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Best of - Frustrated middle-class voters are up for grabs, the tiny dogs that can pull 100 times their weight, and unique Christmas traditions around the world.

This Morning with Gordon Deal December 25, 2025

Best of - Americans see a government that can't solve their problems, why customer service is designed not to serve customers, and what is Boxing Day.

This Morning with Gordon Deal December 26, 2025

Consumers are feeling gloomy about the economy, why Christmas music is more popular than ever, and mystery man pays off layaways for dozens of families. 

This Weekend with Gordon Deal December 20, 2025

Welcome to the Tearsheet Podcast, where we explore financial services together with an eye on technology, innovation, emerging models, and changing expectations. I'm Tearsheet's editor in chief, Zack Miller.

For fintechs, cracking the credit union market is notoriously difficult. It's relationship-based, insular, and requires a fundamentally different approach than banking. Many try and fail. But when done right, it opens up distribution to institutions serving over 140 million Americans. Today I'm joined by Brian Kaas, president and managing director of TruStage Ventures, the corporate VC arm of TruStage—a $5.5 billion annual revenue insurer that works with 92% of credit unions nationwide. 

Since 2016, TruStage Ventures has deployed $400 million across 50 portfolio companies and facilitated over 3,000 partnerships between credit unions and fintechs.

We first spoke with Brian in 2021 when the fund was just gaining traction. Four years later, the portfolio has matured with companies like Ethos, Current, and SmartAsset, and Brian's team has become essential connective tissue between innovative fintechs and credit union distribution. 

We'll dig into what makes credit union partnerships different, why so many fintechs struggle to break in, and why stablecoin solutions have become the number one request Brian's hearing from credit union CEOs.


How TruStage Ventures built connective tissue between fintechs and credit unions

U.S. Coast Guard chasing another tanker involved in shipping Venezuela oil, two lawmakers seek to find Bondi in contempt over Epstein files, and Idaho secret Santa is giving a million dollars to local residents dealing with chaos.

This Morning with Gordon Deal December 22, 2025

President Trump announces new class of U.S. battleships named after himself, Brown University police chief placed on leave after fatal shooting, feds launch investigation, and the items most likely to get you stopped at TSA.

This Morning with Gordon Deal December 23, 2025

On today's Mike Drop, Dom and Gordon discuss USA Today's ranking of the worst Christmas songs.

10 worst Christmas songs, definitively ranked

In this lively conversation, Brandon, Misty, and Whitney talk with The Most Rev'd Sean Rowe, presiding bishop and primate of The Episcopal Church. In this role, he serves as the church’s chief pastor and CEO. Known for his expertise in organizational learning and adaptive change, Rowe is committed to strengthening support for local ministry and mission. This episode offers a wide-ranging conversation, touching upon everything from the role of seminary in spiritual formation, to leadership in a church that is still becoming, to our willingness to engage with God’s imagination. 


Hosts: Brandon Nappi, Whitney Kimball Coe, Misty Krasawski 

Guest: Sean Rowe 

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77: Being Grounded in the Love of God with Sean Rowe

The U.S. economy keeps powering ahead, Supreme Court blocks National Guard deployment to Chicago, and the true story behind NORAD’S 70-year tracking tradition.

This Morning with Gordon Deal December 24, 2025

Trump is optimistic about talks to end the war in Ukraine, financial strategies for the new year and how bosses are remaking the office for introverts.

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