Wings of Inspired Business

Melinda Wittstock

Women entrepreneurs are changing the game of business as we step into our authentic feminine power and leverage our passion and purpose to grow great companies. Listen to Wings to learn from women who've "been there, built that" with 6, 7, 8 and 9-figure businesses. 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.

  • 42 minutes 35 seconds
    Unlocking Prosperity: Entrepreneur Ruchi Pinniger on Money Mindset, Smart Hiring, and Financial Clarity

    Ruchi Pinniger is the Founder and CEO of Watch Her Prosper®, helping small business owners and entrepreneurs master their finances and business growth. With a holistic approach, Ruchi provides financial guidance, bookkeeping, and tax-time readiness, as well as focusing on heightening her clients’ prosperity mindset. Ruchi connects the business to the person, helping her clients break free from shame and guilt surrounding wealth and see huge results in their profitability and economic growth. She is an Executive Board member for Savvy Ladies, an organization that helps women improve their financial literacy and take control of their money.

    🔑Key Takeaways🔑

    ⚰️ 💰 Death and Money: Find out why 61% of people would rather talk about death.

    💸 ✨ Financial Therapy: Why prosperity is driven by well-being, spirituality and relationships (including how you relate to money) and why money is in the mind.

    🧠 ❤️The RIR Method: Learn how to Recognize, Interrupt, Reframe to transform limiting beliefs and language around money.

    🚀 💡 The Power of Visualization: Clear goals are key, so understand what you truly want. Try this exercise: spend some quiet time reflecting on your future desires, then write a letter to a loved one as if you’ve already achieved your aspirations.

    👩‍🔬 🤟 Know Your Value: Overcome the temptation to underprice and over-deliver by understanding the true differentiated value you provide your customers. 

    🌱📈 Investing Not Spending: The vital mindset shifts to understand that hiring is an investment in business growth not simply an expense, and why freeing up your time for high-value tasks can lead to substantial long-term benefits.

    🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings903

    🎯More about Ruchi at https://www.watchherprosper.com/

    Get Ruchi’s free Redefining Prosperity workbook

    12 November 2024, 1:07 pm
  • 43 minutes 34 seconds
    Breaking Barriers: From Hollywood to Entrepreneurship, Jenna Capozzi on Empowering Confident Female Founders

    Jenna Capozzi is the founder of Elev8pwr, a coaching and consultancy company focused on empowering women in business to new heights of impactful leadership and success. Jenna brings more than 30 years of C-level executive experience, having led innovative projects for global brands such as Samsung, Target, and BMW, and produced notable films and TV shows. Transitioning from the spotlight of Hollywood and the world of advertising to empowering the next generation of leaders, she leverages her extensive background to guide individuals towards impactful leadership and nurture them to achieve their goals with confidence and clarity.

    🔑Key Takeaways🔑

    🚀🔥 Massive Action Beats Perfection: "Don't think, just do" and focus on who you’re helping rather than how perfectly you’re doing it. 

    🤝 🌱 Collaboration Over Competition: Why women must support one another to lift each other up, and why diverse perspectives make us all better and improve businesses.

    👩‍🔬🏳️‍🌈 Facing and Overcoming Bias: How to overcome unconscious bias in all aspects of growing your business, including fundraising venture capital. 

    🧠 ✨Setting Boundaries and Mindset: How to overcome imposter syndrome and your inner bully voice, gain confidence, and stand up powerfully to undermining remarks.

    🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings902

    More about Jenna at Jenna Capozzi

    Download Jenna’s free workbook at Lead With Jenna

    5 November 2024, 12:39 pm
  • 58 minutes 43 seconds
    Recruiting Right: Entrepreneur Molly McGrath on Unlocking Growth through Effective and Intuitive Hiring

    Molly McGrath is the Founder and CEO of Hiring & Empowering Solutions and the author of Amazon's top-#1 Best Seller: 'Fix My Boss: The Simple Plan to Cultivate Respect, Risk Courageous Conversations, and Increase the Bottom Line'. Molly has coached, consulted, and directed presidents and founders of national organizations and over 4,500 law firms in executive-level leadership, continuous improvement, and team empowerment initiatives to infiltrate new markets, leverage partner ecosystems, and produce profitability. Her podcast, 'Hire and Empower,' is recognized as a Top 10% National Podcast.

    🔑Key Takeaways🔑

    🔄📈Move Fast: Focus on a speedy and transparent recruitment process because “time kills all deals”, so have an initial 10-minute conversation and learn what your potential recruit needs in salary to make a move right away.

    ✨🤎Focus on Culture and Values: Why job ads are more effective at finding the best and right people when they’re not just about job tasks, results and qualifications.

    🔥 🧠 Leadership and Self-Awareness: Why it’s important to align hiring to strategic longer-term needs not just immediate pain points, and focus on understanding existing strengths and weaknesses on your team to focus resources where you need them most.

    🤝 🎯 Effective Onboarding Processes: It’s not enough to hire. Make sure you have a structured, measurable, and engaging onboarding process with the "teach, show, do, go grow" model ensures readiness and growth.

    🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings901

    More about Molly at https://hiringandempowering.com

    29 October 2024, 12:54 pm
  • 56 minutes 17 seconds
    Go Big AND Go Home: Entrepreneur Jeanine Staples-Dixon on Success in Love and Business, Plus the Secrets of “Having It All”

    Dr. Jeanine Staples-Dixon is the CEO and Founder of coaching company Literacy for Life and a Professor of Literacy and Language, African American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She focuses on dismantling supremacist patriarchies through research, teaching, and coaching. Jeanine recently started The Supreme Love Project movement to support marginalized people, mainly women and people of color, to heal the relational and social terrors in their souls and launch revolutions in their lives.

    🔑Key Takeaways🔑

    👩‍🔬 🤟 Embracing Full Personhood: How to move beyond the binary expression of masculine and feminine energies to integrate fractured aspects of ourselves to move from performative to personhood, reduce exhaustion and increase agility and connectedness.

     

    🏳️‍🌈🤎 Challenging Patriarchal Values: How to overcome societal conditioning and subconscious programming to unleash your full potential, and how to create supportive communities and break free from competitive and hierarchical socialization.

     

    ❤️ 🚀Balancing Strength and Softness: Why Vice President Kamala Harris is an ideal role model for women in how to authentically step into the biggest version of ourselves as leaders, blending strategic, driven masculine energy with nurturing, intuitive feminine energy, and why this balance not only promotes personal success but can also lead to transformative business practices with positive social and environmental impacts.

     

    🧠✨Evolving from Performativity to Authenticity: How to overcome patriarchal indoctrination and subconscious programming to break free from performative roles to fully embodied authentic personhood for sustained energy and accomplishment.

     

    🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings900

     

    More about Jeanine at The Supreme Love Project

    https://thesupremeloveproject.com/

    22 October 2024, 9:55 am
  • 49 minutes 48 seconds
    Future of Work: Entrepreneur Nancy Lyons on Change Enablement, Team Culture and Leadership from AI to DEI

    Nancy Lyons is the CEO and co-founder of Clockwork and an outspoken advocate for making workplaces more inclusive, flexible, and adaptable. Nancy says no one does great work if they’re worried or if they can’t bring their whole self to work, and her consultancy focuses on transforming businesses and business leadership through experience design, technology for change enablement, and creating workplace cultures that support human complexities, nuances and intricacies. She’s also the author of the interactive Project Management: Pixels, People, and Process, A Human-Centered Approach to Producing Digital Products, and Work Like a Boss: A Kick-in-the-Pants Guide to Finding (and Using) your Power at Work.

    🔑Key Takeaways🔑

    🚀 🤟Intrapreneurs Over Hierarchy: Why traditional corporate hierarchies are becoming obsolete as technology democratizes workplaces, and how to bring entrepreneurial thinking into organizations to inspire creativity and innovation. 

    ❤️ 🌈 Cultural Values in the Workplace: Learn how to operationalize values like innovation and inclusion in day-to-day work, and why values must be visible in actions and how they contribute to a thriving corporate culture.

    👩‍💼 🤝 Women Leading the Future: The under-appreciated yet vital qualities women bring to leadership roles, and why qualities like empathy, creativity, and relationship-building become essential with AI taking over repetitive tasks.

    🌐🤎Prioritizing DEI Initiatives: While some companies pull back on DEI efforts, diversity and inclusion are proven to assure business growth and innovation.

    ✨💡 Creating an Empathetic Culture of Trust: Why engaging in respectful dialogues and understanding diverse perspectives is critical to defuse conflicts and elevate conversations and effective collaboration through curiosity and active listening.

    🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings899

    More about Nancy at Clockwork

    Get Nancy’s latest book, Work Like a Boss

    15 October 2024, 9:55 am
  • 1 hour 1 minute
    Turn Words into Wealth: Serial Entrepreneur and Author Aurora Winter on How to Tell Stories to Build Brands, Books and Businesses

    Aurora Winter, serial entrepreneur and founder of Same Page Publishing, combines the best of Silicon Valley with the best of Hollywood to help entrepreneurs and thought leaders grow their businesses with memorable messages and best-selling books for multiple streams of income and impact. Aurora is author of several award-winning fiction and non-fiction books, including "Turn Words Into Wealth: Blueprint for Your Business, Brand, and Book," and “Magic, Mystery, and the Multiverse.” She’s also the founder of several other businesses including the charter boat company Pacific Quest Yacht Sales, the film production company Random Harvest Productions, and Grief Coach Academy.

    🔑Key Takeaways🔑

    🧠 💡The Neuroscience of Communication: Learn the “Spoken Author” structure to craft is messages that resonate with your audience, starting with the “croc brain” for attention, the midbrain for social proof, and the neocortex for your core message.

    💰 📈 Million Dollar Messages: The surprising 27X value of a great story and how to use approaches like “Myth Busting” and the “Hero’s Journey” to find ways to resonate and establish rapport with customers and investors.

    📖 📝 The Book Inside You: Learn how your story, mission and expertise can easily manifest in a best-selling book that grows your business and impact.   

    🛠️🔥Leveraging Artificial Intelligence: Why AI is a powerful assistant and can help you understand your audience, but can never replace the unique essence of human creativity and lived experience that makes for truly great storytelling.

    🚀✨ Growing Resilience and Adaptability: How to master the most effective entrepreneurial mindset for your success.

    🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings898

    More about Aurora Winter at https://www.aurorawinter.com/ and if you'd like help creating, publishing, and promoting your book, visit www.SamePagePublishing.com and get your gift Thought Leader starter library. You can also book a free consult at https://bookcall.biz

    8 October 2024, 8:10 am
  • 42 minutes 14 seconds
    The Power of Employee Ownership: Entrepreneur Miren Oca on Innovating Swimming Education to Build Community Wealth and the Bottom Line

    Miren Oca is the founder and CEO of the Ocaquatics Swim School. Thirty years ago, Miren started teaching swimming lessons in backyard pools as a way to provide for her small but growing family. Over the last three decades she’s grown her B Corp business to five state-of-the-art environmentally sustainable locations, delivering 6,500 lessons a week, with 3 million children taught to swim by Miren and her team so far. Miren is also a pioneer in innovating employee ownership, with an Employee Ownership Trust that builds wealth for her community as the business grows.

    🔑Key Takeaways🔑

    🤝 📈 Employee Ownership Mindset: Learn how an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) provides a sustainable, equitable business model that incentivizes success and creates wealth by providing team members, now co-owners, a share in the profits. 

    🌱 ✨Sustainable Practices: How Ocaquatics has become a beacon of environmental responsibility. From using pool covers to reduce evaporation to implementing UV sanitation and LED lighting, Miren shows how businesses can reduce their environmental footprint efficiently.

    🚀 🌎 Certified B Corporation: How to leverage B Corp status for triple bottom line success to lift people, the planet, and profit. Learn how this certification not only improved their staff retention and customer satisfaction but also aligned with their mission of social and environmental responsibility.

    🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings897

    1 October 2024, 11:05 am
  • 54 minutes 31 seconds
    Revolutionizing Vaginal Health: Serial Entrepreneur Caroline Goodner on Challenges and Triumphs Pioneering Natural Women’s Healthcare

    Caroline Goodner is the co-founder and CEO of OrganiCare, a leader in transforming feminine healthcare by making highly effective, natural products that are science-backed and available over the counter through national retailers under the brand FemiClear. OrganiCare is the 4th company Caroline has led, 3 of which she founded. Her career has focused on making disruptive advances in science, health and wellness that are understandable and accessible to consumers.

    👩‍🔬 🛠️ Overcoming Knowledge Gaps: Why women’s health products addressing common issues like vaginosis, UTIs and genital herpes struggle to land advertising up against Instagram, TikTok and Google algorithms that misclassify them as sexual content.

    💰 📈 FemTech Fundraising Challenges: Despite addressing a massive market of more than half the world’s population, female health founders innovating solutions critical to women’s health still struggle to raise funding. 

    📝✨Educating Women about their Bodies: Why most women don’t know that heart attack symptoms are different for them than men, and lack access to science-backed data on women’s health, plus what can be done to fill knowledge gaps and provide effective solutions.

    🤝 🌱Mentorship is Vital: Why women entrepreneurs need supportive networks to combat isolation, boost confidence and resilience, and gain valuable business insights.

    🚀 🎉 Preparing for Exit: The emotional roller-coaster of selling your business and how to prepare with intention.

    🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings886

    More about Caroline at OrganiCare

    https://www.organicare.com/ 

    Get a discount on FemiClear and use discount code is PODCAST25https://femiclear.com/

    24 September 2024, 11:41 am
  • 40 minutes 15 seconds
    Financial Fluency: Money Expert Danielle Hayden on Helping Female Entrepreneurs Know and Grow Their Numbers

    Danielle Hayden is a reformed corporate CFO (chief financial officer) who is on a mission to help rule-breaking female entrepreneurs understand their numbers so they can gain the confidence needed to create sustainable profits. After spending 10+ years in the boardroom as a corporate finance officer, Danielle is now in her sweet spot as the CEO of Kickstart Accounting, Inc. where she helps business owners with bookkeeping, financial analysis, and education. She is the author of the Profit Planner book series. When Danielle isn't in her money mindset you can find her hiking or spending time with her family.

    🔑Key Takeaways🔑

    🌱 💰 Understand your Money Personality: Learn if you’re a free spender, keeper, perfectionist, or balance seeker, and why this is crucial for aligning with your business goals.

    🛠️ 📈Know Your Numbers: Your P&L and Balance Sheet tell the story, so take responsibility for understanding and analyzing your financial statements, even if you have a professional team in place.

    🤟 👩‍🔬 Face Fears Head-on: Growing a business involves making brave decisions, even in the face of fear, so learn how to change your money mindset and embrace an iterative learning process.

    ✨ 💡 Set Clear Intentions: Align your spending with specific, measurable goals to achieving business growth and personal satisfaction. Learn how to embrace a visionary founder mindset.

    🚀 🔥Take Ownership Of Your Entrepreneurial Success: Ask for help, embrace failures as opportunities for growth and learning, and grow your financial fluency.

    🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings895

     

    More about Danielle at Kickstart Accounting

    https://kickstartaccountinginc.com/danielle-hayden

     

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    17 September 2024, 10:36 am
  • 38 minutes 31 seconds
    The Leader’s Playlist: Entrepreneur Susan Drumm on the Transformational Power of Music to Disrupt Patterns, Forge New Pathways, and Unlock Your Superpowers

    Susan Drumm a Leadership Coach and CEO of Meritage Leadership on a mission to help leaders and their teams to develop the capacity and mindsets to lead in today’s disruptive environment. She has personally coached billionaire CEOs, prominent Fortune 50 executive teams and incredible entrepreneurs that set out to disrupt the marketplace. Her firm, Meritage Leadership, uses a cadre of 15 seasoned coaches and consultants who work with senior leaders and executive teams. She is also the host of the podcast and YouTube channel The Enlightened Executive, where she interviews founders and CEOs on the most cutting-edge programs, assessments, apps and techniques in personal and leadership effectiveness. Meritage works with private equity firms and their emerging portfolio companies, as well as large corporations such as Oracle, Viacom, KPMG, A&E Networks, Genentech and others. Susan has graduate degrees from Harvard Law School, Carnegie Mellon University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

    🔑Key Takeaways🔑

    🎶 💡 Music and Mindset: How to interrupt old patterns and create new neural pathways to transform your life with a playlist. Learn how identifying your triggers and selecting music that aligns with your desired emotional state, you can shift your mindset and energy to influence your growth.

    🌱 🔄 Leveraging the Enneagram for Leadership: Learn how it focuses on motivation rather than behavior, helping you understand your blind spots, where to grow, and how to work with others who complement your strengths.

    🚀 🤝 Building High-Performance Teams: Why success depends on forming and leading cognitively diverse teams, plus how the Enneagram can help create customized growth paths for each team member, fostering a strong and effective team dynamic.

    🛣️ 🤟Exit the “8-Lane Highway to Hell”: How to build your personal music playlist with an anchor song tied to powerful and positive “I Am” statements for transforming your life and business.

    🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings894

    More about Susan at Meritage Leadership

    https://meritageleadership.com/

    Get 20% off Enneagram Applied using the coupon code DRUMM for four self-paced sessions, paired with a unique Enneagram Leadership Style Assessment and a comprehensive 20+ page report to deepen leadership insights.  https://susandrumm.kartra.com/page/Join-EnneagramApplied

     

    10 September 2024, 12:20 pm
  • 56 minutes 59 seconds
    AI Safety Auditing: Pioneering Entrepreneur Gemma Galdon Clavell on AI Ethics, Biases, and the Pace and Limitations of AI Innovation

    Dr. Gemma Galdon-Clavell is a pioneer and global force in AI safety and auditing, on a mission to ensure that AI large language models and unsupervised machine learning tools truly serve society. She is the founder and CEO of Eticas.ai, a venture-backed organization that identifies, measures and corrects algorithmic vulnerabilities, bias and inefficiencies in predictive and LLM tools. Eticas’ software, the ITACA platform, is the first solution to automate impact analysis and monitoring, ensuring that AI systems are high performing and safe, explainable, fair and trustworthy. Gemma was acknowledged by the BBC as one of the “people changing the world” and this year honored by Forbes Women as one of the “35 Leading Spanish Women in Technology” and praised as “a pioneer in algorithmic auditing software”. She also advises international and regional institutions such as the United Nations (UN), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and the European Commission, among others.

    🔑Key Takeaways🔑

    🚀What’s Sci Fi and What’s Real: Learn the limitations of AI innovation, as well as opportunities.

    🔍 AI and Humans Must Work Hand-in-Hand: While AI excels in identifying patterns in medical imaging and policing dynamics, it’s crucial to remember that human expertise and decision-making are irreplaceable. AI should complement rather than replace human judgment. 

    💡 Bias and Innovation in Venture Capital: AI has the potential to both perpetuate and mitigate biases in venture capital funding. Learn the importance of creating a venture fund that prioritizes social impact and leverages diverse perspectives. 

    🛠️ The Importance of Tailored AI Models: One size doesn’t fit all when it comes to AI. Small, tailored models can be more effective for specific applications, ensuring better performance and minimizing biases and hallucinations.

    🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at:  https://bit.ly/Wings893

    3 September 2024, 10:18 am
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