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Hosted by the founders of the Long Angle community, Navigating Wealth is a podcast for founders, executives, and investor operators who have built significant wealth. Each episode features a guest with an unusual career journey and deep subject matter expertise to share fresh, candid perspectives across some aspect of the economy, investing, family, health, or lifestyle.
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- 6 days ago34 min
Can More Money Buy Happiness?
A bigger net worth doesn’t automatically translate into a better life. Economist Dan Altman explains why financial decisions should account for what your money actually buys you: time, experiences, relationships, and well-being. Tad Fallows and Sriram Gollapalli is joined by Dan Altman to discuss why the value of spending can change throughout retirement, how to calculate what your free time is worth, and when saving a few dollars costs more than it’s worth. Drawing on his book, The Best Decisions You’ll Ever Make, Dan Altman explains how economics can help you assess what a choice adds to your life alongside its financial return, from the process of decision paralysis to shifting your perspective to what matters most.Resources & Links👥 Apply for Membership: https://www.longangle.com/apply⭐ Learn more about Lightstone Direct: https://lightstonedirect.com/longangle━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Discover More From Long Angle👉 Free Beyond Wealth Newsletter: https://langle.co/bwnews👉 Research & Studies: https://www.longangle.com/research━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Socials💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/long-angle🅧 Twitter/X: https://x.com/LongAngleHNW📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/longanglehnw/📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/longanglehnwLong Angle is a private, vetted global community of accomplished entrepreneurs, executives and professionals who have reached meaningful financial milestones and want to navigate wealth with peers who understand their challenges, opportunities, responsibilities and ambitions.Hosted by the founders of the Long Angle community, Navigating Wealth explores how experienced investors, founders and operators approach the real questions wealth creates, from private markets and capital allocation to business exits and life design.#finance #retirementplanning #personalfinance #videopodcast #podcast #buildingwealth
- 2 weeks ago30 min
Buying Back Your Time With an AI Personal Assistant
Tad Fallows and Sriram Gollapalli pressure-test the new wave of AI personal assistants: Instinct, Meta's Muse, OpenAI's Dots, Town and GrokBot. Sriram has spent a month running Instinct inside WhatsApp with access to his Gmail and calendar, and he walks through what it has handled so far: prepping the call to move his daughter's doctor's appointment, emailing a teacher while he brushed his teeth, pushing a vendor into a full refund on a forgotten app subscription, and finding a garage-floor quote about 30 percent cheaper than the first one. Tad, who still uses Gemini as a search engine, presses on the trust questions: what you hand over to get the help, which company you trust with it, and where the line sits on your credit card and your bank accounts.🔔 Please Subscribe and Hit the Bell: https://www.youtube.com/@NavigatingWealthPodcast?sub_confirmation=1Discover More From Long Angle👉 Blog: https://www.longangle.com/blog👉 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NavigatingWealthPodcast👉 Beyond Wealth Newsletter: https://langle.co/bwnews👉 Research & Studies: https://www.longangle.com/research━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Resources & Links👥 Become a Member: https://longangle.com/navigatingwealth📤 Get Episode Release Notifications: https://www.longangle.com/navigating-wealth-podcast━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Socials💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/long-angle🅧 Twitter/X: https://x.com/LongAngleHNW📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/longanglehnw/📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/longanglehnwLong Angle is a private, vetted global community of accomplished entrepreneurs, executives and professionals who have reached meaningful financial milestones and want to navigate wealth with peers who understand their challenges, opportunities, responsibilities and ambitions.Hosted by the founders of the Long Angle community, Navigating Wealth explores how experienced investors, founders and operators approach the real questions wealth creates, from private markets and capital allocation to business exits and life design.Learn what an AI personal assistant can take off your plate today, and what it costs you in access to get there. Treat it like a new hire: give it context, start with low-stakes tasks, and widen its permissions only as it earns them.Most people think of AI as a chatbot you visit, but these assistants live inside your messages and your inbox and act on your behalf. If you have been using Gemini or ChatGPT as a search engine, this conversation shows what changes once an agent can read your email, manage your calendar and contact vendors for you, and what you give up when it can.We cover the two setup prompts Sriram brought home from a Long Angle retreat session, the garage quote that came back about 30 percent cheaper, the 657 newsletter subscriptions his assistant found in his inbox, the feature that lets his assistant coordinate with his wife's, where he draws the line on payment information and bank accounts, and the often-overlooked security step of routing two-factor codes to a second phone number that nobody else knows.Subscribe for weekly conversations on wealth and the decisions that come with it, and comment below if you want a walkthrough of the setup prompts Sriram used.#aiassistant #aiagents #productivity #dataprivacy
- Sep 25, 202632 min
Is Private Placement Life Insurance Right for Your Portfolio?
How does private placement life insurance work, and when does it beat a taxable account? David Valcourt, VP of Business Development at Financial Architects Partners and a life insurance broker with nearly 20 years in the private placement market, returns for part two with hosts Tad Fallows and Matt Shechtman.In this conversation, David explains what PPLI is (a protection product whose engine is the investment inside it), walks through the math of trading a 5% annual tax bill on private credit and hedge funds for a smaller fee bill, and makes the case for what belongs inside a policy and what does not, starting with the S&P 500. He covers why so many whole life buyers end up disappointed, who the players are (broker, carrier, reinsurer, investment manager, and the insurance dedicated fund or separately managed account), why the IRS investor control doctrine means you cannot pick the holdings, what the insurance itself costs, what happens if a carrier fails and how a 1035 exchange works, and how borrowing against the policy really works, including why it is not free money.🔔 Please Subscribe and Hit the Bell: https://www.youtube.com/@NavigatingWealthPodcast?sub_confirmation=1✅ Access Lightstone Direct Investment Opportunities: lightstonedirect.com/longangleResources & Links👥 Become a Member: https://longangle.com/navigatingwealth📤 Get Episode Release Notifications: https://www.longangle.com/navigating-wealth-podcast━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Discover More From Long Angle👉 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NavigatingWealthPodcast👉 Beyond Wealth Newsletter: https://langle.co/bwnews👉 Research & Studies: https://www.longangle.com/research━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Socials💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/long-angle🅧 Twitter/X: https://x.com/LongAngleHNW📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/longanglehnw/📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/longanglehnwLong Angle is a private, vetted global community of accomplished entrepreneurs, executives and professionals who have reached meaningful financial milestones and want to navigate wealth with peers who understand their challenges, opportunities, responsibilities and ambitions.Hosted by the founders of the Long Angle community, Navigating Wealth explores how experienced investors, founders and operators approach the real questions wealth creates, from private markets and capital allocation to business exits and life design.Learn how private placement life insurance works from a broker who places it: what goes inside the policy, what the insurance and the fees cost, why you cannot direct the investments, how the policy survives a carrier failure, and how policy loans give you access to the money during your life.Most people hear "life insurance" and think of whole life and a disappointing dividend. This conversation makes a different case: for investors already holding tax-inefficient assets like private credit and hedge funds, the policy is a wrapper, and the question is whether the tax you save is worth the fees you pay.
- Sep 16, 202631 min
Former CIA Analyst: How to Make a High-Stakes Decision
How do you beat decision fatigue and decide when the data is incomplete? Former CIA analyst Rupal Patel spent six years briefing the four-star general running the Afghanistan war, sometimes contradicting his own intelligence apparatus. With host Sriram Gollapalli, she walks through how analysts cut signal from noise, why the perfect data set does not exist, and how the same decision-making framework carried her from the CIA to business school to building a real estate business on an 18-month runway — a story she tells in her book From CIA to CEO.🔔 Please Subscribe and Hit the Bell: https://www.youtube.com/@NavigatingWealthPodcast?sub_confirmation=1Resources & Links👉 Episode Sponsor: lightstonedirect.com/longangle👥 Become a Member: https://longangle.com/navigatingwealth📤 Get Episode Release Notifications: https://www.longangle.com/navigating-wealth-podcast━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Discover More From Long Angle👉 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NavigatingWealthPodcast👉 Beyond Wealth Newsletter: https://langle.co/bwnews👉 Research & Studies: https://www.longangle.com/research━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Socials💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/long-angle🅧 Twitter/X: https://x.com/LongAngleHNW📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/longanglehnw/📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/longanglehnwLong Angle is a private, vetted global community of accomplished entrepreneurs, executives and professionals who have reached meaningful financial milestones and want to navigate wealth with peers who understand their challenges, opportunities, responsibilities and ambitions.Hosted by the founders of the Long Angle community, Navigating Wealth explores how experienced investors, founders and operators approach the real questions wealth creates, from private markets and capital allocation to business exits and life design.Learn how a CIA analyst makes high-stakes decisions with incomplete information: separate signal from noise, name the gaps out loud, and decide when enough is enough instead of waiting for certainty.Most people believe more research means better decisions. This conversation makes the opposite case: past a point, more inputs feed decision fatigue and analysis paralysis, and the discipline that matters is knowing what to ignore.We cover the briefing style that won over a skeptical general, the 18-month runway behind her real estate business, treating family investors like institutions, rebuilding leaner after COVID, her first keynote in Spanish, an allocation of index funds and real estate, and the three-priorities exercise she uses against decision fatigue.Subscribe for weekly conversations on wealth and decision-making, and comment below if you want a deeper dive on the three-priorities exercise.#decisionmaking #decisionfatigue #cia #leadership
- Sep 4, 20261h 3m
165 Millionaires Regret These Financial Products
Where do millionaires keep their money? Tad Fallows and Matt Shechtman break down Long Angle's survey of 165 high-net-worth households grading every financial product they use: the most-carried credit cards rank near the bottom of their categories, brokerages beat banks at banking, and spreadsheets are still the number one way wealthy households track their portfolios.The full 2026 High-Net-Worth Financial Products: Benchmark Report is available at https://www.longangle.com/research.🔔 Please Subscribe and Hit the Bell: https://www.youtube.com/@NavigatingWealthPodcast?sub_confirmation=1Resources & Links👥 Become a Member: https://longangle.com/navigatingwealth📤 Get Episode Release Notifications: https://www.longangle.com/navigating-wealth-podcast━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Discover More From Long Angle👉 Blog: https://www.longangle.com/blog👉 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NavigatingWealthPodcast👉 Beyond Wealth Newsletter: https://langle.co/bwnews👉 Research & Studies: https://www.longangle.com/research━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Socials💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/long-angle🅧 Twitter/X: https://x.com/LongAngleHNW📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/longanglehnw/📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/longanglehnwLong Angle is a private, vetted global community of accomplished entrepreneurs, executives and professionals who have reached meaningful financial milestones and want to navigate wealth with peers who understand their challenges, opportunities, responsibilities and ambitions.Hosted by the founders of the Long Angle community, Navigating Wealth explores how experienced investors, founders and operators approach the real questions wealth creates, from private markets and capital allocation to business exits and life design.Learn where high-net-worth households keep, bank, track, and protect their money. Stop assuming the most popular financial products are the ones their users would recommend.Most people think the biggest banks and best-known cards are where wealthy families keep their money, but this survey shows the opposite: Fidelity and Schwab earn banking recommendation scores the big banks do not come close to, and the most-carried credit cards rank near the bottom of their categories.We cover credit cards, banking, brokerages, portfolio tracking, mortgages, and insurance, including the umbrella policy math many households skip, roughly $10 million of coverage for under $3,000 a year, and the revocable-trust distribution move a bank's own mortgage broker suggested for underwriting.Subscribe for weekly personal finance breakdowns, and comment below if you want a deeper dive on the trust-distribution mortgage strategy.#personalfinance #investing #millionaire #banking
- Aug 27, 202616 min
The AI Arms Race: Why Most Investors Are Getting It Wrong
Is AI a bubble? Tad Fallows and Sriram Gollapalli break down how to invest in AI in 2026 — starting with the warning Warren Buffett gave the tech elite at Sun Valley in July 1999: a transformative industry and a rewarding investment are not the same thing. Eighteen months later the dot-com crash proved him right, and his warning is being repeated today. Ten stocks now make up nearly 40 percent of the S&P 500, and $18 of AI infrastructure spending goes out for every dollar of AI software revenue. The greatest buildout in market history, or the most expensive echo of 1999?This conversation started as a thread inside Long Angle: a member asking whether he'd missed the Anthropic trade. Tad and Sriram follow the AI money through the stack — natural gas and power stocks, data centers, NVIDIA and the revenue-recognition accounting behind chip profits, frontier models and where vendor lock-in lives — and what each of them is buying today. They close with how private investors reach pre-IPO deals like the Anthropic SPV, and the fee traps to check before you invest.🔔 Please Subscribe and Hit the Bell: https://www.youtube.com/@NavigatingWealthPodcast?sub_confirmation=1Discover More From Long Angle👉 Blog: https://www.longangle.com/blog👉 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NavigatingWealthPodcast👉 Beyond Wealth Newsletter: https://langle.co/bwnews👉 Research & Studies: https://www.longangle.com/research━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Resources & Links👥 Become a Member: https://longangle.com/navigatingwealth📤 Get Episode Release Notifications: https://www.longangle.com/navigating-wealth-podcast━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Socials💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/long-angle🅧 Twitter/X: https://x.com/LongAngleHNW📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/longanglehnw/📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/longanglehnwLong Angle is a private, vetted global community of accomplished entrepreneurs, executives and professionals who have reached meaningful financial milestones and want to navigate wealth with peers who understand their challenges, opportunities, responsibilities and ambitions.Hosted by the founders of the Long Angle community, Navigating Wealth explores how experienced investors, founders and operators approach the real questions wealth creates, from private markets and capital allocation to business exits and life design.Learn whether the AI boom is a bubble and where the money goes whoever wins. Stop trying to pick the winning model company and look at the layers underneath instead.Most people think playing the AI trade means betting on a frontier model, but if you own an S&P 500 fund, you have already made the AI bet - ten stocks are a record share of the index. The conversation walks through the picks-and-shovels layers trading at reasonable multiples: natural gas and power, chips and networking, and the revenue-recognition disconnect flattering today's earnings.We cover the $30 trillion question both Anthropic and SpaceX have put in front of investors, including what each host is buying today and the two checks that keep private-market investors from getting burned: are you on the cap table, and what are the total fees? If you want exposure to the next Anthropic without the lottery-ticket odds, this breakdown shows how members approach it.Subscribe for weekly conversations on navigating wealth, and comment below if you want the full list of infrastructure plays discussed in this episode.#aibubble #investing #wealthmanagement #artificialintelligence
- Aug 20, 202619 min
These Credit Cards Pay You $20,000 a Year, Tax-Free
Tad Fallows breaks down the best credit cards for high-net-worth spenders: a set-it-once system built on asset thresholds instead of annual fees, worth more than $20,000 a year to him, tax-free, with no signup bonuses or rotating categories to manage.🔔 Please Subscribe and Hit the Bell: https://www.youtube.com/@NavigatingWealthPodcast?sub_confirmation=1Discover More From Long Angle👉 Blog: https://www.longangle.com/blog/best-credit-cards-for-high-net-worth-individuals👉 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NavigatingWealthPodcast👉 Beyond Wealth Newsletter: https://langle.co/bwnews👉 Research & Studies: https://www.longangle.com/research━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Resources & Links👥 Become a Member: https://longangle.com/navigatingwealth📤 Get Episode Release Notifications: https://www.longangle.com/navigating-wealth-podcast━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Socials💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/long-angle🅧 Twitter/X: https://x.com/LongAngleHNW📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/longanglehnw/📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/longanglehnwLong Angle is a private, vetted global community of accomplished entrepreneurs, executives and professionals who have reached meaningful financial milestones and want to navigate wealth with peers who understand their challenges, opportunities, responsibilities and ambitions.Hosted by the founders of the Long Angle community, Navigating Wealth explores how experienced investors, founders and operators approach the real questions wealth creates, from private markets and capital allocation to business exits and life design.
- Aug 12, 202656 min
Buy, Borrow, Die Has a Gap. Life Insurance Closes It - Dave Valcourt
Today we're thrilled to welcome Dave Valcourt, VP of Business Development at Financial Architects Partners, part of NFP, one of the largest insurance brokers in the country. Dave has spent almost twenty years in life insurance as an independent broker who supports the full spectrum of policies, from term life to whole life to private placement life insurance, and canvasses more than twenty carriers to match each product to each client's situation.In this conversation, Dave explains where the industry's pushy reputation comes from and why commissions on a traditional permanent policy can reach 90% of a first-year premium, maps what term, whole life, GUL, IUL, VUL, and PPLI are each built for, and walks through premium financed life insurance - the strategy where a private bank lends the premium directly to a trust, so the money arrives without gift tax and whole life cash value serves as collateral at a 95% advance rate.🔔 Please Subscribe and Hit the Bell: https://www.youtube.com/@NavigatingWealthPodcast?sub_confirmation=1Discover More From Long Angle👉 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NavigatingWealthPodcast👉 Beyond Wealth Newsletter: https://langle.co/bwnews👉 Research & Studies: https://www.longangle.com/research━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Resources & Links👥 Become a Member: https://longangle.com/navigatingwealth📤 Get Episode Release Notifications: https://www.longangle.com/navigating-wealth-podcast━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Socials💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/long-angle🅧 Twitter/X: https://x.com/LongAngleHNW📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/longanglehnw/📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/longanglehnwLong Angle is a private, vetted global community of accomplished entrepreneurs, executives and professionals who have reached meaningful financial milestones and want to navigate wealth with peers who understand their challenges, opportunities, responsibilities and ambitions.Hosted by the founders of the Long Angle community, Navigating Wealth explores how experienced investors, founders and operators approach the real questions wealth creates, from private markets and capital allocation to business exits and life design.
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