Welcome to invest in yourself, the digital entrepreneur podcast. Join the podcast mogul Phil Better as he interviews successful entrepreneurs that make their living in the digital world. Now let's join your host Phil Better and his special guest today Invest in Yourself, the Digital Entrepreneur Podcast.

To invest in yourself, the digital entrepreneur podcast. I am, of course, your host with the most Phil better, the podcast mogul, and I am happy to introduce our guest today. They run a social media marketing agency that help coaches and consultants acquire clients organically using short form content. But before this, our guest was previously a freelancer designer and programmer that transitioned into the online space to make a larger impact Because they literally started from nothing when they came to the UK at 13 years of age. They had no idea how all this tech stuff started, so we're gonna get into all that. We're gonna see what their goal is in 5 years, a book they recommend you to read, and so much more. Please welcome my guest, Mahenzi Owashu. I'm pretty sure I nailed it.

I'm not sure. I had so much fear of saying that, but thank you so much for being here today.

It's no problem, my man. Yes. But he's over. So got it close, I'll tell. Thank you so much for having me. Oh,

it's It's my pleasure. When you when I reached out to you, I because we're in a few similar Facebook groups, and I saw your saw your post, Saw what you've been doing. I'm like, I need to get this guy on because I don't have or I haven't had, someone from your area, like, went through your life Transition investing in themselves to be where they are today, and changing your life around. So I'm really excited to get into all that and share your story.

Yeah. Thank you so much, Mohan. Of course, I'm happy to be here. And, yeah, I can take it away.

Alright. So, You so like I said in your bio, you came to the UK at 13. I'm getting out of focus. Where where where did you immigrate from? So where was home before the UK?

So I was born in Nigeria, actually. So I lived there. I did travel around when I was, like, 1, 2 years old, but I lived there for, like, 13 years of my life. And, yeah, I was just in Nigeria.

So you came from Nigeria, then your parents immigrated to the UK. You went through that huge culture shock of living in the UK, and coming from Nigeria to UK because I'm pretty sure it was a huge shock. When you got out of school, what made you decide to go into freelancing?

So at the time we came over, we didn't really have too much money. And it was a thought where I was like, every single day, I would hear the word, have to make money. We have to make money from our parents, and I'm like, you know what? Let me just see what is out there. And I went down this rabbit hole of, you know, doing surveys, affiliate marketing until I realized that I actually need to be providing value because I was too focused on, like, the monetary gain. And I was like, I need to actually help people to in order to get something back, and that's when I went through the route of, like, you know, freelance web development because I was really good with computers at the time because that's what we were learning in college. And I was I thought I could actually make a lot of money from it, so I was researching it. And I was like, oh, wow. You can actually make quite a lot of money from freelancers.

So About all the courses, I learned it with, you know, the little money I had from, like, surveys. It was, like, those $12 Udemy courses and stuff. And I just I spent all this time learning, researching. Like, that course literally probably changed my life. And, yes, since then, I was just, you know, making quite a lot of decent money from freelancing at, like, 15, 16, and it was pretty good at the time. So, you know, 16 year old making, like, $200, $200 per website. That's like That's, like, 30 k a month to a 16 year old. So it was like

it was crazy. Yeah. So then you you started doing this. You started freelancing, in getting that dollar dollar bills, and I'm guessing you started looking as you took that course, you realized that you had to start investing in yourself and, like, Up your skills and that. And one of the books you talk, you you suggested was Atomic Habits. Now when did you start reading that? Was that back when you were, like, 13 to 15, or is it something that you read recently?