't think this is critical, and why some of them will even think that they are worthier than us when some of them is just people's money that they have gathered together and some of them is just bank expensive loans.
But he also exposes the truth about wealth versus appearance. Why some of them if you ask them even a million themselves they may not even have, why some of them are not cash at all they are not liquid trapped in debt, why because of conspicuous consumption when you see cars and houses you think someone is rich, why somebody will come on the channel and say where is it and somebody said if you are successful why are you teaching people, and why those people are not smart.
He explains why in this era even Elon Musk is on Twitter tweeting, why if he's on social media teaching people and they think he doesn't have anything to do that's why he's on social media then they are not smart and don't know what they are talking about, why social media is his TV station with thousands of people across the world watching, why at first you have to go to TV and pay money and beg but today with your smartphone you can say whatever you want to say, and why there is no censorship.
But he also confronts the tragedy of what media prioritizes. Why when he went to Kumasi for an event there was no segment for business and mindset, why they had to put him on sports or entertainment and slot him in while they are discussing Kotoko for five minutes, why that was the point he came out and told his team there is a big problem in this country where there is no business and mindset segment on these radio stations, why the closest is religion which is itself manipulative and enslaving more than liberating, and why if you look at the results you will see that the people are not free because if you put a visa there and all your members will move you have not taught them.
He reveals why some of them are even praying for the members to get visas which means they are deceiving the people because what the people want is success, why majority of the people who are praying every midnight don't have any valuable product or service to exchange for money, why those who are praying for money saying open financial...

What if the biggest difference between people who build wealth in Africa and those who spend their lives complaining about the system isn't how much education they have or how many degrees they collect, but understanding that the entire society operates on mental programming that keeps you trapped like a baby elephant tied to concrete, that the same politicians who mismanage millions while the dollar climbs from 16 cedis to crisis levels are using young people as raw materials for demonstrations while their own children never show up, and that the young person who complains there are no opportunities in Ghana while you can literally wake up tomorrow and sell watermelon bananas or start a container business with 200 cedis has been conditioned to see obstacles where smart people see the easiest place on earth to make money?
In this raw and unfiltered conversation on Konnected Minds, we sit down with someone who reveals why we have people who claim they have PhD speak good English blah blah blah but they are not competent to look at Accra when Accra is very dirty, why there are people who are supposed to clean it they've been paid there are people in charge of that but the system must work, why when they travel to London Dubai everywhere every week have you seen the white man construct roads the way they construct gutters in Jacob they don't do that, and why if they are smart some of our leadership not all some of them are not smart and don't have the competence to copy what the white man is doing and bring it here.
He breaks down why we spend so much money on Black Stars millions of dollars with qualification bonus winning bonus but the last time they won the African Cup was about 30 something years ago, why we need to collapse GFA because if the GFA president owned it as his own business would he run it the way he's running it, why you will see somebody who has built a school outside this continent and that person will be a deputy minister while somebody who has zero knowledge about education will be a minister, and why when the dollar was 16 cedis we have so called professor the economic messiah whatever and now what are they coming to do when they cannot even do the simple thing of copying what works.
But he also confronts the brutal reality of how the education system created this dysfunction. Why the system is there but go back to the beginning of the kind of education we have now it was religious it was for religion it was not for proper school, why some school was celebrating 185 something and who brought that school their intention was to convert us to a particular religion and culture not to develop the minds of people so they can solve problems, why the same people at the top have gone through the same system, and why the education the skill development the execution the supporting institutions and the intentionality is an ecosystem and when you go to any place that is organized it's not just one of them it's everything.
He reveals why young people complain about the system saying we're ready to start business but the system is not conducive but where is the system conducive enough for the African, why something was hung on us and we have to change it and if you think the system is not right here therefore you move somewhere then when is it going to change because we are the ones to change them, why don't expect that some politician some government somewhere will make things right so you come because they are thinking of their life and their profile more than you, and why if you're a young man thinking somebody's thinking how you become successful go ahead and think like that but he doesn't think that way.
But he also exposes how politicians manipulate the innocent. Why they rally the young ones the innocent young ones behind them and now they start getting themselves into trouble because those guys are not smart, why you see Yuko inviting former ministers and these same people crying there are no jobs no money why is that we are poor Africa when somebody has taken 50 something million Ghana cedis and you are complaining there are no jobs, why you think Ghana is not a good place and you go to Yuko to demonstrate free so and so it means we are not serious, and why politicians are using people as raw materials because they realize they are not serious and have you seen their children be part of the demonstrations.
He explains why we as parents have responsibility to teach our children, why some of his videos said if your parents are poor don't take financial advice from your parents unless they have financial knowledge, why he is teaching his children master you don't need to get a job, why his grandmother in the 80s said Ghana is hard and his mom growing up said Ghana is hard so this Ghana is hard started from way back, and why he told himself Ghana is not hard Ghana is the best place to make money if you are smart.
But he also confronts why so many people miss the opportunities right in...

What if the biggest difference between people who lift themselves out of poverty and those who stay trapped isn't how much education they have or how many degrees they collect, but understanding that life is a choice and when you are struggling you must know what to choose and what you do with your resources, that the world is designed to keep people confused by bombarding them with entertainment and politics from morning to evening while the very things that will help you lift yourself are not on wholesale and you must go search for them, and that the young person who spends their time watching football and debating on unnecessary things while they can't pay their rent is asleep and life will beat them because life is dangerous when you are poor?
In this raw and unfiltered conversation on Konnected Minds, we sit down with someone who reveals why everybody gets a chance to hear something that will lift them from their misery and human beings are not that dumb, why life is fair and God is fair so even though you were born in poverty there will be some condition some experience that will bring some kind of entry into you lifting yourself up, why if you don't have what to eat where to sleep and you're confused about your life you cannot continue to sedate yourself, and why those who succeed in this life are people who have sobriety of heart and are ready to learn like dry sponge because if you don't have that disposition it will be very difficult for you to succeed in life.
He breaks down why when you are in a situation and it's difficult and you're still arguing talking back you'll be there forever, why the world does not argue when you're struggling but anytime they put anything that will lift you out of your bondage then they come out with arguments, why look at the things that we discuss on the radio from morning to evening and tell me which one of them will add value to you if you're struggling, and why the precious things in life are not everywhere and you must go and look for them and that's the sacrifice that you have to make because poverty is by default not righteous.
But he also confronts the brutal reality of what education fails to teach. Why if you see a bare land what would generate on that bare land is not organized fruit but weed because that's the system entropy, why any time you go anywhere that is organized you can be certain that over 90 percent of the time somebody is intentional about it, why when you're a young man and you want to succeed you must be intentional about your life and what are the priorities that you have to pay attention to, and why your finances is key because money is like blood in your system and if your system does not have blood you're gone and in this life almost everything that you're crying for has some link with money.
He reveals why you must have the information how to make money how to organize it and how to make sure that you have enough to live for yourself and for others and for your family, why if you don't have this primary education you don't have education, why intentionally they took all your degrees and they took this thing out so you come out of school and you still don't have a sense of priority of what is critical or the most critical things in life, and why they debate but once you're debating you think you are rehearsing for life when you're not rehearsing for life because you're living life and life is life not college.
But he also exposes why so many people reach 50 years still unaware with their minds on suspension. Why there are many people without any plan for their life who don't know where their life is going because the basic information they need they didn't have it, why they are not in full control of their lives and don't even have self confidence, why one of the feelings you have when you are not confident or when you don't know what you're doing or when you're wasting your destiny is that every time you get up in the morning you don't feel like you are in charge of your life, and why the moment you become aware you start to be intentional about your life with how you spend your time where you go what you eat the people you talk to what you read what you watch because it means that now you have become alive and that's where the consciousness comes in.
He explains why you cannot succeed in this life when you are asleep and many people are asleep, why when you are struggling and watching football you are asleep, why you can't pay your rent and you are watching TV debating on unnecessary things means you are asleep, why life will beat you and life is dangerous when you are poor, and why we are not trivializing school but the truth is that we have to come to that point to tell them to change it because so long as we think it's important and we see the results then they won't change it.
But he also confronts the tragedy of wasted potential in our education system. Why you go to university and some people are spending their life to...

What if the biggest difference between people who build wealth and those who stay poor isn't how much education they have or how many degrees they collect, but understanding that the entire school system was designed not to make you successful but to make you employable, that spending hours watching football and celebrity lifestyles while claiming you don't have data for life changing conversations is the exact programming keeping you trapped, and that the young person who depends on their carpenter father for chop money two years after university graduation has invested years learning something that isn't even designed to prepare them for the life they're now expected to live?
In this raw and unfiltered conversation on Konnected Minds, we sit down with someone who reveals why this whole school thing is not working anymore and we shouldn't deceive ourselves, why you are expecting something from something that is not designed to give, why it's just like finishing primary school and knowing how to pronounce ABCD but they say you're going to face life because you can write ABCD when we are talking about life not basic literacy, and why there are many young minds who have finished university and still don't know what to do with their lives because we expect too much from this particular entity.
He breaks down why school is okay somewhere but if you don't go somewhere you can still give yourself that training for life, why we are putting so much importance on this and when you have it and you cannot succeed then you feel like you're a failure when in the first place you didn't have what it would take you to build this life, why it's just like training a carpenter and then expecting that carpenter to do surgery on you because the training is different, and why we are talking of succeeding in life but school trains you to be able to read academically.
But he also confronts the brutal origins of our education system. Why we didn't design this current education ourselves, why some British and Europeans came and said they have to put us through school to civilize us to think and behave like them but not as the best of them but as their servants, why you are speaking your own language but they say you will not use that language to be taught in that school that they brought, and why today if a young person wants to become a doctor they know they have to go to medical school for between four to seven years but if somebody wants to prepare themselves for life where is the curriculum for that.
He reveals why the answer is personal education, why you don't need that structured system because life does not give you a structured program, why school people when they come out ask questions wanting a template an example mentorship wanting you to give them the exact procedures because that is the regimen they went through, why life is not like that and that's why when you have come out of school you are afraid to take risk because life is full of uncertainties, and why now it's easy because that smartphone that laptop everything is there and you can go to ChatGPT and ask how can I do this and step by step it will give you everything.
But he also exposes what's really stopping people from accessing this information. Why if people are not doing it then what is stopping them is they don't know they are not aware that such information exists, why 90 percent of people when they go on social media watch things that will not add value to them, why you go to TikTok and see oh this lady was in China and 50,000 people watching listening to something that will not benefit them, and why if someone teaching about money and life is on live can they have 10K people watching when the conversation about money can feel very uncomfortable because there's responsibility involved and many people don't want responsibility they want magic.
He explains why the things that will not put the work in their hands are what people consume because they are waiting for something supernatural to happen to them, why if you're watching football you're just enjoying not thinking, why if you're dancing to music you're not thinking, why we shouldn't take that out of life but it should not be the main thing, and why these guys who are using their data and Wi-Fi to watch Neymar they don't have money but they know everything about Neymar they know everything about celebrities their lifestyle their girlfriends but can they spend those same hours to invest in themselves consuming information that will add value to them.
But he also confronts the tragedy of misplaced priorities. Why people will sit down watching football happy happy happy for what when at a certain point in life you need to understand that without money or without certain basic things you need in life you are suffering and those things you can acquire are just around you, why our people are not ready to look for it, why someone spends four years in school and after school their mother who was a...

What if the biggest difference between people who build real wealth and those who chase degrees isn't how many certificates they collect or how well they speak English, but understanding that the entire education system was designed not to make you successful but to make you employable, that the young lady on a flight to China holding $200,000 without a professor's credentials discovered something universities will never teach you, and that the mechanic who fixes your car the contractor who builds your house and the shoemaker who crafts your shoes are all educated people who never needed a classroom to create value and earn money in a world that worships certificates while the certificate holders struggle to pay their children's school fees? In this raw and unfiltered conversation on Konnected Minds, we sit down with someone who reveals why there's this wholesale information they give us to make you feel you've been given an education to face life when really it's just like somebody going to learn trade, why if you go to the websites of a lot of our investors and see who they are trading and where they are trading them to it's to go and look for a job, why the main import of especially university education is so that you can come out and somebody should give you a job, and why when schools are having anniversaries the people they hail are those who have been employed in multinational positions and government positions more than somebody who has a provision shop somewhere. He breaks down why education doesn't mean you need to sit in the classroom, why that mechanic who has been fixing your car is educated even though he's not a graduate, why the contractor is educated even though he may not have a degree, why we need to let people who are going through that system understand that they are not necessarily going to get a job after and that they should look at business as an alternative or maybe even the main thing, and why this system has been there for so many years to keep people poor especially in Africa. But he also confronts the brutal reality of what certificates actually mean. Why how many professors in this country can confidently say they have $500,000 or $200,000, why he's been going to China and was in a flight with one young lady sitting by him holding $200,000 from her collar going to China, why this whole thing about go to school you have to be educated means you don't have to sit in a classroom before you can be educated, why knowledge you can acquire and he believes in self education not this whole thing about go to school and after school, and why we need to have trade schools here in Africa in Ghana so that if you complete secondary school you can say okay I want to be a shoemaker and go to a vocational school for that. He reveals why the only vocational schools we have here are for cooking and bread making, why we don't have trade schools but we need them if we want to succeed as a country, why everybody wants to go to university and become a lawyer because they can argue and speak good English, why you don't have to speak good English to succeed in life, why you don't need that certificate to succeed in life, and why you need education but you don't need certificates. But he also shares his personal journey of discovering this truth. Why about 15 years ago life was so difficult for him and he decided to study successful people, why he realized those successful people know something the ordinary poor person doesn't know, why he studied why is this guy successful and realized all the successful people have something in common, why they all have a certain skill or a business because in this life there are only two ways to make money through a product or service, why all the successful people in our world have it, and why it wasn't about certificate. He explains why education is different from school, why the one we have is the boxers to go to school where the knowledge is contained, why what you need in life to succeed is education and especially personal education where you teach yourself for life, why you can't become successful in life holistically just because you have an engineering degree, why there are so many engineers who don't understand life, and why critical things in life like character advantage over money family health and influence in society are not taught in any particular course in the university. But he also reveals the sophisticated understanding that separates life education from school education. Why those who didn't sit in any particular classroom to study physics or chemistry may not necessarily be disadvantaged because they still are open to learn the basis you need for life, why there's life education and there is school kind of education, why many of us think that once we have the school kind it means we are equipped enough when he will not place it more than 10% of the information you need, why the school one is what many of us were pushed through and they..