Tom Manatos spent 20 years navigating Washington from both sides - as a Capitol Hill staffer who received the calls from advocates, and as the person making those calls on behalf of Spotify, Block, and the Internet Association.

In this episode, he walks through how political access actually works: who the real decision-makers are, what it costs to get in the room, why state government is where business owners have the most leverage, and what the crypto industry's $193 million super PAC still hasn't been able to buy.

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Key Topics Covered

• Why lobbyists rarely talk directly to elected officials - and which relationships actually move policy outcomes
• How individual campaign donation limits work at the federal and state level, and what bundling changes
• What a super PAC can and cannot do, with current examples from crypto, Meta, and Anthropic
• Why state and local government produces legislation at far higher volume than Congress - and why that matters for operators in regulated industries
• How a coalition of platforms reversed a tax reporting change that would have affected millions of ordinary Americans
• The bipartisan reality behind closed doors - what actually gets legislation across the finish line
• Why domain expertise doesn't get you a callback unless it's attached to electoral relevance
• AI regulation: where Congress is, how far behind the industry it is, and what's likely to happen next

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Today we're thrilled to welcome Joline Godfrey, a financial parenting expert, clinical social worker, and author with over 30 years working directly with affluent families. Her question: how do you raise a financially capable kid when you can afford to solve every problem for them?

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Key Topics Covered
• Why the ability to give your kids everything is also the biggest obstacle to raising capable adults, and what Joline calls the "paradox of wealth"
• The invisible allowance: the unacknowledged sum most HNW families spend subsidizing their kids' lifestyle without ever naming it — and why that gap becomes a serious problem the moment the subsidy stops
• Why structuring an allowance around what you approve of versus what you don't is quietly killing your child's decision-making practice
• The reframe from "allowance" to "practice money" — and what changes when kids understand they are learning to manage capital, not just spending pocket change
• The FISH framework — Financial, Intellectual, Social and Human capital — and which of the four most affluent parents are systematically under-developing in their children
• How a 12-year-old built a real coloring book business on Amazon, learned margin differences between online and door-to-door sales, and what her parents still got wrong
• What Joline tells families who want to subsidize their adult children indefinitely, and the story of the client who asked for financial education at 60

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Hosted by the founders of the Long Angle community, Navigating Wealth explores how experienced investors, founders and operators actually approach the real questions wealth creates — from private markets and capital allocation to business exits and life design.

Today we're thrilled to welcome Katie Fowler, Principal at Blue Owl Capital, one of the largest non-bank direct lenders in the United States managing over $150 billion in credit assets.

The past six months have produced a cascade of private credit headlines: cockroaches, GFC 2.0, redemption gates, and Katie joins us from inside the portfolios to separate what the data actually shows from what the media has been reporting.

In this conversation, we cover what started the panic, why declining returns are a rate math story and not a credit story, how software exposure is being mispriced, and what the current redemption wave means for investors holding these assets.

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Key Topics Covered

• Why the defaults that triggered the private credit panic were primarily financed by banks, not non-bank direct lenders, and why that distinction matters for anyone evaluating their current allocation

• How to benchmark private credit returns correctly: against comparable liquid alternatives like high yield bonds, not against the peak SOFR environment of 2022-2023

• What a 2x interest coverage ratio signals about middle market borrower health — and why lower base rates and tighter spreads mark a more credit-positive environment, not a warning signal

• How the 5% quarterly redemption gate is structurally supported by 6-8% natural quarterly repayments, and why a fund executing within that structure is working exactly as designed

• The three questions every private credit investor should ask before making any redemption or allocation decision

• What Blue Owl's $1.4 billion open-market transaction at 99.7% of par tells investors about the gap between book marks and publicly listed BDC share prices

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Long 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 actually approach the real questions wealth creates — from private markets and capital allocation to business exits and life design.

Today we're joined by Megan Nicholson, Partner of ImageArb and a two-decade veteran of hedge fund capital raising across Lehman Brothers, Barclays, and Jefferies.

Megan breaks down how the hedge fund space actually works, what institutional allocators are looking for that most individual investors never think to ask, and why the access and intelligence gap is the real risk for HNW investors trying to evaluate this asset class on their own.

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Key Topics Covered:
• Why hedge fund AUM hit $5 trillion in 2025 — and why most people think the opposite
• How net exposure, leverage, and hedging actually work across different strategy types
• What institutional allocators look for when evaluating an emerging manager
• Why repeatability of process matters more than peak returns
• How fee structures differ across long-short equity funds, multi-strat platforms, and separately managed accounts
• The food chain from friends-and-family capital to sovereign wealth — and what each tier requires
• Why most HNW investors need to think twice about their hedge fund access points

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Long 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 actually approach the real questions wealth creates — from private markets and capital allocation to business exits and life design.

Today we're thrilled to welcome Dr. Nitun Verma, a Stanford-trained sleep physician who designed and ran clinical sleep programs for Apple employees globally and for Meta.

Nitun's practice has evolved over the years to focus primarily on founders, tech executives, and high-performing professionals who are convinced they've optimized everything, except their sleep.

In this conversation, he breaks down why most high-performers are quietly underperforming because of habits they've never questioned, and what to actually do about it.

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Key Topics Covered:
• Why feeling fine on poor sleep is not the same as sleeping well — and how clinical tests expose the gap
• The caffeine half-life most people ignore (and why your morning coffee may be wrecking your night)
• How alcohol affects sleep architecture and why you wake up at 3 AM after a few drinks
• The truth about sleep aids: why there is no long-term solution without trade-offs
• How to calculate your actual sleep need and stop guessing
• Revenge bedtime procrastination: why eliminating it is the wrong goal and what to do instead
• Sleep and kids: what works better than melatonin and why evening structure matters more than supplements

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Long 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 actually approach the real questions wealth creates — from private markets and capital allocation to business exits and life design.

Today we're thrilled to welcome Dave Nemetz, co-founder of Bleacher Report, the sports media platform he and his high school friends built from a blog into a $200M exit to Turner — all before he turned 30.

After a second exit with his media company Inverse, Dave now spends his time coaching early and mid-stage founders through growth, fundraising, exits, and the post-exit identity crisis nobody talks about enough.

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Key Topics Covered:

• How Bleacher Report grew from a side hobby into one of the most-visited sports platforms on the internet
• The user-generated content pivot that nearly killed their ad business — and the data-driven move that saved it
• Why digital media is no longer a venture-scale business, and what actually works today
• How to think about your exit as a series of decisions over years, not a single moment
• The "drift" that hits founders after a big exit — and how to design your way out of it
• Why the post-exit script (start another company, become an investor) often leads founders in the wrong direction
• How to get off the VC treadmill once you're already on it

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Long 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 actually approach the real questions wealth creates — from private markets and capital allocation to business exits and life design.

Today we’re thrilled to welcome Joey McGuire, the Head Football Coach at Texas Tech University.

After leading the Red Raiders to their first-ever Big 12 Championship and a fourth seed in the college football playoffs, McGuire joins us to pull back the curtain on the "chaos with a structure" defining the modern collegiate landscape.

In this episode, we deep dive into the $21M revenue-sharing cap, the "speed dating" reality of the transfer portal, and how elite programs are functioning as wealth management incubators for young athletes navigating seven-figure liquidity.

Key Topics Covered:

• How Texas Tech uses analytics to find an 82% success rate in the transfer portal.

• Managing a team where compensation is transparently unequal.

• How Tech preps 19-year-olds for taxes, investment, and life after the NFL

• Why the NFL is concerned about offensive line development in a mercenary era

• Where conference realignment and college football sustainability are heading next

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Long 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 is a podcast where we apply a high-net-worth lens to economics, investing and lifestyle questions.

Today we're thrilled to welcome Michael Sapherstein, the former in-house counsel at Major League Baseball, Marvel Entertainment and The Walt Disney Company.

Mike takes us behind the scenes of the "billion-dollar business you've never heard of" (MLB Advanced Media) and explains how he navigated the legal frontiers of the digital revolution, from the first iPad comic books to the looming impact of generative AI on creative ownership.

Key Topics Covered:
• The Streaming Blueprint: How MLB Advanced Media centralized rights to become the technical backbone of Disney+.
• The Marvel Licensing Machine: Why Marvel was a "pure profit" powerhouse and how the iPad changed their business model overnight.
• The AI Anathema: A veteran lawyer’s take on the "unfair" ingestion of IP and why Disney is now licensing characters to OpenAI.
• The Legal Wealth Gap: Why Big Law partners often miss out on the "ownership economy" due to ingrained risk aversion.
• Career Resilience: Advising the next generation on majoring in "thinking" rather than just "coding" in the age of Claude and Sora.

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