Synopsis
If you lack confidence, connections, or capital and you're tired of being brushed aside in business, it's time to put on your 'SuperShero' wings and mastermind daily with successful women entrepreneurs and executives. Serial entrepreneur, tech visionary and award-winning journalist Melinda Wittstock interviews inspiring business women who share their secrets, 'fail forward' epiphanies, and much more in this lively, motivating podcast. Learn from these amazing women so you too can step into your authentic feminine power and manifest the success of your dreams in life and in business.
Episodes
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114 Art and Science Through Entrepreneurship: Ping Fu, Creator of 3D Printing, Talks #MeToo, Innovation, and Women in Tech
19/04/2018 Duration: 56minPing Fu is an artist and a scientist whose chosen expression is business. She talks 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.
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113 Artificial Intelligence Opportunity: Entrepreneur Victoria Kuleshova on Innovation and Women in Tech
18/04/2018 Duration: 33minEntrepreneur Victoria Kuleshova is innovating in the artificial intelligence space. Learn why, despite all the innovation – and proof it transforms profit margins of major companies AI remains hard sell. CEO and co-founder of Gallantra Business Intelligence, Victoria the challenges of educating customers AND raising enough capital to match the runway you need to educate that market. Plus, advice for women in technology.
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112 #MeToo #NotMe and Messaging: Susan Harrow On Your Best PR and Verbal Self Defense
17/04/2018 Duration: 41minSusan Harrow shows CEOs, entrepreneurs, authors, speakers and socially conscious businesses how to double or triple their business by using sound bites effectively – helping her clients shine on Oprah, 60 Minutes, Good Morning America, the New York Times, Inc and beyond. Author of Sell Yourself Without Selling Your Soul, Susan is a black belt in Aikido and helps young women 12-24 protect themselves with a new course in verbal self-defense. We talk #MeToo, #NotMe, messaging, PR, and how women can make their voices heard.
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111 MINISODE Know Your Value: Entrepreneur Veronica Cool with Advice on Intentions, Growth and Opportunity
13/04/2018 Duration: 11minVeronica Cool took the leap from Corporate America to entrepreneurship when she realized she was giving away valuable advice on how to engage the fast growing and affluent Hispanic American market. Now CEO and founder of Cool & Associates helping businesses bridge the cultural gap, she shares how to live an intentional life, value yourself, and know your worth.
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110 MINISODE Be A Woman With A Plan: Entrepreneur Nomad Silvia Christmann Confidence and Financial Freedom
12/04/2018 Duration: 10minSilvia Christmann is a growth expert, helping companies scale and accelerate rapid growth. Today she puts her Wings to advise women entrepreneurs about confidence, the roots of self-doubt and how to overcome challenges by surrounding ourselves with the right people.
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109 MINISODE Entrepreneurship as “Pinball”: Advice from Inventor & PR Maven Christina Daves
11/04/2018 Duration: 08minInventor and PR For Anyone Founder Christina Daves puts on the “Advice Wings” to share her tips on how to play the “pinball” game of entrepreneurship, from staying true to your passion to “me time” – and what’s inspiring her right now.
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108 MINISODE Reinvention and Reinvigoration: Advice from SexyBoss™ Entrepreneur Heather Havenwood
10/04/2018 Duration: 12minSerial 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™ books and host of the national radio show “The Win”, Heather puts on the Advice Wings to talk reinvention, her new chatbot gig and her passion to boost the fortunes of female entrepreneurs.
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107 MINISODE Catalyzing Global Collaboration: Advice from Entrepreneur Ana Manduley
06/04/2018 Duration: 12minEntrepreneur Ana Manduley believes American women business owners are missing a big opportunity by not expanding globally. A champion of women in STEM and international collaboration in all of her numerous entrepreneurial and executive roles over the past 25 years, Ana shares her tips on global networking, mentoring and more.
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106 Fierce C-Suite Competitors Now Collaborate: Paula Brown Stafford and Lisa T Grimes Lift Other Women In Business
05/04/2018 Duration: 43minPaula Brown Stafford and Lisa T Grimes spent their 25+ years in the C-Suite as wary competitors innovating in biotech. Now they are partners, paying it forward for women in business coming up, with a new management consultancy called Habergeon and as co-authors of the new book, Remember who YOU are: Achieve Success, Create Balance, Experience Fulfillment.
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105 No More Self-Sabotage: Entrepreneur Rikke Hansen on Helping Smart Women Refocus to Build Businesses of their Dreams
04/04/2018 Duration: 41minOverwhelm. Overthinking. Overdoing. Entrepreneur and transition expert Rikke Hansen shares how women in business in their 30s and 40s can stop the self-sabotage and make the leap to build their ideal businesses and lives.
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104 Investing In Female Founders: June Manley on Boosting Women’s Share of Venture Capital to 20% by 2020
03/04/2018 Duration: 34minJune is a entrepreneur and industry thought leader with over 15 years of high-tech experience at companies like HP, Citrix, Riverbed, and NetApp. She founded Phala Data, an enterprise software startup at the intersection of Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - and innovated her way to six patents.
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103 MINISODE Leveraging Adversity to Scale to 7-Figures: Advice from Entrepreneur Shari Aldrich
30/03/2018 Duration: 09minEntrepreneur Shari Aldrich is on a mission to relieve pain for one million people by 2025. Founder of BodyMechanics, Shari has innovated a process for training massage therapists, and better yet, training them to run their own businesses. She shares her inspirations, challenges and her go-to advice on how to leverage adversity to your advantage.
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102 ‘Intrapreneur’ to Entrepreneur: Meditation Maven Patricia Karpas on Transforming What You Love Into A Growing Business
29/03/2018 Duration: 52minPatricia Karpas spent many years innovating by building brands and new businesses within larger companies – CNBC, AOL, Time Warner, NBC and Gaiam – before taking the leap into building a business around her love of meditation. The co-founder of the app Meditation Studio, named by Apple as one of its Top 10 of the year.
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101 Making the Personal Profitable: Marketing Maven Mack McKelvey on Executive Branding
28/03/2018 Duration: 42minMack McKelvey’s mission as CEO and Founder of SalientMG is to help women, minority and LGBTQ executives build their personal brands. The marketing visionary executive who helped Millenial Media fast-grow to IPO, Mack shares why women often forget to build their personal brands, and what’s in a name.
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100– Women, Innovating, Networking, Growing, Scaling: Grab Your Wings!
27/03/2018 Duration: 23minOn this 100th Episode of WINGS of Inspired Business, host and serial entrepreneur Melinda Wittstock shares the secret of inspired success in business and life. Together with guests Kara Goldin, Tina Sharkey, Ping Fu, JJ Virgin and others, Melinda talks Mindset, Mojo and Money: How to get past your fears, align your business to your “soul purpose”, and valuing yourself so you can create value for others.
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99 MINISODE Set High Standards and Honor Your Commitments: Advice from Civility Expert Sue Jacques
23/03/2018 Duration: 09minSucceeding in business takes many talents, and without integrity it’s much harder. Entrepreneur and civility expert Sue Jacques puts on the Advice WINGS to share her tips on “walking your talk”, honoring commitments and why a “pause” is often where the magic happens.
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98 A $1.5 Trillion Opportunity: Entrepreneur Veronica Cool on Helping Businesses Understand Hispanic Americans
22/03/2018 Duration: 52minVeronica Cool took the leap from Corporate America to entrepreneurship when she realized she was giving away valuable advice on how to engage the fast growing and affluent Hispanic American market. CEO and founder of Cool & Associates, she now helps entrepreneurs and F500s alike bridge the gap to cultural gap and take advantage of a $1.5 trillion opportunity.
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97 Maverick Adventurer for Social Good: Franziska Iseli on Entrepreneurship, Evolved Enterprise and Flow Consciousness
21/03/2018 Duration: 51minEntrepreneur, brand strategist and marketing visionary Franziska Iseli shares her inspiring journey, irrepressible spirit, and how she embraces the magic of “woo” to build and scale four businesses. CEO of Basic Bananas, Franziska is also trailblazing in the “evolved enterprise” social good movement with OceanLovers.com. We talk adventure, flow consciousness and more.
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96 The Get Famous Formula: Inventor Christina Daves on How To Build Business Buzz for Free
20/03/2018 Duration: 38minEntrepreneur and PR For Anyone Founder Christina Daves shares all she learned as an inventor about how to generate FREE business buzz across media. Learn how she got her company CastMedic on The Today Show, won Steve Harvey’s Top Inventor competition and boosted her social media following to more than 75,000.
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95 MINISODE: Owning Your Truth in Business and Life – Advice from Rosie Aiello
16/03/2018 Duration: 09minRosie 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.