Wilbroda Regrets Missed Financial Guidance
The veteran artiste compared her tribulations with the modern way of doing things by today’s artistes. She mentioned that younger artistes are more economical.
If Charisma spends his allowance during the month, the team will not give him more for the subsequent cycle. Photo/ Courtesy
By Juliet Jerotich
Rags to Riches and Early Career
Radio host and actress Jacquey Nyaminde popularly known as Wilbroda has revealed her biggest regret in the entertainment world. She said that she lacked a financial advisor or a mentor during her early career when her career was growing very fast.
Speaking in an interview with Alex Mwakideu on Friday, August 22, 2025, Wilbroda explained that she started earning enormous amounts of cash at a tender age. She described the experience as thrilling but admitted that most of the cash was squandered due to lack of proper financial management.
Longing for Mentorship
Wilbroda confessed that at that time, she did not even know that there were financial mentors. Looking back, she thinks that her financial story would have been different if professionally advised.
“If I had someone to advise me, I would have saved and invested well,” she said.
Lessons from the New Generation
The veteran artiste compared her tribulations with the modern way of doing things by today’s artistes. She mentioned that younger artistes are more economical. The majority of them involve professional advisors to deal with earnings and invest.
She gave an instance of artist Charisma, also known as Fidel Eli Shammah Omusula. He revealed to Wilbroda that his finance team clings to the amount of money he can use each month. If he earns a half a million shillings, only a designated amount—about one hundred thousand—is given for his expenses. The rest is directly invested.
If Charisma spends his allowance during the month, the team will not give him more for the subsequent cycle. Disciplined as this sounds, artistes are made to budget their spending wisely by this constraint, according to Wilbroda.
Missed Opportunities
Reflecting on her own life, Wilbroda admitted that she never thought about long-term investments such as land in her formative years. On the contrary, young artistes nowadays are their main priority buying property and assets at early stages of their career.
She also added that current artistes are learning lessons from past entertainers who wasted their money and became paupers.
A Strong Lesson
Wilbroda perceives the difference between her era and today’s artistes as stark. She described how the modern entertainers are intentional, well-trained, and guided. To her, the moral is that guidance and being financially accountable are the secrets to surviving in the unpredictable entertainment sector.
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