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What if one idea could completely change your life? Hosted by Richie Mensah , Masterminds Podcast dives deep into the conversations, lessons, and mindset shifts that turn ordinary people into extraordinary leaders. Every Wednesday, Richie sits with brilliant thinkers, creators, and innovators to explore the habits, stories, and strategies behind their success. And every Sunday, he shares solo insights from his own journey, raw, direct, and practical steps to help you sharpen your mind and elevate your life. Whether you’re chasing personal growth, building a business, or simply looking for inspiration to level up, Masterminds Podcast is your weekly dose of clarity, motivation, and transformation. New Episodes Weekly: Wednesdays & Sundays
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Download Achieve By Petra – https://app.theachieveproject.com/PSL0001000 Get the Lynx Octave Speaker – https://lynx-electronics.com/ Download Obra, the life design app – https://orbralifedesign.com/download Evelyn Warlson Annan grew up deep inside religion, mastering the Bible, the classes, the evangelism. Then one confession, and the punishment that followed, cracked the whole thing open and sent her looking for God on her own terms. In this episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah sits down with Evelyn Warlson Annan, a spiritual teacher he first encountered on TikTok saying things most people are afraid to say out loud. She shares the story of how she left organised religion to seek God directly, what she believes she found, and the distinction at the heart of her whole message: the difference between believing something because you were told it, and knowing it because you have experienced it for yourself. This is a long, deep, and at times challenging conversation about awakening, awareness, and thinking for yourself. A note in the spirit of the show: the views in this episode are Evelyn's own, shared so you can engage with them and question your own thinking, not so you adopt them. As always, do your own reflection and reach your own conclusions. In this episode, you'll learn: - How a single confession and its punishment became the start of Evelyn's awakening - Why she decided to stop taking religion on other people's word and seek God for herself - The distinction she draws between believing something and knowing it through experience - Why she describes God as energy and awareness rather than a person or a figure - How she understands consciousness, creation, and the mind's role in shaping reality - Why she believes the most important relationship begins as an individual encounter, not a communal one - A simple morning practice she offers for becoming more aware of your own thoughts - Why she believes questioning everything is the beginning of real knowledge This is the first of a two part conversation. Evelyn is coming back, and your questions will shape the next one, so drop them in the comments. Chapters 00:00 – Intro 06:58 – The Confession That Started It All 12:41 – Going to God Directly 17:30 – The Peak of the Awakening 29:00 – Belief vs Knowing 32:50 – What Is God? God as Energy 40:30 – Sound, Meditation and Tongues 50:00 – Consciousness and Creation 01:11:00 – A Morning Practice for Awareness 01:17:00 – Religion, History and Programming 01:34:00 – Rebuilding: Religion, Education, Mindset 01:43:40 – To Be Continued Support the show
Download Achieve By Petra – https://app.theachieveproject.com/PSL0001000 Get the Lynx Octave Speaker – https://lynx-electronics.com/ Download Obra, the life design app – https://orbralifedesign.com/download Everyone who says they want to go into poultry means the same thing: they want to own birds. That is one business, and it is the most crowded, the hardest to profit from, and the one where you have the least control. In this Masterminds Breakdown, Richie Mensah opens up the entire poultry industry and shows you 14 different ways to make money in it, most of which have nothing to do with owning a single chicken. From hatcheries and feed milling to chick delivery, contract growing, egg trading, processing, ready made products, and even turning droppings into fertiliser, every part of the chain is a business someone can own. For each one, Richie tells you what the business actually is, how the money comes in, and exactly which of four types of person it suits: the one with nothing yet, the one with small savings, the one with a steady job looking for a side hustle, and the one with real money to invest. By the end, you will know precisely where you fit. In this episode, you'll learn: - Why the part everyone chases, raising birds for meat, is the most crowded and least profitable - How hatcheries make real money per chick, and why one power cut can wipe them out - Why feed milling is one of the most profitable positions in the whole chain - How contract growing lets you start with just a poultry house and no capital for birds - Why raising chicks for the first three weeks is the smartest low entry business in poultry - Why processing and cold storage is the weakest link in Africa, and why that is an opportunity - How ready made chicken products let you set your own price and margin - Why egg trading can be the lowest entry point of all - The best fit if you only have a little savings, and why Richie recommends it Support the show
Download Achieve By Petra – https://app.theachieveproject.com/PSL0001000 Get the Lynx Octave Speaker – https://lynx-electronics.com/ Download Obra, the life design app – https://orbralifedesign.com/download Nobody owes you a dime. Not the government, not your boss, not your family. Richard Abbey Jnr learned that early, sleeping on a veranda and selling scrap aluminium to survive, and it became the engine behind everything he built. In this episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah sits down with Richard Abbey Jnr, founder of Exodus Communications and the man behind the 40 Under 40 platforms that now run across Ghana, the UK, the United States and 25 countries on the African continent. His story is a masterclass in tenacity. From a childhood of real poverty in Abeka, to fasting for three days for his school fees, to negotiating with a Mayfair hotel on his first UK event, to the South Africa disaster that nearly broke him and became the subject of his book, Richard has built a global brand on sacrifice, faith and a refusal to be told no. This is a raw, honest conversation about what it actually costs to build something that lasts. In this episode, you'll learn: - Why Richard built a platform to celebrate excellence while people are alive, not at their funerals - Why Ghana struggles to scale its entrepreneurs, and what a real support system would look like - How a childhood of selling scrap and carrying head pans built the discipline that carries him now - Why appetite for risk is the thing that separates those who cross over from those who do not - How he negotiated with a Mayfair hotel that told him the terms could not be changed - The full story of the South Africa event that nearly broke him, and the book that came from it - Why he refused large sums to keep the integrity of the award, so it can never be bought - Why he believes your achievement is not determined by your environment - What his father's apology taught him about ego, responsibility and fatherhood - The one mindset he would leave any young person with: nobody owes you a dime Chapters 00:00 – Intro 09:14 – Why We Celebrate Failure and Not Success 19:39 – Sleeping on a Veranda: The Childhood Struggle 28:37 – Skipping School and Fasting for Fees 39:05 – Conquering the UK: The Mayfair Gamble 45:00 – The South Africa Disaster That Nearly Broke Him 53:55 – Brand Is Everything: Why He Refuses Bribes 01:04:16 – Systems, Talent and the Football Lesson 01:12:37 – The Day His Father Apologised 01:30:11 – Final Message: Nobody Owes You a Dime Support the show
Download Achieve By Petra – https://app.theachieveproject.com/PSL0001000 Get the Lynx Octave Speaker – https://lynx-electronics.com/ Download Obra, the life design app – https://orbralifedesign.com/download You asked for the sources, so here they are. After the two conversations with Nana Kyidomhene, the comments filled with the same request: show us the receipts. So Richie sent your questions back to the guest, asked him for his sources, then did his own independent research on top. This episode lays every major claim on the table next to the evidence behind it, so you can weigh it and decide for yourself. As always on this show, the point is not to tell you what to believe. The point is to hand you the sources and let you do your own reading. Some of these claims are well documented. Some are contested. A couple are one interpretation among several, and we say so where that is the case. SOURCES AND FURTHER READING Greece inheriting knowledge from Africa Herodotus, Histories, Book II, on the Egyptian origin of Greek religious practice. Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, Book I, on Greek thinkers travelling to Egypt to study. Imhotep and the origins of medicine Imhotep, active around 2650 BC, more than two thousand years before Hippocrates, who was born around 460 BC. Ancient Egyptian medical papyri including the Edwin Smith and Ebers papyri record prescriptions and diagnoses centuries before Greek medicine. Amen and the god Amun Amun was a chief god of ancient Egypt, identified by the Greeks with Zeus. Alexander the Great made a pilgrimage to the Oracle of Amun at Siwa. Note the contested point: many linguists trace the word Amen to a Hebrew root meaning to confirm or so be it, so this one stays an open question rather than a settled link. African cities described by European visitors Leo Africanus, Description of Africa, 1526, on the scholars and manuscript trade of Timbuktu. Al-Bakri, Book of Roads and Kingdoms, 1068, on the stone and acacia construction of the Ghana Empire. Duarte Pacheco Pereira, around 1506, comparing Benin City to Lisbon. Olfert Dapper, 1668, on the broad straight streets and ordered houses of Benin. Asante architecture and sanitation Thomas Edward Bowdich, who visited Kumasi in 1817 and published his account in 1819, describing latrines, some upstairs, and daily cleaning with boiling water. Ongoing architectural research on Asante courtyard houses supports the two storey building tradition. African universities and the Moors Timbuktu as a centre of learning, with the Sankore mosque and the Timbuktu Manuscripts recognised by UNESCO. The Moors, who ruled parts of the Iberian Peninsula for centuries, transmitting mathematics, medicine, optics and preserved classical knowledge into Europe. A fuller treatment of the Moors is coming in a separate episode. The Walls of Benin Recognised in the 1974 Guinness Book of Records as the world's largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era. Fred Pearce, writing in New Scientist, noted the walls were around four times longer than the Great Wall of China. Surveyor Patrick Darling estimated the full network at around 16,000 km in 1977. On monumental building more broadly, over 200 pyramids still stand in Sudan, at Meroe and nearby, more than in Egypt. Scripture, translation and the Council of Nicaea David Carr, on the formation of Genesis and its engagement with the older Mesopotamian creation epic Enuma Elish. The Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures, produced in Alexandria in Africa under the Ptolemies, as described in the Letter of Aristeas. The Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, which defined the divinity of Christ in the Nicene Creed, roughly three hundred years after the life of Christ. The dying and rising god motif James Frazer, The Golden Bough, 1890, grouping Osiris, Tammuz, Dionysus and others as versions of a recurring death and resurrection motif. This is genuine comparative religion, and it remains debated. Many later scholars question how closely these myths actually parallel one another, so treat it as a documented pattern that is contested rather than a settled equivalence. The historicity of Moses Philip Davies, who argued the Moses narrative is not straightforwardly historical. James Hoffmeier, an Egyptologist who defends the Exodus tradition, while acknowledging there is no contemporary record of a man named Moses. Do not take his word for it. Do not take ours. Check the sources and reach your own conclusions. Support the show
Download Achieve By Petra – https://app.theachieveproject.com/PSL0001000 Get the Lynx Octave Speaker – https://lynx-electronics.com/ Download Obra, the life design app – https://orbralifedesign.com/download One year. One question. Every guest who has sat on this show was asked the same thing: if you could reach through the camera and drop one idea into the mind of the person watching, one shift that would change everything, what would it be? This episode is their answers, back to back. It is the close of the first year of the Masterminds Podcast, and it belongs to the people who built it with us. Every voice you have heard across this journey returns here to leave you with their one mindset. Richie closes it out himself with the answer he gave on his own 40th birthday. Watch it through. Somewhere in here is the exact sentence you needed to hear today. Featuring, in order of their appearance across the year: Futurist Kwame (Kwame A.A. Opoku), futurist and author Adnan Saani, financial literacy advocate Anthony Dzamefe, founder of Caveman Watches Derrick Abaitey, host of the Konnectminds Podcast Christian Boakye (Chris B), founder of Pizzaman Chickenman Afeafa Nfojoh, television producer Kobby Kyei, digital media entrepreneur Dr Amankwah, medical doctor Nkonkonsa (Eugene Osafo-Nkansah), media personality and blogger Israel Laryea, journalist and broadcaster Alberta Mensah, Richie's mother COD, real estate entrepreneur Beryl, co-founder of Echo House Thapelo Mokoena, actor and entrepreneur Kobe Boujee, content creator and history storyteller Bernard Sokpe (Mr Meister), entrepreneur Aina Aidoo, founder of Cupcake Boutique Antoine Mensah, entrepreneur Moses B. Arthur, author and speaker MJ Jalloh, finance and investment professional Vusi Thembekwayo, global speaker and investor Stafford Masie, technologist and entrepreneur Sibusiso Shangase, brand strategist Mushambi Mutuma, entrepreneur and innovation strategist Huzaifa Abdulai, General Manager of Achieve by Petra Dr. Mzamo Masito, global marketing leader Nana Aba Anamoah, broadcaster and media executive Charles Mwebeiha, private equity investor Bongani Mwebeiha, creative entrepreneur A-Plus (Kwame Asare Obeng), musician and Member of Parliament Kojo Baffoe, writer and cultural strategist Mary Anane Awuku, founder of FacilityPro and Brain Hills International School Dr. Baffour Jan, spiritual teacher and medical doctor Daniel Sarpong, sales strategist and author Kingsley Opoku Simpeh, FMCG distribution entrepreneur Rudolf Brenya, life coach and author Sam Koranteng, confidence coach and founder of Unmuted Gabriel Nti Appiah (Ghizo), founder and CEO of BTL Africa Kafui Dey, broadcaster and MC Mawuli Gavor, actor and entrepreneur Zulky, award-winning makeup artist Quables, founder of DWP Academy Angela Attieh, CEO of En+ Global Mining Chichi Yakubu, founder of Nyonyo Okyeame Kwame, rapper and author Panji Anoff, music producer Claudia Kwarteng Lumor, founder of Glitz Africa Nana Kyidomhene, educator and researcher Thank you for one year. The best is ahead. Support the show
Download Achieve By Petra – https://app.theachieveproject.com/PSL0001000 Get the Lynx Octave Speaker – https://lynx-electronics.com/ Download Obra, the life design app – https://orbralifedesign.com/download Part 1 asked us to look again at African history. Part 2 asks us to look again at how we connect to God. In the second part of this conversation on the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah continues with Nana Kyidomhene, and the discussion turns from history to spirituality. At the centre of it is a simple idea he keeps returning to: religion, at its root, means to connect. From that starting point they explore what African spirituality actually taught about connection to God, why ancestral veneration was reframed as something to fear, and why he believes the way forward for any young African begins with going back to their roots. This is a wide, searching conversation that moves through comparative religion, the meaning of sin, forgiveness as release rather than obligation, and what it means to build a solid foundation before you build anything else. As always on this show, this episode presents a point of view and the thinking behind it. We share it so you can weigh it and reach your own conclusions, not so you take any single claim at face value. In this episode, you'll learn: - Why the root meaning of religion is simply to connect, and what that reframes - How Nana Kyidomhene understands African spirituality as a connection found within - Why he argues ancestral veneration was never evil, and how it was recast as something to fear - How he reads the concept of sin, and why he sees forgiveness as making peace directly rather than through guilt - Why forgiving someone does not oblige you to keep them in your life - Why he believes a solid foundation has to come before anything you try to build - Why he believes the first step for any young African is to go back to their roots A note in the spirit of the show: several claims in this conversation are contested and some are one person's interpretation. Do your own reading, check the references, and decide for yourself. Support the show
Download Achieve By Petra – https://app.theachieveproject.com/PSL0001000 Get the Lynx Octave Speaker – https://lynx-electronics.com/ Download Obra, the life design app – https://orbralifedesign.com/download You cannot know where you are going until you know where you are coming from. And most of us were handed a version of African history that begins at colonization, as though nothing of worth existed before the Europeans arrived. In Part 1 of this episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah sits down with Nana Kyidomhene, an educator and researcher who has spent years studying African history, spirituality, and the origins of the systems we live under today. Together they walk through the pre-colonial world: the planned cities, the libraries, the universities that predate Oxford, the Ashanti architecture and sanitation that stunned British visitors, and the argument, sourced to Greek writers themselves, that much of what we call classical civilization traces back to Africa. The conversation then opens into African spirituality, the meaning of God as energy and oneness, and the deeper histories of how the Bible, Christianity, and Islam entered the continent. This is a long, dense, source-driven conversation. Come ready to research alongside us and reach your own conclusions. A note in the spirit of the show: this episode presents a point of view and the sources behind it. We share it so you can examine the evidence and decide for yourself, not so you take any claim at face value. In this episode, you'll learn: - Why the story that Africa had no civilization before Europe arrived does not survive contact with the historical record - The case, drawn from Greek writers themselves, that Greek civilization owed a deep debt to Africa - How Imhotep is described as a father of medicine thousands of years before the Greeks - What early European visitors actually wrote about Ashanti cities, architecture, and sanitation - Why Timbuktu had a great university before Oxford existed, and the role of the Moors in Europe - How Nana Kyidomhene understands African spirituality: God as energy, and oneness with creation - The argument that the Bible's creation story shares roots with far older civilizations - How Christianity and Islam each entered Africa, and why the guest reads that history the way he does Chapters 00:00 – Intro 01:23 – Welcome: Why We Avoid This Conversation 03:33 – Before Colonization: Cities, Libraries and Kings 05:26 – The Case That the Greeks Learned From Africa 10:29 – Imhotep and the Origins of Medicine 21:39 – What Europeans Wrote About Ashanti Civilization 25:57 – Timbuktu, the Moors and the First Universities 32:00 – African Spirituality: God as Energy and Oneness 46:49 – The Bible and Its Older Sources 59:35 – How Christianity and Islam Entered Africa 01:09:08 – Underdevelopment, Debt and the Systems We Inherited Support the show
Download Achieve By Petra – https://app.theachieveproject.com/PSL0001000 You worked hard. You stayed disciplined. You earned it. And then somebody looked at you and said, wow, you are so lucky. That is not a compliment. Most of the time it is a quiet way of saying they do not believe you earned it. In this solo episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah takes the word luck and turns it on its head. Luck is not random. Luck is not the lottery. Luck is the result of tiny, deliberate things done consistently over a long time until you are perfectly positioned to seize the opportunities that come your way. Richie breaks down his own definition of luck through the LUCKY acronym and shows you exactly how to become the kind of person that good things keep happening to. Say it with him: yes, I am lucky. In this episode, you'll learn: Why being called lucky is often a way for others to dismiss the work you put in Why luck is an investment built over time, not a random stroke of fortune L: why learning consistently is what lets you even recognise an opportunity U: why understanding the game of your industry keeps you out of bad situations C: why consistency beats intensity every single time K: why the person who keeps showing up through rejection is the one who wins Y: why saying yes to the right opportunities, and no to distractions, changes everything Why decisiveness earns respect and indecision quietly costs you opportunities Chapters 00:00 – When Someone Calls You Lucky 01:21 – Luck Is Not What You Think It Is 01:50 – L: Learn Consistently 02:36 – U: Understand the Game 03:26 – C: Consistency Over Intensity 04:22 – K: Keep Showing Up 05:45 – Y: Say Yes to the Right Opportunities 07:31 – The Catch: Knowing When to Say No 08:43 – Why Decisiveness Earns Respect 10:23 – Learn to Be Lucky Support the show
Download Achieve By Petra – https://app.theachieveproject.com/PSL0001000 They keep telling us Africa is the future. That is how they keep pushing us back. Africa is not the future. Africa is now. This is the final part of the first ever Masterminds Open Floor, recorded live with an audience of about 50 people. In this episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah delivers his most passionate live talk yet on African greatness and the deliberate erasure of African history. He argues that to break a people you first break their minds, and that Africans have been fed stories only from their moments of weakness while their true history of greatness has been hidden in plain sight. From Osei Tutu and the hundred-year Anglo-Ashanti resistance, to Mansa Musa, the Moors, and the ancient University of Timbuktu, to the call for local solutions to local problems, this is a rallying cry to remember who we are and to build from that knowledge. The episode closes with a rich open floor exchange with the room. In this episode, you'll learn: Why the erasure of African history was intentional, and how breaking a mind breaks a people The story of Osei Tutu and why we remember the leader who lost but not the ones who won for a hundred years Why children of greatness succeed, and how belief in your lineage shapes your future The real history of Mansa Musa, the Moors, and the University of Timbuktu before Oxford existed Why African societies have always honoured women, and what that means for the feminism conversation Where the term third world actually comes from, and why it never originally meant poverty Why the answer is local solutions to local problems, and how global brands all started local Why you should never wait to be supported, and how to build yourself from where you are Chapters 00:00 – Intro 00:34 – The Biggest Lie: That Africa Is Not Great 01:46 – To Break a Man, You Break His Mind First 03:07 – Osei Tutu and the Hundred Year Resistance 07:01 – Fed Stories Only From When We Were Weak 08:11 – Mansa Musa, the Moors and Timbuktu 13:24 – Why Children of Greatness Succeed 15:23 – Africa Has Always Honoured Its Women 16:05 – Reclaiming Greatness From a Westernized Mind 18:21 – Local Solutions to Local Problems 25:04 – Third World: What the Term Really Means 27:18 – The Slave Bible and the Taming of a People 32:00 – Africa Is Now, Not the Future 35:00 – Open Floor: Homegrown Solutions and Global Reach 44:24 – A Message to the Youth: Mindset, Finance, Roots 48:13 – Obra and Building Tools for the Community 01:01:02 – What If the Platforms Cancel Us Tomorrow 01:04:06 – Stop Waiting to Be Supported. Build Yourself. Support the show
Download Achieve By Petra – https://app.theachieveproject.com/PSL0001000 Success is not about removing suffering from your life. Suffering never leaves. The only question that matters is what you are willing to suffer for. This is Part 2 of the first ever Masterminds Open Floor, recorded live with an audience of about 50 people. In this episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah delivers a mindset masterclass built on three shifts that change everything: you become the story you tell yourself, the person who can endure pain the longest is the one who wins, and the small habits you repeat every day decide who you become. He then opens the floor for a raw and wide-ranging conversation where the audience asks about his retirement from music, how to read for real understanding, moving from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset, discipline over motivation, and how to weaponize your unique strengths to succeed from exactly where you are. In this episode, you'll learn: Why you become the exact story you tell yourself about who you are How Richie scripted his life at 17 and lived it out almost word for word Why excellence is a daily habit and not a destination you eventually arrive at Why the person who can endure pain the longest is the one who wins How to choose your suffering instead of letting life choose it for you Why motivation is useless and discipline is the only thing worth building How to move from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset using the 10,000 hour principle Why small daily habits, not big goals, determine who you become How to weaponize your unique strengths and combine them with your interests to succeed Chapters 00:00 – Intro 01:26 – Welcome to the Masterminds Open Floor 02:26 – Mindset Is Everything: You Are the Author of Your Story 04:43 – How Richie Scripted His Life at 17 07:09 – Excellence Is a Daily Habit, Not a Destination 10:26 – The Person Who Can Suffer the Longest Wins 13:21 – Choose What You Are Willing to Suffer For 20:12 – Small Daily Habits Over Big Goals 26:17 – Open Floor: Why Richie Transitioned Out of Music 28:05 – How to Read a Book Excellently 30:09 – Moving From a Fixed Mindset to a Growth Mindset 44:45 – Is the Education System Really Built to Help Us? 50:30 – Discipline Over Motivation 53:12 – Obsession: The Trait Behind Every Success 54:32 – Morality Is Subjective: Find Your People 01:03:49 – When Your Community Is Your Family 01:09:19 – How to Weaponize Your Unique Strengths 01:13:01 – Why He Walked Away at the Peak Support the show
Download Achieve By Petra – https://app.theachieveproject.com/PSL0001000 For the very first time, Masterminds went live. We put Richie in a room with about 50 people for the first ever Masterminds Open Floor, and what followed was one of the most practical money masterclasses we have ever recorded. This is Part 1 of 3. In this episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah teaches a live audience the single most important truth about building wealth: the only way to become wealthy is through ownership. He breaks down the real difference between assets and liabilities, walks through the five levels of investing from knowledge all the way to speculative bets, explains what financial freedom actually means, and then takes the room through a live breakdown of why buying a house to live in could be one of the worst financial decisions you make. The episode closes with an open floor where the audience asks their real questions on stocks, index funds, cars, business partnerships, and structuring your talent. Come with a pen. In this episode, you'll learn: Why ownership, not entrepreneurship, is the true path to wealth The real definition of an asset and a liability, and why purpose matters more than the item The five levels of investing: knowledge, a peace of mind fund, safe investments, business, and speculative bets Why your financial standing is a direct reflection of your financial knowledge What financial freedom actually means and how to calculate your own number The live maths on why buying a house to live in can cost you millions in lost growth The difference between index funds and individual stocks, explained simply Why you should never take a loan to buy a liability How to structure your talent across a whole industry instead of chasing one lane Chapters 00:00 – Intro 01:23 – The Only Way to Become Wealthy Is Ownership 03:11 – Assets vs Liabilities: It's About Purpose 05:43 – The Two Workers: A Story of Ownership Over Time 11:37 – Investing Is Simply the Pursuit of Assets 12:25 – Level 1: Invest in Knowledge First 14:32 – Level 2: Build a Peace of Mind Fund 18:21 – Level 3: Safe Investments 20:12 – Level 4: Business, Risk and Reward 28:05 – Level 5: Speculative Investments 30:28 – What Financial Freedom Actually Means 35:09 – Open Floor: Index Funds vs Stocks 40:14 – The Land That Became a Liability 43:16 – Breaking Down the House Myth With Live Maths 51:17 – Who Should Actually Own Houses 01:00:28 – One Money Principle for a 20 Year Old 01:12:11 – Never Take a Loan to Buy a Liability 01:22:11 – Contracts, Partnerships and Backing the Person 01:27:43 – Scaling Up: Systems and the Right People 01:33:39 – Structure Your Talent Across the Whole Industry Support the show
Download Achieve By Petra – https://app.theachieveproject.com/PSL0001000 Some conversations are uncomfortable because they are untrue. This one is uncomfortable because it is true. In this solo episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah takes on one of the most sensitive and important subjects he has ever addressed: the real story of how education came to Africa, and why a 2026 MoU between Ghana and Cambridge left him deeply unsettled. Drawing on documented history, from Thomas Thompson and the Cape Coast Castle, to the Royal African Company and its ties to the founding of Cambridge, to the Prussian origins of the modern school system, to Walter Rodney's landmark work on mental colonization, Richie builds a careful case that the school system was never designed to develop the African mind. It was designed to make it obey. This one comes from a place of love for Ghana, for Africa, and for the truth. In this episode, you'll learn: Why the 2026 Ghana and Cambridge MoU raised red flags for anyone who knows the history The story of Thomas Thompson, who ran a church, a school, and the chaplaincy of a slave-trading castle at the same time How the founders and funders of Cambridge were tied to the Royal African Company Why the modern school system was originally built in Prussia to create obedient soldiers How the Industrial Revolution turned that same system into a machine for producing compliant workers What Walter Rodney meant by mental colonization, and why it outlived the chains Why African history is so often taught as though it only began with colonization The real question: why African leaders still hand educational direction back to former colonial powers, and what we must do about it Chapters 00:00 – A Conversation That Might Get Me Canceled 00:50 – The 2026 Ghana and Cambridge MoU 02:23 – Thomas Thompson: Slavery, Church and School in One Hand 06:07 – Cambridge and the Royal African Company 08:05 – Where the Modern School System Really Came From 09:57 – The Industrial Revolution and the Making of Obedient Workers 11:29 – Colonial Education: Slavery and Prussia Combined 11:53 – Walter Rodney and Mental Colonization 13:52 – Why Our History Is Taught to Start at Colonization 14:23 – Why Do We Still Run Back to Our Colonial Masters? 15:35 – This Comes From Love, Not Hate 16:45 – When Does It End? Support the show
Download Achieve By Petra – https://app.theachieveproject.com/PSL0001000 She spent years running away from the one thing she was born to do. Then a personal weight loss journey, one before-and-after picture, and a single invitation to a TV panel changed the entire direction of her life. In this episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah sits down with Chichi Yakubu, founder of Nyonyo, whose energy and generosity are matched only by her discipline. Raised in a family where food was the family business, Chichi swore she would never sell food, until her own health journey taught her that eighty percent of fitness happens in the kitchen. She breaks down how she launched her business live on a broadcast panel, the obsession that made her friends fear she was losing it, why nobody is self-made, and the simple truth that walking is the cheapest and most effective therapy there is. She also opens up about sharing the unfiltered side of life on social media and why showing up regardless is the real work. In this episode, you'll learn: Why eighty percent of your fitness results come from the kitchen and only twenty from the gym Why you can never be fully ready, and why the person who shows up anyway wins How Chichi launched her business live on a TV panel by seizing one opportunity Why the obsession phase looks like madness from the outside and why you need it to succeed Why nobody is truly self-made and why community is what keeps you going Simple, sustainable health tips: portion control, meal timing, and eating the Ghanaian food you love Why walking is the cheapest and most powerful therapy for both body and mind Why sharing the unfiltered side of life makes us kinder and reminds us everyone is carrying something How referrals and exceeding expectations built a client list including MTN, Cocobod and the NPA Support the show
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