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 26, 2017 • 9min
46 MINISODE: Raising Capital – Advice from Fran Hauser
Fran Hauser is a startup investor, longtime digital media executive and celebrated champion for women and girls. Known for mentoring hundreds of women around the globe, Fran also has a book coming out in 2018 called "The Myth of the Nice Girl". We talk inspiration, challenges and what it takes to raise angel and VC capital. How to Find Fran on Social Media: Follow Fran on Twitter @Fran_Hauser https://www.facebook.com/fhauser http://www.linkedin.com/in/franhauser https://instagram.com/fran_hauser More at https://wingspodcast.com 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
Dec 25, 2017 • 7min
45 Melinda Wittstock: Open The Gifts Within Yourself
Today is a day many of us will be exchanging gifts – experiencing the beautiful gratitude of giving – as well as receiving. Whatever your faith, take a moment to ponder the gifts to open … within yourself. WINGS host Melinda Wittstock talks about finding and celebrating your unique purpose and authentic voice. Wishing all our listeners and their loved ones a joyous holiday season and a New Year filled with love, light and laughter.
Dec 22, 2017 • 8min
44 MINISODE: Make 2018 Awesome – Advice from Michele P.W.
What can we learn from our successes and setbacks 2017 that we can leverage for success in the New Year – and make sure we don't turn 2018 into a sort of "Groundhog Day" movie where lingering limiting beliefs keep us repeating what is not working? Michele P.W. (Pariza-Wacek) has driven more than $50mm as a copywriter for her clients. She is also the best-selling author of "Love Based Business" – a series of books that help us learn how we can sell more with love… than with fear.
Dec 21, 2017 • 48min
43 J.J. Flizanes: Innovation, Holistic Health and Why Magic Happens Outside Your Comfort Zone
If you're too comfortable, you're not growing – or growing your business. I talk with health, fitness and empowerment expert J.J. Flizanes about that risky place where we challenge ourselves to try something new, flout conventional wisdom. Learn in this episode about holistic health, mindset and what it takes to succeed as a woman in business.
Dec 20, 2017 • 38min
42 Allana Pratt: Vulnerability, Bravery and Leveraging Intimacy to Grow Your Business
Allana Pratt calls herself the "intimacy expert" – inspiring entrepreneurs and women in business to be unapologetically true to themselves in life and in their business. We talk about how women found their voices in 2017, bravely stepped out of victimhood, how now it's time to leverage our authentic feminine power and "sacred sexy". 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/allana-pratt-intimacy-vulnerability-intimate-conversations-entrepreneur-internet-women-business-transcript
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.
