About Grow With Papa
Money is never just about money.
Grow With Papa explores how people build wealth—and what wealth is actually for.
Where it began
It started with a microphone in a bedroom.
Grow With Papa began in a bedroom in New Jersey.
Papa Yaw Quainoo wanted to understand money better, and to have conversations that went deeper than the usual financial questions.
Those conversations became Grow With Papa.
Not only
- How much should I save?
- What should I invest in?
- How do I make more money?
But
How does money intersect with our careers, businesses, families, faith, ambitions and the lives we're trying to build?
The belief
Information doesn't build wealth. Action does.
Knowing something and doing something are very different things. Grow With Papa is interested in what happens between those two points.
- The decisions.
- The experiences.
- The fears.
- The tradeoffs.
- The habits.
- The people.
- The beliefs behind the numbers.
The conversations
Better questions create better conversations.
We aren't interested only in what someone knows. We're interested in what happened that made them believe it.
Who we talk with
- Financial professionals
- Entrepreneurs
- Founders
- Wealth builders
- People whose experiences changed the way they understand money
Not a biography. We listen for
- Tension
- Belief
- Experience
- Contradiction
- Decision
- Transformation
Your host
Hosted by Papa Yaw Quainoo.
Papa grew up in Accra, Ghana, and moved to the United States at 17. He studied Entrepreneurship at Rutgers University, built a career in financial technology, including time at Bloomberg, and has kept building things of his own ever since.
He isn't hosting these conversations because he believes he has all the answers. He is deeply curious about how people build wealth, make decisions and construct meaningful lives, and he keeps studying financial planning and wealth to ask better questions. Grow With Papa lets the audience learn alongside him.
“I started Grow With Papa because information alone doesn't change people's financial lives. I'm interested in what happens between knowing and doing.”
The show travels
From a bedroom in New Jersey to listeners across six continents.
The question got bigger as the show did. Conversations now happen in the studio, on location and on rooftops in San Francisco, and the podcast is downloaded on every inhabited continent.
- North America72%
- Europe10%
- Asia10%
- Africa5%
- South America1%
- Oceania<1%
Podcast host snapshot, October 2026. Downloads are not unique listeners.
- Published conversations
- 63+
- Podcast downloads
- 4,500+
- YouTube views
- 22,700+
Where money meets life.
The conversation is still growing.
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