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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Mar 21, 2023 • 42min
Style as a Service: Entrepreneur Catherine Cassidy Disrupting the Fashion Industry
Catherine Cassidy is the CEO and Founder of Boutique Box, a unique “style as a service” platform helping busy women find their perfect fashions in a time-saving way. Catherine has more than 20 years of experience in the Fashion Industry, and launched her first fashion business Ustyled in 2008. She’s also a sought-after speaker on leadership and confidence.
Mar 16, 2023 • 38min
PR as Great Storytelling: Entrepreneur Nicole Rodrigues on How to Build Brand Loyalty
Nicole Rodrigues is CEO & Founder of NRPR Group, an award-winning, full-service PR and creative marketing agency. Her experience designing strategies for marquee brands like Yahoo!, YouTube and Hulu has made her one of the industry’s "Top 50 Game Changers" and earned her the title of “Beverly Hills Boss.” Today Nicole shares her top three strategies for standing out from the crowd and why every business needs a long-term PR strategy based on storytelling.
Mar 14, 2023 • 48min
No Permission Needed: Serial Entrepreneur Tissa Richards on Knowing Your Value and Non-Negotiables as an Entrepreneur
Tissa Richards has a mission to create a legion of leaders with an unshakable sense of self. A serial entrepreneur, a keynote speaker, leadership expert and corporate facilitator, Tissa works with F1000 and hyperscale organizations, guiding them to create blueprints for individual and organizational success, develop high-performance cultures, and to diversify C-suites and corporate boardrooms. As a repeat software founder and CEO, Tissa sits at the intersection of entrepreneurship, fundraising and executive leadership. She has raised millions of dollars for her companies, won awards for innovation and products, and holds multiple patents for complex cybersecurity software. She works closely with founders and business owners to create strategies for fearless, authentic, and resilient success. Her book, No Permission Needed, recently hit #1 new release on Amazon.
Mar 9, 2023 • 44min
Turning Passion to Profit: Entrepreneur Candace Nelson on Scaling Two Innovative Businesses
Candace Nelson is a serial entrepreneur, a New York Times bestselling author, Wall Street Journal contributor and an expert in turning one’s passion into a profitable business. Author of the WSJ bestselling book, Sweet Success: A Simple Recipe for Turning Your Passion into Profit, Candace revolutionized the baking industry when she left a career in corporate finance to launch Sprinkles, the world's first cupcake bakery and Cupcake ATM. She followed with Pizzana, a growing chain of Michelin Bib Gourmand-awarded pizzerias leading the third wave of pizza in the U.S. She continues to expand her portfolio of investments with CN2 Ventures.
Mar 7, 2023 • 58min
Show Up Positive: Entrepreneur Rita Ernst on How to Create Great Workplace Cultures
Rita Ernst is the founder Ignite Your Extraordinary, an organizational consulting practice emphasizing the convergence of happiness and productivity to create positive, committed, high-performing organizations. Author of Show Up Positive, Rita helps transform corporate cultures and startup emerging growth companies lay the groundwork for success.
Mar 2, 2023 • 52min
Business Energetics: Entrepreneur Amanda Bucci on How to Align with Your Authentic Blueprint and Entrepreneurial Archetype
Amanda Bucci is a conscious business consultant, energy and alignment coach, podcaster, and creator of the Entrepreneurial Archetype Quiz™. A 7-figure CEO by the age of 25, Amanda built on her certifications in Spiritual Psychology to build a vibrant coaching business helping entrepreneurs and creators understand who they are, connect to their authenticity, and build businesses that are in alignment with their energetic blueprints.
Feb 28, 2023 • 46min
Mind Magic: Entrepreneur Tracy Litt on How to Leverage the Divine Feminine and Quantum Law for Wealth and Impact
Tracy Litt is a sought-after success mentor for visionary women leaders navigating huge paradigm shifts and elevating into the next level of impact, wealth, and holistic success. Tracy is Founder of The Litt Factor and creator of Mind Magic ®, a proven methodology that marries metacognition and spirituality, neuroscience, and quantum law to expand and elevate more quickly. She is also the bestselling author of Worthy Human and her work has been featured by Forbes, Entrepreneur, Fast Company and Inc.com
Feb 23, 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.
Feb 21, 2023 • 33min
The High Earners Paradox: Real Estate Entrepreneur Palak Shah on Building a $10mm Business with Time Freedom
Palak Shah is the founder of Open Spaces Capital, a real estate firm she built as a stay-at-home-mom to $10 million in asset value. Palak had spent 17 years as a top paid mechanical engineer climbing the corporate ladder when she realized on maternity leave, she wanted more flexibility to focus on her children. When her request to work from home part time was rejected, she quit her high paying job and launched her profitable real estate company, and how she also teaches women how to ‘BRRRR’, that is “Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat.”
Feb 16, 2023 • 43min
Build A Great Team Culture: Leadership Coach Wendy Appel on Curiosity, Inclusion, and the Art of Listening
Wendy Appel is a founding partner of Trilogy Effect, a leadership development and executive coaching consulting firm that helps startups and F-500 companies alike build high functioning teams by tapping into the wisdom, creativity, and vitality inherent in themselves, in their teams, and in their organizations. Author of InsideOut Enneagram: The Game Changing Guide for Leaders Wendy also hosts the podcast Being Human is Good for Business.
