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.
Episodes
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Nov 8, 2017 • 40min
11 - Sally Hogshead: Personal Brand and How to Fascinate
As entrepreneurs we talk about doubling down on ours strengths and hiring our weaknesses. Sally Hogshead, the award-winning advertising copywriter and marketing genius, has entrepioneered an algorithmic system that helps us capitalize on how the world sees us. She shares with WINGS host Melinda Wittstock The Fascination Advantage and how we as women can get past the omnipresent media message that we have to “fix” ourselves.
Nov 8, 2017 • 47min
10 Gitte Pederson: Personalizing Cancer Treatment
Gitte Pederson co-founded Genomic Expression with her brother Morton after their parents were diagnosed with cancer. It turns different people need different types of treatments depending on their RNA. Gitte’s entrepioneering innovation takes on Big Pharma, which she says wastes $70 billion per year on inffective oncology drugs. We talk about her journey as a female entrepreneur, how to eliminate your fears and what it was like on Sir Richard Branson’s Necker Island.
Nov 8, 2017 • 56min
09 Eleanor Beaton: Fierce Feminine Leadership
Eleanor Beaton grew up wanting to be a “supermodel investment banker” and now she helps women in business stand tall in their fierce feminine leadership. Eleanor is 6’ tall and never forgets her heels: She credits competitive sports for helping her claim her power, resilience and confidence. We talk about the importance of giving voice to each other as women.
Nov 8, 2017 • 46min
08 Susan Bratton: Women, Business and Sex
“Tenacity” is Susan Bratton’s favorite word, and when you’re running a fast-growing online business teaching passionate lovemaking, it’s a quality that’s served her well. Susan shares with WINGS’ Melinda Wittstock how she came to be the “Dear Abby of Hot Sex”. She talks about her new book “Sexual Soulmates”, YouTube censorship, and what women need (including orgasms) to succeed.
Nov 8, 2017 • 38min
07 Kay Koplovitz: $8bn Raised, 177 Exits, 15 IPOs
There are not a lot of women who can say they’ve helped 600 other entrepreneurs raise $8 bn in venture capital. Kay Koplovitz, the game-changing founder of USA Networks, shares with WINGS’ Melinda Wittstock how she came to co-found Springboard Enterprises, the accelerator for female founded tech companies. We talk what it takes to get funded and how the game has changed.
Nov 8, 2017 • 40min
06 Rachel Braun Scherl: Venture Capital and a Vagipreneur™
Rachel Braun Scherl calls herself the Vagipreneur™. She shares with WINGS host Melinda Wittstock her entrepioneering stories about innovating on the frontier of female sexual health, from startup to exit. Raising VC money is hard enough without talking arousal, menstruation or fertility: Listen to how Rachel got investor buy-in for her company Semprae, makers of Zestra® Essential Arousal Oils, and now helps other women in FemTech.
Nov 8, 2017 • 51min
05 Darnyelle Jervey: Value Yourself to Create Value for Others
Darnyelle Jervey is a “SuperShero” of sales. All too often we undervalue ourselves as women – and its hard to create value for others if we don’t value ourselves. CEO of Incredible One Enterprises, she helps grow her clients’ businesses by as much as 600%. She shares with WINGS’ Melinda Wittstock how she battled through her fears and other “limiting beliefs” to transform her life – and the lives of many others.
Nov 8, 2017 • 1h 1min
04 Tina Sharkey: Millenials, Startups and Why Brandless is Priceless
Tina Sharkey is a natural when it comes to building “purposeful communities” as a serial entrepreneur and investor. Tina shares with WINGS’ Melinda Wittstock how Millenials inspired her to disrupt traditional consumer goods as co-founder and CEO of brandless, where, as she says, “your values have value”. We talk about women in leadership, how to raise capital, how to manage your board, what she learned from her mom, and how her kids made her step up into the CEO role at brandless.
Nov 8, 2017 • 56min
03 Ping Fu: 3D Printing, Burning Man and 'Me Too'
Ping Fu is an artist and a scientist whose chosen expression is business. She talks to WINGS host Melinda Wittstock about the 3D imaging and 3D printing technology she created as co-founder of GeoMagic – and how from Invisalign braces to NASA space missions – she has “entrepioneered” the way products are designed and manufactured worldwide. Listen to why “Bend Not Break” is the mantra that’s guided her from the terror of gang rape in a Chinese prison to the fearless flow state of Burning Man.
Nov 8, 2017 • 53min
02 Kara Goldin: Building a $100m+ Business
Kara Goldin broke her Diet Coke habit by making her water "less boring" by putting fruit in it. It was the ‘aha’ moment that lost her 50 unwanted pounds and built a $100m company destined to be a $1bn unicorn. Kara is founder and CEO of hint®, a healthy lifestyle brand that produces unsweetened water, and now a sunscreen spray without harmful oxybenzone and parabens. Melinda Wittstock talks to Goldin about what inspires and frustrates her as a female entrepreneur, why no one really knows what they are doing (even if they look like they do), and why the biggest obstacle to success are the walls we architect for ourselves.
