Konnected Minds Podcast

From defying her mother's wishes and moving to Accra alone with no clear plan to building a six-figure business in 24 hours using only Snapchat, and why the brutal truth about starting a business when you have nothing is that sometimes the desperation to not depend on anyone becomes the fuel that drives you to create something from absolutely nothing, the young woman who packed her bags and left Kumasi for Accra against everyone's advice except her father's because she knew her family didn't understand what she truly wanted and staying in Kumasi meant staying stuck, arriving in Accra with nowhere to go when her friend never picked up the phone forcing her to stay with a total stranger for months while starting her national service, the painful reality of going to university alone carrying your own bags while watching other students arrive with their entire families when no one came to visit you throughout your time there, the Apple shop job during national service that turned toxic with men and women's stuff forcing her to file for early completion after just seven months, the two years of staying home trying different things without passion or results while depending on a man from a previous workplace who was doing well and taking care of her, the relationship that was saving her but also suffocating her because being at home not doing anything and not making money meant having to depend on a man which made her deeply uncomfortable, the 10,000 cedis she managed to save from that relationship by giving the money to a friend to hold because she knew if she kept it herself she would spend it all, the random day she bought a feminine hygiene product from a lady online for way less than the 350 cedis she had paid before and forgot about it until a friend asked for something similar, the moment she realized she could make a business out of it and spent hours on the phone with her friend planning a dropshipping model where she would post products and forward orders to the supplier who would deliver directly to customers, posting the product on Snapchat the same afternoon she came up with the idea and immediately paying an influencer to promote it, the explosive response that brought more than 100 orders in the first 24 hours proving how desperately people needed that product, the supplier who got overwhelmed after just one day and said it was too stressful and she couldn't do it anymore leaving the business hanging, the realization that people trusted her so much they were paying upfront without asking for payment on delivery when she had just put a price there and customers were ready to pay just like that, making about 20,000 cedis or more in the first 24 hours just from Snapchat with no WhatsApp, no Instagram, no TikTok, just Snapchat and influencers she kept paying because the money was coming in and the orders kept flowing, waiting a full year into the business before even starting to use Instagram or TikTok because Snapchat alone was generating that much demand.

Guest: Femlas Founder

Host: Derrick Abaitey

From the dangerous mindset that marriage is just about finding the right person to the revolutionary truth that the quality of the players in marriage determines whether you see relationship as competition or collaboration, and why the brutal truth about why marriages collapse is that people bring residual effects from their upbringing into marriage without understanding that though you may look polished, educated, and talented, the effect of the environment that raised you is still there and just a little trigger will show where you came from, the young person raised in an environment where you fight for everything creating a competition mentality of survival of the fittest that no matter how refined you appear carries forward into adult relationships, the child who was shifted from one house to another or had wealthy parents who were sound and had everything but gave no time leaving a person devoid of love who had everything going for them but didn't have attention or affection, the partner coming into marriage struggling with trust issues asking can I trust what you are doing because the effect of where I'm coming from is tearing me apart and in my subconscious I'm hearing voices from the past, the realization that the quality of players in marriage is one thing but the pattern of play requires that you fish out your opponent and understand their pattern because no two marriages are the same and you may have a friend whose wife does certain things but you cannot expect your wife to be like that, the wisdom that you must sit down and talk about what are the possible things that can challenge the mindset of a person and bring them to see marriage as competition instead of collaboration, the understanding that when you sit down and truly understand each other that understanding will weave something that brings you to a place of knowing you are a team not competitors, the competition mindset that doesn't happen overnight and may not be resolved by yourself alone but you can get help, the agencies and people coming with competition wanting to prove who is on top which is all lack of knowledge and ignorance that should be sorted out before marriage, the critical truth that there are things that should be sorted out before marriage because if you wait those dysfunctional tendencies will be used as weapons against a fantastic marriage that could have been properly managed for the greatest result, the intense premarital exposure to knowledge and wisdom that digs out a lot about a person because you are not just the man that wears the shirt and trouser in front of me but a combination of a lot of things, the women who are a combination of a lot of things where so many have been broken before marriage and the competitive clamoring is not about competing against you but about the backlog of trauma that may not have been resolved, the women looking for the next victim to lash out on because they may have been violated, abused, molested, talked down to, or considered inconsequential, the beautiful glamorous woman where what you see may just be the container but you do not know the content, the process of knowing the content that takes time starting with meeting the person with the mindset of friendship, the opportunities to create trust that you are not coming as one of the bandwagons of people that abused her one way or the other which will go through rigorous testing where she will test you.

Guest: Mama Cathy

Host: Derrick Abaitey

From the dangerous mindset that marriage is 50-50 when it comes to household duties and financial contributions to the revolutionary truth that every marriage is different and whether you bring 50% or 100% to the table doesn't determine superiority or inferiority because marriage is teamwork where both people deserve respect, and why the brutal truth about the question "what do you bring to the table" among Gen Z and millennials is that it's almost always about money when marriage has been seriously misconstrued because where purpose is not known abuse is inevitable according to the late Dr. Myles Munroe, the realization that marriage is more about legacy and dominion than money because if you will refer to the manual for a complicated gadget you spent money on so you don't blow it then how many people have referred to the manual for marriage asking whose idea was it and who instituted it, the argument that the Bible as the manual for marriage is so old it seems traditional making young people believe it doesn't work anymore for them when the real issue is clarity about the purpose for which marriage was created because whatever you don't know the purpose for which it was created you are certainly bound to abuse it, the wisdom that people marry based on likes and what they will gain and free feelings that don't work when the conversation about why God started marriage is completely lost, the revolutionary truth for Christians and non-Christians alike found in Isaiah 14 verses 11 to 14, Ezekiel 28 verses 11 to 14, and Revelations showing that marriage will be corrupted if we don't understand it's not about money or communication but the real reason why God established marriage, the scriptural revelation that Genesis 1 is not where everything started because there was somebody here before time who went up to plan a coup d'état saying I will be like God and take over but the coup failed and he was cast down and destabilized the face of the earth bringing confusion which is why Genesis 1 says the earth was without form and void, the critical question of how can God if this God is so excellent create chaos and something that doesn't make sense or have form when the answer is God never created the chaos but somebody messed everything up, the wisdom that God never reacted to the enemy but said let there be, let there be, let there be and put the world in place and in Genesis 1:28 said let them have dominion over the earth, the powerful truth that marriage was established as the institution that will progress and fill the world so marriage is God's idea for dominion but you must know the common enemy who destabilized everything, the 50-50 debate where a woman who brings 50% to the table must realize that if you have disparity sort it out in the bedroom so you don't create a scenario where children believe you can just confront and insult anywhere because bringing 50-50 doesn't mean you stop his authority since there must be a structure and a family is a place where the next generation is groomed, the man who brings 100% to the table and must be careful not to exercise dictatorship because in marriage there's no superiority and no inferiority so because you bring all of the 100% doesn't give you the right to treat your wife as a second fiddle, the scenario where the husband provides 100% for the household and everything and the wife doesn't have to lift a finger if she doesn't want to but if she wants to that's a different case proving every marriage is different, the marriages where 100% works and marriages where 50-50 works depending on the marriage structure.

Guest: Mama Cathy

Host: Derrick Abaitey

From leaving the Tokyo Stock Market as the only black equity analyst to investing over 2 million USD into a fish farm in Ghana, and why the brutal truth about why young Africans miss farming opportunities is that we've been conditioned to see weeding as punishment and farming as something for people who cannot read and write when the reality is that Ghana spends 100 million dollars per annum importing tomatoes from Burkina Faso.

Chapters

00:00:00 Introduction: Meet Seth Boakye-Dankwah
00:03:39 From Japan's Stock Market to Ghana's Fish Farms
00:09:29 The Asian Mindset: Understanding Risk as Opportunity
00:18:42 The $2 Million Investment Decision
00:20:18 Recirculating Aquaculture System Explained
00:34:44 The Hard Truth About Catfish Farming Profitability
00:30:33 Why Family Members Are Banned From The Business
00:25:55 Building a Business That Outlives You
00:38:04 The Marketing Challenge: From Farm to Consumer
00:52:55 Advice for Young Africans: Why Farming is Wealth Creation
01:04:47 Product Showcase and Final Thoughts

Guest: Seth Boakye-Dankwah

Company - Mordecai Farms

Web: https://www.mordecaifarm.com/

Host: Derrick Abaitey

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From the dangerous mindset that the devil is the one destroying families to the revolutionary truth that until you tame the common enemy you and your spouse can never be on the same wavelength, and why the brutal truth about why millennials and Gen Z don't trust marriage is because the Bible has been corrupted, ministers and preachers have messed up, the older generation managed broken marriages, and some never saw any marriage at all leaving them with no examples to glean from and take into their life journey, the young people coming from broken homes who came from homes that seemingly looked as if they were standing but had no examples they could use as blueprints for their own marriages, the realization that changing the narratives of corruption surrounding marriage so we can trust again is not about money because if your mind is right then as a man thinketh so everything about your perception of marriage is your mindset, the wisdom that until this mind is reguided whatever conversations we hold about marriage will not go far because it's a thing of the mind, the dangerous saying that love is sweet but when money is inside the love is sweeter which is taking advantage when you must understand the purpose for marriage and the purpose for money in marriage, the candid admission that money is sweet, money is comfort, money makes love go to hell but to make that money work for us there also has to be a corresponding peace on understanding and intentionality, the critical question of should women tell their husbands exactly how much they earn with the answer that it depends on who the woman is married to because it's not a blanket yes or no, the right thing being 101% financial transparency but the reality that not every marriage is the same, the marriage where if a spouse knows everything you earn the children's school fees may not be paid, house rents will not be renewed, certain basic needs and utilities will not be taken care of not because the other person is bad but because of the antecedents that need to be understood going back to how we were raised, the man counseled who said all through his life before he married he never had savings, never opened accounts, chopstick finish and start again chopstick which you can't blame because of the effect of upbringing, the woman who should open up completely if she has a husband that understands management and how to handle finances so the two can join heads together making the best out of finances, the dangerous reality of having a man who even when he knows how much you earn finishes it with drinking or taking it to take care of people when thousands of human beings have been exposed to this reality, the man who when the wife used to hand 100% of her salary to him wasn't unfaithful, wasn't playing around with women but used that money to visit people who are not well and the money finished in two weeks leaving children's school fees pending and money for food finished while he filled the car to run around contributing zero to the household.

Guest: Mama Cathy

Host: Derrick Abaitey