Dr. Pamela Jolly (’09) has published “A Different Kind of Wealth”
Dr. Pamela Jolly has recently published her latest book titled, “A Different Kind of Wealth.”
Find an excerpt of the new book below:
A Different Kind of Wealth invites readers to rethink wealth in a divided, uncertain, and rapidly changing world. Through twelve historic inflection points in America’s journey, Dr. Pamela Jolly helps readers examine how inherited moments of change still live within us—shaping how we see ourselves, one another, and the future we are responsible for building.
Written for people of all backgrounds, this book is a historical reflection, a guided inquiry, and a call to own and invest your difference. Dr. Jolly invites readers to consider how history, identity, family, culture, experience, and personal conviction shape the way they move through the world and participate in America’s unfolding story.
At its heart, A Different Kind of Wealth reminds us that every life carries a unique story embedded within America’s shared legacy narrative. When we understand how that inherited legacy lives within us, our difference becomes more than something to name; it becomes something to steward, invest, and offer toward the future wealth of our nation.”
Dr. Pamela C.V. Jolly is a strategist, author, speaker, and founder of Torch Enterprises Inc., a strategic investment and advisory firm focused on ownership, legacy wealth, and the long-term systems that shape economic outcomes. For more than two decades, she has worked with entrepreneurs, institutions, communities, and leaders across the country, helping them think more clearly about wealth, identity, strategy, and impact.
Her work lives at the intersection of finance, history, culture, faith, and systems thinking. Through research, writing, and advisory practice, Dr. Jolly invites people to examine the stories they have inherited, the opportunities they are responsible for stewarding, and the future they are called to help build.
A graduate of Hampton University, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Boston University School of Theology, and the Graduate Theological Foundation, she brings a rare convergence of business strategy, theological reflection, and culturally grounded inquiry to everything she does. She is also the creator of the NarrowRoad™ framework — a body of work designed to help individuals and communities create, build, grow, and expand wealth with greater clarity and purpose.