

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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Feb 14, 2023 • 49min
Seven Pillars of Abundance: Entrepreneur Rebecca Whitman on Why Spiritual Growth is a Business Multiplier
Rebecca Whitman is an award-winning Success Mentor and the internationally bestselling author of Phenomenal Feminine Entrepreneurs, Business, Life, Universe, and How to Make a Six Figure Income Working Part Time. International Association of Top Professionals’ Life Coach of the Year, Rebecca shares how her 7 Pillars of Abundance enables entrepreneurial success and a full, happy life. She also hosts the Balanced, Beautiful, Abundant podcast.

Feb 9, 2023 • 43min
You Deserve Success: Entrepreneur Ego Iwegbu on Why You Don’t Have to Do It All to Have It All
Ego Iwegbu is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of The Good Mineral, a clean-beauty brand focused on sensitive acne-prone skin. She first went into business founding Nail Salon in 1999, and now also founded two other companies, the cosmetic line Miss London and the salon business Miss Salon London. Author of Open Your Own Salon the Right Way and Kick-Start Your Salon into Profit, Ego has also made it her mission to help other women build businesses, especially female founders who find themselves in difficult circumstances.

Feb 7, 2023 • 35min
Million-Dollar Side Hustle: Entrepreneur Anna Konchar on How to Create a Profitable Online Course
Anna Konchar is an e-learning expert mentor who helps women monetize their skills, knowledge and passions with online courses and membership programs. Anna built her first side hustle e-course to $100,000 while still working a 9-5 job, and went on to earn $3mm in 3 years with her own courses working just 2 days a week. Today she shares her blueprint of how to build a million-dollar side hustle.

Feb 2, 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. Listen to learn: Four strategic steps to take aligned action How to identify and monetize your unique ‘zone of genius’ How to ask for what you want Why lack of trust is the biggest block to building scalable businesses Why quickness of recovery from failure is the best test of great leadership How to build great teams by simplifying your daily practices as a founder or CEO How to hire unstoppable leadership teams (Hint: Stop assuming, start listening) Why too many founders are unaware of their true ‘zone of genius’ and how to find and align with it Why success is about quickness of recovery from failure Why your own self care is critical to your success And much more Keep the conversation going on Podopolo in the Wings of Inspired Business episode comments and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended personally for you.

Jan 31, 2023 • 32min
Emotional Eating: Entrepreneur Jessica Procini on Why It Impacts Resilient High-Achieving Women in Business Most
Jessica Procini is on a mission to help high-achieving women heal the roots of their emotional eating. When Overeaters Anonymous and therapy weren’t enough to help Jessica end her fight with food, she spent ten years in research before developing her signature healing framework, Escape From Emotional Eating®, which has helped women reclaim their power over food. Now that she’s been 100% free from her compulsions with food for over 5 years, Jessica helps female entrepreneurs and executives do the same at EscapeFromEmotionalEating.com.

Jan 26, 2023 • 49min
778 The XX Edge: Investment Leaders Patience Ball and Dr. Ruth Shaber on Why Women Have the Edge in Business and Finance
Patience Ball and Dr. Ruth Shaber, the authors of The XX Edge: Unlocking Higher Returns and Lower Risk, make a well-researched case that women entrepreneurs and C-suite executives deliver stronger long-term performance that drive higher financial returns and more positive societal outcomes. They both draw on real-world experience. Patience, who raised more than $16 billion for women entrepreneurs as Principal Investment Officer and Global Head of Banking on Women at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), is now founder and CEO of the Women of the World Endowment, an investment nonprofit. Ruth, the co-founder and board chair of Rhia Ventures, a group of foundations and investors that collaborate to bring new types of capital and enterprise to the field of reproductive health, was featured in Forbes 2020 Impact 50: Investors Seeking Profit—and Pushing for Change for her contributions to the field of impact investing.

Jan 24, 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.

Jan 19, 2023 • 36min
The Power of Female Mentorship: Entrepreneur Jaclyn Brennan on Network-as-a-Service for Women Founders
Jaclynn (Jax) Brennan is CEO and Co-Founder of Fyli, a Network as a Service (NaaS) business for early-stage female founders, offering education, accountability, peer-to-peer mentorship, leadership advancement and funding opportunities. A Creative Director for a variety of luxury fashion brands, Jaclynn has helped lead over 22 major corporations in executing branding strategies.

Jan 17, 2023 • 47min
Board 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.

Jan 12, 2023 • 31min
Early-Stage Bootstrapping: Entrepreneur Rachel Hicks on Resilience and Learning as You Grow
Rachel Hicks is the Founder of U Whitening, a first-of-its-kind teeth whitening in person experience, and Professional Whitening Products, a one-stop-shop for teeth whitening supplies. With no prior business experience, Rachel shares how she bootstrapped to six-figures in annual revenue in a few short years.