From Paying Her Own Tuition to Uganda's Top Influencer: Patricia Zawedde's Money Story
In this Uganda Edition of Financially Incorrect, Patricia gets real about the money behind content creation, side hustles, and navigating Kampala’s rising cost of living. She shares how she paid her own university tuition through influencer gigs, why she refuses to live a fake lifestyle, and how balancing a corporate banking job with content creation shaped her financial discipline. Patricia breaks down the realities of Uganda’s influencer economy, from inconsistent brand deals to the pressure of maintaining an image and explains how saving groups, strict budgeting, and living within her means have helped her build stability. If you’re a creator, student, or young professional trying to understand Uganda finance, influencer money, and Gen Z money habits, this episode offers practical insights for surviving and thriving in Kampala’s cost of living.Subscribe to our newsletter: https://shorturl.at/o2jpCHelp Shape the Future of Financially Incorrect – Take Less Than 5 Mins: https://shorturl.at/3iiJZWant to Be Featured on Financially Incorrect? Apply Here: https://forms.gle/5tkdjgx9vHgXyJSC6💹 Ready to start trading?🔍 Who is FXPesa: https://shorturl.at/rWFqC🎓 Learn how to trade: https://shorturl.at/xR2Ye📊 Try a demo account: https://shorturl.at/izDMc💸 Open a live account: https://shorturl.at/Od2ux
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How Ed Magema Beat the Odds and Got Accepted Into 6 Ivy League Universities
In this episode, Ed Magema, co-founder of Universe and senior strategist at NCBA sits with Barrack to unpack his journey from a humble childhood of strong tea mornings and githeri lunches to developing elite study systems that took him to Harvard. He explains why he chose to leave the U.S. during the era of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, return home, and build his career in Kenya. Ed opens up about his first failed print-media startup, his rise as a strategy consultant at Dalberg, and how he became one of the early builders behind Cheaper Cash, helping scale it to a million users in under a year before walking away due to toxic culture. He shares the depression that followed, how writing How to Get Into Harvard became therapy and service, and how he reinvested his savings and Harvard network into building Universe, a homegrown media-tech platform for Africa’s creators. Ed breaks down his current money philosophy (10% emergency fund, 30% investments, the rest for life and family), his belief in building over hoarding, and his long-term mission to become a dollar billionaire by constructing an African-owned media + data ecosystem that can shape narratives and power the continent’s role in the AI era. An inspiring conversation about conviction, resilience, and the courage to build from where you are.Subscribe to our newsletter: https://shorturl.at/o2jpCHelp Shape the Future of Financially Incorrect – Take Less Than 5 Mins: https://shorturl.at/3iiJZWant to Be Featured on Financially Incorrect? Apply Here: https://forms.gle/5tkdjgx9vHgXyJSC6💹 Ready to start trading?🔍 Who is FXPesa: https://shorturl.at/rWFqC🎓 Learn how to trade: https://shorturl.at/xR2Ye📊 Try a demo account: https://shorturl.at/izDMc💸 Open a live account: https://shorturl.at/Od2ux
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Brian Wathome on Building Charge On The Go & a 60,000 - User Game Platform
In this episode, Barrack sits down with Brian Wathome, the founder of Charge On The Go and Games On The Go to share how he built two thriving tech businesses from scratch. From renting power banks at nightlife venues and airports to launching a skill-based gaming platform on the M-PESA Mini App, he reveals how networks, timing, and innovative thinking unlocked these opportunities. Learn how Charge On The Go scaled across multiple locations, secured JKIA after a year-long pitching process, and how Games On The Go reached 60,000 users with zero marketing, saving an estimated KES 156 million in acquisition costs. Bootstrapped with just KES 1M, the digital platform now engages both kids and families, creating positive screen time through multiplayer games and subscriptions. He also shares his strategy for scaling across Kenya, Rwanda, and beyond, and how continuous innovation and understanding the market have been key to the success of both businesses.Subscribe to our newsletter: https://shorturl.at/o2jpCHelp Shape the Future of Financially Incorrect – Take Less Than 5 Mins: https://shorturl.at/3iiJZWant to Be Featured on Financially Incorrect? Apply Here: https://forms.gle/5tkdjgx9vHgXyJSC6💹 Ready to start trading?🔍 Who is FXPesa: https://shorturl.at/rWFqC🎓 Learn how to trade: https://shorturl.at/xR2Ye📊 Try a demo account: https://shorturl.at/izDMc💸 Open a live account: https://shorturl.at/Od2ux
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Kendi Nanua Had No Safety Net. Just Hard Work - and a Gift Idea That Blew Up
Kendi sits down with Barrack to share how growing up in a single-room mabati house, walking long distances to school, and constantly relying on other people shaped her earliest beliefs about money and possibility. She opens up about battling a deep scarcity mindset, earning a first-class degree in finance only to realize she hated the field, and taking an 8K-a-month internship instead of a secure banking path. She talks about discovering her creative side, helping a vendor sell at a flea market while in university, surviving 40-hour workdays during the COVID agency era, and eventually launching her own gifting business — the one that made her KSh 1 million profit and completely rewrote her money story. This episode is a raw, inspiring journey from survival to intention, proving that where you start doesn’t have to determine where you end up.Subscribe to our newsletter: https://shorturl.at/o2jpCHelp Shape the Future of Financially Incorrect – Take Less Than 5 Mins: https://shorturl.at/3iiJZWant to Be Featured on Financially Incorrect? Apply Here: https://forms.gle/5tkdjgx9vHgXyJSC6💹 Ready to start trading?🔍 Who is FXPesa: https://shorturl.at/rWFqC🎓 Learn how to trade: https://shorturl.at/xR2Ye📊 Try a demo account: https://shorturl.at/izDMc💸 Open a live account: https://shorturl.at/Od2ux
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Belinda Katumba: From Struggling Abroad to Building a Life That Works in Uganda
In this episode of Financially Incorrect Uganda, Belinda shares her journey from working minimum wage jobs in Canada to building a thriving digital marketing business and card game empire in Uganda. She talks openly about managing money for the first time, coping with harsh winters and isolation, launching her side hustles, and making her first investments in unit trusts and cows. Belinda also reflects on burnout, the importance of cash flow in business, and what success truly means to her. This is a story of resilience, entrepreneurship, and learning to invest in yourself.Buy your Financially Incorrect Mixer tickets here: https://financiallyincorrect.hustlesasa.shop/?product=70437Subscribe to our newsletter: https://shorturl.at/o2jpC
Money doesn't have to be intimidating. The Financially Incorrect Podcast is a fun and informative way to learn about personal finance. Host Barrack Bukusi debunks money myths and reveals the truth behind common misconceptions. Join him with a different guest every week as he helps you achieve your financial goals.
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