Suraj didn’t “blow up.” He toiled. From playing Hindu temples in his hometown of Kisumu, to DJing for drink vouchers, to taking years just to make his first KES 100,000 from music - this wasn’t a fast story. It was a patient one. He gave his early earnings to his mum. Got told “not yet” more times than he can count.So he stopped waiting. He built Gondwana alongside Euggy and two friends. Captain’s Terrace. Thirty people in the room. Two meals and two drinks as payment. And he kept going. Seven years in, the world finally started listening.What changed everything wasn’t luck. It was the choice to keep building - quietly - long before anyone was watching.
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In this episode, we sit down with Dorothy Ooko — former French lecturer turned Nokia and Google Communications leader — to explore the financial mindset behind her incredible career pivot. Dorothy shares how she went from teaching at KU and USIU to leading communications across Africa at two global tech giants — despite having no PR background. She opens up about disciplined money habits, avoiding debt, buying her home in cash, and why she now teaches women to negotiate confidently. We also unpack her role in the zero-rated mobile tax campaign that transformed phone accessibility in Kenya, her life after Google, and the experiences and friendships that pushed her beyond her comfort zone.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------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
On this episode of Financially Incorrect, we sit down with Allan Mutuma, founder of Brown Cap Developers, to break down how he transitioned from corporate finance into building a fast-growing real estate business in Kenya. Founded in 2021, Brown Cap Developers has completed projects worth ~KES 400M and sold units totaling ~KES 500M in under four years — largely through personal networks, referrals, and disciplined execution rather than heavy marketing. Alan shares how growing up in a middle-class Nairobi family shaped his money habits, his early ventures selling second-hand shoes, investing while at Strathmore University, and how his first property project started as a family solution with just 15% equity and a lot of creative financing. We also talk about the role of partnership with his wife, family governance, faith and financial discipline, and why 70–80% of property investors are women — a point backed by behavioral finance research. A grounded conversation on real estate, money, and building quietly in Kenya.
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Sir M is one of Kenya’s most exciting new-age DJs, and this episode breaks down exactly how he got here. From dropping out of university with his parents’ support, to chasing a music career that never took off, Sir M shares the real story behind the pivots, setbacks, and discipline that shaped his journey. He walks us through his process — how he built his sound, sharpened his craft, and positioned himself in a crowded scene — plus the moments that changed everything--------------------------------------------------------------------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
In this episode, we dive into the untold story of Eric Thimba — the Kenyan who left for the US to chase a degree, came back without one, and had to rebuild his life from zero. He talks about drifting through his early years, finding direction much later in life, stumbling into his first business, and eventually cofounding Mookh Africa before uprooting everything and starting again in Uganda. It’s a raw, creative, late-bloomer’s story about finding your lane long after everyone thinks you should have it figured out.--------------------------------------------------------------------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
Thinking of buying your first home in Kenya? 🏠 This video walks you through everything you need to know about getting a mortgage backed by Kenya Mortgage Refinance Company (KMRC) — from eligibility criteria to the step-by-step process for securing an affordable, long-term home loan. We explain how KMRC works, how it partners with banks and SACCOs, and how you can take advantage of its fixed-rate, single-digit mortgage financing.--------------------------------------------------------------------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
Monicah 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
Agori 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.
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In 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.
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In 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.
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In 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.
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Kendi 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.
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In this episode of Financially Incorrect Uganda, Belinda shares her journey from working minimum wage jobs in Canada to building a thriving digital marketing business and card game empire in Uganda. She talks openly about managing money for the first time, coping with harsh winters and isolation, launching her side hustles, and making her first investments in unit trusts and cows. Belinda also reflects on burnout, the importance of cash flow in business, and what success truly means to her. This is a story of resilience, entrepreneurship, and learning to invest in yourself.
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From Safaricom to self-employment, Zaheeda Suleman’s story is one of courage, clarity, and conviction. In this episode of Financially Incorrect, she sits with Barrack to unpack the reality of walking away from a consistent salary to build her own brand. From the silence that followed her resignation to the first 50K gig, the lessons are raw and real. Zaheeda opens up about the friends who showed up when she least expected, the corporate doors that stayed shut, and why she believes the mantra “Build the brand, the business will follow.” She also shares how Solfest became more than an event, it became a statement about Kenyan creativity, community, and resilience. If you’ve ever thought about quitting the comfort to chase your calling, this episode is your blueprint for starting over with purpose, patience, and power.
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From earning a Ksh 9,000 salary and sleeping in his clinic to building a billion-shilling hospital network, Dr. Maxwell Okoth has lived every entrepreneur’s nightmare and dream. In this episode of Financially Incorrect Business Edition, he opens up about borrowing money meant for land to start his first clinic, surviving burnout and near depression when debt piled up, and building RFH Healthcare into one of Kenya’s most respected medical brands, complete with a world-class cancer center and the region’s first indigenously owned PET-CT scanner. It’s a raw, inspiring story about grit, sacrifice, and purpose & a masterclass in turning struggle into structure, and structure into success.
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From losing Ksh 300,000 on his first show to selling out concerts with over 2,000 people, Alan Gitau’s story is one of pure creative grit and cultural pride. In this episode, the founder of Kikuyu Love Sessions opens up about his journey, growing up in Uthiru, leaving a stable advertising career to chase meaning, and building a movement that romanticizes vernacular music and modern African love. He shares how one viral TikTok moment turned a struggling idea into a national sensation, how each themed edition from Bonded Hearts to Mothers & Melodies grew his audience, and why he believes struggle fuels creativity. This is the story of turning passion into purpose, proving that when culture meets consistency, magic happens.
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In this episode of Financially Incorrect Uganda Edition, Wonder Jr. opens up about his extraordinary journey from being detained in the UK to becoming one of Uganda’s most inspiring creatives. He shares how faith, resilience, and self-belief turned his lowest moments into a launchpad for purpose, from rebuilding his life after deportation to founding Arts for Hearts and Wonder Creatives. Through acting, storytelling, and now regenerative farming, Wonder Jr. reveals how he redefined success, healed financial trauma, and learned that money is energy as it flows where peace and purpose meet. This is a must-watch for anyone chasing passion in a world that demands profit.
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From earning just $90 a month as a junior software engineer to raising $180,000 for his startup, Dawit Abraham’s story is one of grit, failure, and ultimate breakthrough. In this episode of Financially Incorrect: Business Edition, Barrack sits down with the co-founder and CEO of Beemi, Ethiopia’s first gaming studio, to unpack how a dream that started with a simple mobile game turned into a tech movement. Dawit shares how he went from teaching himself code and crashing startup exhibitions to pitching investors who had never funded a gaming company before. He talks about losing everything after winning Best Entertainment App in Africa, rebuilding from zero, and landing a publishing deal with Carry1st, Africa’s largest game distributor. Beyond the hustle, this conversation dives into what it really takes to build in a market with no playbook from navigating low pay and lack of infrastructure to finding belief in your own vision when no one else does. This is a masterclass in resilience, innovation, and what it means to bet on Africa before the world does.
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From earning $90 a day in post-war Libya to running a multi-million-shilling travel business, losing it all, and then raising $100K for his next venture, David Kimani’s journey is nothing short of remarkable. In this episode of Financially Incorrect, he opens up about the highs and lows of building Vacay Holiday Deals, a travel company that hit Ksh 82 million in bookings before everything came crashing down. He shares how he turned loss into learning, why every entrepreneur needs a SACCO, and the mindset shifts that helped him rebuild from scratch to launch Nesti, his new proptech startup. From saving his first salary to navigating business failure and financial fraud, David’s story is a powerful reminder that resilience, not luck, builds lasting success — and that sometimes losing money is the tuition you pay for real growth.
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What does it really cost to be a doctor in Uganda? In this episode of Financially Incorrect: Uganda Edition, Dr. Tumusiime Nyamurungi takes us inside the world of medicine, where long hours, low pay, and expensive training collide with the pressure to stay financially afloat. From working exhausting 12-hour shifts to paying millions in residency fees, she reveals how the pursuit of purpose often comes at a heavy price.Dr. Nyamurungi opens up about earning 21 million shillings in a year and ending up with just 1.5 million in savings, a turning point that pushed her to take control of her finances. She shares how she rebuilt her money mindset with the help of a financial advisor, started investing intentionally, and learned to prioritize health insurance after seeing how one medical bill can wipe out years of savings.This conversation dives deep into the emotional and financial toll of being a healthcare worker. From the realities of hospital bills that can hit millions per day to the discipline it takes to build wealth in a demanding profession. It’s an honest look at burnout, balance, and the breakthroughs that come when you finally decide to treat your money like your most important patient.
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