Konnected Minds Podcast

Segment: Stop Chasing Money and Start Embodying Wealth - Moses B Arthur

• Derrick Abaitey

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"Your mind is God's biggest gift." These powerful words open our enlightening conversation with Moses B. Arthur (MBA), a trailblazing Ghanaian entrepreneur and real estate developer whose wisdom belies his years.

Born after his mother carried him for an extraordinary 11 months and two weeks, MBA received his middle name "Brentu" (meaning warrior or fighter) as recognition of his innate resilience. This fighting spirit has propelled him from humble beginnings to becoming a respected business leader and mentor who recently filled Ghana's UPSA auditorium with over 3,000 young people eager to learn his success principles.

MBA candidly shares the story of his first failed business venture and the valuable lesson it taught him: "The gaps in our understanding are oftentimes what is responsible for the fluctuations in our results." This realization led to his development of the RAE model—Revelation, Assimilation, Elevation—a framework for personal growth that emphasizes knowledge acquisition, internalization, and subsequent advancement.

The most profound insight MBA offers challenges conventional thinking about success. "Don't chase money," he advises, noting that "our parents have been chasing money their whole lives and never found what they were seeking." Instead, he advocates embodying the qualities and mindset of success, explaining that "everything you are looking for is also looking for you, but not this version of you." This perspective shift—from pursuing external rewards to becoming someone who naturally attracts them—forms the cornerstone of MBA's philosophy.

Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, a seasoned business professional, or simply someone seeking personal growth, this episode offers transformative wisdom about mindset, success principles, and the power of knowledge. Subscribe now and join us for more conversations that blend practical business acumen with profound life insights.

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Speaker 1:

Your mind is God's biggest gift he has given you. You don't need to be a billionaire to speak as a billionaire, because the thing is that when you meet a man and you're able to get what is in his head, you can produce what is in his pocket.

Speaker 2:

The first business that failed. Why did it fail?

Speaker 1:

Like I said, the gaps in our understanding is oftentimes what is responsible for the fluctuations in our results. So if you are not able to make consistently $1,000 a month, there's a gap in your understanding concerning making money. Now, the thing with a lot of people is that when they think about their dreams, the first thing they've been programmed with their mind is that their mind shuts them out. That's my RAE Revelation Assimilation Elevation. It's the reason why I tell young people don't go chasing after things. Whatever you chase after, you don't find. You need to explain that. So our parents have been chasing money their whole lives. They never found the money they were chasing. So don't chase money. Anything that money can buy can buy 10 times. You are very poor if all you have in your life is money when your time has not come and you don't have financial resources.

Speaker 2:

build, build, build so you're welcome to connected minds podcast, my Podcast. My name is Derek Abaite and today's conversation is with Moses B Arthur. Everyone calls him MBA. In Ghana, he's an entrepreneur and a real estate developer. He's currently have got several projects ongoing.

Speaker 2:

I love this man so much because the age that he is and what he's been able to achieve so far for himself is marvelous. It's something that a lot of young people are learning from. Recently, he filled up the upsa over 3 000 young people that want to hear him speak, empower them and he had other speakers with him. This conversation is simply about the mindset, success, success principles, what you need to actually make it in this life. He blends scripture with wealth concepts and I want to hear all of it. I've got several questions for him and the many that my viewers and my listeners have also sent over. He's probably one of the most requested guests on the podcast and the reason is very simple because of what he does and the community of giants that he's raising. You're welcome to this podcast, my brother. How you doing?

Speaker 1:

thank you so much, derek. I'm doing amazing. How are you? I'm blessed, awesome. I think this is the best introduction I've ever done it came from your heart, from the depth of my heart, you know.

Speaker 2:

Wow, yeah, I'm even pleased with myself. So, wherever you are, you know if you're jogging, if you are work, driving to work, you thank you for tuning in to this podcast and if there are people in your circle you can share this with, please do. And, as usual, you know. If you make it to the end on youtube, let me know, leave a comment and yeah I appreciate you guys.

Speaker 1:

You filled up the vpsa by the grace of god, and a good team you made it look like a walk in the park. Good preparation prevents poor performance. So if it looked like a walk in the park, it was because there was a lot of thoughts, there was a lot of planning, there was a lot of effort that went into it.

Speaker 2:

So that's usually the outcome of doing something good we were supposed to have this conversation earlier that's right when we started this podcast much earlier, I think more over eight months ago and it didn't happen because you were busy traveling around africa and many parts of the world. Um, you know, as a knowledge merchant now I usually say that when a conversation doesn't happen, it's good because when it eventually happens, it's usually the best time, that's right.

Speaker 2:

You know, um, we are not in charge of the universe, that's true. You know there's something that is working in our favor. So once again, I appreciate your time most welcome my brother, you have three books so far and I'm sure you're still working on the rest and I've got my copies here. Thank you so much for giving me these right, but this is where I want to start. Okay, your backstory into becoming an entrepreneur take me through that.

Speaker 1:

Um, it's, it's. It's an interesting one. Um, I come from a very humble background. Um, moses B Arthur. So the B is brain two, brain two means a warrior, brain two means a fighter. My mother had carried me for 11 months, two weeks, and so she finally put to bed, and my father, having seen everything. My mother had gone through because, per the natural law of things, a woman is supposed to carry a child for nine months. But here was this woman carrying me for 11 months, two weeks, and on the 5th of April 1996, it was 12 minutes past 12 midnight and she put to bed. So my father, having seen everything, called me Brentu. Brentu means a warrior, brentu means a fighter, two means a warrior, brain two means a fighter.

Speaker 1:

So innate in my soul is that fighting spirit that I'm on the edge to go, on the edge to break the status quo. I think it comes naturally with me and usually when people ask me what my superpower is, I say that I think God just gave me that, you know, as a gift, because I've been fighting from the womb and I made it into this place. So I come from Inche in the Western region, and my entrepreneurial journey started. I think I observed that trait right from university, where I realized that I'm always looking out for opportunities and you usually will not spot opportunities with your eyes. You spot away your mind. So I'm always looking out for what I can do to, you know, add value to myself and, by extension, add value to the people around me. So, and I'm one who is always on the quest, I'm a seeker, so I'm always on the quest for new knowledge. I'm always on the quest for the next big thing. To do so.

Speaker 1:

In university, second year, um, I read um development planning in knsd. So in my second year in university, um, I had a friend called y'all who mentioned to me um cryptocurrency and I said, what's that? And he said, um, cryptocurrency, is this, that is the next big thing. So when he said, I was like okay, and I didn't know anything, I just went all out and then I said, okay, then let's set up something called para deliveries and coinbase. So para deliveries and coinbase was my first business. My very good friend, gilbert kuku, god will, and he's still a very good friend of mine he's the one who did my first um, you know, prior deliveries and coinbase logo for me. That's when I even got to know that there's something called brand mano, because I went to him and said do a logo for me. That's when I even got to know that there's something called brand manual, because I went to him and said do a logo for me, and then he said you have to create a brand manual. I said what's that? Then he taught me. I said oh, I see. So to date, I have para deliveries and Coinbase brand manual is still there. So that was my first business that actually failed and it didn't do well, because the things that I know now that has shaped my becoming is not what I knew then. So I decided to pay attention to knowledge. I knew about Bitcoin and everything, but I didn't even give it much attention, you know as of that time, and then it failed.

Speaker 1:

So in 2017, when I completed KNUSD, right in the university years, I'd come to a car, attend conferences. I remember I attended enterprise Africa summit at Kempinski. I left school and came for that event and it was my upkeep money I used in purchasing the tickets to come for that event. And when I came, I saw a lot of young people doing stuff. So I'm like I'm young. What is stopping me from doing things? And here's to just say a thing to young people it takes time to build great things, so start early. When you start early, you make all the necessary mistakes that you make and then you keep learning on the go.

Speaker 1:

So, 2017, I was 21 years, I had a knack for speaking and I'm like okay, foundationally, I realized that my pattern in life as a kingdom entrepreneur jesus, the biggest brand in the world, um lived for people. So if I want to do this thing and take it on as a career, then I have to leave for people. And so I started entrepreneurship hub africa, which was, um a flagship event of city broadcast. My first, my second company then city broadcast was a digital marketing company, so Entrepreneurship Hub Africa was its flagship event. Then I later changed and then made Entrepreneurship Hub Africa a full nonprofit. So it's a nonprofit with a vision to inspire the next generation of trailblazers to think bigger, dream louder and act bolder.

Speaker 2:

Let me take you back Right, the first business that failed. Why did it fail?

Speaker 1:

Um, like I said, I didn't have much knowledge about the whole cryptocurrency game, so all I thought was you'd have a logo, and then I didn't even register the company with RGD. I didn't do that. I just had the logo in my house where I'd rented at the time in school. I quickly set up a table. I think I have those pictures still on my socials. I set up a table, we did some photo shoot pictures still on my socials. I set up a table, we did some photo shoot. I thought that was what the business was. So that actually informed my first book, the Entrepreneur's Journey an ideal startup guide.

Speaker 1:

Because from that experience, I found out that no, the gaps in our understanding is oftentimes what is responsible for the fluctuations in our results. So if there's a certain fluctuation in in our results, so if there's a certain fluctuation in your results, it means there's a gap in your understanding concerning that particular results you want to see. So if you're unable to make consistently a thousand dollars a month, there's a gap in your understanding concerning making money. So you need to go back and then build capacity for it. So I found out that I didn't know as much about cryptocurrency as I was just excited about the idea, which is what a lot of young people do today so you know sometimes what happens, right, what happens.

Speaker 2:

So there's a full method, mm-hmm. If I tell you that to be able to produce sodium chloride mm-hmm you need to follow this full method and then you read one, two, three mm-hmm and you don't finish it, you will not be able to produce absolutely right. Sometimes, as young people and you might be able to attest to this that we get information, we don't consume all the information.

Speaker 2:

As soon as we see a few lines we get excited like at this point, somebody is probably going to log off this conversation and will not finish exactly the whole conversation and they'll be like, oh, yeah, I've got it, I'm going. But then what you don't realize is, like you know, it's like buying a new flat-packed table instead of reading the manual to fix it. You don't. Then you start doing a whole lot of things before you make mistakes. Then you know. You go back to reading.

Speaker 1:

You think some of these things happen in your first business, um, yes, so from that experience, I, um, I. I have a model, I call it the rae model. So you need to come into a place of revelation, which is knowledge. Right, then you assimilate. When you come into a place of knowledge or revelation and you assimilate, you are feeding on it. What you keep eating will eventually eat you up. So as you assimilate, it brings you into a place of elevation, because the knowledge you feed on. So that's my RAE so revelation, assimilation, elevation so what you keep inside of you, as you eventually feed on it, it becomes one with you. It's the reason why I tell young people don't go chasing after things. Whatever you chase after you don't find, embody it, because whatever you embody, it runs with you.

Speaker 1:

All right you need to explain that. So a lot of young people say I need money, I'm chasing money, I'm going for money. Our parents have been chasing money their whole lives. They never found the money they were chasing. So don't chase money, because everything you are looking for is also looking for you, but not this version of you. So a version of you must literally evolve and then when that version of you evolves, then, by reason of what you are assimilating, what you are learning becomes one with you. Then you run with it. So what you are running after you struggle to find, but what you embody runs with you. How do we do that? It's very simple.

Speaker 1:

When a rich man wants to do something, he does not think of how he can have money to do the thing. He thinks of how he can become to do the thing. When a poor man wants to do something, the first thing is, hey, and can a palm, I have 10,000 CDs. I can't do this. I have 10,000 CDs. If I have 10,000 CDs, I'll do this, I'll do that. Now think of it this way.