Konnected Minds Podcast

Segment: No Capital? No Problem: Building Wealth from Zero

• Derrick Abaitey

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Money troubles weighing you down? You're not alone. This raw and honest conversation dives deep into the hidden mental health struggles of providers and breadwinners—people who often appear strong while silently crumbling under immense pressure.

We tackle the critical importance of communication for those feeling suicidal or hopeless due to financial burdens. Many providers suffer in silence while dependents view them as "magicians" who somehow never struggle. Breaking this silence becomes the first step toward healing and finding solutions together.

Discover practical strategies for creating financial opportunities without capital. We explore how honesty and initiative can open doors even when your pockets are empty. From commission-based selling to providing value before requesting payment, there are pathways forward that require courage rather than cash. The conversation reveals how developing complementary side hustles can relieve the strain on your primary income without requiring a complete career change.

The episode takes an unflinching look at substance abuse as a response to financial pressure. We examine why both wealthy and economically disadvantaged individuals turn to drugs and alcohol, creating devastating cycles that compound existing problems. Learn why prevention through education remains our most powerful tool, alongside therapeutic approaches for those already struggling with addiction.

Ready to transform your financial situation and mental wellbeing? Subscribe to join our community dedicated to real conversations about money, pressure, and finding hope when everything seems hopeless. Together, we're changing lives one episode at a time.

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Speaker 1:

How do you talk to such a person?

Speaker 2:

What I would say to such a person is that communication is key. Even the people that we are struggling for, the people that we are trying to feed, they tend to think we are okay or we are magicians or we are just like. You know, god sent people that don't have problems of our own because we always tend to provide for them, so they don't get to worry the way we worry. So the first thing I would say is that, for the people that he helps or he's trying to make their life better, he needs to communicate to them a little bit more so they know actually how or what he's going through as a person, because feeling suicidal is like a point where you feel like there's no hope. But in any situation there is hope.

Speaker 2:

I think that Sam, as you would like to call him, there's still an opportunity for Sam to get up today and say okay, when I was younger and I started doing small, small businesses, I didn't even have anything. You know, I was just going to take people's stuff and go and sell it at the end of the day, bring them their money and keep the profit. So I didn't at some, you don't even need a capital to to do some businesses just go to someone. As long as you're an honest person, people are willing to even give you a product for you to go sell, make a profit, take your profit and give them their money back.

Speaker 1:

We've said this several times on this podcast and many people don't understand that it is possible to change your financial circumstances without money, of course, because well, what does it take?

Speaker 2:

I think it just takes courage For me as a business person and I know a lot of people who are into other businesses and if a person walks into me who seem to be very you know, ready to work and tells me okay, I don't need you to pay me, but I'm going to do this, I'm going to do marketing for your business, I'm going to go here, I'm going to go there, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do marketing for your business.

Speaker 2:

I'm going to go here, I'm going to go there, I'm going to do marketing for you and this, I'm going to bring you this number of people and if I'm able to achieve it, if you can give me this amount of money or percentage, then you can hire me as a marketer. Of course, even if I don't need the marketer, why wouldn't I want someone who's going to up my business by 10 20 a month, instead of having employees that sit at office? Someone is willing to go out there and bring me customers. Obviously, if that person is doing good, I would love to hire that person and I'll never turned down such a position for a person who is not asking for me but willing to deliver first, before they actually get paid.

Speaker 1:

You know on the previous, previous story, the biggest problem he has here is the family pressure and when we bring it back home you realize that a lot of us have huge pressure right and that pressure can sometimes mean that what you're supposed to take in for yourself you bring it back out to feed other people and that can be very it can be mentally challenging for most people. How do we navigate that?

Speaker 2:

Well, I would say that you know, problems are just there, but how we tend to see it is also how we able to solve it. So if you have, like a lot of you know family depending on you and you're like, let's say, you have, you're working for a company, you're getting paid certain amount and that amount is supposed to go into fee maybe about ten people in your family and that is not enough to to do so. What you have to do is actually branch off. You need a second source of income. So that is why sometimes we talk about multiple sources of income and for people who think that, okay, such a person is in a situation where I cannot leave my job to say I'm going to create a business, but there are side jobs to whatever you do. So let's say, if you're working know a realistic company or you're working for a law firm, there's always like a back into to those, to those jobs that can help you, you know, make money. Like one time I actually realized that I was looking for a lawyer and when I was in America I could just go on the website and Google and there is a website where you tend to. It gives you lawyers that are available. It gives you which kind of lawyers you pick, you pick, you pick which one your interest is and then it gives you lawyers in those areas. So I was starting to find a lawyer and I couldn't find but somebody working with a law firm who have seen such you know issues with people having a hard time getting lawyers or having lawyers that they trust or having lawyers that they think they are comfortable with. There's a, there's a place that where you can create such an environment where people actually come into you to source for lawyers, not just you going.

Speaker 2:

Just being a lawyer means going to work and defending cases. But you know, sometimes people don't even go, need to go to court, they just need somebody to do a victory for them. You can just create a service like that so it's in, it's in line with your business, but it's giving you extra income, but it's not really taking you away from your profession that you're doing so. You don't have to actually quit your business in order to do that. So if your law office requires a lot of paper and you see lawyers use a lot of paper and you have somebody who sells paper in a Kramer color, you go there and you say, I want you to sell it to me. So I know a lot of law offices that I can supply to you and you're making a little percentage. That money can go towards taking care of your family, where you don't actually have to use your main source of income to do that. So I think it's just about being, you know, playing with the area that you're in.

Speaker 1:

There's always something that you can find let me stop it here for a minute. If you've been watching this show, I want you to subscribe and become part of the family. We are on a journey of changing the lives of people on this channel and we appreciate you for being here. But if you haven't become part of the family, connect with us. Hit the subscribe button now. Let's carry on the conversation. You heard this about a lot of wealthy people tend to, you know, drink a lot of alcohol, use drugs. Um, we're not even just seeing it with a wealthy people. We also see it with the lower and the poor people who don't have enough to go around right, because of, because they want their problems to go away, you know, for the short time, they revert to street drugs, um, whatnot that they tend to take now how do you, how do you speak to somebody who is in that situation?

Speaker 2:

I would say therapy very important, very, very important in when it, especially when you're very high-end. I think a lot of us who do like multiple businesses, and you know, have to deal with a lot of different things at the same time. It's easy to get crushed, um, especially when, imagine, you're dealing with a business that has, uh, you know, you, you created or you're working on a project that you know has a lot of money involved, and then you wake up in the morning and someone tells you something has crashed and you've lost about 50% or something of that. It's not something that you could easily, you know, deal with, and so once you begin to get to that point, you always want something to calm you down because such such people at that point there's nothing you can do about it. So you tend to, you know, want to drink alcohol, or you want to do something in order to, you know, get your brain to calm down, to like what are the implications of?

Speaker 2:

implication is that alcohol and drugs never solve your problem. It only makes it worse. It only makes it worse in the interim. It will probably calm you down, but it doesn't solve your problem. You know, just like the people in the lower, and if you're thinking you don't have money, you don't have, you know, financial resources, you don't have anything, education or something you think you stress that you're going to take in medication in order to suppress that. You're going to be more stressed because at some point you're going to be more stressed because at some point you're going to be addicted to that particular medication and you're still going to need money to fund that addiction.

Speaker 2:

So every addiction needs something to fund it. You need money to fund it. So you don't have money and you're taking drugs, so you would be happy. But you get addicted and you need money to fund that addiction. So what does it come back to At the end of the day? You still need money to find that addiction. So what does it come back to at the end of the day? You still need money. So it's better to go look for money than to find, uh, the drug that is going to, you know, calm that down.

Speaker 2:

So okay, yeah, um I think I've seen that on social media, but I don't know. I actually tried to research it.

Speaker 1:

I realized that it's some kind of a drug that yeah, so, um, there are a few things going on and I just thought I should, you know, put it in there to break the ice, um, because it's a really big issue with you know, people in the lower class, right, I'm using a lot of, uh, I think. I think it's trauma, though you know it's. There's a new manufacturer that's brought this medication in and I think it's it's in red coating, that's what they call it, right, but you know, but I know you help a lot of people you know that have issues with addiction and and stuff with the company that you have. How can you help steer people away from situations like this where they are so addicted to such medications they can't, they can't do anything. I've heard there are, you know, bus drivers who are using these medications. You know plumbus, you know standard people that you usually call to do things for you they're on drugs, right so it's such a.

Speaker 2:

It's such a. It's such a difficult thing to watch. When I've seen some of these videos and you know some of them it's like you see a human being and you just see a human being just like wearing off, like you know, like how life is so precious and you see a human being and you just see a human being just like wearing off, like how life is so precious, and you see a person just go down the rails. I think there's two ways to deal with it. I am more into prevention than even trying to cure. But when you get to the stage where you need cure, definitely we are there for you, but we tend to want to advise the younger ones to even not to even start.

Speaker 2:

You know, when I was younger, I don't know if you remember there was all these adverts on TV where they used to say you know, stay away from drugs. All these cartoons. I don't see those things away. I don't see those things away. I don't see them around anymore, you know. So those adverts were supposed to tell us to stay away from weed, to stay away from cocaine, and all of that Even though as a child I didn't know what cocaine was or where I was going to get it from.

Speaker 2:

But it was implanted in my brain that you know, any time I see somebody say cocaine, I feel like that's a very dangerous thing. You don't go near that, what? But I said, now it's become like the medications that people are taking has become like a household thing. Nobody really talks about how dangerous it is and some of them are even getting prescribed. Yeah, the trauma door is becoming a when any drug becomes a household name, like alcohol. With a smoking, any drug becomes a household name like alcohol, whether it's smoking. Once it becomes a household it becomes usual. But once it's embedded in your brain as a child and you're afraid of it, advise the kids on all these medications and you know how not to even get there.