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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Apr 25, 2023 • 42min
Ask For What You Want: Entrepreneur and Investor Kareen Walsh on Building Trust and Aligning to Your Zone of Genius for Great Leadership
Kareen Walsh is a startup adviser, investor, serial entrepreneur, executive coach, author, and podcaster. She is the CEO and Founder of Revampologist, a 7-Figure Boutique consulting and coaching company and co-founded the Clevr Network. With 17+ years of entrepreneurial and executive experience leading and advising industry leaders, Kareen is hyper focused on leadership to help businesses scale. Her clients include trillion-dollar companies like BlackRock, Groupon, Broadridge as well as startups, and she helps leaders align what they love with what they do, and monetize it. She believes if you are not growing, your business won't grow, and uses her books Lead with Value and Be A Badass, along with her Podcast Your Badass Journey as ways to share the methods of personal and professional growth.
Apr 20, 2023 • 30min
Patient Progress: Entrepreneur Sarah Smith on What It Takes to Realize Your Full Product Vision
Sarah Smith is the founder of The Dyrt, the No. 1 app for camping information and booking, with 30 million annual camper visits, 50,000 campground listings, and 8 million user-generated reviews, photos, and tips for US campgrounds. The Dyrt has grown to the largest online source of camping information and the only major platform to offer commission-free bookings for campgrounds. Sarah was recognized on the 2022 Inc. Female Founders 100 list of the top women entrepreneurs.
Apr 18, 2023 • 43min
Networking in Stilettos: Entrepreneur Ungenita Prevost on Social Capital to Create Financial Capital
Ungenita Prevost is on a mission to help 10,000,000 women build social capital and monetize their networks as the leader of a global feminine leadership network. A former Hollywood Body Double, Music Video Dancer turned Award Winning Feminine Leadership Expert, Ungenita created the fast-growing Networking in Stilettos. Author of the book by the same name, she also hosts the podcast Billion Dollar Rolodex.
Apr 13, 2023 • 47min
Investing In Women: Entrepreneur Coco Brown on Advancing Women to the C-Suite, Boardroom and Venture Capital Investing
Coco Brown is the Founder and CEO of Athena Alliance, an Executive-Education-As-A-Service platform helping women advance as founders, corporate executives, board members and investors. Athena’s peer network, with its live and on-demand learning, networking, and coaching, has helped thousands of women, and brought more than 400 women to corporate boards. Former COO of Taos which sold to IBM, Coco has served on ten commercial and non-profit boards and advisory boards, and she’s part of Nasdaq's Governance Insights Council, and is often called on to share guidance to the evolving focus and breadth of responsibility within the modern boardroom.
Apr 11, 2023 • 34min
Secrets of the Pivot: Entrepreneur Ali Nichols on How to Co-Create with Your Customers for Product-Market Fit
Ali Nichols is the Co-founder of Getaway, a vacation rental investing business she has now pivoted with a branding change to Hammock, helping people invest in rental properties just 5% down. Previously at Bungalow, Ali spearheaded raising and operating a $700M real estate fund focused on acquiring single family rentals. Today she shares her journey pivoting to find product-market fit.
Apr 6, 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.
Apr 4, 2023 • 31min
Money Mindset: Accounting Entrepreneur Ashley Ford on Growing Your Business and Your Wealth
Ashley Ford is an expert in small business accounting who has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs to transform the way they make and spend money in their business. Today she shares her tips and why financial clarity is the key to sustainable success.
Mar 30, 2023 • 38min
Food Innovation: VC Investor Jennifer Stojkovic on Why the Future of Food Is Female
Jennifer Stojkovic is a General Partner at Joyful Ventures, an early-stage VC fund focused on disrupting the $1.4 trillion meat and dairy industry with sustainable protein. She’s also the founder of Vegan Women Summit (VWS), a platform of over 60,000 women professionals in the future of food, and author of the award-winning book, The Future of Food is Female. Prior to her career in food technology, Jennifer built her career in Silicon Valley under Ron Conway, Founder of SV Angel, and worked with the world's largest tech companies including Google, Meta, and Microsoft.
Mar 28, 2023 • 39min
Exponential Living: High-Performance Life Coach Sheri Riley on How to Live in Your P.O.W.E.R.
Sheri Riley is President of Exponential Living®, a personal, professional, and leadership development company. After spending 20 years creating marketing strategies for global superstars and companies like Usher, Warner Media, and Converse, Sheri now empowers professional athletes, coaches, entertainers, corporate executives, and entrepreneurs to grow personally and dominate professionally. She’s also the bestselling author of Exponential Living® - Stop Spending 100% of Your Time on 10% of Who You Are.
Mar 23, 2023 • 33min
Secrets of Aromatherapy: Amy Anthony on How Entrepreneurs Can De-Stress
Amy Anthony is one of the United States’ most influential aromatherapists and the founder of a growing private practice NYC Aromatica, which offers one-on-one customized aromatherapy sessions, online class offerings, and corporate consulting. Also an aromatic gardener, herbalist, artisanal distiller, and certified master composters, Amy left her career in marketing research to pursue her love of plants. She also hosts the Essential Aromatica podcast.
