Lessons From The Fall Podcast by Abel Prasad

Each episode explores the pressures of leadership, lessons from failure, business resilience and the mindset required to rebuild and grow.

| Lessons From The Fall by Abel Prasad Episode 45: Million Dollar Hobby — Lending, Loans, and Sealed Pokémon Cards

In this episode of Lessons From The Fall, we sit down with Peter (Founder of GPS Lending) and Kalpi (Founder of Renown Lending) — two private lending founders who somehow end up talking about everything from asset finance for helicopters and machinery, to referral partnerships with mortgage brokers… to sealed Pokémon cards and NBA autographs. […]

| Lessons From The Fall by Abel Prasad Episode 44 – Back to Basics: What Private Lending Actually Is

Most people think private lending is a last resort — it’s not. In this episode, I go back to basics and explain plainly what private lending is, who it’s really for, and why it exists. From developers racing tight deadlines to business owners whose numbers don’t fit a bank’s box, I walk through why the […]

| Lessons From The Fall by Abel Prasad Episode 43 – The Businesses That Didn’t Have the Hard Conversation

777 South Australian businesses gone under in 18 months.Hospitality and construction hit hardest.But collapse is never sudden — the stress builds quietly for months, sometimes years, before anyone outside ever notices.

| Lessons From The Fall by Abel Prasad Episode 42 – The Voices We Dismiss

Pauline Hanson has been in Australian politics for thirty years. Donald Trump won the American presidency twice. Whatever you think of either of them, tens of millions of people keep choosing them — and dismissing those people hasn’t made them go away. In this episode, Kalpi asks the harder question: what happens when we stop […]

| Lessons From The Fall by Abel Prasad Episode 41 – What Success Actually Feels Like

Kalpi has settled over a billion dollars in private lending. Built a business from nothing. Earned a seat at tables he was told he’d never get near. So what does success actually feel like? In this episode, he answers that honestly — and the answer is more complicated, more disorienting, and more human than any […]

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Frequently Asked Questions

Abel Prasad, also known as Abel Kalpi Nand Prasad and Kalpi Prasad, is the founder of Renown Lending in Australia. He shares insights on leadership, resilience, business, private capital and personal growth through the Lessons From The Fall podcast.

Lessons From The Fall is a leadership and business podcast that explores entrepreneurship, resilience, mindset, private capital, business pressure and lessons learned through real-life experiences.

You can listen to Lessons From The Fall directly on this website, Spotify and other major podcast platforms through the official podcast feed.

The podcast covers leadership, business growth, entrepreneurship, private lending, investing, resilience, mindset, family, failure, rebuilding and personal development.

Yes. Abel Prasad is the founder of Renown Lending, an Australian private lending and capital solutions company.

Yes. Many episodes discuss Australian business conditions, private capital, lending, investing and entrepreneurship within the Australian market.