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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Jun 15, 2023 • 45min
Know Your Value: Entrepreneur Coach Randi Braun on Pricing Your Value, Paying Yourself and Asking For What You Want
Randi Braun is an expert at empowering women who have demanding jobs and bold goals. As a certified executive coach and the CEO of the women's leadership firm, Something Major, she helps women thrive. A sought-after thought leader and speaker, Braun has been featured in The Washington Post, Forbes, and Parents Magazine, among others. Braun has coached women around the globe and partnered with more than 50 organizations across diverse sectors, including the Fortune 500, healthcare, start-ups, Big Law, public relations, entertainment, trade associations, government, non-profits, and others.
Jun 13, 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.
Jun 8, 2023 • 38min
Clean Textiles: Entrepreneurs Kat Dey and Phoebe Yu on Disrupting the Second Biggest Pollutant in the World
Kat Dey and Phoebe Yu are the co-founders of Ettitude, a material science social impact company and direct-to-consumer sustainable lifestyle brand best known for its bedding, bath and sleepwear made from their proprietary CleanBamboo® fabric. Ettitude has raised $6.5m, earned tens of millions of dollars in revenue and been named twice among the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US. Phoebe, the CEO, previously built two successful international trade and sourcing businesses, and Kat, was the co-founder and co-CEO of gourmet food subscription business Try the World.
Jun 6, 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.
Jun 1, 2023 • 36min
Acquisition Finance: Entrepreneur Deb Curtis on Why It's Easier for Women to Get Funding to Buy Pre-Existing Businesses.
Deb Curtis is the Founder of Curtis Small Business Finance Solutions, specializing in SBA business acquisition lending and ownership transitions. Over a 30-year corporate tenure, Deb worked as a business lender for a finance company, big banks, regional banks, and community banks, and now she focuses on helping women finance their small businesses and acquire companies.
May 30, 2023 • 38min
Femme Meets Fortune: Entrepreneur Diane Mueller on How to Overcome Burnout and Overwhelm
Dr. Diane Mueller is the founder of Femme Meets Fortune, teaching women entrepreneurs how to accelerate the growth of their companies by building enterprises they genuinely enjoy running rather than ones that "run" their lives. CEO and Founder of two other businesses, the medical practice My Lyme Doc and community My Libido Doc, Diane has more than 12 years of business experience and is also a highly sought-after speaker on Lyme disease and women's entrepreneurship who has delivered many keynote addresses to thousands of attendees at events across the world. She's the best-selling author of Use Your Mind to Heal Your Mold and Lyme: A Survivor's Guide, about how she overcame mold and Lyme illness, and It's Not In Your Mind: Solutions and Strategies for Lyme Disease, Mold Illness, and Chronic Infections.
May 25, 2023 • 35min
Million-Dollar Side Hustle: Entrepreneur Anna Konchar on How to Create a Profitable Online Course
Anna Konchar is an e-learning expert mentor who helps women monetize their skills, knowledge and passions with online courses and membership programs. Anna built her first side hustle e-course to $100,000 while still working a 9-5 job, and went on to earn $3mm in 3 years with her own courses working just 2 days a week. Today she shares her blueprint of how to build a million-dollar side hustle.
May 23, 2023 • 36min
The Power of Female Mentorship: Entrepreneur Jaclyn Brennan on Network-as-a-Service for Women Founders
Jaclynn (Jax) Brennan is CEO and Co-Founder of Fyli, a Network as a Service (NaaS) business for early-stage female founders, offering education, accountability, peer-to-peer mentorship, leadership advancement and funding opportunities. A Creative Director for a variety of luxury fashion brands, Jaclynn has helped lead over 22 major corporations in executing branding strategies.
May 18, 2023 • 33min
The High Earners Paradox: Real Estate Entrepreneur Palak Shah on Building a $10mm Business with Time Freedom
Palak Shah is the founder of Open Spaces Capital, a real estate firm she built as a stay-at-home-mom to $10 million in asset value. Palak had spent 17 years as a top paid mechanical engineer climbing the corporate ladder when she realized on maternity leave, she wanted more flexibility to focus on her children. When her request to work from home part time was rejected, she quit her high paying job and launched her profitable real estate company, and how she also teaches women how to 'BRRRR', that is "Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat."
May 16, 2023 • 12min
Honoring Our Mothers: Entrepreneur Melinda Wittstock on How the Mother-Daughter Relationship Impacts Us In Business
So much of who we are and what we achieve as women pioneering in business comes down to the gifts – and the limiting beliefs – we got from our mothers. Melinda Wittstock remembers her own late mother, who passed away peacefully three weeks ago at age 95, and shares how our mothers influence the deep subconscious beliefs that drive our successes and failures in life and entrepreneurship.
