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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Dec 19, 2017 • 50min
41 Eileen Gittins: How to Raise Venture Capital and Scale Your Business
Eileen Gittins’ moonshot is to create the world’s largest pipeline of female entrepreneurs. The Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur has lead three VC-backed companies as CEO, including growthing the self-publishing platform Blurb to $70mm+. Now with the app Bossygrl, Eileen is helping teenage girls create and grow businesses. More at https://wingspodcast.com Like WINGS! https://facebook.com/wingspodcast And the Facebook group WINGS for SuperSheroes in Business Follow us! https://twitter.com/MelindaWings Read the full transcript here: https://wingspodcast.com/eileen-gittins-bossygrl-entrepreneur-VC-venture-capital-startups-internet-mobile-apps-women-business-transcript
Dec 15, 2017 • 37min
40 Ailis Tweed Kent: A Doctor Turned Biotech Entrepreneur with a Big Moonshot to Leverage Technology to Change Healthcare
Ailis Tweed Kent was inspired by her patients to take different course – and now her moonshot is to change healthcare itself. A graduate of Harvard Medical School with a residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, Ailis turned to entrepreneurship to found Cocoon. There she is innovating silk therapeutics to cure osteoarthritis. We talk about opportunities for women entrepreneurs in life sciences and how to raise capital.
Dec 14, 2017 • 46min
39 Sam Horn: Intrigue, Influence and Impact for Women in Business
Without inspiring intrigue, it’s hard to inspire customers to buy from you, people to follow you, talented team members to flock to you, or investors to invest in you. Sam Horn, author of POP!, Got Your Attention? and TongueFu, is CEO of the Intrigue Agency, where she inspires one-of-a-kind TED talks, memorable business presentations and brand influence for her clients.
Dec 13, 2017 • 7min
38 MINISODE: Living ‘All In’ With Kristin Maxwell
Kristin Maxwell puts on the ‘Advice WINGS’ today to help women in business overcome anxiety, which often manifests for entrepreneurs as perfectionism or indecision. “Entrepreneurship is hard…just keep going,” says Kristin, who runs the coaching business Living All In Now.
Dec 12, 2017 • 35min
37 JJ Virgin: Inspiration in Adversity, Strength in Vulnerability, and Why It’s Easier to Play Big
JJ Virgin knows from personal experience that the most inspirational leaders and entrepreneurs went through hard times and came out stronger. JJ wants to make 1 billion people healthy, and she’s built a health juggernaut around her Virgin Diet and coaching program for health entrepreneurs – and it could have been very different. When her son Grant was near death after a hit-and-run, JJ pushed through with tenacity, learning in that devastating moment and in the days after the accident that there is strength in vulnerability.
Dec 11, 2017 • 57min
36 Lauren Hall: Building a $1bn Unicorn: Tech Innovation, Scaling and When Adversity is an Entrepreneur’s Best Friend
If you’ve ever taken, or thought of taking, a leap of faith into the unknown in business or in life, this episode is a must-listen. Lauren Hall is a technology entrepreneur who has built 5 companies to exit and is now on her way to building a $1bn unicorn as CEO and founder of iVvy, an online event organizing platform. We talk tech innovation, scaling, pivots and why successful entrepreneurs thrive on change and adversity.
Dec 8, 2017 • 56min
35 Clara de Soto: AI, Chatbots, and Overcoming Adversity
Clara de Soto has built chatbots for KIA, Starbucks, Coca Cola as the co-founder of Reply.ai, a top chatbot building platform. A serial entrepreneur, Clara founded the viral KillSwitch app on Facebook, built and sold ClearHart Tech, and is also editor of ChatbotsWeekly.com. We talk artificial intelligence and authenticity, resilience, when to sell your company, and how to triumph over adversity.
Dec 7, 2017 • 7min
34 MINISODE: ‘Wow Whisperer’ Diane Curran on Marketing
Diane Curran puts on the ‘Advice WINGS’ today to show why women are best suited to leverage social media to grow their businesses. The “wow whisperer” and owner of The Marketing Deal, Diane helps business owners transform their inner critic into a powerful “inner ally”.
Dec 6, 2017 • 49min
33 Teresa de Grosbois: How to Be Mass Influencer
Bestselling author of Mass Influence and Entrepreneur Theresa des Grosbois shares how to become a viral influencer and thought leader. We dig deep into why some things go viral, and talk giving forward, “evolutionary business” for social good, and personal growth.
Dec 5, 2017 • 40min
32 Danielle Tate: Dare to Win in Startups and Life
There’s no glass ceiling for female entrepreneurs; there’s a “sticky floor,” says Danielle Tate, the founder CEO of MissNowMrs and author of Elegant Entrepreneur. We talk making the leap from corporate to startup, living a life of no regrets, and the mindset you need to soar.
