Edwin's Corner

  Have you ever been on a roaring journey of success and then, without warning, something happens, and you feel blindsided? Not because you've failed in a dramatic, public, movie-scene kind of way. Nothing so grand. Life tends to be less theatrical than that. It’s more subtle. More surgical. You just begin to feel like something around you is crumbling. The picture you had of yourself—something you polished, framed, and hung proudly in the gallery of your mind—begins to show cracks. What once seemed like paradise starts to peel away. What felt stable begins to wobble. That is something I've experienced numerous times over the past few months. Not because I am going crazy. Though, to be fair, when you start intentionally challenging the story you’ve built about yourself, madness can sometimes seem like a relative. You wave at it from across the road and keep walking. No, this was not madness. It was deliberate. I had decided to test my reality. More specifically, I had dec...

  Rejig of the Poster of the MasterMind Mentors Club 24th March Webinar It is almost strange to say this, but many businesses do not fail because of money. They fail because of leadership. Specifically, they collapse due to the leader's hidden patterns. That was one of the hardest truths that became clearer for me as we discussed the conversation on cashflow and collapse at the MasterMind Mentors Club . We started by talking about financial pressure, delayed payments, debtors, suppliers, payroll, and all the outward signs entrepreneurs like to complain about. But beneath all that noise lay a more uncomfortable truth: cash flow problems are often not primarily financial. They are behavioral. They are psychological. They are deeply personal. And if we are honest, that's why they are so hard to resolve. Because it’s easier to blame the market than face yourself, it’s easier to say clients are delaying payment than to admit you're terrified of difficult conversations. It’...

  The first Men's Group Mtaani session A recap of the first Men’s Group Mtaani session There are places where we usually gather as men. Nice hotels. Clean spaces. Tasteful décor. Order. A certain dignity to the environment. The kind of places where even your problems behave themself for two hours. You arrive, sit well, speak well, take tea, nod thoughtfully, and leave feeling like life has a sense of order. Then, some places don't care about your structure—places that give you reality straight up, without any fluff. That Saturday, I transitioned from one world to another. I had just finished serving as Toastmaster of the Day at Magnetic Toastmasters Club. That alone already requires sharpness of mind, presence, timing, and social energy. Then I left there and headed toward Langata for our first-ever Men’s Group Mtaani meeting. If I am honest, I didn't fully know how it would go. I had hope, yes. Vision, yes. But certainty? Not even a little. The weather itself seem...

  Bobby Gadhia & George Ikua A reflection on success, masculinity, and the quiet inner battles behind achievement. Introduction: The Inevitability of Struggle There are conversations we naturally steer clear of. Not because they are controversial, but because they demand honesty about something uncomfortable: suffering. Life has a strange way of bringing trouble without warning. It rarely waits until we feel ready. Problems show up when careers are just starting to take off, when relationships seem secure, or when everything looks like it's going in the right direction. And when they do come, they rarely ask for permission. If we take the time to notice the pattern, a difficult truth becomes clear: struggle is not an exception to life; it is part of its structure. The Bible illustrates this clearly: “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.” Genesis 3:17. The verse does not condemn work itself; r...