Konnected Minds Podcast with Derrick Abaitey

Segment: A Million Dollars Lost in Rice - The Business Mistake That Taught Me Everything

18 Apr 2026

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From watching wealthy neighbors from a poor home where his father farmed and his mother sold grounded pepper and cassava in the markets to building a rice empire and multiple businesses before turning 30, and why the brutal truth about money is that most people fear it because they were taught to fear it growing up watching Nigerian movies where every rich person was portrayed as an occultist or ritualist making their parents restrict them from dreaming big but when you grow up as the poor child in the only proprietary school in your village walking to school while other kids get picked up in fancy cars you either become bitter or you watch the extremely wealthy neighbors in your backyard and study how they move and decide that fear will not control you, the young man who saw a million dollars in his personal account at 25 years old proving that when people say they made their first million it is real because he lived it and saw the money with his own eyes, the entrepreneur who came across a document of a shipment of rice from Vietnam to Ghana that he was never supposed to see and studied the numbers and something just hit him that this could be it, the founder and CEO of CH Rider Group who owns companies in transport and has his own rice brand and real estate companies building what is already a legacy before even turning 30, the first of six siblings and the first of two males who was taught humility through affliction because when you don't have money and you're surrounded by people who do you learn to value genuine friendship since every friend you made while you were young was actually a genuine friend because they weren't your friends because you had something they just trusted in you, the son whose parents made sure he and his brother got the best even though they were poor sending them to the only proprietary school in the village while his dad went to farm and his mom sold in the markets, the young boy who wasn't allowed to watch movies because his parents thought the Nigerian films showing ritualists and occults would affect them and make them think that's how you make money instilling fear of money in an entire generation, the different mind who watched rich people and their children and saw himself doing even better if he had the opportunity instead of being scared or bitter about the inequality, the man who believes money answers all things exactly like the Bible says and thinks every average person out there should not fear money but should command it because people who don't fear money have the will to control it and turn it into the way they want, the philosophy that if you're able to control money you can control anything so don't be scared of how much money or scared of money just know how to use it, the wisdom that a lot of people fear money and when you tell someone that thing costs a hundred thousand they say whoa and that's fear but he doesn't fear money because he knows if he had it he would know what to turn it into to even tenfold it, the realization that most of his generation were brought up from poor homes and were taught to fear money because their parents didn't have it and how they spoke of money made it seem like people who have money are probably superstitious ritualists or fraudsters or drug dealers limiting the young generation from knowing what to do if they come across money, the neighbor who lived just at the backyard with extremely wealthy people and watched their lives studying how success actually works instead of believing the narrative that money equals evil, the business owner who lost over a million US dollars in three months when rice disappeared with no revenue and no recovery putting the company in debt but didn't let that destroy him.

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