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Plunge into Prosperity
by Brandi Kolosky
Conversations Where Sacred Presence Ignites Regenerative Prosperity and Conscious Stewardship. Hosted by Brandi Kolosky — Founder, CEO & General Partner of Sacral Capital & Sacral Fund, and Founder & MP of the Sacral Sisters SPV — Plunge into Prosperity is the podcast for conscious stewards rewriting the rules of how to prosper in life. Each episode features intimate, high-presence conversations with visionary leaders who have plunged into prosperity on their own terms. Guests openly share how they navigated their unique path to abundance, the pivotal moments that shifted everything, and how they are actively stewarding their industries, their lives, and the living systems around them. Learn how to invest and build on your terms — not the old rules Hear real stories of plunging into prosperity and the personal practices that sustain it Discover how to become a true steward of
Episodes
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2k Startups, Billions Raised: No Playbook to Launch a Fund, So We Wrote Our Own | Haley Kendrick
Episode 50 is a milestone! — Dr. Haley Medved Kendrick has spent her entire career unlocking capital for the founders everyone else overlooks. She's Senior Managing Director of Investment Accelerators at gener8tor — a platform that's worked with more than 2,000 startups that have gone on to raise...
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2 Studios to 100 Vacation Rentals. Now Shareholder of Pavilion Vacation Rental Co | Caroline Ramos
Caroline Ramos didn't leave corporate America. Corporate America left her. After fifteen years in marketing — an industry she describes as roughly 90 percent men, where she was frequently the only woman at the conference table — she was let go during COVID. As she puts it, the universe burned her...
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The Money Is Coming - The Allocation Is Broken | Inside Girl Math Capital with Porter Geer
The wealth is coming. The performance is proven. And the allocation is still broken. By 2030, women in the United States are projected to control $34 trillion in investable assets. When you widen the lens to the Great Wealth Transfer — more than $100 trillion moving across generations in the…
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How Women Become Angel Investors & Board Members | Breen Sullivan (The Fourth Effect)
98 percent of investment dollars in this country flow to 14 percent of the population. Breen Sullivan (Featured in Forbes & Harvard Business School Speaker) decided to take a hammer to that ceiling. In Episode 53, host Brandi Kolosky (Founder & GP of Sacral Capital, Sacral Fund I, & Sacral…
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6% of Capital to Women's Health. 18 Years in Banking - Then She Left | Vasanta Pundarika, Lotuspring
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 at Matrix Capital Markets Group, advising on M&A, debt, and equity transactions...
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$1.8M to $5M+ and a 21% Close-Rate: Inside Match Engine's AI Sales Engine | CEO, Melinda Powelson
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 recycling company founded by her father just after the first Earth Day has…
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Once You See These Numbers, You Can't Unsee Them: The Co-Living Cash Flow Playbook | Clara Arroyave
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, Clara Arroyave was quietly building it into an asset class. In this episode of...
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Separate the Signal From the Noise — Family Office Allocator on What Moves Markets | Russ Lazaruk
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 goes. Russ Lazaruk is a Portfolio Manager and Managing Director at NCP Digital...
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3 Companies, Exited 1, 250 Women In Workforce, Running for City Council Pleasanton, CA | Reena Gupta
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 tracking system for staffing companies inside the Salesforce ecosystem. She was...
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Trauma Olympics- Employee to Owner & Why Financial Literacy Is an Energy Problem | Lana Hailemariam
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 is the CEO and sole owner of StandUP, a leadership development company serving...
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2 Businesses and 70-Hour Weeks — How Burnout Built a Luxury Wellness Brand | Dr. Ashley Narain
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 clarity became the catalyst for Sinar Treatments, a luxury physical wellness...
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A $100T Wealth Transfer: Women Investing Quietly & What Family Offices Miss| EQUATI.ai, Stacy Idema
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 inside Fortune 4 corporate innovation? You get Stacy Kehren Idema. In Episode 30…
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The Psychic CEO Building Her Own Streaming Tech Stack From Scratch | Ellen Mahloy
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 development team? You get Ellen Mahloy — CEO of Ethereal Networks, named TV Streaming...
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First a Tap. Then a Sledgehammer. Honda & Nestlé Vet on Where Her Money Goes Now | Andrea DeLa Cerda
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 campaigns for brands like Honda, Nestlé, Pacific Life, and Wolfgang Puck — to...
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The Spiritual Electrochemical Systems | Santaia: CEO & Founder, Tessa Santarpia
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 Episode 27 of Plunge Into Prosperity, host Brandi Kolosky sits down with Tessa...
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Divorce. Ayahuasca. A Contractor in Court. And a Wedding Ring Melted Into a North Star. | Jodi Koch
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 Koch — Founder and CEO of Elizabeth Erin Designs, creator of the Designing in…
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Raised $3.5 Billion & Backed 200+ Companies. 60% Sits in 5 Firms & Rules Are Changing | Seth Levine
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, Seth opens up the playbook on 20 years of venture capital — why Foundry was...
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Left Her Career in 2011. Built 20 Ventures. 5 Continents. "Impact Over Visibility" | Elena Bondareva
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 prosperity had just been stripped away. That moment became the seed for a career that...
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Started Kaasai 3 Months Pregnant, Won a £1.4M Grant, & Now Closing a £143M Contract | Maryann Chen
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 traditional venture capital. In this episode of Plunge Into Prosperity, Brandi…
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From a $60 Softball Fee to Scaling LinkedIn EMEA $35M→$75M — Now She Bets on Herself | Kristin Issac
She scaled LinkedIn's EMEA customer success operation from 35 million to 75 million in ARR. She built ESPN Digital's EMEA business from zero to 15 million in revenue. She worked inside LinkedIn, ESPN, Disney, Udemy, and the BBC. And then, after 20 years of building other people's visions, Kristin...
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Sacral Sisters on the Record: Power. Purpose. Profit. & Women's Wealth Building | Shannan Spann
This is Sacral Sisters on the Record, Episode 4 — conversations with the women who are already inside the mission. Shannan Spann is a real estate expert & owner of Blue Elite Realty, wealth-building strategist, and founder of the Women's Wealth Building Network (WWBN) — a community platform...
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$5.2M to $20M: Led 3 Nonprofits. Teaching Girls to Stop Fearing Money | Dr. Pamela Maraldo
3 Turnarounds. $5.2M to $20M. The Money Mindset Nobody Teaches | Dr. Pamela Maraldo What if the secret to building wealth had nothing to do with finance — and everything to do with energy? Dr. Pamela Maraldo has led three major organizations through complete financial turnarounds. She ran Planned...
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10% of Boards. 5% of Media. 2% of VC: The Math Against Women | Linda Fisk of LeadHERship & CurvUp
10 percent of board seats. 5 percent of media interviews. 2 percent of venture capital. This is the math against women in leadership. And it's not accidental. In Episode 19 of Plunge Into Prosperity, Brandi Kolosky sits down with Linda Fisk — Chairwoman, CEO & Founder of LeadHERship Global,...
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Sacral Sisters on the Record: Metaphysical Attorney on Trusts & Ancient Healing | Angel Latterell
Angel Latterell took the plunge with 16 other women in the first round of the Sacral Sisters SPV. She is the founder of Latterell Law, a dual-state estate planning practice serving families in Washington and Florida. She is also a PMP, a Certified Scrum Master, a published poet, an Instructor of...
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Prosperity Is What You Reclaim: Infertility & Postnatal Anxiety Led Charlene DiPaola to 2.4M Views
She grew a dance fitness brand to over 300K YouTube subscribers and 2.4 million annual video views — with zero paid acquisition. Not one dollar in ads. All organic search, all content strategy, compounded over years. In this episode of Plunge Into Prosperity, Brandi Kolosky sits down with…
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She Fled Vietnam at Birth. Amazon & Google Pay Her to Fix Teams using Curiosity. | Dr. Julie Pham
Do Google and Amazon still need someone to teach them more about curiosity? Dr. Julie Pham came to the United States as a boat person fleeing communist Vietnam. She earned her PhD in history at Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, graduated magna cum laude from UC Berkeley, and experienced…
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No Buzzwords, No Gatekeeping: Right Left Agency CEO Courtney Wasserburger
What if your deepest sense of prosperity has nothing to do with your business? That's where this conversation starts — and it only gets better from there. Courtney Wasserburger is the CEO of Right Left Agency, a digital marketing powerhouse helping B2B and SaaS brands scale through the belief…
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I Started to Survive, I Stayed for Freedom — Heather McElrath on Building Sandbox
What does prosperity really mean? For Heather McElrath, the answer is one word: freedom. In Episode 14 of Plunge Into Prosperity, host Brandi Kolosky sits down with Heather McElrath — Founder and CEO of Sandbox Communications, Fractional CMO, 30-year communications veteran, and adjunct PR…
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Clinical Psychologist & Founder Dr. Leslie Hemedes | Memories Aren't Content. Inherit with KeepSaiQ
What happens when a clinical psychologist — someone who has spent 15 years sitting with people in their most fragmented, disconnected, uncertain moments — decides she isn't just going to heal the wound, but build the infrastructure that prevents it? That is Dr. Leslie Hemedes. In this episode of...
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Positive Pivoting: Airline Stewardess to Real Estate | Barbara Larsen, Park City Berkshire Hathaway
Park City and Deer Valley are two of the most coveted mountain real estate markets in the country — and Barbara Larsen has been working them for 35 years. In Episode 12 of Plunge into Prosperity, host Brandi Kolosky sits down with Barbara, Real Estate Advisor at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices…
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Sacral Fireside Sessions #2: Untold Tech Story That Forced PayPal to Sell— Manish Maheshwari
In this episode of Sacral Fireside Sessions, Brandi Kolosky sits down with Manish Maheshwari — Founder of Soldi Now, Inc., Silicon Valley veteran, and author of the six-book Divine Life series — for one of the most layered conversations in the show's history. Manish spent three decades inside…
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Nurse to CEO. 40 Clinics. Backed by Private Equity. Starting with Lifestyle Changes | Mindy Eng
Mindy walked into this conversation as someone who's been in the thick of it — bedside nurse, ER administrator, fertility COO, and now running as CEO a 40-location dermatology network backed by private equity. But what really got me was when she said: it starts with the patient. And Begins with...
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Sacral Sisters on the Record: Invest in Intuition: 18 Pathways & Money is Energy | Crystal Clenney
What if your intuition isn't woo — but a measurable signal your body has been broadcasting your whole life? In Episode 9 of Plunge Into Prosperity, Brandi Kolosky sits down with Crystal Clenney — founder of Intuitive Human©, enterprise payroll architect (Starbucks, Delta, 100K+ employee systems),...
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Sacral Fireside Sessions: $50M for Formula E to 8-Figure Energy Deals | Markell Blount
Welcome to Sacral Fireside Sessions — the new Plunge Into Prosperity series featuring the advisors, investor introducers, and strategic partners inside the Sacral ecosystem. This is Episode #1. Host Brandi Kolosky (Founder & GP, Sacral Capital) sits down with Markell K. Blount — Founder of Quant...
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Xerox to NY Philharmonic to Getting Younger Every Day—30 Years Diagnosing Weakest-Links: Linda Keefe
What does it actually look like to "plunge into prosperity" — not once, but again and again, across an entire life? In Episode 6 of Plunge Into Prosperity, Brandi sits down with Linda L. Keefe — CEO of Shared Results International, longtime publisher of Tech-Talk.com, author of 7 Habits of...
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Sacral Sisters on the Record: Deanna Reich, $42.5M of Closed Capital that Builds
This is not a regular episode of Plunge Into Prosperity. Sacral Sisters on the Record interviews the Women Investors of Sacral Sisters SPV who have already taken the plunge. It will be an ongoing series inside Plunge Into Prosperity, featuring the voices of the women who are stewarding the Sacral...
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Teacher to Tech CEO: 'Too Much AND Not Enough' Katie Hutchinson Built KHIT
What happens when a classroom teacher walks away from a director's seat after being told she's "too much and not enough" — and decides to build something on her own terms instead? In Episode 5 of Plunge Into Prosperity, host Brandi Kolosky sits down with Katie Hutchinson, Founder & CEO of KHIT...
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Jessica Yarmey: From 3 Layoffs to President of a Drybar-Born Empire
She was laid off three times. Then she built 30 gyms in 3 years, sold to Mayweather Boxing & Fitness, and now leads a Drybar-born empire as the President of Squeeze Massage. Jessica Yarmey is the newly appointed President of Squeeze Massage — the tech-enabled massage franchise from the team…
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$150M, 200 Homes, 80 Airbnbs Before 30: Shannon Powers' Sacred Path Through Family & Real Estate
$150M under management. 200 single-family homes. 80 Airbnbs. Before 30. And she's doing it all with her father and her brother. In this episode of Plunge Into Prosperity, host Brandi Kolosky sits down with Shannon Powers — Asset Manager and Investor Relations lead at RTO Property and Sundown…
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From Dance Floor to the Cap Table - Brandi Kolosky
She danced professionally for 21 years. Now she's building a venture fund. In this inaugural deep-dive episode of Plunge Into Prosperity, co-host Arundhati Patelolla turns the mic on founder and host Brandi Kolosky for the story behind it all — Sacral Capital, Sacral Sisters, Sacral Advisory, and...
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My 'Why' Behind the Plunge
If you feel called to heal systems, invest with intention, and step fully into the abundance we were all born with… you are exactly where you’re meant to be. Subscribe now and join the plunge. Full show notes & more episodes → https://plungeintoprosperity.com/episodes
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Conversations Where Sacred Presence Ignites Regenerative Prosperity and Conscious Stewardship.
Hosted by Brandi Kolosky — Founder, CEO & General Partner of Sacral Capital & Sacral Fund, and Founder & MP of the Sacral Sisters SPV — Plunge into Prosperity is the podcast for conscious stewards rewriting the rules of how to prosper in life.
Each episode features intimate, high-presence conversations with visionary leaders who have plunged into prosperity on their own terms.
Guests openly share how they navigated their unique path to abundance, the pivotal moments that shifted everything, and how they are actively stewarding their industries, their lives, and the living systems around them.
Learn how to invest and build on your terms — not the old rules
Hear real stories of plunging into prosperity and the personal practices that sustain it
Discover how to become a true steward of
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