Plunge into Prosperity

Vasanta Pundarika spent eighteen years as a healthcare investment banker. She started at Shattuck Hammond Partners, moved through Morgan Keegan and Raymond James, and co-founded the Healthcare Investment Banking Group...

Melinda Powelson is the CEO of Match Engine — a platform business born out of one of the earliest lead-generation companies on the internet, and one that is now reinventing itself in real time. What started as a Denver...

The fastest-growing cash-flow strategy in residential real estate isn't a flip. It isn't a short-term rental. It's renting the same house by the room — and while most people argued about whether co-living was a trend...

We spend most of this show with the founders and the builders. This episode, we sat down with an allocator — one of the people on the other side of the capital table, the person who decides where the money actually...

Reena Gupta is a serial technology founder who built her first company, Avankia, in 2002 — bootstrapped, no outside capital, right after the birth of her first child. She then built TargetRecruit, the first applicant...

She was married nineteen years. When she left, she took twelve boxes, bought an air mattress, and had to almost beg a stranger to believe in her enough to sign a lease — because her credit was a mess. Lana Hailemariam...

Dr. Ashley Narain was working over 70 hours a week across two chiropractic practices when COVID shut down New York City. Instead of dreading the closure, she felt something she didn't expect: relief. That moment of...

What happens when the person building AI for family office decision- making has also lived through three generations of family business, a second divorce, a solo move to London on her own visa, and twenty-six years...

What happens when a large-scale IT project management executive becomes psychic, heals herself from seven years of mystery illness, and then builds a streaming television network from scratch with an all-female...

It started as a tap on the shoulder. It ended as a sledgehammer. That's how Andrea De La Cerda describes the years-long arc that took her from 25-plus years on the agency side of advertising and marketing — building...

You Never Really Escape the Fear — You Change Your Relationship to It. That's the framing Tessa Santarpia, Founder and CEO of Santaia, brings into this conversation — and once you hear it, you can't unhear it. In...

What happens when you lose your marriage, your entire team, and every identity you ever built around other people — all in the same season? In this episode of Plunge Into Prosperity, Brandi Kolosky sits down with Jodi...

Brandi Kolosky sits down with Seth Levine — co-founder of Foundry ($4B AUM), partner at Quantum Advantage Capital, co-founder of Pledge 1%, and co-author of the national bestseller Capital Evolution. In this episode...

Elena Bondareva stood at a Moscow intersection at thirteen years old and watched a country collapse. Her college-professor parents were bartering on street corners. Everything she knew about value, security, and...

She started a company three months pregnant. Everyone thought she was insane. Now Maryann Chen, Founder and CEO of Kaasai, is about to close a contract worth £143 million over five years — and she did it without...