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The King Dems Podcast - Ep. 1 with Mr. Fixer · King Dems Podcast | Growth Mindset, Leadership, AI and Business Insights

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Welcome to the Kingdom's Podcast, sharing the stories of
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ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
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Ladies and gentlemen, you're welcome to the King Dave's
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Podcast. And today on the port we have
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with us the man, the myth and the legend of Mara loves to call
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Taiwan James, but he's known popularly known on social media
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as Mr Fixer. He's a man with, you know, a
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million, a million names and a million portfolios.
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So kindly introduce yourself to us, Derwin James, Who is Derwin
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James, who are you and who do you think you are as a person?
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Alright, thank you very much, Ademola.
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It's nice to be here with you. So.
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My real name is Ayodeji. Between I was born into a family
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of five. I was born in Austria state,
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Nigeria and so far so good. I currently live in the United
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Kingdom with my family. Impressed, to be precise.
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So I am a digital marketer, a CEO and a businessman.
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And I also do coaching and mentorship for people.
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And my major is actually business and marketing.
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I have MSC in Digital Marketing from the University of the West
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of England in Bristol also. And so far, so good.
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We establish our new agency. Yeah, Bristol also looking to
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expand out very soon. Well, interesting.
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Thank you very much for coming on.
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But you know, I know you have so many things, but anytime I want
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to make a summary of you, what I just refer to you is a great man
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and interesting greatness comes with like a lot of challenges,
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right. So I know for me my last memory
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of you was, you know, meeting you back in my university days.
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But before we circle back to the university days, right, I would
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like for you to tell us about how great up was for you.
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You know, from your earliest memory of yourself, you know up
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till where you got into your OU. So what do you say about that?
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Ohh. I grew up in a very.
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Humble environment. Growing up was really
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challenging. But I bless God, God.
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God has been faithful. You know, I I came from a
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household where. Eating rice happens only on on
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Christmas Day. Came from, from the from from
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your household. I've probably tasted chicken
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four times before the age of 12. It's starts or it was starts.
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Terrible. Or should I say amazing, Humble.
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Beginnings. Yeah.
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So it's growing up was quite challenging.
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My parents, they try so much to give me that proper education.
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The couldn't even afford it. At some point they have to
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withdraw me from a private school and I went to I was taken
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to a public school. Where I was tested and I was
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told that I shouldn't be in primary three and I was.
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Just dropped in primary 4, like automatic promotion with the
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hope that's OK. I should be able to do well in
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primary four at the end of the term, I I came first in class.
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It wasn't as if I was not intelligence.
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It was because of the environment I found myself
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among. Children.
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Who doesn't see education as something that's serious?
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It was a public school for criminal law, you know.
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And after a year, I returned back to private school.
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Where? I had to return back to my
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normal class and. You know, after my primary
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school, I've continued to Federal Government College,
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Ichiro Industrial State. I went to boarding school and I
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did that for about 3 years. Before, my parent could no
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longer finance my education and I had to return back to another
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public school to finish my senior secondary school.
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Ohh. That has always been.
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It has been a mixed feeling, you know, It's like this moment
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you're thriving. The next one.
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There's no money to even survive.
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I I learned how to also. At a very young age, at the age
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of 12, I started selling what we call Cooley, Cooley.
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Then I I sell. Oak Creek cashews.
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I I, I, I thought I saw so many things then that that was the
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time I started selling Christian stickers.
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You know, I sell stickers to people.
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I go door to door after school to safety cars.
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So the probabilities to put out their door, you know.
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For example, I self stickers, popular stickers that say that
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this house belongs to Jesus. You know, people like to buy
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things like that. So it's a very young age.
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I understood what marketing is because, you know, when I
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started it was a friend of mine that actually loaned me the
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money to start the stick up business.
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And I got the stickers. But it wasn't moving.
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So I figured out that, OK, which of these stickers sold?
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Well then I I realised that people love something that's
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prophecy, financial breakthrough.
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People love something that's justified or that makes them
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feel safe, Like, oh this, this house is covered by the blood of
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Jesus, Satan. So no, no entry for you.
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So sorry to interrupt you. Sorry to interrupt you.
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I think these one of my major philosophies and I I love to
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tell my you know, fellow finance people, right?
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You do not sell what you want to sell, you sell what the market
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wants to buy and that exactly speak truth to that philosophy.
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Well that that that was it though, that that's just the
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summary of how I grew up. So a lot of people now, they
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just see the success, they look at me and they say, oh, I want
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to be like Mr Fixer or don't come out and do this for us, but
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they don't actually know that they all.
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Mr Fixer. Started at a very young age,
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even though I, I, I, I, I I didn't know or I never realised
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that what I was doing then was marketing was sales.
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I just thought I was just being. Or trying to survive.
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I remember back in my boarding school days.
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I was just trying like one of the few students that attended a
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boarding house and I don't get pocket money.
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My parents tells me or they told me then they are going to
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school. You are going to produce
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boarding house where you will be fed.
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Three times in a day. So what do you need pocket money
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for? So anytime I'm hungry.
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I remember one very day, it was quite it was an emotional day
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for me. I was so hungry, nothing to eat.
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I don't have any provision. And I went inside the Bush.
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I saw a palm canal tree or a palm tree.
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I saw Pam Canal. I parked so many of of of it and
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I I looked for a big stone and a smaller stone and I started
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breaking them open. I heard some until I was full.
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Inside the Bush alone. And you know so.
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We're blessed, God. It's been, it's been a long
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time, but that, you know, diamonds are actually made out
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of pressure, right? Would you say that the hardships
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that you faced while you were younger have had a very big
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impact in shaping who you have become today?
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Would you? Would you see it?
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Of course, you know, I I usually say this.
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If you're not chasing something, something must be chasing you.
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Definitely a lot of people in our society now.
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They are a reflection of their past experience.
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If you've suffered. I am talking about real suffer
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and I happens to be someone that loved the good things of life at
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a very young age. I can't just explain where they
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all. Need for luxury came from I've
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never experienced luxury before. I've never enjoyed luxury
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before, but I am the type of person that I love my.
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Anything I have, I love it to be different.
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I love it to be unique. Even though I could not afford
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it. So that forced my brain into
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thinking about different ways I could have gained access to this
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lifestyle. And that's in itself.
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Was really helpful when I was in my boarding school.
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Before going to boarding house, I my mum, you know, she handed
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me over to a cobbler, A Shoemaker who taught me how to
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make shoes and how to repair them.
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And in my boarding house, my boarding, boarding day, school
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era. I was actually doing that for
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people and I was making good money.
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She also taught me how to make hair, women's hair.
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And on Friday when we are, we have our social night, our
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senior, our seniors, XS2S3 seniors.
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Some of them want to have Bob Marley for, you know, social
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nights. Some of them want to have little
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braid and all. And I do that for them.
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I plated their hair, I did Bob Marley, I did different
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hairstyle for them and they pay me very well.
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I mean, very, very well. I was talking about, you seem to
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know how to do a lot of things right.
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That makes me think, is that the reason why you got the name Mr
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Fixer? Like, how did that name come
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about? Actually, the name the Mr Fixer
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or the fixer, the way it came was quite.
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Strange. It was given to me by two
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different people at two different times.
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Within a space of one week, I was doing my.
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IT that time industrial training OU and my boss.
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Who usually travelled away from the battle to see me in?
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On site where I was working actually gave me a task to to to
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to to to complete and having completed the task he asked
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about a particular thing and. He hacks that how are we going
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to do it? And I told him don't worry about
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that, I will find a way to solve it.
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And he said I really like you. I've never heard you say no to
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anything, that no, this thing cannot work.
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You are always finding a way to fix things.
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You should be called Mr Head Fixer.
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That was the first time. That same week I travelled back
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home to Shobo. I went to my sister's salon.
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And I saw up packing different things from a store and she was
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like, then she saw this CD and she was, Oh my God, this was the
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CD, the my first training ever. She recorded it on CD.
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So the thing was now really rough.
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And she was like, Oh my God, I wish I can preserve the memory
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of this. I asked her to give me the CD.
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She gave me the CD and I was like, you know what?
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I found a way to make this work. She was like he.
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Why? Why?
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I just like you. You just have a way of just
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making everything work. Ah, you are the confirmed fixer,
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you know? And I was like my boss mentioned
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this thing. A few days ago, my sister is
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also mentioning it today. No words if I ever want to have
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a brand. That's, you know, that's and
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that should be like 24/7 that takes care of things like this.
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I'm going to go with the name. The fixer.
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And the name Godstock and a lot of doors has opened for me
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because of that. If some people, they will just
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hear my name for the first time and they, they will be kind of
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curious that what do you fix. That's the question many people
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ask me like what do you fix? And I'll be like anything you
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want to fix. You know, of course I majored in
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marketing, but I've actually done a lot of things.
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I've made a lot of money from things that I I did not even
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figure out that I could have made money from.
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Take for example. I remember the first property is
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sold. In Nigeria.
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I didn't even tell the person I mean to real estate.
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The person just said, ohh, you're a marketer, blah, blah
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blah, blah, blah. I want to give you this
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property, sell it for me. I'll be like OK then I sold it
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within four days be surface and that's that's that's what the
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interest it is I really know you by but there Speaking of fixing
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things right I'm going to circle back to to to the world of
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business right. How did you fix yourself into OU
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and how did you fix it? Life for yourself in OU because
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I I remember that's basically my eldest member review.
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And then I remember you used to see like a lot of things that,
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you know, I just speak sleepers like this.
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This guy's quite inspiring, you know, Like, you gave me the idea
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that, oh, I'm somebody from a humble background and I'm very
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sure of the kind of bright future that I have ahead of me.
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Like that was the idea always had a fear.
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And in my head, I was like, this guy would go places.
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Thank you. Well, I I said.
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My. I completed my.
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OMD. In 2020 or 7.
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And I was supposed to. I wanted to go to OU, so I did
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direct entry to OU. When when I got to OU, I had two
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challenges #1 University life was completely or is completely
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different from what we had in Polytechnic.
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So what exactly did you study You like I've never asked you.
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I went with you, but I did not even know what.
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Yeah. Alright, I I actually, I I I
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read quantity something Wow. That's what I yeah, I was in ATM
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environmental department, so the T Square and a boat, right?
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Yeah, yeah. So when I when I was in OU, life
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was quite challenging because just like I said during my ND
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days after that will technically I did business.
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I sold fish. People called me.
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People know me as a villager in Federal Polytechnic, especially
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the lecturers and non teaching staff.
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The comment by Village issued. Dry fish or through, That's what
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I used to train myself then. And also I am extremely
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brilliant. I actually finished I I I I
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schooled completely on scholarship while in Ohio.
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I was on yes, I was on scholarship.
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So I realised one more this way you like is different to I need
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to be serious if I want to make it out of this place because my
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first semester result was really poor and I I don't want to lose
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my scholarship. One.
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Number two, I need to know what I am doing if I want to, you
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know, have a good life because my parent has always made me,
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you know, understood that in order for you to succeed in
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life. Education is important even
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though I have a different mindset now.
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Education is not important for you to succeed in life.
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You just need sense and needs to have a plan for your life as a
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consequence, with very good education says the market is
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highly educated with the masters so.
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No, I'll tell you somebody you know was it yesterday was like,
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ohh, you can save. Money's not everything in life,
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but you need to make money first before you earn the right to say
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it. So I think you have earned the
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right to say education is also important because you know well.
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Yes, I can say, well, you can say that so.
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Few things, actually. I I didn't do any business in
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OU, but I I did more services. I I used to skate a lot and I
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dance, so people pay me, you know, we go for dance shows, we
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get money from there. And I also I used to skate
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inline skating. I don't know if you've ever seen
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me skating backing OU. I skated the whole lot saying,
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you know, I I remember because like with this guy, he these
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guys are dancers like interesting, interesting.
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We actually were in oil at the same time with a lot of, you
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know, entertainers that are like making waves right now.
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Yeah, types of black bones, the likes of Chinco Echo.
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Did you? I know it was a dancer in OU.
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Did you ever have any kid with him?
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No, no, no, no. Actually, the crew that I
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belong. But then I used to dance with
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Chopsy. I used to dance with this guy.
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He's he's he's late now. I used to I we had a very strong
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crew. We even went for Malta Guinness
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Dance and Family Dance. Sorry, Malta Guinness
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competition. Twice.
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The first one we went we were disqualified at the normal
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ground, while the 2nd 1:00 we we we were disqualified at the
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semifinal stage, so. So.
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Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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And I also did this Malta Guinness campus toting Martina
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Campus 13. I want it.
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I want that once. During that Nescafe show idea, I
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remember that thing. I I I I I I I got the skating
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gig. I was the one that got the
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skating gig, but God was really good to me at OU because during
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my CS/IT I was able to, you know secure lots of connection.
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I have mothers connection at OU till date mothers connection
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with even up to BC level. We we ran parallel together.
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I don't want to talk about that. Mothers Connection So when?
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When, when, when? When?
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When Nuga game came, I got a contract with Access Bank.
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I was the one that got the whole of Lugar contract at OU.
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So I did the whole banner, the whole billboards, the whole
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flyer, the whose, everything. So I made mothers money for the
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first time in my life. I saw millions.
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My life. Yeah, so that's and also when we
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did the swimming pool construction, you know, I, I, I,
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I, I made a lot of money from that too.
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So I think I've just been the this kind of guy because I'm
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hard working, because I'm always that go get that guy kind of
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person. Life has a way of working for
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me. So you know, I can't say I'm
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lucky. I'm not lucky.
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I I I blessed really hard for everything I've gotten in my
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life for it. Take for example the the man
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that connected me to the Access Bank gig.
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He saw me working on site one day.
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He saw my glasses and he was like, oh I love the glasses blah
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blah blah blah blah blah blah. I was like, ohh yeah, I got here
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on campus really. So it asked me to take him
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there. I took him there.
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And he was able to get his own glasses.
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Why bring him back on site? It was like, man, I really like
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your pushover about this one that you speak so well.
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What? What do you do after?
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I mean students now? Well, I really am.
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I thought you had Labour on that side.
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Imagine how I looked or someone to think.
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I I was a labourer not people with student even though I was a
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student back then. But what I'm just trying to say
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is. So at one point it might just
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came it was like ohh, there's this thing, I don't know if it's
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something you can and do, you know Access Bank is going to be
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the one to host local games and I feel like this is something
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you can do. And, you know, he gave me that
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opportunity, and I took it well. And I did not misbehave.
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I I I consulted the right people.
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I did what I was supposed to do. I submitted the right quotation.
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Got the gig. From there to I was able to get
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all that gigs. I got the gig for Super Sport
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too. I was the one that.
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Erected all these stand, all those structural stand that
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super sports use for their shooting, their coverage.
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I did everything, them thinking about the whole thing and at
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that, at that point in your life, it was a really big deal.
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Yeah, it was a big deal. I remember then this.
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BlackBerry Z or Q5 came out Q5 or Q10.
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I can't remember the name. I got a phone today.
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I travelled over today. My mom said she liked the phone.
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I gave her the phone today. I got back to the next day.
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I got another phone the next day.
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I climbed this bad meeting court at OU.
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Badminton courts to erect the. The Billboard at on top of that
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huge cuts the pavilion and I forgot the phone there.
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Wow. No way.
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No. Way back, just like yesterday,
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they removed the whole scaffold. The scaffold was driving off the
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campus and I remembered my phone was someone was calling the
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phone. I was hearing the phone ring up
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there there. There was no way for me to get
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back up unless I rent another scaffold.
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I was just too busy. My boss was calling me.
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I was trying to do the company job.
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I was trying to do my own job. I had to get another phone.
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That same day. So I had so much money that I
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did not even know what to use the money for.
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I could not tell anybody how much I was what.
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But I had millions. But I could not see them anyway
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because this is this was me. I, as at that time, I've never
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had my own 50,000 naira. And all of a sudden I became a
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millionaire overnight. So would you say that was your
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first major breakthrough? Because yes, for everybody,
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there's that one contract, one job, you know, 1 gig that just
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gives you a major breakthrough and makes you believe in
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yourself. Would you say that that also,
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you know, made you take yourself more seriously?
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I'm actually no and yes, and I'm going to simplify it.
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When I. All the money I made from Nuga
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Super Sports, Yes, and they. Did they wanted to give me the
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same contract? But someone, an elderly person,
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advised me not to do that because it would be a kind of
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bridge. I was already working with
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Access banks. And GT wanted to hijack me to
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get the show, you know, So someone advised me that no, no,
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don't do that. They are competitors.
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They don't want to work with this and work with that.
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It's going to ruin your reputation.
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And I was glad I didn't do that because at the end of the whole
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competition. Says Bank.
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There was this independent job Access Bank just required me to
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execute. It wasn't my access.
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Bank funded it. They just hired me as.
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The muzzle to do the job and at the end of the job Access Bank
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told me to take every material you get.
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So they know they they know part of the answer.
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Is because I didn't learn how to use my money wisely.
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I squandered everything I got. Exactly.
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Exactly. That's the next, you know, whole
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situation. Yeah, there's there's this
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Yoruba adage that says. Caralluma Finger, in the English
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interpretation is whatever money a young man gets first, he's
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he's just going to use it to satisfy himself.
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He's not going to spend it wisely.
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So I I I squandered the money just anyhow.
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But where I got clarity? Was still during that period.
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What happened was my boss got a contract to fix the sport
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complex. The whole floor of that sport
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complex. If you remember that indulging
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my boss. My boss told me to do the
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quotation. I did the quotation and the job
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was around 3 million and my boss said and I quote this job is
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beneath me. You have learned enough on the
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job how your digi I give you this job.
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Go and do everything. So he gave me that job, and that
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was the first time in my life I. Stop.
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I see myself differently. I started perceiving myself like
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you're a personal value. Yeah, there's someone just your
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boss. Seriously.
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Yeah, you know, I see. I see my boss like gold.
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When will I ever get to this stage?
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My boss loves luxury vehicles. Vehicles. 14 luxury vehicles.
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I'm not talking about vehicles of 34 million as at that time he
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owns 14 of them. Is leased vehicle happens to be
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Lexus RX330, as are then. Yeah.
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So I was like, for this man to trust you.
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To do this job. You know what?
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You need to start taking yourself more seriously.
28:46
So I did that job. You know, the way federal
28:48
government job apples. Now you use your money to do it
28:51
and they'll pay you after like 30 to 6 months You as a matter
28:54
of fact you'll be chasing them to collect their money.
28:57
So when the money for that job came.
29:01
It was really important to me, even though I've seen more.
29:05
With assets bank and super sport job.
29:10
I've squandered those ones, right.
29:11
Alright, thank you. This probably 20,000 feels like
29:16
20 million to you. Yes, you get it.
29:19
So now I I I was able to appreciate the the, the money,
29:23
The profit from that job was less than two millionaire, to be
29:27
honest with you. And the reason why I was even
29:30
able to get that much profit happened because my boss told
29:33
me. Whatever thing you need for this
29:36
job. Called the office at the bottom.
29:39
They will bring any equipment or any staff for you but I won't I
29:43
I dash you. So I fixed the doors to this bad
29:47
meeting called the Lawn Tennis court.
29:50
Sorry I didn't door Lawn Tennis court and the indoor gym.
29:54
I fixed the door. I fixed the floor.
29:56
I did the old maintenance repainted change from windows
30:01
channel Every time I think look look back.
30:05
And I remember that building. Excuse me this.
30:09
This Bible game. You hold this project.
30:13
You did this project hard work this.
30:16
Is my It's not as if they put me there and say, you know I was an
30:20
IT student that time, not not go, go look after this.
30:25
It is it is your job. Anything you do, you do.
30:28
If you spoil it. If you do it well, I was able to
30:31
do it well. I got the money and I treated
30:34
that money very well. That was when I had my first
30:37
fixed deposit in my life. I I fixed my 100,000 out of that
30:42
money because I was like. I sat down and I asked my I
30:45
said, what did you use almost 6 million to do?
30:48
I can't say. This is done.
30:51
OK? I got a car.
30:52
That was the only sensible thing.
30:55
You got a car? But the rest?
30:58
So I was going to Old Market. I wasn't aware of that place on
31:02
campus. You book a new book.
31:06
It's a joy myself. Carry girls, enjoy myself.
31:12
I could I I wasn't drinking. I don't smoke.
31:16
It's just food, food, food, food, food, drink, drink, drink,
31:19
nice drink. And also, well, bless God.
31:22
So that was that. That.
31:23
That's it. Nice, nice, nice.
31:27
It's really fantastic for you, you know, And then you know,
31:30
heading into business that is, you know, apparently in OU
31:35
you're established that platform for yourself to be known as the
31:38
fixer, to be known as a business person.
31:41
You already knew what you wanted to do in life.
31:43
You know a lot of people who went to uni with us, right?
31:47
I think probably it was in their final year they started thinking
31:52
about, OK, what do I want to do with?
31:54
My what do I want to do? Yeah, that unfortunately
31:58
sometimes like for for me for example I think it was in the
32:02
third year I knew that OK I want to I want to practise as a
32:05
chartered accountant because I had there was a time we had was
32:10
a called a long strike right. And then as the firm of
32:14
Chartered Accountants I knew that OK, I would like to do
32:16
this. I'd like to explore these.
32:18
It gets you respect in life and you know and you some money as
32:21
well. Right.
32:22
But you're established that platform for yourself.
32:26
And I remember we had, I don't know if you were my before you
32:30
were in a set above mine. You finished 2015 or 20/20/15
32:35
every time I've been in myself. So we even had to like, wait
32:39
quite a while for NYC. Yeah.
32:42
So porn, Yes, it happened at all.
32:44
Right. So things from there from, you
32:48
know, leaving OU like what kind of business?
32:51
How did you not establish yourself in business?
32:53
Because I remember meeting your game in Abuja, because it seems
32:57
like your life and my life I've kind of been intertwined.
33:01
So I saw, you know, you, I said in the United Kingdom, I still
33:06
saw you again. I was like, what?
33:08
That's something. OK, OK with this guy,
33:15
understand. Yeah, God works in in, you know,
33:20
mysterious way. I have always believed that.
33:26
There's a reason behind. Our path always crossing
33:32
interesting. And I I even know for sure that.
33:38
That purpose is not yet established.
33:42
Finally, because you know sometimes.
33:46
God can send you guardian angels in form of a man.
33:52
And. Just one word.
33:55
Just one word is all you need to hold on to.
34:00
A friend of mine I met here in England.
34:04
A few weeks ago. Called me.
34:08
At night. And it told me something, he
34:12
said. You changed my life completely
34:16
now. Like, how did I change your
34:17
life? The first time I met him.
34:23
The first day we we got to see face to face.
34:27
He he he just got a car. We've been talking.
34:31
He said he needed the car, you know, and it was like he
34:34
borrowed the entire money, borrowed more money from his
34:37
wife, borrowed more money from his friend and he was able to
34:40
get the car. I got a car for 1200 lbs, you
34:44
know, of course, you know, cars are quite affordable here.
34:47
Got a used car, 1200. And we met and I asked him a
34:52
question that day. I said you've been in England
34:55
for two years. And you could not.
35:01
Raise 1000 to from your own pockets.
35:04
You have to borrow from ABC. I said.
35:10
Five years from now. What do you want to see you you
35:15
have achieved living in England? And he could not answer me.
35:21
He said he left me that night. That's that question seems like.
35:29
I carried a huge rock and I landed it on your head.
35:34
Started thinking about his life. That Who is this guy?
35:39
Do you get what I'm trying to say?
35:40
Yeah, I get you. That's what you're about.
35:42
People call he he give me words out like a rock and you know.
35:49
Like. Yeah, I've seen your guy.
35:53
I'm just seeing this guy face to face today.
35:56
To did to D and this guy has has already push some words into my
36:01
life and you know he said he wasn't comfortable with his life
36:06
anymore was like if I am, if I am not careful.
36:10
This is how my life will continue to be for the next five
36:13
years, as this guy has asked me, and that one day I will wake up,
36:17
ask myself the same question he has challenged me with, and I
36:21
won't be able to see any major things.
36:23
So you see, Yeah, listen, to give us that reality check, but
36:28
for you, you Where was that reality check for you?
36:32
Well, there, there, there. The reality check has always
36:35
been. My bad grant.
36:40
I. There, there, there, there.
36:43
There is this phrase I usually say that I've stopped saying.
36:46
I used to say one thing that I don't ever want to turn out like
36:50
my father. Well, yeah, exactly.
36:53
I was on my notes. I was actually good going
36:57
towards that. Right.
36:58
Because I I remember from some conversations with you, you, you
37:02
tell me about your parental influences, right.
37:04
And then I was like, OK, this, this man, you know, must have
37:08
gone through certain things that actually are motivating him as
37:14
well as telling a friend recently you had this friend is
37:18
Nigerian and I think they're from South Africa.
37:21
And they were asking me about hard life growing up in Nigeria
37:25
is right. And you know how like the elders
37:30
influence us in our ways. And then I told, I told this
37:34
person this right, that in Nigeria we tend to have parents
37:41
that will tell you these are the good elders, these are the bad
37:44
others, right? They tell you these ones, you
37:47
know, try to act like. They try to, you know, be like
37:51
them this once. They're highly educated, right?
37:53
Try to be educated so that it can be like Mr. A, Mr B, right.
37:57
And they tell you take your education very seriously, right.
38:00
So that you don't end up like Mr XYZ.
38:05
YZ then. That's actually gives you the
38:10
mentality shift. It does something to your
38:13
psychic as a person, to your mindset, right?
38:16
That is, you see certain examples right?
38:19
And you see, I don't want to end up like this because children
38:25
observe. She didn't learn a lot about 07.
38:30
And when you look at certain examples, they see character
38:33
flaws, right? Not like, oh, this person is
38:35
probably entirely a bad person, right?
38:37
But then you learn from the failures of certain people who
38:41
have been ahead of you and say, I do not want to end up like
38:44
this. And then you also observe some
38:46
people that, you know, achieve certain things that you want to
38:49
achieve, right? And then say, OK, I want to
38:53
trade this particular footsteps, right?
38:56
And it says as a motivation to you.
38:59
So for for me personally, right, I saw certain bad examples
39:03
growing up and it was more like a childhood trauma for me as a
39:08
person that is. So see, I don't know what I want
39:12
to end up like this kind of people and it keeps me pushing
39:17
harder than I should regularly push as a person just because I
39:22
didn't want to end up like that. So I don't know you.
39:25
You can't, you can't shed more light on that.
39:29
So. So so.
39:33
You know, I've heard a lot of stories about my dad and my mom,
39:37
and like I told you at a very young age, I've always loved the
39:41
good things of life. So I started asking myself some
39:44
questions. Why are we like this?
39:47
Why are are we living like this? My parents are both educated.
39:52
My mom went to OU. No.
39:56
My dad happens to be the first a Kiwi in the whole of on those
40:00
states. My dad happens to be the first
40:04
councillor in my local government.
40:08
The hold or your state now or should state.
40:12
No, they've always they might. That especially Paul neared a
40:18
lot of good stuff. So I'm like, how did it turn out
40:22
to be the way he is? Why is he not successful
40:26
financially? Then I started.
40:30
You know, I'm a thinker. I don't read amid Pinka.
40:36
I can't think anything, and I can even think my way to
40:39
prosperity. I know how to think a lot.
40:43
I started thinking about. My Napoleon Hill think I'm very
40:46
rich. Yeah.
40:47
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I read that book 11 times. 11
40:52
Strong That book was one of my very early, you know, challenge,
40:56
influences. My father gave me that book to
40:58
read. So so so I I realised that there
41:04
are some mistakes my dad made right?
41:08
Also think and grow rich also give me some clarity to
41:12
understand my father. More.
41:14
Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, robot. I realised that.
41:17
OK, there's that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
41:22
There, there, there, there. There were some mistakes my dad
41:25
made. Also is a single loner.
41:29
It doesn't have friends. So I I was able to realise that
41:33
OK, if you don't have friends, if you are rich and you 4 which
41:38
means you don't have impact in anybody's life, how can you get
41:42
back up? No way.
41:46
Even if you are not rich but you bring something to the table
41:51
like support you know being there for your friends when they
41:56
need you. Say for example let's say you
41:58
are rich. I am not rich you you you have
42:00
an event I'm there to support who appear iron have quickly
42:06
gone to the right places Oh these are the prices businesses
42:11
you transfer money to me or you've given me cash Bam I don't
42:16
ship the meat entire compound tyre and for one corner you know
42:20
you like ohh when next you are having a get together you know
42:24
that I can rely on a Y because he knows all these Let's go and
42:29
get me. Let's go and shop for Ram.
42:32
Let's go and shop for goat thing.
42:33
You get my fantasy. So if I ever have needs, you
42:37
won't just push me away because you know that this guy is useful
42:40
in a way. Ohh God.
42:43
When my grandma died, when we were doing my grandma's period
42:47
towards it, Why That took care of all of the preparation.
42:52
Do you get what I'm? Trying to say is essential to be
42:54
a resourceful person. Yeah, they're resourceful.
42:57
Don't just be like because me, I don't have money, My friend has
43:02
money. I should not be envious or I
43:04
should not be looking for how to hurt you.
43:06
No, rather I should be closer to you.
43:09
Try to learn from you. And apart from learning from
43:12
you, even though I don't have money to give you, we don't have
43:15
any business transaction to run. But I should be able to put
43:20
myself in a strategic position in your life that whenever you
43:23
see my call, you won't be like I beg, I will call him later.
43:29
You know that, OK, this guy has his own impact.
43:33
And if you've noticed me carefully, if you've if you've
43:36
paid attention to me, you realise that I'm the kind of
43:38
person that you cannot look at me anyhow because #1 the value I
43:46
bring to the table from day one. Even if I will not end up being
43:49
your friend getting to meet you for the first time, you will
43:52
know for sure that this guy is sensible.
43:56
Even though I may not be your friend, because I've met a lot
43:58
of people that I learned this from the little banking you
44:01
happen to be one of my mentors before COVID-19 took him away.
44:05
You know it. It taught us something, he said.
44:08
You should, you should not be eager to bring people closer.
44:13
When you meet people, you have 4 places to put them.
44:17
It draw it. It drew something like a plus
44:19
sign, plus, minus, multiplication and addition, he
44:24
said. If someone comes into your life
44:27
for the first time and you like how they're standing, take them
44:30
to the plus part. If you if you're meeting someone
44:34
for the first time and the person sounds so annoyed that
44:37
just talking about bum bum about sex, about chau about last
44:41
night, I am indeed subtraction immediately.
44:45
If that person should ever ask for a number, don't give it to
44:48
them. Find a way to quickly change its
44:51
subject now that person you've added to addition.
44:55
Then as time goes on you realise that OK, this person is someone
44:59
you can actually engage with. Maybe business wise, spiritually
45:03
or career wise. You put them in multiplication,
45:07
that is, they are adding to your life.
45:09
You multiply them, but now. If that person that you feel
45:15
like, oh, this person is someone that sensible turn out to be
45:17
speak casual friend, that's OK. There's nothing of value that
45:22
this person can do for you. Of course they are sensible,
45:25
they are good, so they will be like you're putting them in a
45:28
bank. So you subtract you, you divide
45:31
them, right and say, you know what, I will have this person's
45:34
contact once in a while. When I see this person status, I
45:38
will just to be on the top of the mind.
45:41
Now we have the hard acquaintance.
45:43
Yeah, like hair. Like an acquittance.
45:47
But not a friend, friend, friend.
45:49
So let's say something comes like I say I remember tha
45:55
together very, very good. And you see the quality of this
45:59
guy. Talk to him so that that will
46:01
not get someone to say hello. Are you Mr Dedham they fix up
46:05
told me to call you that you are good at this this is that your
46:08
price is around 7:50 to 1,000,000 for for video shoot or
46:12
we we need a videographer in Manchester.
46:15
Can you do it for us that that will see me as someone that is
46:19
good that wow wow. So Mr Pixar gave me a client.
46:24
What has happened that that now? Emotional bank accounts.
46:31
Yeah, you get now. Dadas is now holding me one for
46:35
the future, so there are a lot of things that.
46:40
The life we don't think about and we just do our thing.
46:44
So for me, I was able to quickly decipher all of these things.
46:49
I I knew what I wanted for my life.
46:51
I usually say this to my wife, that I've always known that I'll
46:55
be very successful. I just didn't know when that it
46:58
would be this early to be very honest with you.
47:02
And I also discovered one thing, one good thing.
47:06
It is easier for an intelligent extra fat to make it in life
47:12
than an intelligent intro fat. Few people I have coached, The
47:20
few people I have coached that are extra fat like myself, they
47:25
make it faster than the people I have coached that are
47:29
introverts. Because as an extra fat yes, a
47:34
lot of people are not going to like you, especially if you
47:36
choose to be very vocal. Especially you take advantage of
47:39
places like social media Every day.
47:41
I block people. I don't care, yes.
47:45
Almost everyday block people and one thing about me is I've been
47:49
able to understand the way social media works.
47:51
So you have to don't be on the side of the the the crowd.
47:57
You want to be a little crazy with a touch of corporate Ness
48:04
on social. So when I bring a viral topic
48:06
and people are like, I don't like this.
48:08
Mr Fixer, why do you always this?
48:10
Why do you always that? Guess what?
48:12
As the heat is going on. Some people are already talking
48:15
to me in the DM. Some people are.
48:18
Yes, yeah, Some people are already asking for my number.
48:21
Some people are already coming to say ohh Mr Fix.
48:23
I swear to God, it's like you know me.
48:26
You are. I'm the one you're talking to.
48:28
Why did you not just people mention my name?
48:30
I need your help in my life. Give me your account number.
48:33
Let's talk. Let's do this.
48:35
Check out what I'm trying to say.
48:36
So, so after my NYC, I I knew for sure that you know what?
48:42
Number one, I I wanted to go to the big city.
48:45
I knew Lagos was not an option because during my project in OU
48:49
I was told to go to Lagos, Lagos State Secretariat for my
48:54
research and all. And I hated Lagos.
48:57
That time. Every day I was having serious
49:00
headache at night I said no, no, no, Lagos is not for me.
49:04
That was the day. Oh, it was your brother.
49:07
That was the day I came to Lagos and I came for an interview at
49:12
the On the Island and there you and I left your place for a head
49:21
and we got there and we've got to the venue 830.
49:27
Wow. And I was like, no, no, no, I
49:31
don't want no. Both these kind of exactly,
49:37
exactly right. I remember I told you I had an
49:39
internship while we're in our third year in in Oahu and then I
49:44
had to wake up 4:00 AM all the time, you know go to the island
49:47
right from the mainland just to to get that work experience.
49:53
I think from then I told myself no way this is stuff would be
49:57
and that was why I said to the Abuja, so I can understand your
50:00
pains, I feel your frustration. And then I chose Abuja rather
50:05
than legal. I saw, You know, we just like.
50:07
Well, what? What's up with this guy?
50:08
What's up? So I should Abuja.
50:14
Why? Why not?
50:15
Why? While I was on the job I was
50:16
doing in Abuja, You know, Of course I know that.
50:19
Another thing a lot of dudes lack, They don't understand that
50:25
even though you have a good dream, even though your dreams
50:28
are valid, you need to serve someone first, not necessarily
50:35
someone in mind. Yeah, not not necessarily
50:38
someone in line of your dream, but sometimes you need that
50:44
experience. You need that life, work
50:46
experience. Say for example you you
50:49
graduated and from there you want to.
50:54
Bute something you don't have. The discipline.
50:58
You've never woken up. Dress up for work You've never
51:03
been shouted at for not meeting a deadline.
51:07
You've never had a sleepless night to submit a deadline that
51:10
is not an homework or assignment.
51:14
The only dead nights you sorry. The only late night you've done
51:18
happens to be for your examination.
51:22
So. Getting the ability to serve
51:26
under someone. Give me that hedge.
51:32
I've worked in an establishment that a lot of people don't just
51:36
like me for no reason, just because they see you happens to
51:40
just like me also for no reason. And they're like, what's up with
51:45
this guy? Why is it different?
51:47
Why is it that See you let let let me share a beautiful story
51:51
with you before we end this Our CEO, the CEO of the company I
51:58
work. Has been in Nigeria for over 10
52:04
years and he has never tasted normal water except from Nestle
52:09
Lester. He came from America and he said
52:13
the only reason why he drinks. In fact they used less to to
52:16
cook for him. Said.
52:18
The only reason why I stick to that is if he should ever have
52:22
an issue health problem that is waterborne is going to sue them
52:28
knowing fully well that it was nice to He has been drinking all
52:32
his life. Hmm.
52:36
You get now that was the day he sent me to the bank.
52:41
Told told the driver to take me to the bank to go get some money
52:45
and on my way back to the office I bought oranges and I was
52:53
drinking and I got to the office and I was like ah it what we're
52:57
also is it is this is this sweet I said that also was like Mr Mr
53:04
Jimmy. He collected.
53:07
It from me put it in his mouth and everybody at the office look
53:12
at themselves like you know why? Because it's going to never eat
53:19
outside you if you give or God gifts that is edible.
53:24
He will tell you in this, in your presence, that he he does
53:28
not take anything edible from people, and I was.
53:33
Like, ah, so you do little. He asked the driver to take me
53:37
back to the place and buy more for him.
53:39
He only said one thing. Jimo, make sure where you work
53:43
for. I look forward there like that
53:45
is the 9th used to cut the orange.
53:48
Make sure you wash it yourself. Our boss is that I don't.
53:53
I don't know how to explain you, all these health conscious
53:56
people, but the one you took from me, did I instruct the
54:00
orange high level OCD? You know that he really likes
54:06
me. You know when he's having
54:07
meetings with. I met the former Jaguar, the
54:10
former UFC, this guy, I met him in his office.
54:13
I met a lot of politicians with it and you know, I was a staff.
54:17
But this guy, this guy, this man would be having meeting in his
54:20
office and he send for me tell me to sit down but that's not
54:25
the reason that. Love Jealousy for you?
54:28
Yeah. So a lot of people, they tell me
54:30
for no reason and through my ways and after after closing
54:34
5:00, I'm going to stay back at work just to use the office
54:38
computer, Internet and electricity to, you know, to
54:41
quickly share more my small marketing.
54:45
That was in Abuja, right? Yeah.
54:47
And transition into business in. Abuja, because I remember you,
54:52
you were into selling. Jeans at some point.
54:55
And you started the digital marketing thing, right?
54:59
You know I I marketing has been there for the gene business.
55:04
So what's the? You said how how did you
55:09
transition from, from working, you know, for a?
55:11
Company into now working for yourself, OK?
55:14
For myself, yeah. Do you want number of?
55:17
Companies, yeah. That is the part I'm getting to
55:21
now. So he challenged me one night.
55:23
He said, what you always do back at the office after, everybody's
55:28
always rushing to leave. But you you will sit down and
55:32
you are always the one locking the office.
55:34
What do you stay back for? And I told him, OK, I know I
55:37
know how to do this. I can do this.
55:39
And I just try to use the office resources because I know the
55:43
office hole we staff to that we office.
55:46
I I've, I've, I, I, I, I I know that a lot of scenes that your
55:51
work should be responsible to adding value to your life.
55:55
If you want to build something you want to better yourself.
55:58
Of course your office should be able to help assist with that.
56:00
So I use the resources at the office just to be able to work a
56:03
little before going to my village because I was saying I'm
56:05
happy you know now. So I think that.
56:12
The UK just just so that the ends bro bro.
56:16
So, so it was like, wow, really, you know how to do all of these
56:20
things. Then he adds.
56:21
This Lebanon Lebanese friend who wanted to design A website back
56:26
then. And it was like, I have a staff
56:28
that said he can do this, let him do it for you.
56:32
Invited me into his office, The man spoke with me.
56:34
I asked him what do you want? I got I I was able to get his
56:38
brief. Then I designed the website for
56:40
free. I did everything for free.
56:42
I submitted it. Then after like 2 weeks my boss
56:46
just called me to the office and he handed me money you need in
56:50
an envelope. I was like, what's this money
56:52
for? Say remember that Lebanese guy
56:54
you build a website for said I should give you this?
56:57
I can't take that money. It was 350 thousand.
56:59
If that man has asked me that, how much are you going to build
57:04
that website? My money then was 100K wrong.
57:09
Excuse me, 300 1001 I. Asked for, Yeah, So after a few
57:15
days, after a few days, I was in my boss's office, you know, as
57:20
usual. Then after the visitor left, he
57:22
told me to wait back in the office and he, you know, he
57:25
started asking me. He said, do you know that before
57:29
you will succeed at it as a as a quantity surveyor, you will have
57:33
to practise for at least 10 years.
57:34
I said yes, said that. But this thing you already know
57:37
how to do, why don't you build on it?
57:40
I said. Ah.
57:41
I I am building on it, but I need to work, you know it was it
57:45
mentality, no doubts. Slave mentality of education.
57:51
That's a school puts in your head.
57:55
Huge part for other people, yes, he he gave me a huge benefit, he
58:02
said. You know what?
58:05
I want you to go start something for yourself.
58:08
After three months, if you're not happy with what you're
58:13
doing, come back and resume your work.
58:19
Do you get and? That was a shift.
58:22
And that was a shift you're calling now.
58:25
Do you know the crazy part? Do you know the crazy part?
58:26
I was making average of 300 K every month from my business,
58:32
whereas I was being paid 60,000 for the job I was doing justice.
58:40
We'll work on $60,000 buy. Or what could you buy at that
58:45
time? Of course I was able to pay my
58:48
rent. My rate was 120 K per year, and
58:52
every month I spent about 35,000 around feeding and everything.
58:56
You know, bachelor's life now. The only food I love to eat
58:59
there was beans and into me. Beans into me, based into me,
59:02
based into me. I made it with Gary sometimes,
59:05
Yeah. So into me.
59:06
An egg, beans and garri beans and no Gary.
59:10
I love beans. I love, you know, so and from
59:14
there you know that time within a year I saved 8 Millionaire
59:20
that year. That year I stopped working 8
59:25
million naira. I had 8 million.
59:27
I I don't even know what to use the money for because I'm still
59:31
living at PAPI, still paying 120 Keeper backing up your cash.
59:36
Yes, cash was just piling up. Once a week, I go to Jabi Lake
59:40
Mall to heat. Nothing more.
59:43
I kept walking. You know, you know where you are
59:46
now. You're not going to work.
59:47
I think that's what this that is still the same habit that is
59:51
still in me till today. I wake up like this big.
59:54
I don't brush my teeth. The first thing I start this
59:56
work, I just pick up my phone, pick my laptop, and I start
1:00:00
making money as early as 6:00 AM in the morning.
1:00:03
Work, work. Work.
1:00:04
Work. Work, work, work, work, work.
1:00:06
Now you know my wife, you say. Oh, we should travel.
1:00:08
We should go on vacation, though.
1:00:10
Yeah, let's go here. Let's go.
1:00:11
It's not that I'm. You need to spend money on Ohh
1:00:14
no. I also have a baby.
1:00:15
I spend quality time with my baby and all, but that was how I
1:00:20
started my business. Would be the digital marketing.
1:00:27
Team right there, Yeah. How did you know Then I wanted.
1:00:31
Then I wanted. I wanted something.
1:00:34
I wanted to sell a product. I wanted to have a product.
1:00:38
That was why I chose Gene. Business I I did my research.
1:00:43
I said, OK, I want to do fashion, but I don't want to do
1:00:46
everyday fashion. What is that part of dressing
1:00:50
that people cannot get enough of?
1:00:53
Everybody wears jeans. And that's all I was able to I
1:00:58
chose, I chose gym business and I that was it.
1:01:05
A debut and. I think at some point you you
1:01:08
had to sell the business, right? Yeah, I saw the business before
1:01:12
relocating out of Nigeria. Even though I'm planning to
1:01:14
start the business again, but I want to, I want to have my own
1:01:17
brand now. Like I want to have my own gym
1:01:19
brand, OK? Interesting.
1:01:22
So. So quickly, I'm going to ask you
1:01:25
two prompt question, right. I see something on your social
1:01:30
media, right. It's called the billionaire
1:01:32
mindset. And you know, sometimes when I'm
1:01:34
talking about you with my brother and there's like, ohh,
1:01:37
how's that with James? I'm like the man with the
1:01:39
billionaire mindset. And then you know.
1:01:44
Doesn't give you leave your context.
1:01:46
You know myself I do believe it a lot in you and my brother also
1:01:51
appreciates you as well. So he says some places people
1:01:55
might be laughing at that guy. Right.
1:01:56
But then he's received this is he's this and he's going to be a
1:02:00
billionaire in writing your faces.
1:02:03
But you know you need to conceive it.
1:02:06
I I have what I like to say a lot conceive, believe, achieve.
1:02:10
Right. So you've conceived it that you
1:02:12
believe it's a lot and you know? Achieving it as well and I don't
1:02:16
know I don't want to put it in house we but I think you're
1:02:19
probably feeling there naira already because actually that.
1:02:27
That that was it. Time in.
1:02:33
In in pounds, right. So yeah, you know, you know
1:02:38
their mindset. I.
1:02:39
I like to think that is you know one of your philosophies right
1:02:42
of life and you know how did you come about billionaire mindset
1:02:47
and what are your key philosophies you know that drive
1:02:52
you in life and in peace Ness. OK.
1:02:55
Well, billionaire mindset came from my earning power.
1:03:01
I discovered two things about money.
1:03:05
The people that chose to did well.
1:03:12
Do you think that that was what their destiny is?
1:03:19
You know, we we all are architects of our destinies to a
1:03:23
very large extent. I I discovered that.
1:03:28
My my father actually taught me this.
1:03:30
My father is actually my mentor now.
1:03:34
The higher you go, the cooler. So if you if you want to become
1:03:40
a billionaire, why do you want to sell a product that you're
1:03:45
going to see just £2 from? Do you know how many 2 LB
1:03:49
Profits you have to make? Pay your tax, Feed your family?
1:03:53
Take care of yourself. Build the business before you
1:03:56
can become a billionaire. A lot.
1:03:58
So I I I I discovered two things, #1 Whatever thing I want
1:04:02
to do, I should do it like a very rich person.
1:04:06
And #2 whatever thing I want to do, it must be something that
1:04:10
serves the people that are hungry for success, hungry for
1:04:18
success. So my healing power gave me that
1:04:22
my say. That was the time.
1:04:25
Yeah, we we, we got to time that in a day.
1:04:31
We make like a million plus every day, every day, every day,
1:04:35
every day. And I told myself, I said this
1:04:39
week I've made like 9 million, last week, a midlife 7 million.
1:04:44
The Coming. Week I I was able to project
1:04:47
what I was making every week. Now I was like if I continue
1:04:52
like this if. I continue like this.
1:04:56
I I know for sure what I I would watch.
1:04:59
Right. Of course.
1:05:01
Right. Right.
1:05:02
And you can protect stickam project and be like OK if if if
1:05:09
I did not fall below 6,000,000 every week.
1:05:13
In the months I've risked over 20 million.
1:05:19
So I. Stuttered.
1:05:24
Seeing myself as what I am not yet, so the places I go to
1:05:31
achieve. You need to, you need to put it
1:05:35
on your social media, right? And tell them it's for me.
1:05:38
Tell them it's fucking games. I, I, I, you know I I go to
1:05:43
places that are designed for the rich for the exclusive.
1:05:49
I joined groups that that well, the groups I started hanging out
1:05:55
with welder people. I dress extremely well.
1:06:00
My suit that all you know bespoke.
1:06:03
I don't buy ready made suit bespoke suits.
1:06:06
They fly them in from Lagos, not through God is good or one boss.
1:06:11
My suit is ready, they send it via flight and I pay 90 key for
1:06:16
the logistic bringing it into Abuja.
1:06:20
So you know just that our lifestyle here close.
1:06:25
My education does not allow this thing, but I am going to resume
1:06:30
that very soon even though none of my suit fits me anymore
1:06:33
because I've had it weight of course so.
1:06:36
But I I intend resuming our lifestyle again.
1:06:40
I started this thing that yeah, what's his name does Gary Vee.
1:06:47
I go out, they they make my videos.
1:06:50
Everywhere I go to, they recorded.
1:06:53
I talk to people. I visit some of my high paying
1:06:56
clients. I talked to them on cameras, you
1:06:59
know and all. So all of these things helped me
1:07:04
a whole lot because you know, when people see me with some
1:07:06
calibres of people, they're like, whoa, I know this woman.
1:07:10
So this guy is doing something for this woman.
1:07:14
Ah, I must do something with this guy too.
1:07:18
Interested in your? Association gets it wrong for
1:07:23
clients that I don't post on social media because the other
1:07:28
day or Big Cubana. One of his closest part is my
1:07:33
client. We thought if I post something
1:07:36
we comment on it on status. You know, I, I, I have this kind
1:07:40
of people and I'll be like that was the time I posted my on my
1:07:43
birthday picture and someone was like, do you know this person?
1:07:48
I said, oh he's my client. He said they lie asking and that
1:07:54
same day he came back he said whoa, now we need to work.
1:08:00
So you you are using it to play Before when you came to make
1:08:03
enquiry I saved my number, so why is it that people tend to?
1:08:06
Doubt people especially. People who come from, no, it's
1:08:12
not doubt that is why the power of networking is important.
1:08:16
There's some people that has gotten customers because they
1:08:19
are associated with me. That's that's social networking.
1:08:23
When you be like, OK, this person's value is rubbing off on
1:08:26
this person. There are some.
1:08:29
People that has held you in high esteem.
1:08:31
Now if someone is talking and the person mentions your name,
1:08:36
they may not even let the person know that they know you.
1:08:38
They were like news release paper knows Mr Dimola.
1:08:44
Really. Are they really?
1:08:45
She's talking. Since they are kind of close,
1:08:47
they'll bring her closer just because they're like we have mad
1:08:51
respect for Mr Ademola. Before that, one more question
1:08:56
left for you, right? So we've spoken about
1:08:58
billionaire mindset, right? That is, your philosophy is the
1:09:04
just the key ones that you think have actually, like, helped you
1:09:06
in life. And business what, what, what
1:09:10
key philosophy would you say has actually like been a backbone
1:09:14
for your success? Number one, integrity and #2
1:09:18
don't be normal. Normal is boring.
1:09:22
Norma is boring. I used to tell people something.
1:09:26
It's not that I'm just learning how to speak English, much more
1:09:29
I've I've not even perfected my English and.
1:09:34
What I control? The person that speaks the best
1:09:39
English in Nigeria cannot dream of getting it.
1:09:44
Yeah, yeah. It's not about your spoken
1:09:49
English or how your your the school you've attended or no,
1:09:55
don't be normal. You want something.
1:09:58
Be like a beast. Be like the matador.
1:10:01
You should be unstoppable. Be mad for that thing.
1:10:05
Be extremely obsessed with what you're trying to achieve, he
1:10:10
said. This podcast thing you're doing
1:10:12
right now, if you are extremely obsessed with it and you are
1:10:18
gunning for knowledge everyday as you're pushing, in two years
1:10:24
time, in four years time people will be talking about you and
1:10:30
me, Mr Fix. I'll be listening and be like I
1:10:32
know we didn't really talk again.
1:10:33
Mark the words of Mr. Fixer on The Verge news podcast.
1:10:39
Lack the words of Mr Fixer, Mr said.
1:10:43
He here So so it's it's about, you know integrity #1 that's
1:10:49
really helped me. It's been how many years?
1:10:51
28910 Eleven 1213141516 Sorry 2017 18/19/2020 2:23 six years?
1:11:00
In my 6 years of of running my business, I've not had a single
1:11:05
case of and he's come to me. He ducked me.
1:11:10
He dissed me this that. Integrity.
1:11:14
My yes is my yes, my no is my no.
1:11:17
If I flopped I'll apologise. If I delay our apologise I under
1:11:21
promise I over deliver and that kind of person.
1:11:24
I don't over promise people. And that in itself is is not
1:11:29
really good because some people want you to say everything else
1:11:34
sweet talk then convince them so that they will pay you.
1:11:37
But I'm not that kind of person. I'll tell you this.
1:11:39
How is this how it is? Let's do it this way.
1:11:42
That way, and if you choose to work with at the end of the day
1:11:45
you will be less mesmerised. Thank you for helping me so and
1:11:52
also another thing that I have that I've always been following
1:11:57
is if you provide something people need, if you are able to
1:12:03
get or bring to the table what people need, people would get it
1:12:08
from you. Hmm.
1:12:10
Do you get what I'm trying to see?
1:12:12
If you're able to provide Speaks to what?
1:12:15
What? What I I said earlier when we're
1:12:17
speaking like you don't sell what you want to sell, you sell
1:12:21
what? What?
1:12:22
What the market wants you to, you know, So if you're able to
1:12:26
bring to the table what people want from you, you will
1:12:30
definitely sell. So that's it.
1:12:33
Interesting. So our last.
1:12:35
Question to you is what this is. This is not really a question,
1:12:39
but let let's just put it right. It's on the script.
1:12:42
So what's your advice to the younger generation?
1:12:46
The problem coming, You know people who are.
1:12:50
Looking up to you. And when I say looking.
1:12:54
Out to myself as well, like looking up to us, right?
1:12:57
You know, to very large extent they want to be successful.
1:13:02
They they want to become something in life, but then they
1:13:06
need that, you know that ginger. They need that inspiration, they
1:13:09
need hope, right? So what would be your advice to
1:13:12
people who are up and coming? Well.
1:13:18
People need to understand that there is no overnight success
1:13:24
and also people need. To learn proper patience.
1:13:29
A lot of people are not patient. The social media has given the
1:13:37
wrong perception of what success truly means.
1:13:40
And then you see the good, they see all the good stuff out there
1:13:46
and they assume, OK, once you do this, money will come.
1:13:52
You know, some say drop shipping, I'll make millions.
1:13:56
It's a lie. Anything that?
1:13:59
Will give you success, will take time and I'm talking about two
1:14:05
3-4 years, you know, time frame. So my advice is people should
1:14:11
learn how to be more patient. People should also learn how to
1:14:15
serve. If you cannot serve on that
1:14:19
someone without expecting anything, don't expect that you
1:14:24
will grow and someone will also serve you.
1:14:27
If you don't serve someone, nobody will serve you leaders.
1:14:32
Are actually good servants, right?
1:14:36
So that is my advice for say, and so just to round it up,
1:14:42
people should also learn how to plan long term.
1:14:49
Study Research has even shown that when you plan long term,
1:14:53
you tend to achieve your goal earlier or sooner compared to
1:14:58
when you're just planning for the next day.
1:15:01
I should succeed. One to two years is short term,
1:15:06
mid term is five years, long term is starting from 10 years.
1:15:12
So if we plan something that will this company in 10 years,
1:15:17
we should be able to get to XYZ. You can achieve that thing in
1:15:22
four years. Should be cold, so people should
1:15:26
learn how to plant long term. Thank you very much.
1:15:29
Interesting. Thank you very much for your
1:15:31
time. And we have a tradition on the
1:15:34
port right where whereby the guests, the current guest leaves
1:15:40
a question for the next guest, right.
1:15:43
So what would your question be to the next person who is going
1:15:48
to come on board? So I'm going to take that down.
1:15:50
So we'll ask that our next person.
1:15:53
So what question? Any question on your mind?
1:15:56
To just give the person to answer.
1:16:01
They're given the power to lead. How will you change the world
1:16:05
around you if? You are given the power to lead.
1:16:11
How do you change how we change the world around you?
1:16:16
Well said by Mr Fixer. Thank you very much for your
1:16:19
time. We appreciate you and of course
1:16:22
I am very sure that our audience appreciates you.
1:16:27
We out bless up everyone cheers.