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INVEST IN HER podcast, hosted by founder of She Angel Investors, Catherine Gray- features phenomenal female founders and funders. The podcast is part of a multimedia platform to connect women with funding resources. If you are a woman seeking funding, this podcast is for you. You will learn about the various ways to get funded, meet guests who you can connect with, learn how to overcome obstacles, and discover how funding can be made simple for female founders to understand and to access. Ho ...
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WPAOG Podcast

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The WPAOG Podcast is a strategic initiative focused on tailored audible communications to further inform Graduates on current AOG projects, events, and USMA updates. This customized content is mainly for USMA Alumni and the West Point Community solely produced and distributed by the West Point Association of Graduates.
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Welcome to The Business Brew This podcast’s mission is to dig deep into the thought patterns and analysis of investors and business people. The podcast stemmed from Bill Brewster consistently feeling like he was listening to prepackaged material while listening to podcasts. Instead, he wanted long form, in depth, discussions about finance, capital allocation, and the psychology of investing/business. Bill is a private investor. He cohosts the podcast Value: After Hours with Tobias Carlisle a ...
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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Joanna Kuang, Senior Vice President of Product Development and Impact at Illumen Capital. Joanna has dedicated her career to expanding access to capital in pursuit of inclusive justice for and alongside under-resourced people of color. She believes a combination of public, private, and philanthr…
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In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Led Klosky, Professor of Civil Engineering at West Point and the Dean’s Executive Agent for Design and Construction! Dr. Klosky takes us through his journey to West Point, discussing his commitment to equipping today’s Cadets with the necessary skills and leadership for their future roles through learning and in…
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Darren Fisk, Founder and CEO of Forum Investment Group, LLC, stops by The Business Brew to discuss his real estate investment firm, strategy, and thoughts. Darren focuses on multifamily real estate. His background is in lending and he added an equity focus during the GFC. This conversation covers lending, insurance, how to think about development, …
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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Dorthy Shore who was among the youngest female entrepreneurs in the state of Kentucky, launching an automotive advertising agency that she grew to be the largest woman-owned agency in the U.S. During her tenure, the ad agency won 100s of awards for creative distinction, including dozens of Telly…
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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Lee Levy, a Los Angeles-based web designer as well as the creative director and Founder of Nex Graphics, with a proven track record of helping companies build a strong presence across the internet. Bringing 25 years of industry experience, she provides graphic design and website design solutions…
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Matthew Sweeney, CFA, Managing Partner & Portfolio Manager of Laughing Water Capital stops by The Business Brew for a laid back conversation about how he approaching investing. Laughing Water Capital tends to focus on smaller companies in an effort to find overlooked opportunities. In the episode, Matt talks about his idea of "value," how he got st…
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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Máirín Murray, a tech innovator and ‘woman founder’ community champion with extensive knowledge of the start-up ecosystem in Ireland and beyond. She is a TEDx speaker who has led the design and development of numerous award-winning digital products. She is passionate about harnessing tech for po…
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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Devin Thorpe, a bestselling author and new-media journalist who calls himself a champion of social good. His show is called Superpowers for Good; his nearly 1500 guests include Bill Gates and other luminary changemakers. As a Forbes contributor with over 500 bylines and over two million unique r…
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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Allison Byers, the Founder & CEO of Scroobious, a scalable, algorithmic platform connecting founders and investors through education and personalized curation, with a mission to enhance diversity in the startup ecosystem. Prior to founding Scroobious she launched and co-ran a medical device comp…
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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Marian Leitner-Waldman, the co-founder and CEO of Archer Roose Wine. As a Wine lover and adventurer, she founded the company in 2015 with her husband, David. Archer Roose is dedicated to producing affordable luxury wines with minimal intervention. How? Marian and David created the Traveling Vine…
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In this episode, we sit down with the extraordinary Kathleen Hildreth, the 2024 West Point Distinguished Graduate Award recipient. Kathleen shares her awe-inspiring journey from a cadet at West Point to founding M1 Support Services, a company that stands at the forefront of supporting the Department of Defense. Her story is one of unwavering dedica…
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Hedda Nadler, co-founder of Mount & Nadler, stops by The Business Brew to discuss her career as one of the leading marketing practitioners serving professional money managers. Mount & Nadler represents a broad range of clientele in the financial and investment spheres, with an emphasis on investment companies and money managers. This conversation g…
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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Ruth Shaber, MD, who is a changemaker and innovator, moving from a robust career as an OBGYN and senior executive at Kaiser Permanente to empowering women across finance and healthcare. Currently, she is the founder and president of Tara Health Foundation, a philanthropic investment group that u…
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Wes Gray, the Alpha Architect himself, stops by the Business Brew to discuss how he (a) created the ETF $BOXX, (b) helps people start their own ETFs, (c) why value and momentum work as factors, and much more. This episode is a quick release after Corey Hoffstein's. It may or may not be the only episode we release for the next 13 days or so. The rel…
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Corey Hoffstein, Founder and CEO of Returned Stacked Portfolio Solutions, stops by to discuss how he uses ETFs to leverage his investing assets. Corey and Bill discuss a concept that is not novel to institutional investors, but may benefit individuals today because of ETF innovations. Bill wanted to discuss how Corey came up with his idea, how he e…
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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews multi-Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actress, Sharon Gless and her best friend, Dawn La Freeda, one of America's largest restaurant franchise owners, owns over 115 restaurants in her career. These profoundly accomplished women are also the executive producers of the documentary, Show Her the Mone…
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On this episode, join Sam Kazmer, Class of 2011, and Devin T. Adams, Class of 2013, as they reflect on their West Point legacies and how these experiences carved out their leadership roles. Sam Kazmer is a metro Atlanta native and West Point Class of '11. At West Point, Sam studied Economics and competed on the Nordic Ski Team. Upon graduation in 2…
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Will Thomson of Massif Capital returns for his annual appearance. In this episode he teaches about the lithium and copper markets. The end of the episode is more general and worth hanging around for. You can find Massif Cap's letters here. The Q4 letter discusses lithium on Page 7. Whole letter is worth a read. Sponsor Info: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Daloopa⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠is …
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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Wendi McGowan-Ellis, the CEO & Founding General Partner at Cassandra Capital - a female-founded venture capital firm Investing in early growth-stage, women-led companies and whose mission is to "Punch Past the 3 Percent Point" of all VC investments. Wendi's investment thesis is that 80% of the f…
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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Roslyn Kind and Monique Impagliazzo. They discuss Rosalyn’s new music video “The Look of Love/The Island” with her and the director of the music video, Monique Impagliazzo. They also discuss the need for more funding for women in the arts as well as the need for more women to invest in women! Ro…
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This episode spotlights an engaging conversation with Michelle Tumolo, the Head Coach of Women's Lacrosse at West Point. Join us as Tumolo shares insights into her coaching journey, delving into her passion for lacrosse, the transition from player to coach, and the immense pride she takes in leading the team at Army West Point. We explore the evolu…
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Devin Martin, recommended by the one and only Tom Morgan, stops by the show to discuss how he helps high performing individuals hone in on what they truly want out of life. Devin primarily works with successful people who want to achieve something more/different. In this episode we discuss his methodology. There is some discussion of ayahuasca and …
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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Elisa Miller-Out, a business leader, investor, technologist, and mother. She is chair of the board for Singlebrook, a web software development firm she co-founded in 2006 for which she served as CEO until 2016, when she oversaw the acquisition of the firm’s largest division. Not one to sit still…
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Andrew Walker, friend of the pod, returns to discuss some of his reflections following the Spirit merger ruling going against him. Bill pinged Andrew following the ruling and asked whether he would want to come back on the podcast to discuss the pros and cons of publicly liking a stock idea that does not work out. For those that listened to the epi…
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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Susan Moring, an Investment Principal at Cortado Ventures, an Oklahoma City-based venture capital firm investing in early-stage tech companies. In her role at Cortado, Susan manages all aspects of the investment process including deal sourcing, ] diligence, and post-investment portfolio company …
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Kyle Mowery, Founder and Portfolio Manager at Grizzly Rock Captial, LLC, stops by the Business Brew to teach the audience about sustainable air fuel. Bill deviates the conversation *a bit* to renewable diesel at times, but SAF is the primary topic. SAF is a potentially interesting investment topic because it is the only known way to decarbonize air…
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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Kelley Arena, an angel investor, consultant for women-founded businesses, and advocate for women in finance. She began her career at a professional football franchise (go Eagles!), rotated through various operating companies at Johnson & Johnson in their Financial Leadership Development Program,…
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This episode features an interview with 1LT Evan Walker ‘21 and 1LT Tyrese Bender ‘21, recipients of the Rhodes Scholarship, a graduate scholarship program. 1LT Walker served as the Cadet Second Regimental Commander, Captain of the Army Boxing team, and co-President of the Elevation Initiative. In the first year of her Rhodes Scholarship, she compl…
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This is a brief message from Bill. Sent in the spirit of communication with the fans. After listening to it, it's about 85-90% accurate with some incomplete thoughts and some things that could have been said differently. But, the overall message and general feeling is accurate-ish. Looking forward to dropping an episode next week. Like, subscribe a…
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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Jennifer Jeronimo who is the CEO of Gaingels, an LGBTQIA+/Allied private investment syndicate, and one of the largest and most active private investors dedicated to supporting diversity and inclusion within the venture capital ecosystem. Jennifer has over 20 years of experience in finance and ba…
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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Halle Kaplan-Allen who is the Head of Revenue at Sydecar, where she is responsible for growing the ecosystem of investors & founders building their businesses on Sydecar’s standardized platform. Halle has previously led strategic operations teams at multiple startups, building systems and proces…
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https://www.powertopitch.com/grantpower?ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.powertopitch.com%2Fa%2F2147710548%2Fo5zanhcy Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Kat Weaver & Katie Dunn, the co-founders of Power to Pitch. They are a founder and investor team who saw the gaps in education, resources, & access to capital, and together advise founders …
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This episode features an interview with Janet Petro ‘81, Director at NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center. Janet began her professional career as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army after graduating in 1981 from West Point with a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering. She was in the second class of West Point graduates to include women. Prio…
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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Amy Hanlon, president of Blue Meta Design, who visually showcases the impactful stories of startups through graphic design, partnering with VCs on cutting-edge investments. A small branding agency in the Mid-South, Blue Meta Design is client-focused, servicing companies changing the world and th…
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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Dawn Lafreeda, who is one of the largest restaurant franchise owners in America, owning over 115 restaurants in her career. She is also the largest female employer in San Antonio, Texas, and one of San Antonio’s largest private companies. She bought her first franchise from Denny’s at age 23 and…
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Todd Schwartz, Founder, CEO and Executive Chairman of OppFi, stops by The Business Brew to discuss how he expands credit access. OppFi was featured on this program when it was going public via SPAC. The company did not perform to expectations once it was public and Todd reengaged in order to right the ship. This episode is about OppFi and Todd, but…
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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Vicky Pasche, the Co-Founder of Dapper Boi, Inc. Within five years of starting her online genderless clothing brand, it is now a seven-figure company on a mission to revolutionize the genderless fashion movement. Vicky has always had a passion for compassion and believes that so many of us do no…
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Ben Jenkins, President and Chief Investment Officer at Digital Bridge Group Inc, stops by The Business Brew to have a discussion about professional development, mentorship, and investing in digital infrastructure. Digital Bridge (NYSE: DBRG) is a leading global alternative asset manager dedicated to investing in digital infrastructure. The firm has…
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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Kelly Ann Winget, the Founder of Dallas-based private equity company, Alternative Wealth Partners. Kelly Ann has over a decade of experience in the alternative investment space, sourcing creative capital for startups, oil & gas companies, manufacturing ventures, real estate, and several other em…
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Craig Moffett has covered the telecommunications industry – first as a management consultant and later as a Wall Street analyst – for more than thirty years. He has been elected to Institutional Investor Magazine’s All-American Research Team in the U.S. Telecom and/or Cable & Satellite sectors on seventeen separate occasions, including nine separat…
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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Pocket Sun, the Co-founder and Managing Partner at SoGal Ventures which is a top-performing early stage venture capital firm backing world-class women and diverse entrepreneurs outside of Silicon Valley. She founded SoGal at age 23 to solve the deeply rooted inequity in VC and to deliver superio…
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This episode features an interview with Sue Irons Beachler, West Point class of 1989, and Veterans Service Officer. Sue received her commission as a Signal Corps officer from West Point in 1989. She is a Desert Shield and Desert Storm veteran and has earned the Bronze Star Medal and Senior Parachutist Badge. Upon completion of company command in Ge…
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Bill Chen, Managing Director at Rhizome Partners, stops by The Business Brew to share his thoughts on why publicly traded REITs are an attractive opportunity. Rhizome Partners is a private partnership targeting deep-value investments with a large margin of safety. In this episode Bill lays out his argument for why publicly traded REITs qualify for …
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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Joanne Mercaldi, also known as "Boss." She is the Co-Founder and CEO of BLOOM. She leads with a passion for inspiring and motivating my team and partners to achieve greatness. Joanne has been recognized as a distinguished business leader with an exceptional track record of building and scaling s…
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Andrew McAfee (@amcafee) stops by The Business Brew to discuss his new book The Geek Wayhttps://www.amazon.com/Geek-Way-Radical-Mindset-Extraordinary/dp/B0C1DQW5FC/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Andrew+McAfee&qid=1700075448&s=audible&sr=1-1 Andrew is a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-founder and co-director of MIT’s Init…
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Catherine Gray, host of Invest In Her, talks with Dorothy Chou who leads Policy & Public Engagement at DeepMind, an artificial intelligence company. Dorothy has spent her career building social justice, ethics, & accountability structures at technology companies, including the first Transparency Report—an industry standard that more than 70 technol…
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Wolf Takes A Bite is John Wolf and Devin Gray's show where they dive into all things: cryptic, conspiracy's, paranormal, aliens, and all ideas and stories that are out there. You never truly know what they will talk about it and which view they will be discussing each week...mostly because they do not know how it will go either. One thing is for su…
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Jeremy Raper returns to The Business Brew to discuss what he has been up to lately. Jeremy is currently focused on smaller situations and being the catalyst for value realization. We hope this episode is entertaining and informative. We also implore you to do your own research and due diligence. His bio can be found at https://rapercapital.com. He …
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