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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Jan 10, 2023 • 40min
7-Figure Confidence: Entrepreneur Sara Roach Lewis on Overcoming What’s Holding You Back in Business
Sara Roach-Lewis, the CEO of SRL Solutions and creator of the 7-Figure Confidence Program, is on a mission to help ambitious women build scalable businesses that support their busy lives. Through her first book, She Rules, What You Didn’t Know is Holding You Back in Business Sara shares her strategies for exponential business growth, achieving laser- focus while moving through resistance, rebranding self-care as an important business practice, and how to turn your imposter syndrome into 7-figure confidence.
Jan 5, 2023 • 50min
The Vacation Effect: Entrepreneur Denise Gosnell on How to ‘Grow By Subtraction’ for Entrepreneurial Freedom
Denise Gosnell is a business strategist, attorney, #1 bestselling author, and investor. Author of the new book The Vacation Effect for Entrepreneurs: Grow Your Business Even Faster by Working Less and Having More Fun, Denise owns and operates three companies by working an average of three days per week and generates seven figures each year. Founder of The Vacation Effect and the Grow by Subtraction Accelerator, she is a trusted advisor to many of the world’s top entrepreneurs and has spoken on stages in eight different countries.
Jan 3, 2023 • 33min
Resume Assassin: Entrepreneur Mary Southern on How to Land the Perfect Job
Mary Southern is an entrepreneur, resume writer, wife, mother, and founder of Resume Assassin. She has been selected for a variety of awards, written numerous resume writing articles for organizations such as SHRM, and was recently chosen as a featured guest on the podcast Entrepreneurs on Fire with John Lee Dumas. She is also the top-rated resume service in Austin, TX. She has helped 1,000's of executive and professional job seekers land jobs at some of the world's leading companies, including Google, Amazon, Tesla, IBM, Oracle, Salesforce, NASA, SpaceX, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, 3M, Dell, Pfizer, Goldman-Sachs, Johns Hopkins, and many more.
Dec 29, 2022 • 24min
ChatGPT for Podcasting: Serial Entrepreneur Melinda Wittstock Taps AI to Predict Top Business Trends for 2023
Melinda Wittstock, 5-time serial entrepreneur and the CEO and founder of the interactive AI-powered podcasting app Podopolo, asks ChatGPT’s generative AI to share its top 10 business trends for 2023 plus advice for female founders on how to overcome gender-based challenges in business.
Dec 27, 2022 • 45min
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.
Dec 22, 2022 • 53min
Power, Love, Money: Astrology for Entrepreneurs for 2023
Kim Woods is a business strategist and master astrologer, drawing on her25+ years as a C-suite executive and entrepreneur building several 7-figure businesses and her myriad intuitive certifications. Kim teaches business leaders to overcome the blocks to their success to achieve personal, professional, and financial triumph. Today we talk about how to “leverage the stars” to prosper in business, even in a recession.
Dec 20, 2022 • 50min
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.
Dec 15, 2022 • 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.
Dec 13, 2022 • 48min
Drop the Juggling Act: Serial Entrepreneur and Coach Sarah Greener on Succeeding in a Recession and Overcoming Overwhelm in Business
Sarah Greener is a serial entrepreneur and business coach who helps busy, stressed, and overworked business owners transform their businesses by reigniting their passion and refocusing their work “on” their businesses rather than “in” them. Author of The Off Switch, Sarah shares how to move from a To Do List an ‘I Don’t List’.
Dec 8, 2022 • 34min
Selfcare for Entrepreneurs: Jaime McFaden on Manifesting Wellbeing, Awareness, Vision, and Energy
Jaime McFaden is a selfcare specialist and the bestselling author of Waves of Self-Care, It Takes a Village who helps busy working and entrepreneurial moms create time for themselves and lead by example.
