Wings of Inspired Business
Melinda Wittstock
Women entrepreneurs are changing the game of business, stepping into our authentic feminine power and growing consciousness to start and scale great companies. Listen to Wings to learn from women who've "been there, built that" with 7, 8 and 9-figure businesses, even billion dollar Unicorns. You'll learn how to manifest the mindset, mojo and money to create, grow and scale a business aligned with what makes your heart sing. Wings is hosted by Melinda Wittstock, a 4-time serial entrepreneur, tech visionary and award-winning journalist. Melinda focuses where personal and business growth meet, her insightful interviews with inspiring female founders and businesswomen providing actionable tips to help listeners to real and tangible results. These innovators, influencers, and investors all share their success secrets, epiphanies, and practical advice on how to get the confidence, connections and capital so you too manifest the success of your dreams in life and in business.
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Oct 3, 2023 • 55min
Hire for Character: Entrepreneur Casey Cunningham on Leadership and Secrets of Building a $10mm Business
Casey Cunningham is the CEO and Founder of XINNIX, a $10 million dollar leadership and sales performance company. While many people often revel in the success of others, most are not aware of the very painful processes they had to endure in order to achieve it. Casey lost her dad at a very young age, who was also an entrepreneur, and she shares how that painful experience became the catalyst that pushed her into her purpose of continuing his legacy of business ownership. Casey's company has helped 1,000 brands build high performance teams, empowered thousands of sales professionals, and leaders to achieve more than they thought they could, and has even won 25 workplace culture awards.
Sep 21, 2023 • 35min
Success Through Self-Acceptance: Skincare Entrepreneur Jeanne Retief on Self-Care and Inner Healing
Jeanne Retief is the founder of FIGGI Beauty, a brand borne from her personal struggles finding the right products for dry and sensitive skin. A human rights worker turned entrepreneur, Jeanne also infuses her lifestyle FiggiLife brand on learning how to accept life's curveballs and learning "it's ok not to be ok". Jeanne also hosts the podcast My Figgi Life.
Sep 19, 2023 • 38min
Divorce and Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneur Anne Hamer on How to Protect Your Company and Assets
Anne Hamer is a top-rated Nashville family lawyer who focuses her practice on high asset and conflict cases, delivering a personalized process for each client to regain their life. With a Doctor of Law from NYU and a background in complex commercial litigation, Anne made it her mission to build a growing practice to help others through the process after experiencing her own divorce. She's a nationally recognized speaker and a Rule 31 trained civil and family law mediator with domestic violence mediation training.
Sep 14, 2023 • 59min
Show Up Positive: Entrepreneur Rita Ernst on How to Create Great Workplace Cultures
Rita Ernst is the founder Ignite Your Extraordinary, an organizational consulting practice emphasizing the convergence of happiness and productivity to create positive, committed, high-performing organizations. Author of Show Up Positive, Rita helps transform corporate cultures and startup emerging growth companies lay the groundwork for success.
Sep 12, 2023 • 43min
Post-Traumatic Growth: Entrepreneur Kimberly Stark on Alchemizing 'Sacred Storms' of Hardship into Transformational Success
Kimberly Stark is the CEO and founder of The Flourish Consultancy, a professional and personal development educational company helping companies reduce costs by improving employee wellness. Kimberly's Flourish Model helps businesses reduce attrition and absenteeism and increase productivity. Flourish also provides Social Emotional Learning (SEL) to help individuals overcome hardship and adversity.
Sep 7, 2023 • 34min
Shared Purpose: Entrepreneur and Workplace Culture Expert Jessica Kriegel on Eradicating Poor Morale, Low Performance, and Missed Financial Goals
Dr. Jessica Kriegel is the Chief Scientist of Workplace Culture at Culture Partners and an expert in workplace strategy, culture and driving results. Author of Unfairly Labeled: How Your Workplace Can Benefit From Ditching Generational Stereotypes, Jessica recently sold her company The Culture Equation to Culture Partners, where she works with Fortune 100 and other companies using data-driven insights to transform cultures to drive results.
Sep 5, 2023 • 49min
Collaboration and Crowdfunding: Serial Entrepreneur Fran Maier on the Power of Community to Fast Scaling Business Growth
Fran Maier is a serial entrepreneur and founder of several pioneering B2C and B2B internet businesses including Match.com and TRUSTe (now TrustArc). With over 25 years of experience pioneering category-disrupting startups, Fran is now the founder and CEO of BabyQuip, the #1 global baby gear rental brand. Also known for breaking boundaries as a Latina business leader, she has made game-changing contributions to both the family travel industry and gig economy model with BabyQuip's breakthrough platform, which gives traveling families access to high-quality baby equipment rentals through proprietary technology and an independent contractor community called Quality Providers.
Aug 31, 2023 • 32min
How to Get Funded: Entrepreneur Chelsey Roney on How Proxi Landed its First Venture Capital Round
Chelsey Roney is the COO and Co-Founder of Proxi, a custom and collaborative mapping technology for businesses, brands, and individuals. A former Boeing and Microsoft alum, Chelsey is a serial entrepreneur who previously bootstrapped and sold a SaaS business and a local services business. Today Chelsey shares how Proxi secured $1.2M in pre-seed finance and what's next for her company.
Aug 29, 2023 • 50min
Ambition Paradox: Entrepreneur Tracy Yates on How to Beat Your Inner Glass Ceiling
Tracy Yates is a sought-after transformational guide and advisor to visionary entrepreneurs and impact-driven leaders who attain unprecedented new heights in business and within themselves. Tracy is a serial entrepreneur who built and sold the 8-figure agency Boost Marketing, where her clients included many of the world's biggest brands like Google, Hulu, Disney, and Amazon. An award-winning strategist, Tracy is a secret weapon to entrepreneurs, CEOs and leaders who exponentially expand their income, heal their relationship with hustle, and up-level their lives in incredible ways.
Aug 24, 2023 • 40min
Delegation Mastery: Entrepreneur Jenna Spencer on How to Scale Faster Without Burnout
Jenna Spencer is the Founder and Visionary of AssistPro™, an executive assistant matching and delegation coaching service created to free up time and create growth for busy leaders. Since founding AssistPro in 2014, Jenna has worked with hundreds of clients, helping them find the Right-Fit Assistant™ and teaching them how to delegate and develop their assistants into leaders, as well. Under her direction and leadership, AssistPro has grown more than 50% each year since its founding – and has led to her creation and launch of an extension of the company devoted to helping entrepreneurs and small business owners on the path to Delegation Mastery.
