Maggie Sellers Reum

To my female readers, if no one’s ever said this to you directly: You can be hot. You can be smart. You can be rich.

Only 7% of business podcasts are hosted by women.

Yet Maggie Sellers Reum managed to turn her podcast “Hot Smart Rich” into one of the fastest-growing business platforms in the country.

Less than a year in, she’s passed 1.8 million downloads, built a community of 500,000 women, and landed a seven-figure investment from Steven Bartlett’s media company FlightStory.

The same team behind The Diary of a CEO.

The goal? Scale Hot Smart Rich into a global media brand built by and for ambitious women.

Through HSR Ventures, Maggie invests $50K–$500K checks into early-stage consumer startups like Mixlab, De Soi, Upkeep, Sydecar, and Allara.

But what makes HSR different is what happens after the investment: podcast features, newsletter storytelling, community dinners, amplification across a network of operators, investors, and creators that actually move markets.

When Samantha Diamond, founder of fertility brand Bird&Be, DM’d Maggie cold on LinkedIn, Maggie didn’t wait for a pitch deck.

She and her husband wrote a $50K personal check.

Then HSR Ventures came in with a six-figure investment.

That brand is now in Ulta nationwide.

This is the model: Capital × Content × Community.

And it compounds.

Maggie’s building for the founder who knows visibility is leverage.

That attention and trust are just as valuable as early capital.

Her audience?

275,000+ women across TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and a newsletter with a 75% open rate.

Her message to women is clear and unapologetic: you don’t need to be a unicorn founder to start taking ownership.

Start today.

Be Hot. Be Smart. Be Rich.