The Hidden Systems Keeping People Poor JUSTIN MAHWIKIZI; Author, ‘The Manufacturing of Poverty.’ Live from CHICAGO

#realconversations #poverty #finance #banking #Africa#Chicago #ThurgoodMarshall #TheShawshankRedemption #author**CONVERSATIONS WITH CALVIN — WE THE SPECIESHosted by Calvin SchwartzMeet JUSTIN MAHWIKIZI: “When we connected a few weeks ago, Iprocessed Justin’s vast financial background and accomplishments. His book,‘The Manufacturing of Poverty,’ resonated hugely. Endless questions to ask himin an interview. Bouncing around my sensibilities is how to keep this interviewless than 100 questions. Justin is eloquent, caring, genuine, and brilliant. Heinspired many off-topic questions. Future thinks. This interview is essential.I think it's expedient to insert some ideas, words, concepts, and images intothis intro. Purpose. To induce viewing. You can look in someone’s eye and seepoverty. Poverty is something manufactured rather than accidental. It’s likeplaying basketball on a soccer field. (powerful imagery). He interviewed tens ofthousands of people. Main takeaway. How similar people are. Several times, heanswered, “Find Trust.”  Reduce costs.Buy together. (for small businesses). Be gatherers, not hunters. Allow yourselfto fail. I heard the same thing last week in another interview. Modern financeis 75% psychology and 25% math. He’d like to spend a day with ThurgoodMarshall. So would I! Marshall’s father took him to court when he was a kid toobserve the court. Amazing parenting. The Shawshank Redemption. (an answer to aquestion) Dignity in escaping poverty. Love yourself first. Justin attendedValley Forge Military Academy. Then Temple. We talked about John Chaney,basketball coach. Enough said to grasp the depth, diversity, and necessity ofthis interview.” Calvin🎙️ 816+ Interviews &Videos; 5 ½ years (AI-ranked podcast in these categories in the top 1 -2%Globally!)📺 9,550+ Subscribers —and growing👉 Please Subscribe:https://www.youtube.com/c/ConversationswithCalvinWetheSpecIEsGLOBAL Reach. Earth Life. Amazing People.**The Hidden Systems Keeping People Poor: JUSTIN MAHWIKIZI;Author, ‘The Manufacturing of Poverty.’ Live from CHICAGOYouTube:BIO: I am afounder and finance executive with over 15 years of experience operating at theintersection of investment banking, foreign exchange, market structure, andcapital strategy. My work spans global financial institutions andentrepreneurial ventures, where I have led FX operations inside multinationalbanks and scaled boutique platforms. Across all roles, my focus remainsconsistent: building durable systems, reducing risk, and allocating capitalintelligently.Throughout mycareer, I have founded and led firms advising businesses with enterprise valuesfrom $2M to $20M on valuations, growth strategy, and capital formation. Earlieron, I specialized in modernizing FX trading, settlement, and reconciliationoperations, successfully cutting cycle times to same-day processing. I alsobuilt a frontier market data platform covering all 54 African countries and 22stock exchanges, which included developing a trade-weighted currency index tomanage complex FX risk.I am also theauthor of The Manufacturing of Poverty, an empirical, field-basedexamination of economic systems grounded in tens of thousands of directinterviews. Today, I leverage this human-centered, data-driven approach topartner with founders, executives, and organizations. I work with those who valueclarity over hype, robust systems over slogans, and long-term resilience overshort-term optics.LINKS:  AMAZON BOOK “The Manufacturing of Poverty;https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DHV4VM3BLINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahwikizi/**WE ARE ALSO ONAUDIOAUDIO“Conversations with Calvin; WE the SpecIEs”ANCHORhttps://lnkd.in/g4jcUPqSPOTIFYhttps://lnkd.in/ghuMFeCAPPLE PODCASTSBREAKERhttps://lnkd.in/g62StzJGOOGLE PODCASTShttps://lnkd.in/gpd3XfMPOCKET CASTShttps://pca.st/bmjmzaitRADIO PUBLIChttps://lnkd.in/gxueFZw