STACKED | Bitcoin, Wealth & Wellness for Women

Welcome back to STACKED, the show about becoming your own best asset. Today I sat down with Courtney Spritzer, Co-Founder of Entreprenista, a private membership community of more than 3,500 women entrepreneurs across the U.S., Canada, and beyond. Courtney didn't set out to build a community business — she studied economics at NYU, graduated in 2009 into one of the worst financial crises in a c...

Welcome back to STACKED, the show about becoming your own best asset. Today I sat down with Colleen Wachob, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of mindbodygreen, the independent media and wellness brand she launched with her husband Jason out of a Brooklyn apartment in 2009. It now reaches 15 million women a month, and their supplement line launched in 2020 is the fastest-growing part of the business. In this c...

Welcome back to STACKED, the show about becoming your own best asset. This week I am going solo. This is the episode I have been meaning to do for a while — my full career arc and the honest version of how I actually got here. I started at Tulane, transferred to Fordham, studied economics, and spent my college years doing every fashion internship I could find in New York City. I landed my dream jo...

Welcome back to STACKED, the show about becoming your own best asset. Today I sat down with Tatiana Moroz, singer-songwriter, early Bitcoiner, and founder of Crypto Media Hub. Tatiana is a Berklee College of Music alumna who bought her first Bitcoin at $11 in 2012 through a connection from the Ron Paul campaign. Two years later, she created TatianaCoin on the Bitcoin blockchain—the world's first a...

Welcome back to STACKED, the show about becoming your own best asset. Today I sat down with Karine Nissim, serial entrepreneur, who studied filmmaking in Los Angeles, and built her first real company there alongside her late husband. That company was Dog Vacay, the Airbnb for pets, which raised $50 million and went on to merge with Rover. During the pandemic, she launched Shmask on her own, a shir...

Welcome back to STACKED, the show about becoming your own best asset. Today I sat down with Scott D. Clary, host of Success Story Podcast, one of the Top 10 business shows on earth with over 30 million downloads and 321,000 newsletter subscribers. Scott grew up in Ottawa in a family of government workers, nearly went to law school, then spent a decade moving through enterprise sales, startup CRO r...

Welcome back to STACKED, the show about becoming your own best asset. This week I am pulling back the curtain on Part 2 of how I use AI in my business — and this one gets specific. I walk you through the exact Claude systems, automations, and workflows my team uses across partnerships, content production, podcast operations, and customer service. We are talking brand voice documents as sources of...

Welcome back to STACKED — the show about becoming your own best asset. Today I sat down with Elisa Marshall, co-founder and Chief Brand Officer of Maman, the French-inspired café and lifestyle brand she built with her husband Benjamin Sormonte from a 1,600 sq ft SoHo grab-and-go in 2014 into 54 locations across the US and Canada, a Martha Stewart collaboration, and one of the most imitated brand a...

Welcome back to STACKED — the show about becoming your own best asset. Today, I sat down with Bob Burnett. Bob spent over 35 years at the intersection of technology and infrastructure — on the engineering team behind the world’s first laptop, and as CTO of Gateway Computers, one of the most iconic Fortune 200 companies of the era. In 2017 a single phone call brought him into crypto mining and one...

Welcome back to STACKED — the show about becoming your own best asset. Today Emily sits down with Sophia Mullins, founder and CEO of Wall Street Wellness. Sophia spent nearly a decade on Wall Street across investment banking at Barclays, private equity, venture capital, and hedge funds when  a Hashimoto's diagnosis in the middle of her career stopped her in her tracks. Two traditional doctors...

Welcome back to STACKED, the show about becoming your own best asset. In this week’s live filming at our STACKED IRL event Emily goes from banking to beauty empire with Divya Gugnani, serial founder, investor, and mentor behind five companies, three exits, and one of the most honest founder stories you will hear this year. She started at Goldman Sachs from Cornell without being on their recruit li...

Welcome back to STACKED — the show about becoming your own best asset. What do you actually do if the government comes for your crypto? What happens to your Bitcoin if your custodian goes bankrupt? And why does everyone keep saying "not your keys, not your coins?" This week we're going inside the crypto courtroom.  Greer Griffith is a partner at McDermott Will & Schulte and leader of their fin...

Welcome back to STACKED — the show about money, Bitcoin, entrepreneurship and wellness built specifically for women who are done being talked down to. I am going to be honest with you. For a long time I was using AI the way most people use it. Type a question, read the answer, close the tab. And I thought I was ahead of the curve.  I was not. 6 weeks ago everything changed. I ran the same prompt i...

Welcome to Episode 005 of STACKED — the show about becoming your own best asset. Emily sits down with Maria Sosa, AKA Holistically Grace — couples therapist, divorce counselor, and author helping thousands of women navigate love and heartbreak. Maria left a father-chosen marketing career to become a couples therapist — then got divorced while her following was growing. She hid it, shared it, and t...

Welcome to Episode 004 of STACKED — the show about becoming your own best asset. Today Emily sits down with Julia O’Mara, co-founder and COO of Pickle, the peer-to-peer fashion rental marketplace that is Airbnb for your closet. At 23, Julia left a senior product manager role at Blackstone to build a platform that lets women make passive income renting out pieces they already own. She bootstrapped...

Welcome back to STACKED, the show about becoming your own best asset. Today, Emily sits down with Cory Klippsten, founder and CEO of Swan Bitcoin — the wealth platform that has purchased $4.5 billion in Bitcoin for families and businesses building long-term wealth. Before Swan, Cory spent 15 years at Google, McKinsey, Microsoft, and Morgan Stanley, and earned his MBA from the University of Chicago...

Welcome back to STACKED — the show about becoming your own best asset. In this episode, Emily sits down with Ella Davar, registered dietitian, longevity expert, and founder of the Gut Brain Method. Ella is a former Wall Street professional who left to earn her Registered Dietician degree from NYU. She is a top nutritionist in Miami and the author of five books including The Foodie Diet. Ella is pr...

Welcome to Episode 1 of STACKED — the show about becoming your own best asset. I'm Emily Dempsey, and this is the full origin story of how this podcast came to be.  How a girl from Chicago who grew up around finance,  and wanted nothing to do with it — ended up buying fashion at Bergdorf Goodman, building South Florida's largest women's network from a Facebook group, and spending two y...

What does it take to build a life that's actually yours? Welcome to Stacked with Emily Dempsey — the podcast at the intersection of Bitcoin, wealth-building, entrepreneurship, and living well. Emily went from luxury fashion buyer at Bergdorf Goodman to Bitcoin miner, founder, and financial strategist. Now she's your filter — taking expert-level conversations on digital assets, business, an...