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Life is suffering. That sounds like a hard way to start, but it is the one truth most people spend their whole lives running from, and the running is exactly what makes them suffer more.

In this solo episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah draws the line between pain and suffering, and shows why one is unavoidable and the other is a choice. Pain is what l...

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Deyemi Okanlawon graduated with a third class degree in chemical engineering, nearly flunked out of university, and spent years broke in Lagos, walking miles a day to hand out fliers on the street. Then he became the lead of the highest grossing film in Nollywood history and the most prolific African actor on Netflix. In this conversation he takes Richie through the whole climb, and makes...

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In Part 2, Avraham Ben Moshe turns from his own story to his hardest arguments. He makes the case that staged miracles are theatre, that supernatural power lives only in books, movies and dreams, and that he builds his own life on hope, which demands action, rather than faith, which asks for none. Then he goes where it hurts: why a continent that prays constantly stays poor...

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Avraham Ben Moshe, the Ghanaian teacher many know as Common Sense, was born a Muslim, became a teenage pastor, led his own congregation, then used the same critical lens to question all of it. In Part 1 he walks Richie through that journey and lays out the idea at the center of his message: that every religion was built by man, that Jesus lived and died a...

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Your relationship with money was decided before you turned seven. Niyi Adesanya, the performance strategist behind boardrooms at Chevron, MTN, Etisalat and the Nigerian Stock Exchange, has coached over a thousand executives and spoken to three million people, and he says the poverty you are fighting as an adult was programmed into you as a child. In this conversation he shows how that programming works, how...

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Richie opens this one with a warning, and he means it. This is an uncomfortable conversation, because it asks you to question something you have always taken for granted: the idea that good and bad are fixed, universal things.

In this solo episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah makes the case for a challenging idea: that there is no absolute good and no absolute bad, only g...

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An aunt lifted an eight year old's shirt in front of the family and told her she looked pregnant. That one moment cost Hayet Rida her confidence for the next twenty years. What she built out of that is a masterclass in audacity.

In this episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah sits down with Hayet Rida, a Ghanaian creative entrepreneur, brand builder and one of the fi...

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Everyone who says they want to enter the fashion industry means one of two things: they want their own label, or they want to sew. Those are the two most crowded corners of the entire industry, and most people never realise there are 14 different ways in.

In this Masterminds Breakdown, Richie Mensah opens up the fashion industry and walks you through every stage a garment passes throug...

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When Archie Frimpong's wife was diagnosed with PCOS and fibroids and told she might never conceive, he went looking for answers. What he learned along the way changed how he sees women's health entirely, and today he is one of the few men publicly advocating for it.

In this episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah sits down with Archie Frimpong, co-founder of Stella Supplements, for a fran...

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Close your eyes and picture the beginning of civilisation. Science, mathematics, medicine, architecture. If the picture in your mind is white marble and white faces, this episode is going to change how you see the whole story.

In this solo episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah walks through five civilisations across five different eras and one thread that runs through all of them: the systematic erasur...

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Evelyn Warlson Annan grew up deep inside religion, mastering the Bible, the classes, the evangelism. Then one confession, and the punishment that followed, cracked the whole thing open and sent her looking for God on her own terms.

In this episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah sits down with Evelyn Warlson Annan, a spiritual teacher he first encountered on TikTok saying things most people are afraid...

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Everyone who says they want to go into poultry means the same thing: they want to own birds. That is one business, and it is the most crowded, the hardest to profit from, and the one where you have the least control.

In this Masterminds Breakdown, Richie Mensah opens up the entire poultry industry and shows you 14 different ways to make money in it, most of which...

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Nobody owes you a dime. Not the government, not your boss, not your family. Richard Abbey Jnr learned that early, sleeping on a veranda and selling scrap aluminium to survive, and it became the engine behind everything he built.

In this episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah sits down with Richard Abbey Jnr, founder of Exodus Communications and the man behind the 40 Under 40 platforms that now ru...

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You asked for the sources, so here they are.

After the two conversations with Nana Kyidomhene, the comments filled with the same request: show us the receipts. So Richie sent your questions back to the guest, asked him for his sources, then did his own independent research on top. This episode lays every major claim on the table next to the evidence behind it, so you can we...

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One year. One question. Every guest who has sat on this show was asked the same thing: if you could reach through the camera and drop one idea into the mind of the person watching, one shift that would change everything, what would it be?

This episode is their answers, back to back. It is the close of the first year of the Masterminds Podcast, and it bel...

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Part 1 asked us to look again at African history. Part 2 asks us to look again at how we connect to God.

In the second part of this conversation on the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah continues with Nana Kyidomhene, and the discussion turns from history to spirituality. At the centre of it is a simple idea he keeps returning to: religion, at its root, means to connect. From t...

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You cannot know where you are going until you know where you are coming from. And most of us were handed a version of African history that begins at colonization, as though nothing of worth existed before the Europeans arrived.

In Part 1 of this episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah sits down with Nana Kyidomhene, an educator and researcher who has spent years studying African histor...

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You worked hard. You stayed disciplined. You earned it. And then somebody looked at you and said, wow, you are so lucky. That is not a compliment. Most of the time it is a quiet way of saying they do not believe you earned it.

In this solo episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah takes the word luck and turns it on its head. Luck is not random. Luck is not the lottery. Luck is the result of tiny, deliberate things done consistently over a lo...

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They keep telling us Africa is the future. That is how they keep pushing us back. Africa is not the future. Africa is now.

This is the final part of the first ever Masterminds Open Floor, recorded live with an audience of about 50 people. In this episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah delivers his most passionate live talk yet on African greatness and the deliberate erasure of African history. He argues that to break a people you first break their minds, and that Africans have be...

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Success is not about removing suffering from your life. Suffering never leaves. The only question that matters is what you are willing to suffer for.

This is Part 2 of the first ever Masterminds Open Floor, recorded live with an audience of about 50 people. In this episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah delivers a mindset masterclass built on three shifts that change everything: you become the story you tell yourself, the person who can endure pain the longest is the one who wins, and the small ha...

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For the very first time, Masterminds went live. We put Richie in a room with about 50 people for the first ever Masterminds Open Floor, and what followed was one of the most practical money masterclasses we have ever recorded. This is Part 1 of 3.

In this episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah teaches a live audience the single most important truth about building wealth: the only way to become wealthy is through ownership. He breaks down the real difference between assets and liabilities, walks through the fi...

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Some conversations are uncomfortable because they are untrue. This one is uncomfortable because it is true.

In this solo episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah takes on one of the most sensitive and important subjects he has ever addressed: the real story of how education came to Africa, and why a 2026 MoU between Ghana and Cambridge left him deeply unsettled. Drawing on documented history, from Thomas Thompson and the Cape Coast Castle, to the Royal African Company and its ties to the founding of Cambridge, to...

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She spent years running away from the one thing she was born to do. Then a personal weight loss journey, one before-and-after picture, and a single invitation to a TV panel changed the entire direction of her life.

In this episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah sits down with Chichi Yakubu, founder of Nyonyo, whose energy and generosity are matched only by her discipline. Raised in a family where food was the family business, Chichi swore she would never sell food, until her own health jo...

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You can lose money and make it back. You can lose an opportunity and find another. You can even lose your health and recover it. There is only one thing you can never get back, and most people are spending it like it is unlimited.

In this solo episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah breaks down why time is the only real currency and why protecting it matters more than protecting your wallet. He unpacks the three ways people quietly waste their lives, explains the co...

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She was having coffee in London when the CEO across the table asked, "How would you like to own a mine in Ghana?" She laughed and said, "You think I have that kind of money?" She bought it anyway, without a single dollar of her own.

In this episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah sits down with Angela Attieh, CEO of En Plus Global Mining Limited and one of the most respected figures in African mining. Angela's story is a masterclass in credibility, calm, and co...

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They told him dancers were just background. High school dropouts. People with nothing better to do. He spent five years changing that perception, and today the collective he built has over 70 million followers and has sent Ghanaian creators around the world.

In this episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah sits down with Ernest, known as Quables, founder of DWP Academy (Dance With A Purpose). At 17, driven by a question about how he would be remembered, Quables started serving people so they would never forget him. Th...

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She left banking to start a magazine everyone said would fail. Fifteen years later, Glitz Africa is one of the most trusted brands on the continent — and the money followed the trust, never the other way around.

In this episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah sits down with Claudia Kwarteng Lumor — founder of Glitz Africa, UN Goodwill Ambassador, and one of the most influential platform builders in Ghana. Claudia breaks down exactly how she turned a magazine into an ecosystem spanning Glitz Africa Fashion Week, the Gh...

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Part 1 made you question religion. Part 2 will make you question everything else.

In this episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah continues his conversation with Panji Anoff — engineer, music producer, and one of the most rigorously independent thinkers alive. In Part 2, Panji goes further and wider than almost any guest this show has ever hosted. He makes the case that pigs — not chimps — are our closest relatives. He argues that one plus one is not two, and that this lie is the reason Africans cannot collaborate. He trace...

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He couldn't read. He came last in class. His father sent him to a teacher specifically to beat the failure out of him. Thirty years later, he has three master's degrees, is pursuing a PhD, has over a billion streams to his name, and is one of the most curious, well-read, and deliberately excellent human beings on the continent.

In this episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah sits down with Okyeame Kwame — rapper, author, activist, and one of Ghana's most enduring legends — for one of the mo...

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Most people spend their lives accepting ideas they never chose. Panji Anoff has spent his asking why.

In Part 1 of this special episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah sits down with Panji Anoff, the legendary Ghanaian music producer, pioneer of hiplife, and the architect of a sound that quietly became the foundation of global Afrobeats. This is one of the most philosophically rich conversations ever recorded on this show. Panji breaks down why African society is among the most advanced on earth, why religion has di...

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Every day you are handed something to be angry about. A post to argue under. A person to hate. A cause to fight for. But nobody is asking you the most important question — who is actually winning while you fight?

In this solo episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah breaks down one of the most important and most overlooked conversations of our time — the Identity Wars. The systematic, deliberate engineering of division through social media, media, politics, and commerce to keep you distracted, small, and commer...

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He left a stable job at KPMG, moved to Nigeria knowing nobody, slept on a friend's couch for three months, and built one of the most recognised entertainment careers on the continent. Then he put everything he had saved into his first business — and lost over $100,000 to bad partners in one move.

In this episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah sits down with Mawuli Gavor — actor, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Rhythm and Brunch — for one of the most honest, wide-ranging, and provocative conversations the show has ever...

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He didn't plan to be a makeup artist. He was a teacher. Then a friend tagged him in a photo, two girls called, and one YouTube tutorial session later — everything changed.

In this episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah sits down with Zulkarnain Mahmood, popularly known as Zulky — award-winning makeup artist, trainer, and one of Ghana's most sought-after names in the beauty industry. From practicing on his nephews and nieces at home, to working on over 30 music videos and doing makeup for some of Ghana's bigges...

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You didn't choose to become a people pleaser. It was trained into you before you were old enough to know what was happening — and it has been quietly costing you ever since.

In this solo episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah breaks down one of the most common and most destructive patterns holding people back: people pleasing. Where it starts, what it costs, and exactly how to break free from it. This is not about being selfish. This is about understanding that you cannot pour from...

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Most people are sitting in a car with the key in their hand — and never turning the ignition. The tools are there. The ability is there. The only thing missing is the decision to start.

In this episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah sits down with Kafui Dey — journalist, broadcaster, MC, author, and one of Ghana's most quietly excellent media personalities. Born to a diplomat father who took his family through seven countries across Africa, Asia, and Europe, Kafui developed a rare adaptability, curiosity, and standa...

Note: This episode was recorded before Elon Musk became a trillionaire. The net worth figures referenced reflect his valuation at the time of filming.

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Most people spend their entire lives chasing income. The wealthy are playing a completely different game — and nobody told you the rules.

In this solo episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah breaks down the financial concepts that separate people who earn well from people who build real wealth. Net worth. Good debt vs bad debt. Cashback loans. Shareholder loans. Why...

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He has worked with Diageo, MTN, Vodafone, Nestlé, Samsung, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Heineken, Ecobank, Standard Chartered, Mastercard Foundation, and Betway — and most of Ghana has never heard his name. That was entirely by design.

In this episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah sits down with Gabriel Nti Appiah — known as Ghizo — founder and CEO of BTL Africa, one of the most quietly powerful business builders on the continent. In 13 years, Ghizo has not lost a single client. He has expanded BTL Africa across Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Le...

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You cannot install an upgrade on top of a corrupted file. Your phone knows this. Your mind has not figured it out yet.

In this solo episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah makes the case for one of the most important — and most overlooked — principles of personal growth. Before you can learn anything new, you must first unlearn what is already there. The beliefs you are holding right now — about money, relationships, success, and what is possible for you — were mostly installed by other people before you...

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Everyone wants to overcome fear. But most people are trying to fix the wrong thing.

In this solo episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah breaks down what fear actually is, where it really comes from, and the practical framework for getting past it — for good. Fear is not the disease. It is only the symptom. And once you understand what is actually causing it, you will never look at fear the same way again. From walking at the bottom of the sea in Zanzibar to walk...

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He stood up in front of his class to say his name. Two minutes of silence. Then laughter. That one moment cost him nine years of his confidence — and eventually became the foundation of everything he built.

In this episode of the Masterminds Podcast, Richie Mensah sits down with Sam Koranteng — confidence coach, founder of Unmuted, and living proof that your greatest challenge can become your greatest calling. Sam spent years hiding behind his stutter, avoiding questions in class, shrinking in rooms, and letting one painful moment...