Episode 22: How to spot new opportunities, with Kwame Bekoe

Entrepreneurs discover or create opportunities that ultimately lead to some of our favourite products and solutions to real pressing problems. But how exactly do they spot these opportunities in the first place? What is the mental alertness and type of thinking that allows entrepreneurs to continuously move the world forward? In this episode, I spoke

Episode 21: How high growth entrepreneurs think, with Jito Kayumba

Do you have a high growth mindset? High growth enterprises are rare and their founders have a unique way of thinking. I spoke to Jito Kayumba, a Private Equity investor and partner at Kukula Capital in Zambia. We spoke about the unique ways in which the entrepreneurs of high growth businesses think and how you

Episode 20: How to deal with rejection in business

There is an old saying that goes champions eat “no” for breakfast. It is true for entrepreneurs. I recently spoke at an incubator – Women Enabled Enterprises – celebrating the entrepreneurs who had graduated from that incubator. I was encouraged by these entrepreneurs that despite having so much on their plate, they had put in

Episode 15: How to develop a disruptive and innovative mindset

Disruptive companies are industry game-changers. They redefine the rules of the industries they disrupt and move the world forward. In this episode we spoke to Dr. Nik Eberl who is a scholar and practitioner in innovation. We explored how entrepreneurs can develop a disruptive mindset and the tools and strategies they can use. Innovation and

Episode 4: Maintaining entrepreneurial thinking and wellness in a time of crisis

The past few months of 2020 have been described by The Economist, The IMF, and others as unprecedented. Covid-19 has not only been declared as a pandemic, but it has left many economies ailing with large serious contractions in GDP, job losses, and putting many people into poverty. In this episode, we explore how entrepreneurs

Introduction to Wellness for Entrepreneurs

I spent most of my professional life investing in entrepreneurs and working with founding teams during new venture creation. I noticed that there were many technical tools to help entrepreneurs navigate new venture creation, but very few that focused on empowering the minds of founders and their teams. Wellness for Entrepreneurs provides a space for