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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Your mind is God's
biggest gift he has given you.
You don't need to be abillionaire to speak as a
billionaire, because the thingis that when you meet a man and
you're able to get what is inhis head, you can produce what
is in his pocket.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
The first business
that failed.
Why did it fail?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Like I said, the gaps
in our understanding is
oftentimes what is responsiblefor the fluctuations in our
results.
So if you are not able to makeconsistently $1,000 a month,
there's a gap in yourunderstanding concerning making
money.
Now, the thing with a lot ofpeople is that when they think
about their dreams, the firstthing they've been programmed
with their mind is that theirmind shuts them out.
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That's my RAE RevelationAssimilation Elevation.
It's the reason why I tellyoung people don't go chasing
after things.
Whatever you chase after, youdon't find.
You need to explain that.
So our parents have beenchasing money their whole lives.
They never found the money theywere chasing.
So don't chase money.
Anything that money can buy canbuy 10 times.
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You are very poor if all youhave in your life is money when
your time has not come and youdon't have financial resources.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
build, build, build
so you're welcome to connected
minds podcast, my Podcast.
My name is Derek Abaite andtoday's conversation is with
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Moses B Arthur.
Everyone calls him MBA.
In Ghana, he's an entrepreneurand a real estate developer.
He's currently have got severalprojects ongoing.
I love this man so much becausethe age that he is and what he's
been able to achieve so far forhimself is marvelous.
It's something that a lot ofyoung people are learning from.
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Recently, he filled up the upsaover 3 000 young people that
want to hear him speak, empowerthem and he had other speakers
with him.
This conversation is simplyabout the mindset, success,
success principles, what youneed to actually make it in this
life.
He blends scripture with wealthconcepts and I want to hear all
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of it.
I've got several questions forhim and the many that my viewers
and my listeners have also sentover.
He's probably one of the mostrequested guests on the podcast
and the reason is very simplebecause of what he does and the
community of giants that he'sraising.
You're welcome to this podcast,my brother.
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How you doing?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
thank you so much,
derek.
I'm doing amazing.
How are you?
I'm blessed, awesome.
I think this is the bestintroduction I've ever done it
came from your heart, from thedepth of my heart, you know.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Wow, yeah, I'm even
pleased with myself.
So, wherever you are, you knowif you're jogging, if you are
work, driving to work, you thankyou for tuning in to this
podcast and if there are peoplein your circle you can share
this with, please do.
And, as usual, you know.
If you make it to the end onyoutube, let me know, leave a
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comment and yeah I appreciateyou guys.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
You filled up the
vpsa by the grace of god, and a
good team you made it look likea walk in the park.
Good preparation prevents poorperformance.
So if it looked like a walk inthe park, it was because there
was a lot of thoughts, there wasa lot of planning, there was a
lot of effort that went into it.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
So that's usually the
outcome of doing something good
we were supposed to have thisconversation earlier that's
right when we started thispodcast much earlier, I think
more over eight months ago andit didn't happen because you
were busy traveling aroundafrica and many parts of the
world.
Um, you know, as a knowledgemerchant now I usually say that
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when a conversation doesn'thappen, it's good because when
it eventually happens, it'susually the best time, that's
right.
You know, um, we are not incharge of the universe, that's
true.
You know there's something thatis working in our favor.
So once again, I appreciateyour time most welcome my
brother, you have three books sofar and I'm sure you're still
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working on the rest and I've gotmy copies here.
Thank you so much for giving methese right, but this is where
I want to start.
Okay, your backstory intobecoming an entrepreneur take me
through that.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Um, it's, it's.
It's an interesting one.
Um, I come from a very humblebackground.
Um, moses B Arthur.
So the B is brain two, braintwo means a warrior, brain two
means a fighter.
My mother had carried me for 11months, two weeks, and so she
finally put to bed, and myfather, having seen everything.
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My mother had gone throughbecause, per the natural law of
things, a woman is supposed tocarry a child for nine months.
But here was this womancarrying me for 11 months, two
weeks, and on the 5th of April1996, it was 12 minutes past 12
midnight and she put to bed.
So my father, having seeneverything, called me Brentu.
Brentu means a warrior, brentumeans a fighter, two means a
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warrior, brain two means afighter.
So innate in my soul is thatfighting spirit that I'm on the
edge to go, on the edge to breakthe status quo.
I think it comes naturally withme and usually when people ask
me what my superpower is, I saythat I think God just gave me
that, you know, as a gift,because I've been fighting from
the womb and I made it into thisplace.
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So I come from Inche in theWestern region, and my
entrepreneurial journey started.
I think I observed that traitright from university, where I
realized that I'm always lookingout for opportunities and you
usually will not spotopportunities with your eyes.
You spot away your mind.
So I'm always looking out forwhat I can do to, you know, add
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value to myself and, byextension, add value to the
people around me.
So, and I'm one who is alwayson the quest, I'm a seeker, so
I'm always on the quest for newknowledge.
I'm always on the quest for thenext big thing.
To do so.
In university, second year, um,I read um development planning
in knsd.
So in my second year inuniversity, um, I had a friend
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called y'all who mentioned to meum cryptocurrency and I said,
what's that?
And he said, um, cryptocurrency, is this, that is the next big
thing.
So when he said, I was likeokay, and I didn't know anything
, I just went all out and then Isaid, okay, then let's set up
something called para deliveriesand coinbase.
So para deliveries and coinbasewas my first business.
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My very good friend, gilbertkuku, god will, and he's still a
very good friend of mine he'sthe one who did my first um, you
know, prior deliveries andcoinbase logo for me.
That's when I even got to knowthat there's something called
brand mano, because I went tohim and said do a logo for me.
That's when I even got to knowthat there's something called
brand manual, because I went tohim and said do a logo for me,
and then he said you have tocreate a brand manual.
I said what's that?
Then he taught me.
I said oh, I see.
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So to date, I have paradeliveries and Coinbase brand
manual is still there.
So that was my first businessthat actually failed and it
didn't do well, because thethings that I know now that has
shaped my becoming is not what Iknew then.
So I decided to pay attentionto knowledge.
I knew about Bitcoin andeverything, but I didn't even
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give it much attention, you knowas of that time, and then it
failed.
So in 2017, when I completedKNUSD, right in the university
years, I'd come to a car, attendconferences.
I remember I attendedenterprise Africa summit at
Kempinski.
I left school and came for thatevent and it was my upkeep
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money I used in purchasing thetickets to come for that event.
And when I came, I saw a lot ofyoung people doing stuff.
So I'm like I'm young.
What is stopping me from doingthings?
And here's to just say a thingto young people it takes time to
build great things, so startearly.
When you start early, you makeall the necessary mistakes that
you make and then you keeplearning on the go.
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So, 2017, I was 21 years, I hada knack for speaking and I'm
like okay, foundationally, Irealized that my pattern in life
as a kingdom entrepreneur jesus, the biggest brand in the world
, um lived for people.
So if I want to do this thingand take it on as a career, then
I have to leave for people.
And so I startedentrepreneurship hub africa,
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which was, um a flagship eventof city broadcast.
My first, my second companythen city broadcast was a
digital marketing company, soEntrepreneurship Hub Africa was
its flagship event.
Then I later changed and thenmade Entrepreneurship Hub Africa
a full nonprofit.
So it's a nonprofit with avision to inspire the next
generation of trailblazers tothink bigger, dream louder and
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act bolder.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Let me take you back
Right, the first business that
failed.
Why did it fail?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Um, like I said, I
didn't have much knowledge about
the whole cryptocurrency game,so all I thought was you'd have
a logo, and then I didn't evenregister the company with RGD.
I didn't do that.
I just had the logo in my housewhere I'd rented at the time in
school.
I quickly set up a table.
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I think I have those picturesstill on my socials.
I set up a table, we did somephoto shoot pictures still on my
socials.
I set up a table, we did somephoto shoot.
I thought that was what thebusiness was.
So that actually informed myfirst book, the Entrepreneur's
Journey an ideal startup guide.
Because from that experience, Ifound out that no, the gaps in
our understanding is oftentimeswhat is responsible for the
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fluctuations in our results.
So if there's a certainfluctuation in in our results,
so if there's a certainfluctuation in your results, it
means there's a gap in yourunderstanding concerning that
particular results you want tosee.
So if you're unable to makeconsistently a thousand dollars
a month, there's a gap in yourunderstanding concerning making
money.
So you need to go back and thenbuild capacity for it.
So I found out that I didn'tknow as much about
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cryptocurrency as I was justexcited about the idea, which is
what a lot of young people dotoday so you know sometimes what
happens, right, what happens.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
So there's a full
method, mm-hmm.
If I tell you that to be ableto produce sodium chloride
mm-hmm you need to follow thisfull method and then you read
one, two, three mm-hmm and youdon't finish it, you will not be
able to produce absolutelyright.
Sometimes, as young people andyou might be able to attest to
this that we get information, wedon't consume all the
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information.
As soon as we see a few lines weget excited like at this point,
somebody is probably going tolog off this conversation and
will not finish exactly thewhole conversation and they'll
be like, oh, yeah, I've got it,I'm going.
But then what you don't realizeis, like you know, it's like
buying a new flat-packed tableinstead of reading the manual to
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fix it.
You don't.
Then you start doing a wholelot of things before you make
mistakes.
Then you know.
You go back to reading.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
You think some of
these things happen in your
first business, um, yes, so fromthat experience, I, um, I.
I have a model, I call it therae model.
So you need to come into aplace of revelation, which is
knowledge.
Right, then you assimilate.
When you come into a place ofknowledge or revelation and you
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assimilate, you are feeding onit.
What you keep eating willeventually eat you up.
So as you assimilate, it bringsyou into a place of elevation,
because the knowledge you feedon.
So that's my RAE so revelation,assimilation, elevation so what
you keep inside of you, as youeventually feed on it, it
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becomes one with you.
It's the reason why I tellyoung people don't go chasing
after things.
Whatever you chase after youdon't find, embody it, because
whatever you embody, it runswith you.
All right you need to explainthat.
So a lot of young people say Ineed money, I'm chasing money,
I'm going for money.
Our parents have been chasingmoney their whole lives.
They never found the money theywere chasing.
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So don't chase money, becauseeverything you are looking for
is also looking for you, but notthis version of you.
So a version of you mustliterally evolve and then when
that version of you evolves,then, by reason of what you are
assimilating, what you arelearning becomes one with you.
Then you run with it.
So what you are running afteryou struggle to find, but what
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you embody runs with you.
How do we do that?
It's very simple.
When a rich man wants to dosomething, he does not think of
how he can have money to do thething.
He thinks of how he can becometo do the thing.
When a poor man wants to dosomething, the first thing is,
hey, and can a palm, I have10,000 CDs.
I can't do this.
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I have 10,000 CDs.
If I have 10,000 CDs, I'll dothis, I'll do that.
Now think of it this way.