Getting Rich Together

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 founders, Wendy has spent 30+ years at the crossroads of people, power, and capital.

Her journey from an HR generalist navigating Silicon Valley's dot-com boom to writing angel checks and building a legacy in girls' leadership education is one of the most quietly powerful stories you'll hear.

In this conversation, Wendy pulls back the curtain on the childhood money moments that shaped her financial identity, what it truly means to align your capital with your values, and why she believes democratizing access to capital is the greatest investment any of us can make.

Key Topics:

1. How early experiences with divorce, financial instability, and home loss wire your adult relationship with money
2. Why viewing money as a secondary currency—not the goal itself—is the mindset shift that creates lasting financial freedom
3. How to trust your gut when selling an investment and why harvesting gains at the right time beats chasing the next high
4. Navigating inheritance with grief, gratitude, and a clear-eyed vision for what becomes possible
5. Why writing your first angel check is less about expertise and more about learning to jump into the deep end
6. The case for investing in women founders—and why it's one of the highest-return moves you can make financially and for the world
7. How giving with purpose—through leadership gifts, institutions, and intentional capital—creates a legacy that outlives us all

Connect with Wendy Ryan online:

Website: https://www.learnleadlift.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendyryankadabra/

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Big Delta Capital: www.bigdeltacapital.com

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 fierce independence.

After spending a decade treating someone else's company like her own, she learned a pivotal lesson: what would happen if she gave that same energy to herself? Since 1999, she's been exclusively a founder or co-founder, building ventures that challenge the status quo. Now, with The 51 growing from 75 women in her kitchen to 48,000 across Canada, Shelley is redefining who gets capital, who builds wealth, and what legacy truly means.

Key Topics:

1. Why working hard for someone else will always have a ceiling.
2. How to break into industries that weren't built for you.
3. What shifts in your relationship with money and legacy when you start thinking beyond yourself and toward future generations
4. Why the most powerful wealth-building opportunity isn't competing for a slice of the existing pie.
5. What it actually takes to build a movement from scratch.
6. How to stop underestimating your own qualifications and start showing up as the capital steward you already are.
7. Why passion projects hit differently once you have the skills, capital, and confidence to execute.

Website: https://www.the51.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shelleykuipers/

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Big Delta Capital: www.bigdeltacapital.com

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 emotionally restrained family, through Silicon Valley affluence and personal collapse, to a spiritual awakening that redefined her life's work. Together, they unpack how silence around money, identity loss, illness, divorce, and reinvention ultimately led Sara to a soul-aligned relationship with wealth—one rooted in sufficiency, service, and embodiment.

This episode is a masterclass in money as a mirror, leadership through vulnerability, and what becomes possible when women reclaim both their financial agency and their aliveness.

Key Topics:

1. How growing up with wealth but never discussing money created a lifetime pattern of financial avoidance and dependence
2. The moment lupus, meningitis, and divorce became the catalyst for discovering spiritual awakening and authentic purpose
3. Why feeling like a fraud in the beginning of your transformation is part of becoming who you're meant to be
4. The power of showing up for yourself when no one else understands or supports your path of reinvention
5. How leading others through uncharted territory reveals your own hidden strength and authentic voice
6. Why bringing embodiment, pleasure, and play into serious wealth work creates sustainable transformation
7. Why protecting our planet is the ultimate wealth strategy—no planet, no us

Connect with Sara online:

• Website: https://soulofmoney.org

• Support the Amazon: https://pachamama.org

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Speaking: https://syamabunten.com

Big Delta Capital: www.bigdeltacapital.com

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, competitive drive, and strategic planning shaped her rise from an entry-level role in fashion retail to investing in and mentoring female and diverse founders. This conversation isn't about flashy wins. It's about building financial security early, thinking like an operator, and using wealth as a tool to empower others and create lasting change.

Key Topics:

1. Chasing the entrepreneurial spirit from a very young age
2. Maxing out the 401k as early as possible
3. It's never too late to start investing and learning more about it
4. Being a conversation starter about investing among women peers
5. Owning your expertise and fully realizing your potential
6. Getting more savvy about the investments you make
7. Teaching kids to be productive and to always be moving forward every day
8. Creating a butterfly effect to help others harness their power for exponential change

Connect with Dawn online:

Website: https://www.capitalf.vc/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawndobras

Instagram: @dawndboras

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Big Delta Capital: www.bigdeltacapital.com

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 sleeping in a hallway with two young sons to owning multiple properties across the U.S., Hawaii, and Central America—by trusting herself, spotting gaps others missed, and choosing ownership again and again.

This conversation isn't about overnight success. It's about resilience, intuition, and designing a life where money supports freedom—not the other way around.

Key Topics:

1. Breaking the Silence Around Women & Money

2. Early Money Imprinting & Entrepreneurial Roots

3. Nonlinear Paths to Wealth (Motherhood, Survival & Reinvention)

4. From Employee to Owner: Building Businesses That Create Freedom

5. Real Estate as a Wealth Multiplier

6. Scaling from Local to Global Investing

7. Lessons From Risk, Failure & Resilience Abroad

8. Legacy Wealth & Purpose-Driven Investing

Website: https://www.passive-profit-partners.com/

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/cr8grtsuccess?originalSubdomain=pa

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Wealth Catalyst Summit: https://wealthcatalyst.com/summits

Speaking: https://syamabunten.com

Big Delta Capital: www.bigdeltacapital.com

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 intentionally shifting her focus toward supporting women as owners, operators, and investors. Together, Shama and Jeanne unpack the emotional, financial, and identity-level decisions that shape women's wealth journeys, especially mid-career.

This is a conversation about legacy, risk, confidence, and why women owning businesses isn't just good for returns—it's good for communities.

1. Why signing bonuses and performance guarantees matter more than base salary in your first negotiation
2. The power of choosing diverse experience and strong culture over the highest-paying job offer
3. How to evaluate career opportunities through the lens of working with highly motivated people
4. The critical difference between building a business from scratch and buying an established one
5. How to build wealth through alternative assets while maintaining a risk-averse mindset
6. The importance of financial literacy education and creating investment competitions with your family
7. Why legacy is measured by the number of women you help into ownership, not personal accolades

Website: https://www.villagesearchpartners.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeannewang1/

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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 strategy for multimillion-dollar companies is a testament to the power of relationships, resilience, and finally betting on yourself.

In this conversation, April reveals how growing up watching her salesman father navigate feast-or-famine finances created a scarcity mindset that kept her at companies far too long—and how she finally broke free in her 50s to build her life's work. You'll discover the moment she realized equity matters more than salary, why she moved her family cross-country to chase freedom over titles, and how she's redefining what fractional work means for burned-out executives and growing companies alike.

April shares why the future is fractional, how to ask for what you're worth when you don't know the game, and why surrounding yourself with community is the antidote to the isolation of entrepreneurship.

Key Topics:

1. How a scarcity mindset from childhood kept her in stable jobs too long—and cost her wealth

2. The wake-up call that equity and ownership matter more than any salary increase

3. Why she left a half-million-dollar CEO role to build something with true agency

4. Moving from fear-based decision making to designing life on your own terms

5. The fractional revolution—why specialized expertise beats bloated org charts

6. Building a membership-based business that bootstraps without VC pressure

7. Why community and human connection are your greatest competitive advantage

8. Regulating yourself as a founder when the buck stops with you on everything

Connect with April online:

Website: https://www.wearetheboard.co/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/april-uchitel-2b56b414/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apriluchitel/?hl=en

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Wealth Catalyst Summit: https://wealthcatalyst.com/summits

Speaking: https://syamabunten.com

Big Delta Capital: www.bigdeltacapital.com

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 matter. Her journey from witnessing extreme poverty in post-Soviet Russia to raising $12 million in her first year at Harbor Fund is a masterclass in applied faith and relentless purpose.

In this conversation, Lindsay reveals how growing up in a conservative Mormon community where women were expected to be stay-at-home mothers shaped her resistance to traditional career paths—and how becoming the primary breadwinner created painful but necessary conversations in her marriage. You'll discover the inflection point when she sold her dream home for double what she built it for, moved to Hawaii, and completely reimagined her relationship with money and mental health.

Lindsay shares why she left the "eat what you kill" consulting treadmill to build residual income, how she's now matching philanthropists with Hollywood's elite to fund purpose-driven storytelling, and why changing one person's world matters as much as changing the world.

Key Topics:

1. How witnessing extreme poverty in post-Soviet Russia shaped a lifelong paradigm about money and privilege

2. Navigating the painful cognitive dissonance of being the primary breadwinner in a traditional marriage

3. The financial inflection point of selling a home for double and rethinking wealth strategy at 40

4. Moving from "eat what you kill" consulting to building residual income streams

5. Why the most powerful engine in the world is Hollywood—and how to hijack it for good

6. Creating the first venture capital-shaped nonprofit investing in films that change culture

7. Building a $100 million fund to become top 1% of independent film financing

8. Why dangerous love and being fully known matters more than any professional legacy

Connect with Lindsay online:

Website: https://www.capitafinancialnetwork.com/team/lindsay-hadley

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsay-hadley-6796a748/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lindsayshadley/?hl=en

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Speaking: https://syamabunten.com

Big Delta Capital: www.bigdeltacapital.com

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 conversation, Lynnette reveals the moment that changed everything when it came to negotiations, pathways to landing dream jobs, and how layoffs can be catalysts for more success. Lynnette shares her framework for negotiating from strength rather than need and why she's now amplifying trusted voices to reach 10 million people through the Financial Influencer Network.

Key Topics:

1. Why employers expect you to negotiate—and what it signals when you don't

2. The power of admitting what you don't know while proving what you can deliver

3. How to negotiate from a position of strength instead of need or greed

4. The career-defining mistake of not getting agreements in writing

5. Transforming a corporate "baseball bat" layoff into entrepreneurial freedom

6. Why legacy is measured in lives touched, not accolades earned

7. Building wealth at scale by amplifying trusted voices through collaboration

8. The "each one teach one" approach to creating generational financial impact

Connect with Lynnette online:

Website: https://lynnettekhalfanicox.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynnettekhalfanicox/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lynnettekhalfanicox/?hl=en

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Wealth Catalyst Summit: https://wealthcatalyst.com/summits

Speaking: https://syamabunten.com

Big Delta Capital: www.bigdeltacapital.com

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 entrepreneurial upbringing in Northern California to earning close to a million dollars by age 25, through her awakening after her mother's dementia diagnosis, and into her current mission: fixing broken systems that hold women back. You'll hear how she transformed from a "significance-aholic" chasing external validation into a conscious leader who sees money as energy and a tool for impact.

This episode is a masterclass in scaling without sacrifice, building community over loneliness, and understanding that investing in women's wellbeing isn't just good for women—it's good for families, communities, and the world.

Key Topics:

1. How growing up with entrepreneurial parents shaped Kelly's abundant mindset and fierce work ethic
2. Earning close to $1M by age 25—and why worldly success didn't equal inner fulfillment
3. The awakening that shifted money from a measure of worth to a tool for impact
4. Overcoming the "fear of numbers" that blocks most people from true wealth building
5. Creating your own job description as the secret to unlocking what's next
6. Moving from self-made success to community-driven growth through GoBundance Women
7. The investment criteria Kelly uses: founder energy + world positive impact
8. Why hormone replacement therapy is about longevity, not just symptom management.

Connect with Kelly online:

Website: https://kellyresendez.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellyresendez/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kelly_resendez/?hl=en

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Big Delta Capital: www.bigdeltacapital.com