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 20, 2018 • 34min
80 Scaling a SaaS Technology Company: Denise Tayloe on Tenacity, Mentorship and What It Takes for Female Tech Founders to Succeed
Technology can be used for good – or bad. Denise Tayloe is protecting kids online as cofounder and CEO of Privo. “I don’t know how to give up”, she says of her years growing a SaaS technology company and trying to raise venture capital. Leaern Denise’s success tips – and why it’s mission critical to surround yourself with mentors and networks to assure your success in business and life.
Feb 16, 2018 • 8min
79 MINISODE Five-Minute Success - Advice from Real Estate Entrepreneur Karen Briscoe
Real estate entrepreneur Karen Briscoe has sold more than $1.5billion worth of residential properties, and she shares “Five Minute Success” methodology that can be applied to any business. Karen puts on the ‘Advice Wings’ to share how women in business must focus on sales and leadgen to succeed, and embrace the positivity of change.
Feb 15, 2018 • 27min
78 Aligning Your Business With Your True Purpose: Lauren Le Munyan
Every entrepreneur needs mentors and coaches and Lauren Le Munyan says she helps her clients in technology, media, fitness, fashion and design “kick ass” – by helping them align their true authentic purpose with their business. Learn practical methodologies to establish your vision, mission and culture, and create the right structures and systems to execute your ideas.
Feb 14, 2018 • 32min
77 Happy Valentine's Day! How To Apply Business Skills To Your Love Life, with Jen Hecht
Online dating is a confusing business, so this Valentine’s Day entrepreneur Jen Hecht shares how to apply business, marketing and branding skills to your “dating strategy”. Host of the Dating Advisory Board Show, Jen shares practical tips on personal branding and now to navigate the business of romance.
Feb 13, 2018 • 33min
76 Passion, Persistence and How to Get Your Tech Startup Funded, with Serial Entrepreneur Theresa Szczurek
Entrepreneurs need to think BIG if they want to persuade venture capitalists to invest, and technology entrepreneur Theresa Szczurek shares what it takes to bring investors to the table, and why she brought in a male CEO in her first company to get the check. Now founder and CEO of Radish Systems Theresa provides practical tips to grow, fund and scale your business. Review WINGS on iTunes and win a chance to Mastermind in person one-on-one with host and entrepreneur Melinda Wittstock Like WINGS! https://facebook.com/wingspodcast Follow us on Twitter @MelindaWings Our sponsors: Your Return on Authenticity™: Apply for Verifeed’s social media accelerator Springboard Enterprises: The Accelerator for Female Founders Zero Limits Ventures: Valuation Enhancement and Capital Acquisition Strategies
Feb 9, 2018 • 12min
75 MINISODE How to Ask (and Get) What You Want – Advice from Serial Entrepreneur Eileen Gittins
Silicon Valley entrepreneur Eileen Gittins’ moonshot is to create the world’s largest pipeline of female entrepreneurs with the app Bossygrl for “teenpreneurs”. She puts on the ‘Advice Wings’ to share how women can more confidently ask for – and get – the money and success they want and deserve.
Feb 8, 2018 • 55min
74 Dale Nirvani Pfeifer – A Mission to Make Payments A Global Force for Good
Dale Nirvani Pfeifer knew she had a calling, and she set out to make it easy and frictionless to donate with one click to any charity on social media. CEO and founder of Goodworld, Dale is helping to revolutionize payments for social good. With a new deal with MasterCard, Dale talks about her startup’s fast growth, how the first VC she pitched laughed at her and what it takes to succeed as a female entrepreneur.
Feb 7, 2018 • 38min
73 Roselle Safran – Embracing Change and Uncertainty: Reinvention as an Entrepreneur
Roselle Safran helped keep us safe at Homeland Security in the computer emergency readiness team and then the Obama White House before she took flight as an entrepreneur, now with two successful companies. President of cybersecurity company Rosint Labs, Roselle illuminates the path for anyone who wants to make the leap, from how to bootstrap and raise capital to the mindset you need to succeed.
Feb 6, 2018 • 42min
72 Trivinia Barber – Growth and Guardrails: What Women Need to Grow Scalable Businesses
Virtual Assistant turned entrepreneur Trivinia Barber shares her pathway to scalable growth, why women need to get better at asking for – and receiving – the help they need growing their businesses, and why we all need to have our own personal “guardrails”. Trivinia is founder CEO of PriorityVA, the boutique company matching elite online entrepreneurs like Amy Porterfield and Todd Herman with highly skilled VAs.
Feb 2, 2018 • 6min
71 MINISODE Defeat Your Fears – Advice from Elegant Entrepreneur Danielle Tate
Danielle Tate puts on the ‘Advice WINGS’ to show would-be women entrepreneurs how to lift off what she calls a “sticky floor.” Founder and CEO of MissNowMrs and author of Elegant Entrepreneur, Danielle talks about her inspirations, frustrations and the mindset you need to start and grow a company.
