Konnected Minds Podcast with Derrick Abaitey
Segment: Your Environment Is Your Destiny, How Discipline and Exposure Built a Business Owner.
21 Dec 2025
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
The house is already established. Established. Great. So it's basically, for me, this is what I figured out. The fact that you moved away from parents and then went to work under somebody else and they worked you. You worked really hard. I did. That gives you a different type of makeup that you have today. Would you agree?
Yes.
totally agree 100 i'm always confident with that and then you know do you know the do you know the irony of all this yeah my current shop the annex shop is right at my foster mom's junction wow so anytime whenever she's from uk i just walk into her house i give her products and she's always proud of she's always proud of she calls me anytime she comes to check on me anytime
I've asked this question to myself. Why do you think we can have siblings from the same family, but only one or two become financially successful? What's the aspect of the person that becomes that others may not have?
Yes. So when you read the pattern, it all boils down to the upbringing. That is what makes all the difference.
because there are some homes you go there and then you realize that they are from a very good home well-educated home and the parents make sure make sure that the kids are well educated they have the knowledge they have the basic understanding to life and they will all be successful in as much as they will 100% not be the same at the level but you realize that if one person is standing at a particular pedestal the spaces between them is not that much it's not that really much
and then on the other side if you are from a particular family whereby there's already a kind of tattoo school you are living to and then you get the opportunity or you are graced enough to break out and then be raised from a particular good home
you realize when you come back you stand up you would actually say that you are raised in a in a better home than the home you were born into 100 is it because of the new training you had or because of the money and the exposure this woman had i wouldn't say the money and the exposure but they're training because a lot of people get exposed to money but they don't they don't even have the principles or the discipline to handle the money but i had the opportunity to to see money
then also experience discipline right now as i'm sitting here i see money but i'm disciplined on how to handle money because that was how i was raised up with so it is the two components coming together if four more of your siblings were raised by the same woman do you think it would have all been financially absolutely absolutely because my siblings have read we are all hard we are very strong
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Chapter 2: How does upbringing influence financial success among siblings?
The fundamentals.
Okay.
The fundamentals about life. So you go to a rich home and right now, let me give you a storyline. I was driving, so I recently had, how would I say it, a nanny who was taking care of my children. And we were going to church, but I left something in my office. So we were coming to my office to pick what I left, and then we'll move, we'll just proceed to church.
And then immediately we got to the junction. My second daughter just asked the lady, do you know where we are going to? And then the lady was like, no, I don't know, tell me. And then she told her, we are going to my father's warehouse. It is her kid's company. And that is where we do business. We talk business and we talk a lot about money.
So this girl is five years old and she knows there's something called business.
there's something called money mindset and this is the path you follow to have that kind of achievement that you want to achieve in life so instantly the fundamentals has been laid right so she knows my dad is hard working my daddy goes to meetings she has been seeing a lot of my podcasts and the events i'll be going to and so subconsciously she's been raised
to exceed the father or do more than the father so you realize whatever they are exposed to at their younger age they tend to do better in life rather than the basic Ghanian that is brought or raised in the basic community whereby life is just basic for them because I've had the opportunity to live in both the basic Ghanian community and then I would say the wealthy Ghanian community and I know the difference there Jamestown
on a regular day you wake up in the morning you just brush your teeth or sometimes you'll be giving toothpaste we don't use majority of people use sponge that chewing sponge and then there's no so there's no most of the family houses don't even have a lavatory or a washroom in the house so you have to work like a distance a mile or a kilometer to the public restroom and then you come back and then you prepare and bath and then go to sometimes even the bathroom you also have to work out
and then bad change and then you come back to prepare to school. And then once you are going to school, you have to walk through the communities and you see a lot of activities happening before you realize you'll be distracted of your direction of where you're going to.
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Chapter 3: What are the two essential components for achieving financial success?
And then even in senior high school, I did a bit of, I did visual arts. And in visual arts, you learn entrepreneurship. So I had a little, a very tiny knowledge around entrepreneurship. So that knowledge was what I really applied. So back then, 11 years ago, I knew if you want to start a business, one, you have to find a problem in your community.