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Financially Incorrect
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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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From Selling Calculators in Uni to Commercial Director | Kelvin Kuria's money story
Feb 602:00:40Tap to summarizeSales is often misunderstood as persuasion, personality or natural charisma.In this episode , we sit down with Kelvin Kuria, the man who turned sales from a "hustle" into a repeatable, scalable science. From managing multi-million Euro budgets at Unilever to becoming a Commercial Director at Kenyan Originals, Kelvin’s journey is a masterclass in negotiation, mindset, and money.Access all our links in one place: https://lnk.bio/Financially_Inc💹 Ready to start trading?🔍 Who is FXPesa: https://shorturl.at/rWFqC🎓 Learn how to trade: https://shorturl.at/xR2Ye📊 Try a demo account: https://shorturl.at/izDMc💸 Open a live account: https://shorturl.at/Od2ux
Transcribe →From Campus Politics to a Career Switch |Tracey Gachie
Jan 3101:19:21Tap to summarizeTracey Gachie’s journey is proof that resilience, strategy, and bold financial choices define success. From navigating imposter syndrome, pivoting from accounting to marketing, managing African major brands, and thriving as a content creator, she shares the highs, lows, and lessons of a decade shaped by career shifts, love, and life transitions.Access all our links in one place: https://lnk.bio/Financially_Inc💹 Ready to start trading?🔍 Who is FXPesa: https://shorturl.at/rWFqC🎓 Learn how to trade: https://shorturl.at/xR2Ye📊 Try a demo account: https://shorturl.at/izDMc💸 Open a live account: https://shorturl.at/Od2ux
Transcribe →From sourcing Mitumba in Kawangware to Owning a Luxe Kenyan fashion brand | Scovia Miruka
Jan 2400:57:52Tap to summarizeWhat does it really take to build a fashion brand in Kenya when local work is rarely valued at premium price? Scovia Miruka, founder and creative director of Hawi read to wear, shares her raw money journey shaped by loss ambition and ownership from selling second hand clothes to pay her school fees to leaving a stable job and pricing a dress at KES 10,000 that changed everything.She reflects on grief early financial responsibility the limits of salaried work and the real cost of making clothes locally while unpacking the mindset shift required to believe Kenyan made brands can compete globally.Access all our links in one place: https://lnk.bio/Financially_Inc💹 Ready to start trading?🔍 Who is FXPesa: https://shorturl.at/rWFqC🎓 Learn how to trade: https://shorturl.at/xR2Ye📊 Try a demo account: https://shorturl.at/izDMc💸 Open a live account: https://shorturl.at/Od2ux
Transcribe →From Makanga to Working In Insurance | Eliud Matheri
Jan 1600:51:42Tap to summarizeEliud's money story didn't follow the usual script. Before insurance offices, boardrooms, and BIMA TV, there were matatus, fruit crates, daily cash, and survival decisions. In this episode, Eliud opens up about the uncomfortable middle. The phase where income grows but discipline slips. Where loans feel like progress until they don’t. Where mistakes teach harder lessons than success ever could.Access all our links in one place: https://lnk.bio/Financially_Inc💹 Ready to start trading?🔍 Who is FXPesa: https://shorturl.at/rWFqC🎓 Learn how to trade: https://shorturl.at/xR2Ye📊 Try a demo account: https://shorturl.at/izDMc💸 Open a live account: https://shorturl.at/Od2uxTimestamps 00:00 – Introduction02:40 – 2025 Wins & Financially Incorrect Decisions04:35 – Early Money Lessons & Childhood Hustles06:20 – Entering the Insurance Industry08:30 – Hawking, Makanga Life & Surviving Nairobi12:40 – Choosing Stability Over Fast Cash14:30 – Makanga Side Hustle & Early Investments19:10 – Career Growth: From Filing Clerk to Insurance Professional26:30 – How Insurance Really Works (Claims & Mistakes)34:30 – Career Acceleration: Underwriting, Jubilee & Big Business38:15 – Costly Financial Mistakes & Loan Lessons41:30 – Money Mindset Shift & The Birth of BMA TV44:50 – Marriage, Family & Financial Responsibility47:25 – Happiest vs Saddest Money Moments49:15 – Advice to His Younger Self51:15 – Final Reflections & Outro
Transcribe →How Monica Etemesi Built Her Luxury Event Planning Brand | Business Edition
Dec 201:22:59Tap to summarizeMonicah Etemesi is a Nairobi-based entrepreneur, wedding planner, and luxury events stylist, best known as the founder of Pritt Events, a company she built from the ground up in 2020 at the height of the pandemic. Raised in Kitale by a resilient single mother after losing her father at age 10, Monicah credits her strength and drive to the example set at home. Pritt Events has grown into a respected name in Nairobi’s events scene, delivering high-end weddings, corporate launches, political events, influencer activations, private socials, balloon artistry, florist work, and furniture hire. Her journey includes working with prominent politicians, major brands, and luxury clients. But her success has come with real struggle — seasons of zero cash flow, overwhelming debt, unpaid staff, burnout, and moments where the business almost collapsed. She also openly shares that she has had three failed businesses before finding her footing. Her biggest win has been the rebuild: rebuilding her systems, confidence, and mindset to create a sustainable brand that continues to attract high-profile clientele. Alongside entrepreneurship, Monicah is a fitness, lifestyle, comedy, and business content creator, known for her honest, unfiltered storytelling about the realities of building a life and a business from scratch. Her work speaks to women who are rising through adversity and fighting for better every day.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Apply for Podcast Operations Partner Role: t.co/ykbpjSimInSubscribe to our newsletter: https://shorturl.at/o2jpCHelp Shape the Future of Financially Incorrect – Take Less Than 5 Mins: https://shorturl.at/3iiJZWant to Be Featured on Financially Incorrect? Apply Here: https://forms.gle/5tkdjgx9vHgXyJSC6💹 Ready to start trading?🔍 Who is FXPesa: https://shorturl.at/rWFqC🎓 Learn how to trade: https://shorturl.at/xR2Ye📊 Try a demo account: https://shorturl.at/izDMc💸 Open a live account: https://shorturl.at/Od2ux
Transcribe →Agori Turned Chaos Into a Multi-Million Creative Business: NIT Studio
Nov 2801:03:05Tap to summarizeAgori Korbandy, founder & CEO of Nit Studio, takes us through her raw, unfiltered money and business journey, from launching her first creative studio at 21 with millionaire dreams, to losing an entire year of growth to a toxic relationship that drained her finances, focus, and self-esteem. She opens up about burning through her earnings, funding a partner’s lifestyle, and pretending to “keep up” with friends, all while navigating early entrepreneurship in Kenya.A robbery at her studio became the turning point. With her parents’ support, she rebuilt, hired staff, upgraded equipment, and transformed both her systems and mindset. Leaving the club scene, setting boundaries, embracing discipline, and finally giving herself space to think marked the start of her true glow-up.Today, Nit Studio has grown into a multi-arm business with photography, videography, studio hire, a marketing agency, print shop, and academy operating in Kenya and Uganda. Agori shares her insights on financial maturity, building stability, and creating a business that works for you and not the other way around. This episode is a masterclass in resilience, clarity, and smart entrepreneurship.Subscribe to our newsletter: https://shorturl.at/o2jpCHelp Shape the Future of Financially Incorrect – Take Less Than 5 Mins: https://shorturl.at/3iiJZWant to Be Featured on Financially Incorrect? Apply Here: https://forms.gle/5tkdjgx9vHgXyJSC6💹 Ready to start trading?🔍 Who is FXPesa: https://shorturl.at/rWFqC🎓 Learn how to trade: https://shorturl.at/xR2Ye📊 Try a demo account: https://shorturl.at/izDMc💸 Open a live account: https://shorturl.at/Od2ux
Transcribe →From Paying Her Own Tuition to Uganda's Top Influencer: Patricia Zawedde's Money Story
Nov 2500:52:31Tap to summarizeIn this Uganda Edition of Financially Incorrect, Patricia gets real about the money behind content creation, side hustles, and navigating Kampala’s rising cost of living. She shares how she paid her own university tuition through influencer gigs, why she refuses to live a fake lifestyle, and how balancing a corporate banking job with content creation shaped her financial discipline. Patricia breaks down the realities of Uganda’s influencer economy, from inconsistent brand deals to the pressure of maintaining an image and explains how saving groups, strict budgeting, and living within her means have helped her build stability. If you’re a creator, student, or young professional trying to understand Uganda finance, influencer money, and Gen Z money habits, this episode offers practical insights for surviving and thriving in Kampala’s cost of living.Subscribe to our newsletter: https://shorturl.at/o2jpCHelp Shape the Future of Financially Incorrect – Take Less Than 5 Mins: https://shorturl.at/3iiJZWant to Be Featured on Financially Incorrect? Apply Here: https://forms.gle/5tkdjgx9vHgXyJSC6💹 Ready to start trading?🔍 Who is FXPesa: https://shorturl.at/rWFqC🎓 Learn how to trade: https://shorturl.at/xR2Ye📊 Try a demo account: https://shorturl.at/izDMc💸 Open a live account: https://shorturl.at/Od2ux
Transcribe →How Ed Magema Beat the Odds and Got Accepted Into 6 Ivy League Universities
Nov 2301:19:38Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Ed Magema, co-founder of Universe and senior strategist at NCBA sits with Barrack to unpack his journey from a humble childhood of strong tea mornings and githeri lunches to developing elite study systems that took him to Harvard. He explains why he chose to leave the U.S. during the era of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, return home, and build his career in Kenya. Ed opens up about his first failed print-media startup, his rise as a strategy consultant at Dalberg, and how he became one of the early builders behind Cheaper Cash, helping scale it to a million users in under a year before walking away due to toxic culture. He shares the depression that followed, how writing How to Get Into Harvard became therapy and service, and how he reinvested his savings and Harvard network into building Universe, a homegrown media-tech platform for Africa’s creators. Ed breaks down his current money philosophy (10% emergency fund, 30% investments, the rest for life and family), his belief in building over hoarding, and his long-term mission to become a dollar billionaire by constructing an African-owned media + data ecosystem that can shape narratives and power the continent’s role in the AI era. An inspiring conversation about conviction, resilience, and the courage to build from where you are.Subscribe to our newsletter: https://shorturl.at/o2jpCHelp Shape the Future of Financially Incorrect – Take Less Than 5 Mins: https://shorturl.at/3iiJZWant to Be Featured on Financially Incorrect? Apply Here: https://forms.gle/5tkdjgx9vHgXyJSC6💹 Ready to start trading?🔍 Who is FXPesa: https://shorturl.at/rWFqC🎓 Learn how to trade: https://shorturl.at/xR2Ye📊 Try a demo account: https://shorturl.at/izDMc💸 Open a live account: https://shorturl.at/Od2ux
Transcribe →Brian Wathome on Building Charge On The Go & a 60,000 - User Game Platform
Nov 1801:10:44Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Barrack sits down with Brian Wathome, the founder of Charge On The Go and Games On The Go to share how he built two thriving tech businesses from scratch. From renting power banks at nightlife venues and airports to launching a skill-based gaming platform on the M-PESA Mini App, he reveals how networks, timing, and innovative thinking unlocked these opportunities. Learn how Charge On The Go scaled across multiple locations, secured JKIA after a year-long pitching process, and how Games On The Go reached 60,000 users with zero marketing, saving an estimated KES 156 million in acquisition costs. Bootstrapped with just KES 1M, the digital platform now engages both kids and families, creating positive screen time through multiplayer games and subscriptions. He also shares his strategy for scaling across Kenya, Rwanda, and beyond, and how continuous innovation and understanding the market have been key to the success of both businesses.Subscribe to our newsletter: https://shorturl.at/o2jpCHelp Shape the Future of Financially Incorrect – Take Less Than 5 Mins: https://shorturl.at/3iiJZWant to Be Featured on Financially Incorrect? Apply Here: https://forms.gle/5tkdjgx9vHgXyJSC6💹 Ready to start trading?🔍 Who is FXPesa: https://shorturl.at/rWFqC🎓 Learn how to trade: https://shorturl.at/xR2Ye📊 Try a demo account: https://shorturl.at/izDMc💸 Open a live account: https://shorturl.at/Od2ux
Transcribe →Kendi Nanua Had No Safety Net. Just Hard Work - and a Gift Idea That Blew Up
Nov 1401:34:47Tap to summarizeKendi sits down with Barrack to share how growing up in a single-room mabati house, walking long distances to school, and constantly relying on other people shaped her earliest beliefs about money and possibility. She opens up about battling a deep scarcity mindset, earning a first-class degree in finance only to realize she hated the field, and taking an 8K-a-month internship instead of a secure banking path. She talks about discovering her creative side, helping a vendor sell at a flea market while in university, surviving 40-hour workdays during the COVID agency era, and eventually launching her own gifting business — the one that made her KSh 1 million profit and completely rewrote her money story. This episode is a raw, inspiring journey from survival to intention, proving that where you start doesn’t have to determine where you end up.Subscribe to our newsletter: https://shorturl.at/o2jpCHelp Shape the Future of Financially Incorrect – Take Less Than 5 Mins: https://shorturl.at/3iiJZWant to Be Featured on Financially Incorrect? Apply Here: https://forms.gle/5tkdjgx9vHgXyJSC6💹 Ready to start trading?🔍 Who is FXPesa: https://shorturl.at/rWFqC🎓 Learn how to trade: https://shorturl.at/xR2Ye📊 Try a demo account: https://shorturl.at/izDMc💸 Open a live account: https://shorturl.at/Od2ux
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