Our Mission
Our mission is to create a supportive community where wealthy families can openly explore and understand the often-taboo challenges of generational wealth.
Meet the Team
Tara Sindler (Co-Founder)
Kiosh Shapiro (Co-Founder)
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Tara’s journey to co-founding Trust Fund Tribe is deeply rooted in her own life experiences. Growing up in the glitzy heart of Las Vegas as the daughter of a mafia father and a Philadelphia heiress, Tara’s childhood was steeped in wealth and glamour. Yet, behind the facade, she faced profound disconnection and inner turmoil. By her teens, she was battling depression and self-destructive behaviors, as the privilege of a trust fund often masked deeper emotional struggles and left her searching for direction and purpose.
At 31, everything changed when her father told her the money was gone. Faced with the challenge of building her life from the ground up, Tara took a role as a residential technician at a treatment center. This pivotal moment ignited her journey of self-discovery and helped her uncover a sense of purpose she hadn’t known was possible.
Over the past two decades, Tara has transformed these personal challenges into a mission to help others. As a co-founder of Trust Fund Tribe, she draws on her lived experience and hard-earned wisdom to guide wealthy families through the complexities of privilege. Her work focuses on fostering understanding, resilience, and growth, helping others navigate challenges with the compassion and clarity she has found in her own life.
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Kiosh’s journey to co-founding Trust Fund Tribe began with his own struggles to reconcile privilege and purpose. Growing up, he believed that wealth was an unmitigated blessing—and for much of his early life, it seemed true. With two master’s degrees, a career as a physical therapist, and a six-figure income, Kiosh appeared to be on a conventional path to success. However, when legal trouble disrupted his career, he chose to leave it behind, assuming his family’s wealth would provide a permanent safety net.
Five years later, Kiosh found himself in Mexico earning just $500 a month teaching dance. Far from feeling self-sufficient, he was grappling with depression and self-blame, unable to understand how he had ended up so far from his ambitions. It wasn’t until he began questioning the belief that wealth is an absolute advantage that he recognized his struggles were not unique but part of a broader pattern faced by many inheritors of privilege.
Meeting Tara and learning about her work with trust fund families was a transformative experience. Inspired by her insights, Kiosh helped codify Tara’s years of experience into the foundation of Trust Fund Tribe, creating a structured approach to help wealthy families address their unique challenges. Today, as a co-founder, Kiosh combines his personal journey and professional expertise to guide others through the complexities of privilege, fostering resilience, purpose, and compassion along the way.
Our Approach
The core of our approach is to move from blaming (including self-blame) to understanding. We find the more precisely the challenges are understood, the more effectively they can be addressed.
Our Seven Step Plan
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Our team is highly skilled, bringing extensive expertise in the unique challenges that affluent families face. What truly sets us apart, however, is our nonjudgmental approach. As individuals from wealthy backgrounds ourselves, we understand these experiences firsthand and are committed to providing empathetic, insightful support.
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While wealthy families face some common challenges, each family is profoundly unique, shaped by a combination of specific factors. Family dynamics, the origins of their wealth, and the structure of their assets or business play pivotal roles in defining their experiences and needs. These distinctions can significantly influence how challenges manifest and how solutions should be approached.
At Trust Fund Tribe, we are committed to understanding every aspect of what makes your family unique, ensuring that our support is thoughtful, personalized, and aligned with your values and goals.
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While your specific circumstances are unique, many families encounter recurring themes and challenges when navigating the complexities of wealth. At Trust Fund Tribe, we leverage our deep experience to recognize these common patterns and help you identify them with clarity and honesty.
Our goal is to provide a safe, judgment-free space where we can work together to uncover the underlying issues and dynamics at play. By addressing these challenges openly, we lay the foundation for tailored strategies that foster greater understanding, resilience, and positive change. -
The challenges faced by both parents and inheritors in wealthy families are often deeply misunderstood, leading to frustration, blame, and feelings of isolation. Parents may struggle with guilt or uncertainty about how to raise motivated, grounded children, while inheritors often wrestle with expectations, identity, and the pressure to find purpose.
At Trust Fund Tribe, we emphasize building compassion for both sides, fostering understanding of each other’s experiences and struggles. Equally important is cultivating compassion for oneself, recognizing that these challenges are not personal failings but common aspects of navigating wealth.
Taking this first step—acknowledging the difficulties with honesty and empathy—can feel like a weight lifted off your shoulders, opening the door to clarity, connection, and meaningful solutions.
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At Trust Fund Tribe, we’ve helped many families navigate the unique challenges that come with wealth, and one of the most powerful aspects of our work is connecting individuals with others who share similar experiences. Talking openly with those who truly understand your situation—because they’ve faced it themselves—can be profoundly validating and reassuring. It creates a safe space to share struggles, gain perspective, and realize that you’re not alone in your journey. This sense of connection and shared understanding can be an important step toward addressing challenges with confidence and finding practical, meaningful solutions.
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By the time we begin building structures, much of the hard work—cultivating understanding and fostering compassion—has already been done. This next step is a collaborative and empowering exercise, focused on creating frameworks that support the receivers of wealth in navigating their unique challenges. While we bring expertise and experience to guide the process, you remain the true architect, ensuring the solutions align with your family’s values and vision.
These structures are designed not only to promote practical outcomes, like responsibility and independence, but also to nurture emotional growth, resilience, and self-worth. Compassion remains central to this process—compassion for the inheritors, who often face unseen pressures and identity struggles, and compassion for yourself as you navigate this journey. By focusing on understanding and collaboration, we ensure that the structures we build together are meaningful, sustainable, and empowering for the next generation.
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We love our process because it empowers families to navigate the complexities of wealth with confidence, understanding, and compassion. For some families, completing our process provides all the tools they need to move forward independently. For others, we become lifelong allies, offering ongoing coaching and support as new challenges and transitions arise. Whether it’s adapting to generational changes, refining strategies, or addressing unexpected dynamics, we remain a steady resource, helping you sustain the growth and resilience you’ve worked so hard to build. Our commitment is to ensure your family continues thriving long after the initial work is done.