What The Wealthy Do
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What The Wealthy Do – Financial Wisdom for Black Women 💼👑
This 15-minute podcast helps Black women decode the strategies the wealthy use to build and grow wealth—and how you can apply them on your wealth building journey. Because you don’t have to wait until you’re wealthy to do what the wealthy do.
Short, powerful, 15-minute episodes drop every Wealthy Wednesday. Launching July 2, 2025.
Episodes
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- Breaking Into Private Markets: Margins Capital Fund 1 Investment #4 (IMB Partners) · 16 min · Season 3 Episode 5Private equity funds are everywhere, but finding a manager whose track record and values you trust is much harder. In this episode, Stephanie Dorsey continues the Margins…
- Breaking Into Private Markets: Margins Capital Fund 1 Investment #3 (SpaceX) · 10 min · Season 3 Episode 4Most people only hear about SpaceX after it’s already a headline. Private investors had a chance to get in much earlier. In this episode, Stephanie Dorsey continues the Margins…
- Breaking Into Private Markets: Margins Capital Fund 1 Investment #2 (Form Energy) · 10 min · Season 3 Episode 3Private markets are where more and more wealth is being created, and most people never get a seat at the table. In this episode, Stephanie Dorsey continues the Margins Capital…
- Breaking Into Private Markets: Margins Capital Fund 1 Investment #1 (Fizz) · 18 min · Season 3 Episode 2Our first investment in Margins Capital Fund 1 went to zero. This is the investment story nobody talks about. The losses. The lessons. The resilience needed to keep going. In…
- Breaking Into Private Markets: The Margins Capital Fund 1 Origin Story · 18 min · Season 3 Episode 1Private markets are gatekept. Only the ultra-wealthy have access. Only those with connections get in. That's what everyone said. So Stephanie Dorsey decided to blow the gates…
- How to Invest When the Market Is Irrational: The Alignment Strategy · 14 min · Season 2 Episode 34The stock market is being propped up by powerful players, government intervention, and artificial conditions. Ken Griffith manipulating markets. Donald Trump tweeting price…
- Navigating Financial Influencers: The Alignment Framework for Smart Investors · 13 min · Season 2 Episode 33Social media is flooded with financial influencers telling you to do more, invest more, take bigger risks. But what happens when you follow advice that doesn't align with who you…
- What Folks Get Wrong About Wealth and Money · 14 min · Season 2 Episode 32After a summer of travel and conversations, Stephanie Dorsey unpacks the biggest misconceptions about wealth that are holding you back from building lasting financial freedom…
- Building Wealthy Habits: The 5-Step Framework to Lock In and Become and Aligned Investor · 12 min · Season 2 Episode 31After taking a well-deserved summer break, it's time to lock in. But locking in isn't about hustle culture or external validation. It's about becoming your idealized version of…
- Summer Series: The Retirement Blueprint: Age-by-Age Strategy for Tax-Free Wealth and Multiple Income Streams · 22 min · Season 2 Episode 30The wealthy don't ask "How much is in my 401k?" They ask "Do I have multiple income streams across multiple tax structures and asset classes?" In this episode, Stephanie Dorsey…
- Summer Series: Stock Research Like a Pro: What Wealthy Investors Know (That You Don't) · 20 min · Season 2 Episode 29Stephanie Dorsey reveals the exact framework sophisticated investors use to evaluate stock opportunities. Before you look at numbers, ask yourself two critical questions: Does…
- Summer Series: The Future of Wealth Is in Private Markets (And Women Are Leading It) · 18 min · Season 2 Episode 28Summer Series: The Future of Wealth Is in Private Markets (And Women Are Leading It) The future of generational wealth isn't in the stock market. It's in private markets. And…
- Summer Series: The Rooms We're Rarely Invited To: A Black Woman in Private Equity (Part 2) · 16 min · Season 2 Episode 27Summer Series: The Rooms We're Rarely Invited To: A Black Woman in Private Equity (Part 2) In Part 1, we went inside the rooms. Now in Part 2, Yashnika goes deeper—revealing who…
- Summer Series: The Rooms We're Rarely Invited To: A Black Woman in Private Equity · 19 min · Season 2 Episode 26She went from criminal law to breaking into private equity at Apollo Global Management. And her story reveals everything about wealth, access, and where the real money moves. In…
- Summer Series: Why You Need an Investor's Mindset to Have a Consumer's Lifestyle · 20 min · Season 2 Episode 25Summer Series: Are You Living Like a Consumer or an Investor? Most of us want the lifestyle of a consumer. But here's the paradox: to actually have that lifestyle, you need to…
- Summer Series: The 3 Money Beliefs That Build Wealth · 17 min · Season 2 Episode 24Summer Series: Your Mindset Is Everything: The 3 Money Beliefs That Build Wealth You can have all the strategies in the world. You can know the wealthy framework inside and out…
- Summer Series: 7 Strategies the Wealthy Use (That You Can Start Today) · 13 min · Season 2 Episode 23The wealthy don't have a secret. They have a FRAMEWORK. And in this episode, Stephanie breaks down Margins Capital's proprietary "Wealthy Framework"—7 concrete, actionable…
- $1.6 TRILLION → $2.1 TRILLION: The Wealth Power Black Women Don't Know They Have · 15 min · Season 2 Episode 22Black Women Don't Know They Have Black women control $2.1 trillion in buying power—and that number has GROWN from $1.6 trillion just a few years ago. That's bigger than Spain's…
- Step by Step Series: How to Roll Over Your Old 401k Into an IRA the Right Way | Episode 21 · 17 min · Season 2 Episode 21If you have changed jobs in the past 10 years and never rolled over your 401k, you have money sitting somewhere right now with high fees, limited investment options, and zero…
- Step by Step Series: When to Convert Your 401k to a Roth and When to Leave It Alone | Episode 20 · 25 min · Season 2 Episode 20Peter Thiel used a Roth account to turn a small investment in PayPal stock into $5 billion the IRS cannot touch. That is not a loophole. That is a strategy. And today Stephanie…
