July 5, 2025 • 12 mins
What separates those who achieve extraordinary success from those who merely dream about it? This powerful conversation dives deep into the mindset of trailblazers—those rare individuals who don't wait for opportunity but create it themselves.
We explore a revealing incident where attendees at a free personal development event complained about lack of food, completely missing the immense value being offered. This becomes a launching point for examining how entitlement mentality prevents many from recognizing life-changing opportunities. The speaker shares how he intentionally created "Trailblazers Unite" to showcase individuals who "didn't have a table, created it, and sat down themselves"—a powerful metaphor for self-determination in a world that rarely hands out invitations.
The conversation tackles the provocative question: can anyone become successful? While success can be taught through systems and processes, not everyone possesses the innate drive, risk tolerance, or willingness to commit necessary resources. Your vision determines your ceiling—whether you dream of owning a modest home or building a world-class enterprise like Dubai, that vision fuels everything you do. Perhaps most valuably, we discover that people represent both our greatest challenge and blessing in leadership. Building authentic relationships while maintaining healthy boundaries emerges as the ultimate leadership skill.
Ready to shift from entitlement to empowerment? Subscribe now to join a community of forward-thinkers who are creating their own tables rather than waiting for seats at someone else's.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I didn't eat the whole day.
Da da, da, da, da da da.
And I'm not afraid to say thatI really regret making time to
come for this event.
The knowledge was good, but Iregret because they said he used
the word regret.
So just yesterday he even sentme a message asking for one of
the videos I posted on my status.
So when he used regret, I justwatched.
(00:21):
I said what a generation.
And then he said please may Iknow who I'm speaking to, if
they can get this information tomoses be at.
And I said you're speaking tome because I added my number on
the flyer, so that's what hepicked.
I said you're speaking to me.
He said how?
I said yes, you're speaking tome.
Then he said mentor.
I said no, I'm not your mentor.
There's no mentee of mine thatwill speak.
(00:43):
The way you spoke Doesn'tmatter.
And I said something to him.
The reason why our people loseout on the gifts that God is
blessing our generation with isbecause of some of these things,
because what the person islooking out for is food.
So I said something to theLigon people that I met today.
I said are you telling me thatif not for this event, you
(01:04):
wouldn't have dinner today?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Then they were quiet.
Let me stop you here for aminute.
If you've been watching thisshow, I want you to subscribe
and become part of the family.
We are on a journey of changingthe lives of people on this
channel and we appreciate youfor being here, but if you
haven't become part of thefamily, connect with us.
Hit the subscribe button now.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Let's carry on the conversation about five leg on
people who are angry with myvolunteers.
I said, yo, are you peopletrying to tell me that if you
didn't show up here today, todayyou won't eat?
And they were quiet and I saiddo you know what it means for a
young man myself to sacrificethe resources that I can go on
(01:47):
vacation with my wife with, orspend on my life to book a venue
, to bus people to a venue, tobring a speaker from outside of
Ghana, to collate speakers inhere, flyers, mobiles I did a
tour across the regions tomobilize people for this event
and everything was absolutelyfree.
Why?
Because I wanted to inspire ageneration to think bigger,
(02:10):
dream louder and act bolder.
Why?
Because I wanted some, and Iintentionally called it
Trailblazers Unite.
If you looked at my lineup ofspeakers, I wanted people who
built systems for themselves,people who came into the space,
had nothing and they took it.
They didn't have a seat at thetable.
They created the table and thechair and they sat there.
So I'm bringing futurist kwamekfuture scum is arguably one of
(02:34):
our pioneers when it comes topublic speaking for our
generation.
I'm bringing people like pizzaman, um abeku and chris, because
these are guys who didn't havea table.
They created it and they satdown themselves.
And you are listening to all ofthese stories and I just want
you to know that, irrespectiveof your background as a young
person, you can become something.
Irrespective of, as a young man, whatever.
(02:57):
You can rise like pizza man andemploy all the people you
employ, and then somebody comesin to do this.
So what will happen then isthat you lose hope Because for
me finishing the event, ofcourse, there's nobody who
organized an event territorythat they didn't care one or two
depths here and there, but youstill would use your own
resources to clear out the depth, right?
But the joy is that somebodywill also catch their light.
(03:19):
So my inspiration is okay, I'llnot listen to the guy who is
saying I can't dead thing andall of those things.
What will my inspiration be?
My inspiration will be that Isat in ubuntu king's event in
2018.
Look at the results I'mcommanding today.
Ubuntu king is one of the fewmen who called greatness out of
(03:39):
me when I couldn't even see it,and I went for his event in case
I entered the bus from ghana tonigeria because I was hungry.
It's not everybody that's alsohungry like the way I am.
Some people enter the bus andcome for the UPS event, others
you have to bus them and igniteit in them.
So, regardless of everything Isaid to myself, moses, let's
(04:01):
give ourselves three years.
Let's give ourselves four years.
Maximum, let's give ourselvesfive years.
There will be somebody thatwill rise, like you, because of
the impact that came from thisevent, just like the way I rose
from Ubunke's thinkation todoing the things that I'm doing
now.
That is the same way.
Let's give Trailblazers Unitedfive years.
There's somebody that I don'teven know.
There's somebody who even camefor the event that never even
(04:23):
reached out to me.
Who is somewhere in Konongo?
Who is somewhere in Ho?
Who is somewhere with Basquepeople from the north konongo?
Who is somewhere in who?
Who is somewhere?
We pass people from the northour people come from togo, benin
, nigeria.
Who is somewhere in um ikeja,somewhere who has caught a flame
and they are brooding thatflame and very soon the world
will see.
So those are the things thatinspire me to keep going on and
(04:45):
I remember sharing with that.
I'm like next year we're notdoing a big event.
Next year we're doingtrailblazers unite campus store
and we're hitting and the personis like you never give up.
I'm like no, because at the endof the day, success for me is a
life that bless god.
That's it.
Speak and touch humanity at itscore.
Yeah, and I get to touch people, as they are called, by making
(05:07):
sure that when you encounter me,you become a better version of
yourself.
No, you know, another way to dothat, that knowledge do you
think everyone can becomesuccessful financially?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
no, why?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
because innate in all of us.
Not everybody has that innatedrive, not everybody has that,
um, innate risk ability.
Not everybody is ready tocommit a certain amount of time
and and resource to theirdestinies.
But you can say that if peopledid, they would be successful
(05:37):
exactly because you believe inthe systems and the processes,
you've got exactly exactly ifanybody would pay attention to
their life and will commit theamount of resources, time, time,
energy, everything in buildingthe things that they are
supposed to.
Success can be transferred,success can be taught, but the
question is, are you ready topay attention to those things?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Is it more of the person or the information they
are receiving?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
It's a balance of both Right.
If the information is wrong.
If the information, which isthe input, is wrong, it will
affect the output.
Number one, which is also thereason why I tell people and I'm
pretty much honest about it whoyou learn from matters In this
generation where everybody's anonline teacher, prove what you
(06:26):
are listening to.
Recently, somebody came to meand said they wanted to write a
book.
When I had a title of the book,I said it's a good book.
I don't speak you out of it.
When build results for the book.
It was all the book faster.
That's right.
And the person was like it'strue.
I said yes and I said to theperson if I write a book how to
become a millionaire one day,I'll not sell.
(06:47):
If don't go to write a book howto become a millionaire one day
, you he'll sell.
The reason results.
So everybody can become, butnot everybody will become.
So in terms of the success, interms of everything people seek
out for, it's simply becausewe're all not the same.
Somebody will not sacrificetheir time, their resource, to
(07:10):
build capacity, to learn, togrow, to connect to, to be
daring.
You know and I like to use thatword innate ability or innate
drive and fire.
Not everybody has that innatedrive.
There's some people.
They wake up and there's nosense of urgency in them.
You think we need?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
that sense of urgency .
We need it very much.
But when somebody will saywhere are we going?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
why are we going?
Well, it depends on the lensyou're looking at it from.
Your success in life isprimarily hinged on your vision.
So, for somebody ethical, withsome house in amasama and
(07:55):
somewhere or kaswa somewhere,one family that they want, they
want their child to go to, maybesome LA somewhere, yeah, okay.
So pair that person's vision.
That is what is fueling theirdrive.
But you see, if your success inlife is primarily hinged on
your vision, then your visionwill fool all the kind of things
you do.
Dubai wants to be number one inthe world.
Have you seen the things theyare?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
doing.
Do you think more people needto be more daring?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
yes, is the reason why I put together that event
think bigger, dream louder, act,because he shall be like a tree
planted by rivers of livingwater.
Yeah, after israel, whatsoeveryou do with, so you can be
planted.
If you don't do, you will notflourish you yourself if I ask
you can be planted.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
If you don't do, you will not flourish you yourself.
If I ask you the one thing thathas fueled apart from god, the
one thing physically that youhave done that has fueled your
level of success today, whatwould you say?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
one thing, one thing.
Yes, can I say one thing?
Yeah, yeah, just just just, Iknow there's several things, but
just give me one thing thing,yeah, yeah, just, just just.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I know there's several things, but just give me
one thing, let me box it up ina thought, because one thing it
will be difficult, it's acombination of things, but pick
one out of it.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Let's see, if I'm looking through my life and the
journey that I've been on, thebiggest challenge and the
biggest blessing has been people.
Okay, so, as a leader, I've hadto handle people who are older
than me.
I'm young.
As a leader, I've had to dealwith people who are older than
(09:29):
me.
There's a lens in which oldpeople look at you.
When you're young.
It's been a challenge.
I've had to deal with peoplewho are older than me.
There's a lens in which oldpeople look at you when you're
young.
It's been a challenge.
I've had to deal with peoplewho are equally my level and
they are probably not seeingthings the way you're supposed
to see.
I've also dealt with people whoare older than me and they saw
you as a mighty blessing intheir lives.
I've also dealt with people whoare at my level, below me, and
(09:49):
they've also seen you as amighty blessing in their life.
So I look at it this way it'sthe fact that greatest blessing,
greatest hack, has been people,and not people.
Build relationships with peopleit is very, very important and
not people and be humble.
You know the thing abouthumility and I I say this way
(10:12):
the most important part of yourbody is hidden.
When moses's face was shining,he couldn't tell his face was
shining when he had come downfrom the mountain.
It was the people that told him.
So, no matter the exploit, letthe people sing the praise and
then be humble, but honor people, another people above you.
Honor the people that are atyour level.
(10:33):
Honor the people that are belowyou.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
You know, I usually say that.
You know, virtues are veryimportant, beautiful, but
there's a threshold that youshould never cross, because when
it does, some people take youfor an idiot.
So you can be patient.
Greathmm, cross it, mm-hmmyou're being over patient then
people start mm-hmm people startwalking.
(10:58):
Where do you draw the balance?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
the thing is people always be people, people always
be people.
So I like to give hacks andthen I give thresholds.
For instance, people see mevery like okay, this guy, he's
doing his this, he's that.
Some of the times I can be veryforbearing with the things
(11:24):
people do because I understandit's a people thing.
So I watch people clear theirthing.
The moment you switch and showthem a very strong side of you,
then they tend to go like youare proud, you are arrogant, you
are this, you are that.
Just let it lie.
(11:46):
As I grow, I just come torealize not everybody can be
your friend, not everybody ismeant to be in your complete,
complete space.
You understand it does not meanwe are enemies, we are friends.
Now you draw the line withpeople by letting them know okay
, you did this and this and thisand that this is my stance on
this.
Some of the times you act andyour action alone creates the
(12:08):
definition for you, becausetruth is derek, you can't do
your life explaining your everymove to everyone.
You know that.
Okay, I'm patient, but please,you crossed the line with this,
that's right I'll give youanother chance, but you try it
again and I'll take a decisionand when I take it it's final.
It's like I'll share somethingwith um, a friend mine.
(12:32):
I told him that because I'm apeople's person, I really open
up my heart to people I canhandle.
One of my closest friends isalways like how are you able to
deal with this person?
I said I relate with them ontheir strength, no matter the
weakness that comes about them.
I always try to relate withthem on their strength because
there's always good in theperson.
I didn't eat the whole day.
Da da, da, da, da da da.
And I'm not afraid to say thatI really regret making time to
come for this event.
The knowledge was good, but Iregret because they said he used
the word regret.
So just yesterday he even sentme a message asking for one of
the videos I posted on my status.
So when he used regret, I justwatched.
(00:21):
I said what a generation.
And then he said please may Iknow who I'm speaking to, if
they can get this information tomoses be at.
And I said you're speaking tome because I added my number on
the flyer, so that's what hepicked.
I said you're speaking to me.
He said how?
I said yes, you're speaking tome.
Then he said mentor.
I said no, I'm not your mentor.
There's no mentee of mine thatwill speak.
(00:43):
The way you spoke Doesn'tmatter.
And I said something to him.
The reason why our people loseout on the gifts that God is
blessing our generation with isbecause of some of these things,
because what the person islooking out for is food.
So I said something to theLigon people that I met today.
I said are you telling me thatif not for this event, you
(01:04):
wouldn't have dinner today?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Then they were quiet.
Let me stop you here for aminute.
If you've been watching thisshow, I want you to subscribe
and become part of the family.
We are on a journey of changingthe lives of people on this
channel and we appreciate youfor being here, but if you
haven't become part of thefamily, connect with us.
Hit the subscribe button now.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Let's carry on the conversation about five leg on
people who are angry with myvolunteers.
I said, yo, are you peopletrying to tell me that if you
didn't show up here today, todayyou won't eat?
And they were quiet and I saiddo you know what it means for a
young man myself to sacrificethe resources that I can go on
(01:47):
vacation with my wife with, orspend on my life to book a venue
, to bus people to a venue, tobring a speaker from outside of
Ghana, to collate speakers inhere, flyers, mobiles I did a
tour across the regions tomobilize people for this event
and everything was absolutelyfree.
Why?
Because I wanted to inspire ageneration to think bigger,
(02:10):
dream louder and act bolder.
Why?
Because I wanted some, and Iintentionally called it
Trailblazers Unite.
If you looked at my lineup ofspeakers, I wanted people who
built systems for themselves,people who came into the space,
had nothing and they took it.
They didn't have a seat at thetable.
They created the table and thechair and they sat there.
So I'm bringing futurist kwamekfuture scum is arguably one of
(02:34):
our pioneers when it comes topublic speaking for our
generation.
I'm bringing people like pizzaman, um abeku and chris, because
these are guys who didn't havea table.
They created it and they satdown themselves.
And you are listening to all ofthese stories and I just want
you to know that, irrespectiveof your background as a young
person, you can become something.
Irrespective of, as a young man, whatever.
(02:57):
You can rise like pizza man andemploy all the people you
employ, and then somebody comesin to do this.
So what will happen then isthat you lose hope Because for
me finishing the event, ofcourse, there's nobody who
organized an event territorythat they didn't care one or two
depths here and there, but youstill would use your own
resources to clear out the depth, right?
But the joy is that somebodywill also catch their light.
(03:19):
So my inspiration is okay, I'llnot listen to the guy who is
saying I can't dead thing andall of those things.
What will my inspiration be?
My inspiration will be that Isat in ubuntu king's event in
2018.
Look at the results I'mcommanding today.
Ubuntu king is one of the fewmen who called greatness out of
(03:39):
me when I couldn't even see it,and I went for his event in case
I entered the bus from ghana tonigeria because I was hungry.
It's not everybody that's alsohungry like the way I am.
Some people enter the bus andcome for the UPS event, others
you have to bus them and igniteit in them.
So, regardless of everything Isaid to myself, moses, let's
(04:01):
give ourselves three years.
Let's give ourselves four years.
Maximum, let's give ourselvesfive years.
There will be somebody thatwill rise, like you, because of
the impact that came from thisevent, just like the way I rose
from Ubunke's thinkation todoing the things that I'm doing
now.
That is the same way.
Let's give Trailblazers Unitedfive years.
There's somebody that I don'teven know.
There's somebody who even camefor the event that never even
(04:23):
reached out to me.
Who is somewhere in Konongo?
Who is somewhere in Ho?
Who is somewhere with Basquepeople from the north konongo?
Who is somewhere in who?
Who is somewhere?
We pass people from the northour people come from togo, benin
, nigeria.
Who is somewhere in um ikeja,somewhere who has caught a flame
and they are brooding thatflame and very soon the world
will see.
So those are the things thatinspire me to keep going on and
(04:45):
I remember sharing with that.
I'm like next year we're notdoing a big event.
Next year we're doingtrailblazers unite campus store
and we're hitting and the personis like you never give up.
I'm like no, because at the endof the day, success for me is a
life that bless god.
That's it.
Speak and touch humanity at itscore.
Yeah, and I get to touch people, as they are called, by making
(05:07):
sure that when you encounter me,you become a better version of
yourself.
No, you know, another way to dothat, that knowledge do you
think everyone can becomesuccessful financially?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
no, why?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
because innate in all of us.
Not everybody has that innatedrive, not everybody has that,
um, innate risk ability.
Not everybody is ready tocommit a certain amount of time
and and resource to theirdestinies.
But you can say that if peopledid, they would be successful
(05:37):
exactly because you believe inthe systems and the processes,
you've got exactly exactly ifanybody would pay attention to
their life and will commit theamount of resources, time, time,
energy, everything in buildingthe things that they are
supposed to.
Success can be transferred,success can be taught, but the
question is, are you ready topay attention to those things?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Is it more of the person or the information they
are receiving?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
It's a balance of both Right.
If the information is wrong.
If the information, which isthe input, is wrong, it will
affect the output.
Number one, which is also thereason why I tell people and I'm
pretty much honest about it whoyou learn from matters In this
generation where everybody's anonline teacher, prove what you
(06:26):
are listening to.
Recently, somebody came to meand said they wanted to write a
book.
When I had a title of the book,I said it's a good book.
I don't speak you out of it.
When build results for the book.
It was all the book faster.
That's right.
And the person was like it'strue.
I said yes and I said to theperson if I write a book how to
become a millionaire one day,I'll not sell.
(06:47):
If don't go to write a book howto become a millionaire one day
, you he'll sell.
The reason results.
So everybody can become, butnot everybody will become.
So in terms of the success, interms of everything people seek
out for, it's simply becausewe're all not the same.
Somebody will not sacrificetheir time, their resource, to
(07:10):
build capacity, to learn, togrow, to connect to, to be
daring.
You know and I like to use thatword innate ability or innate
drive and fire.
Not everybody has that innatedrive.
There's some people.
They wake up and there's nosense of urgency in them.
You think we need?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
that sense of urgency .
We need it very much.
But when somebody will saywhere are we going?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
why are we going?
Well, it depends on the lensyou're looking at it from.
Your success in life isprimarily hinged on your vision.
So, for somebody ethical, withsome house in amasama and
(07:55):
somewhere or kaswa somewhere,one family that they want, they
want their child to go to, maybesome LA somewhere, yeah, okay.
So pair that person's vision.
That is what is fueling theirdrive.
But you see, if your success inlife is primarily hinged on
your vision, then your visionwill fool all the kind of things
you do.
Dubai wants to be number one inthe world.
Have you seen the things theyare?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
doing.
Do you think more people needto be more daring?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
yes, is the reason why I put together that event
think bigger, dream louder, act,because he shall be like a tree
planted by rivers of livingwater.
Yeah, after israel, whatsoeveryou do with, so you can be
planted.
If you don't do, you will notflourish you yourself if I ask
you can be planted.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
If you don't do, you will not flourish you yourself.
If I ask you the one thing thathas fueled apart from god, the
one thing physically that youhave done that has fueled your
level of success today, whatwould you say?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
one thing, one thing.
Yes, can I say one thing?
Yeah, yeah, just just just, Iknow there's several things, but
just give me one thing thing,yeah, yeah, just, just just.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I know there's several things, but just give me
one thing, let me box it up ina thought, because one thing it
will be difficult, it's acombination of things, but pick
one out of it.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Let's see, if I'm looking through my life and the
journey that I've been on, thebiggest challenge and the
biggest blessing has been people.
Okay, so, as a leader, I've hadto handle people who are older
than me.
I'm young.
As a leader, I've had to dealwith people who are older than
(09:29):
me.
There's a lens in which oldpeople look at you.
When you're young.
It's been a challenge.
I've had to deal with peoplewho are older than me.
There's a lens in which oldpeople look at you when you're
young.
It's been a challenge.
I've had to deal with peoplewho are equally my level and
they are probably not seeingthings the way you're supposed
to see.
I've also dealt with people whoare older than me and they saw
you as a mighty blessing intheir lives.
I've also dealt with people whoare at my level, below me, and
(09:49):
they've also seen you as amighty blessing in their life.
So I look at it this way it'sthe fact that greatest blessing,
greatest hack, has been people,and not people.
Build relationships with peopleit is very, very important and
not people and be humble.
You know the thing abouthumility and I I say this way
(10:12):
the most important part of yourbody is hidden.
When moses's face was shining,he couldn't tell his face was
shining when he had come downfrom the mountain.
It was the people that told him.
So, no matter the exploit, letthe people sing the praise and
then be humble, but honor people, another people above you.
Honor the people that are atyour level.
(10:33):
Honor the people that are belowyou.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
You know, I usually say that.
You know, virtues are veryimportant, beautiful, but
there's a threshold that youshould never cross, because when
it does, some people take youfor an idiot.
So you can be patient.
Greathmm, cross it, mm-hmmyou're being over patient then
people start mm-hmm people startwalking.
(10:58):
Where do you draw the balance?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
the thing is people always be people, people always
be people.
So I like to give hacks andthen I give thresholds.
For instance, people see mevery like okay, this guy, he's
doing his this, he's that.
Some of the times I can be veryforbearing with the things
(11:24):
people do because I understandit's a people thing.
So I watch people clear theirthing.
The moment you switch and showthem a very strong side of you,
then they tend to go like youare proud, you are arrogant, you
are this, you are that.
Just let it lie.
(11:46):
As I grow, I just come torealize not everybody can be
your friend, not everybody ismeant to be in your complete,
complete space.
You understand it does not meanwe are enemies, we are friends.
Now you draw the line withpeople by letting them know okay
, you did this and this and thisand that this is my stance on
this.
Some of the times you act andyour action alone creates the
(12:08):
definition for you, becausetruth is derek, you can't do
your life explaining your everymove to everyone.
You know that.
Okay, I'm patient, but please,you crossed the line with this,
that's right I'll give youanother chance, but you try it
again and I'll take a decisionand when I take it it's final.
It's like I'll share somethingwith um, a friend mine.
(12:32):
I told him that because I'm apeople's person, I really open
up my heart to people I canhandle.
One of my closest friends isalways like how are you able to
deal with this person?
I said I relate with them ontheir strength, no matter the
weakness that comes about them.
I always try to relate withthem on their strength because
there's always good in theperson.
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