Kalpi sits down with Zoe to chat about her first two months at Renown Lending—from learning the details of construction funding to understanding how communication and empathy help clients through urgent situations. Plus, a surprise appearance from Goose 🐶
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.
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
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.
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
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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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In this episode of Lessons from the Fall, Kalpi opens up about someone he has spoken around for a long time, but never fully spoken about — his sister, Raji. Raji was a psychiatrist, but more than that, she was one of the few people who knew Kalpi’s full story. In this episode, he reflects on
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27 out of 28 government departments exceeded their budgets. As South Australia’s debt heads towards $53 billion, Kalpi Prasad asks a simple question: who is accountable when public money is overspent? Drawing on his experience in banking and lending, Kalpi explores the difference between productive debt and operational overspending, why transparency matters, and why future
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Most successful people have two versions of their story — the one they tell at conferences, and the one they tell at two in the morning. This episode is the second one. Kalpi talks directly to his daughters — Monkey One and Monkey Two — about the things he learned the hard way and never
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Every founder hears the advice: get a mentor. But are mentors actually worth it? In this episode of Lessons from the Fall, Kalpi Prasad shares his experience working with mentors, why he still asks for help, and how the right guidance can save years of mistakes. This is a practical conversation about ego, learning and
