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Masterminds Podcast

Richie Mensah

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Frequency: 1 episode/4d. Total Eps: 91

What if one idea could completely change your life?

Hosted by Richie Mensah, Masterminds Podcast dives deep into the conversations, lessons, and mindset shifts that turn ordinary people into extraordinary leaders. Every Wednesday, Richie sits with brilliant thinkers, creators, and innovators to explore the habits, stories, and strategies behind their success. And every Sunday, he shares solo insights from his own journey, raw, direct, and practical steps to help you sharpen your mind and elevate your life.

Whether you’re chasing personal growth, building a business, or simply looking for inspiration to level up, Masterminds Podcast is your weekly dose of clarity, motivation, and transformation.

New Episodes Weekly: Wednesdays & Sundays

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Everything You Know About Africa Is Upside Down: Nana Kyidomhene Pt 1 || Masterminds EP92

Episode 92

Wednesday, August 26, 2026 • Duration 01:13:38

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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 history, spirituality, and the origins of the systems we live under today. Together they walk through the pre-colonial world: the planned cities, the libraries, the universities that predate Oxford, the Ashanti architecture and sanitation that stunned British visitors, and the argument, sourced to Greek writers themselves, that much of what we call classical civilization traces back to Africa. The conversation then opens into African spirituality, the meaning of God as energy and oneness, and the deeper histories of how the Bible, Christianity, and Islam entered the continent. This is a long, dense, source-driven conversation. Come ready to research alongside us and reach your own conclusions.

A note in the spirit of the show: this episode presents a point of view and the sources behind it. We share it so you can examine the evidence and decide for yourself, not so you take any claim at face value.

In this episode, you'll learn:

- Why the story that Africa had no civilization before Europe arrived does not survive contact with the historical record
- The case, drawn from Greek writers themselves, that Greek civilization owed a deep debt to Africa
- How Imhotep is described as a father of medicine thousands of years before the Greeks
- What early European visitors actually wrote about Ashanti cities, architecture, and sanitation
- Why Timbuktu had a great university before Oxford existed, and the role of the Moors in Europe
- How Nana Kyidomhene understands African spirituality: God as energy, and oneness with creation
- The argument that the Bible's creation story shares roots with far older civilizations
- How Christianity and Islam each entered Africa, and why the guest reads that history the way he does

Chapters

00:00 – Intro
01:23 – Welcome: Why We Avoid This Conversation
03:33 – Before Colonization: Cities, Libraries and Kings
05:26 – The Case That the Greeks Learned From Africa
10:29 – Imhotep and the Origins of Medicine
21:39 – What Europeans Wrote About Ashanti Civilization
25:57 – Timbuktu, the Moors and the First Universities
32:00 – African Spirituality: God as Energy and Oneness
46:49 – The Bible and Its Older Sources
59:35 – How Christianity and Islam Entered Africa
01:09:08 – Underdevelopment, Debt and the Systems We Inherited

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Yes, I Am Lucky. Here Is What That Really Means || Masterminds Podcast EP91

Sunday, August 23, 2026 • Duration 10:47

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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 long time until you are perfectly positioned to seize the opportunities that come your way. Richie breaks down his own definition of luck through the LUCKY acronym and shows you exactly how to become the kind of person that good things keep happening to. Say it with him: yes, I am lucky.

In this episode, you'll learn:

Why being called lucky is often a way for others to dismiss the work you put in
Why luck is an investment built over time, not a random stroke of fortune
L: why learning consistently is what lets you even recognise an opportunity
U: why understanding the game of your industry keeps you out of bad situations
C: why consistency beats intensity every single time
K: why the person who keeps showing up through rejection is the one who wins
Y: why saying yes to the right opportunities, and no to distractions, changes everything
Why decisiveness earns respect and indecision quietly costs you opportunities

Chapters

00:00 – When Someone Calls You Lucky
01:21 – Luck Is Not What You Think It Is
01:50 – L: Learn Consistently
02:36 – U: Understand the Game
03:26 – C: Consistency Over Intensity
04:22 – K: Keep Showing Up
05:45 – Y: Say Yes to the Right Opportunities
07:31 – The Catch: Knowing When to Say No
08:43 – Why Decisiveness Earns Respect
10:23 – Learn to Be Lucky

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Africa Is Not the Future. Africa Is Now | Masterminds Open Floor | Masterminds Podcast EP90

Wednesday, August 19, 2026 • Duration 01:08:05

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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 been fed stories only from their moments of weakness while their true history of greatness has been hidden in plain sight. From Osei Tutu and the hundred-year Anglo-Ashanti resistance, to Mansa Musa, the Moors, and the ancient University of Timbuktu, to the call for local solutions to local problems, this is a rallying cry to remember who we are and to build from that knowledge. The episode closes with a rich open floor exchange with the room.

In this episode, you'll learn:

Why the erasure of African history was intentional, and how breaking a mind breaks a people
The story of Osei Tutu and why we remember the leader who lost but not the ones who won for a hundred years
Why children of greatness succeed, and how belief in your lineage shapes your future
The real history of Mansa Musa, the Moors, and the University of Timbuktu before Oxford existed
Why African societies have always honoured women, and what that means for the feminism conversation
Where the term third world actually comes from, and why it never originally meant poverty
Why the answer is local solutions to local problems, and how global brands all started local
Why you should never wait to be supported, and how to build yourself from where you are

Chapters

00:00 – Intro
00:34 – The Biggest Lie: That Africa Is Not Great
01:46 – To Break a Man, You Break His Mind First
03:07 – Osei Tutu and the Hundred Year Resistance
07:01 – Fed Stories Only From When We Were Weak 08:11 – Mansa Musa, the Moors and Timbuktu 13:24 – Why Children of Greatness Succeed 15:23 – Africa Has Always Honoured Its Women 16:05 – Reclaiming Greatness From a Westernized Mind 18:21 – Local Solutions to Local Problems 25:04 – Third World: What the Term Really Means 27:18 – The Slave Bible and the Taming of a People 32:00 – Africa Is Now, Not the Future 35:00 – Open Floor: Homegrown Solutions and Global Reach 44:24 – A Message to the Youth: Mindset, Finance, Roots 48:13 – Obra and Building Tools for the Community 01:01:02 – What If the Platforms Cancel Us Tomorrow 01:04:06 – Stop Waiting to Be Supported. Build Yourself.

The Person Who Can Suffer the Longest Wins | Masterminds Open Floor | Masterminds Podcast EP89

Sunday, August 16, 2026 • Duration 01:15:00

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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 habits you repeat every day decide who you become. He then opens the floor for a raw and wide-ranging conversation where the audience asks about his retirement from music, how to read for real understanding, moving from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset, discipline over motivation, and how to weaponize your unique strengths to succeed from exactly where you are.

In this episode, you'll learn:

Why you become the exact story you tell yourself about who you are
How Richie scripted his life at 17 and lived it out almost word for word
Why excellence is a daily habit and not a destination you eventually arrive at
Why the person who can endure pain the longest is the one who wins
How to choose your suffering instead of letting life choose it for you
Why motivation is useless and discipline is the only thing worth building
How to move from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset using the 10,000 hour principle
Why small daily habits, not big goals, determine who you become
How to weaponize your unique strengths and combine them with your interests to succeed

Chapters

00:00 – Intro
01:26 – Welcome to the Masterminds Open Floor
02:26 – Mindset Is Everything: You Are the Author of Your Story
04:43 – How Richie Scripted His Life at 17
07:09 – Excellence Is a Daily Habit, Not a Destination
10:26 – The Person Who Can Suffer the Longest Wins 13:21 – Choose What You Are Willing to Suffer For 20:12 – Small Daily Habits Over Big Goals 26:17 – Open Floor: Why Richie Transitioned Out of Music 28:05 – How to Read a Book Excellently 30:09 – Moving From a Fixed Mindset to a Growth Mindset 44:45 – Is the Education System Really Built to Help Us? 50:30 – Discipline Over Motivation 53:12 – Obsession: The Trait Behind Every Success 54:32 – Morality Is Subjective: Find Your People 01:03:49 – When Your Community Is Your Family 01:09:19 – How to Weaponize Your Unique Strengths 01:13:01 – Why He Walked Away at the Peak

The Only Way to Become Wealthy Is Ownership | Masterminds Open Floor | Masterminds Podcast EP88

Episode 88

Wednesday, August 12, 2026 • Duration 01:38:05

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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 five levels of investing from knowledge all the way to speculative bets, explains what financial freedom actually means, and then takes the room through a live breakdown of why buying a house to live in could be one of the worst financial decisions you make. The episode closes with an open floor where the audience asks their real questions on stocks, index funds, cars, business partnerships, and structuring your talent. Come with a pen.

In this episode, you'll learn:

Why ownership, not entrepreneurship, is the true path to wealth
The real definition of an asset and a liability, and why purpose matters more than the item
The five levels of investing: knowledge, a peace of mind fund, safe investments, business, and speculative bets
Why your financial standing is a direct reflection of your financial knowledge
What financial freedom actually means and how to calculate your own number
The live maths on why buying a house to live in can cost you millions in lost growth
The difference between index funds and individual stocks, explained simply
Why you should never take a loan to buy a liability
How to structure your talent across a whole industry instead of chasing one lane

Chapters

00:00 – Intro
01:23 – The Only Way to Become Wealthy Is Ownership
03:11 – Assets vs Liabilities: It's About Purpose 05:43 – The Two Workers: A Story of Ownership Over Time 11:37 – Investing Is Simply the Pursuit of Assets 12:25 – Level 1: Invest in Knowledge First 14:32 – Level 2: Build a Peace of Mind Fund 18:21 – Level 3: Safe Investments 20:12 – Level 4: Business, Risk and Reward 28:05 – Level 5: Speculative Investments 30:28 – What Financial Freedom Actually Means 35:09 – Open Floor: Index Funds vs Stocks 40:14 – The Land That Became a Liability 43:16 – Breaking Down the House Myth With Live Maths 51:17 – Who Should Actually Own Houses 01:00:28 – One Money Principle for a 20 Year Old 01:12:11 – Never Take a Loan to Buy a Liability 01:22:11 – Contracts, Partnerships and Backing the Person 01:27:43 – Scaling Up: Systems and the Right People 01:33:39 – Structure Your Talent Across the Whole Industry

They Colonized the Land. Then They Colonized the Mind || Masterminds Podcast EP87

Episode 87

Sunday, August 9, 2026 • Duration 17:23

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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 the Prussian origins of the modern school system, to Walter Rodney's landmark work on mental colonization, Richie builds a careful case that the school system was never designed to develop the African mind. It was designed to make it obey. This one comes from a place of love for Ghana, for Africa, and for the truth.

In this episode, you'll learn:

Why the 2026 Ghana and Cambridge MoU raised red flags for anyone who knows the history
The story of Thomas Thompson, who ran a church, a school, and the chaplaincy of a slave-trading castle at the same time
How the founders and funders of Cambridge were tied to the Royal African Company
Why the modern school system was originally built in Prussia to create obedient soldiers
How the Industrial Revolution turned that same system into a machine for producing compliant workers
What Walter Rodney meant by mental colonization, and why it outlived the chains
Why African history is so often taught as though it only began with colonization
The real question: why African leaders still hand educational direction back to former colonial powers, and what we must do about it

Chapters

00:00 – A Conversation That Might Get Me Canceled
00:50 – The 2026 Ghana and Cambridge MoU
02:23 – Thomas Thompson: Slavery, Church and School in One Hand
06:07 – Cambridge and the Royal African Company 08:05 – Where the Modern School System Really Came From 09:57 – The Industrial Revolution and the Making of Obedient Workers 11:29 – Colonial Education: Slavery and Prussia Combined 11:53 – Walter Rodney and Mental Colonization 13:52 – Why Our History Is Taught to Start at Colonization 14:23 – Why Do We Still Run Back to Our Colonial Masters? 15:35 – This Comes From Love, Not Hate 16:45 – When Does It End?

Walking Is the Cheapest Therapy There Is: Chichi Yakubu || Masterminds Podcast EP86

Episode 85

Wednesday, August 5, 2026 • Duration 01:11:17

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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 journey taught her that eighty percent of fitness happens in the kitchen. She breaks down how she launched her business live on a broadcast panel, the obsession that made her friends fear she was losing it, why nobody is self-made, and the simple truth that walking is the cheapest and most effective therapy there is. She also opens up about sharing the unfiltered side of life on social media and why showing up regardless is the real work.

In this episode, you'll learn:

Why eighty percent of your fitness results come from the kitchen and only twenty from the gym

Why you can never be fully ready, and why the person who shows up anyway wins

How Chichi launched her business live on a TV panel by seizing one opportunity

Why the obsession phase looks like madness from the outside and why you need it to succeed

Why nobody is truly self-made and why community is what keeps you going

Simple, sustainable health tips: portion control, meal timing, and eating the Ghanaian food you love

Why walking is the cheapest and most powerful therapy for both body and mind

Why sharing the unfiltered side of life makes us kinder and reminds us everyone is carrying something

How referrals and exceeding expectations built a client list including MTN, Cocobod and the NPA

Time Is the Only Currency That Matters || Masterminds Podcast EP85

Episode 85

Sunday, August 2, 2026 • Duration 14:01

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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 compound effect and how one hour a day can put you 360 books ahead of the next person in ten years, and gives you a practical six-step system to audit, protect, and take back control of your time starting today.

In this episode, you'll learn:

Why time is the only currency you can never earn back
The difference between time management and time allocation, and why allocation matters more
Why some people are simply wrong for you, and how they drain the time you can never recover
Why being reactive instead of intentional is the biggest mistake people make with their days
How the compound effect turns one hour a day into a life-changing gap over ten years
How to audit your hours and find the filler time bleeding out of your day
How to identify your highest value activities and design a template day around them
Why you should consume only what moves you toward your goals, even when you are relaxing
Why you must treat your calendar the same way you treat your wallet

Chapters

00:00 – Time Is the Only Thing You Cannot Recover
00:36 – Problem 1: Wasting Time on the Wrong Things
01:59 – Problem 2: Spending Time With the Wrong People
03:15 – Problem 3: Not Being Intentional About Your Time
05:22 – The Compound Effect of Time
06:20 – One Hour a Day: The 360 Book Difference
08:12 – Step 1: Audit Your Hours
09:33 – Step 2: Identify Your Highest Value Activities 10:22 – Step 3: Cut the Consumption 12:02 – Step 4: Design Your Template Day 12:26 – Step 5: Audit Your Relational Time 13:23 – Step 6: Treat Your Calendar Like Your Wallet

I Bought a Mine Without a Dollar in My Pocket: Angela Attieh || Masterminds Podcast EP84

Episode 84

Wednesday, July 29, 2026 • Duration 01:04:54

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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 courage. She left a finance career at KPMG to step into a struggling family mining services business for what was meant to be six months, and 25 years later she has taken that company across Uzbekistan, Mali, Guinea and Sierra Leone, survived the iron ore crash and the Ebola outbreak, and gone on to own mines across three countries. She breaks down how mining actually works, how deal-making and financing really happen, why credibility is the only currency that matters, and why she stays in the fight to keep the door open for every woman coming after her.

In this episode, you'll learn:

How Angela went from KPMG auditor to mining CEO almost entirely by accident
The catch 22 of financing: why you need a contract to get a bank and a bank to get a contract, and how to solve both at once
How she bought her first mine without a dollar of her own money
Why credibility is the only real currency in business
How to negotiate settlements and salvage a business from its lowest point
Why leadership by example beats leadership by authority
How she led her people through the iron ore price crash and the Ebola outbreak
Why you never kick a client or a partner when they are down
Why she keeps pushing through imposter syndrome to hold the door open for other women

Chapters

00:00 – Intro
02:42 – From KPMG to Mining: The Accidental Path
04:38 – Stepping Into a Family Business in Crisis 06:44 – Negotiating a Settlement and Salvaging the Company 09:08 – A Crash Course in Mining 14:13 – Principles, Discipline and Leading by Example 16:03 – Going International: The Uzbekistan Contract 19:46 – Are You Afraid of Anything? 21:44 – Understanding Financing: The Chicken and Egg Problem 23:53 – The Caterpillar Finance Relationship 29:38 – Buying the First Mine Without a Dollar 36:07 – When Things Go Wrong: The Iron Ore Crash 38:29 – Surviving Ebola and Standing By Her People 49:47 – The Cost of It All: No Real Break in 25 Years 51:25 – Why She Chooses to Show the Way 56:32 – Keeping the Door Wider Than She Found It 01:03:22 – Final Message: Don't Let Anyone Tell You It's Not Possible

How to Build a Global Brand From Zero: Quables || Masterminds Podcast EP83

Episode 83

Wednesday, July 22, 2026 • Duration 59:39

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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. That decision became a movement. In this conversation he breaks down the entire creator economy, how to build multiple income streams from a single talent, the platform-by-platform tactics that actually grow an account, the crucial difference between attention and influence, and why every creator has to build something that outlasts their prime. This is one of the most practical creator masterclasses this show has ever recorded.

In this episode, you'll learn:

Why Quables started building at 17 and how being remembered became his driving purpose
How he changed the perception of dancers from background extras to the main feature
The multiple income streams that keep a creator earning even when one channel goes quiet
Platform by platform tactics for YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook
Why consistency over years, not months, is what actually makes accounts blow up
The difference between attention and influence, and why brands keep confusing the two
Why it is the creator's job to shine a light and the product's job to close the sale
Why creativity that fails is gone for good, and why that makes it the hardest business
How to channel your audience into a real business before your prime runs out

Chapters

00:00 – Intro
03:34 – Who Is Quables? Finding Himself Before DWP
04:04 – Q17: Building His First Company at 17 04:52 – Why Serving People Became the Mission 07:15 – Learning Management on the Job 07:59 – The Real Challenges: Contracts and Raising Capital 09:14 – Changing the Perception of Dancers 13:04 – Handling the Mindset of Talent and Parents 14:31 – Building Multiple Income Streams 19:20 – What a Successful Creator Actually Earns 22:47 – Consistency: The Videos That Blew Up Years Later 29:34 – Platform Tactics: YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook 36:25 – The Challenges African Creators Face on These Platforms 38:34 – Attention vs Influence: The Distinction Brands Miss 45:33 – System Thinking vs Trying Your Luck 49:44 – Building Security for Life After Your Prime 54:25 – The Meaning Behind Dance With A Purpose 57:12 – Final Message: Don't Give Up

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