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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Nov 7, 2023 • 33min
Un-Shaming Shapewear: Entrepreneur Ratchel Pinlac on How to Iterate to Grow a Successful Business
Ratchel Pinlac is the Founder and CEO of Pinsy, a shapewear brand that eliminates the shame of a “hidden secret” by making it fashionable outerwear. Ratchel, who started wearing shapewear at age 9 as she struggled with negative body image issues, shares how she grew frustrated with the lack of shapewear options in department stores. On a mission to elevate women’s self-confidence, Ratchel left her corporate job to bootstrap Pinsy and grow a massive following on TikTok, where her customers share all the creative ways they wear Pinsy from daytime casual to evening wear.
Oct 31, 2023 • 40min
Secrets of Content Marketing: Entrepreneur Lyndsay Cambridge on Why Repelling Clients Can Grow Your Business
Lyndsay Cambridge is the founder and CEO of Jammy Digital, an award-winning SEO and content marketing agency for businesses that aren’t afraid to stand out. On a mission to help personal brands find and retain better, higher-paying clients, Lyndsay’s agency helps business owners create standout content. She’s also co-author of the book Content Fortress.
Oct 24, 2023 • 37min
Overcome Your Kryptonite: Acupuncturist, Naturopath and Entrepreneur Dr. Gala Gorman on Eliminating Toxic Stressors
Dr. Gala Gorman is a licensed acupuncturist, naturopath, and author who offers practical advice and programs to reverse health issues resulting from chronic stress. She helps women relieve their symptoms, restore their energy, and reclaim their "Super Woman" status. After selling her accounting firm 27 years ago, Gala followed her passion for alternative medicine and new technologies, and advocates for getting to the root cause of the health issue and treating it naturally with new approaches. She encourages patients to be their own health advocate ... or PCP (primary care person).
Oct 17, 2023 • 40min
Bootstrapped Success: Entrepreneur Sanchita Shahi
Sanchita Shahi is the founder of Tea N Me, with an entrepreneurial journey that epitomizes the essence of struggle, resilience, and triumph. A first-generation immigrant and woman of color, she embarked on a life-changing pursuit of her dreams in the land of opportunities, leaving her vibrant family behind at SeaTac Airport in 1997. Excelling in the corporate world for over 15 years, she navigated the stress and pressures that came with it until the pandemic's uncertain times led her to the healing wisdom of Ayurveda and the comforting solace of a steaming cup of tea. Drawing from her own transformative experience, Sanchita now empowers, educates, and uplifts others on their path to better health and wellness through Ayurvedic-inspired teas, making Tea N Me a beacon of holistic living.
Oct 10, 2023 • 53min
Inclusion is the Future of Work: Entrepreneur Lauren Tucker on Broken Leadership and Why Women Elevating Women are the Future
Dr. Lauren Tucker is the Founder and CEO of Do What Matters, helping companies and their executive leaders sustainably integrate inclusion strategies into their business models, resulting in greater creativity, innovation, representation, and growth. She says she wants leaders and senior management to understand one thing: “Your employees hate you”.
Oct 3, 2023 • 55min
Hire for Character: Entrepreneur Casey Cunningham on Leadership and Secrets of Building a $10mm Business
Casey Cunningham is the CEO and Founder of XINNIX, a $10 million dollar leadership and sales performance company. While many people often revel in the success of others, most are not aware of the very painful processes they had to endure in order to achieve it. Casey lost her dad at a very young age, who was also an entrepreneur, and she shares how that painful experience became the catalyst that pushed her into her purpose of continuing his legacy of business ownership. Casey’s company has helped 1,000 brands build high performance teams, empowered thousands of sales professionals, and leaders to achieve more than they thought they could, and has even won 25 workplace culture awards.
Sep 21, 2023 • 35min
Success Through Self-Acceptance: Skincare Entrepreneur Jeanne Retief on Self-Care and Inner Healing
Jeanne Retief is the founder of FIGGI Beauty, a brand borne from her personal struggles finding the right products for dry and sensitive skin. A human rights worker turned entrepreneur, Jeanne also infuses her lifestyle FiggiLife brand on learning how to accept life’s curveballs and learning “it’s ok not to be ok”. Jeanne also hosts the podcast My Figgi Life.
Sep 19, 2023 • 38min
Divorce and Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneur Anne Hamer on How to Protect Your Company and Assets
Anne Hamer is a top-rated Nashville family lawyer who focuses her practice on high asset and conflict cases, delivering a personalized process for each client to regain their life. With a Doctor of Law from NYU and a background in complex commercial litigation, Anne made it her mission to build a growing practice to help others through the process after experiencing her own divorce. She’s a nationally recognized speaker and a Rule 31 trained civil and family law mediator with domestic violence mediation training.
Sep 14, 2023 • 59min
Show Up Positive: Entrepreneur Rita Ernst on How to Create Great Workplace Cultures
Rita Ernst is the founder Ignite Your Extraordinary, an organizational consulting practice emphasizing the convergence of happiness and productivity to create positive, committed, high-performing organizations. Author of Show Up Positive, Rita helps transform corporate cultures and startup emerging growth companies lay the groundwork for success.
Sep 12, 2023 • 43min
Post-Traumatic Growth: Entrepreneur Kimberly Stark on Alchemizing ‘Sacred Storms’ of Hardship into Transformational Success
Kimberly Stark is the CEO and founder of The Flourish Consultancy, a professional and personal development educational company helping companies reduce costs by improving employee wellness. Kimberly’s Flourish Model helps businesses reduce attrition and absenteeism and increase productivity. Flourish also provides Social Emotional Learning (SEL) to help individuals overcome hardship and adversity.
