Sam I would NEVER move my aging parents to America to work, invest in them in Kenya, biashara or what they like doing, Kenya is relaxing and they will age more gracefully. America is tough for aging parents. They can come visit and go back as they wish but selling everything to move to America is a Veryyyy bad idea, it’s becoming more common!!

One test i do, if someone asks for money but never asks about your kids, wife is not your friend, they just want a piece of you. Most won't even acknowledge they received the money, they wait for you to ask and still blame you for not sending enough.

Mtu wangu, Mtu wangu... What a story. Ukiwa na pesa watu wanakudhamini sana. Ukikosa pesa hata hutambuliki. Bitter truth kabisa... Thanks...

True story Sam! Myself I walk in America in 1997! I was shocked and went right back to Tz after 2 months! My siblings laughed at me and said mimi ni lazy! I rebuilt myself psychological America is tough world! I learned how to do everything from farming, cattlemen job, home cleaning, etc 1 year later I came back to US 1999! As soon after everything started shining ndugu wote want piece of cake! I gave them 🖕🏼! Ndio maana I insist in you focus on na mtoi wako na mke sio ndugu aisee! My greatest achievement in life is become American! I can do anything as I want! I refused to sponsor any relatives apate green card! They can do their own way as I did! 😂😢👊🤝

When I was struggling in Kenya 99% of my relatives never called me to check on me, I started a hustling at the age of 17 immediately after high school. Same relatives started calling me when they discovered that I made it to Mr Biden soil reaching out to me with collections of their problems. I made a decision to focus on my self, I will help where I can but non of them should feel entitled. Build yourself first. I am not a sponge, I can absorb that much.

This a real life story that many of us in diaspora are in the same boat and 😢kicheko from friends and relatives.Hii story ni ya nguvu sana .Thank you for sharing na tujipange vilivyo..

I've been there too.. In tears thinking about what I've experienced especially my Mother. Very painful

Mazee ukishakuwa over 50yrs old usingie biashara na mtu yeyote hata ndugu yako. Fungua fixed account ya bank weka 75% ya pesa yote uliyo save wakati upo Diaspora. 10% nunua shares na 15% fungua cornershop uuze mwenyewe 😊.

In the past 3 years, I’ve sent 3M home thinking ati napendwa. Nilienda Kenya last month to visit and all they wanted from me ni pesa pesa pesa. Hakuna mtu anataka kujua kama niko salama ama naishi vizuri. They just want money. Niliingia ndege ya kurudi and I STOPPED sending money kabisa. Nowadays situmi pesa yoyote Kenya.

Takers have no limit! Let’s build ourselves first! Too many of us set ourselves on fire to keep others warm.

I always say put yourself first.... Don't feel bad about putting yourself first. No one is loyal to anybody. Very sorry that she went through this.

Bitter Truth bro. Put yourself first in everything.

Don't go back to kenya and start business immediately. People will take advantage of you, stay with your savings for a least 6 month iki wasoma.

Nakuambia hiyo black- tax hurudisha mtu nyuma. Yaani una sacrifice halafu ukirudi home kama umesota, watu wana anza kuulizana 'huyu naye alienda ng'ambo gani? ju ameparara kama mtu haja wahi toka Kenya.

The only, only friend you have in this world, is God, and your money… Because even if some may love you, they have their own responsibilities. Lesson learnt.

It is so sad. I feel so badly for her. They should have supported even for 1-2yrs until she was able to stand on her own.

Maze, coming to America is a crucial decision. Staying here too takes a lot of consideration. I think at the end of the day, you have to really look at the reason why you are coming and stretch it over the years to assess its impact on your family, finances and your view of life. While you are here too, your dreams change, and you end changing the original drawing book. So whats the final judgement, understand that you came to america for yourself, the rest comes later.

Akiiiiiiiii thats sooo unfair for real,,but why are we so heartless,,,But i beleive one day God will open up his rememberance book n he will restore everything for ger

Wake up call for the guys who have been here long, hope tusikia

Umenena ukweli kabisa... tujipende and kujijenga kwanza , coz the receiver hatawai sema ametosheka. .. great content Watching from the Netherlands

Mimi nashukuru Mungu nilivumilia 19 years ndio finally nimepata citizenship ju nyumbani relatives wengi walikuwa wanangoja kunicheka na wengi already walinitusi.

Thank you for the great content, we Kenyans in US needed to hear that loud and clear!. I have given back to family 30 yrs and nothing to show for it. I came over for further studies when I was 22yrs and no sense of direction. Well, I recently just started to invest only in me, coz I ain't getting any younger. Thank you.

Your KES 5M, invested in the US stock market, let’s say in the companies NVIDIA or BROADCOM for the last 2 years, would now be approximately KES 25M.

Good advice bro, very true, jipende kwanza kabla ya kupenda 👍👍👍

kitu gani unasema ,this thing is happening here too, you have a big heart people take a big advantage of you, i have sent money to people in diaspora, the best advice I got from you, I should take care of myself first , before I jump to others, but at times it's hard ,

Helpful as always! Turudi nyumbani tukachague right leaders. But if we can do it from here, let's then avoid potholes, blackouts, insecurity; infrastructure in general.

I sacrificed my last dime to bring them over, 10 years later only my mother has stood by me. The siblings now established in the US visit home to take photos in their best outfits, to show how I no longer count.

Thanks for the wonderful content. 5 mil in Kenya ukiweka kwa 364 day TBill at 16% interest unapata 800k. Even after tax uko na doh. Ukieka kwa MMF at 13% ni 650k per year.

I needed to hear this at this time. So help me God.

Enda wilston homes, utanunua townhouse ya 5 million. atleast two bedrooms. Ukiweka 5 million kaa savings kwa bank, utakuwa na about 25k interest every month. Yep!

Thank you and let's try to put it in practice. Many are there!!?

Mimi last week have cried mpaka macho ika fura acousin I have supported in education kumlipia driving after high-school supported him opening abusiness got the guts kunitusi eti sina akili 😢😢eti yeye ni mdogo ako na business yake na ameoa and am asingle mother employed 😢😢till now nikikumbuka naishiwa na nguvu kwa magoti

Hi Sam. Aki huku Kenya maisha hata kama ni biashara it's not easy. I have people who had businesses and living well but they have gone to Europe and USA to hustle. It's not easy here. For me am over 50 and if I get a chance to come to US I will come very fast. Have been working for gava for almost 30 years but If I get an opportunity with my family we will all come there. Mambo hapa si vile usiwache. Things are tough here.

Hmmmm, kwani hawa ni watu wa wapi????? Jamani that's so sad.

Very good story. Relates to me directly because for the first 10 yrs in America it was just helping fam. I realized I haven’t started a family or investment. Now it’s just me, if am to help I have to make sure am good first

Hapa umesema ukweli kabisa. Saidia but always put yourself first.

Good advice, keep up bro

It's always good to give what you can afford to lose

Big Up mzeiya, from Bongoland.

So true people need to build themselves first and when stable help occasionally. I know people in diaspora who have never taken themselves out and sadly their children to any outings because they work day and night and if someone back home asks for money they send it in an instant. Jipende and invest in yourself and kids first!!

It's so educative 🎉.Thanks bro.am you follower currently in Qatar doha🎉

That is true I have this problem with my family in 🇰🇪 ❤

“Stuck between a rock and a hard place” is indeed fitting here. Haki hii story ni sad sana, and it happens all the time! It’s bizarre how she was able to sponsor and support her entire family but they couldn’t collectively return the favour when tables turned. She gave everything to her family and left nothing for herself. I am glad she found a somewhat happy ending. I am of the opinion that my parents don’t belong here. Let me guess, she’s a first born! Her parents should have been there for her for as long as they lived! Family will drain you and laugh at you while you struggle😢

Personally I'd retire back to 254, so I think permanently relocation my old parents is a bad idea. I would support them and let them visit me abroad. Most people do take advantage of one's kindness and generosity and pay you back with so much pain.

They come to America while old because of lack of knowledge,nakutaka masifa ya kuwa wanaishi majuu .

Parents come and settle where their children are.😢

I have been listening to so many trues stories on youtube but yako imeweza .Its a lesson the family you create for yourself is more important .Kama ni parents wakae nyumbani u help them but dont lose your focus juu kikiumana you'll be on your own .

Manze big up . Your talks Mr. Sam are always on point

Ocha at times ni risky cz if you remember,jealousy at times inaingia,remember those couples who were killed in Nyamira

"You take care of yourself for you...I will take care of me for you so that I will give you the favor and blessing of never having to take care of me.“📌

Thats a wake up call. Mine made me focus on me. If i dint have what i have now i would be in shags and hopeless. Bro choose you.

Always your vedeos full of lessons

You lift them up because you want your family to shine and they give you a donkey kick , jealousy and deep longing for your downfall 🤔. Well it’s their loss Sam ❤️😘😘

Thank you MWANYUMBA. Enough said my homie

🎉🎉🎉 good information

So true!

Not only in diaspora relatives very few will rudisha mikono hata wazazi wengine uki go down they will change and not appropriate. Be Smart

⛔️Recurring pattern. Boundaries must be set‼️

5M is good money which if well invested can make someone to go far

Your stories are very relatable. I hope we learn

Sam thanks for your regular content. I choose to disagree with you today. Give and don't want to receive back. I'm in Kenya, and in the last 6 years, I thinks I have given close to Ksh 3m. I've seen that the more I give, the more I receive. Now, here is my testimony - I'm based in 254, and primarily work online. Over just the last 7yrs I have been awarded research contracts from from across the globe worth close to USD150K. Mark you, the Corona time was my best period! Sam, you consider yourself blessed by the Lord - rights. Believe me, these opened doors were never your effort. Trace these favours you receive back to the good you did to other people earlier. Proverbs 19:17 - Mercy to the needy is a loan to GOD. So when you give, never expect people to pay you back - Not even to show you love in return.

You can't pour from an empty cup. Love yourself and take a very good care of yourself before thinking of people who you are not sure they think or even care about you. It's sad but people back home are milking us every day. It's even sad they the only thing they care about is that money we send them

I've been in diaspora for 24 yrs and 've sent millions of money and the needs never stop. I send money for pple with a shamba to buy onions & kales and hire a house cleaner while me - the sender-: stretch thin my dollar by intentionally managing my summer kitchen garden for an all year sukumas supply and still do all the housecleaning, cooking etc after my very tiring work shifts. It is hard but have now grown to accept that these pple are suckliterally suckers and sorry i can't support that

Ni ukweli na ni noma 😮

bonds and treasury bills

😂 pressure ya pesa kutuma home .You’re right

She can rentisha hio nyumba yake ya US and then continue with life.

29:58😂 "see you later mamen" what did you get lid off?Do good to relatives Everyone has his own direction.Come to USA everything is worth what people are ready to pay!"

Apo walimtenda big time , big time brother . If all of these family members would come together, wakae chini waseme kila mtu atakua akiinua uyu dame na kitu kidogo sista wawili , bro mmoja na mapero wawili. That's a family of 5 apo ata kila mtu akitoa tge least dollar 50 io ni 250 $ pesa kidogo sana . Niko uku najua io from a family of 5 ni pesa kiasi considering what she did for them . But all they can see her as is ye ni mzigo yet aliwaleta akawalisha akawasomesha all by herself . To me, that is so wrong, mazee kwanza anateseka mapero wakiwa hai na ata ii states wako juu yake. Very, very wrong.

A rock and a hard place

10 million weka kwa bitcoin and leave it for years to grow. It can only pump. In ten years BTC will be $10m. Its very scarce hence the demand. It must pump!! Buy n Hold FOREVER!!

Very true buda tujipange

bro.true.i was in dubai for five years and i was building.kumbe nilikua napigiwa photo za kinja zingine.waaah noma.atleast mungu yuko.saa hii am good in forex trading but capital ni noma.i would like to communicate with you if you have time

Story ya nguvu. Seattle happy for you!

Talking gems bro. First rule of existence is self- preservation. Say an emphatic NO as an adult to emotional blackmail . Put boundaries on takers and be fortified. You will never satisfy them. Thank me later

visas kind of automatic for parents once children are citizen status

So right. 😢😢😢 i have been through it!

5 million is a lot in kenya

Hii hi Sam today the story is just similar to my daughters we divorced with the father when she was eight months and during divorce he worn the girl custody, she came to know me at 17 years and ignored me totally, she was send to U S for studies 22 years ago she has been used by the father and step mother without mercy she's still there no papers, no kids, no husband she has nothing of her own she's now 43 years, I have no other child and am OK financially but can't accept her back, she's now in that state your talking about

Uyu dem namjua

Man hii ni ukweli mtupu !!!

Families can be brutal 😢

The way you are harming those mosquitos is soo traumatizing 😂

Tuko ndani bro

Life is brutal.

I like your content

How can I order the tshirt?

Hapo Buda iko challenge kwa our parents God help us

Familia hazifanani...

hard rock and rock 😁

Ume Ongea ndugu yangu

You r relevant

Blood is not thicker than water, be wise.

The relatives chuki,

😊👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

Ndungu,,dentists wa USA wakusaidie ujaze hiyo meno ina miss hapo,,Ama?

Wewee ni homopithecas,,fossils wetu sisi😂...tupee ubuyuuu😊

Wewe mzee, hizi warnings ni mob bwana hadi unapea sisi vijana wadogo hofu. 🤣🤣

Niko darasani kaama kawaida

Huyo ni unjinga wa African.