Segment: No One's Coming to Save Us - My Awakening at 12 That Made Me an Entrepreneur
About this episode
Derrick Abaitey shares his journey from a young age realizing the importance of self-reliance and entrepreneurship influenced by his family's work ethic.
From watching poor families struggle while having an awakening at 12 years old that no one is coming to save you to building six businesses before turning 30, and why the brutal truth about entrepreneurship is that if a thought makes you nervous it's worth pursuing because people who fear money don't get it and the things that scare you the most are exactly where your success is hiding waiting for you to be brave enough to reach for it, the young man who spent time with his grandmother selling beads in Fishy past learning that her generation would work regardless of conditions for five cedis a day to provide for their families while his father's generation would work but could switch jobs and his generation resigns when things get uncomfortable and Gen Z doesn't want to work at all, the first among six siblings who got an awakening around 12 or 13 years old realizing that no one was coming to save his family so while his siblings stayed home to play he would go with his grandmother to sell beads the waist beads and king beads that she made into chains and wrist beads, the grandson whose grandma was the one with the money in the family making beads but also having farms and…
People in this episode
Host: Derrick Abaitey
Topics covered
- entrepreneurship
- personal awakening
- family influence
- business foundations
- generational work ethics
- overcoming fear
Keywords
- entrepreneurship
- awakening
- business
- family
- work ethic
- Gen Z
- success
- fear
- self-reliance
Mentioned in this episode
Places: Fishy
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