Konnected Minds Podcast

14/01/2026

If you ever plan on moving to Ghana, this is what nobody tells you.

13/01/2026

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12/01/2026

Poverty is the reason why African don’t like business partnerships

11/01/2026

You need different mechanisms to survive in Ghana

11/01/2026

Moving to Ghana is completely different from coming to Ghana for vacation. Make sure you test the waters before you burn your bridges in abroad. No be me ago talk you this oo

10/01/2026

Why the diaspora are going to back back…

10/01/2026

Chude Jideonwo almost didn't make it. 🥹

Award-winning TV host. Media entrepreneur. Co-founder of Red Africa and Joy, Inc.

From the outside, it looked like success but on the inside he was burning out so badly he had to leave everything and take a vacation just to survive.

In this conversation, Chude gets brutally honest about:
→ The cost of building when you don't protect yourself
→ Why he never wanted entrepreneurship (but loves what it does for him)
→ Why people are your most important asset (not your product, not your systems)

In this deeply raw episode of Konnected Minds, Derrick sits down with the "Golden Boy of African Media," Chude Jideonwo. This isn't your typical "how to get ...

10/01/2026

Nelson Mandela’s secret to success

09/01/2026

Chude Jideonwo speaks on what makes businesses successful in Nigeria 🇳🇬

09/01/2026

Comment ‘LINK’ below I’ll DM you the full episode

In this deeply raw episode of Konnected Minds, Derrick sits down with the “Golden Boy of African Media,” Chude Jideonwo. This isn’t your typical “how to get rich” interview.

Instead, Chude reveals why he worked 40% harder than he needed to, how poverty distorts our ability to trust, and why he believes his depression actually saved his life.

07/01/2026

Someone DM'd me yesterday:

"Derrick, I want to start a poultry farm with 10,000 birds."

I asked: "How many birds have you raised before?"

"None. But I've done some research."

This is why most businesses fail before they even start 👇

People want to launch million-cedi processing plants.

But they've never run a ₵10,000 pilot.

They want 40,000-bird poultry farms.

But they've never managed 100 birds to see how it actually works.

They want to open 5 locations.

But they haven't proven the model works with one.

And then they wonder why they lose everything.

You have to know that you can't skip the small phase.

You can't jump from zero to BILLIONS

Because you don't know what you don't know yet.

The lessons you learn with 100 birds:

→ How much they actually eat (not what Google says)
→ How fast disease spreads
→ Which vaccines work in YOUR environment
→ What your real profit margin is
→ How to handle dead stock
→ Which buyers are reliable
→ What can go wrong (and it will)

With 100 birds, these lessons cost you ₵5,000.

With 10,000 birds, these same lessons cost you ₵50,000.

See the difference?

Starting small isn't about lacking ambition.

It's about being smart enough to learn cheaply.

Test your assumptions.

Make your mistakes when they're affordable.

Prove the model before you scale it.

I see this everywhere:

People want to open restaurants without running a small catering test.
People want to launch fashion brands without selling 50 pieces first.
People want to import containers without testing with 10 units.

Then they lose everything and say "business is hard."

No. Business is hard when you skip the learning phase.

The entrepreneurs who win ASK "what's the smallest version I can test first?"

Then scale.

What's one business idea you're thinking of starting?

And what's the smallest test version of it?

— Derrick Abaitey

06/01/2026

I just drop mic after reading this….