What happens when love, trust and business finances become intertwined?

In this episode of Conversations with Kalekye, I sit down with Prima Ihachi, founder of Prima Elora Beauty, for an honest conversation about love, marriage, trust, money and the difficult lessons that can come when personal relationships and business finances become deeply connected.

Prima shares how she and her then-husband approached their finances as a team — discussing their individual goals, their goals as a couple, what needed to be paid and what they wanted to build together.

But one financial decision would change everything.

When they took a loan to finance a project, Prima put her salon business up as security, trusting that the loan would be repaid as agreed once the project began generating income. When that did not happen, she ultimately lost the business she had spent years building and was forced to start again.

Her experience has fundamentally changed the way she thinks about love, trust, financial responsibility and protecting what you build.

In this conversation, Prima and Kalekye explore:

- Knowing who you're building a life with

- The difference between financial partnership and financial protection

- The risks of putting your business behind a relationship

- Why love should never replace financial clarity

- What women need to understand about their own finances and businesses

- Rebuilding after losing something you've worked years to create

- The lessons Prima now wants other women to learn before making major financial decisions in love

This isn't a conversation about refusing to trust the person you love. It's about understanding that you can love deeply, build together and still be wise about your money.

Because protecting what you've built isn't a lack of trust.

Sometimes, it's wisdom.

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