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Michele Parisa-Wacek (she prefers P.W.) is an entrepreneur, best-selling author and copywriter who has proven with her ‘Love Based Business’ strategy and bestselling books that “love sells more than fear”. She’s driven $50M+ for her clients, and shares her ‘aha’ epiphany and practical advice on how to build a business that loves you as much as you love it.

Katie Hunt Morr works with Sir Richard Branson to leverage entrepreneurship to solve some of the world’s most intractable problems.  Director of Community at Virgin Unite, Katie shares how her work catalyzes the best entrepreneurs to collectively benefit our planet and our humanity. We talk “giving forward”, evolved enterprise, and why empowering girls and women in the developing world helps us all. Read the full transcript here: https://wingspodcast.com/katie-hunt-morr-richard-branson-virgin-unite-entrepreneur-social-good-jiamini-women-business-transcript More about Virgin Unite here: https://virginunite.com More about Jiamini: https://jiamini.org Please sponsor a girl for $75 – email:  Katie@jiamini.org How to Find Katie on Social Media: https://twitter.com/huntmorr https://www.facebook.com/jiamini http://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-hunt-morr More at https://wingspodcast.com Like WINGS! https://facebook.com/wingspodcast Follow us! https://twitter.com/MelindaWings Our sponsors: Your Return on Authenticity™:

Karen Waksman knows how to manifest success – from visualization and intention to bank account building reality. She has sold millions of consumer products to the world’s largest retailers and now dedicates her time to helping entrepreneurs market and sell their products to major retail chains, online and brick and mortar alike. We talk sales, mindset and how to manifest the success of your dreams. How to Find Karen on Social Media: Follow Karen on Twitter @Products4Profit https://www.facebook.com/retailMBA http://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-waksman-aba7421/ More at https://wingspodcast.com Review WINGS on iTunes and win a chance to Mastermind in person one-on-one with host and entrepreneur Melinda Wittstock 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 Strat

On this first day of 2018, WINGS host Melinda Wittstock talks about how we can change the game on New Year’s resolutions and truly manifest the success we want.  Melinda outlines a powerful exercise in how to leverage what you learned and what you let go in 2017, and visualize where you’re going in 2018.  

Holistic health, fitness and empowerment expert J.J. Flizanes talks about what’s inspiring her as an entrepreneur in 2018, and advises how to release any inner limiting beliefs that stand between you and the success of your dreams. More about J.J. here: https://jjflizanes.com How to Find J.J. on Social Media: https://twitter.com/jjflizanes https://www.facebook.com/jflizanes/ https://www.facebook.com/jjflizanes/ https://instagram.com/jjflizanes https://linkedin.com/in/jj-flizanes-empowerment-strategist-2a42b31/ 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

Adversity can spark empowerment or despair, and holistic mind-body coach Lea Bayles shares how women can build on the awakening of 2017 to seize the opportunity to change the game in 2018.  We talk about leveraging your “inner power” and stepping up to the challenges of entrepreneurship and social change without wearing ourselves out.   More about Lea here: https://leabayles.com Get Lea’s 39 Secrets for Wellbeing at https://leabayles.com/gifts How to Find Lea on Social Media: Follow Lea on Twitter @LeaBayles https://www.facebook.com/leabaylesfan http://www.linkedin.com/in/leabayles Read the full transcript here: https://wingspodcast.com/lea-bayles-holistic-health-entrepreneurs-women-transcript 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 Capi

If you wrote a love letter to yourself, what would it say? Joie Cheng is a healer and coach whose determination to heal herself from depression put her on a course to heal others. Author of the best-selling The Naked Truth: A Woman’s Journey to Self-Love, Joie shares her inspiration for 2018 and provides practical tips to manifest inner peace and outer success. Read the full transcript here More about Joie here: https://joiecheng.com Schedule a complimentary “clarity breakthrough call” with Joie at https://joiecheng.com How to Find Joie on Social Media: Follow Joie on Twitter @SelfLoveHealer https://linkedin.com/in/joiecheng https://www.facebook.com/lilly.cheng.56 https://www.facebook.com/Joie-Cheng-344326539040466/ More at https://wingspodcast.com Review WINGS on iTunes and win a chance to Mastermind in person one-on-one with host and entrepreneur Melinda Wittstock Like WINGS! https://facebook.com/wingspodcast Follow us on Twitter @MelindaWings Our sponsors: Your Return on Authenticity™: Apply for Verifee

Entrepreneur and CEO of Likeable Media Carrie Kerpen shares her badass secrets for women who want to crush it in business. Carrie has built a successful business around HER life, rather than building her life around her business. We talk ‘work-life integration’, alignment, and how women can be their boldest, badass selves. Read the full transcript here More about Carrie here: https://likeable.com WORK IT: Secrets For Success From the Boldest Women in Business is scheduled for release in January 2018. Preorder now on carriekerpen.com !   How to Find Carrie on Social Media: https://twitter.com/carriekerpen https://www.facebook.com/carriek https://instagram.com/carriekerpen https://linkedin.com/in/carriekerpen   Like WINGS and join our Facebook Group! https://facebook.com/wingspodcast Follow us! https://twitter.com/MelindaWings Our sponsors:   Your Return on Authenticity™: Apply for Verifeed’s social media accelerator  Springboard Enterprises: The Accelerator for Female Founders   Zero Limits Ventures: Valuatio

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

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.  

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.   

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.