You can have the will, the trust, and the estate plan and still not know what to do first when your spouse dies. Samina Bari learned that in 2023, when her husband died suddenly in an accident. Her financial advisor sent her a PDF checklist. She ended up typing Social Security questions into Google.

On Getting Rich Together, host Syama Bunten talks with Samina, Founder and CEO of Farewell. Samina spent the last decade of her operating career focused on biotech M&A, advising CEOs and boards on investor strategy and positioning. She explains where estate planning for women falls short and why a checklist of steps after the death of a spouse rarely helps someone navigate the first days of grief. She explains the questions she needed answered in those early days and why she struggled to find a clear path forward.

Her story shows how financial independence for women can start with small, deliberate decisions. She bought a condo at 21 with a lowball offer and refused to budge. She took a significant pay cut to get inside Pfizer and shares what she weighed before saying "yes". She also makes the case that the great wealth transfer needs better infrastructure to help families move assets with more clarity, especially as more inherited wealth passes to women.

Press play to understand what comes after the estate plan and why preparing for the administrative side of loss matters before you ever need it. Then keep the conversation going at the Wealth Catalyst Summit, a full-day event. Claim your seat at wealthcatalyst.com.

Episode Breakdown:

00:00 When an Estate Plan Leaves You Without Answers

02:55 Rejecting Expectations and Choosing Independence

06:44 Night Shifts, Kiplinger's, and a Condo at 21

13:52 Samina Bari's 20-Year Plan From Hospital to Lipitor

19:13 Salary Negotiation and Knowing When to Walk Away

28:30 Building an Advisor Team, Wills, and Trusts Early

31:44 Tesla Stock and a First Angel Check

36:13 Sudden Loss and Writing Don't Call Me Widow

43:41 What to Do First When Your Spouse Dies

50:26 Why the Great Wealth Transfer Needs a System

Connect with Samina Bari:

Visit the Farewell website: https://withfarewell.com/

Visit Samina's website: https://saminabari.com/

Find more from Syama Bunten:

Your money story may be shaping your financial life more than you realize. After hundreds of conversations with women at all stages of their financial lives, Syama distilled the questions that helped her understand her own patterns into The Money Story Reset, a free guide featuring five guided reflections and personal stories from her journey.

Download The Money Story Reset and begin uncovering the beliefs behind your financial decisions: https://wealthcatalyst.com/reset/

Apply For Your Seat @ The 4th Wealth Catalyst Summit | San Francisco, October 16: https://wealthcatalyst.com/sf2026/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/syama.co/

Join Syama's Substack: https://thewealthcatalystwithsyama.substack.com/

Website: https://wealthcatalyst.com/

Big Delta Capital: https://www.bigdeltacapital.com/

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Every 18 years, the same money story repeats. First comes a speculative gold rush, then a reckoning. Astrologer Ophira Edut traced that pattern from Jamestown to the 2008 crash, and she says we have entered another corrective cycle. If you have ever wondered what financial astrology and market cycles could reveal about your own money choices, this conversation is for you.

On Getting Rich Together, host Syama Bunten sits down with Ophira Edut, a bestselling author, astrologer, and one half of The AstroTwins and co-founder of Astrostyle.com. Ophira grew up in an immigrant family in Detroit where she and her twin sister earned their own spending money through dog walking, babysitting, calligraphy, and other entrepreneurial projects. She sold her first business, HUES magazine, at 26 and later built a thriving astrology business with her sister without a single outside investor. Her path makes a real case for astrology for entrepreneurs.

Ophira explains what the North Node in Aquarius 2026 shift could mean for AI, crypto, and the economy through March 2028. She shares a Kabbalah lesson that shaped the way she thinks about desire, abundance, and money, and why she treats money as energy you attract so you can share it. Listen for the spotlight and lighthouse question she wants every woman to ask herself right now.

Press play to hear how Ophira reads financial astrology and market cycles, and what it could mean for your next move. Then take the conversation further at a Freedom Tour salon near you or at the Wealth Catalyst Summit in San Francisco this October 16.

Episode Breakdown:

00:00 Meet Ophira Edut of The AstroTwins

03:00 Detroit Roots, Painted Jeans, and Teenage Hustles

14:02 A Sassy Contest, Hues Magazine, and First Exit

24:04 Gloria Steinem, Ms., and Landing Teen People

31:40 Losing the Cash Cow and Launching Astrostyle

36:12 Never Late Horoscopes and Learning Financial Forecasting

46:59 How Ophira Thinks About Investing Her Capital

52:40 Financial Astrology and Market Cycles Through 2028

1:02:38 Money as Energy and the Lighthouse Question

1:07:52 Legacy, Lifelong Learning, and Where to Find Ophira

Find more from Syama Bunten:

Your money story may be shaping your financial life more than you realize. After hundreds of conversations with women at all stages of their financial lives, Syama distilled the questions that helped her understand her own patterns into The Money Story Reset, a free guide featuring five guided reflections and personal stories from her journey.

Download The Money Story Reset and begin uncovering the beliefs behind your financial decisions: https://wealthcatalyst.com/reset/

Apply For Your Seat @ The 4th Wealth Catalyst Summit | San Francisco, October 16: https://wealthcatalyst.com/sf2026/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/syama.co/

Join Syama's Substack: https://thewealthcatalystwithsyama.substack.com/

Website: https://wealthcatalyst.com/

Big Delta Capital: https://www.bigdeltacapital.com/

Podcast production and show notes provided by HiveCast.fm

Wealth Catalyst is where women go to take the conversation further, and Leah Solivan's journey from building TaskRabbit to backing the next generation of founders fits that mission perfectly.

Two percent. Leah says that's the share of women who receive venture capital funding for their businesses. After spending years raising money as a founder, she now sits on the other side of the table, investing in companies and working to expand who gets access to capital.

Host Syama Bunten talks with Leah Solivan, founder of TaskRabbit and Managing Director of Precedent.vc, about the TaskRabbit founder story that started with a $27,000 pension and eventually led to an acquisition by IKEA.

Leah shares how she went from knowing almost nothing about venture capital to learning how to pitch investors and raise money for her company. An email to the CEO of Zipcar became a pivotal connection, opening the door to mentorship, warm introductions, and some of TaskRabbit's first angel investors.

Those early relationships shaped how Leah thinks about investing today. For anyone interested in angel investing for beginners or wondering how to become an angel investor, she shares the story behind the first check she wrote into someone else's company and why backing founders became the natural next chapter after TaskRabbit.

Listen to hear how she chose IKEA over two other offers, how she built a career in venture after the acquisition, and what she is teaching her own kids about money.

Join the Wealth Catalyst Summit, a full-day event in San Francisco this October 16, and claim your seat at wealthcatalyst.com.

Episode Breakdown:

00:00 Leah Solivan's early entrepreneurial spark in Massachusetts

06:19 Choosing a college for its ballet program

09:34 Landing an engineering job during the dot com bust

11:14 Using an IBM pension to fund TaskRabbit

17:03 The Cold Email That Led to Her First Angel Investors

19:22 Learning How to Pitch Investors

25:04 How to become an angel investor herself

28:44 Choosing IKEA over two other acquisition offers

35:05 Launching Precedent VC and Breaking Precedent

42:29 Why venture capital still fails women founders

Find more from Syama Bunten:

Your money story may be shaping your financial life more than you realize. After hundreds of conversations with women at all stages of their financial lives, Syama distilled the questions that helped her understand her own patterns into The Money Story Reset, a free guide featuring five guided reflections and personal stories from her journey.

Download The Money Story Reset and begin uncovering the beliefs behind your financial decisions: https://wealthcatalyst.com/reset/

Apply For Your Seat @ The 4th Wealth Catalyst Summit | San Francisco, October 16: https://wealthcatalyst.com/sf2026/

Register to Attend a Salon Near You: https://wealthcatalyst.com/salons/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/syama.co/

Join Syama's Substack: https://thewealthcatalystwithsyama.substack.com/

Website: https://wealthcatalyst.com/

Big Delta Capital: https://www.bigdeltacapital.com/

Podcast production and show notes provided by HiveCast.fm