Getting Rich Together
By 2030, women are projected to inherit more than $30 trillion in wealth. That's power and possibility—but here's the catch: women still earn just 85 cents on the dollar, and we don't get a 15% discount when we shop. Financial literacy and confidence haven't kept up with the times. That's where Getting Rich Together comes in. I'm Syama Bunten. After my divorce, I wrote to fifty women asking to talk about money. Ninety-five percent said no. But the few who said yes changed everything. They became my wealth expanders—showing me new ways to think about money, power, and what's possible. They were, in essence, my personal wealth catalysts -- something we can all be for each other as we unlock the wisdom inside. This podcast brings those conversations and that catalyst to you. Each week, you'll meet women across industries and backgrounds—investors, founders, leaders, and creatives—who are redefining wealth on their own terms. Their stories are here to expand your vision, unlock your wisdom, fuel your confidence, create a wealth catalyst in your own life, and remind you that wealth isn't built alone. It's built together.
Episodes
Women and wealth building look different when you stop climbing the ladder and start buying the building.
For Heather, it started with a paper route in small-town Nova Scotia, a mom who modeled resilience, and a belief that working hard was the only way out. Syama Bunten sits down with Heather Kernahan, CEO of the Content Bureau and author of Unstuckable, for a Getting Rich Together conversation about buil...
Women and money is a conversation most people only have in private, if at all.
Alicia Umpierre is a patent attorney with a Ph.D. in chemistry. She built her career with no family blueprint and no financial network to draw from. On Getting Rich Together, host Syama Bunten draws out the story behind the credentials. What emerges is the women and money conversation you know but rarely hear spoken out loud.
Impact investing for women does not have to mean choosing between profit and purpose.
Lucy Rogers built a global network connecting more than 3,000 family offices, investors, and founders by asking one simple question in every room she entered about what that person actually needed. On Getting Rich Together, host Syama Bunten sits down with Lucy to explore how that instinct became the foundation for a new ...
Annie sold a multi-million-dollar therapy center at 43. On paper, that kind of success should make a person feel safe. But money does not automatically rewrite what the body learned first.
Host Syama Bunten sits down with Annie Wright, a licensed psychotherapist and executive coach specializing in trauma recovery for high achievers, for a conversation about what financial success can and cannot fix. For An...
What if your money could fund the future you actually want to live in?
That is the question Alix Lebec has spent her career trying to answer. On Getting Rich Together, host Syama Bunten sits down with Alix, founder of Lebec, a firm built to mainstream innovative finance and put more capital to work on some of the world's biggest problems.
Alix grew up between France, South Korea, and China bef...
Generational wealth building for women starts long before the first investment, the first business, or the first paycheck. It starts with the decision to believe your life can look different from the one you inherited.
On Getting Rich Together, host Syama Bunten sits down with Twyla Garrett, a serial entrepreneur, real estate developer, and founder of the Garrett Foundation, whose story is one of the most ...
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 instinct to ...
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 she learn...
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 in enterta...
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 on their...
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 the path fo...
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 what they wa...
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 major commercial real ...
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 own rent in...
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 families to transform ...
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 stepfather to ...
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 spen...
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 a...
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 emotiona...
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...
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