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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Mar 16, 2018 • 10min
95 MINISODE: Owning Your Truth in Business and Life – Advice from Rosie Aiello
Rosie Aiello staged an international escape after 25 years of domestic abuse – and reinvented herself as an award-winning entrepreneur and best-selling author. She puts on the Advice WINGS to share her mission to "end family terrorism", and how to own and speak your truth and be heard, and maintain your boundaries for success in business and in life.
Mar 15, 2018 • 43min
94 Love, Loss, and Learning: Lauren Raja on How the Death of Her Young Husband to a Fast-Growing Pajama Company
Entrepreneur Lauren Raja lost her young husband and her beloved grandmother within a year, and in her grief she created a fast-growing fashion pajama company in their names, JustinJean. She shares how she turned her grief into creativity and provides must-listen lessons on how to find your true passion and live "all in" with no regrets.
Mar 14, 2018 • 39min
93 #MeToo, Boundaries and Badass Bods: CJ Scarlet on Overcoming Adversity As An Entrepreneur and Victims' Advocate
Entrepreneur CJ Scarlet hid her shame for many years after two violent sexual assaults and it ultimately left her battling two life-threatening autoimmune diseases that crippled her startups. Author of The Badass Girl's Guide: Uncommon Strategies to Outwit Predators, CJ shares how she's now healing others and gives practical advice of how women can "lift as we climb" and be "bad victims" to succeed in business.
Mar 13, 2018 • 43min
92 The 9-Finger Massage: Shari Aldrich on Overcoming Adversity to Build A Scalable 7-Figure Business
Entrepreneur Shari Aldrich is on a mission to relieve pain for one million people by 2025. CEO and founder of BodyMechanics, Shari has innovated a process for training massage therapists, and better yet, training them to run their own businesses. She has a big vision – and she shares how the loss of her finger in a freak accident led her to entrepreneurial success.
Mar 9, 2018 • 8min
91 MINISODE Learn to Love Yourself in Business and Life: Advice from Joie Cheng
Joie Cheng is a healer and coach whose determination to heal herself from depression put her on a course to heal others. Author of the best-selling The Naked Truth: A Woman's Journey to Self-Love, Joie puts on the Advice WINGS to share her inspiration for 2018 and provides practical tips to manifest inner peace and outer success.
Mar 8, 2018 • 43min
90 Million Dollar Women: Julia Pimsleur On Empowering 1 Million Women Entrepreneurs Reach $1mm+ in Revenue by 2020
Happy International Women's Day! We celebrate with entrepreneur Julia Pimsleur who has a big mission to help women entrepreneurs crack the $1mm+ revenue ceiling. Julia, who learned the hard way how to scale her business Little Pim to $1mm+ and beyond, is 'Chief Empowerista' of Million Dollar Women and has graduated 70 women so far with her teachings on mindset, skillset and how to leverage the right networks. She shares her strategies on scaling.
Mar 7, 2018 • 43min
89 Turn a Whisper Into a WOW: Marketing Expert Diane Curran on How Women Entrepreneurs Can Stand Out From The Crowd
What makes a marketing message get heard in our ADD world? "Wow Whisperer" Diane Curran shares her secrets on how women in business can find their unique voice and leverage their innate relationship building skills to master social engagement. Author of The Marketing Deal, Diane provides practical tips on messaging, public speaking and how to grow your business with authentic marketing.
Mar 6, 2018 • 34min
88 Women Mentoring Women: Maribeth Kuzmeski on Bringing More Women Into 'The Room' in Finance
Entrepreneur Maribeth Kuzmeski got tired of being the proverbial "only woman in the room". Serving the financial services sector as President of Red Zone Marketing, Maribeth decided to roll up her sleeves, "give forward" and create a foundation to get women in finance and entrepreneurship the female role models and mentors they need to succeed. Maribeth shares her tips on resilience, confidence and how to command a room.
Mar 2, 2018 • 9min
87 MINISODE: Marketing to Millenials – Advice from Kaaren Whitney Vernon
Entrepreneur Kaaren Whitney Vernon on what it takes to educate a marketplace and how she pioneered a new way to engage Millenials with scripted series on YouTube for big brands like Walmart and U by Kotex with shift2, the company she recently sold to Shaftsbury. She puts on the 'Advice WINGS' today to talk networking and how to find the support we need as women in business.
Mar 1, 2018 • 54min
86 Reinventing on the Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Heather Havenwood on Wins, Losses and Her Mission To Help Women
Serial entrepreneur and Internet marketing phenom Heather Ann Havenwood has built companies from zero to millions in less than a year. She's also lost everything in bankruptcy and foreclosure, only to rebuild again. Author of the bestselling SexyBoss™: How Female Entrepreneurship is Changing the Rule Book and Beating the Big Boys and host of the national radio show "The Win", Heather talks reinvention, her new chatbot gig and her passion to boost the fortunes of female entrepreneurs.
