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Financially Incorrect

Financially Incorrect

237 episodes

Money doesn't have to be intimidating. The Financially Incorrect Podcast is a fun and informative way to learn about personal finance. Host Barrack Bukusi debunks money myths and reveals the truth behind common misconceptions. Join him with a different guest every week as he helps you achieve your financial goals.

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  1. I Raised $1M.Then Couldn't Afford KES 500 | Kevin Mutiso

    · 2 h 05 min

    What does it take to rebuild financially, professionally and personally after a business you have invested everything in collapses?Kevin Mutiso's relationship with money and business started quite early. While still in…

  2. From Making Kitenge Earrings to A Self-Funded RWF 15M Art Center |Jemima Kakizi |Rwanda Edition

    · 1 h 12 min

    Jemima Kakizi was already earning from her art before she graduated from university. But when the momentum slowed after graduation, she had to rethink what building a career in the creative industry actually required.…

  3. 25 Years, Multiple Awards, One Admission: Architecture Would’ve Paid More | Nameless

    · 1 h 48 min

    A hit song can make you famous. But does it make you wealthy?For Kenyan music legend Nameless, the answer depends on what happens after the song takes off. A major hit can transform an artist’s earning power, open up…

  4. She Lost Her Business, Then Built a Creative Brand From Wood Scraps | Dorin Natukunda | UG Edition

    · 38 min

    Doreen Natukunda Opio spent nearly eight years trying to rebuild her livelihood after losing her first business. From selling T-shirts and household items to experimenting with handcrafted art, she struggled to find…

  5. How Kevin Kamau Built a Successful Agribusiness in Africa | Business Edition

    · 1 h 57 min

    How do you build an agribusiness managing nearly 5,000 acres across Africa without owning the land? When Kevin Kamau returned to Kenya in 2015 after a decade in the US, he struggled to find employment and turned to…

  6. How Kenya's Entertainment Pioneer Made Millions, Fell Into Debt & Rebuilt His Legacy | Fakii Liwali

    · 2 h 25 min

    Fakii Liwali spent decades helping shape Kenya's entertainment industry, working with some of the country's biggest artists and corporate brands. From Homeboyz and Capital FM to Coca-Cola and managing artists like…

  7. Why Leaving a Top Banking Job Was His Best Investment | Kevin Rudahinduka | Rwanda Edition

    · 1 h 37 min

    What would make a senior banking executive walk away from career security to return to university while supporting a family? For Kevin Rudahinduka, the decision meant rethinking how he financed his future, adjusting…

  8. From Sauti Sol's Musical Director to Building His Own Music Path | Mutoriah

    · 1 h 28 min

    From playing keyboard at church for KES 5,000 a month to becoming Sauti Sol's musical director and building his own music ventures, Mutoriah's career has been shaped by a willingness to keep creating beyond the…

  9. From Selling Juice to Investor: How Manuela P Mulondo Changed Her Money Story | Uganda Edition

    · 1 h 44 min

    Manuela P Mulondo had the kind of public success most people would assume came with financial security. She was speaking at major events, meeting presidents and receiving international recognition, while her business…

  10. How M-Tickets Handled Millions in Sales & Mass Fraud | Brian Bogonko | Business Edition

    · 1 h 20 min

    In 2014, Brian Bogonko set out to solve a simple problem: how do you sell event tickets digitally, track who is buying and eliminate the fragmented cash and paper systems that defined Kenya’s events industry?M Tickets…

  11. She Helped Build QuickMart From 4 to 72 Stores | Betty Wamaitha

    · 1 h 59 min

    From four stores to 72, Betty Wamaitha was part of the commercial journey that helped transform QuickMart into one of Kenya’s biggest supermarket businesses. In this conversation, she breaks down what actually drives…

  12. How Table Flipping Fixed Her Restaurant Margins | Sonia Iraguha | Rwanda Edition

    · 1 h 23 min

    A busy restaurant can still be a bad business. Sonia Iraguha, founder of Bicu Lounge, built the Kigali hospitality destination during COVID after investing roughly RWF 40 million, learning the economics of hospitality…

  13. He Saw the Opportunity in Pensions and Built a Business Managing KES 85+B | Fred Waswa

    · 1 h 42 min

    Fred Waswa started working on KSh1,500 a month. After losing his father as a teenager, he became responsible for helping support his mother and siblings, learning early that making money was not enough; you had to know…

  14. How a 1-Minute Sketch Became a UGX 1.6B Creative Brand Katoto| Richard Musinguzi |Uganda Edition

    · 1 h 32 min

    Richard Musinguzi once received UGX400 million from his animation business and realised that making serious money was easier than knowing what to do with it. The creator of Katoto Uganda had built a recognised creative…

  15. She Furnishes Kenya’s Biggest Events: How Furniture Rental Works| Patricia Mwalimu| Business Edition

    · 1 h 25 min

    What if you could build a business from assets your customers never need to own?Patricia Mwalimu started Party Lounges with roughly KSh 85,000 worth of furniture. Today, furniture rental accounts for about 90% of the…

  16. How He Turned Car Content Into a Multi-Million Deal Network| Lookie63

    · 1 h 20 min

    Lookie’s automotive journey did not begin with a luxury car, a large audience or a dealership.It began with approximately $1,000 from his father and a family connection in London that helped him import small automotive…

  17. Why I Moved Back to Rwanda to Build a Profitable Fitness Business| Bashir Yannick | Rwanda Edition

    · 1 h 06 min

    Bashir Yannick Ntwari’s first gym attracted hundreds of members. The numbers still didn’t work. After returning to Rwanda in 2015, he invested in his first fitness business without fully understanding the market,…

  18. Why Making Hit Songs Doesn’t Guarantee Money in Kenya | Bilha Ngaruiya

    · 1 h 44 min

    Bilha Ngaruiya has watched Kenyan music change from CDs and physical distribution to Spotify, Boomplay, YouTube and a global streaming economy. She has also seen the uncomfortable side of that transformation: artists…

  19. How a Sermon and Two Books Helped Me Save Millions in UGX | Racheal Natukunda | Uganda Edition

    · 1 h 26 min

    Rachel Natukunda did not grow up with everything figured out. She grew up seeing what financial security looked like from a distance, worked for her own opportunities, earned a government scholarship, took on part time…

  20. How Nani’s Cafe Turned Sober Parties Into Business | Zanelle Wanja | Business Edition

    · 1 h 07 min

    What happens when you remove alcohol from the party business?Zanelle Wanja’s answer was Nani’s Cafe Party, a Nairobi social experience built around music, coffee, wellness and community.But before Nani’s, Zanelle built…

  21. She Beat Corporate Targets. But Struggled With Money | Wanini Wachira

    · 1 h 44 min

    Wanini Wachira built a career out of understanding people, selling to them and growing businesses. As Head of Retail at Hotpoint, she has helped drive major growth, including more than doubling branch sales over a…

  22. She turned her baby Crib into a Premium Furniture Brand |Paradis Nishimwe|Rwanda Edition

    · 1 h 34 min

    Paradis Nishimwe never set out to build a furniture company. It started with a crib for her baby and eventually became Wood Habitat, a Made-in-Rwanda furniture and interior design business serving high-end homes,…

  23. He Fixed KWS. Why Couldn’t Uchumi Be Saved? | Dr Julius Kipngetich

    · 1 h 58 min

    What does it take to turn around an institution that is already broken? Dr Julius Kipngetich has spent decades fixing organisations across Kenya, from KWS and Equity Bank to Uchumi and Jubilee Holdings. In this episode…

  24. He Left Veterinary Medicine and Became One of East Africa’s Biggest TV Stars| Dr Mich Egwang | Uganda Edition

    · 1 h 57 min

    Dr Ronnie Mich Egwang has built a career few résumés could contain: veterinary doctor, broadcaster, media personality, marketer, entrepreneur and business owner. From earning $5 a week as a child to landing a $90,000…

  25. How a KSh 9M Business Made Zero Profit | Ashok Sunny | Business Edition

    · 1 h 45 min

    What happens when KES 9 million in revenue leaves you with almost nothing? For Ashok Sunny, founder of Ashok Sunny Tailors Limited, that moment changed the way he understood business. Growing up in Kibera, Ashok…

  26. From One borrowed Car to Private Jets: Building Kenya’s Luxury Travel Business | Dan Njoroge

    · 1 h 31 min

    From a KSh 30,000 banking salary to building a luxury executive travel and private jet business. Dan Njoroge’s story is not really about luxury. It is about learning what people will pay a premium for, surviving the…

  27. Why Mike Kayihura Is Betting His Music Career on East Africa | Rwanda Edition

    · 1 h 13 min

    Mike Kayihura’s music career has taken him from church choirs and a first Rwandan paycheck to regional recognition across Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya. But behind the songs is a financial story shaped by contracts, missed…

  28. How Joram Mwinamo Empowered 700+ SMEs To Grow

    · 1 h 44 min

    YT Description Joram Mwinamo has spent more than two decades helping African businesses grow. But some of his most valuable lessons came from the periods when his own business was struggling. From small technology and…

  29. Jackie Asiimwe On Money, NGOs Funding And Wealth | Uganda Edition

    · 1 h 27 min

    Money shaped Jackie Asiimwe long before she earned her first salary.Growing up in a pastor's household, she watched her mother stretch a modest income, support relatives and somehow keep the family afloat. Years later,…

  30. From KES 7K Intern Salary To Producing Films For Netflix | Grace Kahaki

    · 1 h 33 min

    Every Kenyan has watched a TV show, movie or commercial. Very few people know what it actually costs to make one.Grace Kahaki built one of Kenya's leading production companies from the ground up. She started as an…

  31. How We Built Kenya's Fastest Growing Sports Team | Marcel Awori | Business Edition

    · 1 h 46 min

    Professional basketball looks glamorous from the outside. Packed arenas. Winning teams. Continental competitions. Brand partnerships. What rarely gets discussed is the business required to keep all of it alive.In this…

  32. From Debt Collector to Healthcare Manufacturer | Simon Maina

    · 1 h 16 min

    Every quarter, Simon Maina's company manufactures nearly 300,000 obstetric drapes across Africa. The surprising part is not the scale. It's the economics.Njembuma operates on margins of roughly 3%, selling affordable…

  33. How Alex Chappatte Built Africa Originals From Scratch

    · 1 h 30 min

    Everyone knows Kenya Originals (KO). Far fewer know the business that made it possible.Before KO became one of Kenya's most recognizable cider brands, it started with just $20,000, a few shipping containers, and a…

  34. House of Tayo: Built in Rwanda Worn Worldwide | Matthew Tayo Rugamba | Rwanda Edition

    · 1 h 38 min

    House of Tayo is now one of Rwanda's most recognizable fashion brands.But its biggest breakthrough didn't come from celebrity endorsements, fashion weeks or dressing stars on the Black Panther premiere.It came from…

  35. The Kes 12M Medical Bill That Changed Everything | Ann Mubia Murungi

    · 1 h 27 min

    There are moments that completely redefine your relationship with money.For Ann Mubia Mirungi, one of those moments arrived with a single diagnosis.Despite a career advising businesses on complex transactions, years of…

  36. He Started with Greif, Not Capital |Humphrey Nabimanya| Uganda Edition

    · 1 h 11 min

    Some people inherit wealth. Humphrey Nabimanya inherited adversity.He lost his mother as an infant, grew up under the care of his sister living with HIV, battled stigma throughout childhood, and spent his early years…

  37. From Wall Street To Building Africa's Pocket | Valentine Njoroge

    · 1 h 17 min

    Millions of Africans earn good incomes. Very few build lasting wealth.In this episode of Financially Incorrect, Barrack sits down with Valentine Njoroge, CEO and Co-founder of Africa's Pocket, to unpack what actually…

  38. Inside Moringa School's Journey From Survival To Scale | Fiona Kirui| Business Edition

    · 1 h 18 min

    Most people know Moringa School for producing software engineers. Very few know what it took to build the business behind it.In this episode of Financially Incorrect, Fiona Kirui, Director of Finance at Moringa School,…

  39. From Property Auctions To Million Shilling Projects | Walter Mangutha

    · 2 h 05 min

    For most people, wealth looks like cash. For Walter Mangutha, wealth looked like land.Long before earning a salary, Walter was collecting rent, managing family property and learning that money isn't always what sits in…

  40. How Nova Pioneer Turned Schools Into A Business | Chinezi Chijioke | Business Edition

    · 1 h 52 min

    Everyone wants quality education. Very few people understand what it actually costs to build it.In this episode of Financially Incorrect, Chinezi Chijioke, CEO and Co Founder of Nova Pioneer, takes us inside one of…

  41. She Left Safaricom To Build A 100,000-Customer Internet Company | Agnes Limo

    · 1 h 39 min

    What does it take to walk away from one of the most coveted careers in Kenya and build a company capable of competing with telecom giants? In this episode of Financially Incorrect Personal Money Stories, Agnes Limo…

  42. How Zeus Group Was Built From a Dining Table | Jeffrey Amani | Uganda Edition

    · 1 h 39 min

    Jeffrey Imani thought he had made it. After years climbing the creative ladder, winning international design competitions, building a respected reputation and leading some of East Africa's biggest campaigns, everything…

  43. How I Built Kenya’s Largest Gated Estate - GreenPark Estate | Ian Henderson

    · 1 h 18 min

    There are entrepreneurs who start with capital. Then there are entrepreneurs who create capital by betting everything they already have. Before Ian Henderson built one of Kenya's most recognised residential…

  44. The Startup Fixing Kenya's Car Rental Market- Otto Rentals| Bradley Opere| Business Edition

    · 1 h 12 min

    For years, Kenya's car rental industry operated on trust, phone calls, spreadsheets, and WhatsApp messages. Cars would disappear. Bookings would get double-sold. Customers would reserve online only to discover the…

  45. From Army Major To founding Jeff Hamilton LTD | Major Boke Kitangita

    · 2 h 14 min

    For years, Major Boke wore the uniform of the Kenya AirForce.Today, he leads one of East Africa's fastest-growing security, HR and staff outsourcing companies.In this episode of Financially Incorrect, Major Boke takes…

  46. From Timber Trader to Luxury Property Developer | Derrick Kayobyo| Uganda Edition

    · 1 h 19 min

    Most people would have quit after losing everything. Derrick Kayobyo lost hundreds of millions of shillings to fraudsters. His workshop was burned down. Businesses collapsed. Deals went wrong. Yet those setbacks became…

  47. How Nyawira Muraguri Built Wealth Before Age 35

    · 1 h 31 min

    "You should stay in school and work hard." That's the advice many people receive. Nyawira Muraguri did that. But she also worked in her parents' business from the age of nine, negotiated aggressively throughout her…

  48. How Pius Muchiri Built an Investment leader- Nabo Capital

    · 2 h 14 min

    There is a perception amongst many that financial freedom is about earning more money. Pius Muchiri believes it's about reaching a point where your investments can sustain your lifestyle even if your salary stops…

  49. The Story Behind Too Early For Birds from The Creative Powerhouse | Gathoni Kimuyu

    · 1 h 59 min

    For years, Queen Gathoni Kimuyu was helping shape some of Kenya's most recognizable television productions while quietly carrying battles most people never saw.Before becoming an award-winning producer, writer,…

  50. How Brian Kiriba Built Handas Jaba Juice Into a 50,000-Unit-a-Month

    · 54 min

    Brian Kiriba shares the story behind building Jaba Juice from scratch, growing it into a business that now moves tens of thousands of units every month. In this episode of Financially Incorrect Business Edition, he…

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