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 7, 2021 • 55min
633 Imperfect Action Wins: Entrepreneur Myoshia Boykin - Anderson on Why It Took 9 Months of “No’s” to Succeed
Myoshia Boykin-Anderson started her first business as a single mom of a 6-year-old with no savings and no college degree after losing her job. She went on to build a multi-seven-figure IT consulting firm named by Inc Magazine as one of the fastest growing companies in the U.S. She’s the CEO and founder of AndTech Solutions, providing custom application development and other technology services to top U.S. companies. Listen to learn about persistence, faith, the power of imperfect action, and why entrepreneurs succeed when we embrace failure as a friend.
Sep 2, 2021 • 36min
632 Marketing Mistakes: Entrepreneur Erin Fults on How to Pierce Through the Noise and Convert Raving Customers
Erin Fults is a strategist, coach, implementer, and the founder of Acorn Studio, a business coaching and marketing consultancy. Erin passionately believes that healthy, sustainable small businesses can change the world. She helps business owners figure out the next right step to move their business forward and implement simple frameworks that maximize revenue and productivity. Listen today to learn why so many businesses waste precious dollars on marketing that doesn’t work. Learn why not, and what you should do instead.
Aug 31, 2021 • 50min
631 DIY Your PR: Entrepreneur Amanda Berlin on How to Leverage Relationships to Build An Authentic Brand That Resonates with Earned Media
Amanda Berlin is a visibility and business consultant for entrepreneurs who works with entrepreneurs on boosting their holistic visibility to help them grow their business and impact based on relationship-building tactics employed during her 12 years in the corporate PR world, guiding strategy for major brands. Listen today to learn why authenticity is the name of the game, and why it’s vital you ‘own’ your own relationships with media outlets.
Aug 26, 2021 • 48min
630 Flow State: Entrepreneur Diane Allen on Practical Ways to Achieve Peak Performance
Diane Allen is a TED Talk maven, a professional violinist, and an expert with the Flow State and the Positive Psychology of Peak Performance who speaks on how to ‘Own Your Potential’ and is known for her Experiential Keynotes that empower people to be in their A-Game anytime, anyplace, no matter how high the pressure. Listen today to learn how to know whether you’re in flow state, the neuroscience of flow, plus three practical steps you can take to summon it and make flow a repeatable process.
Aug 24, 2021 • 50min
629 Know Your Numbers: Money Expert Jennifer Brazer on Our Money Stories and How Fear Stops Entrepreneurs from Leveraging Financial Data
Jennifer Brazer is the Founder and CEO of Complete Controller, a leading national business services firm, where she helps businesses and households alike access reliable financial data to fuel their critical decisions. Also author of From Cubicle to Cloud, Jennifer pioneered cloud-based accounting back in 2007, and Complete Controller has become the turnkey client accounting services (CAS) department for CPA firms across the country, allowing them to tap into single sign-on access to all of their client's books and records, standardized managed account practices, and unlimited bookkeeping talent. Listen today to learn how your money stories may be standing in the way of success, and what you need to know as an entrepreneur to grow your business.
Aug 19, 2021 • 41min
628 Artificial Intelligence: Tech Entrepreneur Dr. Nashlie Sephus on Eliminating Biases from AI
Dr. Nashlie Sephus sold her innovative AI company called Partpic to Amazon, where she is now a Tech Evangelist for Amazon AI, focusing on erasing racial bias from artificial intelligence. She’s also the founder and CEO of The Bean Path non-profit based in her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi where she assists individuals and startups with technical expertise. Listen to learn how she’s changing the game for women of color in tech, also as the owner of the Jackson Tech District, 14-acres of mixed-use commercial real-estate to bring tech training and workforce/economic development to the area.
Aug 17, 2021 • 30min
627 Love Yourself: Entrepreneur Tisha Thompson on Being the First African American to Land a Clean Beauty Deal with Sephora
Tisha Thompson is a makeup artist turned beauty business maven, the Founder, and CEO of LYS™ Beauty, the first black-owned clean beauty line to be sold at Sephora. Tisha has more than 15 years of industry experience in clean beauty product development, brand management, marketing, finance, and operations, and she shares how she built LYS™ to offer makeup and skincare solutions uniquely catered to various skin types, textures, and tones, while addressing common skin concerns, like hyperpigmentation, dark spots, and sensitive skin.
Aug 12, 2021 • 50min
626 ICYMI Been There, Built That: In Memoriam - Entrepreneur, Award-Winning Author and Podcaster the Late Dr. Gayle Carson on Pioneering in a Man’s World
The late Dr. Gayle Carson built and scaled a 350-person business as a woman in the 1950s and 1960s, buying the company she worked for in under a year, and balancing entrepreneurship, marriage, motherhood, and a gig as the TV spokeswoman for Clairol. Then she got busy with her first love as a podcaster and owner of SOB Radio Network, and yes, SOB stands for “spunky old broad”. After surviving 4 bouts with breast cancer, Gayle passed away last month. Listen for inspiration about how to be unstoppable in business and life, and why your mindset is the key to success.
Aug 10, 2021 • 1h 6min
625 ICYMI Undaunted: Kara Goldin on Overcoming Self-Doubt to Build a Unicorn as an “Accidental Entrepreneur”
Kara Goldin is the Founder and CEO of Hint, Inc., best known for its award-winning unsweetened flavored Hint® water, and the author of Undaunted: Overcoming Doubts & Doubters. Also an active speaker, writer and host of the podcast The Kara Goldin Show where she interviews founders, entrepreneurs and other disruptors across various industries, Kara shares how she overcame myriad setbacks and challenges to build Hint® into a $2bn business.
Aug 5, 2021 • 33min
624 Friendly Sales: Entrepreneur Lynda Cormier on Why Sales Doesn’t Have to be “Salesy”
Lynda Cormier is one of the most sought-after personal development coaches as facilitator of the award- winning Breakthrough Living Personal Development/Coaching Program, creator of the Heroic Joy Leadership Academy that teaches leadership, personal growth and ‘team’ to teenagers and young adults, as well as the Co-Founder and CEO of GIA, an international wellness company that Lynda guided from a local startup to an international, multi-million-dollar success story. Listen to learn how understanding your personal value affects how you scale your business.
