Wings Of...inspired Business

The proverbial ‘work life’ balance is more like a dance. And who better to share all things dance than the CEO and founder of Bella Ballerina. Natalie Perkins shares how her franchising model empowers women and moms to create companies that fulfill their business and entrepreneurial ambitions while allowing a flexible lifestyle that enables a wonderful personal life.

Meet Sophia Yen, an entrepreneur and doctor who has figured out that women don’t need to bleed every month. CEO and co-founder of PandiaHealth.com, Sophia shares with WINGS the latest medical innovations for women’s reproductive health that can also make women more successful in business.

How many times have you heard that “you are what you eat” or that “beauty comes from within”? Meet the three female entrepreneurs walking this talk: Bassima Mroue, Amy Bader and Elizabeth Zieg. They combine their SuperShero powers to make collagen yummy – and share with WINGS’ Melinda Wittstock how they’re creating a great team and culture.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Melinda Wittstock has a big moonshot: Investing in 100 female-founded businesses in the next 10 years. “I want to BE the change I want to see in the world”, says Melinda. A serial technology and media entrepreneur, Melinda lifts off with WINGS to affirm and acclaim the journeys of entrepioneering women. Wings of Inspired Business features authentic conversations with female founders who share their advice about how women in business can soar to ‘SuperShero’ success.