Getting Rich Together

The system was not built for women raising capital, so Melissa Wallace built a new way forward. Melissa is the founder of Fierce Foundry, the first femtech venture studio in the United States. Long before she was reshaping how female founder funding works, she was sorting babysitting money into labeled envelopes and selling handmade greeting cards door-to-door with her dad's old briefcase. The ins...

Most women never get an honest blueprint for building wealth because the women around them were never allowed to talk about it either. Kristin Thomas grew up inside that silence. With inherited wealth on one side of her family and a grandfather who built everything from nothing on the other, she absorbed two completely opposite relationships to money and was taught to openly discuss neither. What...

Women's sports investing is one of the biggest opportunities in the market right now, and Lorine Pendleton has been calling it for years.   Host Syama Bunten sits down with Lorine Pendleton, founder of 125 Ventures, a venture capital fund at the intersection of sports, media, entertainment, and technology. She grew up in Harlem, earned her degree at Brown, went to law school at night while working...

94% of women expect to be fully in charge of their finances at some point in their lives. Only 28% feel confident about it. That gap in women's financial confidence is what this episode is about and Syama Bunten thinks she knows exactly where it comes from. Women don't give themselves credit for what they've already done. The student loans they paid off. The homes they bought. The kids they raised...

No advisor, no spreadsheet, no perfect plan can replace trusting yourself. With money, with risk, with the decisions that actually shape your life. And when things don't go as planned, the question is whether you'll still have your own back. Libby Clark has spent her career inside those moments. Strategic advisor, attorney, former COO, she's the person leaders call when the pressure is high and th...

Talking about money in families is hard. Talking about legacy is even harder. In this conversation with host Syama Bunten, Amy Castoro gets into why so many wealth transfers go sideways. Not because of bad legal structures or poor planning, but because families never learn to talk to each other. About what they actually need. About what they're afraid of. About what the money means to them and wha...

Some women learn money in a classroom. Katie learned it in her dad's real estate office. On Getting Rich Together, host Syama Bunten talks with investor, advisor, and former commercial real estate finance executive Katie Dunn about angel investing for women and the path that led her there. Katie grew up around deals, properties, and practical lessons about ownership, then built a career financing...

Join your host Syama Bunten, as she talks with Abbe Large. Abbe built one of the most decorated careers in financial services — the only woman in MassMutual's history since 1851 to win both Freshman Five and Chairman's Club — but her road there started with nothing but grit. Growing up in a dysfunctional household, working her first job at 14, and putting herself through college while paying her o...

Join your host Syama Bunten as she talks with Wendy Wecksell. Wendy Wecksell has spent her career doing something most financial professionals won't touch — going beneath the numbers to explore the fear, guilt, love, and legacy that quietly drive every money decision we make. As the founder of Wecksell Partners and creator of the EQ of Wealth, Wendy works with ultra-high-net-worth women and famili...

Join your host, Syama Bunten as she talks with India Gary-Martin, the former CTO & COO of international banking operations spanning 40 countries. India is also a trusted advisor to Fortune 100 CEOs and founders, and the visionary behind the Act Three Convening — a global gathering redefining what midlife means for women. But India's path from a Cincinnati living room learning blackjack with her st...

Join host Syama Bunten as she sits down with Wendy Ryan a bestselling author, board advisor, angel investor, and creator of the Learn Lead Lift Framework®—a leadership blueprint trusted by executives and founders worldwide. Syama and Wendy explore how to align your capital with your personal values.   Featured in the documentary Show Her the Money for her trailblazing work championing women founde...

Join your host Syama Bunten as she sits down with Shelley Kuipers, a prolific investor, entrepreneur, and co-founder of The 51—a venture platform unlocking the economic potential of women across Canada.  From her unconventional upbringing as a forest ranger's daughter in Northern Alberta to becoming a tech industry pioneer in the late 80s, Shelley's journey is defined by calculated risk-taking and...

In this deeply personal and expansive conversation, Syama Bunten sits down with Sara Vetter, CEO of the Soul of Money Institute and longtime partner to author and activist Lynne Twist, to explore how our earliest experiences with money shape who we become—and how healing that relationship can unlock purpose, power, and profound impact. Sara shares her journey from growing up in a wealthy but emoti...

What does it really take to build wealth through discipline, strategy, and long-term thinking—while still creating meaningful impact? In this episode, Syama Bunten sits down with third-generation entrepreneur, C-level executive, and angel investor Dawn Dobras, whose career spans fashion retail, creative industries, and board leadership. Dawn shares how early lessons in financial literacy, competit...

What does it really look like to build wealth—slowly, intuitively, and unapologetically on your own terms? In this episode, Syama Bunten sits down with real estate investor, developer, and global entrepreneur Anne-Michelle Wands, whose life story spans single motherhood, salon ownership, real estate mastery, and ultimately building a legacy in Panama. Anne-Michelle shares how she went from sleepin...

What if building wealth didn't mean starting from scratch—or doing it alone? In this episode Syama sits down with investor, advisor, and mentor Jeanne Wang to explore a powerful (and still under-discussed) path to wealth: buying and operating existing businesses. Jeanne shares her journey from growing up in a small Pennsylvania farm town, to Wharton, to decades in private equity—before intentional...

April Uchitel is the founder of The Board, a pioneering fractional executive community connecting top-tier talent with brands that need specialized expertise. With a prolific 30-year career spanning Violet Grey, DVF, and leading tech startups, April has built some of the most coveted brands in fashion and beauty. Her journey from managing a Contempo Casuals in Boulder to running global sales strat...

Lindsay Hadley is the Managing Director of Harbor Fund, the first venture capital-shaped 501(c)3 investing in films and television that change culture for good. She's the founding executive director behind Global Citizen, brought the first $17 million to the organization, and has spent her career galvanizing A-list celebrities, billionaire philanthropists, and major corporations around causes that...

Lynnette Khalfani-Cox is known to millions as "The Money Coach"—a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and one of the most trusted voices in personal finance. Her journey from sharing bunk beds with four sisters in a two-bedroom apartment to building a multi-million dollar financial education empire is a masterclass in self-advocacy and strategic negotiation. In this conver...

Kelly Resendez is a force of nature in the world of women's leadership and wealth building. As President of Minerva, founder of GoBundance Women, and former executive at GoodLeap (a multi-billion dollar fintech company), Kelly has spent her career not just climbing ladders—but building entirely new structures for women to thrive. In this powerful conversation, Kelly takes us from her entrepreneuri...

I am joined this week by the brilliant and beautiful Patty Wexler. Patty is not only backing bold founders reimagining the future economy through Avila but also someone who has had such a unique story on this earth. From growing up in Venezuela as the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors to becoming a venture capitalist investing in nuclear fusion and geothermal energy, Patty's journey is a master...

Join me for a profound conversation with Camille Scott-Wiles, an ICU nurse turned financial educator who transformed personal tragedy into a mission to help everyday professionals build lasting wealth. Camille's story begins in East New York, Brooklyn, where she grew up in poverty despite having a millionaire father, creating a complex relationship with money that would shape her entire financial...

Join me for an incredible conversation with Flossie Hall, a powerhouse entrepreneur who has built and exited multiple seven-figure businesses and is now CEO of Stella Foundation, where she's helped move over $200 million in capital to female founders worldwide. Flossie's journey from growing up in poverty in small-town America to becoming a force for women's economic empowerment is nothing short o...

I am joined this week by the beautiful and incredible Nell Daly from Revenge Capital. Nell is not only a venture capitalist investing in underrepresented founders but also a former psychotherapist who spent 17,000 hours listening to people's life stories and understanding how deeply money affects our psychological well-being and life choices. Today, we dive deep into Nell's unconventional journey...

I am joined this week by the bold and brilliant Mel Dorman. Mel is not only a successful real estate investor with nearly three dozen rental units but also a financial activist devoted to helping people reclaim their financial power through ethical real estate investing. Today, we dive deep into Mel's journey from being a self-described "anti-capitalist" social worker to becoming a real estate inv...