Financially Incorrect

01:44:19

From Selling Juice to Investor: How Manuela P Mulondo...

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2026/10/06

Manuela P Mulondo had the kind of public success most people would assume came with financial security. She was speaking at major events, meeting presidents and receiving international recognition, while her business was generating more than UGX 40 million a month. But behind the visibility, personal and business finances were intertwined, debt was mounting, and the business was funding a lifestyle it could not sustain.After stepping away from public speaking for nearly two years, Manuela rebuilt

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01:20:24

How M-Tickets Handled Millions in Sales & Mass Fraud...

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2026/10/04

In 2014, Brian Bogonko set out to solve a simple problem: how do you sell event tickets digitally, track who is buying and eliminate the fragmented cash and paper systems that defined Kenya’s events industry?M Tickets went on to process more than 1 million tickets across 1,000+ events. But the real business challenge came later. Commission rates that once reached 20% fell to 15%, then 12%, and eventually 3% to 5% as competition intensified. M Tickets had to automate operations, cut costs and rethink

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01:58:59

She Helped Build QuickMart From 4 to 72 Stores |...

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2026/10/03

From four stores to 72, Betty Wamaitha was part of the commercial journey that helped transform QuickMart into one of Kenya’s biggest supermarket businesses. In this conversation, she breaks down what actually drives retail economics: supplier negotiations, margins, shelf space, loss leaders, product movement, customer data and why availability can matter more than marketing.Betty’s own financial journey began with a different kind of commercial model. She was paid based on the additional value she

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01:23:03

How Table Flipping Fixed Her Restaurant Margins |...

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2026/09/29

A busy restaurant can still be a bad business. Sonia Iraguha, founder of Bicu Lounge, built the Kigali hospitality destination during COVID after investing roughly RWF 40 million, learning the economics of hospitality from the ground up. Five years later, cocktails contribute roughly 50–60% of revenue, but Sonia has had to learn the harder lessons around margins, pricing, table turnover, breakage and seasonality.In 2024, Bicu faced its biggest financial test when Sonia was forced to leave its

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01:41:45

He Saw the Opportunity in Pensions and Built a...

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2026/09/25

Fred Waswa started working on KSh1,500 a month. After losing his father as a teenager, he became responsible for helping support his mother and siblings, learning early that making money was not enough; you had to know what to do with it. That mindset followed him from his early jobs at Pioneer Insurance and Minet to Standard Chartered, where his salary rose from KSh4,500 to KSh75,000.The money still never felt like enough. Fred ran side businesses, lost money in a failed hotel, accumulated

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01:31:49

How a 1-Minute Sketch Became a UGX 1.6B Creative...

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2026/09/22

Richard Musinguzi once received UGX400 million from his animation business and realised that making serious money was easier than knowing what to do with it. The creator of Katoto Uganda had built a recognised creative property from a simple character sketch, eventually producing 500+ advertisements, growing to an 18-person team and generating an estimated UGX1.6 billion over four years.But behind the revenue were weak systems. Invoices were created in Word, records were difficult to track and much

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01:25:15

She Furnishes Kenya’s Biggest Events: How Furniture...

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2026/09/20

What if you could build a business from assets your customers never need to own?Patricia Mwalimu started Party Lounges with roughly KSh 85,000 worth of furniture. Today, furniture rental accounts for about 90% of the business, furnishing events for thousands of people.In this Business Edition, Patricia breaks down the economics behind the model: how they decide what to buy, how furniture recovers its cost, why some pieces only work as part of a package, and how long term rentals create predictable

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01:19:32

How He Turned Car Content Into a Multi-Million Deal...

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2026/09/18

Lookie’s automotive journey did not begin with a luxury car, a large audience or a dealership.It began with approximately $1,000 from his father and a family connection in London that helped him import small automotive accessories into Kenya. The early margins were modest, but the business introduced him to sourcing, customer relationships and the mechanics of serving a specialised market.From there, Lookie moved into car parts, using car meets, WhatsApp groups, word of mouth and the automotive

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01:05:42

Why I Moved Back to Rwanda to Build a Profitable...

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2026/09/15

Bashir Yannick Ntwari’s first gym attracted hundreds of members. The numbers still didn’t work. After returning to Rwanda in 2015, he invested in his first fitness business without fully understanding the market, pricing against what he knew from the UK, taking on too much space, spending heavily on equipment and underestimating the cost of delivering the service. Eighteen months later, the gym was gone. The failure forced him to rethink what a fitness business was supposed to look like.When Bashir

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01:43:33

Why Making Hit Songs Doesn’t Guarantee Money in Kenya...

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2026/09/11

Bilha Ngaruiya has watched Kenyan music change from CDs and physical distribution to Spotify, Boomplay, YouTube and a global streaming economy. She has also seen the uncomfortable side of that transformation: artists can have the talent, the audience and even the numbers, yet still struggle to turn music into lasting money.In this Financially Incorrect Personal Story Edition, Bilha Ngaruiya Country Manager OneRPM takes us inside the business behind Kenyan/African music and the financial lessons that

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01:26:12

How a Sermon and Two Books Helped Me Save Millions in...

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2026/09/08

Rachel Natukunda did not grow up with everything figured out. She grew up seeing what financial security looked like from a distance, worked for her own opportunities, earned a government scholarship, took on part time jobs and eventually saved enough to make one of her first major financial moves: buying a car.In this Financially Incorrect Uganda Edition, Rachel takes us through the money decisions that shaped her career, from learning to save intentionally and using credit to acquire an asset, to

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01:07:00

How Nani’s Cafe Turned Sober Parties Into Business |...

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2026/09/06

What happens when you remove alcohol from the party business?Zanelle Wanja’s answer was Nani’s Cafe Party, a Nairobi social experience built around music, coffee, wellness and community.But before Nani’s, Zanelle built Azana Collective, a fashion business that generated strong sales but struggled with high production costs and weak financial controls. The experience taught her a crucial lesson: revenue means little if the economics don’t work.After a year in fintech, she returned to entrepreneurship

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01:44:24

She Beat Corporate Targets. But Struggled With Money...

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2026/09/04

Wanini Wachira built a career out of understanding people, selling to them and growing businesses. As Head of Retail at Hotpoint, she has helped drive major growth, including more than doubling branch sales over a three-year period. But her own relationship with money was a very different story.Wanini grew up learning financial discipline from a single mother who knew how to stretch every shilling. Yet as her career progressed and her income increased, so did her spending. At one point, she owned as

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01:33:42

She turned her baby Crib into a Premium Furniture...

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2026/09/01

Paradis Nishimwe never set out to build a furniture company. It started with a crib for her baby and eventually became Wood Habitat, a Made-in-Rwanda furniture and interior design business serving high-end homes, hotels and corporate clients.But getting there was far from smooth. At one point, 8 out of 10 products were coming back because of quality problems. The business was under pressure, cash was tight and outsourcing was failing.Paradis responded by bringing production in-house, investing in

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01:57:33

He Fixed KWS. Why Couldn’t Uchumi Be Saved? | Dr...

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2026/08/28

What does it take to turn around an institution that is already broken? Dr Julius Kipngetich has spent decades fixing organisations across Kenya, from KWS and Equity Bank to Uchumi and Jubilee Holdings. In this episode of **Financially Incorrect**, he shares what really drives a turnaround: fixing the system, sequencing change and knowing when money is not the solution.At KWS, his interventions helped drive a sevenfold increase in revenue. At Uchumi, he discovered that even aggressive cost-cutting

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01:57:22

He Left Veterinary Medicine and Became One of East...

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2026/08/25

Dr Ronnie Mich Egwang has built a career few résumés could contain: veterinary doctor, broadcaster, media personality, marketer, entrepreneur and business owner. From earning $5 a week as a child to landing a $90,000 continental TV deal, negotiating major media contracts and building a multimillion-dollar marketing business, Dr Mich’s career spans decades of opportunity, risk and reinvention.But the bigger story is what those years taught him about money.In this Uganda Edition of Financially

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01:45:21

How a KSh 9M Business Made Zero Profit | Ashok Sunny...

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2026/08/23

What happens when KES 9 million in revenue leaves you with almost nothing? For Ashok Sunny, founder of Ashok Sunny Tailors Limited, that moment changed the way he understood business. Growing up in Kibera, Ashok learned early that money had to be managed carefully. His mother relied on discipline and chamas to prioritise education and basic needs, while Ashok found his own early route into entrepreneurship by altering and reselling thrifted clothes.What began with KES 5,000 suits eventually became a

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01:30:55

From One borrowed Car to Private Jets: Building...

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2026/08/21

From a KSh 30,000 banking salary to building a luxury executive travel and private jet business. Dan Njoroge’s story is not really about luxury. It is about learning what people will pay a premium for, surviving the periods when the money disappears, and discovering that revenue means very little without financial discipline. Dan started with very little. His first income was KSh 5,000 as an intern. After leaving banking, he struggled to pay rent, experimented with a stationery business that barely

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01:13:10

Why Mike Kayihura Is Betting His Music Career on East...

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2026/08/18

Mike Kayihura’s music career has taken him from church choirs and a first Rwandan paycheck to regional recognition across Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya. But behind the songs is a financial story shaped by contracts, missed opportunities, poor money decisions, community support and the difficult business of building a sustainable career as an independent artist.On this Financially Incorrect Rwanda Edition, Mike opens up about what it really costs to build a music career in East Africa, including the

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01:43:54

How Joram Mwinamo Empowered 700+ SMEs To Grow

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2026/08/14

YT DescriptionJoram Mwinamo has spent more than two decades helping African businesses grow. But some of his most valuable lessons came from the periods when his own business was struggling. From small technology and event projects at university to working internationally and eventually returning to Kenya, Joram’s entrepreneurial journey has involved failed assumptions, difficult pivots, unstable revenue and decisions where the financially attractive option was not always the right one.In this

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