The Compassionate Capitalist Show will be getting a new podcast broadcast home and that has and will cause disruption in the deliverly of the weekly show. This move is coupled with the roll out of new educational and services offerings and a new look for the Kugarand Capital Holdings and Karen Rands' website. Recent recap report provided by Spotify, clearly shows there is momentum for The Compassionate Capitalist Show.  However there is a disconnect between the growth in listeners and their ability to engage Karen and her team to help them navigate the capital markets, evaluate the o ..read more

Using Conscious Capitalism philosophy and unconventional marketing approaches, David Valentine, CEO & Founder of Avadel Agency, was able to rapidly grow his 7 businesses by investing money into his people. David's businesses  have generated over a billion dollars collectively for over 1000 clients, including major brands and fortune 100 companies, and positioned him to be able to invest $3Million into companies this year alone.  David is a great example of Compassionate Capitalism and Conscious Capitalism all blended into ONE.  He joins Karen on The Compassionate Capitalist ..read more

Karen Rands, the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement, shares an update on her historic and popular podcasts Pt. 1 & Pt. 2 The Black Prosperity Story originally recorded in 2020.  To listen to the two part series click below or find them on your favorite podcast channel as sequenced podcast after this show. Compassionate Capitalist: The Black Lives Economic Story: Past, Present, Future. PT1 https://www.karenrands.co/compassionate-capitalist-the-black-lives-economic-story-past-present-future/ Compassionate Capitalist: The Black Lives Prosperity Story: Past, Present, Future P ..read more

On the topic of employee shortage....and "the Great Resignation".  It isn't new for employees to get fed up with their bosses, work environment, or compensation and decide to leave the workplace in pursuit of a better employment opportunity or financial independence as an entrepreneur. What is different right now is that the rate at which this is happening has increased significantly, at the same time that the US is experiencing it's greatest growth in new jobs, and there isn't a back fill of employees into those vacancies, either because they don't exist due to the declining population o ..read more

On this episode of The Compassionate Capitalist Show, Nathan Beckord, Founder and CEO of Founder Suite, and Karen Rands will talk about what steps a founder needs to take to increase the odds of seed round and subsequent  funding rounds successful. The steps to complete a successful capital raise are predictable, yet most entrepreneurs make the same common mistakes.  Even with all the free resources available through economic development organizations, incubators and accellerators, and an abundance of entrepreneur programs in colleges and universities, Nathan estimates that 98% of th ..read more

Think It, Be It Founder, John Mitchell, joins Karen Rands on The Compassionate Capitalist Show to share the Science of Success.  Feeling stuck, John used tried and true, but often overlooked, methods to figure out his personal breakthrough to go from earning a few hundred thousand a year to growing his own business to $5M in Revenue, and a big windfall when he sold it at a $25M valuation. John discovered the disconnect between his efforts and the results that had been holding him back - the beliefs locked into his unconscious mind.   John shares with Karen how he used science to ampl ..read more

You can't save yourself to wealthy. You must make your money compound to create wealth. If we accept that the greatest way to create wealth is by starting/owning a successful business, then we must agree that the next best way is to be the investor in that successful company.  Karen Rands is joined by Aryeh Sheinbein for this episode of Compassionate Capitalist Show to talk about creating generational wealth by owning and investing in private businesses. During their conversation, they touch on Starting vs Buying a Business but also adding venture investing as asset class in a financial p ..read more

Before the rules of REG CF were released, many companies would say they were raising capital through 'crowdfunding'.  Often they were not doing under the proper regulations offered through the JOBS Act or the SEC or their own state's securities regulations.  And, as capital formation methods of REG A+ become more popular, companies may cut corners in what they  say and do, without having the proper paperwork in place.   This puts investors' capital at risk. There could be legal and financial repercussions when a company 'says' they are crowdfunding their capital raise ..read more

Investing through Reg A+ into private companies is not that well known by either traditional stock market investors or angel investors.  Yet it offers pluses for both.   Traditional stock market investors can review financials and company history similar to a publicly traded company, while also getting the benefit of the usual multiple that occurs when investing directly into a private company with high growth potential.   With Reg A+ investments, angel investors may not get the low valuation they are used to as their baseline to generate a large multiple on their investment, bu ..read more

In this episode of The Compassionate Capitalist Show, Karen explains Inside Secret #22 and how it relates to the 'cashflow quadrant' concept popularized in the Rich Dad, Poor Dad series of books. Listen to why 'owning a piece of multiple businesses' is a wealth creation strategy with compounding effect of time and money.  This concept is fundamental to the idea behind angel investing to start.   Savvy investors put their money to work creating more money and time for themselves, because they are investing in the passion and abilities of entrepreneurs and business owners in ..read more