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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Aug 1, 2018 • 1h 1min
172: Failing Forward in Startuplandia: 4X Serial Technology Entrepreneur Kelly Fitzsimmons on Why Failing Is Good for Business
Kelly Fitzsimmons is a 4X serial entrepreneur and pioneer in voice recognition technology, cyber security and virtual reality with several 8 and 9 figure businesses and exits to her name. She shares her ups and downs and important advice for women about how to leverage, profit and grow (and never hide) from failure, with a new book out this fall that tells the story of how entrepreneurs bounce back from extreme adversity.
Jul 31, 2018 • 45min
171 Empowering 1 Billion Women: Inventor, Author and Entrepreneur Diane Forster on a mission to help women in transition own their power and live fearlessly.
Diane Forster reinvented her own life, escaping a corporate job and a bad marriage to become an award-winning inventor, bestselling author, and keynote speaker. Diane describes herself as an Intentional Living Expert, and her company, I HAVE TODAY, helps women step into the "power of now" and live fearlessly and intentionally through all of life's transitions.
Jul 27, 2018 • 24min
170 MINISODE #MeToo, #VCs and Leveraging #Failure: 4X Serial Technology Entrepreneur Kelly Fitzsimmons Advises on Raising Money and Avoiding Isolation
Kelly Fitzsimmons is a 4X serial entrepreneur and pioneer in voice recognition technollgy and cyber security software with several 8 and 9 figure businesses and exits to her name. She shares important advice for women in tech seeking funding, inspired by her own harrowing #MeToo attack by an investor which sent her into depression, isolation, shame – and now recovery with a new virtual reality company and a new book out this fall.
Jul 26, 2018 • 34min
169 Scaling the Coaching Business: Entrepreneur Lena Elkins on How She Built Her Fast-growing Company and Her "No B.S." Strategy to Break Barriers
Lena Elkins knows what it's like to go from broke to breaking new barriers as an entrepreneur: She found the secret to building a scalable global coaching business, and she shares how she stays true to doing what she loves – copywriting and funnel building – while hiring her 'weaknesses' and other secrets every business owner needs to know to break through the $1mm barrier.
Jul 25, 2018 • 35min
168 Funnel Hacking: Entrepreneur Jean Ginzburg on Leveraging Social Media Engagement to Boost Profitability and Customer Love
Jean Ginzburg is a marketing maven helping businesses from Fortune 500s to innovative startups best leverage the latest in social media marketing, funnel optimization, retargeting and more to engage and convert customers. We "geek out" together on authenticity, the latest technology, marketing hacks, and more.
Jul 24, 2018 • 54min
167 Broke Ass to Badass: Kimi Morton and Pua Pakele And Cabot on How Entrepreneurs Can Dream and Live Big Without Burnout
Kimi Morton and Pua Pakele And Cabot are on a mission to help entrepreneurs fall in love with their businesses and their lives! Co-founders of the company Best Life Ever, Kimi and Pua share how they empower business owners to embrace both passion and productivity to achieve big dreams without burnout.
Jul 20, 2018 • 15min
166 MINISODE Mindset and Heartset: Entrepreneur Regina Huber Advises on the Keys to Success in Business
Regina Huber is on a mission to empower women – and get businesses to leverage women's emotional intelligence and values such as transparency, sustainability and risk awareness to corporate leadership. She's the Founder & CEO of Transform Your Performance, and on this advice minisode, Regina talks about mindset and "heartset" as the key to success, plus many more must-listen tips for women in business.
Jul 19, 2018 • 50min
165 A Disruptive Innovation: Gitte Pedersen on Leveraging RNA to Revolutionize Cancer Care with Personalized Treatment
Gitte Pedersen is on a mission to revolutionize cancer treatment. Co-founded of Genomic Expression, Gitte and her brother Morton discovered that different people need different treatments depending on their RNA. Their innovation takes on Big Pharma, which Gitte says wastes $70 billion per year on inffective oncology drugs. She shares her journey as a female entrepreneur, how to eliminate your fears, how to raise venture capital, and what it was like on Sir Richard Branson's Necker Island.
Jul 18, 2018 • 47min
164 Make Everything Fun: Kathryn Kemp Guylay on Why Innovation In Business Springs From Joy and Creative Fun
Kathryn Kemp Guylay is on a mission to make business fun. Entrepreneur, CEO of the learning platform MakeEverythingFun.com, and CEO of the Ketchum Innovation Center, Kathryn shares her insights on why fun in business boosts the bottom line, the recipe for innovation, and why when we're creating in fun we attract the best team members, serve our customers better, and enjoy our lives.
Jul 17, 2018 • 44min
163 How Women Rise: Sally Helgesen on Leveraging Women's Greatest Strengths As Leaders, Innovators and Entrepreneurs
Sally Helgesen is on a mission to help women to recognize, articulate and act on their greatest strengths – and help companies organizations create more inclusive cultures. Bestselling author of How Women Rise and renowned leadership coach, Sally talks about the "perfectionism trap" and other traits that stand in women's way, and how to step into true empowerment as business leaders and entrepreneurs.
