In today's podcast we talk to Obakeng Gaitate, a chartered accountant who focuses on property tax.
Obakeng has written 12 books and as he says: he has paid for his school fees in the property market by making and losing millions in property.
On Feeling Like We Owe Our Mothers For Giving To Us Or Helping Us
One of the things I’ve had to stop myself from doing is mothering my mother as both of us get older.
I’ve had to sit with my guilt about how my life is evolving and this feeling that I need to pay my mother back for all the sacrifices she made so I live this life.
My mother never asked me to pay her back.
And part of me knows that this wouldn't be giving, it would be paying my mother back.
Sometimes, we take on financial responsibility no one asked us to take on.
We take it on ourselves and usually it's linked to our mothers and it's tied to the mother wound.
We can sometimes find ourselves feeling guilty the more successful we get and we don't know how to handle that guilt, so we give financially to our mothers.
We give financially, not because we want to, but because we feel guilty because we feel like we owe our mothers.
How to build a portfolio of 105 properties in 13 years
In this week's episode we interview Nqabenhle Manana who has managed to build a property portfolio of 105 properties in 13 years.
Nqabenhle bought his first property for his grandmother and his second house his wife and kids.
Money Can't Buy Inner Peace. Is This 100% True?
Money may not buy inner peace but it can give us the time and resources we need to find said peace. And even do the things we deem spiritually important.
Money affects so many aspects of our lives, can we afford to keep pretending it doesn't matter?
Buying property for equity appreciation
In episode 27, we go down a different path and talk to Arthur Peters a Business Economics lecturer at Nelson Mandela University, who buys property for equity appreciation instead of cashflow.
How Trauma Keeps Us From Receiving And Makes Us Perpetual Givers
I used to spend hours chanting (I was Nichiren Buddhist) just to pay rent.
The bigger my goal, the longer I used to chant. I'd host 10 hour chanting marathons because I believed a bigger goal took more time to achieve and I needed to chant for longer periods of time for the Universe/ Source/ God to hear my prayer and give to me.
I grew up seing my mom and aunts behave in the same way - they'd pray longer and harder when there was a big goal to achieve.