Wings of Inspired Business

Jenny Young is the Founder and CEO of Brooklyn Robot Foundry, the vibrant and inclusive brand dedicated to prioritizing diversity and empowerment for children of all backgrounds and communities through STEAM education. Jenny is a trained mechanical engineer turned entrepreneur to bring a more diverse, inclusive and creative approach to STEAM education. Founded in 2011 and with four locations open currently, the brand focuses putting the "art" in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and sharing the fun of STEAM education with children everywhere, inspiring them to continue a life full of exploration, problem-solving, and imagination. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 👶💪Empowering the Next Generation: Learn how robotics is empowering kids as young as 2, demystifying engineering while fostering creativity and problem-solving with STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics). 🤝 🌱Franchising with a Mission: With 10 locations in the Northeast U.S. and plans for national and global expansion, learn about Brooklyn Robot Foundry's unique franchise model that emphasizes community impact and supports a diversity of small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs with a passion for education and innovation. 📈🔥Bootstrapping Innovation: Learn what it takes (hint: living lean) to build a thriving business without outside investment, plus how to overcome challenges like tariffs and complex supply chain management to maintaining brand integrity as a franchise. 💰💡Banking on Childhood Curiosity: Jenny shares her journey from tinkering in her Ohio garage to revolutionizing STEAM education for children. Growing up in a family of mechanical engineers and creatives, her passion for understanding how things work paved the way for her inspiring career in robotics. ⚡📚 Transformative Learning Experiences: Discover the incredible transformations children undergo as they interact with and build their own robots, from fostering creativity to enhancing problem-solving skills and finding newfound confidence and excitement through robotics—plus how the Foundry is pioneering education across all age groups. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings936 🤖 More about Jenny at Brooklyn Robot Foundry

Judy Weber is a serial entrepreneur and business expansion expert helping women grow confidence and incorporate proven business strategies for scale while building on a foundation of faith. A former trial lawyer who has built businesses across marketing, real estate and interior design, Judy teaches her clients to think and win like a courtroom dynamo, integrating her legal experience with her faith-fueled approach to entrepreneurship. Host of the long running, globally ranked Bold Business Bold Faith podcast, Judy's mission is to normalize miraculous results for Christian women in business, emphasizing that success is inevitable when one operates from a place of calm, confidence, and certainty. She serves service-based businesses with coaching and the "Miraculous Mastermind" to master scaling. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🔥 🤟 How to be B.O.L.D. Learn the business strategies behind the acronym to help master scalable success. 📚💪 Strategize to Win: What entrepreneurs can learn from trial lawyers—from mastering active listening and critical thinking to move beyond "winging it" to simplifying complexities and mastering storytelling to effectively communicate and connect with customers. 🧠✨ The Role of Faith: How to open up your leadership to divine inspiration, plus how faith in God or Source keeps entrepreneurs grounded and resilient and on-mission no matter the headwinds and challenges. 👥 🚀 Your Team will Make or Break You: Hint—your team is not an expense; it's a profit source. Learn how to build a team of revenue generators where every team member's KPIs and OKRs are tied—directly or indirectly—to revenue. 🎯💬 Know What You Believe: It's ok to be polarizing. Why it's vital to know who you are for who you are against, and unapologetically claim your corner. 🌱 📈 Scalable Strategies: Insights on building a revenue-generating team, cultivating intentional offer suites, and creating strategic, automated funnels to accelerate growth. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings935 👉 More about Judy at JudyWeber.co http://judyweber.co Get Judy's Ultimate Hiring Guide for free to learn who to hire, when to hire, how much to pay and where to find great people https://www.judyweber.co/hiringguide Listen to Judy's podcast Bold Business, Bold Faith https://www.judyweber.co/podcast

Sara Connell is a 5-time bestselling author and the founder of Thought Leader Academy, helping coaches, experts and entrepreneurs scale impact and create 6-7 figure income by becoming bestselling authors and in-demand/TEDx speakers. Seventeen years ago, writing a book about her recovery from sexual assault and addiction saved Sara's life, inspiring her to pay that gift forward by writing her own books and helping leaders on a mission reach the people they are here to serve. Sara has been featured on/in Oprah, The New York Times, Good Morning America, TODAY, Forbes, Entrepreneur, and TEDx. Her books have been nominated for a National Book Award and Elle Magazine Book of the Year. Sara Connell is a 5x Bestselling author and the founder of Thought Leader Academy where she helps coaches, experts and entrepreneurs scale impact + create 6-7 figures by becoming bestselling authors and in demand/TEDx speakers. She has been featured on/in Oprah, The New York Times, Good Morning America, TODAY, Forbes, Entrepreneur and TEDx. Her books have been nominated for a National Book Award and Elle Magazine book of the year. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🧠 💰Unresolved Trauma Becomes Your Earning Ceiling: Why past trauma, especially when left unaddressed, often sets invisible limits on what women believe they deserve and can achieve. Healing these wounds is not just a personal journey—it's a business imperative! 🛠️💬Consistency in Mindset & Acknowledgment is Key: It's easy to lose momentum with our mindset practices once things start going well. Building a habit of celebrating wins and acknowledging progress isn't just feel-good advice—it rewires your brain for greater success. ✨💡Clearing the Path: Learn how success stems from inner work to alter subconscious beliefs. Techniques like NLP, EFT, and consistent subconscious clearing can unlock blocks around abundance, so you can take bolder action, command your worth, and truly scale your impact. ✨❤️Celebrate Yourself: The big takeaway? Own your value—loudly and consistently. Real change requires next-level self-acknowledgment and ongoing mindset work. Success is a moving target, and the journey is full of "daily therapy." Embrace it. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings934 Get Sara's books https://www.saraconnell.com/books Listen to Sara's podcast, The Rise Get Sara's 7 Steps to Write a Revenue Generating Bestselling Book plus bonus templates and worksheets that have generated hundreds of bestsellers

Nicole Spiegel-Gotsch is the CEO and founder of HelloMavyn®, a startup advisor and business coaching platform to help female founders succeed at building, launching and growing their companies and challenging prevailing stereotypes and misconceptions about female business leaders. Nicole has worked with startups, small businesses and Fortune 500 clients for 20 years, with a focus on fostering entrepreneurship for social good. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 👩‍🔬 🤟 Challenging Myths and Biases: Forget the notion that women are risk-averse or lack confidence. Learn why what is often perceived as risk aversion is actually wisdom — a more calculated approach to entrepreneurial challenges. 💵 🌱 Navigating the Funding Landscape: The venture capital scene remains a tough terrain for women, with less than 2% of VC funding going to female-led startups. Learn how to counteract unconscious bias, change the power dynamics, and show investors why women consistently deliver higher returns on investment. 💡 🚀 Overcoming Internal and External Barriers: How to build confidence and resilience in the face of scrutiny and rejection. 🔥 📈 Embracing Transition and Growth: How the role of founders evolves as their business scales, why founders have a tough time letting go of handling "everything", the importance of trusting your team, and why it's vital to face new challenges head-on, diversify revenue streams, and focus on mission. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings933

Andee Hart is an entrepreneur, sales strategist, mentor, and host of the podcast, She Sells Differently. While working as a sales executive for a Fortune 500 company, Andee started a passion project, Hart Design Co., of candle making in her own kitchen. What started out as a side hustle with her candles in a handful of local boutiques quickly blossomed into a wildly successful wholesale business and store front. Within a year, Andee was able to transition from her 17-year corporate sales career to full-time entrepreneurship, now also teaching women entrepreneurs how to master sales. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🤔 🚀 Turn Mistakes into Mastery: Why every mistake in sales became part of her learning journey. Nobody is born a master salesperson. The key? Treat sales as a muscle you build over time, learning from every challenge along the way. 🧠 🤟 Seek First to Understand: Rather than leaping to defend or solve, use thoughtful, open-ended questions to get to the heart of your customer's true needs. Not only does this diffuse tension, but it creates space for collaboration—not confrontation. ✨ 💖 Sell with Integrity: Desperation never sells. Sometimes getting a "no" is the best answer. Andee shares how having the confidence to walk away from deals that aren't the right fit builds long-term trust—and opens doors to better opportunities down the road. 💰🔥 10 Seconds of Courage: One of the top reasons entrepreneurs lose sales? Not actually asking for the sale! Muster "10 seconds of courage" and confidently assume the partnership. Follow up—most people never do, and you'll stand out massively just by closing the loop. 🤝 🎯 It's All About Fit—and Follow Up: Whether you're selling products to boutiques or high-ticket B2B tech, the magic is in qualifying your clients up front—understanding decision makers, budget, and whether your product is truly the right solution. And if you don't get a yes right away? Follow up! Often, your customer needs the nudge. 📈 ⚡Growth Means Letting Go of Perfection: Perfectionism is your enemy when it comes to sales, so learn to ask for help, be humble, curious and open to coaching. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings923 Check out Andee's Sales Tools for entrepreneurs. https://andeehart.com/salestools Listen to her podcast, She Sells Differently

Michelle Gladieux is known as a human potential whisperer. She's written the award- winning book Communicate with Courage and she's President of Gladieux Consulting, a team of 7 teaching communication and leadership topics, offering executive coaching and strategic planning around the U.S. Michelle has 18 years collegiate teaching experience at three universities, accepting her first faculty position teaching organizational leadership at age 23. She's started her career as an HR and Training Director in the cold storage, robotics, and construction industries and visits conferences as a keynote speaker. Michelle has mentored thousands of people across companies, government, military and beyond, and her positive effect is evident after just one interaction. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 💪 👩‍🔬 Optimism and Courage: Learn actionable insights on how to take smart risks to improve relationships and communication. From dealing with toxic individuals to understanding the impact of our upbringing, learn the psyche behind our communication patterns. 🔄 💡 The Feedback Challenge: Designed to collect constructive feedback from colleagues and customers, it's a powerful tool that can help you identify areas for improvement and celebrate your successes, plus 'pro moves' to build respect. 💼 🤟 Leadership and Company Culture: How to foster a culture of innovation and trust, built on Michelle's experiences as a corporate HR director, including navigating the complexities of maintaining effective communication and leadership in challenging environments. 🤝 🌱 Personal Growth and Self-Worth: Get valuable insights on self-perception, the importance of self-talk, and the art of practice over perfection, plus why entrepreneurship is a form of 'therapy', requiring continuous learning and adaptability. 🚀 💖 Women, Empowerment, and Emotional Labor: Understand the often-overlooked emotional labor that women bear in communication settings, and how to overcome societal conditioning and the "scarcity mindset" to encourage mutual support and empowerment among women. 💬 📝 Practical Communication Tips: From maintaining good communication habits both in person and during video meetings, to decreasing reliance on phones, get practical advice for effective and mindful interactions whether negotiating, asking for a sale, or resolving a conflict. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings931 More about Michelle at Gladieux Consulting

Dr. Serena Huang is revolutionizing how organizations approach talent, well-being, and DEI through data and AI. The CEO and Founder of Data with Serena, she is also the author of the bestselling book The Inclusion Equation: Leveraging Data & AI For Organizational Diversity and Well-being. Serena is a sought-after international speaker and as an AI expert, people analytics executive and chief data officer, she's spent more than a decade leading measurement and analytics strategy for DEI and ESG at iconic brands like GE, Kraft Heinz, PayPal and LinkedIn. Also a guest lecturer at top MBA programs, including Wharton, Haas, and Kellogg, Serena's on a mission to help businesses worldwide actualize a new vision of work where employee well-being and belonging are prioritized alongside profits. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🤖 💖 Ask AI to be a Brainstorming Partner: AI must not become a replacement for human interaction or creativity. Learn how best to use it to foster collaboration, teamwork, mental health and wellbeing. 🔄❤️ Data Tells a Story; Empathy Drives Change: Why all-important data itself doesn't change minds or behavior, but stories do. Learn how to combine data-driven insights with personal stories to foster true empathy and organizational buy-in. 🌈🤎 Inclusion Must Be Measured (and Actioned!): You can't improve what you don't measure. Simple pulse surveys, deeper data on collaboration patterns, and transparent follow-up are key to building a culture where every voice is valued—and action is just as important as collection. ✨🤖 AI is a Tool—It Needs Guardrails and Human Values: Learn how AI can uncover and help fix workplace bias, but responsible AI frameworks, clear opt-in autonomy, and the principle of "do no harm" are non-negotiable for building trust. 👥 🤟 Why Companies Can't Ignore Inclusion: Gen Z, the most diverse generation yet—won't work at companies lacking diversity in senior leadership. Learn why DEI drives better results, by any measure. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/wings930 More about Serena at Data With Serena Get Serena's book, The Inclusion Equation: Leveraging Data & AI For Organizational Diversity and Well-being

Alyson Caffrey is an Operations Strategist, Bestselling Author of The Sabbatical Method, and founder of two businesses, Master Maternity Leave, and the consultancy Operations Agency. She's best known for streamlining back-end operations of brands using her Operations Simplified™ framework to unleash the power of small teams. Alyson believes that if she can return fulfilled founders back to their families, she can generate a much larger impact in the world. Alyson also hosts The Growing Pains podcast. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 💭 💡 The Power of Whitespace: Why allowing ourselves breaks from the hustle and grind leads to fresh perspectives, new ideas and approaches, and a reinvigoration of our passion to grow businesses faster. 🌱🌍 Identify Priorities for Each Season: Take time to establish what truly matters during different seasons. Whether it's focusing on business growth, personal health, or family, having a clear priority allows you to manage your time and resources better. 📈 🚀 Simplicity Scales Faster: Learn how to keep operations streamlined with simple systems that focus on lead generation, conversion, fulfillment, and improvement—measure results and know your numbers. Complexity can hinder growth, while simplicity can help you scale faster. 🔄 ✨Let Go of Perfection: Many women fall into the trap of trying to do it all, perfectly, so focus on identifying areas where you can step back without guilt, whether it's trusting your team or prioritizing personal time. 👶 💼 Business as a Baby: Why starting a business is like nurturing a baby: Initially, it requires your undivided attention, but as it grows, the key is understanding when and how to let go and delegate effectively so you can focus on your unique strengths. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings929 More about Alyson at Alyson Caffrey Get Alyson's Maternity Leave Planning Guide for free with code WINGS Get Alyson's book, The Sabbatical Method

Amanda Riffee is an internationally certified executive coach helping women overcome mindset blocks, know their value and create a career (and life) they love without burnout. A thought leader and event speaker with 17 years of corporate experience, she also hosts the podcast Unleashing You with Amanda Riffee and last month released her first book, Unleashing You. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🔥💭What's Inside to Be Unleashed? Get the roadmap for interactive learning to unleash your true potential with actionable coaching and "Put It on a Post-It" lessons so you can align your career—or business—with your unique strengths, values, and dreams and implement with inspired action. 🔄✨Ditch the Cookie-Cutter Blueprints: If you're tired of hearing "just copy my formula and you'll succeed", you're not alone. Learn why "copy paste" doesn't work for entrepreneurial success because it is always about being on your own authentic path, digging into what you want, reflecting on your journey, and developing the self-awareness to clear limiting beliefs—especially the ones you didn't even know were holding you back! 🧠 🎯Mindset Over Strategy: Learn why success is "80% mindset and 20% strategy." If you don't believe in yourself or you're plagued by self-doubt, you'll keep hitting invisible walls. Learn the power of self-inquiry—so you can uncover your core values and what motivates and lights you up. 💡 🚀Break Free from Self-Doubt: From reflecting on your own stories and triggers (yes, some of those may come from toddlerhood!) to the power of self-acknowledgement and gratitude, Amanda's advice is refreshingly practical. She reminds us that acknowledging your achievements—no matter how small—is crucial for rewiring your mindset for abundance and success. 👥 🤟Surround Yourself with Your "Squad": Entrepreneurship is a growth journey—personally and professionally and no one can do it alone. Learn how to build a community of supportive, like-minded women who understand the ups and downs of chasing big dreams, whether for encouragement, learning or celebrating your wins. 💪🤔Break Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and Negative Patterns: Limiting beliefs about money or self-worth lead to recurring negative experiences, so learn how to intentionally seek positive evidence to counteract subconscious blocks to break from these cycles, including gratitude and self-acknowledgment practices to shift perception to abundance. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings928 More about Amanda at ACR Professional Coaching Get Amanda's Book, Unleashing You Amazon Link to Purchase

Michelle Rupp, an Emmy Award winning broadcast journalist, is the Founder and CEO of Memorable Results Media, a boutique agency dedicated to helping small and medium-sized businesses gain earned media coverage on local and regional television. With a background in news production and a passion for empowering business owners, Michelle uses her 25 years of experience in broadcasting to deliver tangible results. Her clients frequently see increased revenue, sold-out events and elevated visibility in their communities, with many attributing significant business growth to her media strategies. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🎯 🤟Mastering the Art of Earned Media: Learn how best to pitch your expertise, leverage timely news pegs and capitalize on relationships with journalists. 💡💪Start With Clarity: Before you think about generating TV segments or magazine articles to highlight your business, get clear on what results you want. 📝 🚀Understand What Makes News: Learn how to tie your pitches to timely events, community relevance, and what journalists (not just you) consider newsworthy. 👥 ❤️Build Relationships: Learn what makes journalists tick, what they are looking for, and then always be responsive because opportunities often come to those who are top-of-mind and quick to act. 🔥🛠️Start Before You're "Ready": There isn't a perfect moment to launch or pivot. Learn why waiting for the "right time" is a waste of time. 💬⭐ Journalistic Skills Are Entrepreneurial Assets: Daily deadlines, thinking on your feet, and creative storytelling all translate beautifully from journalism to entrepreneurship. If you're a natural creator or storyteller, you're already ahead! 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings927 More about Michelle at Memorable Results Media