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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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.
Aug 22, 2023 • 38min
Flame Bearers: Entrepreneur Jamie Mittelman on Changing the Narrative for Female Athletes
Jamie Mittelman is the founder and host of Flame Bearers, an award-winning podcast and the world's first storytelling platform specifically for women Olympians and Paralympians. Jamie made the transition from corporate to startup, having managed a $30 Million media portfolio on behalf of the conglomerate of Yahoo!, The Huffington Post, AOL, and Verizon. She founded Flame Bearers as she got her master’s in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.
Aug 17, 2023 • 54min
The Greatness Game: Entrepreneur and Elite Coach Dena Patton on Mastering Sales, Systems and Mindset to Scale Your Business
Dena Patton an elite coach who has worked with thousands of purpose-driven companies and world-changing leaders around the globe to help them build great companies that break records with their revenues and their impact. An entrepreneur who had a significant exit right before the dot-com bubble burst, Dena founded the Dena Patton Coaching and Training Company 22 years ago. She focuses on helping entrepreneurs transform into great CEOs by mastering sales, replicable processes and systems, and mindset. She’s the bestselling author of The Greatness Game and has been featured on CNN, Entrepreneur magazine, and Business Journal.
Aug 15, 2023 • 43min
Rapid Rewiring: Entrepreneur Michele Molitor on Removing Self Doubt and Imposter Syndrome
Michele Molitor is the Founder and CEO of Nectar Consulting Inc. and co-author of the best-selling book “Breakthrough Healing.” At Nectar, Michele helps employees, entrepreneurs, and executives alike step beyond the edge of their comfort zone to find their voice and stand fully in their confidence with her unique Rapid Rewiring approach to help people remove subconscious fears, self-doubt and blocks created by imposter syndrome to achieve greater success and wellbeing.
Aug 10, 2023 • 35min
Madam Trader: Entrepreneur Ashley Kyle Miller on Closing the Wealth Gap and Inspiring Women to Invest
Ashley Kyle Miller is the founder and host of the Madam Trader Podcast, sharing stories of successful women traders, investors and entrepreneurs and breaking down financial concepts into digestible pieces to provide an accessible space to improve financial literacy. Growing up in Montana, where her dad is a commodities broker, Ashley set out as a finance professional to help women get good at investing and create wealth. This month she’s launched the Madam Trader personal finance course and has built a growing community.
