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A (0:00)
That my husband is fulfilling what he told me that he was going to do later in life. I told her I wanted to have grandchildren all over the world. When we were preaching from church to church, she would tell me this one. You are teaching people about finance and all this. Make sure that when the people come to visit us, they will see something on ground. And so we started investing. We punished ourselves for like slaves, so that we could buy our freedom. So she told me that let us invest in such a way that if we don't want to travel, to preach or do anything, we can stay in our houses and our homes and enjoy. And so it became a participatory building of the family. Recently she said, you don't give me money and you talk on YouTube. Financial orgasm. Oh, you're not giving me financial orgasm. Then I told her, bring the check booklets. She brought the cheque booklet. And we started calculating how much I had given in a month. And it was a large sum of money. Then she asked me a simple question. Did I use it to buy cloth for myself? Did I use it to buy food to eat for myself? Is it not the projects that the family has that I'm spending it on? And I was ashamed of myself because it is true. My wife builds every day at one point. All the cars I drive, she buys them at one time from our businesses.
B (1:26)
Is it because you thought she was more capable of building the businesses than yourself?
A (1:32)
You know, women, the olden days, women or the womb, the visionary woman that you, you must create. You know, men, we take women to swimming pool, we take them to nine clubs, we take them to Dudurime, Ameno, we buy azo, we buy this, we. We smoke clothes, we. We are living in delusion. But when you bring a woman to reality and you let her know it is not there, and I will have to prepare it, we have to cook the meal to eat it. When a woman contributes to cooking a meal, when I mean meal, finance, future finances, she hardly spends it. But when a man has money, he spends like fire. Even the money you have given to your wife, I don't know, affordable me, when I induce this, I'll bring all the money from preaching, from sale of books. But she was also selling. She would sit in the. In the trunk of the car, of the bus. Instead of going to sit with pastor's wives, she will sit in the boot of the car and be selling my books. I was producing intellectual, intellectual wealth, but she was bringing money from the intellectual wealth. Are you following what I'm saying? When they tell her, go and sit in the altar or the front seat, she will say, altar, no. They pay children school fees. That the altar does not pay children school fees. When she has sold those books to get that money from her to do something frivolous, you hardly get it. And she will staple books. My wife will have printing press. My wife can operate printing press. She will do many things to get that money. To do a frivolous thing, you can never get it. Because when a woman contributes to the economy, her money is like plantain leaves. You have plantain in Ghana here. Have you ever seen plantain leaves fall down? They dry, they stay by the side of the plantain. It's only mango leaves that fall down. If a woman is admitted in hospital, she might have money in her pocket, in her. In her. In her purse. She will wait for the husband to pay the deposit for the treatment. Because there is a sense of. During the First World War, when men were shot, they cried, mommy, they didn't cry daddy. There is a sense of preparation for the future in case there is disappointment, she's looking at you, that anything can happen to you, you can die and your in law, your brothers can come there and throw her out. So she's trying to secure her future and the future of her children. And that's why women who contribute to the economy of a family, they manage finances better. And that's why the Grameen bank in Bangladesh found out that when you give micro loans to women, they manage the micro loans better and they pay better, pay quicker. So for me, a contributory woman, when I mean contributory, she's working. She manages finances better than the consumptive. There is a story of a man who was spending, you know, men spend money like fire. They spend money, spend money. The man was throwing money up and down. And from the money the man was throwing to the wife, the wife was collecting some. They didn't have a house at a house in their village. The woman secretly went home, built a house, and then told the man, let us go back home, let us go to your village. The man said, no, there are too many witches there. Not going. They got there, he saw a bungalow. The man was angry who built house in my father's land. Then the woman brought the house keys. He said, it is the money you were throwing away. The peanuts I collected. That's what I used to build this house. The woman. The man started crying. So women who are contributory women you share a purposeful life with as a.