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 18, 2019 • 17min
270 MINISODE The Dance of Entrepreneurship: Serial Entrepreneur Britt Stromberg on What Ballet Taught Her About Success in Business
Britt Stromberg believes the best entrepreneurs are like choreographers: They can see every move on the dancefloor and how a team can be aligned in perfect timing and grace. A creative marketer and serial entrepreneur with a 25-year background in advertising, brand development, market research, and content strategy for consumer retail and technology companies, Britt shares what ballet taught her about resilience, rejection and leadership. Now CEO and founder of Underwire Media, Britt shares her advice for women in business: Learn to be kinder to yourself.
Jan 17, 2019 • 45min
269: Hot New Trends in Digital Marketing: Entrepreneur & PR Maven Lee Caraher on Why Less Good is Better Than More Mediocre
Lee Caraher is an expert in all things PR, digital content marketing and social media. CEO and founder of Silicon Valley’s Double Forte Group, Lee shares what is working (and not working) in 2019 for companies that want to stand out from the crowd with an effective and engaging message that converts. She shares her entrepreneurial journey plus advice on how to attract and retain top millennial talent with inspiring workplace cultures.
Jan 16, 2019 • 17min
268 MINISODE A Leading Personality: Entrepreneur and SEO Expert Meg Clarke on How To Best Serve Your Clients and Team
Meg Clarke knows how to help your customers find you on Google. Founder of Clapping Dog Media, she shares more of her cutting edge SEO techniques, plus the inside skinny on how an Enneagram personality test can help you better serve customers. Plus we geek out on dogs and how they inspire mindfulness and success.
Jan 15, 2019 • 48min
267 Beyond Fear is Freedom: Entrepreneur and Beekeeper Carly Stein on Walking Away from Wall Street to Pursue her Passion
Carly Stein left behind her lucrative Wall Street trading career at Goldman Sachs to pursue her true passion. A beekeeper, Carly discovered the miraculous healing properties of bee propolis and created a fast-growing nutraceuticals company called Beekeeper’s Naturals. Committed to conscious capitalism, Carly is using her company as a platform for sustainable farming and pesticide free beekeeping. We talk about overcoming fear and taking the leap into the unknowns of a startup as well as how to hire a great team and scale it fast to meet growing demand.
Jan 11, 2019 • 17min
266 MINISODE Leveraged Success: Investor Joy Schoffler on Growing Profitably And Avoiding Entrepreneurial Poverty
Joy Schoffler knows how to bootstrap a company to swift profitability on operational revenue alone. That’s how she built financial technology PR agency Leverage PR, before selling it to step into the investment world where she now encourages women to invest in other women entrepreneurs. Co-founder and Chief Strategic Officer of Upside Avenue and Casoro Capital, Joy shares her insights on how to manage money as an entrepreneur, where to invest it and why you have to pay yourself as your grow your business.
Jan 10, 2019 • 49min
265 Know Your Numbers: Serial Entrepreneur and Investor Diana House on How To Grow Profitably and When To Exit
Diana House is a lawyer turned award winning serial entrepreneur. She’s built and sold two e-commerce businesses and now she teaches entrepreneurs about money and finance so they can grow businesses profitably. Also a real estate investor and private lender, we talk about women investing in women, how to grow the valuation of your business and when it’s too late to think about exit.
Jan 9, 2019 • 16min
264 MINISODE Moonshots and Motivation: Serial Technology Entrepreneur Bettina Hein Why A Little Naiveté Is A Big Asset
Bettina Hein is a serial technology entrepreneur now remaking what we know of the web into its newer version, a decentralized 3.0 version where we own and control our own data. CEO and founder of HelloYellow, and SVOX and Pixability before, Bettina talks about what it takes for women to play bigger to launch moonshots and why, just like in childbirth, it helps not to know or understand all the challenges before you take the leap.
Jan 8, 2019 • 56min
263 Success Hangover: Serial Entrepreneur Kelsey Ramsden on Navigating the Highest Highs and the Lowest Lows
Kelsey Ramsden moves the earth, literally, as a serial entrepreneur in civil construction and real estate where her multinational company builds highways, airports, bridges and communities. Twice voted Canada’s top female entrepreneur, Kelsey is also an investor, cancer survivor, mom of three and the author of the bestselling book, Success Hangover. We talk about the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, how to inspire as a team leader and much more.
Jan 4, 2019 • 9min
262 MINISODE Unshakeable Woman: Entrepreneur Debi Silber on Juggling It All Without Fear
Debi Silber knows what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur – the resilience and unshakeable faith it takes to innovate and grow a business. In today’s advice Minisode she shares how to “walk though fear”. Also a holistic psychologist and author, Debi shares inspiration and lessons you won’t want to miss as 2019 kicks off.
Jan 3, 2019 • 39min
261 $9 an hour to $9 million: Entrepreneur & Motivational Speaker April Yvette on Inspiration in Adversity
April Yvette is an entrepreneur and motivational speaker who one day reached the end of her rope and transformed her live from struggling single mom with a $9 per hour job to a real estate phenomenon earning $9 million in one year. Then she became an inventor, her product featured on Shark Tank, and now she helps people with a compelling story align to their purpose and build a profitable business.
