Mena, 34At a glance
Who
Mena: “I’m 34 years old and I live in Accra, Ghana, in West Africa” (0:14). The Real World’s caption: “Mena, 34”, with a Ghana flag.
Starting point
An existing business: “I’ve run my business for eight years now” (2:06), and “for eight years I had become complacent”. Mena doesn’t say what the business is.
Campus
“I started with a content creation campus” (0:52), which “had just opened”; “now I’m also in the e-commerce campus, because I have a website”. The campus is now called AI Creative in the app.
Timeline
“I joined the campus in May this year” (2:09). The video doesn’t name the year; it was on The Real World’s home page by 28 September 2023.
Result (video)
“from the time I joined, I joined in May, up till now I’ve made close to five figures” (4:09). Per month, Mena says, “that would depend”. Also: “I’ve worked with two clients now” (2:43).
Result (caption)
The Real World’s caption: “New revenue: $2k+/month”, and “over $2,000/month due to the lessons” applied “from the Content Creation Campus”.
Mena gives a total since May, “close to five figures”, with no currency, and says the monthly figure “would depend”; the caption turns that into “over $2,000/month”. The interviewer then sums it up as “you’ve made five figures back”, which is more than Mena said. The Real World doesn’t say how it got the monthly figure. The figures are Mena’s and The Real World’s own; this site hasn’t seen them.
What Mena said
6 lines from the interview, copied exactly, each with what it means in plain English. The times are where they fall in the video.
“I’ve run my business for eight years now, and I joined the campus in May this year.”
What it means: Mena came with a working business; the campus was for growing it.
“for eight years I had become complacent. So I needed new things, I needed new challenges.”
What it means: Why Mena joined: “I was really stuck”, not short of a business.
“I started learning how to speak to camera, I started learning how to actually create content that sells.”
What it means: What Mena took from the campus: being on camera and content made to sell. (The campus also teaches faceless content, the member behind this site says.)
“I’ve worked with two clients now, which is totally outside my niche”
What it means: After the campus’s outreach courses, Mena took paid client work beyond the original business: “And I get paid for that.”
“from the time I joined, I joined in May, up till now I’ve made close to five figures.”
What it means: A total since joining, not a monthly figure, and no currency. The caption says over $2,000 a month.
“You don’t just join the campus.”
What it means: Mena’s answer to people who ask if it works: “you need to put in the work.”
What Mena did, step by step
Mena heard about it at home
Mena came across it “through my boyfriend”, when “the campus had just opened”, and “joined straight away”.
In the video at 0:23
Mena started with the Content Creation campus
“I literally just learned everything and then directly applied to my business.”
In the video at 0:52
Mena learned to speak to camera
And “how to actually create content that sells”: “When I did that, I was amazed at the results.”
In the video at 2:27
Mena took on outside clients
After “courses in outreaching to other clients”, Mena worked with “two clients now, which is totally outside my niche”, and reinvests the money: “I can also invest that money in my business.”
In the video at 2:38
Mena added the e-commerce campus
“because I have a website”: “I’m picking all the knowledge that I can from everywhere.”
In the video at 1:03
Full transcript
Read the full interview transcript (5 minutes)
Transcribed on 26 October 2026 from the interview audio with Whisper speech recognition (run locally), then checked against a second full pass and a re-run of every quoted part: punctuation fixed, nothing added. “I got all about the place” (0:30) is as heard in every pass. Mena gives a surname at 0:16; we leave it out. Speaker labels are ours. The interviewer is from The Real World. The $49 and $50 mentioned were the price at the time; today it is $99 a month on the official checkout.
0:00 Interviewer: Mena, how are you?
0:01 Mena: Hi, I'm good. How are you?
0:03 Interviewer: I'm absolutely wonderful. So, do you want to start by telling me a little bit about how you discovered The Real World, your name, your age, how you first came across the message that me and Andrew like to put out?
0:14 Mena: Yes, sure. My name is Mena [surname not transcribed]. I'm 34 years old and I live in Accra, Ghana, in West Africa. I came across it through my boyfriend, actually.
0:26 Interviewer: Oh, nice.
0:27 Mena: Yes, he introduced me when I was like, I got all about the place with my content creation. So the campus had just opened. So as soon as he told me about it, I joined straight away.
0:39 Interviewer: So obviously you're living in Ghana, you discover The Real World. What campuses, I know you touched on it briefly, but which campuses, which lessons did you gravitate to, first of all, and what did you learn?
0:51 Mena: Right, I started with a content creation campus. I learned so many things from there because of the nature of my business. So I literally just learned everything and then directly applied to my business. But now I'm also in the e-commerce campus, because I have a website. Yeah, so I'm picking all the knowledge that I can from everywhere.
1:11 Interviewer: Yeah, good, good.
1:12 Mena: Yes, yes.
1:17 Interviewer: Sorry, do you network within The Real World at all? Have you made any friends, spoken to many people? I mean, talk about the group dynamic, because being a woman in a group, I guess, that is predominantly young men. How do you find the environment?
1:30 Mena: Real well. It's actually pretty interesting, because I don't have any brothers, so being in the whole men community was different for me. But everyone is so nice. Everyone helps me out with little projects that I do; they correct certain things for me. And I've also built a relationship with most of them, you know? I know I can always go to them directly, and also the professors as well.
1:55 Interviewer: Yeah, good, good.
1:56 Mena: I feel like a little sister.
1:58 Interviewer: So do you want to tell us a little bit about your business and how the lessons in The Real World have helped you grow it?
2:06 Mena: Sure. I've run my business for eight years now, and I joined the campus in May this year. So the real reason why I joined was because I was really stuck. I was in a place where I couldn't get creative, you know. I mean, for eight years I had become complacent. So I needed new things, I needed new challenges. So when I joined and I started learning how to speak to camera, I started learning how to actually create content that sells. When I did that, I was amazed at the results. And also I've taken courses in outreaching to other clients, and I've worked with two clients now, which is totally outside my niche, but I have a good challenge. Yeah. And I get paid for that. I can also invest that money in my business.
2:53 Interviewer: Beautiful. What would you say to people who say that The Real World is a scam, that the Tate brothers just want to steal $49 from everybody?
3:02 Mena: That is ridiculous. If you're asking if the juice is worth the squeeze, it is absolutely worth the squeeze. My life has been very different since I joined. I mean, I will have our down moments, but there are times when I just go to the campus, I take a course and I forget what even got me in a bad mood, because I get in the work mood. And if you're paying $50 a month for this, I think it's totally worth it. If you go to the university, how much fees do you pay per semester? You have nothing to lose. And also, when you put in the work… I get a lot of messages of people asking me, does The Real World really work? Does it really work? And I got tired of replying, because you need to put in the work. You don't just join the campus. When you put in the work and you practice, there is no way you're not going to succeed if you put your mind to it. You need to practice and put in the work.
3:53 Interviewer: So I'm going to ask you a slightly more personal question. Obviously you pay $49 a month inside of The Real World. How much, if you had to guess, how much more money you make per month because of the lessons you've learned, what would you say?
4:07 Mena: Per month, that would depend. But from the time I joined, I joined in May, up till now I've made close to five figures.
4:15 Interviewer: Nice, beautiful.
4:16 Mena: Yes, that has been a very big help to me and the people around me, because I've also taken on a lot of responsibility and I have people to take care of. So I have to keep going, and I need to keep on getting creative every day, come up with new ideas.
4:35 Interviewer: That's beautiful. So since May, you've paid three figures in total membership fees, and you've made five figures back from the lessons. I mean, this is why me and Andrew do what we do. We love empowering people. We love teaching people lessons that actually work in the real world in terms of making money. Thank you very much for your time. Give your regards to your boyfriend. Tell him thank you very much for introducing you to our content. Have a wonderful evening. Goodbye. Nice to meet you.
5:01 Mena: Nice to meet you. Bye.
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What the AI Creative campus offers
What the AI Creative campus looks like from a member’s account, how a new member starts, and what the support is like. The AI Creative campus page covers what it teaches, and the AI Creative campus review covers the costs and what can go wrong.
How you get started
Join and pick AI Creative
One membership covers every campus: $99 a month or $996 a year on the official checkout. In the app the campus is called “AI Creative”; the official site still lists it as Content Creation + AI and has no course page for it.
Start with course 1
1. What You Need To Know First (“The Basics That Everybody Else Gets Wrong”). Its first module has four lessons: Welcome To The AI Creative Campus, Productivity > Consumption, The Power Of Showing Up and The Elephant In The Room.
Then the numbered courses
2. The Foundation Of Making Money With Video (“Build The Skill Everything Else Depends On”) and 3. Start Getting Paid ASAP (“The Step That Gets You To $10K A Month”) are locked at the start, as are Social Media Marketing and Behind The Scenes of Cobratate. The Short Form AI Editing Bootcamp is open from day one.
Apply it to your own business
Mena “directly applied” the lessons to an existing business (0:58), then used the outreach courses to find clients (2:38).
What support is like
- Chats. A new member sees four channels: #announcements, #popespeech, #wins and #ai-creative-chat. Mena: “Everyone helps me out with little projects that I do”, and “I know I can always go to them directly, and also the professors as well” (1:41). The Real World publishes no response-time promise.
- The community. Mena on being a woman in a mostly male group: “everyone is so nice”, and “I feel like a little sister” (1:30 to 1:56). That is one member’s experience.
- Other campuses. One membership covers every campus. Mena added the e-commerce campus for a website: see the Ecommerce campus.
- #wins and the leaderboard. A staff post in #announcements says the #wins channel “starts the process” and that the top 25 are confirmed “with proof” before the leaderboard. No posts from it have been captured for this site yet.
- No guarantee. The Real World’s Terms of Use say it doesn’t guarantee any financial outcome. Every campus starts from the fundamentals and assumes no prior knowledge.
Real wins and reviews
No posts from the AI Creative campus’s own #wins channel have been captured for this site yet, so these are other members’ wins from across The Real World, with names and avatars blurred (any that show this campus come first). Tap any screenshot to see it full size. They are individual results, not typical ones, and not a promise: The Real World doesn’t publish average member earnings.
What members said on Trustpilot
Trustpilot has since removed The Real World’s profiles. These excerpts come from archived copies of those pages, read on 25 October 2026, with the reviewer’s first name, country and date as shown; “Invited” is Trustpilot’s label for reviews that came through a business link. The jointherealworld.com.de profile was not run by The Real World; reviewers used it anyway. They are reviews of The Real World as a whole, not of one campus, and other people’s words, not this site’s findings.
“The biggest thing for me, besides the lessons and the professors, is the community. You have a problem, ask a question in chat, fixed in 5 minutes.”
“after a month, I informed them that their services were not suitable for me. Despite my clear communication, they attempted to withdraw a significant amount of money from my credit card for an additional two months.”
The Real World replied: “turn off auto-renew before your next billing date.”
“Most the informaton you could find for free online in other places but you'll spend more time trying to find a simple step by step guide then using this platform.”
“Despite paying $49 per month (around $300 total), I didn't make any money or gain valuable insights. Much of the content was outdated and U.S.-focused”
“the campuses are also perfect if you are completely new to these methods of wealth creation but it'll take you some time before you see results.”
“The courses themselves are okay, but they're difficult to apply, and getting real clients is even harder. Overall, I don't think this works.”
For the record, the scores on 27 February 2025: the profile at trwstudent.com showed 2.9 from 23 reviews, and therealworldeducation.com showed 4.4 from 82, most of them invited through a business link over two days. Both profiles have since been removed.
Is this path for you?
It may suit you if
- You already run a business and want to market it with content. Mena had run one “for eight years” and “had become complacent”.
- You are willing to learn to speak to camera, as Mena did, or to make faceless content instead.
- You will practise. Mena: “You need to practice and put in the work.”
- You like making videos or other content, and learning new software to do it.
It may not suit you if
- You plan to make one video and stop. In the view of the member behind this site, the campus is about “quality and quantity, not just quantity and not just quality”, so it needs regular posting.
- You expect results from joining alone. Mena: “You don’t just join the campus.”
- You can only give it the odd hour. The official courses page says “the checklist expects a few focused hours per day” and that “Members who treat it as a side interest see little.”
- You need a guaranteed return. The Real World’s Terms of Use say it doesn’t guarantee any financial outcome, and Mena’s figures are Mena’s own.
Mena’s numbers are one student’s account, given in an interview The Real World chose to publish, from someone who already ran a business. Whether you have to show your face, and which platforms it focuses on: the Content Creation + AI campus review (written before the app renamed it AI Creative).
What happens after you join
The member behind this site went through these steps himself. This is his own account, from 25 October 2026.
Choose a plan on the official checkout
You go to the official checkout and choose a plan. Only Conquer ($99 a month, or yearly at 17% off) can be bought now: Vanguard ($499 a month) shows “Sold Out” on the checkout (checked 25 October 2026).
Get the sign-in email
After you pay, you get an email with a link to sign in.
Set your password and log in
On the sign-in page you click “Forgot password”, which emails you a link to set your password. Then you log in.
Choose the AI Creative campus
You choose your campus: AI Creative, the one this page is about. Every campus is included.
Start the courses
You start the courses: watch the lessons and take notes. Finishing lessons unlocks the next sections and chats.
The choice is yours
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Sources
- The Real World: Mena’s student interview video (Cloudflare Stream) — transcribed October 26, 2026
- jointherealworld.com home page with the interview and its caption (Wayback Machine, September 28, 2023)
- Inside The Real World app: the AI Creative campus Learning Center, first lesson and #announcements (screenshots from the owner’s member account) — captured October 26, 2026
- The Real World: homepage, courses and About pages (Content Creation + AI in the campus list; no course page of its own) — checked October 26, 2026
- The Real World: courses page (the campus list, where to start, time per day) — checked September 12, 2026
- The Real World Terms of Use (no guaranteed outcome) — checked September 14, 2026
- Trustpilot reviews of trwstudent.com, archived February 27, 2025 (Wayback Machine) — read October 25, 2026
- Trustpilot reviews of therealworldeducation.com, archived February 27, 2025, pages 1 and 2 (Wayback Machine) — read October 25, 2026
- Trustpilot reviews of www.cobratate.com, archived December 28, 2022 (Wayback Machine) — read October 25, 2026
- Trustpilot reviews of jointherealworld.com.de (not run by The Real World), archived February 27, 2026 (Wayback Machine) — read October 25, 2026