Plunge into Prosperity

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 Kolosky sits down with Maryann to unpack how her AI platform is automating data collection and management for...

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 Nichols Isaac chose to plunge. In January 2025, Kristin co-founded Strudel AI — a Madison-based AI sta...

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 dedicated to helping women build generational wealth through real estate, financial literacy, and the ki...

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 Parenthood Federation of America at the height of clinic violence, serving five million Americans a ye...

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, President of CurvUp, and a U.S. Senator for the World Business Angels Investment Forum — to talk about w...

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 Project Management at the University of Washington, and a Certified Guide and Healer in the Lineage of...

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 Charlene DiPaola, Founder and CEO of Hip Shake Fitness, to unpack how she went from managing million-dollar pa...

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 what she calls her "real life MBA" by running her family's Vietnamese language newspaper through the Great...

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 that great marketing requires both sides of the brain: analytical rigor and creative conviction. She's als...

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 professor — to unpack what it really takes for small businesses to stop being invisible and start getting...

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 Plunge Into Prosperity , Dr. Hemedes — Licensed Clinical Psychologist, certified EMDR therapist, Fili...

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 Utah Properties and founder of Larsen Real Estate Group, for a grounded, number-rich read on what's actua...

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 eBay, Netflix, Snapchat, and PayPal. He holds a payment processing patent from his PayPal years. He helped...

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 lifestyle changes. Every seat, every title — same north star.  Mindy Eng is the CEO of MD Alliance Solu...

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), published poet, and one of our Sacral Sisters invested in, and backing, the SPV into Sacral Fund and...

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 Capital Group and The Deal Exchange — for the inaugural fireside and the podcast's first conversati...

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 Egalitarian Managers , and co-author of The Man Behind the Roman Collar . With an MBA from RIT and 10+ years...

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 Sisters SPV — as LP investors, founding members, and community builders. We invite you to listen to t...

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 Consulting — a WBENC-certified, women-owned IT consulting firm based in Charlestown, Indiana, serv...

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 behind Drybar, recently acquired by GoSaga and scaling nationally across the United States. She is also...

$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 Vista — for an unfiltered conversation on walking a sacred path with family AND real estate. From cold-call...

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 the movement reshaping how women lead, gather, & build wealth. From a trailer-born childhood in Fl...

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