Wings of Inspired Business

Lindsey S. Mignano is the founder of SSM Legal, an entrepreneurial Silicon Valley corporate lawyer representing emerging technology companies and industry-adjacent firms and small businesses. Her practice spans technology company business formation and expansion into US markets, M&A (flips, entity or asset sales), commercial and technology transactions, and venture financing. Lindsey has been recognized as a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers every year from 2016-2024, an honor awarded to only 2.5% of attorneys under the age of 40. In 2025, she was awarded the Super Lawyers distinction for the first time at the age of 40, an honor awarded to only 5% of attorneys. Separate from her law practice, Lindsey speaks often about diversity issues in the fields of law, tech, and venture. In 2023, Lindsey founded Venture Betches, a venture fund of funds, and Syndicate Betches, a real estate syndicate fund of funds, both with a social justice mission to bring investment opportunities to historically underrepresented accredited limited partners who identify as female and/or BIPOC/minorities. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 💰 🚀 Fewer Early-Stage Deals, But Bigger Checks for the Chosen Few: While overall early-stage investment (seed & Series A) is down sharply, those who do close are raising larger rounds. AI startups are a bright spot—median deal size for early-stage AI is $4.6M vs. $3.5M in other sectors. 🛠️🔥The Funding Bar Is Higher Than Ever: VCs are pickier, demanding traction, ARR, and “proof” even at seed stage. This can be a real Catch-22 for founders who need funding to hit those milestones. 👩‍🔬🛑 The Gender Gap Persists—And Is Widening: Female founders face staggering disparities in deal count and dollars. In 2025, only 5.3% of all deals went to all-female teams, and a shocking 0.8% of total venture dollars. The dynamic is especially tough for solo women founders in technical AI, who often face pressure to take on male CTOs and cede equity to “pass” the VC filter. ✨💡 Tips for Women and Diverse Founders: Feeling daunted? Seek out emerging venture managers and female-run funds for your first checks—but be mindful of not being pigeonholed at the next funding stage. Build authentic relationships with decision-makers (not just associates). Don’t hesitate to get creative about showcasing traction, even with limited resources. Find legal and business partners who share your values and play the long game. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/wings-946 More about Lindsey at SSM Legal  

Esther Wildenberg is committed to empowering women while leaving a sustainable legacy today and for the next generation. She’s Co-Founder and President of Codebreaker Technologies, a world leader in personality coding. She’s also the author of The Undermined Soul, a book dedicated to help women step into their power in business sharing the lessons she learned along the way. By the age of 33, she was the CEO of a consulting company in Europe, leading a team of over 800 employees. From there, she held multiple C-Suite Executive Leadership positions while building her own consulting and coaching company in the Netherlands. With over two decades of international experience, she understands culture, diversity, inclusion, and the power of team like no other. Her passion? People. Her mission? To equip and empower people to manifest their own greatness in business and in life.  🔑Key Takeaways🔑 👩‍🔬 🚀 Women are the World’s New Asset Class: Why women will dominate business because of innate superpowers like intuition, multitasking and relationship-building. The data is clear: Despite women receiving less than 2% of venture capital, female-founded companies deliver higher returns and greater longevity. When women invest in women, we all rise. ✨💪 Reclaim Your Narrative: Esther wrote her book, The Undermined Soul, as a legacy for her son, sharing how she transformed being undermined into her source of strength. She reminds us that our greatest obstacles are often society’s limiting beliefs—ones we can choose to rewrite. ❤️⚡Real Power = Emotional Intelligence: Whether leading a company or pitching to investors, understanding people’s values is key. Esther’s approach—rooted in relationship-building and her personality coding technology—demonstrates that empathy and adaptability drive true results. 🎯 💡 Bonus Insight: Esther also gives us a sneak peek into Codebreaker Technologies and its revolutionary personality coding tech that’s helping women entrepreneurs win more sales, faster—all by understanding human behavior in seconds. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/wings-945 More about Esther at Code Breaker Tech Get Esther’s book, The Undermined Soul, with FREE PDFs and a FREE 15-minute consultation.  

Scarlett Stanhope, aka The Biz Hippie, teaches coaches to conquer their finances and own their worth so they can be fully supported by the work they love. Scarlett harnessed the power of money to break free from her workaholic career path and pursue her dreams. She uses a combination of tangible money management strategies as well as a variety of coaching techniques to help her clients transform their mindset and relationship to money, allowing them to strategically achieve their goals and live their best lives. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 ✨🛠️Change Your Money Story: Why it’s vital to heal your relationship with money before you invest in your business growth and financial management.   💰📈 Why Making More Money Doesn’t Solve Your Money Problems: Rich or poor, you can run the same stressful treadmill, without joy or happiness.  💪❤️Balancing Hustle and Flow: Learn how to swing from the extremes of structured action to mindful flow can help you find the equilibrium that assures entrepreneurial success around living a harmonious life true to you.  💼 🌱Overcoming Fear of Lack: Learn how to rewire your brain from scarcity to abundance, and why it starts with self-awareness and evolves into savvy and empowering money management strategies. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings944 More about Scarlett at The Biz Hippie Get a Free 30-minute Abundance Activation session designed to help you uncover the pitfalls that have been holding you back.

Dr. Nona Djavid is a serial entrepreneur and transformational leader, and author committed to helping business owners and entrepreneurs break through limiting beliefs around time, money, and success. As the founder of eLIVate Club and the Part Time Million Dollar Business coaching platform, she empowers women to create businesses that align with their dream lifestyles while working less and achieving more. With a background in neurology and chiropractic care, Dr. Nona blends science, philosophy, and universal truths to teach her clients how to master the energetics and mechanics of abundance. As the founder of eLIVate Club and the Part Time Million Dollar Business coaching platform, she empowers women to create businesses that align with their dream lifestyles while working less and achieving more. Dr. Nona’s transformative insights have been featured in major outlets such as Forbes, NBC News, and CBS News, and she is a sought-after speaker. Through her work, she helps clients quantum leap their income, time freedom, and personal growth. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🔥🛠️The One Week A Month Lifestyle:  Learn how to scale without burnout, and the mindset it takes to live a life of freedom and success, without trade-off, guilt or apology. 💪 🤟 The 4-Step Framework for Unreasonableness: How to shift your mindset from scarcity, make your nervous system feel comfortable in abundance and freedom, and break the addiction to struggle hardwired into our emotions, belief systems, and nervous systems. 👩‍🔬 🚀 What Stops Women from Building 9-figure+ Businesses: Deep down, most women have fears of being “cast out” for succeeding too much, perhaps overshadowing their men or alienating women friends. What it takes to break out of that cycle of limiting beliefs. ✨💡 Quantum Leaps in Business and Life: What that means in practical terms, and how entrepreneurs can create exponential success without working harder. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings943   More about Nona at eLIVate.me Listen to Nona’s podcast, The Unreasonable Life

Rajia Abdelaziz is the CEO and co-founder of invisaWear, a company at the forefront of smart jewelry and life-saving technology. An advocate for women’s and children’s safety, Rajia scaled invisaWear to reach over 100,000 customers, successfully raised millions of dollars, and earned coveted recognition including Forbes' 30 Under 30 North America, Boston Globe’s Tech Power Players, BostInno’s 25 Under 25, and the New England Innovations Award. Just last week invisaWear was selected by Oprah Winfrey for this year’s Back to School List. As a minority female CEO, Rajia is passionate about mentoring other young entrepreneurs to pursue their dreams and beat the odds, guiding aspiring entrepreneurs at UMass Lowell’s Entrepreneurship program. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 💪 🛠️Building from Personal Experience: Why many successful businesses are inspired by personal trauma and challenge, and how a college class project quickly became a mission to keep women (and everyone) safer with smart jewelry and cutting-edge 24/7 alert systems.  💰 📈 Breaking Barriers in Fundraising: Raising capital as a young female founder is never easy. Learn how Rajia pitched 100 investors before she ever got a single yes.  What turned the tide was making her pitch personal for investors—asking them to think about protecting the women in their own lives.  🔥 🤝 Bold Moves, Strong Partnerships: Why entrepreneurship means never taking no for an answer, and daring to reach for the seemingly impossible. Learn how Rajia cold-emailed an executive at ADT, which led to a game-changing partnership. 📌 👥Businesses Don’t Fail; People Quit: Success is always around the corner, so don’t let setbacks take you off course. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/wings942 More about Rajia at invisaWear  

Gabriela Rosa is a fertility specialist, reproductive health educator, Harvard University-awarded scholar, and the CEO and founder of The Rosa Institute—the world’s first virtual and holistic fertility clinic. Gabriela and her team have helped 140,000 couples in 110 countries, and her treatment methodology has become an authority in its industry for identifying and addressing biochemical obstacles that guide couples in overcoming infertility and recurrent miscarriage, despite previous reproductive difficulties and failed treatments. She is also the host of the TalkSex with Gabriela Rosa™ podcast. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 💼 💪From 80-Hour Weeks to Virtual Triumph: How to balance the demands of motherhood with entrepreneurship, set your own boundaries to build a business around your life rather and make business work on your own terms. Learn how Gabriela went from selling her time to selling her expertise with a program-based business that supports the right patients in 110 countries. 💡👩‍🔬 Take It or Leave It: How to set bold boundaries and having the confidence to do business on your own terms without apology or guilt. Hint: Let perfectionism go, and build systems that support you and your expertise. 🚀 💰 The Secret to Sustainable, Scalable Success: Don’t ever accept “business as usual” or others’ blueprints. Learn how to work less for a bigger impact, and in Gabriela’s case, an astonishing 78.8% live birth rate—even for “hopeless” infertility cases. 📚✨ The Science Behind Fertility Breakthroughs: Learn why IVF is not the only answer, and take Gabriela’s free 30 day Fertility Challenge. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings941

Sheila Buswell is the CEO and Co-Founder of Buswell Biomedical, a veteran of the US Army, and the author of Is This Seat For Me? Overcoming Imposter Syndrome in Everyday Life and Business. In her book, Sheila shares her personal experiences overcoming sexism in engineering and tech and dealing with impostor syndrome, as well the stories of a diverse group of accomplished individuals who struggled with self-doubt but found ways to overcome it. She hopes to help others who feel limited by their beliefs experience more freedom and realize they are enough. 🔍🤖 AI's Transformative Potential: Learn how AI can learn an individual's unique motion patterns, a game-changer for mobility compared to traditional methods that can’t finely personalize such assistance.  🤝 🚀 Overcoming AI Fears and Biases: Why educating people on AI's benefits and potential, with relatable, empowering stories to demystify AI is crucial. 💡💰 Navigating the Venture Landscape: Why it’s vital for female founders raising venture capital to find aligned partners who believe in you and your mission. 👩‍🔬🔥 Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: How to overcome doubts on your entrepreneurial journey. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings940

Bizzie Gold is the CEO and Founder of Break Method, a first-of-its-kind behavioral diagnostics system that uses data analytics to predict and reprogram patterns of thought and behavior with 98.3% accuracy. An industry disruptor to the core, Bizzie is revolutionizing the way mental health, addiction recovery, and human performance are approached. She has founded and scaled eight global brands, and Break Method with its brain pattern mapping technology that avoids confirmation bias in therapy, challenges the outdated financial and therapeutic models that keep clients trapped in endless cycles of dependency. She is also the author of the new book, “Your Brain is a Filthy Liar”. 🤔💭Understanding the Break Method: Not your average therapy program with endless narrative-based sessions, Break Method maps over 200 historical data points to create a unique “brain pattern” for each individual, forming the foundation of a targeted, efficient, and sustainable personal transformation moving clients beyond the “process-perfection trap” into deep self-trust, resilience, and freedom from repetitive subconscious patterns.  ✨💡The Power of Self-Trust: Learn how Bizzie’s upbringing cultivated extraordinary self-belief, and why learning to trust yourself is the antidote to perfectionism. 🔥🛠️Entrepreneurial Reinvention: Many entrepreneurs struggle with burnout, self-sabotage, or repeating toxic cycles, and Break Method helps founders identify and break the subconscious patterns driving these behaviors to “rewire at the source” and bolster emotional intelligence to clear the path for success.  👥 🧠 Organizational Impact: Learn how brain pattern mapping is changing the game for hiring, leadership, and team optimization in companies of all sizes. 👩‍🔬 🤟Transformation Stories: Hear how Break Method is delivering 180-degree life changes from ending debilitating medication cycles to breaking toxic relationship patterns and helping entrepreneurs and their teams succeed.

Kimberly Mitchell is a transformational leader dedicated to empowering individuals and small businesses as the Founder and CEO of the business training company Ujoozi, and its personal transformation system, Journey to Joy. A U.S. Air Force veteran and mental health advocate, Kimberly transitioned to civilian life pursuing a career in training and leadership development, working across multiple industries, from technology rollouts to government initiatives, including the 2010 Census Project with its the first-ever digital data collection. Her work with the Rochester Schools Modernization Program led to the creation of an innovative small business training initiative, impacting local entrepreneurs and serving as a model for other municipalities. Simultaneously, she started several event planning and photo booth businesses before pivoting to create Ujoozi, now a thriving six-figure business. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 💡 🌍Finding Your Inner Compass in Uncertain Times: Start by going inward to understand the limiting beliefs you may hold about yourself.    💪 🚀 The Power of Self-Sufficiency: Why women must take control of their futures, with strategies to become self-sustaining in all areas of their lives, to claim their right to a seat at every table—in business, leadership or advocacy. 🤝 👩‍🔬 Sister Circles:  Why support and sisterhood are crucial for women in business, whether it’s a support group of women or simply one woman quietly encouraging another. Women need permission and a community to step into their full power—especially when the world tells us to shrink or play small. 🔥 🤟 Your ‘Prime Time’ is Now: Don’t let perfectionism trap you into procrastination, or fear of playing a bigger game. It’s never too late to claim your power, kick limiting beliefs to the curb, and help lift other women. ❤️✨Transforming in Joy: Why transformations happen when we peel back the layers, recognize the negative voices running on autopilot, and challenge them—plus why joy is not a reward you earn—it’s always inside, waiting for you to clear away the clutter and see it. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings938   More about Kimberly at Ujoozi - https://ujooziu.com/  

Michelle Taylor is the founder of the Women and Wealth Initiative, a transformative platform aimed at empowering women to take control of their financial futures. With over a decade of experience in financial services, Michelle is committed to closing the wealth gap by providing financial education and a supportive community for women from all walks of life. From business owners preparing for exit strategies to stay-at-home moms managing household budgets, Michelle’s initiative helps women define and achieve their version of financial success with confidence and clarity. Michelle also hosts the podcast, Talk Wealthy to Me. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 ✨💰 Start With Your Money Story: Why understanding and addressing the beliefs you hold about money is foundational to your wealth. Learn what makes many women undervalue themselves based on stories they've absorbed from family, society, or past experiences—and how to rewrite these narratives. 💡 🚀 Financial Literacy is Power (and It’s Never Too Late): It’s okay not to know everything. What matters is the willingness to ask questions—even ones that feel “stupid”—and seek out resources and communities where you can learn at your own pace.  🤝 👩‍🔬 Community and Big Conversations: Surround yourself with like-minded women who challenge and uplift you. Don’t shy away from discussing money, investments, and big dreams. The more we talk candidly with one another, the more we all learn, and the easier it becomes to shatter old paradigms. 📈 🌱Financial Independence Toolbox: Whether you’re just starting your business, setting investment strategies, or figuring out how to diversify your income, here are specific strategies you can implement right now: Have conviction in your “ask”—know your worth; build your business “family” for mentorship and honest feedback; diversify your income and investments with a smart strategy tailored to you; and replace fear and scarcity with learning and community. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings937   More about Michelle at Women In Wealth