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The Surgical Investor Podcast

A podcast dedicated to the art and science of living well while practicing medicine.
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The Surgical Investor Podcast

The Surgical Investor explores the intersection of medical excellence and life mastery. Each episode examines the strategies, frameworks, and mindset shifts that allow high-achieving physicians to build extraordinary lives without sacrificing their commitment to patient care.

This is not a show about getting rich quick or abandoning your medical career. It is about applying the same rigor, precision, and systematic thinking that makes you an excellent physician to the challenge of building a life of meaning, impact, and genuine fulfillment.

What You'll Hear

Each episode runs 30 minutes or less and follows the question wherever it leads. Some weeks the format is solo. Some weeks it is a guest interview, a roundtable, or a working session with an operator. New episodes weekly once the show goes live.
Tax Strategy

What actually applies to high-income physicians. Cost segregation, bonus depreciation, K-1 treatment, passive loss rules, explained without the jargon.

Operator Interviews
Conversations with the people behind the deals you would consider investing in. What they look for in a market, how they underwrite, what they do when assumptions break.
Existing Investor Conversations
Physicians who have already deployed capital, talking about what they wish they had known earlier and what they would do differently.
Surgery Center Owners

Physicians building businesses beyond the OR. ASCs, real estate ownership, operating models, exit math.

Market Analysis
What is actually happening across asset classes. No hype, no headline-chasing, no predictions framed as certainty.
Investor Due Diligence
What to look for in a sponsor, what to look for in a deal, and what to walk away from.
Surgical Investor Podcast

About the host

Vasu Kakarlapudi, MD, MBA is a board-certified ENT surgeon, the founder of Apta Investment Group (link: /our-vision/), and a lifelong student of what it means to thrive in both medicine and life. He has more than 20 years of direct real estate investing experience and is the author of The Surgical Investor

He hosts this show because the conversations he wishes he had as a younger surgeon do not exist on tape yet.

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If you are a physician with a story worth telling, an operator with a track record worth examining, or a thinker whose work belongs in front of this audience, apply below. Submissions are reviewed by Vasu and the Apta team weekly.
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Frequently Asked Questions

The Surgical Investor is a weekly podcast hosted by Vasu Kakarlapudi, MD, MBA, founder of Apta Investment Group. The show covers wealth-building, tax strategy, real estate investing, and professional fulfillment for high-income physicians who want to practice medicine by choice rather than obligation.
The show is launching soon on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. Listeners can request a one-time launch notification at aptainvest.com/the-surgical-investor/podcast/.
The host is Vasu Kakarlapudi, MD, MBA, a board-certified ENT surgeon and the founder of Apta Investment Group. He has more than 20 years of direct real estate investing experience and is the author of The Surgical Investor.
Episodes cover tax strategy for high-income physicians, interviews with real estate operators and existing investors, conversations with surgery center owners, market analysis, and investor due diligence. The format rotates between solo episodes, guest interviews, and roundtables.
The Surgical Investor podcast is educational content. Nothing on this page or in any episode constitutes investment advice, tax advice, legal advice, or a solicitation to invest in any security. Investment opportunities offered by Apta Investment Group are limited to verified accredited investors and are conducted under Rule 506(c) of Regulation D. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
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