The 1% Woman: How Sara D Morell and Her Sanctuary Project Team Raised $100M | EP 70

It's Not What You Think with Celinne Da Costa · Mar 19, 2026 · 1h 18m

She was married in a Parisian château, escorted through the Louvre in her wedding dress — and felt like death inside. Five years ago, Sara D Morell was a single mom on food stamps. Today Sara and her Sanctuary Project team have raised over $100 million and are building an eco-luxury, self-sustaining mini city outside Austin. What took her from there to here wasn't what she expected to talk about — until now.

In this conversation, Celinne and Sara go into the parts that never make the stage: 16 custody hearings, hair falling out, crying on the laundry room floor while still building, and the…