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Your Kids Are Watching: How Your Business Habits Shape Their Future · Closing Sales in Nigeria - Sales For The Nigerian Business Person: The Sales and Marketing Blueprint

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  Hello everyone and welcome to the show.
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  Before we begin, two things. I'm not in the audio booth, so
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  expect to hear some interruptions in the background.
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  And then second thing is the cold is still there.
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  So this might be one of those sniffling episodes.
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  Well, the good thing is I'm not high on what's it called period
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  thing this morning just to glory to Dean instead.
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  So hopefully in a couple of hours I should be OK.
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  Then today I'm not going to be tackling any question per SE.
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  This one is more of a random thoughts episode.
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  But before I get into it, let me just share a couple of stuff
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  with you guys because my wife accuses me.
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  She says I'm a nerd and I vehemently disagree.
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  But still, let me just share with you guys what I have on the
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  playlist. And yes, I'll leave it up to you
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  guys to decide. So currently on Spotify, you
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  know, while I'm working, I like to have music in the background.
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  Yes, I know for those of you who have productivity geeks, you say
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  music in the background while working equals zero.
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  You're not getting work done. And to a certain extent, yes,
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  I'm going to agree because when music is on in the background, I
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  do notice that tasks take a whole lot longer.
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  But I've noticed that if I can have controlled distractions, at
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  least I'm able to maintain the the pace for a longer stretch.
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  So when I'll leave it up to, you know, you guys who are
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  productivity hacks or maybe management specialists and, you
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  know, stuff like that to carry on the debate.
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  But yeah, once in a while, I work with music in the
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  background. So currently I'm listening to
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  Serge Tankian. I'm not sure how to pronounce
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  the name. For those of you who listen to
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  that sort of music, hit me up. Let me know.
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  And if you are late 70s, early 80s kid like I am in Nigeria,
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  then you should be familiar with the group.
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  Their System of a Down. One of my sisters think they are
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  downright demonic, you know, because of the head thrashing,
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  the heavy metal guitar, what else, you know, makeup and all
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  that sort of stuff. So surge tank.
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  And that's what I'm listening to on Spotify.
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  His band is System of a Down, but I'm listening to his solo
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  stuff and some of his collaborations then on Netflix.
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  If you guys want to check out what I am watching, I'm
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  currently trying to finish Star Trek Star Trek Beyond.
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  It's a what it was 'cause this is old now, was a reboot of the
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  Star Trek series, although I prefer the second one, which was
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  Wrath of Khan, which was also based on the older television
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  episodes of Star Trek. So that's what's currently on my
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  playlist. So whether I'm in there or not,
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  I'll leave it to you guys to decide.
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  But then again, like I said, I vehemently object to that label
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  because I just think I have fine taste.
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  Let me just put it that way. Now straight to the episode for
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  today, random thoughts. I had two business meetings
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  today and coming back home just got me thinking OK, well one of
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  them was a business meeting. The other one was not really a
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  business meeting was more personal when they coming back
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  home and got me thinking about a bunch of stuff.
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  Now the first meeting was supposed to be for 9:00 AM, but
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  I was able to be there by 8:30 and so-called up the person like
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  you know what's up was supposed to be 9 but it's 8:30 I'm in the
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  neighbourhood so how far? And guys like yeah sure, let's
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  get started and we did. Now the second meeting I told
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  the person that I had some stuff to do in their neighbourhood for
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  9:00. So anyhow, sure when that 9:00
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  finishes I'll hit you up. So, you know, she said OK, no,
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  I'll like, I'll come through. But because I showed up at 8:30
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  and finished with the first guy at 9, I just drove to the second
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  place and I'm like, hey Madam, sorry, meeting finished early,
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  so I'm around. So what's up?
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  She was like, yeah, sure, come up.
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  So we came, had the meeting and summary by 10:00 AM.
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  At the time of his recording, I was back at my desk and ready to
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  get some work. So I figured, so in those
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  interactions, you know, a bunch of stuff got me thinking.
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  I figured, let me just make a podcast episode about that.
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  So one of them is this whole thing around the benefits of
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  coming early or starting early. And the reason why I want to
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  point this out is because, well, currently 56% of those of you
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  who listen to this show are Nigerian.
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  We still have 30 something percent of you who are
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  Americans, but I don't know enough about what's it called?
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  What's this thing called? We are trying to figure out
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  data. So I'm not I, I don't know if,
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  you know, you guys are like American American citizens or
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  you're just, you just happen to be Nigerians in diaspora.
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  But either way, since more than half of us are Nigerians on the
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  show, you know, we have this thing about African time,
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  Nigerian time, you know, blah, blah, blah.
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  And you know, I guess it's just one of those things, but still
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  on the podcast, I've always advocated that as a professional
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  salesperson and we should view ourselves as professional
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  salesperson people. We should not be late.
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  I think it's unforgivable for a salesperson to be late because
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  you're already beginning to set the impression that you're going
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  to be sloppy about a bunch of stuff.
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  And that is that is stuff that we we'll just make life
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  difficult. Let me just put it that way.
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  So let's go back to the wedding photography example, because
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  that's where I started off my business experience as a wedding
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  photographer. If the bride already thinks
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  you're sloppy, then well, a day because you know, you do
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  something she kind of expects you to be sloppy anyway.
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  And if there are legitimate concerns concerning delivery
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  like that time when customs went on strike and I I couldn't get
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  my albums through, you know, some of it will be like how much
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  of it was really customs problem or how much of it was really
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  down to the photographer. But because I always made it a
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  point of call to be early and things like that, there are
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  times when even when I've had legitimate business snafus like
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  that, like people are willing to be forgiving because like, oh,
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  it's you, you know, that kind of thing.
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  So there are benefits to coming early because it helps enhance
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  your credibility with other people.
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  They say that you're a correct guy or you're a correct girl and
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  quite frankly helps you save time because you now get more
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  done in a day. Because originally I was
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  thinking that by 12 one I'll be back in the house and then it
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  has I now have time to I get some stuff done before school
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  work, but sign on school work. I was called pick up and drop
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  off school runs and well, because I was early, the other
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  people were available or started early who are quite free to go
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  about our day. And instead of getting back to
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  my desk at 12 like I thought I was back at 10.
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  And so I hope you guys can see that even though we are in a
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  African time, Nigerian time culture, there are some benefits
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  to starting on time. And so, of course, yes, you
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  might catch the other people off guard, but sometimes the other
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  people might be just as happy to, you know, get on with the
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  agenda and get out of the way. Because for the second lady, by
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  the time I showed up, she was in the middle of some domestic
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  stuff. So it actually turned out to be
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  a good thing because like, OK, cool.
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  So now we can get rid of this business conversation, sharp,
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  sharp. And so I can spend the next, you
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  know, however hours or whatever dealing with these domestic
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  issues that I have to deal with. So it turned out to be a good
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  thing. And then even if you're on time,
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  the other people are not on time, they're running late,
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  things like that. For those of us who choose to do
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  content marketing to promote our businesses, this is a good way
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  to get content marketing done. And yes, this is the reason why
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  sometimes I'm making the podcast episode and you guys hear cows
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  in the backgrounds or chickens or whatever.
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  It's because we're supposed to have a meeting.
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  The person is not there yet. Rather than just sit down and do
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  nothing and maybe drink Fanta or whatever, just go back to the
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  car, make a podcast recording real quick, upload, and then go
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  for the meeting. And so you adopt this kind of
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  mindset. You're going to be able to get a
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  lot done. You don't have to be a
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  podcaster. If you're somebody who is
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  creating content like writing blog posts or stuff like that,
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  then just whip out your phone and start clocking away and get
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  things done. I strongly recommend everybody
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  should have a Bluetooth keyboard.
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  I know that. My advice is what's that word?
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  It sounds like tech for tech sake, you know, like people see
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  the keyboard are like, this is cool, but it's it's beyond cool.
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  Yeah. It makes you look cool.
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  It makes you look sexy. It makes you look like Tony
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  Stark. But really Bluetooth headphones
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  you can call whenever you want to Bluetooth keyboard, you can
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  type quickly. You don't have to do that thumb
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  thing on your phone. So you guys think about it,
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  Bluetooth headset, Bluetooth keyboard, basically you have a
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  mobile office, you can work whenever or wherever.
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  Just make sure you don't park next to a kitchen.
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  Sorry, I say kitchen to a chicken.
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  So that the thing doesn't, you know, what do you think?
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  What sounds do? They do chickens, they crow.
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  So the thing doesn't crow in your ear.
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  But As for cows, you, you can't avoid it.
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  Abuja is all around by cows now. I mean, it doesn't matter where
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  you go. Central area, there are cows,
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  outskirts, there are cows, there are cows everywhere.
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  So you can't avoid that one. You might be in the car trying
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  to have a business conversation and then next thing cows like so
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  you, you can't avoid that. Hopefully you won't be on a Zoom
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  call with someone in the international market because I
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  can't imagine Americans, you know, listening and thinking
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  like, what the hell is going on in that country?
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  Like you're in Central District and you have cows just walking
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  around. Yeah.
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  So that's the first random thought.
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  Their benefits are coming early, even though we are in an African
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  time culture and in a Nigerian time culture.
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  Now, the for the second meeting, the lady that I had the meeting
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  with, she's been in business much longer than I am.
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  And of course, she's much older than I am because she has a
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  bunch of kids. And our oldest has currently
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  relocated and he's almost 30 years old.
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  So there's quite a significant gap between us.
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  So apart from business collaborations, you know, once
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  in a while it's nice to talk family stuff and business stuff
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  as well. Because most of my, most of my
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  friends have kids around my age. OK, well, apart from my brother
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  who started when I was 25. So he's, his kids are teenagers
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  right now, not big, big teenagers, you know, like small
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  teenagers, you know, like 14/14/13, that kind of thing.
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  Where was I? So in my conversation with her,
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  I just remembered a bunch of things that I spoke about in an
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  older episode, the podcast episode that I made about social
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  capital. Now, social capital, hard to
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  define, but in my own opinion, do I like to define in social
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  capital just the experiences, the sum total of experiences
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  that people are exposed to in a domestic environment.
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  And then that informs children's worldview and things like that.
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  It's something I can relate to because, well, we should all be
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  able to relate to because sometimes the difference
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  between, OK, let me keep it in my family, the difference
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  between me and some of my cousins, because there are some
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  of my cousins who are a lot smarter, a lot ambitious, you
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  know, stuff like that. But due to circumstances of our
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  birth, you know, we just had different social capital growing
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  up. You know, I was raised by my
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  parents in different part of the country, certain kind of income,
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  certain kind of neighbourhood, you know, but a bunch of them,
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  some of them raised in the village, things like that.
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  So you can see how with different circumstances, with
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  different social capital, you know, some of my cousins without
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  turned out the whole lot different.
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  And I guess that is some of what Warren Buffett means when he
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  says that for him, it's all luck because he won the genetic
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  lottery being born in America at a time when he was born to those
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  parents that he was born to, you know, stuff like that.
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  So you can see that it's difficult to divine.
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  Sorry, not divine to what's that word define.
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  Yeah. So difficult to define, but it's
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  the sum total of all these experiences.
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  And in the older episode that I made on social capital,
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  basically I was saying that one of the reasons why we should all
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  get involved in businesses is because we are enriching our
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  children with social capital. We're informing their worldview,
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  and we're helping them learn how to face the world.
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  And that's because, but it's time.
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  Me and Madame were done with business conversations.
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  We started talking about our kids.
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  And I've learned last week that my son, my son is into origami.
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  That's the Japanese art of Japanese art, of how I put it,
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  paper art, basically. So he's making all this paper
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  stuff, you know, those of us seventies, 80s, kids, all those
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  things that we used to do. OK, well, we all used to make
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  paper planes and then paper guns.
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  We didn't do the fancy stuff because you can do all kinds of
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  things. You can make frogs, you can make
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  Swans, excuse me? You can make balls, paper balls,
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  you can make Dragons, you can make all kinds of things.
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  So that sort of stuff. I mean, you young kids nowadays,
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  you will know nothing about that because everything is digital
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  for you guys. So you guys don't really play
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  with wood and paper and sticks and stones like we used to.
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  So my son is into origami and I just found out last week that he
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  actually is selling some of his stuff in school.
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  And it made me, it made me really proud.
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  I've been waiting and looking for an inroad to have some of
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  those conversations. The first time we spoke about
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  stuff, he was talking about lemonade stands.
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  And, you know, I had to bring it back now to look.
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  There's just some Nickelodeon BS as in it's not going to work in
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  this environment. Like it can't work, but you
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  know, whether sanitary conditions, blah, blah, blah,
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  it's probably not a good business to get involved in.
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  And so after after a while, I was wondering, like, did I do
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  the right thing? Like, should I have shot him
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  down? Should I have said, oh, yeah,
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  lemonade stand. Good idea.
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  This is how we executed. Where are you going to sell?
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  Is he going to be in school? Let's run this thing.
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  Let's see how we can you can whether this thing can pop off
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  or not. And I started feeling really bad
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  and regretting that I had that conversation with him.
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  But then now he has started this thing or selling origami.
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  And you know, I'm glad that he's throwing his, throwing his head
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  back in the game and, and he's taking, he's taking a shot at
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  it. And it made me really, really
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  proud. And of course it's OK.
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  I was going to say it's obvious. Maybe it's not obvious.
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  But I think it's also a contributing factor that my son
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  is watching because not only is my son watching me do what it is
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  that I do when I, when we talk, I tell him stuff, you know,
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  about my, my father, that's, you know, his, his granddad who is
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  late at the moment. So, you know, we talk and I tell
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  him to, oh, you know, your grandfather used to sell cement.
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  Grandfather used to do this. Grandfather used to run this,
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  used to run this, this one worked, this one didn't work.
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  This is why blah, blah, blah, you know, all these sorts of
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  things. So my, my son is around.
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  He's seeing me, the things I'm trying to run once in a while,
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  he sees some of my friends. And then we have whenever I'm
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  done with the client, I have the conversation with him, like, OK,
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  yeah, so spoken with the client. This is the client's business.
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  And he's like, oh really? So people can't make money doing
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  this? People can't make money doing
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  that when I grow up around to make money.
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  So with all these conversations, I think the young man is
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  learning quite a bit. And so.
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  Excuse me. So I guess it's not surprising
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  that he has started trying. He's now currently selling
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  origami to his classmates and I am keeping the the proceeds.
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  This school has this thing where they they give out vouchers like
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  virtual money. Now people are able to cash at
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  the end of the term. So he's collecting the vouchers
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  and he's going to be able to cash it out at the end of the
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  term. So I'm keeping the vouchers and
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  I'm watching everything stack up and I'm real proud.
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  And I'd be more happy because it's going to be two lessons in
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  one because my guy, my son is going to learn about business
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  when they learn about selling, meeting the market need.
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  And he's also going to learn something because, you know, now
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  that we're moving through this whole thing of Web 3 and blah,
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  blah, blah, you know, things being tokenized and things like
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  that. He's also going to, I think it's
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  going to be a good introduction for us having that conversation
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  into Web 3 and tokenization because what he is selling the
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  origami for is not money, but can be converted into money, you
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  know, into something else. So that would also be sorry,
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  excuse me, good conversations for the future.
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  You know what NFTS where people talking nice things over the
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  web. You know, what is all that about
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  conversion, convertibility issues, you know, naira to
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  dollar, all these sorts of things.
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  So room for good conversations there.
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  So all these basically is I think it's a good reason to get
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  involved in business because you can see that the social capital
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  that is going on between me and my son.
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  So it doesn't matter whether the thing works or it doesn't work.
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  You know, like for my father, you know, none of the
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  enterprises really took off the cement thing that the cement
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  thing not want to have promise, it had real promise.
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  But because my father was a civil servant, it's unethical
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  for civil servants in Nigeria to have a business outside anyway.
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  So he have family members running and you know, some of
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  you listening to the show now as far like, you know, like your
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  father had a business. He tried to involve some uncles
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  and cousins and things like that.
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  And so we know how it all goes, even though they make well,
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  funny enough, my wife also has that kind of experience to like
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  our father also had a bunch of stuff and he wanted to help the
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  community, help the family. So, you know, I set up this
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  business, you know, uncle, this come around, this cousin, this
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  come around, this, sister this come around that and all these
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  things in there. Well, but anyway, that's podcast
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  episode for another day. But I'm not trying to say that
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  my father does a bunch of stuff. Social capital transfers to me.
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  I run a bunch of things social capital transfers to my kids.
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  So you can see now how deliberately small by small, you
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  know, the the what's that word? I don't use destiny.
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  Destiny is too is too big. The trajectory of of a family
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  can be changed. So social capital, big things
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  take advantage of it. So yeah, the reason why that
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  came up actually is because like I said, this lady, her kids are
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  much older. The 30 year old has already left
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  the house, but the baby of the house is still there.
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  She's a teenager, like proper teenager.
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  And you know, while I was there, there were dogs all over the
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  place. I don't like dogs because I was
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  attacked as a child. And yeah, it turns out that it's
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  her daughter who has all the dogs because what she's doing is
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  she's raising, what would I call them?
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  I don't know the terms, you know, exotic.
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  She's raising exotic breeds of dogs and she's selling them.
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  So one of the, you know, the small ones that are hairy and
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  fluffy, not Chihuahuas because they're bigger than Chihuahuas,
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  but I don't know what they're called.
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  But they have hair, Sha, when you have a dog and it just looks
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  like a white Afro running around.
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  So the dog has gotten a bunch of children.
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  What do you call dog children? The dog has pups.
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  Yeah. So there are lots of pups
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  running around the house. So those dogs everywhere.
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  And that's the thing that her daughter is doing for business.
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  And I'm like, Madam, like, this is correct.
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  And this is a good hustle. And she's like, of course, now,
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  you know, when they were small, following me to trade show.
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  Follow me here. Follow me here, that we've seen
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  what it is that I've been doing. So everybody's running their own
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  thing. So the 30 year old is abroad is
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  running his own thing, the middle child abroad running his
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  own thing. Daughter here in Niger has
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  started her own thing. And that is really, really good
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  experience because breeding dogs is not Manny's work, any kind of
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  animal husbandry's work. Veterinarian, you need to make
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  sure that the animals are healthy.
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  Of course, if you go to the vet now is not is not free.
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  So the girl is having to pay from her own pocket veterinary
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  costs. She's having to pay from her own
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  pocket food costs, She's having to clean up after these things.
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  And then she also has to do inventory management because,
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  you know, sometimes these things are fashionable.
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  Like there's a time when Bulldogs used to rain.
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  Everybody wanted to buy Bulldogs.
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  Bulldogs mixed with what are they called when you take a
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  bulldog and then you mix it with something.
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  OK, Remember what all those breeds are called.
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  So those time when I was always raining in Nigeria.
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  So you also need to learn inventory management because if
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  you're breeding the small furry things where everybody's trying
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  to buy our station Smith mixed with pitbulls and all whatnot,
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  then you're on a long team because you're holding inventory
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  that nobody wants to buy. So this teenager is learning a
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  lot right now. And for those of you who we've
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  been talking to one-on-one, because I've spoken to a bunch
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  of you university people, NYC people still at home on C and
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  there's one guy that I had to kind of school because he moved
• 21:23
  out of the house. And I'm like, what are you
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  moving out for? Independence is overrated.
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  Trust me, independence is overrated.
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  Right now you're staying in Popsy's house.
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  You're staying in moms. He sells.
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  OK, So they want you to come in by 8:00 every day.
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  I understand it's, it's rough, but the fact is not rough. 8:00
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  is reasonable. Let's let's not be idiots about
• 21:44
  this. The popsy says be home by 8.
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  It's reasonable because let's face it, once in a while, if
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  you're home 8 every day, whenever Friday, you know, you
• 21:52
  disappear, you come back 11 worst case scenario, you know,
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  Popsy, who born and he was strong face wasn't as if he's
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  going to beat you and he's not going to kick you out of the
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  house. So I think 8:00 is reasonable.
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  So this whole thing of you want independence, you want to be
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  your own man. You want to this that that that
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  that you want to be your own woman.
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  You're tired of people stressing you, you know, just stay in the
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  house. There are advantages staying in
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  the house. You don't have to worry about
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  your own feeding. I don't think popsy and Mumsy,
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  if you're raising dogs like my friend's daughter is, they might
• 22:23
  not pay for the food for the dogs.
• 22:27
  They might be like, look, that's your own business.
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  I don't want shit on the floor in the house.
• 22:31
  I want to be able to sleep without noise.
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  Don't disturb me. Just do your business.
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  You can use this room or you can use the back of the house,
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  whatever. So the advantages for those of
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  you who are still teenagers, don't do this.
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  I want to be my whole man my my own man thing.
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  Just stay at home. First, just stay in the house.
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  You don't have to worry about food.
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  Transportation is your own most likely, but at least you don't
• 22:53
  have to worry about food. You don't have to worry about
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  rent. This is the time to start
• 22:58
  running your thing. So for those of you who say you
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  want to do copywriting, business, blah blah blah and all
• 23:03
  whatnot, yes, pop season argue every day.
• 23:05
  It's annoying, I understand. But stay in the house now
• 23:10
  continue to crash on the floor or whatever.
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  But The thing is at least you are not paying house rent and at
• 23:18
  least you're not paying for food because how mumsy cook and
• 23:22
  because this Nigeria mumsy won't cook.
• 23:24
  Mumsy can cook and they say you should go and pay.
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  You know, I understand that in the UK and in some parts of
• 23:30
  America, you know, they're hush like that.
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  Like one more time has reached, you know, you're 18 years old,
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  It's time to start paying room on board, you know, pay for
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  food, contribute for this, contribute for that.
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  But Nigeria is one of the benefits that we have of being
• 23:42
  in Nigeria and we haven't reached that level yet.
• 23:44
  So stay at home and take advantage of these sorts of
• 23:47
  things. Anyway, bottom line, for those
• 23:52
  of you who are thinking should I start a business?
• 23:53
  Should I not start a business? This is one of the reasons
• 23:55
  social capital, The children are watching, your sons are
• 23:58
  watching, your daughters are watching.
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  And when they watch, it looks doable, it's not so scary and
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  they will start somewhere and you'll be around to guide them
• 24:10
  and say, Oh my daughter, this your dog bearing business.
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  Remember when I was small and I used to do this one, I used to
• 24:17
  do this one and I used to go for this trade fair.
• 24:20
  And that trade fair, there's something that we call inventory
• 24:23
  management. This is how you do it.
• 24:24
  You do it like this, you do it like that, you do market
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  research, blah, blah, blah. Just like the conversations that
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  me and my son are going to have. So social capital really good.
• 24:36
  Both of our children are learning lessons about selling.
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  In fact, that's the one that really suits me the most because
• 24:43
  my son, well, he's been always good at talking to people
• 24:46
  anyway. So he's going out, he's talking
• 24:49
  to people, random people, different classes, two classes
• 24:52
  above. OK, he doesn't sell to the
• 24:54
  juniors, so he's his classmate. And then people above.
• 25:00
  Let's see what else learning how to meet marketing demands like
• 25:04
  my friend whose daughter like this lady or let me just say
• 25:07
  acquaintance. She's not only my friend.
• 25:09
  Besides she's older than me. So we can't be friends.
• 25:11
  So this lady hope we do some business together.
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  Whose son is learning. Sorry, whose daughter is selling
• 25:19
  the dogs? Then I guess The funny thing is
• 25:24
  by our kids trying to run this hustle that they're running,
• 25:31
  they actually are becoming very, very good at socializing.
• 25:35
  And they are becoming better at socializing than other kids.
• 25:39
  So fancy that the children take a liking to business and it
• 25:43
  helps them be better adults in the future and it helps them be
• 25:47
  better kids for now because they can socialize a whole lot better
• 25:51
  than the other classmates who just bury their heads in tablets
• 25:59
  everyday. So that's it.
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  This is another reason to start a business, social capital,
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  teach your kids about the world. Even if you don't say anything,
• 26:06
  by watching you, they're learning about the world and
• 26:09
  it'll give them confidence to face the future.
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  So that's the end of my round of episode today.
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  Connect me on WhatsApp, phone number is 08064662140.
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• 26:21
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• 26:24
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• 26:26
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• 26:30
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• 26:32
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• 26:35
  me on either of these avenues for insights, tips, questions.
• 26:41
  I mean, for those of you who reach out to say I listen to
• 26:43
  this, but I disagree. I love having those
• 26:45
  conversations with you guys. It also informs future updates
• 26:48
  and episodes that I have to that I make later on.
• 26:52
  And then, yeah, I think I'll share some more if you
• 26:59
  represent, share some more stuff, you know, stuff on my
• 27:01
  playlist. So you guys decide.
• 27:03
  Let me know if you agree with my wife, whether I'm a nerd or not.
• 27:07
  But yeah. So while you're working, just
• 27:09
  put on some surge Tankian. That's TANKIAN.
• 27:15
  Or just check system of it down. Really good music there.
• 27:18
  But if your mumsy is born again, please do not play from speakers
• 27:21
  through the house. She will come out and say, what
• 27:23
  kind of demonic music is this Come out.
• 27:24
  Will you shut that thing off then?
• 27:27
  Star Trek. Yeah.
• 27:30
  Star Trek Beyond or Star Trek, Wrath of Khan, both of them
• 27:35
  equally good movies and no nudity, no violence.
• 27:37
  So that'll be OK. Well, there's this scene where
• 27:39
  Captain Kirk kissed an alien who was green.
• 27:43
  So yeah, your mom sees born again.
• 27:44
  She might not like that. Like, what kind of rubbish is
• 27:46
  this? Committing fornication with an
• 27:47
  alien? Will you turn this thing off?
• 27:49
  So yeah, that's it for today. I'll catch you guys at the next
• 27:52
  episode.