Wings of Inspired Business

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.

Experiential Marketing: Entrepreneur Lacey Bridges on Elevating Brand Stories Through Human Connection 04/22/2025

Experiential Marketing: Entrepreneur Lacey Bridges on Elevating Brand Stories Through Human Connection Lacey Bridges is the founder of Black Flamingo Agency, an experiential marketing firm in Los Angeles. As a visionary leader and innovative creative marketer, Lacey excels at crafting immersive experiences that drive brand success. Her entrepreneurial spirit and passion for the experiential side of marketing solutions have positioned Black Flamingo Agency as one of the fastest-growing trailblazers in the industry. Spearheading groundbreaking campaigns for major brands like Good American, Savage X Fenty, and TopGolf, Lacey has created transformative and unforgettable experiences that solidify her reputation as a leader in experiential marketing. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🌟😊 The Power of Experiential Marketing: Learn how to create unforgettable human-to-human contact with brand events that transcend digital content in a disconnected world. 🥰❤️Creating Emotional Connections: Discover how brands can touch people's hearts through authentic storytelling and attention to detail. Whether through a grand event or bespoke content, learn the importance of making every small detail count, so people leave with a lasting positive feeling. 📈🔥Generating Long Tail Earned Media: Learn why creating magical experiences that bring people together around a brand promise turns customers into loyal and enthusiastic influencers, posting many months after the event. 🚀🌈 Women Supporting Women: How to create a safe, empowering space for women to grow, support one another, and thrive together in the industry by actively seeking out collaborations with other female-led businesses to foster mutual growth and empowerment. 💕 🤝Love What You Do: Learn from Lacey's personal story of becoming an entrepreneur, her passion for creating a joyful work environment for her team, and how she ensures every project is treated as a partnership, never just a transaction. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings926 More about Lacey at /episode/index/show/wingspodcast/id/36260940

Escape to Panama: Real Estate Maven Melissa Darnay on Why It Makes A Perfect New Home for Entrepreneurs 04/15/2025

Focus On Feedback: Serial Entrepreneur Penny Zenker AKA “The Focusologist” on Achieving More With Less 04/08/2025

Focus On Feedback: Serial Entrepreneur Penny Zenker AKA “The Focusologist” on Achieving More With Less Penny Zenker is a serial founder, sought-after speaker, bestselling author, and former C-Suite executive of a global top five market research company who now helps entrepreneurs and executives at firms large and small, including Deloitte, Pfizer, SAP and Samsung solve complex problems and find alignment to accelerate business growth. Over the past three decades, she has built and sold multiple multimillion-dollar companies—including the award-winning tech firm Smart Moves she founded and sold to a French company. Penny is also a Tony Robbins Business Coach helping companies double and triple businesses and her TEDx, “The Energy of Thought,” has had over 1 million views worldwide. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 👓💬Focus on Feedback: Many things demand your focus in business, but the most important focus is on feedback from your customers, your team, and your numbers and data to create an iterative loop for growth. 🧠✨The Reset Mindset: Learn the power of dynamic reassessment, constantly checking in with yourself and your team to ensure you're focused on what truly matters. Business environments are ever-changing, and staying adaptable is the secret to your success. How to Achieve more with less: 😅💼 The Paradox of Control: Why the more you try to control, the less control you have. Delegating authority along with responsibility builds trust, empowers your team, and fosters a culture of creativity and ownership. 🔍🤝 The Power of Dynamic Reassessment: Penny emphasizes the importance of constantly checking in to ensure you're focused on what truly matters. Business environments are ever-changing, and staying adaptable can significantly impact success. 🧠 💡 The Energy of Thought: Mindset can either limit or propel us. Approaching challenges and navigating change with a growth mindset opens up opportunities that we might not have considered possible, and enables you to shift focus as necessary. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings924 More about Penny at Get Penny’s book /episode/index/show/wingspodcast/id/36050375

Inside the Crucible: Entrepreneur Lindsay Guzowski on Transforming Venture and Private Equity with Unbiased Executive Assessments 04/01/2025

Inside the Crucible: Entrepreneur Lindsay Guzowski on Transforming Venture and Private Equity with Unbiased Executive Assessments Lindsay Guzowski is the CEO and founder of The Crucible, a company transforming how private equity and venture firms assess and develop leadership at their portfolio companies using scientifically validated, bias-tested tools. A visionary entrepreneur, she co-founded a plumbing company that grew from a $40,000 investment into a multi-million-dollar enterprise acquired for over $20 million. With degrees from Dartmouth College, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, Lindsay blends expertise in sociology, finance, and management. Since founding The Crucible in 2020, she has earned multiple industry awards, all while being a devoted mother to her competitive go-kart-racing son. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🔍 👩‍🔬 Eliminating Bias in Executive Evaluations: Learn the innovative approach that removes bias from investors and others assessing founders and executive teams so venture firms no longer overlook diverse and qualified talent based on outdated stereotypes or unconscious bias. 🧩 👥 Strategic Team Building: How to assess cognitive abilities, resilience, pattern recognition, innovative thinking and emotional leverage, so your business can identify gaps and strategically build balanced teams, enhance collaboration and reduce turnover. 📈 🚀Data-Driven Decision Making: How The Crucible uses tailored algorithms and innovative assessments to provide actionable insights, allowing investors to make informed decisions and better match team dynamics with company objectives. 💼🔥The Five Success Factors: Learn what predicts the success of an entrepreneurial or executive leader, from “disdain for losing” to numbers fluency, storytelling, empathy, and ability to process information quickly with accuracy. 💡 🛠️ Systems Vs. Linear Thinkers: The creative power of ‘matrix thinking’ and why women with children are inherently better at “connecting the dots”, collaborating and enabling cross-disciplinary innovation. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings923 More about Lindsay, plus a 20% discount on Short Link: https://bit.ly/Wings923 Link: https://melindawittstock.com/wingspodcast/lindsay-guzowski /episode/index/show/wingspodcast/id/35956825

Tackling the 2% Problem for 10X Returns: Venture Investor Julie Castro Abrams on Building Her Woman-Only VC Fund 03/25/2025

Tackling the 2% Problem for 10X Returns: Venture Investor Julie Castro Abrams on Building Her Woman-Only VC Fund Julie Castro Abrams is a venture capitalist and gender and racial justice activist who has spent the majority of her career working to build great women-owned companies and economic access for women. She is the founder and CEO of How Women Lead, a network of 14,000-plus top executive women who come together to learn, break barriers to success, and make an impact. Using her extensive background, Julie helps top executive women harness and activate their power across all aspects of their careers and lives. She also leads the sister organization, How Women Invest, an early-stage venture capital firm seeking to realize untapped economic potential by focusing on the intersection of female founders and female investors, particularly those of color. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🚀 📈 Potential vs Previous Results: Why women founders are evaluated by venture investors with a higher and different level of scrutiny than men, and how to overcome investor bias—whether conscious or unconscious. 👩‍🔬 🤟 Breaking Barriers: What it takes to launch a successful female-led venture capital firm, and how Julie succeeded by building on an already established community to get her first $10 million from 221 female investors. 🤝 🌱 Empowering Female Investors: Why women should diversify their investment portfolios into venture capital firms supporting women entrepreneurs—not only for a potential 10X return, but also because most female founders create mission-driven companies that have a social impact. ✨ 🌈 Invest in Values: How to make venture investments with companies and funds that align with your values for social impact and purpose. 💰💵 Expanding Women's Wealth: Learn how Julie’s New Table Campaign is encouraging women to unite their financial power to achieve a profound impact, with a target to channel $1 billion into women-run venture capital firms. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings922 More about Julie at How Women Lead and How Women Invest /episode/index/show/wingspodcast/id/35854625

Writing Your Next Chapter: Entrepreneur Nina Sossamon-Pogue on Resilience and Overcoming Adversity 03/18/2025

Writing Your Next Chapter: Entrepreneur Nina Sossamon-Pogue on Resilience and Overcoming Adversity Nina Sossamon-Pogue is a sought-after speaker, two-time bestselling author, and entrepreneur whose journey through elite gymnastics, TV anchoring, and Corporate America from startup to IPO defies the ordinary. An Olympic hopeful on the USA Gymnastics team with Mary Lou Retton, an injury crushed her dreams before becoming a catalyst for a 20-year career as an Emmy Award winning journalist and anchor. Another transformative challenge led her to technology and a journey navigating startup growth to a highly successful IPO. Drawing on her expertise across communications, corporate leadership and resilience research, she now helps others conquer life’s obstacles to reach new levels of success. Author of This Is Not the End: Strategies to Get You Through the Worst Chapters of Your Life and But I Want Both: A Working Mom’s Guide to Creating a Life She Loves, Nina also founded the innovative online coaching company Now What Workshop. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🏆 🏋️‍♀️ What Athletes Teach Entrepreneurs about Resilience: Athletes bring essential skills to business: persistence, discipline, coachability, and the ability to get up after a fall. These skills are game changers in entrepreneurship, where failure is part of the journey. 🌟✊Past the Pain There’s Gain: From life-changing injury to horrific public tragedy, learn how radical changes in circumstance brought about by unexpected events or challenges can help us all emerge stronger, revitalized and thriving in life’s new chapters. 💼 🚀 Adapting in Business: Sometimes external happenings like tariffs, recessions and pandemics force a change in business strategy and operations. Nina shares how her newly launched public speaking career got sidelined when Covid struck, and how she found the resilience to pivot quickly to grow an even bigger business. 🌱🔍 The Now What Workshop: If you're in a "now what" moment, learn how Nina’s online coaching provides actionable strategies to help you navigate through crises and find paths forward, no matter the situation, so you do better than “bounce back” by growing stronger and more capable with each new hurdle. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings921 More about Nina at Nina Sossamon-Pogue and Now What Workshop /episode/index/show/wingspodcast/id/35747515

Transforming Gardening with AI: Entrepreneur Donna Letier on Cultivating Wellness with Container Gardens 03/11/2025

Transforming Gardening with AI: Entrepreneur Donna Letier on Cultivating Wellness with Container Gardens Donna Letier is the CEO and founder of Gardenuity, a fast-growing company merging gardening with the wellness sector through personalized container gardens and AI-powered gardening experiences. Donna has raised $8 million for her company so far, innovating Gardenuity Match, which uses AI and weather tech to custom-craft gardens around lifestyles, climate and environment. With over 20 years of retail experience, spanning public and private companies, Donna has worked in the areas of operations, brand marketing, and product development, and takes a data-driven approach with a consumer point of view. Previously, she was CMO for a home furnishings brand with over $500M in annual revenue. She has also been part of the marketing team at Neiman Marcus, MGM, Barneys New York, and United Artists. Donna has been featured in Story of a Brand, Cheddar News, Forbes, Tech FW, WFAA #UpWithHer, Growing Spaces, and The Grow Network. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🌿🌐 Gardening for All: Learn how gardening is being democratizing so that anyone can experience its nutritional and mental health benefits—whether you're in a high-rise, have a backyard, or live in an urban apartment. 🌍🤖 Grounding in a Digital World: Discover how gardening can improve your mental health by grounding you in the present, away from the hustle and bustle of technology and constant connectivity. Learn the holistic wellness benefits that come with getting your hands in the soil. 🌱💡 AI and Gardening: How AI is being used to personalize gardening experiences, from weather tech and predictive alerts to understanding what plants most align to climate, lifestyle and circumstance—to ensure your success, no matter where you live. 🔥🛠️Entrepreneurial Insights: What gardening can teach us about the entrepreneurial process – resilience, innovation and adaptability – from sprouting to pruning and seasons of growth. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings920 More about Donna at /episode/index/show/wingspodcast/id/35638330

Tax Time: Entrepreneur Melissa Broughton on How to Be Proactive with Tax and Accounting 03/04/2025

Tax Time: Entrepreneur Melissa Broughton on How to Be Proactive with Tax and Accounting Melissa Broughton is a tax and accounting specialist and the founder of Busy Bee Advisors, helping business owners and entrepreneurs get savvy about complex, even frustrating, tax and bookkeeping situations. Her background in corporate accounting and auditing complements her desire to serve as a financial translator, of sorts, to sole proprietors and small business owners so that they feel confident in their financial decisions. With her husband Eric, a tax professional, Melissa co-hosts a popular podcast, The Real Buzz: Taking the Sting Out of Taxes. She is a member of Business Network International, Rotary, FU Nights, Women in Consulting, and previously served as finance chair on the Sacramento Children's Receiving Home Board of Directors. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🚀 🌱Why Tax Time Is An Opportunity: Learn to be proactive about your taxes and get early advice from tax professionals. 🤔💭Understanding Uncertainty: With the shifting political landscape, tsunami of Presidential executive orders, and DOGE cuts, make sure you verify facts before making any business decisions based on news or social media. 📈 💡Proactivity over Reactivity: Understanding potential deductions and credits, like R&D tax credits or ADA compliance credits, can result in significant tax savings. 💼🔥Choosing the Right Business Structure: Whether it’s a sole proprietorship, LLC, S Corp, or C Corp, each business entity has different tax implications, and these can change depending on the state. 🛠️✨Tools in Your Arsenal: Why it’s vital to develop a robust toolkit of trusted advisors – including a tax professional, a business attorney, and a financial advisor. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings919 Get a complimentary copy of Melissa's new book, Listen to Melissa’s podcast /episode/index/show/wingspodcast/id/35527075

Tactical Harmony, Unleashed: Entrepreneur Rebecca Fitzsimmons On Mastering Leadership, Mindset and What We Can Learn from Dogs. 02/25/2025

Tactical Harmony, Unleashed: Entrepreneur Rebecca Fitzsimmons On Mastering Leadership, Mindset and What We Can Learn from Dogs. Rebecca Fitzsimmons is the founder of Tactical Harmony, an online business dedicated to mentoring ambitious professionals and businesses on holistic leadership and mindset strategies. She is also the host of the Tactical Harmony podcast, in which she shares game-changing tactics supporting her community to gracefully navigate their career and homelife, while enjoying freedom, abundance and bliss. Over the last two decades, Rebecca served as an NCIS Special Agent and as a senior leader at a technology company. Throughout her global experience living and working around the world, Rebecca saw first-hand why holistic leadership answers every challenge. Rebecca is also author of the new book, Unleashed: Holistic Leadership Insights from Our Canine Companions. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 ✨ 🌱 Holistic Leadership: Discover the core pillars of Tactical Harmony—planning, alignment, execution, and receiving—designed to balance professional and personal life so you can achieve wholeness, peace, and freedom, aiming for genuine fulfillment. 🐾 🦋What Dogs Can Teach Us: How our furry friends can teach us mindfulness, gratitude, discipline, love, and resilience. 🌟💡Tactical Harmony's Dual Approach: Learn the two-track approach for mastering mindset to overcome limiting beliefs, enhance leadership skills master conflict resolution. 🧘‍♀️🔄 Mastering Self-Leadership: Why it’s vital to envision success to achieve it, plus the secrets of mental preparation, and following your intuition no matter how illogical it may seem to others. 🚀 💪Entrepreneurial Challenges: How to transition from the hands-on “doing it all” start-up founder roles to building and aligning a team for growth, and why strategic focus always beats multitasking. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes here: https://bit.ly/wings918 More about Rebecca at Get 50% off Tactical Harmony’s . Use code WINGS50 Subscribe to Rebecca’s podcast /episode/index/show/wingspodcast/id/35420865

The Authenticity of You: Entrepreneur Lauren Bayne on Building a Differentiated Personal Brand to Grow Your Company 02/18/2025

The Authenticity of You: Entrepreneur Lauren Bayne on Building a Differentiated Personal Brand to Grow Your Company Lauren Bayne is a personal brand creative director, advising entrepreneurs and executive leaders in building personal brands filled with personality and creating intellectual property that makes her clients money. Coming from the advertising industry, Lauren brings creative expression and pizazz to personal branding that gives her clients confidence to stand out from the crowd with bold and entertaining presence. She specializes in helping entrepreneurs, speakers, coaches, authors, consultants, and professionals express their unique personal brands through distinctive, brag-worthy marketing assets. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🌍🌙Power of Polarization: Not everyone is going to love your brand, and that's okay. Learn why repelling as well as attracting can be an asset in attracting your ideal audience and customers. Hint: Embrace self-love and stop caring about being liked. 🌐🔄Conformity is Your Enemy: Authenticity is the key to branding success in a world where trust is at a premium, and if you try to conform to something you’re not, you’ll never succeed at building a trusted brand. 👩‍🔬 🤟 Start With Your Who (Not Why or What): Learn why self-knowledge is vital to building a successful brand. When you know yourself and your values, you’re more likely to attract customers who resonate with you and developing offerings and messaging that attracts your ideal buyers. 🚀 🎙️ Aligning Visual with Voice: Make sure your visual identity rhymes with your brand voice so you can stand out in the noisy “attention economy”. 🔥 💼 Balancing Personal and Business Branding: For those concerned about tying their brand too closely to their personal identity, learn how to create a legacy that can live on even if you step away. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/wings917 More about Lauren at Lauren Bayne where you can get a free 30-minute /episode/index/show/wingspodcast/id/35332800

Data Dashboard Diva: Entrepreneur Kari Poppleton on Actionable Insights for Business Growth 02/11/2025

Own Your Own Journey: Entrepreneur Somia Sadiq on the Power of Failure and Overcoming Risk Adversity 02/04/2025

Own Your Own Journey: Entrepreneur Somia Sadiq on the Power of Failure and Overcoming Risk Adversity Somia Sadiq is an award-winning entrepreneur and peacebuilder who has developed a pioneering practice in impact assessment and conflict transformation rooted in storytelling. Somia is the founder and CEO of Narratives, a planning firm that emphasizes human-centric, trauma-informed dialogue, lived experience, and celebrating ancestral identity. She’s also the founder of Kahanee, a non-profit organization that works nationally and internationally interweaving stories to support peacebuilding efforts. Somia is a published author and a keynote speaker, offering insights on trauma-informed leadership, and fostering resilience in a rapidly changing environment. Recognized for her contributions to the Planning practice in Canada and globally, Somia was recently inducted into the Canadian Institute of Planners' esteemed College of Fellows, the highest honor for a planner in Canada. Her new book Garajah will be published in August 2025. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🛑 💪Failure is Not a Taboo: Learn why failing is a vital prerequisite for success as an entrepreneur. (Hint: If you’re not failing you’re not taking enough risks and playing too small a game). 🚀 💡Overcoming Risk Adversity: Playing it safe often kills entrepreneurial dreams, so learn how to effectively balance risk and reward and operate from a spirit of abundance rather than scarcity. 👩‍🔬 🤟Own Your Journey: No one can walk your path for you, you have to do it. If you want something, dream it, chase it, ask for feedback, ask to be on that exciting project, show that you are keen, make it happen. If you fail, figure out why, reconfigure and keep wading. Expecting the world to do it for you won't work. 🤝 🤎Fostering Dialogue and Inclusivity: With inspiration from Rumi and an emphasis on positive storytelling, Somia shares how her company, Narratives, and her nonprofit, Kahani empower people through Indigenous stories, community planning, and peace-building efforts. 🌍❤️ Building Communities: Learn how to create effective allies who inspire, challenge and teach you, plus how to apply Somia's experience uniting diaspora communities in Canada through storytelling events that address conflicts, racism, and a sense of belonging. Learn how to create effective allies who inspire, challenge and teach you 📚 Somia’s Upcoming Novel: Dive into the themes explored in Somia’s forthcoming novel, "Gujarat," a journey through justice, forgiveness, and trauma narrated by a young girl and interwoven with poetry and prose. and spiritual growth. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at More about Somia at Narratives Inc and Get 20% off for a virtual or in-person Trauma Informed Practices workshop. Email and provide the reference code *WINGS20* /episode/index/show/wingspodcast/id/35144170

Agentic AI: Serial Entrepreneur Susan Sly on Ethics, AI Transparency, Future of Work and How thePause.ai is Transforming Menopause Care 01/28/2025

Agentic AI: Serial Entrepreneur Susan Sly on Ethics, AI Transparency, Future of Work and How thePause.ai is Transforming Menopause Care Susan Sly is an award-winning AI entrepreneur, author, keynote speaker, and the Founder and CEO of thePause.ai, an AI-driven platform revolutionizing menopause management with personalized, gamified solutions. In November, thePause.ai won first place in the HITLAB x Versalie™ Innovation Challenge. Susan also co-founded RadiusAI, a visual intelligence company specializing in the retail and healthcare sectors. RadiusAI earned the prestigious AI Innovator at The Edge award from VentureBeat in 2022 for its cutting-edge computer vision technology. Susan also hosts two podcasts, Raw and Real Entrepreneurship and The Menopause Health Podcast. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🔥 🤖 Transformative Power of Agentic AI: How autonomous “AI agents” are revolutionizing business operations and decision-making processes, enabling smaller teams to achieve more by process immense volumes of data and interact with each other to assist humans in decision-making, and what it means for the future of work. 🏥 🌱 AI in Health and Wellness: How thePause.ai is personalizing solutions for menopause management, from tracking symptoms to offering lifestyle recommendations. 💡 🌈 AI Ethics and Transparency: Who trains the AI? What biases lurk in the data? Why transparent, unbiased, inclusive and validated data is vital for the responsible deployment of AI solutions, so AI models are fair, equitable, and representative of the diverse populations they serve. 💡 🧑‍💻 Company Policies: It’s time to move beyond just the Company Employee Handbook. Learn why all companies need clear AI Mission Statements to align their AI initiatives with ethical standards, the advantages of having an AI steering committee comprising diverse perspectives. 👩‍🔬 💪Empowering Women in AI: Why women’s leadership in AI is vital, both in the architecture of the underlying data models and their application. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings914 More about Susan at /episode/index/show/wingspodcast/id/35044485

From Grief to Growth: Entrepreneur Karine Nissim on DayNew, the Social Network for Healing Trauma and Loss 01/21/2025

Tactical Harmony, Unleashed: Entrepreneur Rebecca Fitzsimmons On Mastering Leadership, Mindset and What We Can Learn from Dogs. 01/14/2025

Tactical Harmony, Unleashed: Entrepreneur Rebecca Fitzsimmons On Mastering Leadership, Mindset and What We Can Learn from Dogs. Rebecca Fitzsimmons is the founder of Tactical Harmony, an online business dedicated to mentoring ambitious professionals and businesses on holistic leadership and mindset strategies. She is also the host of the Tactical Harmony podcast, in which she shares game-changing tactics supporting her community to gracefully navigate their career and homelife, while enjoying freedom, abundance and bliss. Over the last two decades, Rebecca served as an NCIS Special Agent and as a senior leader at a technology company. Throughout her global experience living and working around the world, Rebecca saw first-hand why holistic leadership answers every challenge. Rebecca is also author of the new book, Unleashed: Holistic Leadership Insights from Our Canine Companions. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 ✨ 🌱 Holistic Leadership: Discover the core pillars of Tactical Harmony—planning, alignment, execution, and receiving—designed to balance professional and personal life so you can achieve wholeness, peace, and freedom, aiming for genuine fulfillment. 🐾 🦋What Dogs Can Teach Us: How our furry friends can teach us mindfulness, gratitude, discipline, love, and resilience. 🌟💡Tactical Harmony's Dual Approach: Learn the two-track approach for mastering mindset to overcome limiting beliefs, enhance leadership skills master conflict resolution. 🧘‍♀️🔄 Mastering Self-Leadership: Why it’s vital to envision success to achieve it, plus the secrets of mental preparation, and following your intuition no matter how illogical it may seem to others. 🚀 💪Entrepreneurial Challenges: How to transition from the hands-on “doing it all” start-up founder roles to building and aligning a team for growth, and why strategic focus always beats multitasking. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes here: More about Rebecca at Get 50% off Tactical Harmony’s Use code WINGS50 Subscribe to Rebecca’s podcast /episode/index/show/wingspodcast/id/34847605

Women in Venture Capital: Entrepreneur to Investor Julia Krieger on Why It Takes a Village and Smart Money 01/07/2025

Women in Venture Capital: Entrepreneur to Investor Julia Krieger on Why It Takes a Village and Smart Money Julia Krieger is an experienced venture investor and startup founder who recently co-founded PariPassu, a private investor app that gives fellow founders, operators, and accredited investors access to angel invest in the most highly competitive deals in the venture ecosystem and be a part of the village that helps these founders succeed. As Managing Partner at Pari Passu Venture Partners (PPVP), a founder-led, founder-backed early-stage venture firm investing in the future of commerce, SaaS, and consumer tech, Julia has backed 19 companies to date. Previously Julia founded and ran VillageLuxe, a venture-backed peer-to-peer luxury rental marketplace, for which she was awarded the Forbes 30 Under 30 accolade. She was also an investor at Insight Partners, investing over $100M in SaaS and marketplace companies globally. Julia serves on the board of YPO Metro New York and is active in the Harvard alumni communities. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 👥 🌱 It Takes a Village: Learn how Pari Passu reinvents venture capital with a community-centric investment platform that allows investors to choose deals they want to back, with no membership fees or fixed commitments, fostering a collaborative and supportive environment for both investors and founders. ❤️💭Why Humility Wins in Entrepreneurship: Learn how to balance perseverance with the openness to feedback, and why admitting what you don't know and seeking help is your secret weapon for growth and investment. 🚀🔥Why Founders Make the Best Investors: Why investment is more than just the money. Learn why the best VCs are those with startup and executive experience able to help founders address challenges and build relationships. 👩‍🔬 💰Women Investing in Women: Learn how Pari Passu enables investment in strong startups with minimum investments as low as $10,000 and the chance to pick the companies of the future. ✨ 🛠️ Flow Vs Force: The power of creating and innovating from a place of humility and flow for balance, efficiency and community support, plus how to integrate motherhood into entrepreneurship. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes: More about Julia at Get the to invest /episode/index/show/wingspodcast/id/34753870

Reignite Your Entrepreneurial Passion: Entrepreneur Julie Perkins on Growth, Alignment, and Empowerment 12/31/2024

Women’s Ancestral Wisdom: Fablerune Co-Founders Jeriel Sydney and Bobbie Cunningham on Empowering Women with Holistic Wellness 12/24/2024

Women’s Ancestral Wisdom: Fablerune Co-Founders Jeriel Sydney and Bobbie Cunningham on Empowering Women with Holistic Wellness Jeriel Sydney and Bobbie Cunningham are the co-founders of holistic beauty brand FABLERUNE with a mission to educate and support women through their own self-care journeys and ancestral wisdom. With a degree in women's studies and trained in aromatherapy, ayrvedic massage, and community activism, Jeriel joined forces with Bobbie, a licensed cosmetologist and trained esthetician, with a background in sustainable and renewable manufacturing and production workflow, to grow FABLERUNE into a growing luxury brand of skincare, haircare and other wellness products available direct to consumer and through 15 boutique hotels. They are also co-authors of The Fable Book of Runes. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🌿🛁 Holistic Beauty: Why a safe and shame-free environment is vital for women to explore and address their skincare and beauty needs, custom crafted to hormonal changes through life, and how to build a "no shame" philosophy about women’s wellness choices. ✨ 🌱 Values-Driven Partnerships: How Fablerune partners with environmentally conscious and value-aligned boutique stores and hotels to uphold their brand ethos, prioritizing conscious and sustainable practices for intentional growth that helps people and the planet. 💪👭 Empowerment Through Community: Why it’s vital for women to support women, whether it’s how you build supportive communities with and for your customers or through buying from, promoting, mentoring, or investing in each other's businesses to foster a community of support and collaboration for sustained growth and empowerment. 🌍🌙 The Power of Ancient Runes: How to harness the ancient wisdom of women, with a rune guide created by Fablerune that offers comfort and insight in turbulent times. 💖 🚀 Supporting and Giving Back: How to create a charity-first business model with a robust give-back program, that builds community support, customer loyalty, and sustainable profits. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings909 More about Jeriel and Bobbie at /episode/index/show/wingspodcast/id/34597750

Financial Empowerment: Entrepreneur Jenna Biancavilla on Building Sustainable, Savvy Businesses 12/17/2024

Financial Empowerment: Entrepreneur Jenna Biancavilla on Building Sustainable, Savvy Businesses Jenna Biancavilla is a trailblazing entrepreneur on a mission to empower people to take charge of their financial future. In 2016 Jenna launched her company, Pearl Capital Management, a fiduciary financial planning firm advising on over $180 Million in assets under management. Alongside her sister, she co-founded Svvy, a disruptive technology company aiming to revolutionize the financial services industry by empowering women investors and providing them with vetted advisor connections they can trust. Jenna is also deeply committed to giving back to her community. She volunteers with several charities, including mentoring foster children through Court Appointed Special Advocates and is a foster mom to a rotating cast of shelter dogs. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 👥 🔥Hire Fast: Learn why it’s never too early to invest in team members to help you grow your business so it can run without you. 💪❤️Empower Your Team: Beyond the power of effective delegation, learn why it’s important to be a great coach and mentor to your team. ⏱️🌙Guard Your Time: Learn the time management secrets that enable Jenna to run several businesses, volunteer and have a fulfilling, enjoyable life. 📈 🚀Bootstrapping to Success: How women-led companies can thrive even without outside investment, and how to create optimistic yet realistic financial projections to attract investors while emphasizing sustainability. 💼 💡 Financial Navigation and Resources: How Pearl Capital Management acts as a "financial quarterback," ensuring coordinated and comprehensive financial plans, plus how the fintech firm BeSvvy.com is connecting business owners to trusted local advisors through a smart matchmaking service. 👩‍🔬 💰 Funding Women Entrepreneurs: Why more women must start investing in each other’s startups to change the game of venture capital, how women founders outperform exclusively male teams, and how to present your opportunity to investors. 🐾 🤟 Balancing Act: How to manage multiple roles with passion and purpose. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at 🔗 Connect with Jenna at and /episode/index/show/wingspodcast/id/34483480

Gamified Marketing: Entrepreneur Ashley Stanford on How to Transform Customers into Influencers 12/10/2024

Manifestation and Mindset: Entrepreneur Alicia Berberich on the Transformative Power of Supportive Networks for Female Entrepreneurs 12/03/2024

Manifestation and Mindset: Entrepreneur Alicia Berberich on the Transformative Power of Supportive Networks for Female Entrepreneurs Alicia Berberich is a visionary leader who’s made it her mission to connect women to each other in inclusive, collaborative and supportive networks to help them grow their businesses. She began the Women in Business Roundtable in 1992 in San Francisco, which became the largest networking group through the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. She went on to found the Women's Marketing Luncheon series to create a smaller environment and now Alicia coaches women entrepreneurs to achieve their goals by harnessing the power of manifesting and overcoming their negative self-talk. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🚀 📈 Manifesting Business Success: Learn the DESIGNED framework for actionable steps to manifest goals—from clarifying desires and aligned energy to inspired action gratitude, and beyond. 💼 🔥Support and Mentorship: Why women must support one another in business for all of us to succeed, and why collaborative and inclusive networks foster the connections and capital we all need to grow successful businesses. 👩‍🔬 🤟 Harnessing Wisdom and Energy: Learn why women in their 50s and 60s bring a unique blend of experience, confidence, and renewed energy, often finding their entrepreneurial stride as they navigate life changes like children leaving home and post-menopause vitality. 🧠 💡 Mindset Mastery: How to overcome inner saboteurs and negative self-talk and foster a positive mindset, and why using "loving kindness" and positive self-dialogue can help overcome imposter syndrome or anything holding you back from your dreams. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at More about Alicia at Download Podopolo from either app store to create and share your favorite clips of this episode on any social media or messaging platform, follow Wings there and keep the conversation going on Podopolo app in episode comments. /episode/index/show/wingspodcast/id/34261000

Unlocking Team Potential: Entrepreneur Maria Maldonado Smith on Shared Vision, Goal Setting and Trust Building 11/26/2024

Unlocking Team Potential: Entrepreneur Maria Maldonado Smith on Shared Vision, Goal Setting and Trust Building Maria Maldonado Smith is the founder and Chief Empowerment Officer of MMS Consulting and creator of the Executive Vision Imagery program. After 18 years of award-winning success in the corporate space, working as a sales leader for Fortune 500 companies across three different industries, Maria brings her unparalleled combination of experience to her proprietary process and interactive trainings, helping companies understand the science and benefits of goal setting for their employees. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🌍✨Align on Vision and Values: Learn why uniting a team around shared vision and values and a roadmap for how those are operationalized leads to a happy workplace culture with increased productivity and productivity. ⚖️📈Balance in Management: How to avoid toxic micromanagement without confusing employees with too much autonomy, and strike the balance between the trust and independence team members need, with clear expectations and onboarding processes to set them up for success. 💡 🌱Understanding Employee Goals: Why it’s vital to engage with team members on a personal level. Ask: "What do you want? Who do you want to become? What do you want to create?" This understanding helps in aligning individual aspirations with company objectives and enhancing overall team engagement. ⚡ 🚀 Challenges in Growing Companies: Rapid growth can be overwhelming for founders. Learn how to set yourself up for success by having proper systems and practices in place to maintain quality as you scale. 🤝 👥 Hiring to Trust: How to patiently build recruitment and hiring processes that help you align your new hires around shared values and expectations so you can feel safe empowering your team. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at More about Maria at Listen to Maria’s podcast /episode/index/show/wingspodcast/id/34155150

PR Secrets: Co-Founders Caitlin Copple and Holly Conti on Soft Pitching, Relationship Building, and Humans vs. AI 11/19/2024

PR Secrets: Co-Founders Caitlin Copple and Holly Conti on Soft Pitching, Relationship Building, and Humans vs. AI Caitlin Copple and Holly Conti are the co-owners of Full Swing Public Relations, a fast-growing agency helping underrecognized leaders positively impact the world as entrepreneurs, authors, speakers and political candidates. Caitlin founded Full Swing in 2019, brought Holly in as Head of Digital Marketing, and together they’ve grown into a 7-figure company, with clients featured in Fast Company, Inc. Forbes, New York Times, Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, PopSugar, CNN, and many others. They’ve helped clients launch multi-six-figure courses and memberships, earn six-figure book deals,10x their email lists, and 100x their social following. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 📌 💡 Why Long-Term Thinking Beats Quick Wins: How to focus on long-term relationship building with media partners, and understanding what journalists are looking for and how to best approach them. 💪 🚀 How to Bolster Earned Media: Learn how to make your brand story and solution relevant to journalists and the news agenda, a why a "soft pitch" strategy and crafting strong, problem-solving stories tailored for journalists always wins the day. 🤖 🤝 AI vs. Humans: AI can boost efficiency in research and content creation but there is no replacement for authentic human connection in securing impactful media placements. Plus, the need for more transparency and diversity in AI models. 👩‍🔬 🌱 Balancing Entrepreneurship with Motherhood: How it’s possible to find leverage in your business to be both a good mom and a successful business owner, and why its vital that women support each other. Plus, hear the story of how Full Swing PR lead the impactful “My Village” campaign during the COVID-19 pandemic. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at More about Caitlin and Holly at Get Full Swing PR Download the Download Podopolo from either app store to create and share your favorite clips of this episode on any social media or messaging platform, follow Wings there and keep the conversation going on Podopolo app in episode comments. /episode/index/show/wingspodcast/id/33992987

Unlocking Prosperity: Entrepreneur Ruchi Pinniger on Money Mindset, Smart Hiring, and Financial Clarity 11/12/2024

Breaking Barriers: From Hollywood to Entrepreneurship, Jenna Capozzi on Empowering Confident Female Founders 11/05/2024

Recruiting Right: Entrepreneur Molly McGrath on Unlocking Growth through Effective and Intuitive Hiring 10/29/2024

Go Big AND Go Home: Entrepreneur Jeanine Staples-Dixon on Success in Love and Business, Plus the Secrets of “Having It All” 10/22/2024

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 More about Jeanine at The Supreme Love Project /episode/index/show/wingspodcast/id/33564682

Future of Work: Entrepreneur Nancy Lyons on Change Enablement, Team Culture and Leadership from AI to DEI 10/15/2024

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 More about Nancy at Get Nancy’s latest book, /episode/index/show/wingspodcast/id/33464232

Turn Words into Wealth: Serial Entrepreneur and Author Aurora Winter on How to Tell Stories to Build Brands, Books and Businesses 10/08/2024

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 and if you'd like help creating, publishing, and promoting your book, visit and get your gift Thought Leader starter library. You can also book a free consult at /episode/index/show/wingspodcast/id/33372657

The Power of Employee Ownership: Entrepreneur Miren Oca on Innovating Swimming Education to Build Community Wealth and the Bottom Line 10/01/2024

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