Wings of Inspired Business: Recent Episodes
Melinda Wittstock
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.
Sara Connell is a 5-time bestselling author and the founder of Thought Leader Academy, helping coaches, experts and entrepreneurs scale impact and create 6-7 figure income by becoming bestselling authors and in-demand/TEDx speakers. Seventeen years ago, writing a book about her recovery from sexual assault and addiction saved Sara’s life, inspiring her to pay that gift forward by writing her own books and helping leaders on a mission reach the people they are here to serve. Sara has been featured on/in Oprah, The New York Times, Good Morning America, TODAY, Forbes, Entrepreneur, and TEDx. Her books have been nominated for a National Book Award and Elle Magazine Book of the Year.
Sara Connell is a 5x Bestselling author and the founder of Thought Leader Academy where she helps coaches, experts and entrepreneurs scale impact + create 6-7 figures by becoming bestselling authors and in demand/TEDx speakers. She has been featured on/in Oprah, The New York Times, Good Morning America, TODAY, Forbes, Entrepreneur and TEDx. Her books have been nominated for a National Book Award and Elle Magazine book of the year.
🔑Key Takeaways🔑
🧠 💰Unresolved Trauma Becomes Your Earning Ceiling: Why past trauma, especially when left unaddressed, often sets invisible limits on what women believe they deserve and can achieve. Healing these wounds is not just a personal journey—it’s a business imperative!
🛠️💬Consistency in Mindset & Acknowledgment is Key: It’s easy to lose momentum with our mindset practices once things start going well. Building a habit of celebrating wins and acknowledging progress isn’t just feel-good advice—it rewires your brain for greater success.
✨💡Clearing the Path: Learn how success stems from inner work to alter subconscious beliefs. Techniques like NLP, EFT, and consistent subconscious clearing can unlock blocks around abundance, so you can take bolder action, command your worth, and truly scale your impact.
✨❤️Celebrate Yourself: The big takeaway? Own your value—loudly and consistently. Real change requires next-level self-acknowledgment and ongoing mindset work. Success is a moving target, and the journey is full of “daily therapy.” Embrace it. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings934
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Nicole Spiegel-Gotsch is the CEO and founder of HelloMavyn®, a startup advisor and business coaching platform to help female founders succeed at building, launching and growing their companies and challenging prevailing stereotypes and misconceptions about female business leaders. Nicole has worked with startups, small businesses and Fortune 500 clients for 20 years, with a focus on fostering entrepreneurship for social good.
🔑Key Takeaways🔑
👩🔬 🤟 Challenging Myths and Biases: Forget the notion that women are risk-averse or lack confidence. Learn why what is often perceived as risk aversion is actually wisdom — a more calculated approach to entrepreneurial challenges.
💵 🌱 Navigating the Funding Landscape: The venture capital scene remains a tough terrain for women, with less than 2% of VC funding going to female-led startups. Learn how to counteract unconscious bias, change the power dynamics, and show investors why women consistently deliver higher returns on investment.
💡 🚀 Overcoming Internal and External Barriers: How to build confidence and resilience in the face of scrutiny and rejection.
🔥 📈 Embracing Transition and Growth: How the role of founders evolves as their business scales, why founders have a tough time letting go of handling “everything”, the importance of trusting your team, and why it’s vital to face new challenges head-on, diversify revenue streams, and focus on mission.
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Andee Hart is an entrepreneur, sales strategist, mentor, and host of the podcast, She Sells Differently. While working as a sales executive for a Fortune 500 company, Andee started a passion project, Hart Design Co., of candle making in her own kitchen. What started out as a side hustle with her candles in a handful of local boutiques quickly blossomed into a wildly successful wholesale business and store front. Within a year, Andee was able to transition from her 17-year corporate sales career to full-time entrepreneurship, now also teaching women entrepreneurs how to master sales.
🔑Key Takeaways🔑
🤔 🚀 Turn Mistakes into Mastery: Why every mistake in sales became part of her learning journey. Nobody is born a master salesperson. The key? Treat sales as a muscle you build over time, learning from every challenge along the way.
🧠 🤟 Seek First to Understand: Rather than leaping to defend or solve, use thoughtful, open-ended questions to get to the heart of your customer’s true needs. Not only does this diffuse tension, but it creates space for collaboration—not confrontation.
✨ 💖 Sell with Integrity: Desperation never sells. Sometimes getting a “no” is the best answer. Andee shares how having the confidence to walk away from deals that aren’t the right fit builds long-term trust—and opens doors to better opportunities down the road.
💰🔥 10 Seconds of Courage: One of the top reasons entrepreneurs lose sales? Not actually asking for the sale! Muster “10 seconds of courage” and confidently assume the partnership. Follow up—most people never do, and you’ll stand out massively just by closing the loop.
🤝 🎯 It’s All About Fit—and Follow Up: Whether you’re selling products to boutiques or high-ticket B2B tech, the magic is in qualifying your clients up front—understanding decision makers, budget, and whether your product is truly the right solution. And if you don’t get a yes right away? Follow up! Often, your customer needs the nudge.
📈 ⚡Growth Means Letting Go of Perfection: Perfectionism is your enemy when it comes to sales, so learn to ask for help, be humble, curious and open to coaching.
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Check out Andee’s Sales Tools for entrepreneurs. https://andeehart.com/salestools
Listen to her podcast, She Sells Differently
Michelle Gladieux is known as a human potential whisperer. She's written the award- winning book Communicate with Courage and she's President of Gladieux Consulting, a team of 7 teaching communication and leadership topics, offering executive coaching and strategic planning around the U.S. Michelle has 18 years collegiate teaching experience at three universities, accepting her first faculty position teaching organizational leadership at age 23. She's started her career as an HR and Training Director in the cold storage, robotics, and construction industries and visits conferences as a keynote speaker. Michelle has mentored thousands of people across companies, government, military and beyond, and her positive effect is evident after just one interaction.
🔑Key Takeaways🔑
💪 👩🔬 Optimism and Courage: Learn actionable insights on how to take smart risks to improve relationships and communication. From dealing with toxic individuals to understanding the impact of our upbringing, learn the psyche behind our communication patterns.
🔄 💡 The Feedback Challenge: Designed to collect constructive feedback from colleagues and customers, it’s a powerful tool that can help you identify areas for improvement and celebrate your successes, plus ‘pro moves’ to build respect.
💼 🤟 Leadership and Company Culture: How to foster a culture of innovation and trust, built on Michelle’s experiences as a corporate HR director, including navigating the complexities of maintaining effective communication and leadership in challenging environments.
🤝 🌱 Personal Growth and Self-Worth: Get valuable insights on self-perception, the importance of self-talk, and the art of practice over perfection, plus why entrepreneurship is a form of ‘therapy’, requiring continuous learning and adaptability.
🚀 💖 Women, Empowerment, and Emotional Labor: Understand the often-overlooked emotional labor that women bear in communication settings, and how to overcome societal conditioning and the "scarcity mindset" to encourage mutual support and empowerment among women.
💬 📝 Practical Communication Tips: From maintaining good communication habits both in person and during video meetings, to decreasing reliance on phones, get practical advice for effective and mindful interactions whether negotiating, asking for a sale, or resolving a conflict.
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More about Michelle at Gladieux Consulting
Dr. Serena Huang is revolutionizing how organizations approach talent, well-being, and DEI through data and AI. The CEO and Founder of Data with Serena, she is also the author of the bestselling book The Inclusion Equation: Leveraging Data & AI For Organizational Diversity and Well-being. Serena is a sought-after international speaker and as an AI expert, people analytics executive and chief data officer, she’s spent more than a decade leading measurement and analytics strategy for DEI and ESG at iconic brands like GE, Kraft Heinz, PayPal and LinkedIn. Also a guest lecturer at top MBA programs, including Wharton, Haas, and Kellogg, Serena’s on a mission to help businesses worldwide actualize a new vision of work where employee well-being and belonging are prioritized alongside profits.
🔑Key Takeaways🔑
🤖 💖 Ask AI to be a Brainstorming Partner: AI must not become a replacement for human interaction or creativity. Learn how best to use it to foster collaboration, teamwork, mental health and wellbeing.
🔄❤️ Data Tells a Story; Empathy Drives Change: Why all-important data itself doesn’t change minds or behavior, but stories do. Learn how to combine data-driven insights with personal stories to foster true empathy and organizational buy-in.
🌈🤎 Inclusion Must Be Measured (and Actioned!): You can’t improve what you don’t measure. Simple pulse surveys, deeper data on collaboration patterns, and transparent follow-up are key to building a culture where every voice is valued—and action is just as important as collection.
✨🤖 AI is a Tool—It Needs Guardrails and Human Values: Learn how AI can uncover and help fix workplace bias, but responsible AI frameworks, clear opt-in autonomy, and the principle of "do no harm" are non-negotiable for building trust.
👥 🤟 Why Companies Can’t Ignore Inclusion: Gen Z, the most diverse generation yet—won’t work at companies lacking diversity in senior leadership. Learn why DEI drives better results, by any measure.
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More about Serena at Data With Serena
Get Serena’s book, The Inclusion Equation: Leveraging Data & AI For Organizational Diversity and Well-being
Alyson Caffrey is an Operations Strategist, Bestselling Author of The Sabbatical Method, and founder of two businesses, Master Maternity Leave, and the consultancy Operations Agency. She’s best known for streamlining back-end operations of brands using her Operations Simplified™ framework to unleash the power of small teams. Alyson believes that if she can return fulfilled founders back to their families, she can generate a much larger impact in the world. Alyson also hosts The Growing Pains podcast.
🔑Key Takeaways🔑
💭 💡 The Power of Whitespace: Why allowing ourselves breaks from the hustle and grind leads to fresh perspectives, new ideas and approaches, and a reinvigoration of our passion to grow businesses faster.
🌱🌍 Identify Priorities for Each Season: Take time to establish what truly matters during different seasons. Whether it's focusing on business growth, personal health, or family, having a clear priority allows you to manage your time and resources better.
📈 🚀 Simplicity Scales Faster: Learn how to keep operations streamlined with simple systems that focus on lead generation, conversion, fulfillment, and improvement—measure results and know your numbers. Complexity can hinder growth, while simplicity can help you scale faster.
🔄 ✨Let Go of Perfection: Many women fall into the trap of trying to do it all, perfectly, so focus on identifying areas where you can step back without guilt, whether it's trusting your team or prioritizing personal time.
👶 💼 Business as a Baby: Why starting a business is like nurturing a baby: Initially, it requires your undivided attention, but as it grows, the key is understanding when and how to let go and delegate effectively so you can focus on your unique strengths.
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More about Alyson at Alyson Caffrey
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Amanda Riffee is an internationally certified executive coach helping women overcome mindset blocks, know their value and create a career (and life) they love without burnout. A thought leader and event speaker with 17 years of corporate experience, she also hosts the podcast Unleashing You with Amanda Riffee and last month released her first book, Unleashing You.
🔑Key Takeaways🔑
🔥💭What’s Inside to Be Unleashed? Get the roadmap for interactive learning to unleash your true potential with actionable coaching and “Put It on a Post-It” lessons so you can align your career—or business—with your unique strengths, values, and dreams and implement with inspired action.
🔄✨Ditch the Cookie-Cutter Blueprints: If you’re tired of hearing “just copy my formula and you’ll succeed”, you’re not alone. Learn why “copy paste” doesn’t work for entrepreneurial success because it is always about being on your own authentic path, digging into what you want, reflecting on your journey, and developing the self-awareness to clear limiting beliefs—especially the ones you didn’t even know were holding you back!
🧠 🎯Mindset Over Strategy: Learn why success is “80% mindset and 20% strategy.” If you don’t believe in yourself or you’re plagued by self-doubt, you’ll keep hitting invisible walls. Learn the power of self-inquiry—so you can uncover your core values and what motivates and lights you up.
💡 🚀Break Free from Self-Doubt: From reflecting on your own stories and triggers (yes, some of those may come from toddlerhood!) to the power of self-acknowledgement and gratitude, Amanda’s advice is refreshingly practical. She reminds us that acknowledging your achievements—no matter how small—is crucial for rewiring your mindset for abundance and success.
👥 🤟Surround Yourself with Your “Squad”: Entrepreneurship is a growth journey—personally and professionally and no one can do it alone. Learn how to build a community of supportive, like-minded women who understand the ups and downs of chasing big dreams, whether for encouragement, learning or celebrating your wins.
💪🤔Break Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and Negative Patterns: Limiting beliefs about money or self-worth lead to recurring negative experiences, so learn how to intentionally seek positive evidence to counteract subconscious blocks to break from these cycles, including gratitude and self-acknowledgment practices to shift perception to abundance.
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More about Amanda at ACR Professional Coaching
Get Amanda’s Book, Unleashing You
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Michelle Rupp, an Emmy Award winning broadcast journalist, is the Founder and CEO of Memorable Results Media, a boutique agency dedicated to helping small and medium-sized businesses gain earned media coverage on local and regional television. With a background in news production and a passion for empowering business owners, Michelle uses her 25 years of experience in broadcasting to deliver tangible results. Her clients frequently see increased revenue, sold-out events and elevated visibility in their communities, with many attributing significant business growth to her media strategies.
🔑Key Takeaways🔑
🎯 🤟Mastering the Art of Earned Media: Learn how best to pitch your expertise, leverage timely news pegs and capitalize on relationships with journalists.
💡💪Start With Clarity: Before you think about generating TV segments or magazine articles to highlight your business, get clear on what results you want.
📝 🚀Understand What Makes News: Learn how to tie your pitches to timely events, community relevance, and what journalists (not just you) consider newsworthy.
👥 ❤️Build Relationships: Learn what makes journalists tick, what they are looking for, and then always be responsive because opportunities often come to those who are top-of-mind and quick to act.
🔥🛠️Start Before You’re “Ready”: There isn’t a perfect moment to launch or pivot. Learn why waiting for the “right time” is a waste of time.
💬⭐ Journalistic Skills Are Entrepreneurial Assets: Daily deadlines, thinking on your feet, and creative storytelling all translate beautifully from journalism to entrepreneurship. If you’re a natural creator or storyteller, you’re already ahead!
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More about Michelle at Memorable Results Media
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.
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More about Lacey at Black Flamingo Agency
Melissa Darnay has been living her dream life in Panama since 2012 as the CEO of Choose Panama, a luxury real estate and rental agency based in Panama City. Melissa specializes in helping clients find the perfect investment properties that align with their personal dreams and financial goals. Her unique approach sets her apart from other real estate professionals—she guides clients from their first inquiry through every stage of settling into Panama, offering support long after the transaction is complete.
🔑Key Takeaways🔑
💰 📈 Panama's Business Potential: For entrepreneurs looking for a Plan B, Panama offers unique advantages. With its business-friendly environment, stable climate free from natural disasters, and strategic geographical location, it's a viable option for business diversification and real estate investment.
🏡 🏖️ Navigate Panama’s Real Estate Like a Local: Learn how to make a move stress free and find the maximum ROI properties in Panama to support your dream lifestyle.
💪 🤗 Embrace Change and Adaptation: Be inspired by Melissa's story of how to turn tragedy unexpected challenges into pure gold with a leap of faith.
🔥🛠️Entrepreneurial Spirit and Resilience: Learn how to build resilience by jumping in with both feet and being willing to experiment and learn through failures to eventually succeed.
🎯 💵Smart Investment Strategies: Why you should consider looking overseas, and why you need clarity on your exit strategy for any foreign investments.
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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.
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More about Penny at PennysKeynote
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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.
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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.
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More about Julie at How Women Lead
https://www.howwomenlead.com/ and How Women Invest
https://www.howwomeninvest.com/
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.
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More about Nina at Nina Sossamon-Pogue
https://www.ninasossamonpogue.com/ and Now What Workshop https://nowwhatworkshop.com
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.
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More about Donna at Gardenuity
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.
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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.
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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.
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Kari Poppleton is the CEO and founder of Kari Poppleton Consulting, specializing in digital marketing metrics, data, and custom interactive dashboards. A Certified Director of Operations and Certified Dashboard Designer, Kari helps online entrepreneurs, course creators, coaches, and anyone with memberships and subscriptions, leverage actionable data analytics to make informed real time and strategic decisions. Kari also founded the handmade kids accessory e-commerce business, Snugglywunkins.
🔑Key Takeaways🔑
📈 🚀 Know Your Numbers: How your data tells the story of your business, and why it’s vital to have systems in place that monitor your KPIs in real time to help you make the right decisions to grow your company.
🖥️ 💰Dashboards to Dollars: Learn how Kari’s custom dashboards provide easy-to-understand visualization for accessible and integrated analytics that consolidate information from multiple platforms so you can optimize marketing and sales.
🧠✨Overcome Data Overwhelm: Start small, with specific questions, and track the impact with foundational tools like Google Analytics and UTM parameters so you can get comfortable tracking your numbers as you test, measure and learn what works best for your business.
🤖 💡 AI in Data Visualization: AI hasn't revolutionized data visualization just yet, learn some practical AI uses for writing complex formulas and analyzing data to identify growth opportunities.
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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.
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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.
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Karine Nassim is the co-founder of DayNew, a new technology platform designed to help people through trauma associated with grief and loss. After experiencing the sudden loss of her spouse, she joined forces with fellow serial entrepreneur Eloise Bune to build an AI-powered community platform that helps users navigate through the challenges that come with unexpected changes. Karine also co-founded with her late husband DogVacay, the “Airbnb for dogs” that raised $47 million and fast expanded before being acquired by Rover. She also founded SHMASK, a Covid-era business producing stylish shirts with masks attached featured on NBC’s Today Show.
🔑Key Takeaways🔑
👥 ✨The Power of Shared Healing: How trauma can be healed in a social community-centered app that helps users navigate their grief and trauma in an organized and emotional manner.
🧠🤖 AI Personalization: How artificial intelligence can be deployed to offer organizational, emotional, and social assistance tailored to different personality types and healing stages, whether checking in on your mood to offer suggestions or helping you manage your daily tasks.
🚀 🤟Bootstrapping Tech: Why DayNew decided to self-fund and focus on sustainable growth, proving key metrics before seeking growth capital.
🔥🛠️Why Entrepreneurs Must Be Expert Marketers: Get valuable tips on tailoring social media strategies for different platforms and the importance of outsourcing tasks to specialized experts, particularly in the fast-evolving landscape of marketing and consumer behavior.
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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.
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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.
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Julie Perkins is the founder of Wyseminds, a coaching and mentoring business to help female founders get to the next level. Previously, Julie was the founder of Specsavers, an optical and hearing retail brand. With a passion for decluttering the minds of female entrepreneurs, Julie helps translate her 20+ years in business and researched theories into a language that helps you see the path to growth, all while ensuring it’s an exciting adventure. In the New Year, Julie is launching a money program for women Your Relationship with Success and Money.
🔑Key Takeaways🔑
👭🛑Why Women Entrepreneurs Get Stuck: Learn how to avoid the trap of perfectionism and control, so you can do less to achieve more and free yourself from the ongoing burden of trying to “do it all”
🚀 👥 How to Build An Empowered Team: Learn the secrets of inspired leadership, and learn how to foster a collaborative and trust-based environment for your team to prosper ensures long-term growth.
❤️ 🧠 Why Every Founder Needs Mentors: Entrepreneurship is all about constant challenge and growth, and we all need external mentors and coaches as we navigate and master different stages of business growth so you can unlock your business potential and reignite your passion.
✨🔥Know Your Purpose: Discover why aligning your business with your core purpose, vision, and values is critical for sustainable growth, and how to refine organizational structures and decision-making processes around these elements can drive lasting success.
🌍💡 Dream Big: Too many women create small businesses. Learn how to cast a big vision to inspire your team and enable them to drive the vision forward.
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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.
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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.
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Ashley Stanford is the CEO and Founder of Ice Cream Social, a gamification platform that converts customers into a influencers. She’s a digital marketing consultant with more than 15 years of experience specializing in building strategic marketing plans, mapping strategy execution, and tactics that optimize conversions and referrals. She is also the EVP of Client Strategy at TicketSocket, where she originally “intrapreneured” Ice Cream Social.
🔑Key Takeaways🔑
🎮❤️ Reward Your Customers: How incorporating gamification tactics and innovative referral systems boosts customer engagement and referrals by transforming customers into brand influencers through incentives.
💡 📣 Influencer Marketing Mistakes: Learn how some efforts to turn customers into influential endorsement machines can backfire, and how get the best results.
💸 📈 Cost-Efficient Marketing Alternatives: Learn how Ice Cream Social offers cost-effective alternatives to traditional advertising by leveraging word-of-mouth and reducing customer acquisition costs.
📊 📱Navigating Data and Measurement: Marketing without measurement is like sailing without a compass. Learn strategies for tracking influencer marketing success, and best practices for using promo codes, unique URLs, and affiliate links to gauge impact.
🎯 🚀 Tackling Marketing Challenges: How to overcome marketing overwhelm, understand your target market and integrate smart, cost-effective marketing strategies.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Angela Duncan is a serial entrepreneur in real estate, insurance and finance who is on a mission to empower women by helping them with all things money. Growing up in poverty in Section 8 housing and welfare, Angela defied the odds to become a force in personal finance with 25+ years of experience, across banking, financial advising, real estate, and growing her own insurance company, We Insure Gold Coast, to a lucrative exit. She also owned a top 10 RE/MAX office with over $2BN in sales. Angela now hosts the top-rated Empower HER Money Podcast, helping to transform female entrepreneurs' lives through financial literacy and generational wealth, and proving it's never too late to rewrite your financial story.
🔑Key Takeaways🔑
🧠💰 Money Mindset Matters: How your childhood shapes your financial destiny, and how to break old patterns to grow income and wealth.
📚💡 Grow Confidence as an Investor: Why financial education is vital for women, plus how to start small, think big, stay curious, and grow streams of passive income.
🚀🏡 From Poverty to Prosperity: Never underestimate the power of curiosity and mentorship, and why women must learn to focus on building assets rather than fleeting luxuries like clothes and cosmetics.
💪📊 Financial Literacy is Vital: How to organize your finances, understand taxes, know your numbers in business, and seek new and diversified investing opportunities, whether real estate, insurance, tax lien investing, stocks or startups! Always seek expert advice and build confidence for a secure future one step at a time.
🔥🛠️Special Offer: Curious about your investor type? Take Angela’s special quiz on her TikTok and Instagram platforms @empowerHERmoney to help you understand your investment preferences and strengths.
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Julia Kim is the CEO and Founder of Sanu, a postpartum retreat company dedicated to redefining care for new parents with comprehensive support and personalized experiences. She’s a seasoned leader with over 15 years of experience in lawmaking, policy, communications, and political campaigns. Serving as the national Co-Chair for Korean Americans for Biden in 2020, she mobilized volunteers and orchestrated efforts to engage hundreds of thousands of Korean American voters in key battleground states. Additionally, as the former Chairperson of the Virginia Asian Advisory Board (VAAB), Julia provided invaluable counsel to the governor on a range of issues, including education, civic engagement, and business and trade matters, championing the interests of the AAPI community.
🔑Key Takeaways🔑
👩🔬🤝Innovations in Postpartum Care: Why new parents need better postpartum guidance and how the challenges of new parenthood are being solved with Sanu retreat centers.
🚀 🤟 Personal Experience Sparks Entrepreneurial Innovation: Why opportunities always present when we solve challenges for ourselves.
💡🌱Politics and Entrepreneurship: From understanding customers, creating relevant messaging, and engaging them as your advocates, entrepreneurs can learn a lot from the secrets of political campaigning.
✨👩🔬Female Founders for Kamala: Why women entrepreneurs have much to gain (or lose) depending on the outcome of the US elections, with our rights, freedoms and opportunities on the ballot.
🔥🛠️📝✨💡 🚀 🤝 🌱 🔄 👩🔬 🤟
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Monica Badiu is a conversion copywriter and copy coach with more than 25,000 hours of hands-on marketing experience whose agency specializes in helping course creators and companies increase revenue through customer-centric copywriting. Monica specializes in data-driven marketing to produce targeted and non-spammy emails and funnel pages that drive high conversions by prioritizing value over pressure to build long-lasting relationships with audiences. Monica also hosts the podcast, Master the Inbox.
🔑Key Takeaways🔑
💡 🔥The Marketing Power of AI: How AI can be used to better understand customer behavior so marketing messages resonate with specific segments, plus how to use AI for research and creating content.
🤝 🌱 Customer-Centric Copywriting: Why the best marketing is a conversation that puts your customer and their needs first.
🚀 🤟 Leverage Psychological Triggers: How to leverage data and behavioral insights to craft copy that not only engages but also converts.
Plus, overcoming entrepreneurial imposter syndrome and balance business with 👩🔬 motherhood.
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Brittney Fairweather is a co-founder and Chief Business Development Officer of TRX Capital, a real estate lending firm focused on Business Purpose Lending where she manages overall growth, strategy, and client-facing communications. With a mission to bridge the gap for first-time buyers and revolutionize real estate investing, TRX Capital provides flexible capital and expert support to small builders and investors. Previously she founded the mortgage lender Genesis Capital, which she sold to Goldman Sachs.
Mary McMonagle is an intuitive healer and feminine energy coach with a passion for guiding high-achieving women towards breaking free from their own limitations and fully embracing their true essence. Founder of spiritual lifestyle brand True Vibe, Mary is also the host of the Living Your True Vibe Podcast, where she inspires countless individuals to embrace their true essence and live authentically. Listen to learn how to move from overthinking to a place of heartfelt clarity, so you can attract secure relationships and achieve significant growth in both your business and personal life.
Vanessa McGovern is co-founder and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer of Gifted Travel Network, a fast-growing luxury travel business that empowers small travel vendors, supports independent advisors, and curates authentic and memorable travel experiences. An award-winning industry educator and a sought-after speaker, Vanessa innovated a unique approach to empowering other travel entrepreneurs and uniquely grew her travel business during the Covid lockdown, supporting some 200 independent contractors along the way.
Trixy Castro is a visionary entrepreneur in real estate and mortgage finance having founded, scaled and sold multiple businesses, including private lending company Genesis Capital, bought by Goldman Sachs in 2018. Passionate about empowering women to excel in business, Trixy has founded and invested in over 50 companies across diverse industries and is now the CEO and Founder of TRX Capital. Her journey is a testament to her determination, resilience, and unwavering belief in the power of mindset transformation. Today she shares the importance of empowering and supporting women in business, how it contributes to a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem, and how women can overcome challenges and setbacks and grow their leadership skills.
Shari Aldrich is a successful entrepreneur and author whose life was forever changed when she woke up one morning to her “cosmic alarm clock”—the sudden, insistent inner feeling of needing to act—telling her to run a marathon. That decision led to a series of successes that she’d never dreamed possible, culminating in owning a flourishing business, connecting with entrepreneurial leaders around the world, and authoring her inspirational book, The Cosmic Alarm Clock: Wake Up To Your Extraordinary Life. From experiencing soul-changing family deaths and a harrowing finger amputation to running races and developing a thriving business as the CEO and Founder of Bodymechanics School of Myotherapy and Massage, training massage therapists and helping them launch their own schools. In 2023, Shari was inducted into the prestigious Massage Hall of Fame. Today she shares time-tested lessons that have been condensed into easy-to-follow steps she calls the Five Pillars for Life.
Marley Majcher is the CEO of The Party Goddess!, a nationally acclaimed full-service event planning and catering company. From understated elegance to rock star fabulous, Majcher is known for creating the most talked about parties of the year for a client list ranging from top-tier businesses to A-list celebrities such as Snoop Dogg, Sofia Vergara and Britney Spears. Marley is also The Profit Goddess!, a business coach for small business owners and entrepreneurs and the author of But Are You Making Any Money?, a witty and lauded business guide praised by Forbes as "a great how-to book for any entrepreneur." Her popular savvy and business sense have earned her appearances on various outlets and shows including “Fox and Friends,” Fox Business, MSNBC, “Extra,” “Good Day LA,” Bravo, E!, MTV, HGTV, FOX, ABC, CBS, NBC and The Wedding Channel.
Rebecca Contreras is the founder and CEO of AvantGarde, an Austin-based consulting firm federal agencies depend upon to help them transform their leadership and grow their organization through holistic and sustainable approaches. Born into poverty, Rebecca transformed herself through grit, resolve, and steadfast commitment from a high school dropout and welfare-dependent teenage mother to a successful business leader. Author of the bestselling Lost Girl, Rebecca has received a number of accolades for her exceptional leadership such as being named the 2023 Austin Businesswoman of the Year and having received a golden Stevie Award for Best Female Entrepreneur in 2022. Rebecca also founded Girls of Legacy, a groundbreaking effort to impact the next generation of inner-city girls in Austin by providing them with mentorship and scholarships.
Dr. Michelle Jorgensen, DDS, FAGD, TNC, CNAS, is a renowned holistic dentist, naturopath and nutritionist and entrepreneur with two businesses, Total Care Dentistry and Living Well with Dr. Michelle. A pioneer in functional integrative dentistry attracting patients from all over the world, Michelle’s transformative journey into holistic medicine and entrepreneurship began when mercury exposure from traditional dentistry made her seriously ill. A mother of four and an author of five books, Michelle also runs a charitable foundation, the Living Well Today Foundation supporting those in need.
Amanda Bernard is a proud member of the Madawaska Maliseet First Nation and the founder of Shawish Market, a virtual Indigenous marketplace where Indigenous artists and entrepreneurs can create and manage their own online shop. Unlike other marketplaces, Shawish does not charge vendors a monthly or transaction fee making it affordable for Indigenous communities. Amanda was honored on the Peak's 2024 Emerging Leaders List. She is also a 2023 MIT Solver Fellow.
Morgan Kline, Co-Founder and CEO of the Burn Boot Camp franchise, is on a mission to enable women to feel confident, empowered, motivated and stronger than ever. Growing up in Battle Creek, MI, Morgan started climbing the corporate ladder at the Kellogg Company right out of college before taking the entrepreneurial leap to grow one of the nation’s fastest growing fitness programs, now with 400 locations across 41 states. She balances growing Burn Boot Camp and its community as a busy mom to three kids with her podcast, The Burn Boot Camp.
Miranda McKie is a visionary leader, founder, and CEO of McKie Consultants, with a mission to utilize data-driven techniques to identify and mitigate systemic institutional barriers that impact underrepresented groups. Her expertise in HR / people analytics, DEI, product management, design thinking, and training enables her to help her clients achieve their strategic organizational goals. She also works with clients to implement best-in-class SaaS (Software as a Service) platforms. Miranda received the 2020 Catalyst Canada Emerging Leader Award and was most recently featured as one of The Silicon Review's Top 50 Leading Companies in 2023. She also co-founded the non-profit Young Women in Business (YWiB) Toronto, which helped over a thousand women develop their professional networks.
Dr. Romie Mushtaq is a board-certified physician who brings together more than two decades of leadership in neurology, integrative medicine, and mindfulness. Creator of the BrainSHIFT Protocol and author of The Busy Brain Cure, Dr. Romie is on a mission to improve mental wellbeing and create a culture of wellness in the workplace. An award-winning speaker working with Fortune 500 companies, professional athletes, and global associations, she currently serves as Chief Wellness Officer for Evolution Hospitality, where she scaled a mindfulness & wellness program to over 7,000 employees. Her expertise has been featured on NPR, NBC, TED talks, and Forbes.
Vitale Buford Hardin is an entrepreneur and leading expert in perfectionism and how it permeates corporate culture to limit individual performance and entrepreneurial success. President and CEO of The Hardin Group, Vitale works with business leaders to transform perfectionism into excellence by learning to lead with authenticity, build resilience, improve communication and emotional intelligence. She has served clients including Keeneland, Humana, NCAA, Zappos, LifePoint Health, Logan Aluminum and the University of Kentucky. A published author, nationally recognized speaker, and iPEC-certified executive coach, she brings 15 years of corporate experience to her custom trainings, strategic advisory, culture change initiatives and performance coaching.
Kara Holden is the visionary Founder of airbrush tanning business AGLOW and a formidable advocate for women's empowerment and self-confidence. Kara is on a mission to nurture the feminine spirit, fostering inclusivity and a supportive community for women through AGLOW, a safe alternative to harmful UV rays with a food-grade DHA tanning solution.
Dr. Maria Uloko is a distinguished urologist and CEO of VULVAi, enhancing women's sexual health through innovative AI diagnostics. With a strong focus on comprehensive sexual health, she provides medical and surgical solutions for all genders. She is renowned for her evidence-based, compassionate approach and advocacy for quality life improvement and healthcare inclusivity. An international award-winning researcher she has made significant contributions to vulvar health including defining how many nerves are in the human clitoris. This work aims to improve diagnostic accuracy and patient care. Dr. Uloko's career is enriched by her leadership, extensive training, and memberships in top medical societies.
April Pride is a 6-time serial entrepreneur and innovating pioneer in cannabis and psilocybin with 3 exits to her name. Her new brand SetSet supports responsible psychedelic experiences outside of a clinic, integrating intention-setting deck cards for each transformational journey. Creative founder and strategist behind Of Like Minds, a trusted source for ‘nano’, ‘micro’ and ‘museum’ dose psilocybin capsules, April says she’s on a mission to ensure safety and supportive community around micro dosing. The founder of Van der Pop, a cannabis lifestyle brand acquired by the world’s largest cannabis company three years after its launch, April’s work has been featured in Vice, Forbes, The Guardian, and the High Times' inaugural Female 50 List. She also hosts the SetSet podcast.
Alysia Silberg is the Founder and CEO of UnemployableAI, specializing in harnessing AI to drive growth, scalability, and profits for companies. She is also Founder and General Partner of the investment firm Street Global, a leading venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, where she mentors tech startups and helps them go public. Alysia’s recently released multi award winning book, Unemployable: How AI Transformed my Work and Life, details her inspiring life story and is a guide to infinite success and personal development. Today on Wings she shares her insights on ethical AI, raising venture capital, and leveraging AI as a catalyst for personal and professional success.
Dr. Christina Rahm is a serial entrepreneur, author, scientist, and the CEO of DRC Ventures. With a robust background in pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals, Christina has collaborated with industry leaders like Janssen, Johnson & Johnson, Biogen Idec/Biogen, UCB, Bristol Meyers Squibb, and Alexion. As Chief Science Officer for Root Brands, Dr. Rahm plays a pivotal role in shaping the industry and serves as a formulator for various companies under the DRC imprimatur, including Rahm Roast Coffee. Her book, "Cure the Causes: Live the Life you Want, Not the One Prescribed," reflects her dedication to holistic well-being. Christina is dedicated to eliminating negative influences and creating meaningful lives.
Jan and Jillian Yuhas, identical twins, are the co-authors of the new book Boundary Badass and they’re on a mission to help people navigate the intricacies of interpersonal dynamics. With their background in psychotherapy and family mediation, the Yuhas twins are committed to resolving relationship disconnects, and as business consultants, leveraging their insights to assist companies in establishing thriving workplace cultures. They describe their new book as a transformative journey designed to empower readers to voice their value, fulfill their emotional needs, and cultivate valuable connections through mastery of setting boundaries.
Nikki Rausch is the CEO of Sales Maven and on a mission to transform the misunderstood process of “selling” and what it takes to master sales. With 25+ years of selling experience, entrepreneurs and small business owners now hire Nikki to show them how to sell successfully and authentically. The author of three books on the art of sales, Nikki also has a podcast called Sales Maven.
Dr. Gala Gorman is a licensed acupuncturist, naturopath, and author who offers practical advice and programs to reverse health issues resulting from chronic stress. She helps women relieve their symptoms, restore their energy, and reclaim their "Super Woman" status. After selling her accounting firm 27 years ago, Gala followed her passion for alternative medicine and new technologies, and advocates for getting to the root cause of the health issue and treating it naturally with new approaches. She encourages patients to be their own health advocate ... or PCP (primary care person).
Jenny Hansen Lane is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, author, and digital marketer on a mission to help people build authority and income online by repurposing their content and courses onto Amazon with Kindle Notebooks. The creator of “The Book Income Stream Model”, Jenny offers courses and coaching services on how to master Amazon Direct Kindle Publishing with a scalable way to generate long-term passive income.
Barbara L. Mason is the CEO of Career Pathways Consulting, helping countless high-performance female entrepreneurs hire, grow, motivate, and retain results-driving teams so they can position their companies for long-term success. With more than 20 years of HR experience working for Fortune 500 companies, Barbara honed her organizational development and talent management skills on the front lines of corporate America. An in-demand speaker, Barbara is often called to talk about talent management, effective leadership, how to create an engaging company culture, and other important HR-related topics.
Erin B. Haag is a serial entrepreneur and the creator of Pricing Overhaul®. A self-proclaimed “Math Nerd” and mom of two, Erin leverages her advanced mathematical understanding from 20 years working with numbers, metrics, and pricing for large corporations and small business alike, to help entrepreneurs shift their mindsets around money and math, overhaul pricing for profitability, and earn more from your business than you thought possible.
Manuela Seve is the CEO and co-founder of Alphaa.io, a Web3 company with a majority of female employees changing the way we think of asset ownership by connecting the physical and digital realms via blockchain certification. Using Web3 to help brands build community and loyalty, her clients include major sports teams and fashion powerhouses. Brazilian-born and Los Angeles-based, Manuela has been a thought leader in the tech and collectibles sector for the past 8 years. She was named by Bloomberg in 2022 one of the top 100 influential Latinos worldwide, as well as 33 under 33 entrepreneurs in 2018. She has moderated and led panels on Web3 at major industry events including the Bushwick film festival, Stanford GSB, L’Attitude, NFT LA & NYC, and more. Her panel submission, “NFTs for Real World Problems,” won TechCrunch Disrupt’s Audience Choice Award in 2022.
Kerry Siggins is the CEO and Executive Chair of StoneAge Holdings, a fast-growing manufacturing and technology company based in Colorado. After transitioning the company’s ownership to an ESOP to ensure all employees share in the success of the company, StoneAge has been doubling its growth year over year. A sought-after speaker on enlightened leadership, Kerry presents worldwide at corporations, universities, and conferences and hosts several podcasts, including the wildly popular podcast Reflect Forward. She is also the author of The Ownership Mindset Book, focusing on creating an “own it” culture to lead others to be their best selves.
Lauren Raimondi is the CEO and co-founder of Poldit, an information sharing site that fuses AI and community insights. A serial entrepreneur, Lauren launched Poldit in 2022 when pregnant with her son and seeking information about the pregnancy process, found it was hard to obtain quality information in one place without having to sift through advertisements and misleading information. Poldit seeks to consolidate information into one place for ease of use.
Candice Smith is a serial entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of French Press PR, a public relations firm that utilizes a unique data-informed, industry-agnostic approach to amplify mission driven organizations and social impact founders. Harvard-educated, Candice is a self-made PR expert and storyteller passionate about helping startups refine their brand story, build their PR strategy, and increase overall visibility. French Press PR is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs at every stage, by including a variety of offerings, from the HUSTLE program, a hybrid-DIY accelerator created with early-stage founders in mind, to the full-service ASCEND package for companies with 100+ employees. The agency's multi-pronged approach has resulted in thousands of client features with 25.5M+ estimated coverage views.
Amber Romaniuk is an Emotional Eating, Digestive and Hormone Expert, with 10 years’ experience helping high achieving women create a level of body confidence, intuition and optimal health through powerful mindset healing, self-care and overcoming self-sabotage with food. Amber overcame her own emotional eating after gaining and losing more than 1000 pounds and spending over $50,000 on binge foods. Now she helps others achieve the biggest healing miracles of Body Freedom™ so they have the confidence and health to create amazing lives. She also hosts “The No Sugarcoating Podcast” with more than a million downloads.
Angela Johnson is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), founder of the Collaborative Leadership Team, and the author of The Scrum Master Files: Secrets Every Coach Should Know. A self-proclaimed “professional people geek”, Angela helps companies successfully implement Scrum and Agile to achieve their goals and objectives, as well as people to get certified as scrum masters. Her expertise includes Kanban, eXtreme Programming, Facilitation and Organizational Change for business agility.
Kim Woods is a Master Astrologer, Business Strategist, and creator of the Living Your Soul Mission™ mapping system that combines ancient feminine wisdom, astrology, and her 25+ years of C-Suite experience to help business leaders grow wealth, make big impact and leave their legacy. As JP Morgan once said, “Millionaires don’t use astrology, billionaires do.” Kim uses the stars and strategy to clear the pathway to your success. Kim has led 150+ corporate executives, 425+ high-performing entrepreneurs, overseen $65M+ in sales and influenced 300,000+ team members. In 2022 she was named by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the Top Female Entrepreneurs disrupting the business world. She’s been featured in Forbes, INC, Entrepreneur, ABC, CBS, NBC, USA Today, Reader’s Digest, Fox News, Market Watch and Digital Journal.
Heather Dominick has trained and mentored highly sensitive entrepreneurs and leaders for more than a decade, so they are able to work less while making more impact and income. Author of Different: The Highly Sensitive Leadership Revolution, Heather won the 2015 Best of Manhattan Coaching Award and is the creator of the Stevie Award-winning virtual event, A Course In Business Miracles: 21-Day Discovery Series.
Karen Cheong is a transformational healer, international speaker, and former real estate entrepreneur, on a mission to help people release blocks at the frequency level so they can align with their brilliance and purpose. After a health crisis in her early 20’s catalyzed her spiritual journey, Karen made it her life’s work to explore the mystical and energetic systems that govern our experience – of ourselves, of others, and of life itself. Karen also hosts the podcast, Mastering Your World Through Frequencies.
Kristy Edwards is an organization expert and owner of Neatly Balanced, on a mission to transform lives by decluttering and recreating our home space. With her low maintenance method, Kristy sets clients up for success, allowing them to follow her minimalist configuration of each space. She then rehomes the discarded items to nonprofits and charitable organizations helping mothers and babies, the homeless, those in half-way houses, and more.
Laura Bell Main is the co-founder and CEO of SafeStack, an online education platform offering flexible, high-quality, and people-focused secure development training for fast-moving companies, focusing on building application security skills, practices, and culture across the entire engineering team. With over 20 years of experience in software development and application security, Laura specializes in bringing Application Security and Secure Development practices into organizations worldwide. She also hosts the podcast Build Amazing Things Securely.
Keisha Greaves is the CEO and founder of Girls Chronically Rock, supporting people in the disability community with her inspiring and adaptive tees, hoodies, accessories, and swimwear. Diagnosed at age 24 with Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy, Keisha went on a mission to celebrate those with Muscular Dystrophy and other chronic illnesses to look their best with the convenience of clothes that are easy to put on and take off. She also founded two non-profits: The GCR Adaptive Project, providing adaptive fashion supplies and tools to college fashion students so they can learn to design more inclusively, and the Trust Your Abilities Nonprofit for People of Color, helping people of color in the disability community access much needed resources and support, from uninsured medical equipment to accessible vehicles and school scholarships. Keisha has been featured in several national media outlets including Good Morning America, The Today Show, ABC News, and more. One of her proudest moments was being
Dr. Darnyelle Jervey Harmon is the award-winning CEO of Inc. 5000 company Incredible One Enterprises, a multi-million-dollar coaching and consulting brand that’s helped her CEO clients generate more than a half a billion dollars in sales while scaling in a way that serves them spiritually as well as financially. Her award-winning Move to Millions® Method takes business owners from six figure years to six figure quarters, six figure months, six figure weeks, and ultimately six figure days. Darnyelle is also a 7-time bestselling author, keynote speaker, and host of the Move to Millions podcast.
Midge Murphy became an energy healer after a stellar career as a Hollywood entertainment lawyer for over a decade, working for the American Broadcasting Companies, 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures and Disney. She says she remembers sitting in her office in Century City, CA overlooking Beverly Hills and hearing in her head Peggy Lee’s song “Is That All There Is?” Exploring spirituality and the emerging field of energy medicine with such luminaries as Norm Shealy, MD, PhD, and Caroline Myss, Midge became the first attorney to earn a PhD in energy medicine in 2001 and is now a champion for creating laws and regulations to protect consumers and practitioners alike.
Ratchel Pinlac is the Founder and CEO of Pinsy, a shapewear brand that eliminates the shame of a “hidden secret” by making it fashionable outerwear. Ratchel, who started wearing shapewear at age 9 as she struggled with negative body image issues, shares how she grew frustrated with the lack of shapewear options in department stores. On a mission to elevate women’s self-confidence, Ratchel left her corporate job to bootstrap Pinsy and grow a massive following on TikTok, where her customers share all the creative ways they wear Pinsy from daytime casual to evening wear.
Lyndsay Cambridge is the founder and CEO of Jammy Digital, an award-winning SEO and content marketing agency for businesses that aren’t afraid to stand out. On a mission to help personal brands find and retain better, higher-paying clients, Lyndsay’s agency helps business owners create standout content. She’s also co-author of the book Content Fortress.
Dr. Gala Gorman is a licensed acupuncturist, naturopath, and author who offers practical advice and programs to reverse health issues resulting from chronic stress. She helps women relieve their symptoms, restore their energy, and reclaim their "Super Woman" status. After selling her accounting firm 27 years ago, Gala followed her passion for alternative medicine and new technologies, and advocates for getting to the root cause of the health issue and treating it naturally with new approaches. She encourages patients to be their own health advocate ... or PCP (primary care person).
Sanchita Shahi is the founder of Tea N Me, with an entrepreneurial journey that epitomizes the essence of struggle, resilience, and triumph. A first-generation immigrant and woman of color, she embarked on a life-changing pursuit of her dreams in the land of opportunities, leaving her vibrant family behind at SeaTac Airport in 1997. Excelling in the corporate world for over 15 years, she navigated the stress and pressures that came with it until the pandemic's uncertain times led her to the healing wisdom of Ayurveda and the comforting solace of a steaming cup of tea. Drawing from her own transformative experience, Sanchita now empowers, educates, and uplifts others on their path to better health and wellness through Ayurvedic-inspired teas, making Tea N Me a beacon of holistic living.
Dr. Lauren Tucker is the Founder and CEO of Do What Matters, helping companies and their executive leaders sustainably integrate inclusion strategies into their business models, resulting in greater creativity, innovation, representation, and growth. She says she wants leaders and senior management to understand one thing: “Your employees hate you”.
Casey Cunningham is the CEO and Founder of XINNIX, a $10 million dollar leadership and sales performance company. While many people often revel in the success of others, most are not aware of the very painful processes they had to endure in order to achieve it. Casey lost her dad at a very young age, who was also an entrepreneur, and she shares how that painful experience became the catalyst that pushed her into her purpose of continuing his legacy of business ownership. Casey’s company has helped 1,000 brands build high performance teams, empowered thousands of sales professionals, and leaders to achieve more than they thought they could, and has even won 25 workplace culture awards.
Jeanne Retief is the founder of FIGGI Beauty, a brand borne from her personal struggles finding the right products for dry and sensitive skin. A human rights worker turned entrepreneur, Jeanne also infuses her lifestyle FiggiLife brand on learning how to accept life’s curveballs and learning “it’s ok not to be ok”. Jeanne also hosts the podcast My Figgi Life.
Anne Hamer is a top-rated Nashville family lawyer who focuses her practice on high asset and conflict cases, delivering a personalized process for each client to regain their life. With a Doctor of Law from NYU and a background in complex commercial litigation, Anne made it her mission to build a growing practice to help others through the process after experiencing her own divorce. She’s a nationally recognized speaker and a Rule 31 trained civil and family law mediator with domestic violence mediation training.
Rita Ernst is the founder Ignite Your Extraordinary, an organizational consulting practice emphasizing the convergence of happiness and productivity to create positive, committed, high-performing organizations. Author of Show Up Positive, Rita helps transform corporate cultures and startup emerging growth companies lay the groundwork for success.
Kimberly Stark is the CEO and founder of The Flourish Consultancy, a professional and personal development educational company helping companies reduce costs by improving employee wellness. Kimberly’s Flourish Model helps businesses reduce attrition and absenteeism and increase productivity. Flourish also provides Social Emotional Learning (SEL) to help individuals overcome hardship and adversity.
Dr. Jessica Kriegel is the Chief Scientist of Workplace Culture at Culture Partners and an expert in workplace strategy, culture and driving results. Author of Unfairly Labeled: How Your Workplace Can Benefit From Ditching Generational Stereotypes, Jessica recently sold her company The Culture Equation to Culture Partners, where she works with Fortune 100 and other companies using data-driven insights to transform cultures to drive results.
Fran Maier is a serial entrepreneur and founder of several pioneering B2C and B2B internet businesses including Match.com and TRUSTe (now TrustArc). With over 25 years of experience pioneering category-disrupting startups, Fran is now the founder and CEO of BabyQuip, the #1 global baby gear rental brand. Also known for breaking boundaries as a Latina business leader, she has made game-changing contributions to both the family travel industry and gig economy model with BabyQuip’s breakthrough platform, which gives traveling families access to high-quality baby equipment rentals through proprietary technology and an independent contractor community called Quality Providers.
Chelsey Roney is the COO and Co-Founder of Proxi, a custom and collaborative mapping technology for businesses, brands, and individuals. A former Boeing and Microsoft alum, Chelsey is a serial entrepreneur who previously bootstrapped and sold a SaaS business and a local services business. Today Chelsey shares how Proxi secured $1.2M in pre-seed finance and what’s next for her company.
Tracy Yates is a sought-after transformational guide and advisor to visionary entrepreneurs and impact-driven leaders who attain unprecedented new heights in business and within themselves. Tracy is a serial entrepreneur who built and sold the 8-figure agency Boost Marketing, where her clients included many of the world's biggest brands like Google, Hulu, Disney, and Amazon. An award-winning strategist, Tracy is a secret weapon to entrepreneurs, CEOs and leaders who exponentially expand their income, heal their relationship with hustle, and up-level their lives in incredible ways.
Jenna Spencer is the Founder and Visionary of AssistPro™, an executive assistant matching and delegation coaching service created to free up time and create growth for busy leaders. Since founding AssistPro in 2014, Jenna has worked with hundreds of clients, helping them find the Right-Fit Assistant™ and teaching them how to delegate and develop their assistants into leaders, as well. Under her direction and leadership, AssistPro has grown more than 50% each year since its founding – and has led to her creation and launch of an extension of the company devoted to helping entrepreneurs and small business owners on the path to Delegation Mastery.
Jamie Mittelman is the founder and host of Flame Bearers, an award-winning podcast and the world's first storytelling platform specifically for women Olympians and Paralympians. Jamie made the transition from corporate to startup, having managed a $30 Million media portfolio on behalf of the conglomerate of Yahoo!, The Huffington Post, AOL, and Verizon. She founded Flame Bearers as she got her master’s in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.
Dena Patton an elite coach who has worked with thousands of purpose-driven companies and world-changing leaders around the globe to help them build great companies that break records with their revenues and their impact. An entrepreneur who had a significant exit right before the dot-com bubble burst, Dena founded the Dena Patton Coaching and Training Company 22 years ago. She focuses on helping entrepreneurs transform into great CEOs by mastering sales, replicable processes and systems, and mindset. She’s the bestselling author of The Greatness Game and has been featured on CNN, Entrepreneur magazine, and Business Journal.
Michele Molitor is the Founder and CEO of Nectar Consulting Inc. and co-author of the best-selling book “Breakthrough Healing.” At Nectar, Michele helps employees, entrepreneurs, and executives alike step beyond the edge of their comfort zone to find their voice and stand fully in their confidence with her unique Rapid Rewiring approach to help people remove subconscious fears, self-doubt and blocks created by imposter syndrome to achieve greater success and wellbeing.
Ashley Kyle Miller is the founder and host of the Madam Trader Podcast, sharing stories of successful women traders, investors and entrepreneurs and breaking down financial concepts into digestible pieces to provide an accessible space to improve financial literacy. Growing up in Montana, where her dad is a commodities broker, Ashley set out as a finance professional to help women get good at investing and create wealth. This month she’s launched the Madam Trader personal finance course and has built a growing community.
Rebecca Korn is the founder of Rise Reign Rule, a company helping women entrepreneurs and CEOs achieve their dreams and step into their power. Starting with only $21, Rebecca set out to find the strength and wisdom to navigate to success, first with a financial services business and now helping women find their strength and build wealth inside their courage, compassion, commitment, and perseverance through one-on-one ascension coaching, retreats, online teachings, and an exclusive community.
Dr. Melissa McCreery is a psychologist, author, host of the Too Much on Her Plate podcast, and founder of the Your Missing Peace program where she helps smart, high-performing women end cycles of overeating and emotional eating, without diets, willpower, or deprivation. Over 39,000 women worldwide have taken her free Hidden Hungers Quiz online and her approach has been featured in numerous publications including The Wall Street Journal, Fitness, CNN Health, Real Simple, and Self.
Jackie Ghedline and Mimi Bishop are the co-founders of Modern Gen X Woman and MGXW Consulting, on a mission to help women build wealth, lead confidently, and refuse to accept the unacceptable. Both are former senior corporate executives turned certified coaches, Jackie the former Associate Publisher at AdAge and Mimi the former Vice President of Marketing at a division of News Corporation where she led messaging strategy and content creation. They host the Modern GenX Woman and have been featured on NBC’s Today, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, Forbes, Wired and Fast Company.
Rachel Hicks is the Founder of U Whitening, a first-of-its-kind teeth whitening in person experience, and Professional Whitening Products, a one-stop-shop for teeth whitening supplies. With no prior business experience, Rachel shares how she bootstrapped to six-figures in annual revenue in a few short years.
Kate Kordsmeier is the CEO of Success with Soul, the coaching incubator program that helps female founders align with their feminine energy and cycles to grow businesses without burnout. Kate is an ex-journalist turned life coach and creative entrepreneur. She has founded several coaching programs for female entrepreneurs, and hosts the podcast Success with Soul.
Deirdre Tshien is the CEO and Co-Founder of Capsho, a marketing platform using AI tools to market and grow podcasts. Deirdre is also host of the Grow My Podcast Show, author of Honey Trap Marketing and creator of the Traffic Pyramid and Content Dripping.
Jessica Procini is on a mission to help high-achieving women heal the roots of their emotional eating. When Overeaters Anonymous and therapy weren’t enough to help Jessica end her fight with food, she spent ten years in research before developing her signature healing framework, Escape From Emotional Eating®, which has helped women reclaim their power over food. Now that she’s been 100% free from her compulsions with food for over 5 years, Jessica helps female entrepreneurs and executives do the same at EscapeFromEmotionalEating.com.
Amy Anthony is one of the United States’ most influential aromatherapists and the founder of a growing private practice NYC Aromatica, which offers one-on-one customized aromatherapy sessions, online class offerings, and corporate consulting. Also an aromatic gardener, herbalist, artisanal distiller, and certified master composters, Amy left her career in marketing research to pursue her love of plants. She also hosts the Essential Aromatica podcast.
Tracy Litt is a sought-after success mentor for visionary women leaders navigating huge paradigm shifts and elevating into the next level of impact, wealth, and holistic success. Tracy is Founder of The Litt Factor and creator of Mind Magic ®, a proven methodology that marries metacognition and spirituality, neuroscience, and quantum law to expand and elevate more quickly. She is also the bestselling author of Worthy Human and her work has been featured by Forbes, Entrepreneur, Fast Company and Inc.com
Jennifer Stojkovic is a General Partner at Joyful Ventures, an early-stage VC fund focused on disrupting the $1.4 trillion meat and dairy industry with sustainable protein. She’s also the founder of Vegan Women Summit (VWS), a platform of over 60,000 women professionals in the future of food, and author of the award-winning book, The Future of Food is Female. Prior to her career in food technology, Jennifer built her career in Silicon Valley under Ron Conway, Founder of SV Angel, and worked with the world's largest tech companies including Google, Meta, and Microsoft.
Kamales Lardi is a strategic thinker in digital and business transformation. Honored as “Top 10 Global Thought Leaders in Digital Transformation” by Thinkers360 and “International 40 Over 40: The World's Most Inspiring Women” by CapGemini Invent and Female One Zero, Kamales is the founder of Lardi & Partner Consulting. There, she advises many multinational companies across various industries in Europe, Asia, and Africa as well as startups. A believer in the transformative impact of emerging technologies, Kamales has deep knowledge and practical experience in emerging technology, such as AI, virtual and augmented reality, 3D-printing, IoT and sensor technologies, and robotics.
Ali Nichols is the Co-founder of Getaway, a vacation rental investing business she has now pivoted with a branding change to Hammock, helping people invest in rental properties just 5% down. Previously at Bungalow, Ali spearheaded raising and operating a $700M real estate fund focused on acquiring single family rentals. Today she shares her journey pivoting to find product-market fit.
Ali Nichols is the Co-founder of Getaway, a vacation rental investing business she has now pivoted with a branding change to Hammock, helping people invest in rental properties just 5% down. Previously at Bungalow, Ali spearheaded raising and operating a $700M real estate fund focused on acquiring single family rentals. Today she shares her journey pivoting to find product-market fit.
Morgan Gist MacDonald is an author, speaker, and the founder of Paper Raven Books, an innovative publishing company designed to help first-time and experienced authors alike through the writing, publishing, and marketing process so they can get their books published and build a loyal readership and a long-term career as an author.
Sarah Wilson is the co-founder of Chip Cookies, a fast-scaling cookie store and franchise business where she balances being a mom of four with everything marketing, brand, social media, and events. Borne of her cravings for the perfect chocolate chip cookie when pregnant with her first, Sarah leveraged the principles of ‘lean startup’ to build her growing business and was honored as one of Utah’s 40 under 40.
Randi Braun is an expert at empowering women who have demanding jobs and bold goals. As a certified executive coach and the CEO of the women's leadership firm, Something Major, she helps women thrive. A sought-after thought leader and speaker, Braun has been featured in The Washington Post, Forbes, and Parents Magazine, among others. Braun has coached women around the globe and partnered with more than 50 organizations across diverse sectors, including the Fortune 500, healthcare, start-ups, Big Law, public relations, entertainment, trade associations, government, non-profits, and others.
Jeanne Retief is the founder of FIGGI Beauty, a brand borne from her personal struggles finding the right products for dry and sensitive skin. A human rights worker turned entrepreneur, Jeanne also infuses her lifestyle FiggiLife brand on learning how to accept life’s curveballs and learning “it’s ok not to be ok”. Jeanne also hosts the podcast My Figgi Life.
Kat Dey and Phoebe Yu are the co-founders of Ettitude, a material science social impact company and direct-to-consumer sustainable lifestyle brand best known for its bedding, bath and sleepwear made from their proprietary CleanBamboo® fabric. Ettitude has raised $6.5m, earned tens of millions of dollars in revenue and been named twice among the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US. Phoebe, the CEO, previously built two successful international trade and sourcing businesses, and Kat, was the co-founder and co-CEO of gourmet food subscription business Try the World.
Tracy Yates is a sought-after transformational guide and advisor to visionary entrepreneurs and impact-driven leaders who attain unprecedented new heights in business and within themselves. Tracy is a serial entrepreneur who built and sold the 8-figure agency Boost Marketing, where her clients included many of the world's biggest brands like Google, Hulu, Disney, and Amazon. An award-winning strategist, Tracy is a secret weapon to entrepreneurs, CEOs and leaders who exponentially expand their income, heal their relationship with hustle, and up-level their lives in incredible ways.
Deb Curtis is the Founder of Curtis Small Business Finance Solutions, specializing in SBA business acquisition lending and ownership transitions. Over a 30-year corporate tenure, Deb worked as a business lender for a finance company, big banks, regional banks, and community banks, and now she focuses on helping women finance their small businesses and acquire companies.
Dr. Diane Mueller is the founder of Femme Meets Fortune, teaching women entrepreneurs how to accelerate the growth of their companies by building enterprises they genuinely enjoy running rather than ones that "run" their lives. CEO and Founder of two other businesses, the medical practice My Lyme Doc and community My Libido Doc, Diane has more than 12 years of business experience and is also a highly sought-after speaker on Lyme disease and women's entrepreneurship who has delivered many keynote addresses to thousands of attendees at events across the world. She’s the best-selling author of Use Your Mind to Heal Your Mold and Lyme: A Survivor's Guide, about how she overcame mold and Lyme illness, and It's Not In Your Mind: Solutions and Strategies for Lyme Disease, Mold Illness, and Chronic Infections.
Anna Konchar is an e-learning expert mentor who helps women monetize their skills, knowledge and passions with online courses and membership programs. Anna built her first side hustle e-course to $100,000 while still working a 9-5 job, and went on to earn $3mm in 3 years with her own courses working just 2 days a week. Today she shares her blueprint of how to build a million-dollar side hustle.
Jaclynn (Jax) Brennan is CEO and Co-Founder of Fyli, a Network as a Service (NaaS) business for early-stage female founders, offering education, accountability, peer-to-peer mentorship, leadership advancement and funding opportunities. A Creative Director for a variety of luxury fashion brands, Jaclynn has helped lead over 22 major corporations in executing branding strategies.
Palak Shah is the founder of Open Spaces Capital, a real estate firm she built as a stay-at-home-mom to $10 million in asset value. Palak had spent 17 years as a top paid mechanical engineer climbing the corporate ladder when she realized on maternity leave, she wanted more flexibility to focus on her children. When her request to work from home part time was rejected, she quit her high paying job and launched her profitable real estate company, and how she also teaches women how to ‘BRRRR’, that is “Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat.”
So much of who we are and what we achieve as women pioneering in business comes down to the gifts – and the limiting beliefs – we got from our mothers. Melinda Wittstock remembers her own late mother, who passed away peacefully three weeks ago at age 95, and shares how our mothers influence the deep subconscious beliefs that drive our successes and failures in life and entrepreneurship.
Darleen Santore, better known as “Coach Dar,” is an author, Licensed and Board-Certified Occupational Therapist, sought-after motivational speaker, plus leadership and mental skills coach to professional athletes, CEOs, and business leaders around the world. Author of “The Art of Bouncing Back: Find Your Flow to Thrive at Work and in Life - Anytime You’re off your Game”, Darleen is best known for her mental strength conditioning work with athletes in the NBA, MLB, PGA, and NHL she most recently worked as the mental conditioning and life coach for the Phoenix Suns.
Dr. Jessica Kriegel is the Chief Scientist of Workplace Culture at Culture Partners and an expert in workplace strategy, culture and driving results. Author of Unfairly Labeled: How Your Workplace Can Benefit From Ditching Generational Stereotypes, Jessica recently sold her company The Culture Equation to Culture Partners, where she works with Fortune 100 and other companies using data-driven insights to transform cultures to drive results.
Wendy Appel is a founding partner of Trilogy Effect, a leadership development and executive coaching consulting firm that helps startups and F-500 companies alike build high functioning teams by tapping into the wisdom, creativity, and vitality inherent in themselves, in their teams, and in their organizations. Author of InsideOut Enneagram: The Game Changing Guide for Leaders Wendy also hosts the podcast Being Human is Good for Business.
Jenna Spencer is the Founder and Visionary of AssistPro™, an executive assistant matching and delegation coaching service created to free up time and create growth for busy leaders. Since founding AssistPro in 2014, Jenna has worked with hundreds of clients, helping them find the Right-Fit Assistant™ and teaching them how to delegate and develop their assistants into leaders, as well. Under her direction and leadership, AssistPro has grown more than 50% each year since its founding – and has led to her creation and launch of an extension of the company devoted to helping entrepreneurs and small business owners on the path to Delegation Mastery.
Laura Casselman is the CEO of JVZoo, co-founder of media agency Vidastreet, and author of Trust Your Increments. She has nearly two decades of experience in growing sales and revenue, improving customer service, and aggressively controlling expenses in competitive markets. Companies under her direction have landed on the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies in America four times and increased revenue from $100M to over $2B. Laura is the recipient of Stevie Awards for both Executive and Woman of the Year, a CEO World Award for Female CEO of the Year, and a Pillar World Award for Employer's Diversity Achievement of the Year.
Kareen Walsh is a startup adviser, investor, serial entrepreneur, executive coach, author, and podcaster. She is the CEO and Founder of Revampologist, a 7-Figure Boutique consulting and coaching company and co-founded the Clevr Network. With 17+ years of entrepreneurial and executive experience leading and advising industry leaders, Kareen is hyper focused on leadership to help businesses scale. Her clients include trillion-dollar companies like BlackRock, Groupon, Broadridge as well as startups, and she helps leaders align what they love with what they do, and monetize it. She believes if you are not growing, your business won't grow, and uses her books Lead with Value and Be A Badass, along with her Podcast Your Badass Journey as ways to share the methods of personal and professional growth.
Sarah Smith is the founder of The Dyrt, the No. 1 app for camping information and booking, with 30 million annual camper visits, 50,000 campground listings, and 8 million user-generated reviews, photos, and tips for US campgrounds. The Dyrt has grown to the largest online source of camping information and the only major platform to offer commission-free bookings for campgrounds. Sarah was recognized on the 2022 Inc. Female Founders 100 list of the top women entrepreneurs.
Ungenita Prevost is on a mission to help 10,000,000 women build social capital and monetize their networks as the leader of a global feminine leadership network. A former Hollywood Body Double, Music Video Dancer turned Award Winning Feminine Leadership Expert, Ungenita created the fast-growing Networking in Stilettos. Author of the book by the same name, she also hosts the podcast Billion Dollar Rolodex.
Coco Brown is the Founder and CEO of Athena Alliance, an Executive-Education-As-A-Service platform helping women advance as founders, corporate executives, board members and investors. Athena’s peer network, with its live and on-demand learning, networking, and coaching, has helped thousands of women, and brought more than 400 women to corporate boards. Former COO of Taos which sold to IBM, Coco has served on ten commercial and non-profit boards and advisory boards, and she’s part of Nasdaq's Governance Insights Council, and is often called on to share guidance to the evolving focus and breadth of responsibility within the modern boardroom.
Ali Nichols is the Co-founder of Getaway, a vacation rental investing business she has now pivoted with a branding change to Hammock, helping people invest in rental properties just 5% down. Previously at Bungalow, Ali spearheaded raising and operating a $700M real estate fund focused on acquiring single family rentals. Today she shares her journey pivoting to find product-market fit.
Kat Dey and Phoebe Yu are the co-founders of Ettitude, a material science social impact company and direct-to-consumer sustainable lifestyle brand best known for its bedding, bath and sleepwear made from their proprietary CleanBamboo® fabric. Ettitude has raised $6.5m, earned tens of millions of dollars in revenue and been named twice among the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US. Phoebe, the CEO, previously built two successful international trade and sourcing businesses, and Kat, was the co-founder and co-CEO of gourmet food subscription business Try the World.
Ashley Ford is an expert in small business accounting who has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs to transform the way they make and spend money in their business. Today she shares her tips and why financial clarity is the key to sustainable success.
Jennifer Stojkovic is a General Partner at Joyful Ventures, an early-stage VC fund focused on disrupting the $1.4 trillion meat and dairy industry with sustainable protein. She’s also the founder of Vegan Women Summit (VWS), a platform of over 60,000 women professionals in the future of food, and author of the award-winning book, The Future of Food is Female. Prior to her career in food technology, Jennifer built her career in Silicon Valley under Ron Conway, Founder of SV Angel, and worked with the world's largest tech companies including Google, Meta, and Microsoft.
Sheri Riley is President of Exponential Living®, a personal, professional, and leadership development company. After spending 20 years creating marketing strategies for global superstars and companies like Usher, Warner Media, and Converse, Sheri now empowers professional athletes, coaches, entertainers, corporate executives, and entrepreneurs to grow personally and dominate professionally. She’s also the bestselling author of Exponential Living® - Stop Spending 100% of Your Time on 10% of Who You Are.
Amy Anthony is one of the United States’ most influential aromatherapists and the founder of a growing private practice NYC Aromatica, which offers one-on-one customized aromatherapy sessions, online class offerings, and corporate consulting. Also an aromatic gardener, herbalist, artisanal distiller, and certified master composters, Amy left her career in marketing research to pursue her love of plants. She also hosts the Essential Aromatica podcast.
Catherine Cassidy is the CEO and Founder of Boutique Box, a unique “style as a service” platform helping busy women find their perfect fashions in a time-saving way. Catherine has more than 20 years of experience in the Fashion Industry, and launched her first fashion business Ustyled in 2008. She’s also a sought-after speaker on leadership and confidence.
Nicole Rodrigues is CEO & Founder of NRPR Group, an award-winning, full-service PR and creative marketing agency. Her experience designing strategies for marquee brands like Yahoo!, YouTube and Hulu has made her one of the industry’s "Top 50 Game Changers" and earned her the title of “Beverly Hills Boss.” Today Nicole shares her top three strategies for standing out from the crowd and why every business needs a long-term PR strategy based on storytelling.
Tissa Richards has a mission to create a legion of leaders with an unshakable sense of self. A serial entrepreneur, a keynote speaker, leadership expert and corporate facilitator, Tissa works with F1000 and hyperscale organizations, guiding them to create blueprints for individual and organizational success, develop high-performance cultures, and to diversify C-suites and corporate boardrooms. As a repeat software founder and CEO, Tissa sits at the intersection of entrepreneurship, fundraising and executive leadership. She has raised millions of dollars for her companies, won awards for innovation and products, and holds multiple patents for complex cybersecurity software. She works closely with founders and business owners to create strategies for fearless, authentic, and resilient success. Her book, No Permission Needed, recently hit #1 new release on Amazon.
Candace Nelson is a serial entrepreneur, a New York Times bestselling author, Wall Street Journal contributor and an expert in turning one’s passion into a profitable business. Author of the WSJ bestselling book, Sweet Success: A Simple Recipe for Turning Your Passion into Profit, Candace revolutionized the baking industry when she left a career in corporate finance to launch Sprinkles, the world's first cupcake bakery and Cupcake ATM. She followed with Pizzana, a growing chain of Michelin Bib Gourmand-awarded pizzerias leading the third wave of pizza in the U.S. She continues to expand her portfolio of investments with CN2 Ventures.
Rita Ernst is the founder Ignite Your Extraordinary, an organizational consulting practice emphasizing the convergence of happiness and productivity to create positive, committed, high-performing organizations. Author of Show Up Positive, Rita helps transform corporate cultures and startup emerging growth companies lay the groundwork for success.
Amanda Bucci is a conscious business consultant, energy and alignment coach, podcaster, and creator of the Entrepreneurial Archetype Quiz™. A 7-figure CEO by the age of 25, Amanda built on her certifications in Spiritual Psychology to build a vibrant coaching business helping entrepreneurs and creators understand who they are, connect to their authenticity, and build businesses that are in alignment with their energetic blueprints.
Tracy Litt is a sought-after success mentor for visionary women leaders navigating huge paradigm shifts and elevating into the next level of impact, wealth, and holistic success. Tracy is Founder of The Litt Factor and creator of Mind Magic ®, a proven methodology that marries metacognition and spirituality, neuroscience, and quantum law to expand and elevate more quickly. She is also the bestselling author of Worthy Human and her work has been featured by Forbes, Entrepreneur, Fast Company and Inc.com
Chelsey Roney is the COO and Co-Founder of Proxi, a custom and collaborative mapping technology for businesses, brands, and individuals. A former Boeing and Microsoft alum, Chelsey is a serial entrepreneur who previously bootstrapped and sold a SaaS business and a local services business. Today Chelsey shares how Proxi secured $1.2M in pre-seed finance and what’s next for her company.
Palak Shah is the founder of Open Spaces Capital, a real estate firm she built as a stay-at-home-mom to $10 million in asset value. Palak had spent 17 years as a top paid mechanical engineer climbing the corporate ladder when she realized on maternity leave, she wanted more flexibility to focus on her children. When her request to work from home part time was rejected, she quit her high paying job and launched her profitable real estate company, and how she also teaches women how to ‘BRRRR’, that is “Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat.”
Wendy Appel is a founding partner of Trilogy Effect, a leadership development and executive coaching consulting firm that helps startups and F-500 companies alike build high functioning teams by tapping into the wisdom, creativity, and vitality inherent in themselves, in their teams, and in their organizations. Author of InsideOut Enneagram: The Game Changing Guide for Leaders Wendy also hosts the podcast Being Human is Good for Business.
Rebecca Whitman is an award-winning Success Mentor and the internationally bestselling author of Phenomenal Feminine Entrepreneurs, Business, Life, Universe, and How to Make a Six Figure Income Working Part Time. International Association of Top Professionals’ Life Coach of the Year, Rebecca shares how her 7 Pillars of Abundance enables entrepreneurial success and a full, happy life. She also hosts the Balanced, Beautiful, Abundant podcast.
Ego Iwegbu is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of The Good Mineral, a clean-beauty brand focused on sensitive acne-prone skin. She first went into business founding Nail Salon in 1999, and now also founded two other companies, the cosmetic line Miss London and the salon business Miss Salon London. Author of Open Your Own Salon the Right Way and Kick-Start Your Salon into Profit, Ego has also made it her mission to help other women build businesses, especially female founders who find themselves in difficult circumstances.
Anna Konchar is an e-learning expert mentor who helps women monetize their skills, knowledge and passions with online courses and membership programs. Anna built her first side hustle e-course to $100,000 while still working a 9-5 job, and went on to earn $3mm in 3 years with her own courses working just 2 days a week. Today she shares her blueprint of how to build a million-dollar side hustle.
Kareen Walsh is a startup adviser, investor, serial entrepreneur, executive coach, author, and podcaster. She is the CEO and Founder of Revampologist, a 7-Figure Boutique consulting and coaching company and co-founded the Clevr Network. With 17+ years of entrepreneurial and executive experience leading and advising industry leaders, Kareen is hyper focused on leadership to help businesses scale. Her clients include trillion-dollar companies like BlackRock, Groupon, Broadridge as well as startups, and she helps leaders align what they love with what they do, and monetize it. She believes if you are not growing, your business won't grow, and uses her books Lead with Value and Be A Badass, along with her Podcast Your Badass Journey as ways to share the methods of personal and professional growth.
Listen to learn:
- Four strategic steps to take aligned action
- How to identify and monetize your unique ‘zone of genius’
- How to ask for what you want
- Why lack of trust is the biggest block to building scalable businesses
- Why quickness of recovery from failure is the best test of great leadership
- How to build great teams by simplifying your daily practices as a founder or CEO
- How to hire unstoppable leadership teams (Hint: Stop assuming, start listening)
- Why too many founders are unaware of their true ‘zone of genius’ and how to find and align with it
- Why success is about quickness of recovery from failure
- Why your own self care is critical to your success
- And much more
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Jessica Procini is on a mission to help high-achieving women heal the roots of their emotional eating. When Overeaters Anonymous and therapy weren’t enough to help Jessica end her fight with food, she spent ten years in research before developing her signature healing framework, Escape From Emotional Eating®, which has helped women reclaim their power over food. Now that she’s been 100% free from her compulsions with food for over 5 years, Jessica helps female entrepreneurs and executives do the same at EscapeFromEmotionalEating.com.
Patience Ball and Dr. Ruth Shaber, the authors of The XX Edge: Unlocking Higher Returns and Lower Risk, make a well-researched case that women entrepreneurs and C-suite executives deliver stronger long-term performance that drive higher financial returns and more positive societal outcomes. They both draw on real-world experience. Patience, who raised more than $16 billion for women entrepreneurs as Principal Investment Officer and Global Head of Banking on Women at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), is now founder and CEO of the Women of the World Endowment, an investment nonprofit. Ruth, the co-founder and board chair of Rhia Ventures, a group of foundations and investors that collaborate to bring new types of capital and enterprise to the field of reproductive health, was featured in Forbes 2020 Impact 50: Investors Seeking Profit—and Pushing for Change for her contributions to the field of impact investing.
Tissa Richards has a mission to create a legion of leaders with an unshakable sense of self. A serial entrepreneur, a keynote speaker, leadership expert and corporate facilitator, Tissa works with F1000 and hyperscale organizations, guiding them to create blueprints for individual and organizational success, develop high-performance cultures, and to diversify C-suites and corporate boardrooms. As a repeat software founder and CEO, Tissa sits at the intersection of entrepreneurship, fundraising and executive leadership. She has raised millions of dollars for her companies, won awards for innovation and products, and holds multiple patents for complex cybersecurity software. She works closely with founders and business owners to create strategies for fearless, authentic, and resilient success. Her book, No Permission Needed, recently hit #1 new release on Amazon.
Jaclynn (Jax) Brennan is CEO and Co-Founder of Fyli, a Network as a Service (NaaS) business for early-stage female founders, offering education, accountability, peer-to-peer mentorship, leadership advancement and funding opportunities. A Creative Director for a variety of luxury fashion brands, Jaclynn has helped lead over 22 major corporations in executing branding strategies.
Coco Brown is the Founder and CEO of Athena Alliance, an Executive-Education-As-A-Service platform helping women advance as founders, corporate executives, board members and investors. Athena’s peer network, with its live and on-demand learning, networking, and coaching, has helped thousands of women, and brought more than 400 women to corporate boards. Former COO of Taos which sold to IBM, Coco has served on ten commercial and non-profit boards and advisory boards, and she’s part of Nasdaq's Governance Insights Council, and is often called on to share guidance to the evolving focus and breadth of responsibility within the modern boardroom.
Rachel Hicks is the Founder of U Whitening, a first-of-its-kind teeth whitening in person experience, and Professional Whitening Products, a one-stop-shop for teeth whitening supplies. With no prior business experience, Rachel shares how she bootstrapped to six-figures in annual revenue in a few short years.
Sara Roach-Lewis, the CEO of SRL Solutions and creator of the 7-Figure Confidence Program, is on a mission to help ambitious women build scalable businesses that support their busy lives. Through her first book, She Rules, What You Didn’t Know is Holding You Back in Business Sara shares her strategies for exponential business growth, achieving laser- focus while moving through resistance, rebranding self-care as an important business practice, and how to turn your imposter syndrome into 7-figure confidence.
Denise Gosnell is a business strategist, attorney, #1 bestselling author, and investor. Author of the new book The Vacation Effect for Entrepreneurs: Grow Your Business Even Faster by Working Less and Having More Fun, Denise owns and operates three companies by working an average of three days per week and generates seven figures each year. Founder of The Vacation Effect and the Grow by Subtraction Accelerator, she is a trusted advisor to many of the world’s top entrepreneurs and has spoken on stages in eight different countries.
Mary Southern is an entrepreneur, resume writer, wife, mother, and founder of Resume Assassin. She has been selected for a variety of awards, written numerous resume writing articles for organizations such as SHRM, and was recently chosen as a featured guest on the podcast Entrepreneurs on Fire with John Lee Dumas. She is also the top-rated resume service in Austin, TX. She has helped 1,000's of executive and professional job seekers land jobs at some of the world's leading companies, including Google, Amazon, Tesla, IBM, Oracle, Salesforce, NASA, SpaceX, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, 3M, Dell, Pfizer, Goldman-Sachs, Johns Hopkins, and many more.
Melinda Wittstock, 5-time serial entrepreneur and the CEO and founder of the interactive AI-powered podcasting app Podopolo, asks ChatGPT’s generative AI to share its top 10 business trends for 2023 plus advice for female founders on how to overcome gender-based challenges in business.
Candace Nelson is a serial entrepreneur, a New York Times bestselling author, Wall Street Journal contributor and an expert in turning one’s passion into a profitable business. Author of the WSJ bestselling book, Sweet Success: A Simple Recipe for Turning Your Passion into Profit, Candace revolutionized the baking industry when she left a career in corporate finance to launch Sprinkles, the world's first cupcake bakery and Cupcake ATM. She followed with Pizzana, a growing chain of Michelin Bib Gourmand-awarded pizzerias leading the third wave of pizza in the U.S. She continues to expand her portfolio of investments with CN2 Ventures.
Kim Woods is a business strategist and master astrologer, drawing on her25+ years as a C-suite executive and entrepreneur building several 7-figure businesses and her myriad intuitive certifications. Kim teaches business leaders to overcome the blocks to their success to achieve personal, professional, and financial triumph. Today we talk about how to “leverage the stars” to prosper in business, even in a recession.
Patience Ball and Dr. Ruth Shaber, the authors of The XX Edge: Unlocking Higher Returns and Lower Risk, make a well-researched case that women entrepreneurs and C-suite executives deliver stronger long-term performance that drive higher financial returns and more positive societal outcomes. They both draw on real-world experience. Patience, who raised more than $16 billion for women entrepreneurs as Principal Investment Officer and Global Head of Banking on Women at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), is now founder and CEO of the Women of the World Endowment, an investment nonprofit. Ruth, the co-founder and board chair of Rhia Ventures, a group of foundations and investors that collaborate to bring new types of capital and enterprise to the field of reproductive health, was featured in Forbes 2020 Impact 50: Investors Seeking Profit—and Pushing for Change for her contributions to the field of impact investing.
Ungenita Prevost is on a mission to help 10,000,000 women build social capital and monetize their networks as the leader of a global feminine leadership network. A former Hollywood Body Double, Music Video Dancer turned Award Winning Feminine Leadership Expert, Ungenita created the fast-growing Networking in Stilettos. Author of the book by the same name, she also hosts the podcast Billion Dollar Rolodex.
Sarah Greener is a serial entrepreneur and business coach who helps busy, stressed, and overworked business owners transform their businesses by reigniting their passion and refocusing their work “on” their businesses rather than “in” them. Author of The Off Switch, Sarah shares how to move from a To Do List an ‘I Don’t List’.
Jaime McFaden is a selfcare specialist and the bestselling author of Waves of Self-Care, It Takes a Village who helps busy working and entrepreneurial moms create time for themselves and lead by example.
Mihaela Berciu is an executive coach on a mission to help women overcome their fears and appreciate their true value – and mentor entrepreneurs and executives to outsize success. She advises board members, top-level executives, and entrepreneurs across in banking, finance, pharmaceuticals, retail, fashion, television, and aviation services, and is the author of two best-selling books dedicated to career success.
Danielle Levy is the CEO and founder of The Boardroom League, helping six and seven-figure online business owners expand with clarity and efficiency. Leaping from a corporate career to entrepreneurship, Danielle established The Boardroom League to give other entrepreneurs a little black book of trusted industry professionals to help them grow their businesses without long-term overhead.
Denise Gosnell is 7 figure entrepreneur who runs 3 companies in 3 different industries and works an average of just 3 days per week. Business Strategist, Attorney, Author, Real Estate Investor, and Creator of The Vacation Effect®, a coaching and training company that helps busy entrepreneurs create a freedom lifestyle without sacrificing business growth, Denise has a new book called The Vacation Effect for Entrepreneurs: Grow Your Business Even Faster by Working Less and Having More Fun, Denise owns and operates three companies by working an average of three days per week and generates seven figures each year.
Ciara Stockeland, founder of the Boutique Workshop, is a serial entrepreneur who has owned and operated retail and franchising businesses since her early teens. Listen to learn why gratitude is the secret of Ciara’s success. Host of the Boutique Workshop podcast, Ciara launched the first ever wholesale subscription box for boutique retailers, which she built and sold within 18 months. Today on Thanksgiving Ciara shares both the inside secrets of retail and franchising, as well as mindset hacks for entrepreneurs, including gratitude and why it’s vital to accept failure as part of the journey.
Jateya Jones is a business strategy and communications consultant who helps aspiring and visionary entrepreneurs find clarity of purpose and fuse multiple passions into unique business opportunities. Jateya’s unique approach helps her clients leverage their uniqueness to forge a successful path in business. She’s also the founder and Executive Director of Fore Teens, Inc.
Ginger Zumaeta is a 3X Emmy Award-winning writer and producer that advises companies on positioning and communicating big ideas. She’s the Founder and CEO of Motiv3, a positioning and messaging strategy firm, host of the podcast Usable Marketing, and author of the forthcoming book Deckonomics: Design Presentations that Spread Ideas, Drive Decisions and Close Deals. Today she shares the secrets of storytelling for landing the sale and much more.
Tanaha Hairston is the Founder of Axismeta and a successful tech investor and business strategist who specializes in methods and tools to increase business valuation and lead generation. A serial entrepreneur for 15 years, Tanaha has started and sold multiple businesses in industries including SaaS software, eLearning, and consumer products. Today Tanaha shares her entrepreneurial journey and her business model at Axismeta for buying technology companies to build with her marketing and sales acumen.
Rose Stein is the founder and CEO of Coffee and Crystals. A former advertising agency executive, Rose now blends subconscious reprogramming, spirituality, and marketing strategy to guide spiritual entrepreneurs through accelerated growth in their life and business.
Amanda Bucci is a conscious business consultant, energy and alignment coach, podcaster, and creator of the Entrepreneurial Archetype Quiz™. A 7-figure CEO by the age of 25, Amanda built on her certifications in Spiritual Psychology to build a vibrant coaching business helping entrepreneurs and creators understand who they are, connect to their authenticity, and build businesses that are in alignment with their energetic blueprints.
Brittany Driscoll is the co-founder and CEO of Squeeze, a unique massage experience from the founders of Drybar. As DryBar CMO, she took the hair ‘blowout’ phenom from $30M to more than $100M in revenue, and as an entrepreneur, cancer survivor, and wellness advocate, Brittany has a strong passion for supporting other women in business. Today she shares what it's like transitioning from the C-suite to scrappy startup founder, the secrets of great marketing and customer success, her vision of a “feel good revolution” and why we all have the ability to change the world for good.
Sarah Carlson is the founder of Fulcrum Financial Group and a private wealth manager. A thought leader in all things finance and investment, Sarah helps entrepreneurs and business owners manage their money, and the anxiety that comes with money and new wealth. Today she shares how to grow and protect your personal wealth as you grow your business, avoid the common financial mistakes most entrepreneurs make, and change your relationship with money. Sarah Carlson is the founder of Fulcrum Financial Group and a private wealth manager. A thought leader in all things finance and investment, Sarah helps entrepreneurs and business owners manage their money, and the anxiety that comes with money and new wealth. Today she shares how to grow and protect your personal wealth as you grow your business, avoid the common financial mistakes most entrepreneurs make, and change your relationship with money.
Janine Hamner Holman is an expert on conscious leadership, organizational development, neurobiology, and what it takes to attract and retain world-class talent. She is the CEO of the J&J Consulting Group, working with purpose-driven CEOs and entrepreneurs to create “people thriving” organizations. She also hosts the podcast, The Cost of Not Paying Attention, and is an internationally recognized speaker and bestselling author. Today we break down the concept of “conscious leadership”, what it means in practice and how it can transform and elevate your business success. Download Podopolo and follow Wings of Inspired Business there to keep the conversation going in the episode comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended personally for you.
Merel Kriegsman mission-driven entrepreneurs wildly grow their wealth by helping them align their values with value-based pricing. An opera singer turned direct response copywriter turned executive coach, her business Merel Kriegsman Media helps clients sell whatever they want, whenever they want, at whatever price point they desire. Last year her clients added $25 million in revenue to their social impact businesses. Today Merel shares her secrets and her own unique entrepreneurial journey. Download the interactive podcasting app Podopolo here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Rebecca Whitman is an award-winning Success Mentor and the internationally bestselling author of Phenomenal Feminine Entrepreneurs, Business, Life, Universe, and How to Make a Six Figure Income Working Part Time. International Association of Top Professionals’ Life Coach of the Year, Rebecca shares how her 7 Pillars of Abundance enables entrepreneurial success and a full, happy life. She also hosts the Balanced, Beautiful, Abundant podcast. Download Podopolo and follow Wings of Inspired Business there to keep the conversation going in the episode comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended personally for you.
Dalia Feldheim is an entrepreneur and veteran Fortune 500 C-suite marketing executive, leading the iconic “Always Like a Girl” campaign. Author of Dare to Lead Like a Girl, Dalia is also Founder of the Flow Leadership Consultancy where she’s on a mission to humanize leadership as an organizational consultant. Dalia shares her leadership journey and invites us to shift the paradigms of contemporary leadership provoking us all, men and women, to connect to our more feminine traits and dare to lead from the heart, with purpose, perspective, people, and positivity. Download Podopolo and follow Wings of Inspired Business there to keep the conversation going in the episode comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended personally for you.
Jessica is the founder of Lady ChangeMakers, an all-inclusive e-commerce platform for women-owned businesses. Jessica is an SEO expert in creating exposure and driving traffic for e-commerce businesses, and today she shares how her platform is catalyzing women founders to accelerate each other’s success, plus important tips on how to boost your discoverability and sales. Download Podopolo and follow Wings of Inspired Business to keep the conversation going in the Wings episode comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Eunicia Peret is the CEO and Founder of the Empowered Financial Planner. An accomplished Financial professional and business owner with over 15 years of experience in financial strategy consulting, Eunicia honed her expertise by delivering significant financial improvements to the bottom line of Fortune 500 companies and renowned global brands across multiple industries. Today Eunicia shares important financial advice for entrepreneurs about how to build and safeguard your personal financial wealth as you grow your business. Download Podopolo and follow Wings of Inspired Business there to keep the conversation going in the episode comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended personally for you.
Ellie Diop is the Founder of Ellie Talks Money and Ellievated Academy. A business strategist, author, and transformational speaker, Ellie built a multi-million-dollar business and a 350,000-strong online community in one short year after losing her corporate job during the pandemic. Using her $1,200 stimulus check to start her business, this mother of four changed her wealth trajectory, and is now helping other women experience find financial freedom by building successful businesses. Today she shares her inspirational story and her secrets. Download Podopolo and follow Wings of Inspired Business there to keep the conversation going in the episode comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended personally for you.
Dr. Winifred Bragg is the creator of The Bragg Factor® system, helping entrepreneurs and professionals develop self-confidence, enhanced leadership skills and increased productivity. A nationally recognized motivational speaker on the topics of success and leadership mastery, and the author of the upcoming book Dreams Without Goals are Nightmares: How to Use TheBraggFactor® to Reach Your Goals in Record Time, she also leads workshops for Fortune 500 companies and major universities. Today shares her formula for success, starting at the letter B (“Behave as if…), and how you can learn your true value, build confidence, and “bragg” on yourself. Download Podopolo and follow Wings of Inspired Business there to keep the conversation going in the episode comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended personally for you.
Kelly Riordan is on a mission to safeguard our democracy by helping us stay better informed without all the fear-based hyperbole and disinformation out there about our politics and elections. A cardiac sonographer, Kelly founded Wewilldecide.com, a platform that helps people to make better-informed political decisions by comparing their own opinions with those of their U.S. congressmen and future candidates. Today she shares how the platform works, why it is an important resource, and her journey creating it. Download Podopolo and follow Wings of Inspired Business there to keep the conversation going in the episode comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended personally for you.
Holly Dowling is an award-winning global keynote speaker, top ten inspirational thought leader, author of Hollyisms and creator of the app Daily Dose of Inspirations. A serial entrepreneur with a finance background, Holly now shares her expertise in the joy and well-being space, helping managers to become stronger leaders and Fortune 500 companies worldwide to discover new opportunities for success. Today Holly shares why success is an “inner game” and how to leverage the power of your intuition. Download Podopolo here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Laura Meyer is an expert in Amazon sales and all things omnichannel marketing for direct-to-consumer brands as the Founder and CEO at Envision Horizons, helping D2C product brands diversify to grow. Laura has a passion for supporting female-founded and mission-driven companies as an angel investor and advisory board member, and today she shares important marketing tips any business will want to hear, plus how to build a successful omnichannel strategy and much more. Download Podopolo and follow Wings of Inspired Business there to keep the conversation going in the episode comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended personally for you.
Nicole Rodrigues is CEO & Founder of NRPR Group, an award-winning, full-service PR and creative marketing agency. Her experience designing strategies for marquee brands like Yahoo!, YouTube and Hulu has made her one of the industry’s "Top 50 Game Changers" and earned her the title of “Beverly Hills Boss.” Today Nicole shares her top three strategies for standing out from the crowd and why every business needs a long-term PR strategy based on storytelling. Download Podopolo and follow Wings of Inspired Business there to keep the conversation going in the episode comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended personally for you.
Julie Allen is a sustainable boutique owner and creator of the ethically made and size-inclusive “minimalist chic” clothing line Hope Continues. A sustainability awareness activist, Julie is CEO of the Mary Rose NW Boutique and the Mary Rose Foundation, helping to prevent eating disorders and assist those struggling with the financial burden of treatment. Today she shares how to overcome body image shame, the inside skinny on sustainable fashion, and what it takes to create a profitable social impact company. Download Podopolo and follow Wings of Inspired Business there to keep the conversation going in the episode comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended personally for you.
Emily Tsitrian leads the Professional Services team at Stripe, and has spent the past 10 years leading and growing teams in tech. Host of the podcast manage.flow, Emily is also the author of Make Me the Boss, helping founders, CEOs and team leaders step into management for the first time. Today Emily shares her secrets of team management success, how to use empathy to assure success and accountability, and the skills you need to be effective. Download Podopolo and follow Wings of Inspired Business there to keep the conversation going in the episode comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended personally for you.
Betsy Cerulo is the CEO and founder of AdNet/AccountNet, Inc., a Baltimore based company with a powerful mission of being “Advocates for Workplace Excellence & Equality”. Betsy founded the business in 1990, with a mission to provide exemplary human capital management services, including professional staffing and executive search, to government and corporate clients throughout the United States. Along the way she came out and is a leading advocate of LGTBQ rights and diverse and inclusive corporate cultures. Today Betsy shares her entrepreneurial journey, plus the inside secrets of team building, recruitment, hiring and firing, inclusive company cultures, and why its always vital to follow your own intuition. Download Podopolo here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Jessica Marx, named the Top Female Coach by Yahoo! Finance and a member of Forbes Coaches and Business Counsel, helps entrepreneurs sell with confidence, streamline marketing and sales processes, and achieve reliable and profitable revenue. A serial entrepreneur, Jessica has created 4 thriving businesses from the ground up. Today Jessica reveals her secrets on how to position, package and price your offers, lessons on how to juggle motherhood (she has twins) with a growing business, and much more. Download Podopolo and follow Wings of Inspired Business there to keep the conversation going in the episode comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended personally for you.
Kamini Wood, a certified professional coach, helps people take the courageous steps to identify their limiting beliefs, the reasons for their stagnation or feelings of ‘not enoughness’, so they can have what they want professionally and personally to live a fulfilled life. She is the creator of AuthenticMe® and CEO of Live Joy Your Way, a coaching company helping individuals shake free of their fears, unhelpful mindsets, and behaviors in order to have healthy relationships and move forward on the professional path they choose. Today Kamini shares how to overcome perfectionism, and why your success will come from taking “imperfect action”. Download Podopolo and follow Wings of Inspired Business there to keep the conversation going in the episode comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended personally for you.
Lesley Michaels, author of The Shoulders of Mighty Women, was one of the early women to run up the ranks of corporate oil and gas. When her heart was no longer inspired by the corporate world, she reinvented herself and became a highly sought-after public speaker as she leaped into entrepreneurship. Lesley also hosts the podcast Women We Should Know. Today Lesley shares why women must let go of fear of failure and the judgement of other women, while focusing on helping each other succeed. Download Podopolo and follow Wings of Inspired Business there to keep the conversation going in the episode comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended personally for you.
Natalie Mills has lived the American Dream, from selling her handmade jewelry to neighbors at 8 years old to being named a best-selling product for 2020 on NBC. Natalie has sold products on HSN, won the Einstein Greencard Award (an achievement only given to top 1% globally) and is recognized as a trend setter and style leader in fashion with her signature “Bling” designs, dressing celebrities like Jennifer Lopez, Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson, and Lizzo. Today Natalie shares her inspiring journey, what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur, and why burning desire, resilience and visualization have been the keys to her success. Download Podopolo and follow Wings of Inspired Business there to keep the conversation going in the episode comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Efrat LaMandre owns her own medical practice, EG Healthcare, providing primary care to over 20K patients. She takes conventional medicine to the next level with her signature process ‘The Knew Method’, here she empowers patients to realize that their symptoms are NOT in their head and helps them take control of their health destiny using a Functional Medicine approach. Today Efrat shares her journey from medicine to entrepreneurship, why she’s “unemployable” and how she has scaled her business so successfully. Download Podopolo and follow Wings of Inspired Business there to keep the conversation going in the episode comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Tanaha Hairston is the Founder of Axismeta and a successful tech investor and business strategist who specializes in methods and tools to increase business valuation and lead generation. A serial entrepreneur for 15 years, Tanaha has started and sold multiple businesses in industries including SaaS software, eLearning, and consumer products. Today Tanaha shares her entrepreneurial journey and her business model at Axismeta for buying technology companies to build with her marketing and sales acumen. Download Podopolo and follow Wings of Inspired Business there to keep the conversation going in the episode comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Jean Tien is an executive coach, speaker, and creator of The S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Method™, passionate about empowering executive women who are ready to disrupt the status quo and up-level their success without the hustle and grind. Today Jean shares why it never works to “copy paste” someone else’s journey and expect to succeed, and how to find your own unique path to entrepreneurial success. Download Podopolo and follow Wings of Inspired Business there to keep the conversation going in the episode comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Jessica is the founder of Lady ChangeMakers, an all-inclusive e-commerce platform for women-owned businesses. Jessica is an SEO expert in creating exposure and driving traffic for e-commerce businesses, and today she shares how her platform is catalyzing women founders to accelerate each other’s success, plus important tips on how to boost your discoverability and sales. Download Podopolo and follow Wings of Inspired Business to keep the conversation going in the Wings episode comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Marla Diann has been transforming the lives and businesses of creative entrepreneurs the last 13 years as an international success coach, business strategist and transformational artist. Prior to that, her love of writing and Journalism led her a dynamic 22-year career in entertainment PR and operating her own company serving celebrities, visual and performing artists. Listen today to learn the art of balancing your masculine and feminine energy and why women succeed at wealth building when we follow our joy – and join the conversation with Marla on Podopolo, the interactive podcasting app. Download Podopolo, follow Wings of Inspired Business, and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Amy Errett is the founder and CEO of the fast-scaling Madison Reed hair color company and a partner of True Ventures. Featured in Forbes 50 over 50 last year, Amy has raised almost $200 million for Madison Reed, now on track to hit the $1bn revenue mark. Today we dig deep into what it takes for women founders to raise venture capital, why it’s vital to trust your own gut instinct in business with a mix of “resilience and gratitude”, and her own journey scaling Madison Reed, as well as Olivia, Spectrem, and E*TRADE and investing in startups. Download Podopolo to get the video of this podcast, live streamed from Napa at Feast it Forward during the BottleRock music festival. Follow Wings of Inspired Business on Podopolo to keep the conversation going in the episode comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Lee Richter is a multipreneur who has built and runs 9 successful businesses. Best known these days for her NFT expertise at NFTsWithLee.com and her entrepreneur mentoring business GoAskLee.com, Lee is a business visionary, dynamic innovator, powerful connector, investor, and a recognized award-winning influencer by the San Francisco Business Times as one of their Top 100 Women Business Leaders in 2017. For over 25 years, Lee has launched a dozen successful businesses in the financial, education and lifestyle sectors. She’s the CEO of Richter Communications and Design Group, a marketing and PR agency whose clients range from Merrill Lynch and Bank of America to the Pet Concierge, and CEO of Holistic Veterinary Care in Oakland CA. Today we dig deep into NFTs and the power of the “smart contract” on the blockchain, plus the magic of authenticity, why building and empowering your team is the key to success, and how women must lift each other up in business to realize our dreams. Download Podopolo to get the video of this podcast, live streamed from Napa at Feast it Forward during the BottleRock music festival, follow Wings of Inspired Business to keep the conversation going in the episode comments section, and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Ginger Zumaeta is a 3X Emmy Award-winning writer and producer that advises companies on positioning and communicating big ideas. She’s the Founder and CEO of Motiv3, a positioning and messaging strategy firm, host of the podcast Usable Marketing, and author of the forthcoming book Deckonomics: Design Presentations that Spread Ideas, Drive Decisions and Close Deals. Today she shares the secrets of storytelling for landing the sale and much more. Download Podopolo and follow Wings of Inspired Business there to keep the conversation going in the episode comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Kaisa Keranen is a personal trainer, fitness entrepreneur, and influencer known for her fun and innovative ways to get people moving. As the owner of KaisaFit, she built a 7-figure business and online platform around her motto that health is a feeling not a look! Today Kaisa shares her entrepreneurial journey, her challenges marketing her platform without making it about weight loss, and more. Download Podopolo and follow Wings of Inspired Business there to keep the conversation going in the episode comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Maryon Stewart, author of Manage Your Menopause Naturally, is a world-renowned healthcare expert and entrepreneur, helping tens of thousands of women around the world overcome PMS and menopause symptoms without using drugs or hormones. Awarded the British Empire Medal and recognized as one of the 50 most inspirational women by the UK’s Daily Mail, Maryon soon launches an AI-driven app and a PBS show. Today Maryon shares her journey and how she helps women avoid period pains, mood swings, hot flashes and all the unnecessary symptoms of PMS and menopause. Download Podopolo and follow Wings of Inspired Business there to keep the conversation going in the episode comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Dr. Ingrid Murra is the 48th Latin woman to secure over $5,000,000 venture capital funding in U.S. history. A Harvard-trained orthodontist, Ingrid is the founder and CEO of the orthodontic startup, My Two Front. Her mission is to provide orthodontists with the tools to run modern, clear aligner practices from unused office space at dental offices, while empowering dentists to delegate orthodontics to trained orthodontists at no upfront cost to them while increasing their bottom line by 25% or more. Today Ingrid shares what it took for her to succeed, the biggest challenges she’s had to overcome and her vision for her business. Download Podopolo and follow Wings of Inspired Business there to keep the conversation going in the Wings episode comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Sarah Walton is a business mentor who speaks at women’s conferences all over the world and has helped hundreds of women start and grow businesses they LOVE. Sarah honed her business building skills working with startups and large corporations alike, where she managed a P & L worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Author of Redefining Success: Real Women, Real Stories, Real Inspiration, Sarah also hosts the Game on Girlfriend Podcast, and she's known for her weekly "Coffee with Coach" streaming video conversations on Monday mornings. Today Sarah shares the power of self-trust, how to overcome high-functioning co-dependence and money mindset issues. Download the interactive podcast app Podopolo and follow Wings of Inspired Business there to keep the conversation going in the Wings episode comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Jessica Walker is a successful business owner, entrepreneur and beauty and wellness expert who owns J Walker Salon Group in New Jersey. Jessica opened her business at the tender age of 19 and has grown the enterprise from one small salon to four locations offering upscale beauty and wellness services, along with a bridal and event business. Today Jessica shares what she’s learned along the way on her entrepreneurial journey and why entrepreneurs must “fake it till we make it” and “give forward” to manifest success. Download the interactive podcasting app Podopolo here to keep the conversation going in the Wings of Inspired Business comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Betsy Cerulo is the CEO and founder of AdNet/AccountNet, Inc., a Baltimore based company with a powerful mission of being “Advocates for Workplace Excellence & Equality”. Betsy founded the business in 1990, with a mission to provide exemplary human capital management services, including professional staffing and executive search, to government and corporate clients throughout the United States. Along the way she came out and is a leading advocate of LGTBQ rights and diverse and inclusive corporate cultures. Today Betsy shares her entrepreneurial journey, plus the inside secrets of team building, recruitment, hiring and firing, inclusive company cultures, and why its always vital to follow your own intuition. Download Podopolo [https://podopolo.com/get-app] here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Beverly Price is the founder of Nastava Jewelry and an intuitive designer whose custom creations reflect the journey of self-empowerment, self-expression, and beauty. Beverly shares how she made the leap from climbing the executive ladder in the finance world to expressing her true passion in entrepreneurship, now letting the semi-precious stones, freshwater pearls, and Swarovski© crystals speak to her when crafting her bespoke pieces. Through her methodology and endless style options, the artisan jewelry she creates energizes and connects to her clients, reflecting their true self while empowering them to try different looks. Today Beverly shares her entrepreneurial journey, plus the importance of growing a support network of other women, and much more. Download the interactive podcast app Podopolo here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Samantha Patil is Co-Founder and CEO of Well Traveled, a membership community for modern travelers. Samantha launched Well-Traveled at the height of the Coronavirus pandemic after a successful career in consumer tech and marketing where she led go-to-market strategies, international marketing, and member monetization programs at some of the world’s biggest consumer brands, including SnapChat, Pandora, and Dollar Shave Club. Today Samantha shares why it’s never enough to build a great product, and why building a community and brand that connects emotionally to its customers is the vital ingredient of success. Download the interactive podcast app Podopolo here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Ciara Stockeland is the founder of the Boutique Workshop, a coaching program for retailers. A serial entrepreneur who has owned and operated retail and franchising businesses since her early teens, Ciara also launched the first ever wholesale subscription box for boutique retailers, which she built and sold within 18 months. Host of the Boutique Workshop podcast, Ciara shares today the inside secrets of retail and franchising, and mindset hacks for entrepreneurs, including how and why it’s vital to accept failure as part of the journey. Download the interactive podcast app Podopolo here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Anita Mar is a registered trademark agent and the founder of Trademark Angel, helping clients, many of them Amazon sellers, register trademarks in the US, Canada, European Union, UK, Germany, China, Australia, Mexico and other countries since 2017. Today Anita shares the common mistakes most entrepreneurs make, and why international protection is necessary if you have an e-commerce or digital information business. Download Podopolo here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Merel Kriegsman helps thousands of mission-driven entrepreneurs wildly grow their wealth by helping them align their values with value-based pricing. An opera singer turned direct response copywriter turned executive coach, her business Merel Kriegsman Media helps clients sell whatever they want, whenever they want, at whatever price point they desire. Last year her clients added $25 million in revenue to their social impact businesses.
Today Merel shares her secrets and her own unique entrepreneurial journey. Download the interactive podcasting app Podopolo here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Tiffany Guarnaccia is the Founder and CEO of Kite Hill PR and the Founder of Communications Week, recently acquired by Ragan Communications. Before starting Kite Hill PR, Tiffany headed communications for The Huffington Post and PR director at LimeWire and eMusic. Today Tiffany shares the inside skinny on running a successful PR campaign, plus her own entrepreneurial journey and why work life balance should be core to your company’s operational culture. Download the interactive podcast app Podopolo here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Amy Errett is the founder and CEO of the fast-scaling Madison Reed hair color company and a partner of True Ventures. Featured in Forbes 50 over 50 last year, Amy has raised almost $200 million for Madison Reed, now on track to hit the $1bn revenue mark. Today we dig deep into what it takes for women founders to raise venture capital, why it’s vital to trust your own gut instinct in business with a mix of “resilience and gratitude”, and her own journey scaling Madison Reed, as well as Olivia, Spectrem, and E*TRADE and investing in startups. Download Podopolo here to get the video of this podcast, livestreamed from Napa at Feast it Forward during the BottleRock music festival, and keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Aurora Winter left her lucrative career as a TV executive decades ago to become a full-time author, trainer, and entrepreneur. Using storytelling for business, she created a life of freedom, creativity, and contribution. She helps her clients turn their words into wealth, wisdom, and wonder. Now, she would like to help you, so listen today to learn about the science behind storytelling, and how to cut through the information overload to deliver your message to your audience.
Lee Richter is a multipreneur who has built and runs 9 successful businesses. Best known these days for her NFT expertise at NFTsWithLee.com and her entrepreneur mentoring business GoAskLee.com, Lee is a business visionary, dynamic innovator, powerful connector, investor, and a recognized award-winning influencer by the San Francisco Business Times as one of their Top 100 Women Business Leaders in 2017. For over 25 years, Lee has launched a dozen successful businesses in the financial, education and lifestyle sectors. She’s the CEO of Richter Communications and Design Group, a marketing and PR agency whose clients range from Merrill Lynch and Bank of America to the Pet Concierge, and CEO of Holistic Veterinary Care in Oakland CA. Today we dig deep into NFTs and the power of the “smart contract” on the blockchain, plus the magic of authenticity, why building and empowering your team is the key to success, and how women must lift each other up in business to realize our dreams. Download Podopolo here to get the video of this podcast, live streamed from Napa at Feast it Forward during the BottleRock music festival, and keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Tisha Thompson is a makeup artist turned beauty business maven, the Founder and CEO of LYS™ Beauty, the first black-owned clean beauty line to be sold at Sephora. Tisha has more than 15 years’ industry experience in clean beauty product development, brand management, marketing, finance, and operations, and she shares how she built LYS™ to offer makeup and skincare solutions uniquely catered to various skin types, textures, and tones, while addressing common skin concerns, like hyperpigmentation, dark spots, and sensitive skin.
Anne Gannon is a Certified Public Accountant who specializes in providing a monthly accounting and tax service that works for the business owner, not just the accountant. She is often tapped by press as an expert in PPP loans for business. Listen today to learn how to stop avoiding your numbers
Holly Dowling is an award-winning global keynote speaker, top ten inspirational thought leader, author of Hollyisms and creator of the app Daily Dose of Inspirations. A serial entrepreneur with a finance background, Holly now shares her expertise in the joy and well-being space, helping managers to become stronger leaders and Fortune 500 companies worldwide to discover new opportunities for success. Today Holly shares why success is an “inner game” and how to leverage the power of your intuition. Download Podopolo here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Tai Goodwin is the CEO of That Marketing Team and the creator of the Liberated CEO Accelerator. Known as the “Quiz Funnel Queen”, Tai is an award-winning instructional designer with 20+ years of experience creating learning experiences and content for Fortune500 companies like Barnes & Noble and tech start-ups like LeadPages. Today Tai shares priceless advice about how to build high-converting marketing funnels, why you need to know your numbers, and how to work backwards to achieve your goals. Download the interactive podcast app Podopolo here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Ashleigh Wilson is a serial entrepreneur, raised by a used car salesman and an elevator guy. Tapping into her roots, Ashleigh opened and sold multiple small businesses by the age of 20 until ultimately landing in the elevator business and deciding to disrupt it with AuditMate, the first first-ever elevator and escalator auditing and management software. Join the conversation by following Wings of Inspired Business on the socially interactive Podopolo app. Download Podopolo for free here and join the rewards program at https://contest.podopolo.com to earn prizes just by doing what you’re already doing: listening!
Kim E. Woods is an intuitive business strategist and forecasting expert to high-performing entrepreneurs. She teaches leaders to “know, like, and trust” themselves and their teams with the KLT method combining transformation strategy, astrology, intuition, and woo. Today Kim shares her inspiring story, how women have the power to change the game of business, and practical tips for success. Make sure you download Podopolo here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and join the rewards program at https://contest.podopolo.com to earn prizes just by doing what you’re already doing: listening!
Bettina Carey is a serial entrepreneur who stands only 4' 9-1/2" tall but inspires and empowers women to create BIG RESULTS. Bettina has made it her mission, with her multiple businesses, to help people break through their earnings glass ceiling and kick self-imposed limitations to the curb. Today she shares practical advice on sales, lead generation, how to get paid for referrals, and mostly how to overcome limiting beliefs. Make sure you download Podopolo here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and join the rewards program at https://contest.podopolo.com to earn prizes just by doing what you’re already doing: listening!
Charlie Fusco is the CEO and Founder of TGC Worldwide, a company managing personal brand evolutions. TGC has put clients on the New York Times Bestseller lists, secured them movie deals, expanded their charities, and other achievements most think "impossible." Charlie grew up in film and television, both in the "acting world" and in the "business world” and she’s been on-set, off-set, on-screen, off-screen, in editing suites, and in funding meetings since the age of 6. Creativity, sales, negotiating, business, and entrepreneurial grit are in her bloodline. Today she shares how to find alignment with your perfect clients, plus social impact, legacy and much more. Download the interactive podcast app Podopolo here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Midori Verity is a serial entrepreneur and CEO who has overcome the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, whether starting a business in a recession, or overcoming the difficult depression that can accompany it, to become an unstoppable version of herself. Now, she uses her vast business experience to give back by helping leaders to break through mindset blocks to unlock their optimal potential as the CEO of Fuel to Fire Accountability Group for Entrepreneurs. Today Midori shares…. Download Podopolo here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Sarah Shaw is a fashion entrepreneur, product designer and business coach. With her 20 years of experience - and 6 companies under her belt - Sarah has built a treasure trove of secrets for launching your line, getting your products into stores and boutiques, getting your products to A-List celebrities, and getting massive publicity with a “flywheel” marketing strategy to grow her companies quickly. Today Sarah shares important advice for fashion entrepreneurs plus best practice marketing tips for any industry. Make sure to download Podopolo here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Eunicia Peret is the CEO and Founder of the Empowered Financial Planner. An accomplished Financial professional and business owner with over 15 years of experience in financial strategy consulting, Eunicia honed her expertise by delivering significant financial improvements to the bottom line of Fortune 500 companies and renowned global brands across multiple industries. Today Eunicia shares important financial advice for entrepreneurs about how to build and safeguard your personal financial wealth as you grow your business. Make sure to download Podopolo here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Sarah Dupree is a brand photographer and self-described “mompreneur” with a very successful photography business in southern California. In advertising for 17 years working for large agencies such as Saatchi & Saatchi and Yamaha, Sarah became a commercial photographer. She's shot for large companies such as Boot Barn, Sprouts, and Kotex as well as social media influencers like Christa aka SalvagedSoul, and Cayla Craft of Mommy Millionaire, as well as TikTok celebrities David Bonfidini aka The Magic Crasher and Rachel Mueller aka thegirliq. Today Sarah shares the secrets of building a personal brand with lots of practical tips. Download Podopolo here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Sarah Dusek built her glamping company Under Canvas and exited with its sale of over $100 million. From her own experiences struggling as a female founder to get venture capital funding, and then learning that women entrepreneurs only receive 2% of all available funding each year, Sarah launched Enygma Ventures, a VC fund focused on investing in women-led businesses in Southern Africa. Enygma has now invested tens of millions of dollars in over 20 companies, and Sarah also helps women learn the ropes of getting funded. Listen today to learn the secrets of raising investment for your company, what holds women back, and join the conversation by following Wings of Inspired Business on the free and socially interactive Podopolo app, where Sarah and will answer questions. Download Podopolo here and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Lesley Michaels was one of the earliest women to climb the ranks of the oil and gas industry. Then she reinvented herself with a new mission to help women understand their own true value and support each other’s growth in business. Now a highly sought-after public speaker and host of the podcast, Women We Should Know, Lesley shares the practical steps women must take to overcome cultural conditioning that keep us in scarcity, perfectionism and playing too small. Download Podopolo here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Liz Faircloth is on a mission to “transform lives through real estate” with $60 million of residential and commercial assets up and down the East Coast owned by the company she co-founded with her husband in 2005, The DeRosa Group. Passionate about educating women in investment, Liz runs the Real Estate InvestHER community and podcast, and is the author of The Only Woman In The Room. Download Podopolo here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Carina Hatton is a mentor and coach for entrepreneurs who want to grow or start their own online ecommerce businesses. Having built her own online clothing boutique Knitted Belle to 7-figure success, Carina has some great actionable insights to help you get started today, whether you are getting your business off the ground or in the process of scaling. Carina is also the host of a new podcast, She Crushes Ecomm. Download Podopolo here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section, check out Carina’s podcast, and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Caterina Rando is a Master Certified Coach, best-selling author of Learn to Power Think and Founder of Thrive Publishing and Thriving Women in Business Magazine. She also hosts over 70 days of training and live events for women in business each year including: The Expand Your Fempire Summit, the Shero Summit and The Hawaiian Breakthrough Luxury Retreat. Today we talk about how to overcome perfectionism, build your confidence by turning failure into resilience, and the mindset you need to master selling, speaking and more. Download Podopolo here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Jessica is the founder of Lady ChangeMakers, an all-inclusive e-commerce platform for women-owned businesses. Jessica is an SEO expert in creating exposure and driving traffic for e-commerce businesses, and today she shares how her platform is catalyzing women founders to accelerate each other’s success, plus important tips on how to boost your discoverability and sales. Download Podopolo here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Lisa Simone Richards is a PR and Visibility Strategist for online coaches who want to get seen everywhere. Through her free workshops, masterclasses and mentorship program, Lisa gives you the insider secrets on how to get exposure and reach more people without spinning your wheels on social media or wasting money on Facebook ads. Listen to learn the “ABCs of Visibility” with a lot of practical advice on growing your personal or business brand without having to be a content machine. Download Podopolo here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Valerie Emanuel is the co-founder of Role Models Management, a disruptive modeling agency empowering models to use their images and voices for social justice. Discovered as a child at a mall, Valerie transformed her modeling career into a growing business combining her skills as a talent manager and her passion as a social justice activist. Listen to learn how her agency is a catalyst for positive change within an antiquated and at times abusive industry and why brands are seeking diverse role models to endorse social impact missions. Download Podopolo here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Suzannah Raff is the founder and CEO of Cleo + Coco, the healthy deodorant brand that works without toxic aluminum and synthetic fragrances. A mother of four committed to living an authentic life spiritually, physically, and professionally, Suzannah shares how she built her brand, the challenges along the way, why we should be vigilant about what we put on our skin, and her big vision. Download Podopolo [https://podopolo.com/get-app] here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Jennifer Trepeck is the founder of Better Life Now, where she combines wellness counselling with business consulting. Jenn founded her company as a “side hustle” in late 2007 while working full time in hedge funds. Twelve years later she took the entrepreneurial leap full time, and also pays it forward to a wider audience with her podcast, Salad with a Side of Fries Podcast. Today she shares how to make envision success, accomplish more by doing less, and why her “safety net” was a big part of her success. Download Podopolo [https://podopolo.com/get-app] here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Julie Allen is a sustainable boutique owner and creator of the ethically made and size-inclusive “minimalist chic” clothing line Hope Continues. A sustainability awareness activist, Julie is CEO of the Mary Rose NW Boutique and the Mary Rose Foundation, helping to prevent eating disorders and assist those struggling with the financial burden of treatment. Today she shares how to overcome body image shame, the inside skinny on sustainable fashion, and what it takes to create a profitable social impact company. Download Podopolo here to keep the conversation going in the Wings comments section and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Lia Garvin spent a decade working at Big Tech, including Microsoft, Apple, and finally at Google where she was the senior operations leader. She learned a lot about how people get stuck in the modern workplace, and now professional women break through to the next level in their careers: How to navigate a career shift, how to ask for that promotion, or how to demonstrate the impact of their work. She’s the author of the new book Unstuck: Reframe Your Thinking to Free Yourself from the Patterns and People that Hold You Back and is a featured speaker this week at the SXSW Conference in Austin. Listen to get practical tips and join us on the interactive podcast app Podopolo to keep the conversation going and get Lisa’s direct advice.
Lisa Townsend is a board-certified music therapist and creative vocal coach. Her passion and expertise are to use music as a tool for empowering aspiring leaders and entrepreneurs to overcome limiting beliefs around their voice. She creates a playful space for brave exploration so they can sing and speak with courage and authenticity. Today, Lisa shares what music can teach us about how we communicate, and how to use your voice to make sure your message resonates for the outcomes you want. Download Podopolo [https://podopolo.com/get-app] here, follow Wings to join the conversation, and invite your friends to connect around this and other podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Brittany Driscoll is the co-founder and CEO of Squeeze, a unique massage experience from the founders of Drybar. As DryBar CMO, she took the hair ‘blowout’ phenom from $30M to more than $100M in revenue, and as an entrepreneur, cancer survivor, and wellness advocate, Brittany has a strong passion for supporting other women in business. Today she shares what it's like transitioning from the C-suite to scrappy startup founder, the secrets of great marketing and customer success, her vision of a “feel good revolution” and why we all have the ability to change the world for good. Download Podopolo here, follow Wings to join the conversation, and invite your friends to connect around this and other podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you. Happy International Women’s Day!
Samantha Varner is a profit coach and money-making business creator for driven female entrepreneurs. She also hosts the She Needs Grit podcast. With 14+ years in PR and Marketing, Finance Strategy and Business Development, she coaches women to develop as leaders of their businesses and realize they are capable of changing their financial reality through business ownership. Today she shares why your subconscious beliefs about money will dictate your earning power and your success in business. Download Podopolo here, join the conversation, and invite your friends to connect around Wings and other podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Charlie Fusco is the CEO and Founder of TGC Worldwide, a company managing personal brand evolutions. TGC has put clients on the New York Times Bestseller lists, secured them movie deals, expanded their charities, and other achievements most think "impossible." Charlie grew up in film and television, both in the "acting world" and in the "business world who’s been on-set, off-set, on-screen, off-screen, in editing suites, and in funding meetings since the age of 6. Creativity, sales, negotiating, business, and entrepreneurial grit are in her bloodline. Today she shares how to find alignment with your perfect clients, plus social impact, legacy and much more. Download Podopolo [https://podopolo.com/get-app] here and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Shelley Paxton is a former Harley Davidson exec turned international speaker, transformational leadership coach, and author Soulbbatical: A Corporate Rebel’s Guide to Finding Your Best Life. Today she shares how to liberate yourself from burnout, find your inner GPS, and create “ripples of impact” with your rebel leadership. Join the conversation by following Wings of Inspired Business on the free and socially interactive Podopolo app, where Elaine and will answer questions. Download Podopolo here and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Ashleigh Wilson is a serial entrepreneur, raised by a used car salesman and an elevator guy. Tapping into her roots, Ashleigh opened and sold multiple small businesses by the age of 20 until ultimately landing in the elevator business and deciding to disrupt it with AuditMate, the first first-ever elevator and escalator auditing and management software. Join the conversation by following Wings of Inspired Business on the free and socially interactive Podopolo app, where Ashleigh and will answer questions. Download Podopolo here and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Adrienne Rivera is a breathwork expert and spiritual business coach who specializes in teaching healers and coaches how to create six-figure businesses online. Learn today the power of breathwork to create alignment, attract clients, and scale your business to support the lifestyle you want. Join the conversation by following Wings of Inspired Business on the free and socially interactive Podopolo app, where Adrienne and will answer questions. Download Podopolo here and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Elaine A. Clark is a voice communications pioneer and the author of There’s Money Where Your Mouth Is and Voice-Overs for Podcasting, creator of two voice and diction apps, Activate Your Voice and Adding Melody to Your Voice, and host of the speech communication podcast, Real Talking Tips. Elaine is a pioneer in the voiceover industry with 40 years’ experience in all areas of voiceover. Join the conversation by following Wings of Inspired Business on the free and socially interactive Podopolo app, where Elaine and will answer questions. Download Podopolo here and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Sybil Ackerman-Munson, with decades of experience in philanthropy, has helped businesses large and small contribute over $45 million. Founder of Do Your Good, she offers guidance to individuals, entrepreneurs, and businesses seeking to “give back”, redistribute wealth, address the planet’s most intractable problems, all while building their financial legacy. Listen today as we talk about how entrepreneurs can be a force for social good, and how to transform your company with a social impact model. Download Podopolo here and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
CrisMarie Campbell and Susan Clarke are authors of The Beauty of Conflict and co-founders of Thrive Inc., where they’ve spent 20 years helping entrepreneurs, Fortune 500 CEOs and couples resolve difficult conflicts and create strong, thriving relationships. They share today where women in their authentic feminine power emerge as the best collaborative leaders and succeed in business. Join the conversation by following Wings of Inspired Business on the free and socially interactive Podopolo app, where Rene and will answer questions. Download Podopolo here and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Vicki Saunders is an entrepreneur, award-winning mentor, advisor to the next generation of changemakers and leading advocate for entrepreneurship as a way of creating positive transformation in the world. She is the Founder of #radical generosity and SheEO, a global community of radically generous women supporting women-led Ventures working on the World’s To Do List. She has co-founded and run ventures in Europe, Toronto and Silicon Valley and taken a company public on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
René Serbon is the founder of Dermal Systems, a growing 7-figure beauty and skincare empire that is creating interesting and innovative ways for beauty experts to thrive and grow their business to new heights leveraging holistic, customizable approaches and new technology. René teaches beauty professionals they don’t have to sacrifice profitability to pursue their passion. Join the conversation by following Wings of Inspired Business on the free and socially interactive Podopolo app, where Rene and will answer questions. Download Podopolo here and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Katrina Aronson is a corporate finance drop out turned entrepreneur. She grew her own small business to 6 figures in her very first year, but not without a lot of trial and error and expensive mistakes. She now teaches ambitious women how to catapult their business as the face of their brand, with powerful and practical marketing that sets them apart from the rest. Join the conversation by following Wings of Inspired Business on the free and socially interactive Podopolo app, where Susan and will answer questions. Download Podopolo here and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Lisa Cherney has been mentoring millionaire entrepreneurs for over 20 years. She’s the host of the ground-breaking confession-based GFR (Get F’n Real) podcast and creator of the 12 GFR Commandments. In 2014, after 15 years in business and speaking on over 750 stages, Lisa Cherney got f’ing real and dismantled her successful 7-Figure business as the Juicy Marketing Expert. Lisa shares why just because something is successful and people like it, doesn’t mean you have to keep doing it. Join the conversation by following Wings of Inspired Business on the free and socially interactive Podopolo app, where you can share your perspectives and get advice. Download Podopolo here and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Susan Bratton, known as the "Intimacy Expert to Millions", is the co-founder and CEO of Personal Life Media, a publisher of heart-connected lovemaking techniques and bedroom communication skills and The20, a manufacturer of organic and botanical supplements that enhance sexual vitality. An early media-tech pioneer honored as a “Silicon Valley Woman of Influence” by The Business Journal, Susan shares her journey and epiphanies after almost 2 years with “Long Covid”, the realization she’d built companies that could run profitably without her, and we talk about the future of media and podcasting. Join the conversation by following Wings of Inspired Business on the free and socially interactive Podopolo app, where Susan and will answer questions. Download Podopolo here and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Barbara Harrison is an award-winning television journalist, anchor, and producer, gracing NBC screens for 38 years in San Francisco, Dallas and Washington, DC. A recipient of many local and national awards for her work, including 19 Emmy Awards, Barbara created the celebrated program known as Wednesday’s Child on NBC stations across the country. Today she shares how she’s making the leap into entrepreneurship, how media disruption is leading to new opportunities for creators, and why it’s important to know your own value. join the conversation by following Wings of Inspired Business on the free and socially interactive Podopolo app, where Barbara and will answer questions. Download Podopolo here and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Marla Diann has been transforming the lives and businesses of creative entrepreneurs for the last 13 years as an international success coach, business strategist, and transformational artist. Prior to that, her love of writing and Journalism led her to a dynamic 22-year career in entertainment PR and operating her own company serving celebrities, visual and performing artists.
Listen today to learn the art of balancing your masculine and feminine energy and why women succeed at wealth-building when we follow our joy – and join the conversation with Marla on Podopolo, the interactive podcasting app. Download Podopolo here and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Karen Mangia is one of the most sought-after keynote speakers in the world, sharing her thought leadership with over 10,000 organizations. As Vice President of Customer and Market Insights at Salesforce, she helps individuals and organizations define, design, and deliver the future. She serves on multiple boards, including the Racial Equality and Justice Taskforce. She is the author of four books: Success From Anywhere, Listen Up!, Working from Home, and Success With Less. and join the conversation by following Wings of Inspired Business on the free and socially interactive Podopolo app, where Karen and I will answer questions. Download Podopolo here and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Galit Ventura-Rozen began her entrepreneurial journey 25 years ago as the broker and owner of Commercial Professionals, a company she built into a $1 billion dollar business. As a sales success expert, author, and award-winning entrepreneur, Galit has made it her mission to show women how to reach 7+ figures in their businesses with sales techniques that attract clients and maximize profits. Listen to learn the “psychology of sales” and why perfectionism is the enemy of business growth and join the conversation by following Wings of Inspired Business on the free and socially interactive Podopolo app, where Galit and I will answer questions. Download Podopolo here and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Dr. Nashlie Sephus sold her innovative AI company called Partpic to Amazon, where she’s now a Tech Evangelist for Amazon AI, focusing on erasing racial bias from artificial intelligence. She’s also the founder and CEO of The Bean Path non-profit based in her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi where she assists individuals and startups with technical expertise. Listen to learn how she’s changing the game for women of color in tech, also as the owner of the Jackson Tech District, 14-acres of mixed-use commercial real-estate to bring tech training and workforce/economic development to the area. And join the conversation by following Wings of Inspired Business on the free and socially interactive Podopolo app, where Sarah and will answer questions. Download Podopolo here and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Allana Pratt, Intimacy Expert, supports those ready to live unapologetically and attract an open-hearted, ideal relationship. Featured on Huffington Post, People, Forbes, CBS, ABC, NBC and FOX, she’s the Author of 6 books, has interviewed Whoopi Goldberg and Alanis Morissette, Hosts the Podcast “Intimate Conversations”, has 5M viewers on YouTube and has launched the world’s first Partnering App called HeartMates where members Become the One to Find the One which Keeps the One. Download Podopolo here and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Sarah Dusek built her glamping company Under Canvas and exited with its sale of over $100 million. From her own experiences struggling as a female founder to get venture capital funding, and then learning that women entrepreneurs only receive 2% of all available funding each year, Sarah launched Enygma Ventures, a VC fund focused on investing in women-led businesses in Southern Africa. Enygma has now invested tens of millions of dollars in over 20 companies, and Sarah also helps women learn the ropes of getting funded. Listen today to learn the secrets of raising investment for your company, what holds women back, and join the conversation by following Wings of Inspired Business on the free and socially interactive Podopolo app, where Sarah and will answer questions. Download Podopolo here and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Meghan Lynch is the Founder and CEO of Six-Point Creative, a brand strategy agency that helps “second-stage” companies breakthrough growth plateaus. As part of her mission to help small businesses challenge the goliaths, Meghan has served as an expert advisor to second-stage clients in a wide range of industries, from fast-casual restaurants to industrial manufacturers. Today she shares the secrets of scaling – from operational systems to leveraging new revenue streams. Join the conversation by following Wings of Inspired Business on the free and socially interactive Podopolo app, where Sarah and will answer questions. Download Podopolo here and invite your friends to connect around podcasts recommended to you by what interests and inspires you.
Francesca Witzburg is an award-winning legal strategist and intellectual property expert, representing top businesses, brands, entrepreneurs, and celebrities. She helps fashion, music, art, tech, consumer products, and entertainment businesses monetize their IP and stay protected and profitable. Today we talk about common mistakes first-time founders make, and how to avoid them, as well as how to protect your IP in the Web 3.0 Metaverse. Join the conversation on Podopolo, the free app that makes listening social, and follow Wings there.
Shinjini Das, the founder and CEO of Das Media Group advocates for her #GoGetters through real-time motivational media content marketing. She motivates 15 million go-getters a month on her social media platforms to go get their goals, and today she shares how she changed it up in the Covid Pandemic to take on large enterprise clients with an entirely virtual solution and practice.
Sandy Forster is an internationally known Law of Attraction and Money Mindset coach, who went from a mom on welfare and $100,000 in debt to creating a 7-figure business. Sandy shares why vision boards and meditation is not enough to manifest success: It also takes inspired action. Sandy, the CEO of Wildly Wealthy, inspires women to believe anything is possible, and then empowers them to break through their blocks, manifest more money, and create a life they’re truly passionate about.
Liz Faircloth is on a mission to “transform lives through real estate” with $60 million of residential and commercial assets up and down the East Coast owned by the company she co-founded with her husband in 2005,
The DeRosa Group. Passionate about educating women in investment, Liz runs the Real Estate InvestHER community and podcast, and is the author of The Only Woman In The Room.
Karen Mangia is one of the most sought-after keynote speakers in the world, sharing her thought leadership with over 10,000 organizations. As Vice President of Customer and Market Insights at Salesforce, she helps individuals and organizations define, design, and deliver the future. She serves on multiple boards, including the Racial Equality and Justice Taskforce. She is the author of four books: Success From Anywhere, Listen Up!, Working from Home, and Success With Less.
Debra Roberts is a conversation expert and creator of the Relationship Protocol, helping businesspeople communicate more effectively to inspire teams to success, close sales, negotiate contracts, and more to get the results they want in business, whether boosted productivity, a culture of collaboration, or growing sales and customer retention. Author of the Relationship Protocol, Debra shares how empathy, authenticity and good listening skills are vital for entrepreneurial success.
Melinda Wittstock is a five-time serial entrepreneur and the CEO and Founder of the world’s first social and gamified podcast app and player, Podopolo. Today, as people grieve those lost to Coronavirus and struggle with lost jobs or businesses, Melinda shares her daily gratitude practice that sparked her success by helping her find alignment with her true passion and purpose. Join Melinda to learn how to use gratitude practically in your life – and to learn what she is grateful for today.
Faith Jones is a corporate lawyer, inventor and entrepreneur, and grew up in the dangerous Children of God cult founded by her grandfather. She escaped in her early 20s, graduating summa cum laude from Georgetown University with honors from UC Berkeley Law School and rising the ranks as a corporate attorney with Skadden Arps in Los Angeles and Hong Kong. Now, with her own law practice advising businesses in corporate and financial strategy, she’s written a memoir called Sex Cult Nun, and shares today what surviving the cult taught her about women’s empowerment in business and life.
Christy Whitman is a New York Times bestselling author and transformational leader. Author of The Desire Factor. CEO and Founder of the Quantum Success Learning Academy and Quantum Success Coaching Academy, Christy now reaches 200,000 a month with her life-changing message. Today she shares how to manifest your desires, and secrets of the Law of Attraction, energy mastery, and abundance, plus wisdom from the Council of Light. She shares why “hard work” is not the path to manifesting your desires.
Gemma Bonham-Carter is an online course strategist and digital marketer who has helped over 5,000 entrepreneurs and hundreds of students launch and scale their online e-learning businesses. Today she shares her actionable secrets on how to create a scalable, sustainable digital business with a long-term vision and effective strategies that don’t rely on traditional working hours or social media fame.
Sarah Dawn is a business growth expert helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses to 7 figures without the 24/7 “hustle and grind” that leads to burnout, overwhelm – and keeps businesses small. Sarah shares her three pillars of success – simplicity, systems, and scale, and how these allow business owners and founders to build more valuable businesses while supporting health and happiness.
Kathleen Cutler, the dynamo behind the rise of the personal concierge jeweler, has honed the art of relationship sales advising 7-figure luxury brands to combine the conveniences of modern technology with the power of old school relationship-building. Today she shares the inside secrets of “affluent buyer psychology” and how a relentless focus on existing connections and customers boosts recurring revenue.
Leslie McIntyre-Tavella is the CEO and Founder of Culpeo HR, a company that helps businesses attract top talent, manage their talent pipeline, and build great cultures of comradery to assure fast and sustainable business growth. Leslie built her first company, a recruitment agency, to a $20 million success, and today shares what she learned along the way about how to attract the best talent, why entrepreneurs should hire their weaknesses, and much more.
Sarah Clifford Owen is the CEO and Founder of The Worthington Collection, a luxury candle brand known for non-toxic, odor-eliminating handmade candles. Sarah shares how she taught herself to make candles with YouTube videos, turned her kitchen into the lab to perfect her candles, and how she plans to scale her company.
Debbie Allen is known as “The Expert of Experts”, leveraging her successful career as a serial entrepreneur across myriad industries to now help clients position themselves as go-to experts in their niche. An internationally renowned speaker and business mentor, as well as the author of 9 books including Confessions of Shameless Self Promoters, Skyrocketing Sales, The Highly Paid Expert, and Success is Easy, Debbie also shares what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur, and why the best learning comes from just jumping in and doing and asking mentors for help.
Valerie Emanuel is the co-founder of Role Models Management, a disruptive modeling agency empowering models to use their images and voices for social justice. Discovered as a child at a mall, Valerie transformed her modeling career into a growing business combining her skills as a talent manager and her passion as a social justice activist. Listen to learn how her agency is a catalyst for positive change within an antiquated and at times abusive industry and why brands are seeking diverse role models to endorse social impact missions.
Tevis Trower is known as a “corporate mindfulness guru for the new millennium”, helping major corporations from Disney to Morgan Stanley optimize their teams and culture. CEO and Founder of Balance Integration Corporation, Tevis has been heralded as a “breath of fresh air in leadership development” by Forbes Magazine, and she focuses her work on helping executives find work/self-integration, wholeness-based leadership, mindfulness, resiliency, mastery, innovation, and radical success. Listen to learn how to get the best out of your team and create a great company culture.
Krista Mashore recently took her new business, from zero to $7.4 million in just 25 short months using online digital strategies. A former teacher with a Masters Degree in Curriculum and Instruction, Krista is the recipient of FOUR prestigious Two Comma-Club Awards. She’s also is the author of four bestselling books focusing on digital marketing, so listen today so you don’t miss these hacks to grow your business…fast.
Rebecca Friese, a Workplace Crusader, transforms organizations by identifying and innovating outdated people practices. Author of The Good Culture: The Leader’s Guide to Creating a Workplace That Doesn’t Suck, Rebecca shares a step-by-step approach to operationalizing a great people strategy so you can recruit and retain top talent and boost the success of your company.
Jodi Flynn of Women Taking the Lead is a coach for high-achieving women who are recovering from their last big opportunity or getting ready for the next one. The bestselling author of Accomplished: How to Go from Dreaming to Doing, Jodi is also host of the critically acclaimed Women Taking the Lead podcast, and we talk about the power of podcasting to grow your business.
Sybil Ackerman-Munson, with decades of experience in philanthropy, has helped businesses large and small contribute over $45 million. Founder of Do Your Good, she offers guidance to individuals, entrepreneurs, and businesses seeking to “give back”, redistribute wealth, address the planet’s most intractable problems, all while building their financial legacy. Listen today as we talk about how entrepreneurs can be a force for social good, and how to transform your company with a social impact model.
Galit Ventura-Rozen began her entrepreneurial journey 25 years ago as the broker and owner of Commercial Professionals, a company she built into a $1 billion dollar business. As a sales success expert, author, and award-winning entrepreneur, Galit has made it her mission to show women how to reach 7+ figures in their businesses with sales techniques that attract clients and maximize profits. Listen today to learn the “psychology of sales” and why perfectionism is the enemy of business growth.
Aubrey Terrazas is an 18-year hospitality professional, Master Sommelier candidate, and e-commerce entrepreneur who co-founded the digital wine service, Palate Club. Beyond leading the international wine buying for the team, Aubrey used her experience of tasting 100s of wines each year to identify over 200 wine traits—the core data that Palate Club uses to expertly match wines to your taste. Listen today to learn how artificial intelligence is changing the wine industry.
Rúna Magnúsdóttir a.k.a. Rúna Magnús is an Icelandic leadership coach, branding expert, and co-creator of the No More Boxes Movement, the antidote to division and black and white thinking. Rúna helps thought-leaders and change-makers to become better, bolder, and brighter as the leading lights in their industries. Today she shares how you find your “X Factor” unique differentiation without being constrained by self-imposed or society-imposed boxes.
Cindy Barshop, a former reality TV star of Real Housewives of New York, is all about sexual health and empowering women to speak more openly on the traditionally unspeakable. She is the CEO and Founder of VSPOT Sexual Health Spa, a place where people can correct issues that interfere with the quality of their sexual satisfaction and educating about sexual health and wellness. Listen today to learn...
Allana Pratt, Intimacy Expert, supports those ready to live unapologetically and attract an open-hearted, ideal relationship. Featured on Huffington Post, People, Forbes, CBS, ABC, NBC and FOX, she’s the Author of 6 books, has interviewed Whoopi Goldberg and Alanis Morissette, Hosts the Podcast “Intimate Conversations”, has 5M viewers on YouTube and has launched the world’s first Partnering App called HeartMates where members Become the One to Find the One which Keeps the One.
Shauna Brittenham Reiter turned a childhood battle with Crohn’s Disease into a fast-growing multimillion dollar health and wellness business called Alaya Naturals. She left behind a career as a singer-songwriter after releasing her album Dreamer’s Dream to found her fast-growing nutrition company. Today she shares why our challenges can be our greatest gifts, plus the mindset it takes to succeed without compromising our health, and much more.
Victoria Kennedy is a former opera singer who now helps companies and individuals leverage digital PR to increase their visibility and grow their revenue as the CEO and founder of Victorious PR. She’s been featured in over 200 publications including Forbes, Entrepreneur, Yahoo Finance, TV & radio stations, and the TEDx stage, and shares today how to land lucrative “earned media” for your brand or business.
Deborah Peters, international business coach, and mindset expert, is the Founder of the Neuro Engineering Institute, helping entrepreneurs and business owners transcend the hustle and grind to creating more value and wealth with less effort consistently. Listen today to learn how to overcome money blocks and create with inspired action to build and scale a business you love as much as it loves you.
Myoshia Boykin-Anderson started her first business as a single mom of a 6-year-old with no savings and no college degree after losing her job. She went on to build a multi-seven-figure IT consulting firm named by Inc Magazine as one of the fastest growing companies in the U.S. She’s the CEO and founder of AndTech Solutions, providing custom application development and other technology services to top U.S. companies. Listen to learn about persistence, faith, the power of imperfect action, and why entrepreneurs succeed when we embrace failure as a friend.
Erin Fults is a strategist, coach, implementer, and the founder of Acorn Studio, a business coaching and marketing consultancy. Erin passionately believes that healthy, sustainable small businesses can change the world. She helps business owners figure out the next right step to move their business forward and implement simple frameworks that maximize revenue and productivity. Listen today to learn why so many businesses waste precious dollars on marketing that doesn’t work. Learn why not, and what you should do instead.
Amanda Berlin is a visibility and business consultant for entrepreneurs who works with entrepreneurs on boosting their holistic visibility to help them grow their business and impact based on relationship-building tactics employed during her 12 years in the corporate PR world, guiding strategy for major brands. Listen today to learn why authenticity is the name of the game, and why it’s vital you ‘own’ your own relationships with media outlets.
Diane Allen is a TED Talk maven, a professional violinist, and an expert with the Flow State and the Positive Psychology of Peak Performance who speaks on how to ‘Own Your Potential’ and is known for her Experiential Keynotes that empower people to be in their A-Game anytime, anyplace, no matter how high the pressure. Listen today to learn how to know whether you’re in flow state, the neuroscience of flow, plus three practical steps you can take to summon it and make flow a repeatable process.
Jennifer Brazer is the Founder and CEO of Complete Controller, a leading national business services firm, where she helps businesses and households alike access reliable financial data to fuel their critical decisions. Also author of From Cubicle to Cloud, Jennifer pioneered cloud-based accounting back in 2007, and Complete Controller has become the turnkey client accounting services (CAS) department for CPA firms across the country, allowing them to tap into single sign-on access to all of their client's books and records, standardized managed account practices, and unlimited bookkeeping talent. Listen today to learn how your money stories may be standing in the way of success, and what you need to know as an entrepreneur to grow your business.
Dr. Nashlie Sephus sold her innovative AI company called Partpic to Amazon, where she is now a Tech Evangelist for Amazon AI, focusing on erasing racial bias from artificial intelligence. She’s also the founder and CEO of The Bean Path non-profit based in her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi where she assists individuals and startups with technical expertise. Listen to learn how she’s changing the game for women of color in tech, also as the owner of the Jackson Tech District, 14-acres of mixed-use commercial real-estate to bring tech training and workforce/economic development to the area.
Tisha Thompson is a makeup artist turned beauty business maven, the Founder, and CEO of LYS™ Beauty, the first black-owned clean beauty line to be sold at Sephora. Tisha has more than 15 years of industry experience in clean beauty product development, brand management, marketing, finance, and operations, and she shares how she built LYS™ to offer makeup and skincare solutions uniquely catered to various skin types, textures, and tones, while addressing common skin concerns, like hyperpigmentation, dark spots, and sensitive skin.
The late Dr. Gayle Carson built and scaled a 350-person business as a woman in the 1950s and 1960s, buying the company she worked for in under a year, and balancing entrepreneurship, marriage, motherhood, and a gig as the TV spokeswoman for Clairol. Then she got busy with her first love as a podcaster and owner of SOB Radio Network, and yes, SOB stands for “spunky old broad”. After surviving 4 bouts with breast cancer, Gayle passed away last month. Listen for inspiration about how to be unstoppable in business and life, and why your mindset is the key to success.
Kara Goldin is the Founder and CEO of Hint, Inc., best known for its award-winning unsweetened flavored Hint® water, and the author of Undaunted: Overcoming Doubts & Doubters. Also an active speaker, writer and host of the podcast The Kara Goldin Show where she interviews founders, entrepreneurs and other disruptors across various industries, Kara shares how she overcame myriad setbacks and challenges to build Hint® into a $2bn business.
Lynda Cormier is one of the most sought-after personal development coaches as facilitator of the award- winning Breakthrough Living Personal Development/Coaching Program, creator of the Heroic Joy Leadership Academy that teaches leadership, personal growth and ‘team’ to teenagers and young adults, as well as the Co-Founder and CEO of GIA, an international wellness company that Lynda guided from a local startup to an international, multi-million-dollar success story. Listen to learn how understanding your personal value affects how you scale your business.
Anne Gannon is a Certified Public Accountant who specializes in providing a monthly accounting and tax service that works for the business owner, not just the accountant. She is often tapped by press as an expert in PPP loans for business. Listen today to learn how to stop avoiding your numbers
Aurora Winter left her lucrative career as a TV executive decades ago to become a full-time author, trainer, and entrepreneur. Using storytelling for business, she created a life of freedom, creativity, and contribution. She helps her clients turn their words into wealth, wisdom, and wonder. Now, she would like to help you, so listen today to learn about the science behind storytelling, and how to cut through the information overload to deliver your message to your audience.
Sarah K Peck is the founder and CEO of Startup Parent and the host of The Startup Parent Podcast, an award-winning podcast featuring women in entrepreneurship, business, and parenting. She writes about work, culture, and parenting, and her work has been featured in Forbes, Inc, Fast Company, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and more. Listen to learn how slowing down can leads to greater productivity in the long run.
Patricia Gagic is an acclaimed international contemporary artist, serial entrepreneur in finance, and award-winning author. She is President of Patricia Karen Gagic Art Enterprise Inc., Co-founder of Help Heal Humanity and the Karmic Art Experience. Named Artist of the Year 2020 by Art Tour International Magazine, Patricia is represented by the Paul Fisher Gallery in West Palm Beach and Miami, 13th Street Gallery in St. Catharine’s and Gallery on the Bay in Hamilton, Canada, Artworld Fine Art in Toronto, and FACEC in France.
Carrie Kerpen is the co-founder and CEO of Likeable Media, the world’s first social media agency acquired by digital transformation group 10 Pearls. Likeable, named the sixth Best Place to Work in New York City by Crains, grew to serve clients like Airbnb and Stubhub, and Carrie was honored by the inaugural Campaign US Female Frontier Awards. Author of WORK IT: Secrets for Success from the Boldest Women in Business and a columnist for INC and Forbes, Carrie also hosts the podcast All The Social Ladies.
Michele Ashby is on a mission to train 1,000 women to take their place on corporate boards. Founder and CEO of Ashby Consulting Enterprises and ACE, Michele shares how women can land lucrative directorships. With 30 years of experience as a gold specialist, financial expert, independent corporate director and successful entrepreneur, Michele was named one of the Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Colorado.
Jules Schroeder is a visionary entrepreneur, singer-songwriter, and the founder CEO of Unconventional Life. Ranked by Inc. Magazine as #1 of the “Top 27 Female Entrepreneurs Changing the World in 2017” and one of the “Top 40 Millennials to Follow in 2018″, Jules is on a mission to inspire people to create a life by their own design. Today Jules and Wings host Melinda Wittstock share all about their transformational retreat for top female founders, Wings of the Empowered Woman.
Sheila Unique is known as the Relationship Renovator, a transformational healer helping business owners build successful relationships from the inside out. CEO and Founder of Relatefully Training & Speaking, Sheila is also the international bestselling author of Relatefully: How to Gain Greater Relationships from the Inside Out and an award winning speaker. Learn today why your most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.
Finka Jerkovic is the bestselling author of Sell From Love: Love Yourself, Love your Client, Love your Offer, who has coached more than 10,000 business leaders in leadership, sales, customer experience, employee engagement and personal branding as President of FINKA Communications Inc., helping entrepreneurs to value themselves in alignment with their true selves with a mission-aligned approach to business. Listen to learn what it means to “Sell from Love”, how it can transform your life, and revolutionize your business.
Tevis Trower is known as a “corporate mindfulness guru for the new millennium”, helping major corporations from Disney to Morgan Stanley optimize their teams and culture. CEO and Founder of Balance Integration Corporation, Tevis has been heralded as a “breath of fresh air in leadership development” by Forbes Magazine, and she focuses her work on helping executives find work/self-integration, wholeness-based leadership, mindfulness, resiliency, mastery, innovation, and radical success. Listen to learn how to get the best out of your team and create a great company culture.
Lorna Watkinson is the CEO and founder of Vibrant Thinking, helping business owners and entrepreneurs navigate the “new normal” of hybrid and remote working to build great team cultures. An executive at Procter and Gamble for nearly 20 years, Lorna understands the challenges - and benefits - of virtual and hybrid team working. Listen to learn how digital team building works, and what corporate workplaces will look like post-pandemic.
Kirsty Verity is CEO and co-founder of REAL Coaching. She has sold over $17M in physical products on Amazon since 2013 and has coached over 1,000 Amazon sellers to build their businesses with real results since 2015. Kirsty shares how she radically changed her life from corporate marketing director overseeing household brands like Pedigree, Aquafresh, and Durex to multi-million dollar Amazon entrepreneur. Listen to learn the keys to starting and sustaining your own business with Amazon.
Lisa is a multi 7-figure business strategist specializing in passive and semi passive income from memberships and online courses. Featured in Forbes, Fast Company and Thrive and readying her first TedX talk in October, Lisa shares different types of passive income and how you can set up your business so you can do less and have more.
Susan Fennema is the Chaos Eradicating Officer (CEO) of Beyond the Chaos, a consultancy helping entrepreneurs and small business owners simplify their operations so they can grow their businesses and get their lives back. With 30+ years of operations and project management experience in professional service industries, Susan is on a mission to improve American society exponentially. Listen to learn how you can structure your business to avoid overwhelm as you scale to new heights.
Laura Treonze is an executive coach who specializes in behavioral understanding to enhance company culture, boost employee engagement, maximize productivity and results. She combines psychology with experiential coaching methods to help individuals and teams break through limiting beliefs to increase productivity and profit. Listen to learn what makes a GREAT company culture and the questions you need to ask to make sure you hire the right people the first time, onboard them well, and make sure everyone is in the right seat.
Cole Baker Bagwell is an unconventional blend of businessperson, trained mindfulness practitioner and yogi on a mission to bring kindness to corporate culture. She believes attention to the soul of business creates unimaginable possibilities, transforming people and businesses. Cole lived it for two decades during her corporate career as a Sales Executive and Strategist for Fortune 1000 companies, and today shares how to build your business value by creating a great company culture.
Vanessa Marin is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in sex therapy. She’s here to help female founders stop denying their sexuality and start having way more fun in the bedroom as they grow their businesses. Vanessa specializes in online programs that help you transform your sex life from ordinary to extraordinary from the comfort and privacy of your home. Listen to learn about how your sex life affects you as an entrepreneur and how to be present, both in your business and in the bedroom.
Kathy Goughenour is the founder of Expert VA® and Virtual Expert® Training where she trains and coaches women who want to build their own Virtual Assistant home-based businesses. Kathy shares how she runs her virtual empire from her dream home in the middle of a Missouri national forest while wearing PJs and sporting a tiara 98% of the time. Kathy talks about why powerful women can make their own rules, especially with the support of virtual assistants to help you organize and grow your business.
Jules Schroeder is a visionary entrepreneur, singer-songwriter, and the founder CEO of Unconventional Life. Ranked by Inc. Magazine as #1 of the “Top 27 Female Entrepreneurs Changing the World in 2017” and one of the “Top 40 Millennials to Follow in 2018″, Jules is on a mission to inspire people to create a life by their own design. Today Jules and Wings host Melinda Wittstock share all about their transformational retreat for top female founders, Wings of the Empowered Woman.
Susan Hamilton Meier is a brand strategist, visual artist, and the founder of Susan Meier Studio. In her consulting practice, she helps marketing and sales teams across the healthcare ecosystem grow their brands and envision innovative ways to electrify their work. Listen today to learn how to create a compelling brand to grow your business.
Mary Grothe is a former #1 Midmarket B2B Sales Rep who after selling millions and breaking multiple records, founded House of Revenue™, a Denver-based firm of fractional Revenue Leaders who currently lead the marketing, sales, customer success, and RevOps departments for 10 companies nationwide. Listen to learn how to scale your company – and what mindset has to do with the size of your bottom line.
Kathy Svetina is a Fractional CFO for women-owned small businesses. After 14 years of senior-level financial planning and analysis for Fortune 500 companies and learning how these companies use financial information to drive their companies forward, Kathy started NewCastle Finance because she wanted to offer that same powerful financial insight to women-owned businesses.
Yael Joffe is a leading expert in the rapidly-evolving discipline of nutrigenomics, the science of using genetic testing to determine the interplay between genes, nutrition and health. Yael is the Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of 3X4 Genetics, a genetics-based foundational health company that combines advanced genetic testing, nutrigenomic education and a global network of accredited practitioners to help people listen to their bodies and make sound, daily choices to live longer, healthier and better lives.
Yael is a highly sought-after speaker, has co-authored two books, ‘It’s Not Just Your Genes’ and ‘Genes To Plate’, and has been published in multiple peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Jane Tabachnick is the founder of PR and book publisher Simply Good Press. An award-winning content and PR strategist, Jane works with mission-driven authors, coaches and consultants so they can become highly visible and seen as the authority in their industry so they attract more pre-sold clients and can grow their business more and easily. Listen to learn how to be your own best PR agent, when to hire a PR agency, and some simple PR hacks that will change the game for you and your business.
Michelle Seiler Tucker is a 20-year veteran in mergers & acquisitions, selling hundreds of businesses. Recognized as a leading authority on buying, selling, fixing, and growing businesses, Michelle sees opportunity where many are discouraged or have given up. Her passion is to save businesses that might otherwise close. Today she shares why it is never too early to plan your exit, as well as how she closes nearly 98% of all written offers and, on average, obtains 20-40% above the asking price for her clients.
Nancy Murphy has spent her career saying what others are afraid to say in ways that people will listen. As the Coronavirus Pandemic catapulted us into a fast-changing world, it became imperative to embrace change as your best friend. As founder and president of CSR Communications, she teaches leaders how to influence and persuade others so they can realize their vision for change faster, with less frustration and resistance. Today we talk about intrapreneurship, how to make a company more nimble, and how to leverage change for the best.
Holly Katz is a personal stylist who helps people to realize if and how their image is holding them back. Host of the Fashion Crime podcast, Holly took the leap into entrepreneurship after years in the New York City garment industry from costing to design and production. She’s dressed executives, busy moms, and celebrities, and today shares what’s ahead for post-pandemic fashion and how to look and feel your best.
Kelly Cooper is a Diversity and Inclusion Strategist, Business Transformation Leader, Executive Coach, and author of “Lead the Change – The Competitive Advantage of Gender Diversity and Inclusion”(GDI). A former mining and forestry executive, Kelly shares today how her work explaining the GDI value proposition and providing an actionable blueprint is making a transformational impact.
Christy Whitman is a New York Times bestselling author and transformational leader with a new book out this week, The Desire Factor. CEO and Founder of the Quantum Success Learning Academy and Quantum Success Coaching Academy, Christy now reaches 200,000 a month with her life-changing message. Today she shares how to manifest your desires, and secrets of the Law of Attraction, energy mastery, and abundance, plus wisdom from the Council of Light.
She has appeared on The Today Show, The Morning Show, TedX, and The Hallmark Channel, and her work has been featured in numerous publications and magazines. Christy teaches the Law of Attraction, energy mastery, and personal development classes, meditations, and private sessions to help clients feel more aligned with the Divine Design of wellbeing, abundance, and success.
Hilary DeCesare is an award-winning entrepreneur, Transformational Coach, CEO of The ReLaunch Co., featured speaker in the Silicon Valley and a relentless philanthropist. Host of the Silver Lined Relaunch podcast, she's made it her commitment to help women fire up possibilities mid-life. She shares her step-by-step plan to focus on inspiring business ventures, clarity in your relationships, and empower YOU as the creator of your purpose aligned lifestyle.
Mary Hyatt is a life and business mindset coach who specializes in helping high achieving female entrepreneurs move from living a life of burnout to a life where they are connected to their emotions, their body, and their spirit. She brings her coaching clients back to their enoughness, wholeness, and femininity. She also hosts the Living Fully Alive podcast.
Tara Garrison is a certified personal trainer, nutritionist and mindset coach who helps high performers including celebrities, professional athletes, and top executives optimize their health. She is the founder of HIGHER: Women Who Rise, a health optimization coaching experience for high performing women on a deep dive journey inside themselves, physiologically and psychologically.
Tiffany Kent is Founding Partner of Wealth Engagement LLC. Ms. Kent holds a BA in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is a Certified Financial Planner™ and serves as Board Chair of the Harvard Business School Club of Atlanta.
Carrie Kerpen is the co-founder and CEO of Likeable Media, the world’s first social media agency acquired this week by digital transformation group 10 Pearls. Likeable, named the sixth Best Place to Work in New York City by Crains, grew to serve clients like Airbnb and Stubhub, and Carrie was honored by the inaugural Campaign US Female Frontier Awards. Author of WORK IT: Secrets for Success from the Boldest Women in Business and a columnist for INC and Forbes, Carrie also hosts the podcast All The Social Ladies.
Patricia Gagic is an acclaimed international contemporary artist, serial entrepreneur in finance, and award-winning author. She is President of Patricia Karen Gagic Art Enterprise Inc., Co-founder of Help Heal Humanity and the Karmic Art Experience. Named Artist of the Year 2020 by Art Tour International Magazine, Patricia is represented by the Paul Fisher Gallery in West Palm Beach and Miami, 13th Street Gallery in St. Catharine’s and Gallery on the Bay in Hamilton, Canada, Artworld Fine Art in Toronto, and FACEC In France.
Susie Carder started out as a low paid hairdresser trying to support her 2 little girls. So she decided to do whatever it took to create her own business. After much blood sweat and tears she went on to create, not one, but two $10 million companies. Author of 10 books including her latest, Power Your Profits, Susie shares her core genius: How to simplify complicated issues by creating simple proven systems that are guaranteed to create dramatic growth. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Gitte Pedersen is a scientist and CEO on a mission to cure cancer leveraging pioneering breakthroughs in RNA. Gitte started Genomic Expression together with her brother, Morten Pedersen, after her parents were diagnosed with cancer understanding that if they did standard of care none of them would survive. Learn today how she pivoted her technologies to create a rapid Covid test, and how she’s innovating personalized medicine.
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Lauren Renee is a spiritual mentor for visionary entrepreneurs, conscious sexuality leader and divine orchestrator of New Earth Empires.
Lauren inspires leaders to harness the power of their life force, break through scarcity-based conditioning and create change by becoming the embodiment of their visions, now. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Michele Ashby is on a mission to train 1,000 women to take their place on corporate boards. Founder and CEO of Ashby Consulting Enterprises and ACE, Michele shares how women can land lucrative directorships. With 30 years of experience as a gold specialist, financial expert, independent corporate director and successful entrepreneur, Michele was named one of the Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Colorado. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Mridu Parikh is the creator of Life Is Organized, helping women entrepreneurs save 10 hours a week on emails and texts, increase billable time from one to five hours a day, and decrease overwhelm from a level 10 to a level 5 with just a few tweaks to your daily routine. Listen to learn productivity hacks and systems so you never feel overwhelmed again.
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Amanda Ross is the owner of SparkLab - a creative agency with a focus on product development, planning and branding. She works with female entrepreneurs and small biz owners to strategically design their product and online brand to connect with their audience and grow their piggy bank. Learn today the courage to differentiate your brand, how to connect your true passion and purpose with the right customers, and the power of saying “no”. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Sandra Francisco is a business coach and the co-founder of Human Potential International, helping entrepreneurs go from idea to profit by integrating their personal growth into the process so they fulfill their true purpose and achieve extraordinary profit. A marketing and product development executive at some of Canada’s Fortune 10 companies until a personal crisis took her on a different path, Sandra leverages her corporate success with her expertise on the dynamics of the human psyche. Join the conversation about mindset and the power of vulnerability on the Podopolo podcast app.
Rebecca Friese, a Workplace Crusader, transforms organizations by identifying and innovating outdated people practices. Author of The Good Culture: The Leader’s Guide to Creating a Workplace That Doesn’t Suck, Rebecca shares a step-by-step approach to operationalizing a great people strategy so you can recruit and retain top talent and boost the success of your company. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Dr. Rhoberta Shaler, PhD, helps people all over the world navigate the relentlessly difficult, toxic humans in their lives. Raised by a pack of narcissistic Hijackals®, Dr. Rhoberta is intimately acquainted with the survival skills required in toxic relationships. Host of the popular Save Your Sanity podcast, she shares how to rid yourself and avoid crazy-making gaslighting that can crush your confidence, dim your light, and sap your success. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
April Sheris is CEO of Upland Avenue Productions, a diverse portfolio of publishing, media, and technology properties. April is also an advocate for economic and social responsibility, launching a literary networking platform to bridge the relationship between the film, literary and journalism industries and foster new relationships with leaders in the state of Louisiana, as well as, placing indie writers in front of industry insiders and fellow peers.
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Krista Mashore recently took her new business, from zero to $7.4 million in just 25 short months using online digital strategies. A former teacher with a Masters Degree in Curriculum and Instruction, Krista is the recipient of FOUR prestigious Two Comma-Club Awards. She’s also is the author of four bestselling books focusing on digital marketing, so listen today so you don’t miss these hacks to grow your business…fast. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Selle Evans is founder and CEO of Masterly Business Solutions, a fast-growing digital marketing agency for women entrepreneurs specializing in personalized, automated and data-driven solutions to attract, engage and convert target customers. Acknowledged as one of Houston’s top CEOs and on the Inc 5000 list, Selle shares her journey as a woman of color, the secrets of her success, and marketing hacks you won’t want to miss.
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Clarissa Burt is the CEO and Founder of In the Limelight, a multi-media platform with video, podcast and a quarterly digital magazine to showcase entrepreneurs globally to create brand awareness, share insights and exchange ideas. Today she shares what she’s learned along the way as an internationally acclaimed media personality, producer, director, writer, author, public speaker, former supermodel and winner of the Celebrity Survivor show. Clarissa has graced the cover of over 250 fashion and beauty magazine covers including Vogue and has walked the runway for many major international clothing designers like Versace. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Jill Johnson is the Co-founder and CEO of the Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership and Women of Color Connecting. With nearly 30 years of experience as a business strategist with expertise in financial analysis, marketing, and business development, Jill is building a growing ecosystem connecting people around gender and racial parity – with authentic conversations, networking, and conscious action to address institutionalized racism. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Jyotsna Ramachandran, founder of the Author Success Academy, is a bestselling author, book publisher, TEDx speaker, and an international Author Success Coach who helps coaches, trainers, speakers, and experts to get their books written without overwhelm and build a super-profitable author funnel with the help of their book.
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Actor, singer, and certified wellness coach Debra Wanger has performed in theaters, cabarets, and screens from New York to Los Angeles. While working at Creative Artists Agency, she helped guide the careers of many top names, including Halle Berry and Antonio Banderas. A sought after speaker and bestselling author of The Resilient Actor: How to Kick-Ass in the Business Without it Kicking Your Ass, she shares today how acting made her a better entrepreneur and why your health is your greatest asset.
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Rachel Haley is the co-founder of Clarus Designs, growing the company to 100 employees worldwide, also as Snowflake’s senior director of sales operations and strategy, growing revenue 10X and scaling a team from 300 to 2,000. Rachel started out at Hall Capital Partners in the portfolio management group, focusing on portfolio management, market analysis and financial modeling. She shares her recipe for “flawless execution” and much more. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Ashley Micciche is the CEO of True North Retirement Advisors, specializing in designing, building, and implementing custom-designed exit plans to help business owners grow their valuation and have a lucrative wealth-building exit from their businesses. Listen for specific tips, and join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Natalie’s career has taken her from Silicon Valley to the Fortune 100 and into entrepreneurship, but being raised in Republic, OH (population 600) is where she learned her greatest leadership lessons. Now CEO of Small Town Leadership and author of “Let Her Out”, Natalie shares how these leadership lessons to help leaders and organizations create big success in the world. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Nancy Michieli’s new program Luv2bMe inspires women to be more “Fun, Flirty, and Fabulous” in Life and Business. After 25 years as an Oil and Gas Executive, Nancy transformed her life and now is a certified Rapid Transformational Therapy Practitioner, Consulting Hypnotist, Holistic Life, Career and Executive Coach, Canadian Sommelier, Chemical Engineer, and Amateur Ballroom Dancer. We talk about how to fall back in love with your true feminine self and leverage your feminine power to grow your business.
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Jodi Flynn of Women Taking the Lead is a coach for high-achieving women who are recovering from their last big opportunity or getting ready for the next one. The bestselling author of Accomplished: How to Go from Dreaming to Doing, Jodi is also host of the critically acclaimed Women Taking the Lead podcast, and we talk about the power of podcasting to grow your business. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Jenny Fenig is founder of Magic Makers Coach Certification, training professionals in the craft and business of intuitive coaching. She helps you amplify your results by doing less, and focuses on empowering creative women entrepreneurs and corporate leaders to increase their confidence, impact, money and time-freedom by mixing modern with ancient practices. Today we talk about the power channeling inspiration, being in flow, and juggling homeschooling with growing a business. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Maruxa Murphy is known as the “Community Architect” who builds communities for change and impact makers in a way that blends the good of people, purpose and profit into one another. Founder of Perky, Perky coffee, Maruxa juggles it all as a mom of three girls and 2 dogs. We talk about how to grow and engage a community authentically on social media, how Coronavirus is impacting how we connect, and much more. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Michelle Seiler Tucker is a 20-year veteran in mergers & acquisitions, selling hundreds of businesses. Recognized as a leading authority on buying, selling, fixing, and growing businesses, Michelle sees opportunity where many are discouraged or have given up. Her passion is to save businesses that might otherwise close. Today she shares why it is never to early to plan your exit, as well as how she closes nearly 98% of all written offers and, on average, obtains 20-40% above the asking price for her clients. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Isabel Donadio is a 25-year-old dynamo supporting authors to become Amazon bestsellers and speakers to grace stages (and more likely these days, Zoom calls). She’s the founder of Talent Support Services, the majority owner of Speaker House Publishing, the best selling author of Finishing is Happiness, and the winner of the 2019 TWC Most Outstanding Rising Star Award. She shares important insights on how to use books and speaker gigs to grow your business. Join the conversation on the free Podopolo social podcast app.
Grace Beason’s entrepreneurial journey sparked an unexpected spiritual journey – and a pivot from a successful wedding planning business to a coaching company that helps women in their 40s shift their mindset, reach their goals, and LOVE their lives. She shares her recipe for reinvention, and much more. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Melinda Wittstock, 5-time serial entrepreneur, looks back on what was a tough, tragic, and transformational year, helps you find the silver linings in the pattern interrupt, and set the course for an intentional 2021, so you can align with your true purpose, focus your actions to achieve more working less, and why her word of the New Year is simply “being”.
Cynthia Del'Aria started coding at age 8 and has built and sold 3 software companies and now runs startup incubator Raika Technologies, helping tech entrepreneurs find the “killer feature” and move from idea to scale. A board member of A11ow, a media investment company helping to change the game for female founders seeking capital, Cynthia shares her entrepreneurial journey, the common mistakes founders make at all stages of business growth, and why failure must be your friend. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Anna DiGilio taught 7-year-olds for 23 years before catching the entrepreneurial bug and building a 7-figure virtual education company featured in Forbes Magazine. Anna is scaling fast in the Coronavirus Pandemic as the CEO of Guided Readers, and now also coaches other business owners to grasp their goals by educating and guiding them in how to grow and scale their business online. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Shani Godwin is an accomplished entrepreneur, author, blogger, podcaster and speaker. She is also known as Chief Joy Officer and has over 17 years of experience leading her high-growth marketing firm, Communiqué USA, where she helps small businesses take the guesswork out of marketing, telling their story and growing their businesses the right way. Now more than ever it’s vital to inspire a happy workplace culture, so join our conversation on the free app Podopolo.
Mary Crafts possesses a relentless, badass, all-in, 100% zest for life. Founding of Culinary Crafts, Utah’s largest off-premise catering company, with only $150 to her name, Mary has created thousands of impressive events for over 35 years before selling to her kids. One of Utah’s most influential women, Mary has reinvented herself as a motivational coach, author and podcaster. We talk reinvention, integrity and what it takes to succeed in business. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Gay Hendricks and Carol Kline are the co-authors of Conscious Luck: Eight Secrets to Intentionally Change Your Fortune. Luminaries and bestselling authors in personal development, Gay and Carol share at this challenging time why luck is a choice, the 8 steps to manifest it, and why Coronavirus presents the perfect opportunity to embrace the science of luck. Gay is also author of The Big Leap and advises entrepreneurial superstars like Michael Dell and Suzy Batiz of Poo-Pourri, and Carol is the New York Times bestselling author of 5 books including Happy for No Reason. Join the conversation on the free interactive Podopolo podcast app.
Tania Peitzker is a pioneer in XR (extended reality) & CogX avatars in Europe, and the co-founder of AI Bots as a Service, a mixed reality tech venture for 2D and 3D bespoke avatars. Today we talk innovation and making a market on the bleeding edge, plus women in tech and how to raise capital. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Jen Grant has spent the last 15 years building companies from the ground-up and taking multiple companies such as Box and Looker to over a billion dollar valuation as a CMO. She also spent 4 years at Google, leading the Google Apps EDU, Gmail, and Book Search marketing teams. Now, she’s moved into the early stage CEO role at Appify, the “no code” platform for mobile apps. We talk product-market fit, marketing and sales in the age of Covid, and why women CEOs are the future. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Susie Carder started out as a low paid hairdresser trying to support her 2 little girls. So she decided to do whatever it took to create her own business. After much blood sweat and tears she went on to create, not one, but two $10 million companies. Author of 10 books including her latest, Power Your Profits, Susie shares her core genius: How to simplify complicated issues by creating simple proven systems that are guaranteed to create dramatic growth. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Pragito Dove is a global authority on Expressive Meditation helping entrepreneurs, leaders, and CEO’s align their mindset to allow more peace, time, and financial freedom. An internationally recognized author with a new Amazon #1 bestseller “LUNCHTIME ENLIGHTENMENT”, Pragito shares why subconscious unworthiness is the biggest block for women entrepreneurs, how to release limiting beliefs, and invest in your inner self to realize outer success. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Melinda Wittstock is a five-time serial entrepreneur who has built four successful businesses in digital media and tech. She’s the CEO and Founder of the world’s first social and gamified podcast app and player, Podopolo. Today, as people grieve those lost to Coronavirus and struggle with lost jobs or businesses, Melinda shares her daily gratitude practice that sparked her success by helping her find alignment with her true passion and purpose. Join Melinda to learn how to use gratitude practically in your life – and to learn what she is grateful for today.
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Elisha Covey is the co-founder of an eight-figure business portfolio including a company she scaled 4000% in less than 5 years. She is also an advocate for entrepreneurship. One of her construction firms has worked with the most recognizable companies in the space, including AECOM, Turner, and Balfour Beatty, and recently won the bid for work on a billion-dollar mixed-use development backed by Berkshire Hathaway.
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Kara Goldin is the Founder and CEO of Hint, Inc., best known for its award-winning unsweetened flavored Hint® water, and the author of Undaunted: Overcoming Doubts & Doubters. Also an active speaker, writer and host of the podcast The Kara Goldin Show where she interviews founders, entrepreneurs and other disruptors across various industries, Kara shares how she overcame myriad setbacks and challenges to build Hint® into a $2bn business.
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Diana Goodwin is Founder & CEO of MarketBox, a B2B sales and scheduling software designed to solve the unique challenges of businesses with mobile workforces. Diana initially founded and bootstrapped AquaMobile, an on-demand swim lesson provider, now the largest of its kind in North America and Australia. She shares the secrets of bootstrapping, how to get customer validation, and how her AquaMobile software gave her the opportunity to start and spin out the fast-scaling MarketBox.
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Megan Dahle started her Consulting CFO business after 15 years in the corporate accounting world to help business owners have “light-bulb” moments. She makes the numbers easy to understand and use so her clients can grow stronger, cash-generating businesses and rest assured that they know what’s coming up the road. Listen to learn how to avoid the common mistakes most entrepreneurs make, and join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Sarah Jolly is rocket fuel, a powerful mixture of multi-disciplinary experience and leadership, gifted at simplifying and solving complex problems. The CFO/COO of the fast-growing tech company Point Solutions Group, Sarah shares why operational systems, team culture, and predictable revenue generation processes change the game for any company wanting to grow, plus how to make winning fun for her team, tips for when and how to hire your COO, and why women must help each other in business. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Liza Spiridon is an entrepreneur and numerologist, with a passion to decode your numbers in a tangible way to catalyze the life you truly desire. She’s worked with clients from around the world, and today we talk about how to leverage numerology in your business, whether hiring compatible team members, planning the perfect launch date, or simply aligning with your true purpose for increased prosperity. Join the conversation on the free Podopolo podcast app.
Sydney Witt is a 17-year-old singer-songwriter with 3 singles out including “Mr. President” who is using her voice to empower herself and other young women like her to find their joy, their purpose, their confidence – and change the world. Daughter of 5-time serial entrepreneur Melinda Wittstock, Sydney shares her musical journey and what she’s learned from watching her mom build 5 businesses. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Tasha Smith is the founder of Emerge Sales Training and the author of Customer First. She and her team have helped more than 8,000 entrepreneurs in network marketing improve their sales, recruiting, leadership, and social media skills, all while being a good human. Today we talk sales mindset, how to overcome your fears, and succeed by helping your customer. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Shani Godwin is an accomplished entrepreneur, author, blogger, podcaster and speaker. She is also known as Chief Joy Officer and has over 17 years of experience leading her high-growth marketing firm, Communiqué USA. She is also an expert at helping small businesses take the guesswork out of marketing, telling their story and growing their businesses the right way.
Join our conversation on the free app Podopolo about how to create an inspiring and happy workplace culture.
Isabel Donadio is a 25-year-old dynamo supporting authors to become Amazon bestsellers and speakers to grace stages (and more likely these days, Zoom calls). She’s the founder of Talent Support Services, the majority owner of Speaker House Publishing, the best selling author of Finishing is Happiness, and the winner of the 2019 TWC Most Outstanding Rising Star Award. She shares important insights on how to use books and speaker gigs to grow your business.Join the conversation on the free Podopolo social podcast app.
Cricket Lee is an entrepreneur and inventor on a mission to change the pattern in fashion, literally. CEO and Founder of Botasci, Cricket’s “universal fit standard software” and “shop by body shape” online data profile algorithms, enables women to get the perfect fit when they buy online. Learn from Cricket’s inspiring journey, and join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Dr. Anna Cabeca is an internationally acclaimed menopause and sexual health expert and pioneering promoter of women’s health and integrative medicine. She created the successful and popular alkaline superfoods drink Mighty Maca® PLUS, and a top selling rejuvenating feminine vulvar cream for women, Julva®. Triple board-certified in gynecology and obstetrics, anti-aging and regenerative medicine, author of “The Hormone Fix” and the “Keto Green Diet”, Dr. Anna shares what women can do right now to boost their immune systems, and thrive in business, during Coronavirus. More at https://melindawittstock.com/wingspodcast Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Michelle Norris is the inspirational co-founder and CEO of Paleo f(x)™, the largest Paleo platform and event in the world, and shares today how a devastating tragedy and a crushing financial loss led her on a journey of personal healing and business growth. We talk about the immune-boosting power of the Paleo Lifestyle, the healing power of plant medicine, how to pivot during Coronavirus, and much more. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Anna DiGilio has gone from teaching 7-year-olds for the past 23 years to being featured in Forbes Magazine for building a 7-figure virtual education company. Anna is scaling fast in the Coronavirus Pandemic as the CEO of Guided Readers, and now also coaches other business owners to grasp their goals by educating and guiding them in how to grow and scale their business online. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Andrea J. Simon, Ph.D. (“Andi”) is an international leader in corporate anthropology, an Axiom bronze Best Business Book of 2017 winning author of On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights, podcaster, and president of Simon Associates Management Consultants (SAMC). Andi’s forthcoming book Rethink: Smashing the Myths of Women in Business, shows how women are challenging expected norms and crashing through. Join the conversation on the free app Podopolo.
Natasha Mitchell is the Founder of Inspire & Drive, Creator of the S.I.M.P.L.E Business Method ™ and a #1 international bestselling author. She is a business strategy and efficiency expert who helps Creative business owners scale with ease and without a big team or a big budget. Learn how to double down on what you love and put the systems in place to avoid overwhelm and burnout.Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Jennifer Teixeira is the founder of Sweet, Sweet Honey Hawaii, a children’s clothing brand inspired by Hawaiian prints and cute, functional designs. Jennifer shares how she grew her company while fighting breast cancer and raising three kids, plus the challenges of growing her business during Covid.
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Shelley Paxton is a former Harley Davidson exec turned international speaker, transformational leadership coach, and author of the newly Simon and Schuster published book, Soulbbatical: A Corporate Rebel’s Guide to Finding Your Best Life. Today she shares how to liberate yourself from burnout, find your inner GPS, and create “ripples of impact” with your rebel leadership. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app
Elle Russ is the author of Confident As Fuk and the best-selling The Paleo Thyroid Solution*, her systems helping thousands of people around the world reclaim their health. Listen to learn how to overcome self-judgment, shame, and imposter syndrome and step into your self-accepting, confident self, as Elle vulnerably shares her journey after she permanently lost the use of her two hands. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app
Cynthia Del'Aria started coding at age 8 and has built and sold 3 software companies and now runs startup incubator Raika Technologies, helping tech entrepreneurs find the “killer feature” and move from idea to scale. A board member of A11ow, a media investment company helping to change the game for female founders seeking capital, Cynthia shares her entrepreneurial journey, the common mistakes founders make at all stages of business growth, and why failure must be your friend. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Gull Khan is a top international lawyer turned Intuitive Life Coach, EFT leader, Energy healer, podcaster, author and Money Mindset expert. She shares the 4 Money Mindsets, how to overcome imposter syndrome, know your value, and wealth and abundance in your life and business. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app
Divya Parekh is an authority positioning advisor, business coach, and #9-time 1 Bestselling Author. CEO and founder of Dreams Accelerator, Divya has worked with thousands of entrepreneurs, authors, and leaders, across six continents, to authentically position themselves to build a purpose-based brand and business. Join the conversation on the free Podopolo app.
Julie Ciardi is a former Fortune 500 marketing VP turned multi-passionate entrepreneur. Founder of Ignite University and host of IGNITE Your Side Hustle podcast, Julie believes that there has never been a better time for women to create an additional income stream aligned to her passions and purpose on this planet. We talk about the leap from corporate to startup, plus how to discover and double-down on your unique purpose and prosper.
Kathy Gruver is a 12-time award-winning author of 7 books including Conquer Your Stress, Workplace Wellness, and Journey of Healing. A PhD with a successful hypnotherapy and coaching business and co-host of the new podcast Fire and Earth who overcomes her own fears flying the trapeze, Kathy shares how to overcome fear, anxiety, and imposter syndrome, plus how to get that book written that’s been on your ‘to-do’ list for years. Join the conversation on the free Podopolo app.
Kate Byrne is President of Intentional/SOCAP Global, a worldwide platform driving social impact, purpose-driven leadership, racial and gender equity. She’s activated her strategic creativity and revenue generation skills at public and private blue-chip brands, playing executive leadership roles at Fast Company, BusinessWeek, Inc, Watermark, Tides Foundation, George Lucas Education Foundation, Future LLC. We talk about why women entrepreneurs are leading the way in innovating at the intersection of “money and meaning”. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app
Rachael Jackson is the founder of Tribal app, launching May 2020. She raised $2,000,000 million and validated with 2,500 users with a 95% retention rate. Rachael is also a graduate of the United States Military Academy, a former Army Captain and Apache helicopter pilot. Listen to learn the secrets of the “warrior spirit”, what it takes to raise millions for your startup, and how storytelling can create meaningful connection and inspire effective teams.Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app
Ana Maria Raynes is a serial entrepreneur, digital marketing expert, and owner of the marketing agency, Simplified Impact. She studied at the London College of Fashion and credits her previous life in fashion as the co-founder of the startup Smart is Cool for her creativity and high energy. Today we talk scaling, systems, how to avoid mom guilt and much more. Be sure to join the conversation over on the free app Podopolo
Dr. Jenna Zigler started out as an optometrist and before long realized she could help more people in business than she could seeing patients one-on-one. She took the entrepreneurial leap co-founding EyeLove with a mission to heal one million sufferers of dry eye naturally. We talk about what it takes to start and scale a business, why success always begins with a mission, and how Jenna is using her business to “give forward” to help those in need with the Eye Love Cares Foundation.
Chairidee Smith, known as Ms. Mogul®, is the founder and CEO of MoguLife Real Estate®, MoguL-U Real Estate Academy®, Mommies Creating Economies®, Global Center for Women's Leadership, Girls Global Leadership Day, and Create Your Own Economy® movement. A staunch advocate for women’s voices in business to legislators, championing funding and opportunities for women to build sustainable and viable economic power, Chairidee shares how to summon you inner lioness and why “adversity is God’s university.”
Cynthia Del'Aria started coding at age 8 and has built and sold 3 software companies and now runs startup incubator Raika Technologies, helping tech entrepreneurs find the “killer feature” and move from idea to scale. A board member of A11ow, a media investment company helping to change the game for female founders seeking capital, Cynthia shares her entrepreneurial journey, the common mistakes founders make at all stages of business growth, and why failure must be your friend. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Mary Crafts possesses a relentless, badass, all-in, 100% zest for life. Founding of Culinary Crafts, Utah’s largest off-premise catering company, with only $150 to her name, Mary has created thousands of impressive events for over 35 years before selling to her kids. One of Utah’s most influential women, Mary has reinvented herself as a motivational coach, author and podcaster. We talk reinvention, integrity and what it takes to succeed in business. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app
Erika Flint is a software-developer turned award-winning hypnotist, co-host of the popular podcast series Hypnosis, Etc. and founder of Cascade Hypnosis Center. The 3-time best-selling author and speaker on hypnosis and the self-actualized mind shares her journey, and how the best entrepreneurs leverage hypnosis to overcome fears, bad habits, and limiting beliefs. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Shayna Norwood was a professional visual artist before she took the entrepreneurial leap and founded her company, Steel Petal Press to share beauty and humor with the world through her collection of handmade stationery. Shayna shares her journey, plus how to overcome the often crippling anxieties and fears along the ups and downs of business. Join the conversation on the Podopolo podcast app.
Denice Gierach is a serial entrepreneur and business lawyer with 30 years of experience representing family-owned businesses and privately-held companies, serving as general counsel and helping them with both their legal and business tax needs. Today we talk about the power of reinvention, how to leverage failure for growth, and how to plan for your business exit and legacy. Join the conversation on Podopolo.
Jamie Shapiro is an executive coach, consultant, and CEO of Connected EC, a leading authority on connecting wellbeing with leadership performance.
Today Jamie shares how to cope best with the entrepreneurial “rollercoaster”, how to ride the ups and downs with self-care and “full body leadership” and how to leverage failures along the way as learning.
Allison Andrews is the Founder of Fashion Week San Diego, President of APA Business Consulting and Executive Director of FAB Authority. Listen to learn how Allison proved the naysayers wrong, launching FSWD in 2007 to enable independent and young designers to be discovered. She shares how she’s pivoted to a virtual event during Coronavirus, plus her insights on a fast-changing fashion industry and when to sell your business.
Michelle McCormack is the Founder and CEO at Casting Coin, a platform transforming the fashion and entertainment industries. A former fashion photographer who has worked with the most iconic brands in the world, Michelle taught herself how to code so she could solve problems she witnessed first-hand including lack of opportunity, unfair payment practices, production inefficiencies, and more.
Connie Benjamin is the #1 International Bestselling Author of the book Women With Fire, international speaker, and the host of My Fire Within podcast. Listen to learn Connie’s system to help women entrepreneurs live their purpose through their work without losing their family, or themselves, along the way. Join the conversation on the free Podopolo app.
Bianca "Modo" Isom is a serial entrepreneur, the best-selling author of Unscarred: Prayer for Healing, and transformational speaker. Bianca helps business owners and thought leaders enhance their credibility, presence, and positioning by healing from within to embrace their personal power.
Today we talk about inner transformation, inspired branding, and how to be an inclusive leader of a diverse team.
Caitlin Pyle is a 33-year-old mediapreneur and founder of Proofread Anywhere and Work-At-Home School. Caitlin hosts the Work-At-Home Heroes podcast along with a popular community Facebook and the social podcast network Podopolo. She’s also the author of Work At Home, a beginner's guide designed to help people overcome common obstacles so they can generate more freedom and income on their OWN terms.
Geeta Sidhu-Robb is a mother, author, inspirational speaker, CEO and Founder of Nosh Detox. She gave up her career as a corporate lawyer to retrain as a raw chef and functional nutritionist in the middle of the 2008 financial meltdown severe to help her baby boy combat severe food allergies, eczema, asthma and anaphylaxis. It led her to create the award-winning multimillion-dollar business, Nosh Detox helping many women including celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow rebalance hormone and gut health and transform their health.
Mary Silver is an award-winning business, sales and success coach helping heart-centered service providers become profitable by mastering their sales process. Seen on ABC, NBC, CBC, Fox, Bustle, Medium, and many more, Mary shares her secrets of “seductive selling”, mindset, and how to build financial wealth.
Tracey Bissett is on a mission to redefine the economic future of the world by improving the financial literacy of entrepreneurs. A former TD Bank executive, Tracey made the leap from corporate to entrepreneurship and now works with entrepreneurs and small business owners to increase their financial acumen so they can make decisions and run their businesses with confidence. Learn how to avoid the common money mistakes most entrepreneurs make so you can grow profitably and find investment.
Sophia Sunwoo is a 3-time startup founder selling her first business at age 22. Now founder and CEO of Ascent Strategy, she helps female founders get their companies off the ground with a strategy for scaling. We talk about what it takes for female founders to succeed, plus why an impact mission can grow profitability and valuation of your business.
Dr. Heidi Forbes Öste, Behavioral Scientist and Digital Wellbeing Advisor, is the best-selling author of Digital Self Mastery series and executive producer of the Evolving Digital Self and Global Nomad Hacks podcasts. Managing partner of 2BalanceU, her mantra is Knowledge is Power, Sharing is Powerful™, and we talk about how to avoid being triggered by all that judgmental flame-throwing on social media, plus why travel opens the mind and our creativity.
Cordelia Gaffar is an “Emotions Opener Transformation Strategist” helping people replenish themselves to lead healthy and joyous lives. Host of Free to be Me podcast, honored as the Powerhouse Global Best Podcast Host of 2019 in the UK and the ACHI Magazine Volunteer of the Year, Cordelia is also the best-selling co-author of America’s Leading Ladies. Learn how to live your true purpose and why it often means confronting, releasing and overcoming deep subconscious emotions.
Trudi Lebron is a former teen mother of two and high school “opt-out” who now transforms lives and businesses as a coach, diversity expert, and impact strategist for entrepreneurs and multi-million-dollar executives in the personal development and transformation space. As businesses look anew at their hiring, marketing, and operations with a new awareness and desire to tackle institutionalized racism, Trudi shares her own journey, and how business owners can create inclusive, diverse, and impactful communities for mission-driven impact.
Julie Reisler is the founder of the School of Sacredology, an online community to help you unlock your heart intelligence and inner wisdom.
Julie is the bestselling author of Get a PhD in YOU, hosts the You’est You podcast, coaches mindfulness on the app Insight Timer, and teaches at Georgetown University. Today she shares her journey of healing, why women must collaborate to succeed, and why success comes to those who live in the “now”.
Sarah Olivieri is a nonprofit business strategist, #1 international bestselling author, and a former nonprofit Executive Director who now helps nonprofit teams as CEO and Founder of the for-profit PivotGround. Her Impact Method™ is a framework that helps nonprofits simplify their operations, build aligned teams, and make a bigger impact without overwhelm. Today she shares why a social impact mission does not necessarily translate into nonprofit status, why money mindset issues can cause women to gravitate to the nonprofit world, and how to succeed with nonprofit status without burnout.
Kris Plachy is the creator of the Lead Your Team Roadmap, author and host of the Lead Your Team Podcast, and a proven expert in entrepreneurial management helping hundreds of business leaders build and manage great teams so they can scale their businesses. We talk about why how you live is how you lead, why self-aware leadership is a responsibility, the 5 Steps to hire and inspire a great team, and why when one woman thrives, all women thrive.
Christie Kerner is a 7-time serial entrepreneur who has scaled 3 other multi-million-dollar companies, led global teams of thousands, and has coached and mentored hundreds of founders. Now the CEO and Founder of My Little Mascara Club, a Fractional CPO and Executive Coach at H Factor, and the Director of Venture Development for StartupAZ, Christie shares why self-awareness, emotional intelligence, embracing change and constant learning, and letting go of subconscious limiting beliefs are vital for success.
Megan Fenyoe is an Air Force Veteran, Licensed Clinical Mental Health Therapist (LCSW), Speaker and Trainer, Host of The Blonde Bombshell Podcast and I Am Enough TV and Founder of the international I Am Enough Movement a 501c3 Non-Profit Organization.
Diane Halfman was an undercover cop busting Johns and violent gangs, and now she helps women find self-empowerment as the founder of SPALife. Leveraging a Masters in Human Resources Management and Certification as a Life Coach, Diane moves women from emergency to emergence. Her podcast, “Live Your SPAlife” is a call to action for all women to define and create the life they truly want.
Manijeh Goldberg is the founder and CEO of Privo Technologies, a trailblazing oncology company transforming the future of oral cancer therapy. Manijeh arrived alone in the U.S. from Iran at age 17 without much English, and went on to build 5 startups in biotech, selling one of her companies for $475 million. Today she shares how entrepreneurs can overcome any obstacle, how Coronavirus is impacting her company, what lessons all entrepreneurs can learn from it, including using this time to develop a strong team and deeper customer relationships.
Dr. Mickra Hamilton is Co-Founder and CEO of Apeiron Zoh Corporation, where a she is a “Human Systems Designer” with a mission to enable us all to live a limitless life. A creative disruptor in the field of Precision Human Performance, Mickra shares her mission to lead a billion people to optimum health and consciousness by 2025 using her cutting-edge mix of epigenetics, 3D sound-scaping virtual reality programming, and more. We talk about how women entrepreneurs are uniquely suited to reinventing broken systems exposed by Coronavirus.
Melinda Wittstock is a 5-time serial entrepreneur and the CEO and Founder of Podopolo.com, the world’s first socially interactive podcasting network where listeners win rewards as they engage with podcasters and each other. Melinda celebrates her 500th Wings episode today by sharing her proven secrets on how to create a magnetic, sustainable and profitable podcast. You can join Melinda and her guests for a LIVE and Interactive video zoom at https://wingspodcast.com/500
Dr. Anna Cabeca is an internationally acclaimed menopause and sexual health expert and pioneering promoter of women’s health and integrative medicine. She created the successful and popular alkaline superfoods drink Mighty Maca® PLUS, and a top selling rejuvenating feminine vulvar cream for women, Julva®. Triple board-certified in gynecology and obstetrics, anti-aging and regenerative medicine, author of “The Hormone Fix” and the “Keto Green Diet”, Dr. Anna shares what women can do right now to boost their immune systems, and thrive in business, during Coronavirus. More at https://melindawittstock.com/wingspodcast
Gail Zelitzky and Catherine Marienau are the co-hosts of the podcast Women Over 70 – Aging Reimagined where they highlight the “golden year” successes of many women who find their entrepreneurial spirit late in life. Gail is a two-time, multi-million-dollar business owner and founder of
GEARSHIFT™, an innovative, fast-track business coaching program. Catherine is an educational entrepreneur and Ph.D. and teaches, writes and consults on women and aging, neuroscience and adult learning. More at https://melindawittstock.com/wingspodcast
Gay Hendricks and Carol Kline are the co-authors of a groundbreaking new book debuting today called Conscious Luck: Eight Secrets to Intentionally Change Your Fortune. Both luminaries and bestselling authors in personal development, Gay and Carol share why luck is a choice, the 8 steps to manifest it, and why Coronavirus presents the perfect opportunity to embrace the science of luck. Gay is also author of The Big Leap and advises entrepreneurial superstars like Michael Dell and Suzy Batiz of Poo-Pourri, and Carol is the New York Times bestselling author of 5 books including Happy for No Reason. More at https://melindawittstock.com/wingspodcast And get Podopolo to join the conversation at https://podopolo.com/download
Angela Henderson built and sold the successful online store Finlee and Me and now leverages what she learned helping women business owners get all the pieces in place to have consistent 5-figure months and multiple 6-figure years without burning out in the process. Today Angela shares her 7 Profit Pillars for building and sustaining a high-growth business, plus why the power of your network equals your net worth. We talk human-to-human connection via podcasting with systems to convert prospects into returning customers is the recipe for success.
Steffani LeFevour is a bestselling author and personal growth junkie. Through her passion of coaching and writing she's helped thousands of people master their mindset and transform their relationships so they can live happier on a daily basis. Today she shares important mindset advice and important self-care routines we all need right now during Coronavirus.
Michelle Norris is the inspirational co-founder and CEO of Paleo f(x)™, the largest Paleo platform and event in the world, and shares today how a devastating tragedy and a crushing financial loss led her on a journey of personal healing and business growth. We talk about the immune-boosting power of the Paleo Lifestyle, the healing power of plant medicine, how to pivot during Coronavirus, and much more.
Margy Feldhuhn is the co-owner of Interview Connections, the first and leading podcast booking agency. Margy and her business partner Jessica lead an in-house team of 20 employees and have successfully scaled the agency to 7 figures. We talk about the power of podcasting to grow your business, whether you have your own podcast or appear on podcasts, plus future trends in podcasting and how to scale your business.
Sharón Lynn Wyeth is the Founder of Neimology® Science, the study of what the placement of the letters in a name reveals about a personality and life path. Bestselling author of Know the Name; Know the Person, Sharón helps HR departments hire, lawyers select juries, and business owners name their products and services. Today Sharón shares what the words Coronavirus and COVID-19 tell us about the lessons to be learned in this time.
Kristi Holt is a 10-time serial entrepreneur, emotional healer, and teacher, giving people insight and knowledge about the underlying emotions that are being felt and how to shift them. She is the founder and CEO of an innovative voice technology company, Vibeonix, that gives biofeedback of one’s emotional and mental vibration all by counting to 100. We talk about what it takes to launch a business during a Pandemic, how to leverage your intuition, and why now is the time to be proactive and not reactive.
Renée Warren is an award-winning entrepreneur and the founder of We Wild Women, a business dedicated to helping women launch their dream business.
Isabelle Tierney is transforming lives and businesses with her ability to infuse the science of mindfulness, psychology, and spirituality into simple-to-apply systems. A conscious entrepreneur, behavioral scientist and mindfulness expert, Isabelle shares today how we can move from the reactive “red zone” of fear into the proactive “green zone” of love and manifest inspiring changes in our lives right now.
Mia Hewett is the founder of Aligned Intelligence™, a methodology that helps entrepreneurs remove blind spots, fear, anxiety, imposter syndrome, and self-doubt so you can align with your true purpose. Mia is the founder of several seven-figure businesses, an international speaker, and a world-class business coach, and today she shares why anything triggering you during Coronavirus is an opportunity to unearth and let go of limiting beliefs and subconscious blocks to your success, fulfilment and prosperity.
Laura DiBenedetto is the author of The Six Habits, an insightful program that teaches entrepreneurs how to create our dream life without changing who we are. A serial entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of Vision Advertising, Laura helped hundreds of companies build and grow profitable enterprises before burning out and retiring at only 37. She sought to understand the habits of uncompromising success in alignment with your unique purpose and passion.
Megan Fenyoe is the founder of the I Am Enough Movement, host of I Am Enough TV and Author of “You Are Enough: 5 Steps to Move from Struggle to Strength”. An Air Force Veteran, Licensed Clinical Mental Health Therapist (LCSW), Speaker and Trainer, Megan shares today on our Mentoring Minisode how to find resilience and purpose in your vulnerability and authenticity.
Lisa Sasevich is known as the “Queen of Sales Conversions” teaching more than 15,000 mission-driven entrepreneurs how to sell without being “salesy” as CEO of the Inc 500 company, The Invisible Close. Like many great businesses, hers was born in a time of adversity after being fired from her dream job in a recession. Building it from her home to $40mm in sales, Lisa shares today how you can use her Meant for More formula as you are hunkered down and thinking of what is next.
Sloane has guided thousands of women worldwide in stepping into the next level of their greatness in all aspects of business, lifestyle, and pleasure through the Warriors of the Heart Society women’s retreats and private consulting. Today she shares an important message to women about the “message from the Coronavirus”, and how we can use this time to embrace our authentic feminine, leverage inspiration, let go of what was not working, and step through the discomfort of change to up-level our pleasure and business profitability – and change the world.
Michelle Norris is the owner, co-founder and CEO of Paleo f(x)™ the largest Paleo platform and event in the world. A recovering “corporate warrior”, Michelle upended the way she tackles health, wellness and prosperity after traditional medical advice failed her and she healed herself with the Paleo lifestyle. Today on our Mentoring Minisode we talk business pivots and the inspiration we can take from the Coronavirus Pandemic, plus the necessity for self-care and self-development, why spirituality is key to business success, and why women in their authentic feminine power will be the ones to “save the world”.
Manijeh Goldberg is the founder and CEO of Privo Technologies, a trailblazing oncology company transforming the future of oral cancer therapy. Manijeh arrived alone in the U.S. from Iran at age 17 without much English, and went on to build 5 startups in biotech, selling one of her companies for $475 million. Today she shares how entrepreneurs can overcome any obstacle, how Coronavirus is impacting her company, what lessons all entrepreneurs can learn from it, including using this time to develop a strong team and deeper customer relationships.
Dr. Mickra Hamilton is a “Human Systems Designer” busy creating a new paradigm of what’s possible for human flourishing as the Co-Founder and CEO of Apeiron Zoh Corporation, a Precision Performance Ecosystem. Today on our Mentoring Minisode, she shares how to optimize performance in a crisis, leverage inner wisdom, and spot and act on new opportunities.
Madeline Jhawar was growing her successful travel agency Italy Beyond the Obvious offering custom Italian high-end vacations for curious travelers when the Coronavirus ground business as she knew it to a halt. Madeline shares today what she’s doing to keep her team members safe, motivated, and paid, plus how she’s pivoting to find new opportunities to provide value in the crisis, all while learning a new skill: homeschooling.
Diane Halfman took her years of experience along with her Masters in Human Resources Management and Certification as a Life Coach to pioneer the creation of her own company called SPAlife. SPA is an acronym for Seek Power Always. Her podcast, “Live Your SPAlife” is a call to action for all women to define and create the life they truly want.
Geeta Sidhu-Robb is a mother, author, inspirational speaker, CEO and Founder of Nosh Detox. She gave up her career as a corporate lawyer to retrain as a raw chef and functional nutritionist in the middle of the 2008 financial meltdown severe to help her baby boy combat severe food allergies, eczema, asthma and anaphylaxis. It led her to create the award-winning multimillion-dollar business, Nosh Detox helping many women including celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow rebalance hormone and gut health and transform their health.
Lisa Sasevich has taught over 15,000 mission-driven entrepreneurs in 134 countries how to sell…without being pushy or “salesy” as CEO of the Inc 500 company, The Invisible Close. Like many great businesses, hers was born in a time of adversity after being fired from her dream job in a recession. Building it from her home to $40mm in sales, Lisa shares today how you can use her Meant for More formula as you are hunkered down and thinking of what is next.
Lisa Cherney has been mentoring millionaire entrepreneurs for over 20 years. She’s the host of the ground-breaking confession-based GFR (Get F’n Real) podcast and creator of the 12 GFR Commandments. In 2014, after 15 years in business and speaking on over 750 stages, Lisa Cherney got f’n real and dismantled her successful 7-Figure business as the Juicy Marketing Expert. Lisa shares why just because something is successful and people like it, doesn’t mean you have to keep doing it.
Shayna Norwood leapt from visual art to entrepreneurship founding her company, Steel Petal Press in 2011 to share beauty and humor with the world through her collection of handmade stationery. Today amid growing fears about the Coronavirus and its impact on businesses nationwide, Shayna shares her advice plus how to lead and inspire a team in challenging times.
Laura DiBenedetto is an award-winning entrepreneur and the author of The Six Habits, a powerful methodology on how create the life of our dreams without changing who we are. As Founder and CEO of Vision Advertising, she has helped hundreds of companies build and grow profitable enterprises, and today shares powerful insights about how entrepreneurs can best cope with the coronavirus pandemic and why the best businesses are often built in times of adversity.
Mia Hewett is an accomplished 7-figure entrepreneur, international speaker, business coach, and author of Meant for More. Today we talk about why there is always inspiration and opportunity, even at a time like the coronavirus crisis. Founder of Aligned Intelligence™, a methodology that helps entrepreneurs remove all blind spots, fear, anxiety, and self-doubt leaving you feeling "free to be me,” Mia shares why now is the perfect time to self-govern our emotions and let go of fears that do not serve us.
Jessica Wright and Tracy Hornik are award-winning television producers and directors on a mission to lift women entrepreneurs with the She’s On Top platform celebrating and connecting female founders to each other. They share why women have a much higher chance of success when we help each other – and when we’re willing to be coachable and adaptable.
Jamie Lieberman is an entrepreneur and lawyer determined to change the legal game, helping entrepreneurs avoid landmines that can derail at any stage of business. Also co-host of The FearLess Business Podcast, Jamie shares how the traditional legal system is broken, her innovative integrated approach to servicing her clients, plus tips on team leadership and more.
CrisMarie Campbell and Susan Clarke know what it’s like to overcome adversity. Co-founders of Thrive Inc, helping business teams resolve difficult conflicts and create strong, thriving relationships, they share why we need to leverage our power from within to make the right choices and live in the moment. Authors of The Beauty of Conflict, CrisMarie and Susan talk about what it means for women to play a bigger game, what we can learn about leadership from horses, and how to have boundaries and stay true to ourselves in tough conversations.
Kathleen Black is one of Canada’s leading Real Estate Coaches and Trainers, delivering her proven success techniques to agents and teams across North America. Beginning her career as a ReMax Real Estate Agent, Kathleen soon realized the power of manifestation and flow state, and shares how inner growth spurs outer success.
Rachel Ngom went from food stamps to founding a high 6-figure business helping purpose-driven female entrepreneurs drive traffic, leads and sales through Pinterest. Also host of the She’s Making an Impact podcast, Rachel shares how she found and leverages faith to guide her in business.
Lynita Mitchell-Blackwell was running her own law firm, accountancy firm, media company, publishing house, and a church. The rewards and recognition came fast: She was honored with the U.S. President’s Council on Service & Civic Participation Lifetime Achievement Award and recognized by Black Enterprise Magazine as “BE NEXT Under 35”. Then came the Stage 4 Endometriosis diagnosis which almost cost her life. Lynita shares how to shift the way we work from hustle to flow, and the “silver linings” in her suffering that now helps people eclipse fear in their lives.
Madeline Jhawar founded Italy Beyond the Obvious to create custom Italian high-end vacations for curious travelers wanting insider knowledge and deep connection to the culture. She shares how she transformed passion into profit 11 years ago with her entrepreneurial leap - plus her unique business model and how she’s scaling.
Deeannah Seymour is one of those entrepreneurs that experiences a problem, decides to find a solution, and ends up helping millions of people. She developed pH-D® Feminine Health in 2014 with the introduction of the brand’s best-selling boric acid suppositories for common vaginal issue. Having spent two decades in the pharmaceutical industry, she wanted a natural solution backed by research that wouldn’t give rise to unwanted side-effects. She shares her entrepreneurial journey and how she let go of the “inner critic” along the way.
Katie DePaola is the founder of Inner Glow Circle, an accredited training and certification company for women coaches, leaders, and entrepreneurs. From bootstrapped solopreneur to million-dollar CEO, Katie shares on our Mentoring Minisode what she is doing to “scale connection” as she grows her team – plus the secrets of work-life balance, boundaries, and how to find your “glow zone”.
Shinjini Das is a global influencer known as the Go-Getter Girl™. Listen today to learn how as CEO and founder of the Das Media Group she’s built a following of 7 million #GoGetters through interactive marketing on social media. She shares what it takes for women to play all out for success, overcome fear, and build their influence and impact with integrity and heart.
Ruthie Schulder is reinventing marketing and sales in a radically “experiential” way to attract and delight customers without being salesy, as the co-founder and CEO of The Participation Agency. One of Adweek’s Disruptors – a list of 39 women spearheading the revolution in advertising, media and tech – Ruthie shares in today’s Mentoring Minisode why the “inner work” is vital to success.
Trudi Lebron calls herself “a straight-up BADASS”. Listen to how this former teen mother of two and high school “opt-out” transforms lives and businesses as a coach and impact strategist for entrepreneurs and multi-million-dollar executives in the personal development and transformation space. Trudi shares her own journey, how business owners can create inclusive, diverse, and impactful communities for mission-driven impact.
Minnie Ingersoll is a partner at Los Angeles venture capital fund TenOneTen. She made the move into investing after co-founding Shift, an online marketplace for used cars she grew to a $100mm+ company as its COO. Minnie also hosts of the LA Venture podcast and she’s mother of 3. Today on the Mentoring Minisode we talk about the innovation mindset and why 2020 is the year to innovate “woke” business models that improve our world when governments are failing.
Razi Berry is a leading naturopath on a mission to transform healthcare as we know it. Acclaimed host of the Love is Medicine podcast, Razi is also the founder and publisher of the journal, Naturopathic Doctor News & Review, the peer reviewed International Journal of Naturopathic Medicine, and the premier consumer-faced website of naturopathic medicine, NaturalPath. She shares her entrepreneurial journey, the secrets of naturopathic medicine and why we must trust our intuition in business.
Julie Foucht learned the hard way why “marketing like a man” didn’t work for her coaching business. Sure, she tripled her income in less than a year, but it left her drained, uninspired, and restless. So she innovated the “art of feminine marketing” to enable women to draw on their natural skills of empathy, intuition, and collaboration to attract customers with ease.
Michelle Lynne says she learned “the hard way” that building a successful business requires investment in a team along with coaches and mentors.
Owner and founder of the successful design firm ML Interiors Group, Michelle describes what it was like to launch right before the real estate crash of 2008 as she made the transition from corporate America to entrepreneurship. More than a decade later, her interior design business is thriving. She is also the owner and founder of Designed for the Creative Mind™, where she teaches interior designers and decorators the proven practices, effective processes, and profitable systems -- leaving them with more time to design.
Sharón Lynn Wyeth is the Founder and Creator of Neimology® Science, the study of the placement of the letters in a name, evaluating thousands of names since 1995. Author of the bestselling book, Know the Name; Know the Person, Sharón shares how to leverage Neimology®, and why in business and in life you must always take risks, follow your instincts and leverage challenges as opportunity.
CrisMarie Campbell and Susan Clarke are authors of The Beauty of Conflict and co-founders of Thrive Inc., where they’ve spent 20 years helping entrepreneurs, Fortune 500 CEOs and couples resolve difficult conflicts and create strong, thriving relationships. They share today where women in their authentic feminine power emerge as the best collaborative leaders and succeed in business.
Gila Kurtz takes her inspiration in life and businesses from dogs. As she shares on our Mentoring Minisode, it turns out dogs have a lot to teach us about how to manage ourselves … and our companies. Gila started out as a dog trainer and she’s the bestselling author of Fur Covered Wisdom...A Dog Can Change the Way You See the World. She’s also a serial entrepreneur and a Co-Founder and Co-Owner of Dog is Good, a lifestyle brand for dog lovers creating original messaging for products sold online and in retailers nationwide.
Jessica Wright and Tracy Hornik are the co-founders of “Women on Top” – a platform by women for women. Their mission is to celebrate, encourage and connect women entrepreneurs, empowering all of us to reach the top of our game. Both are award-winning television, video and documentary producers who also founded the social media company Eztvonline.
Lorianne Vaughan Speaks is passionate about amplifying the messages of speakers, authors and podcasters. Launching her business at age 60 after a career handling top thought leaders, Lorianne shares how her virtual company handles all the details so speakers can do what they do best: Speak! On our Mentoring Minisode we talk about team-building and why you can’t build a business by yourself.
Steffani LeFevour is an international speaker, bestselling author of You Are A Badass Mom, Happiness Coach, and self-proclaimed personal growth junkie. Through her passion of coaching and writing she's helped thousands of people master their mindset and transform their relationships so they can live happier on a daily basis. She shares why all entrepreneurs need to build on a strong personal foundation – and its 6 pillars.
Jamie Elizabeth Thompson has helps women and couples to let go of negative patterns around sex so they can design a life of soul-quenching intimacy. Her background is in trans-personal psychology, neuroscience, sensual embodiment, and holographic movement reprogramming, and she shares today how women entrepreneurs manifest their greatest success when they leverage their sacred feminine powers of intuition, sensuality, empathy and collaboration.
Dr. Angela E. Lauria has built a fast-growing 8-figure business is the founder of The Author Incubator™ helping more than 1,000 authors get their books published. On our Mentoring Minisode, she shares why failure and being “willing to suck” is the secret of success – along with leveraging divine feminine attributes of collaboration, empathy, and intuition. It’s a strategy that’s paying off: In 2018, The Author Incubator was ranked #275 on the Inc. 500 fastest growing companies and #87 on Entrepreneur Magazine’s Entrepreneur 360.
Elisabeth Cardiello is the founder of Caffè Unimatic and Brave Conversations Over Coffee. A lifelong entrepreneur who had her first business cards at six and first product on shelves at 13, she’s a passionate advocate for sparking innovation, creativity and change by getting people together over a cup of joe. She also founded Legacy Out Loud, an education company designed to build confidence in young women and started speaking in the US and abroad. She shares advice on how to trust your intuition, boost your courage, and build a great team.
Rachel Ngom went from an overdrawn bank account into the high six figures with an online lead generation business she built while traveling the world. Host of the She’s Making an Impact podcast, Rachel helps purpose-driven entrepreneurs drive more traffic, leads, and sales through Pinterest, blogging, and strategic use of automation. She also has signature courses and programs and she shares her secrets here today.
Michelle Lynne is the owner of ML Interiors Group, a successful Dallas-based design firm she launched in as the markets crashed in 2008. Also founder of the platform Designed for the Creative Mind, Michelle also teaches interior designers and decorators proven practices, processes and profitable systems she learned along the way. Today she shares her success tips on our mentoring Minisode, including why it’s vital to find and engage coaches and mentors.
Jennie Edwards is the owner of Guided By Imagination, helping her clients lean into their vulnerability to grow audience, connect authentically and drive sales. An accomplished photographer and videographer and author of Empowered You, Jennie uses her skills to help others show confidence in their vulnerability. She shares why being in alignment with your values and valuing yourself and your uniqueness is key to success.
Jewels Arnes is a Vibrational Therapist with a vast background in non-traditional healing and consciousness raising modalities who has pioneered a skincare line holding frequencies and the properties of ORMUS to elevate consciousness and combat anti-aging. CEO and Founder of Infynite Gold, Jewels is on a mission to use her fast-growing line of 19 products to activate human potential. She shares how she finds her inspiration and how to stay focused when you unlock an abundance of opportunity in your life.
Katie DePaola is an entrepreneur, author, and the founder of Inner Glow Circle, an accredited training and certification company for women coaches, leaders and entrepreneurs. She shares today why business and personal growth requires you to get out of your comfort zone and how to know if you’re still in alignment when we’re uncomfortable.
Dr. Angela E. Lauria is the founder of The Author Incubator™ and creator of the Difference Process™ for writing a book that matters. She’s helped more than 1,000 authors get their books published and along the way scaled a business to 8 figures in just 5 years. She shares her biggest secret: “Be willing to suck”. It’s a strategy that’s paying off: In 2018, The Author Incubator was ranked #275 on the Inc. 500 fastest growing companies and #87 on Entrepreneur Magazine’s Entrepreneur 360. Angela won the Stevie Awards Coach/Mentor of the Year Award and Entrepreneur Magazine named her one of the top 10 most inspiring entrepreneurs to watch.
Amber Trueblood is an entrepreneur, human behavior expert, mom of 4 and author of Stretch Marks. Her expertise, experience, compassion, and humor result in a unique combination of entertainment and effectiveness with her clients. Her unique approach includes helping clients clarify their values and priorities, then showing them how to use that knowledge to make better discipline decisions, relieve mom-guilt, reduce self-judgment, and become a truly enlightened parent.
Melinda Wittstock is a 5-time serial entrepreneur and today she shares practical advice on how to live into perfect 2020 vision for the year and decade ahead – taking inspired action in alignment with your intentions. You’ll learn how to set powerful intentions, identify the gaps in your life, take focused action to ensure you work less to achieve more, and how to find the one word that will be your guide star for 2020.
Emerald GreenForest advises entrepreneurs and thought leaders how to shift their “money vibration” from scarcity to abundance and beyond to accumulating wealth. An internationally recognized speaker, podcaster, and Be The Change “Movement To Watch” & Quilly Award Winner, Emerald shares valuable tips for women in business – including why having strong boundaries is a prerequisite to wealth.
Melinda Wittstock is a serial entrepreneur who has built four successful businesses in digital media and tech. Christmas Day, she says, is the perfect day to “open the gifts within”, that is, honor what truly makes you unique so you can step into your true purpose and passion to succeed in business. Melinda has a special gift to share with you too.
Ruthie Schulder is co-founder and CEO of The Participation Agency, a unique marketing company that creates “radical experiential campaigns” with brands as partners rather than clients. Ruthie shares how she’s reinventing marketing in an immersive way – and how she became one of Adweek’s Disruptors – a list of 39 women spearheading the revolution in advertising, media and tech.
Marisa Murgatroyd is on a mission to transform the $100 billion online learning industry around the world so results and engagement become the norm and not the exception. Some 97% of people never finish the courses they buy, and Marisa is showing entrepreneurs how to get record-breaking engagement and results. CEO and founder of Live Your Message and the creator of the Experience Product Masterclass, Marisa has created three 7-figure-a-year product lines over 700 pages of testimonials from a single product. She now teaches product creators how to 10x their engagement and results, which leads to more referrals, more sales and more repeat sales.
Bernadette Doyle is a transformational expert and the founder of the Online Profits University, an online school that teaches entrepreneurs how to create and grow new income streams. Today on our Mentoring Minisode, Bernadette shares insights about aligning to your true mission in business and life, charging your true value, and doing the mindset work you need to do to raise your prices.
Laura Gassner Otting is a serial entrepreneur who started and sold a successful international executive search firm, built philanthropic and political action committees from scratch, and was a White House appointee on the team creating the national service project, AmeriCorps. Author of the bestseller Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life, Laura shares what it means to build a business and life of abundance.
Gila Kurtz is a serial entrepreneur who found her greatest passion working with dogs and their people. She is Co-Founder of Dog is Good, a lifestyle brand for dog lovers which creates original messaging and designs for products sold at retailers nationwide and online to celebrate the dog-human connection. Also the bestselling author of Fur Covered Wisdom...A Dog Can Change the Way You See the World, she shares how dogs can guide us to be better CEOs and team leaders.
Vicki Saunders is an entrepreneur, champion of women in business, award-winning and leading advocate for entrepreneurship as a way of creating positive transformation in the world. She is the Founder of SheEO, a global community of women investing in other women-led ventures working on the ‘World’s To Do List.’ On today’s Mentoring Minisode, Vicki shares why community building for women is essential to success in business.
Minnie Ingersoll is a partner at the Los Angeles Venture Capital fund, TenOneTen. An early employee at Google where she managed “rocketship growth” as an early product manager and co-founder the cross-functional product, engineering and policy team, Minnie also scaled Shift, an online marketplace for used cars, to a $100 million company as its co-founder and COO. She’s host of the LA Venture podcast and mother of 3. Today she shares vital insights into how women can raise investment plus tips on hiring and leading a great team.
Amber Trueblood is an entrepreneur, retreat host, mom of 4 young boys and the author of Stretch Marks, a book out this week to help women live their true purpose without guilt, tradeoffs or apology. A psychologist with an MBA, Amber helps her clients clarify their values and priorities, make better decisions, relieve mom-guilt, reduce self-judgment, and become truly enlightened and conscious parents.
Sarah Noked is the founder of Sarah Noked OBM, an Online Business Management Agency. Helping her clients systematize their business backend with automation and accountability for virtual teams, Sarah shares on our Mentoring Minisode how to juggle it all with young kids – without losing yourself. Hear her advice on why you need a team to succeed.
Sharón Lynn Wyeth is the Founder and Creator of Neimology® Science, the study of what the placement of the letters in a name reveals about a personality and life path. With 15 years of research followed by 3 years of testing in over 70 countries, Sharón helps HR departments make better hires, lawyers to assist in jury selection, individuals to improve their relationships and find their true purpose, and entrepreneurs and business owners to name products and services. She’s also the bestselling author of Know the Name; Know the Person.
Melinda Wittstock is a serial entrepreneur who has built four successful businesses in digital media and tech – and soon launches an innovative audience engagement platform and network for podcasters to monetize their content. On Thanksgiving she shares her daily gratitude practice that sparked her success by helping her find alignment with her true passion and purpose. Join Melinda to learn how to use gratitude practically in your life – and to learn what she is grateful for today.
Nayri Kalayjian is an innovator in the bridal industry, dressing celebrity brides, coaching bridal boutique owners with her Bridal Blueprint online course, and leveraging technology to delight her customers and drive unrivalled word-of-mouth for her Los Angeles boutique Lovella Bridal. Nayri is also the bestselling author of "I'm Getting Married & Have Nothing to Wear.” Today on the Wings Mentoring Minisode Nayri shares why it’s vital to surround yourself with people who help you play bigger.
Madeline Jhawar founded Italy Beyond the Obvious to create custom Italian high-end vacations for curious travelers wanting insider knowledge and deep connection to the culture. She shares how she transformed passion into profit 11 years ago with her entrepreneurial leap - plus her unique business model and how she’s scaling.
Dame Doria “DC” Cordova has inspired some of today’s greatest wealth experts – including Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield and Robert Kiyasaki – and touched the lives of millions globally with her Money & You® program. Owner and founder of Excellerated Business Schools®, she’s also a bestselling author, philanthropist, transformational leader, and speaker. Doria shares her mission of encouraging entrepreneurs to use business as a canvas for social good – and what it takes to move from scarcity thinking to abundance in all areas of our lives, lifting as we climb to eradicate global poverty.
Nancy McKay is a Certified Life Coach who leverages her recovery from alcoholism and ovarian cancer to help entrepreneurs and business owners heal any limiting beliefs holding them back in life. Today on our Mentoring Minisode, Nancy shares why our bodies know more than our heads do, and how too to know the difference between intuition and fear when our “gut talks”.
Emerald GreenForest is known as the Wealthy Life Mentor advising entrepreneurs and thought leaders how to shift their “money vibration” from scarcity to abundance and beyond to accumulating wealth. An internationally recognized speaker, podcaster, and Be The Change “Movement To Watch” & Quilly Award Winner, Emerald shares valuable tips for women in business – including why having strong boundaries is a prerequisite to wealth.
Vicki Saunders is an entrepreneur, award-winning mentor, advisor to the next generation of changemakers and leading advocate for entrepreneurship as a way of creating positive transformation in the world. She is the Founder of #radical generosity and SheEO, a global community of radically generous women supporting women-led Ventures working on the World’s To Do List. She has co-founded and run ventures in Europe, Toronto and Silicon Valley and taken a company public on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Ashley Daly is on a mission to make clothing that is “candy for the soul”. Founder of BeCandylicious, Ashley took the leap into entrepreneurship after 20 years as a top corporate marketing executive. Today on our Mentoring Minisode she shares why its important to have mission that’s fun, plus tips on how to avoid self-doubt, be true to yourself, and stay focused on executing your company’s vision.
Jewels Arnes is a Vibrational Therapist with a vast background in non-traditional healing and consciousness raising modalities who has pioneered a skincare line holding frequencies and the properties of ORMUS to elevate consciousness and combat anti-aging. CEO and Founder of Infynite Gold, Jewels is on a mission to use her fast-growing line of 19 products to activate human potential. She shares how she innovated her products and the measurable anti-aging results of her customers.
Sarah Noked is the founder of Sarah Noked OBM, an Online Business Management Agency. She helps clients systematize their business backend with automation and accountability for virtual teams. Her mission is to empower entrepreneurs to grow thriving and profitable businesses online. She shares the common mistakes business owners make that stop them from scaling.
Razi Berry is a leading naturopath on a mission to transform healthcare as we know it. Acclaimed host of the Love is Medicine podcast, Razi is also the founder and publisher of the journal, Naturopathic Doctor News & Review, the peer reviewed International Journal of Naturopathic Medicine, and the premier consumer-faced website of naturopathic medicine, NaturalPath. She shares her entrepreneurial journey, the secrets of naturopathic medicine and why we must trust our intuition in business.
Elisabeth Cardiello is an infinitely curious, coffee loving, Brooklyn native that had her first business cards at six and first product on shelves at 13. After college, business school and working on Wall Street, she dealt with loss, found herself, found her passion, learned the meaning of post traumatic growth, started a coffee company called Caffè Unimatic, created a line of coffee, gave two TEDx talks, started an education company designed to build confidence in young women and started speaking in the US and abroad. Her family is still wondering where that shy 9 year old went.
Alyssa is CEO & Chief Confidence Officer of the American Confidence Institute & author of 6 books. Recognized as one of Boston’s Best Speakers, Alyssa teaches at Wharton’s Innovation Center, is an advisor at MIT’s Trust Center, and a judge for the Stevie’s Women in Business & Best Employer awards.
Bernadette Doyle is a transformational expert and the founder of the Online Profits University, an online school that teaches entrepreneurs how to create and grow new income streams. Today on our Mentoring Minisode, Bernadette shares insights about aligning to your true mission in business and life, charging your true value, and doing the mindset work you need to do to raise your prices.
Allison Maslan has built 10 businesses from startup to the high 7 and 8 figures. She shares the five stages of scaling from solopreneur “Seeker” to scaling “Visionary”, what stands in the way of most entrepreneurs reaching the tipping point in their business when they can focus on working on their business instead of in it, and why scaling success is a bit like mastering the trapeze.
Krisstina Wise is on a mission to teach entrepreneurs how to best attract, keep and leverage money. She’s a real estate mogul, coach, bestselling author, and creator of several multi-million dollar businesses including Goodlife Luxury, The Paperless Agent and now WealthyWellthy. Learn how to break down any false beliefs you may have about money, avoid the trap of entrepreneurial poverty, and how to think like an investor so you build assets with your business and income, so that you can live off those assets (instead of your hard work).
Rachael Jayne Groover is the best-selling author of Powerful and Feminine: How to Increase your Magnetic Presence and Attract the Attention You Want. A singer-songwriter turned entrepreneur, Rachael Jayne discovered anyone could learn and leverage the key factors that create “stage presence” in a performer, and use them to stand out, be seen, and inspire others in business. She talks about her entrepreneurial journey, why women are being called to lead in business, plus her latest book Divine Breadcrumbs: A Search for True Love and Enlightenment.
Natalie Ledwell is “walk your talk” proof of the law of attraction, reaching more than 4 million people worldwide with Mind Movies’ innovative guided visualizations. Now her moonshot is a global children’s curriculum called Personal Growth Studies to give kids 5-18 the mindset and other tools they need to live creative, fulfilling lives of financial freedom. We talk about the specifics of manifestation, team building and much more.
Debra Silverman is on a mission to help business owners and entrepreneurs leverage astrology and their unique personalities for balanced and sustaining success. Today on our Mentoring Minisode, Debra shares the power of mentoring and why asking for help is always the key to success.
Stacey Brown Randall, a three-time entrepreneur, shares candidly why entrepreneurs are often their own worst enemies and how to overcome fear and failure. The award-winning author of Generating Business Referrals Without Asking, Stacey shares why women in business must find their “business families” with mentors and masterminds in order to succeed. Stacey is also host of the Roadmap to Grow Your Business podcast and creator of the Growth By Referrals program.
Laura Gassner Otting is on a mission to help entrepreneurs live what she calls a “limitless life” without guilt, tradeoff or apology. A serial entrepreneur who started and sold a successful international executive search firm, built philanthropic and political action committees from scratch, Laura is the bestselling author of Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life. She shares advice on mentoring, living big, and how to turn “failure” into a fulcrum for success.
Marisa Murgatroyd is changing the game of business by helping to reinvent the $100 billion online learning industry around the world so results and engagement become the norm and not the exception. CEO and founder of Live Your Message and the creator of the Experience Product Masterclass, Marisa shares her secrets of innovation and why there’s never a “right time” to take the leap or wait for something to be perfect. Marisa has created three 7-figure-a-year product lines and teaches entrepreneurs how to 10x their engagement and results, which leads to more referrals, more sales and more repeat sales.
Valerie Alexander is on a mission to advance women in business by illuminating unconscious bias. A tech CEO, bestselling author of How Women Can Succeed in the Workplace (Despite Having “Female Brains”), Hollywood screenwriter and TedX speaker, Valerie is shares practical tips on how women can avoid negotiating against themselves and pitch with confidence.
Donna Gunter specializes in helping entrepreneurs and business owners leverage their expertise to attract top paying clients. Best-selling author of Brand Yourself as the Trusted Local Celebrity and Biz Smart Quick Guide: 10 Strategies to Online Visibility for More Traffic, Clicks and Profit, Donna has found a way to use technology and automation for personalized and authentic personal brand messaging. She shares her tips and hacks.
Nayri Kalayjian is known as the Wedding Fashion Expert with the country’s leading bridal brand, Lovella Bridal. She shares how she leverages technology to delight her customers and drive unrivalled word-of-mouth for her Los Angeles bridal boutique. She styles celebrity brides, coaches bridal boutique owners with her online course Bridal Blueprint, and advises world-renowned designers on their collections. Nayri is also "I'm Getting Married & Have Nothing to Wear.”
Melanie Benson is known as the “Profit Amplifier”. Coach to conscious entrepreneurs wanting to grow their influence, impact and bottom line, Melanie is also the host of the Amplify Your Success Podcast, author of Rewired for Wealth, and co-author of Entrepreneur.com’s Start Up Guide to Starting an Information Marketing Business. Featured in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Woman’s Day, and Parenting, Melanie talks about mindset blocks holding women back in business plus valuable advice for how to grow a profitable business.
Rachael Jayne Groover is the best-selling author of Powerful and Feminine: How to Increase your Magnetic Presence and Attract the Attention You Want. A singer-songwriter turned entrepreneur, Rachael Jayne discovered anyone could learn and leverage the key factors that create “stage presence” in a performer, and use them to stand out, be seen, and inspire others in business. She talks about her entrepreneurial journey, why women are being called to lead in business, plus her latest book Divine Breadcrumbs: A Search for True Love and Enlightenment.
Razi Berry is a leading naturopath on a mission to transform healthcare as we know it. Acclaimed host of the Love is Medicine podcast, Razi is also the founder and publisher of the journal, Naturopathic Doctor News & Review, the peer reviewed International Journal of Naturopathic Medicine, and the premier consumer-faced website of naturopathic medicine, NaturalPath. She shares her entrepreneurial journey, the secrets of naturopathic medicine and why we must trust our intuition in business.
Gina Gutierrez is the co-founder and CEO of the audio storytelling app Dipsea, and on our Mentoring Minisode she shares why your intuition is the best guide along your entrepreneurial journey. Gina is on a mission to use her empathy to help women feel sexually, mentally, and emotionally empowered through short-form erotic storytelling, raising $5.5 million in venture capital for her startup. She shares how trusting your gut could be your biggest asset.
Marisa Murgatroyd is on a mission to transform the $100 billion online learning industry around the world so results and engagement become the norm and not the exception. Some 97% of people never finish the courses they buy, and Marisa is showing entrepreneurs how to get record-breaking engagement and results. CEO and founder of Live Your Message and the creator of the Experience Product Masterclass, Marisa has created three 7-figure-a-year product lines over 700 pages of testimonials from a single product. She now teaches product creators how to 10x their engagement and results, which leads to more referrals, more sales and more repeat sales.
Mimi Johnson is on a mission to beautify the world one client at a time. A sought-after makeup artist who turned her love of makeup into a thriving business beauty boutique, The Glamatory, and a subscription box called Grind Pretty, Mimi shares what’s she’s learned about startups since her “emancipation party” set her on the course of entrepreneurship.
Dr. Barbara Cox is a psychologist and executive coach on a mission to catalyze the use of the feminine archetype to build community, increase personal intuition, and create lasting change (and profit) in business. She’s the author of The Muse Process: Unleashing the Power of the Feminine for Success and Fulfillment and she shares how an epiphany as a new mom allowed her to see the trap of isolation and disconnectedness women experience when they deny their authentic feminine power.
Bernadette Doyle is a transformational expert and the founder of the Online Profits University, an online school that teaches entrepreneurs how to create and grow new income streams. Today she shares how business grows us as leaders, how to turn time from a scarce into a limitless resource and what it takes to “show up” even when you’re getting bad results.
Missy Kelly is the Co-founder and CEO of CatTongue Grips, an innovative adhesive non-slip grip that can easily be applied to your mobile device, laptop, tablet or case to provide a layer of what she calls “Gription” in your everyday life. Today she shares her advice about how to navigate the ups and downs of entrepreneurship and that endless to-do list.
Beth Bell is on a mission to “pollinate the planet with love” recently launching a mudra ” to assist humanity in giving and receiving unconditional love. On our Mentoring Minisode, Beth shares how she’s leveraged mistakes along the way in her entrepreneurial journey to learn – and learn to forgive herself – and get into flow.
Laura Gassner Otting is a serial entrepreneur who started and sold a successful international executive search firm, built philanthropic and political action committees from scratch, and was a White House appointee on the team creating the national service project, AmeriCorps. Author of the bestseller Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life, Laura shares what it means to build a business and life of abundance.
Stacey Brown Randall is a three-time entrepreneur, the award winning author of Generating Business Referrals Without Asking, host of the Roadmap to Grow Your Business podcast, and creator of the Growth By Referrals program, serving entrepreneurs and clients like Bank of America, Mass Mutual, International Minute Press, and Re/Max. She shares what she’s learned from business failure and her methods to grow your business by referral.
Tracee Gluhaich is on a mission to lift women to high-energy manifestors of abundance and joy. An integrative health coach and personal trainer, Tracee founded HighEnergyGirl.com and empowers women over 40 to transform their bodies into high energy, fat burners in 90 days without going hungry or living in the gym. Also the author of No Fricken Weigh! 21 Days to Ditch the Diet and Shed the Weight, Tracee shares her mentoring on why women in business need coaches, mentors and masterminds.
Ashley Daly is on a mission to make clothing that is “candy for the soul”. Founder of BeCandylicious, Ashley took the leap into entrepreneurship after 20 years as a top corporate marketing executive. Her fashions can be found online, in several boutiques and surf shops throughout California, and in Dylan’s Candy Bar retail locations across the US.
Debra Silverman is a therapist, astrologer, and author with more than 40 years of professional experience helping thousands of individuals achieve emotional health and wisdom based on their unique personalities. Through her online school, Debra educates thousands of business owners from around the globe in her grounded and transformational approach to astrology. Debra also shares her work on her YouTube channel, which has over 8 million views.
Donna Gunter is a three-time Amazon best-selling author who helps entrepreneurs and professionals stop the client chase by leveraging their knowledge to attract customers by gaining authority in their industry. Leveraging the latest tech, she combines authenticity with automation to amplify her clients’ message so they can convert a growing audience into high-paying customers. She shares her advice on today’s Mentoring Minisode.
Valerie Alexander is on a mission to inspire happy workplace cultures, illuminate unconscious bias and advance women in business. A tech CEO, bestselling author, Hollywood screenwriter and TedX speaker, Valerie is a nationally recognized voice on how to profit from happiness. She shares practical tips on management and productivity, plus some brain science on the differences between men and women.
Melanie Benson is known as the “Profit Amplifier”. Coach to conscious entrepreneurs wanting to grow their influence, impact and bottom line, Melanie is also the host of the Amplify Your Success Podcast, author of Rewired for Wealth, and co-author of Entrepreneur.com’s Start Up Guide to Starting an Information Marketing Business. Featured in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Woman’s Day, and Parenting, Melanie talks about mindset blocks holding women back in business plus valuable advice for how to grow a profitable business.
Sara Graham is on a mission to help women get lift off in their new businesses with a 12-week training called the Espresso Program. She’s abrand development and communications consultant took the leap into entrepreneurship to help women in business get their new business ideas up and running with great marketing hacks to change the game.
Jennifer Brown is on a mission to help business boost bottom-line growth with inclusive and diverse cultures. An award-winning LGTBQ entrepreneur, Jennifer has a new book out today called How to be an Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive. A consultant to Fortune 500s, startups and nonprofits alike, Jennifer makes the case for leaders to embrace the opportunity that diversity represents for their own growth and for the success of their organizations.
Gina Gutierrez will probably ask you how you’re feeling when she meets you. The co-founder and CEO of the audio storytelling app Dipsea, Gina is on a mission to use her empathy to help women feel sexually, mentally, and emotionally empowered through short-form erotic storytelling. Gina shares how she and her co-founder Faye Keegan raised $5.5 million in venture capital to help women tap into their sexuality on their own terms, unlock confidence, and develop a more holistic sense of wellbeing.
Bettina Hein is a serial technology entrepreneur now remaking what we know of the web into a decentralized 3.0 version where we own and control our own data. CEO and founder of HelloYellow, SVOX and Pixability, Bettina talks about what it takes for women to play bigger to launch moonshots and why, just like in childbirth, it helps not to know or understand all the challenges before you take the leap.
Mimi Johnson turned her love of makeup into a thriving business, The Glamatory. Mimi is a sought-after makeup artist and entrepreneur whose work is seen on popular TV networks such as Bravo and VH1, her high profile clients including Kenya Moore and Angela Simmons, and her followers and subscribers to her subscription box Grind Pretty now numbering 50,000. Featured in Essence and InStyle magazines, Mimi shares how her “emancipation party” set her on the course of entrepreneurship and what she’s learned along the way.
Dr. Barbara Cox is a psychologist and executive coach on a mission to catalyze the use of the feminine archetype to build community, increase personal intuition, and create lasting change (and profit) in business. She’s the author of The Muse Process: Unleashing the Power of the Feminine for Success and Fulfillment and she shares how an epiphany as a new mom allowed her to see the trap of isolation and disconnectedness women experience when they deny their authentic feminine power.
Jennifer Brown is on a mission to catalyze diverse and inclusive workplaces from startup to Fortune 500 corporations. An award-winning LGTBQ entrepreneur, diversity and inclusion consultant, and the bestselling author of Inclusion: Diversity, The New Workplace and The Will to Change, she shares why diversity is an opportunity for faster business growth – and why every leader and CEO needs mentors they can trust.
Missy Kelly is the Co-founder and CEO of CatTongue Grips, an innovative adhesive non-slip grip that can easily be applied to your mobile device, laptop, tablet or case to provide a layer of what she calls “Gription” in your everyday life. We talk about making the leap from stay-at-home mom to risk taking entrepreneur and how to grow and scale a consumer product company.
Beth Bell is on a mission to “pollinate the planet with love”. Entrepreneur, Radio & TV host and “flower whisperer”, Beth left 15+-year corporate career as a marketing executive to end loneliness and chaos on the planet. She recently launched her “Pollinating Love Mudra” to assist humanity in giving and receiving unconditional love. It’s a simple, yet sacred mudra to re-connect to our higher selves, others and strengthen community.
Amy Gannon is on a mission to lift women in business and encourage female founders to play bigger. Co-founder and director of entrepreneurial development for women’s startup accelerator Doyenne, Amy shares her advice for women on how to banish perfectionism, ask for help and build the plane as you fly it.
Tracee Gluhaich is on a mission to help women leverage nutrition to become high-energy fat burning machines with laser-focus in 90 days without going hungry or living in the gym. An Integrative Health Coach and Personal Trainer, Tracee is the founder of HighEnergyGirl.com and author of No Fricken Weigh! Learn how to reprogram your body and mind and live in your “zone of greatness”.
Rosie Aiello is on a mission to lift 100 million women to live free of domestic abuse. Eight years ago she escaped with her daughter after being demeaned, disrespected and physically abused by her husband for 25 years. She began on the road to recovery, and now she’s a best-selling author, entrepreneur and speaker. Rosie is creating the #LoveIsKind movement with a special day on July 27th to give women the platform to share their experiences and heal.
Marie Smith wrote her first computer program at age 9 and now as Co-Founder and CIO of the artificial intelligence company Data360 Solutions, Marie shares how to change the game for African American women in tech as fast as tech innovation. On our Mentoring Minisode, Marie shares how to overcome the “bro culture” in technology.
Cameron Cegala made the leap into entrepreneurship from the corporate world as a sales executive at P&G. Now Co-founder of AdKAddy, a mobile app that enables consumers to connect with brands they love without all that email clutter, she shares her mentoring on how to create great boundaries in business and live what she calls a “blended life”.
Cindy Schulson is a former Coca Cola and Visa marketing executive who found a higher calling helping coaches and consultants market online “from the heart” without hype. She shares how she helps people find their true purpose and laser focus on an authentic message that resonates.
Lisa Thomas is a transformational energy healer who helps entrepreneurs, artists and executives transcend the “upper limits” that stand in the way of success. We all have inherited beliefs and emotional blocks, many of them subconscious, and they can manifest as fear of success, fear of failure, anxiety, procrastination, fear of public speaking, false money beliefs, relationship drama and business stagnation. On our Mentoring Minisode, Lisa shares how to remove these blocks, focus on the one thing that will give you the biggest results, and step into abundance in all areas of our lives.
Mary Dee is all about helping entrepreneurs overcome their greatest fears as Chief Fun Officer and Love-Your-Life Coach at MaryDee.com. From start-up to scale up, she's helped companies grow from an idea to 8-figure success. She’s also beaten breast cancer, and she shares her advice about living intentionally, embracing creative play, and letting go of guilt.
Sara Graham is a brand development and communications consultant took the leap into entrepreneurship to help women in business get their new business ideas off the ground in just 12 weeks with The Espresso Program. She shares her insights on what keeps women on the startup sticky floor, and marketing hacks to change the game.
Marie Diamond is one of the world’s top transformational leaders, speakers, and bestselling author and a renowned voice on Law of Attraction, Feng Shui, and Dowsing well known for her appearance in The Secret. She shares how to manifest gamechanging success in business without tradeoffs or disharmony in your life, plus how to turn your office into a “3D Vision Board”.
Amy Gannon is on a mission to identify and unleash startup talent in places where no one is looking for it, that is, outside of the usual startup capitals and focusing in particular on encouraging women and minorities to start and scale businesses. Co-founder and director of entrepreneurial development for women’s startup accelerator Doyenne, Amy shares her thoughts on what needs to change for female founders to excel with disruptive, scalable startups.
Jennifer Brown is an award-winning LGTBQ entrepreneur, diversity and inclusion consultant, and the bestselling author of Inclusion: Diversity, The New Workplace and The Will to Change. A consultant to Fortune 500s, startups and nonprofits alike, Jennifer makes the case for leaders to embrace the opportunity that diversity represents for their own growth and for the success of their organizations.
Amber Swenor is a Brand Strategist and Impact Coach for purpose-driven entrepreneurs and companies wanting to create massive impact and do good through their businesses. We talk about authenticity in marketing, how to find your “truth” and how to work less to achieve more.
Marie Smith is an entrepreneurial force of nature who wrote her first computer program at age 9 and went on to be a founding contributor to nearly 50 media, tech and wellness companies and projects contributing over $100 million in transactions. Co-Founder and CIO of the fast-growing AI company Data360 Solutions, Marie shares how she’s never let anything stand in her way as an African American women in tech. She shares how her current machine learning startup, now 50-strong, is reducing operational costs as much as 90% for companies small and large, including Amazon and Google.
Cameron Cegala is the Co-founder of AdKAddy, a mobile app that enables consumers to connect with brands they love without all that email clutter. A former P&G exec, Cameron made the leap into entrepreneurship setting out to dispel the myth of “bad advertising.” If there were a way for consumers to back their personal inboxes and keep their personal emails personal, those people might be more willing to actively engage with communications from the brands they love.
Lena Elkins knows what it’s like to go from broke to breaking new barriers as an entrepreneur: She found the secret to building a scalable global coaching business. She’s added a new partner to the business fold – her husband. She shares advice on how to partner with your partner, keep the romance alive as you crush it in business, how to live an intentional life without letting current circumstance dictate your future, and much more.
Mary Dee is the Chief Fun Officer and Love-Your-Life Coach at MaryDee.com. She’s been helping entrepreneurs solve their biggest problems and overcome their greatest fears for nearly 20 years. From start-up to scale up, she's helped companies grow from a
Kisha Mays believes it’s time for women in business to overcome fear and play bigger. Kisha is building a global business and in our mentoring Minisode she talks about what it means to get out of your comfort zone – and why growth happens when we’re willing to take a chance on ourselves. Kisha has overcome very public failure three times – learning every step of the way – and her mission now is to help one million female founders reach $1mm+ in revenue.
Jessica Zimmerman shares how her startup dreams nearly ended in bankruptcy until she figured out how to turn wedding planning and floral design business into a lucrative 7-figure success. Founder of Zimmerman Education, Jessica also now teaches others the exact systems, sales processes and other tools and techniques necessary to create a successful 6-figure floral design businesses – and earn a living from flowers, without giving up their lives.
Maria Murphy is the founder and CEO of Lei-Lei.net, a global and socially conscious fashion ecommerce platform showcasing handmade fairly traded products created by women artisans around the world. A longtime New York City fashion executive and VP Sales at Tahari, Maria believes in using business for social good. She shares how to apply fair trade and a supply chain policy of “reduce reuse reclaim recycle” to any business – plus how to turn a “do good” side hustle into a profitable global company.
Kathy Kearns spent 18 years understanding what motivates people to take the actions that they do as a media maven and a Google sales executive. Now she's applying all she’s learned with many of the world’s top brands to make a positive impact on the world. She is the Founder of THIRD LAW, a startup specializing in wardrobe optimization – that is, transforming your wardrobe to be lean, sustainable and reflective of your personal brand.
Alexis Neely is a legal entrepreneur bringing consciousness and artistry to business, the law, wealth building and legacy planning. Known also by her artists’ name Ali Shanti, Alexis shares her advice on overcoming fear, stepping into your true mission, and overcoming limiting beliefs like “money dysmorphia.”
Marie Diamond is one of the world’s top transformational leaders, speakers, and bestselling author and a renowned voice on Law of Attraction, Feng Shui, and Dowsing well known for her appearance in The Secret. She shares how to manifest gamechanging success in business without tradeoffs or disharmony in your life, plus how to turn your office into a “3D Vision Board”.
Bettina Hein is a serial technology entrepreneur now remaking what we know of the web into a decentralized 3.0 version where we own and control our own data. CEO and founder of HelloYellow, SVOX and Pixability, Bettina talks about what it takes for women to play bigger to launch moonshots and why, just like in childbirth, it helps not to know or understand all the challenges before you take the leap.
Krisstina Wise is a real estate mogul, coach, bestselling author, and creator of several multi-million dollar businesses including Goodlife Luxury, The Paperless Agent and now WealthyWellthy. Learn how to break down any false beliefs you may have about money, avoid the trap of entrepreneurial poverty, and how to think like an investor so you build assets with your business and income, so that you can live off those assets (instead of your hard work).
Carey Bentley is on a mission to help entrepreneurs design lifestyles of personal freedom by helping them boost their productivity and effectiveness. CEO and co-founder of online productivity company Lifehack Bootcamp, Carey shares how to thrive (rather than merely survive), how to find your true mission and enjoy the ride.
Lisa Thomas is a transformational energy healer who empowers people to reach their full potential by removing inherited emotional blocks, such as fear of success, fear of failure, anxiety, procrastination, fear of public speaking, false money beliefs, relationship drama and business stagnation. Everyone deserves to be seen, known and heard for who they are. Lisa shares her expertise in removing inherited patterns within the epigenetics so they can alignment with their Soul's purpose for success.
Erica Keswin is a workplace strategist with a special superpower: She’s a “professional dot.connector” who works with many of the world’s biggest brands to create company cultures of connection and collaboration. We talk about the transformational power of relationship, what she’s discovered as founder of the Spaghetti Project, and her new book Bring Your Human to Work: Ten Sure-Fire Ways to Design a Workplace That is Good for People, Great for Business, and Just Might Change the World.
Sheri Salata is the cofounder of the inspirational lifestyle brand, The Pillar Life, and author of an inspirational new book out today called “The Beautiful No and Other Tales of Trial, Transformation and Transcendence” chronicling her inspiring and frenetic years as Oprah Winfrey’s Executive Producer. Named on of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business and The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Power 100, Sheri shares her journey of spiritual growth, her initial resistance to consciousness, how to find and accept your unique value, why success does not need to be a tradeoff, and much more.
Jessica Zimmerman is a leading wedding planner, floral designer, and the founder of Zimmerman Education, a floral design business education company specializing in teaching others the exact systems, sales processes and other tools and techniques necessary to create a successful 6-figure floral design businesses – and earn a living from flowers, without giving up their lives. She shares productivity tips, plus how to avoid “mom guilt” and think like an owner.
Stacey and Dan Lievens met less than a year ago at a self-discovery boot camp for entrepreneurs and leaders seeking to clear away any limiting beliefs and find their true passion and purpose. The rules were simple over those four months: No romance. So they became accountability partners and it wasn’t long before they fell in love, married and started building a transformational business together. It’s called The Proof, akin to Ted Talk where ideas are worth sharing, a Proof talk is a journey of discovery about your purpose, the “why” behind the what. They share their entrepreneurial journeys, how they leverage purpose in their own family and love live, and the secrets of authentic marketing.
Kelly McCausey is an “instigator of communities” and as the Founder CEO of Love People and Make Money, she was one of the earliest pioneers of Internet Radio, founding Work At Home Mom’s Radio back in 2003. It evolved into a massive community and a paid membership site. On our Mentoring Minisode Kelly talks about women entrepreneurs can “step into the light” without apology – and why you must always take a stand for what you believe in.
Amber Swenor is a Brand Strategist and Impact Coach for purpose-driven entrepreneurs and companies wanting to create massive impact and do good through their businesses. We talk about authenticity in marketing, how to find your “truth” and how to work less to achieve more.
Kathy is a former Google sales executive who spent 18 years understanding what motivates people to take the actions they do. Now as an entrepreneur she’s applying all that knowledge to make a positive impact on the world – and with two toddlers in tow. She is the Founder of THIRD LAW, which transforms your wardrobe to be lean, sustainable and reflective of your personal brand. On our Mentoring Minisode we talk about why its OK to be a “work in progress”.
Kisha Mays believes it’s time for women in business to overcome fear and play bigger. She shares how she’s overcome very public failure three times – learning every step of the way – and has now taken her business global. Her mission is to help one million female founders reach $1mm+ in revenue.
Rhonda Britten is transforming the coaching industry as founder of the Fearless Living Institute, the first and largest “train the trainer” coaching certification program in the world. A four-time bestselling author and the first ever reality TV life coach on NBC’s Starting Over, Rhonda teaches the methods she used to overcome crippling depression and suicide attempts born of personal tragedy when at 14 she witnessed her parents' murder-suicide. In our Mentoring Minisode, she shares what makes a great coach, why many business coaches aren’t up to the task, plus how to focus on your unique genius.
Cindy Schulson is a former Coca Cola and Visa marketing executive who found a higher calling helping coaches and consultants market online “from the heart” without hype. She shares how helps people find their true purpose and laser focus on a message that resonates.
Marina Barayeva is a portrait photographer and entrepreneur who left her native Russia behind to move to Beijing where she now helps business owners in China and beyond grow their influence. She shares on today’s mentoring minisode how to overcome fear of failure, avoid perfectionism and stop procrastinating.
Derek & Melanie Coburn co-founded the Washington DC “un-networking” group Cadre in 2011, with an intent to turn business networking on its head. Melanie, who ran marketing for the Washington Redskins cheerleaders, and Derek, a financial advisor, set about creating a community for entrepreneurs, CEO and professionals that would change the game of business. Today on 10X they share the secrets of an introvert-extrovert matchup, how to create a great event, mastermind or group, and how to balance business with love and parenting.
Krisstina Wise is a real estate mogul, millionaire coach and creator of several multi-million dollar businesses including Goodlife Luxury, The Paperless Agent, and most recently, WealthyWellthy. International speaker and the award-winning author of the Amazon Bestseller Falling for Money, a romance novel for your bank account, Krisstina shares why entrepreneurship is ultimately a spiritual journey and gives her advice, including how to trust your intuition.
Maria Murphy is the founder and CEO of Lei-Lei.net, a global and socially conscious fashion ecommerce platform showcasing handmade fairly traded products created by women artisans around the world. A longtime New York City fashion executive and VP Sales at Tahari, Maria believes in using business for social good. She shares how to apply fair trade and a supply chain policy of “reduce reuse reclaim recycle” to any business – plus how to turn a “do good” side hustle into a profitable global company.
Sigrun transformed her life from corporate “turnaround” CEO to entrepreneur, doubling her revenue every year for the past four years and now headed into the 8 figures. A strategic coach, podcaster and international speaker, Sigrun shares on our mentoring minisode how to scale a lifestyle business, beat perfectionism and get the right mindset for success.
Stephanie Scapa is on a mission to transform the digital economy and create a new, more equitable model for artists, creators, and consumers. She’s the co-founder and CEO of WEYV, a platform that allows users to listen to music, read magazines, and listen to podcasts in a single app. She shares what it’s like to compete with giants like Apple, Spotify and Amazon and what’s ahead in the podcasting space.
Helen Thomas is a serial entrepreneur in technology and digital media now connecting us in a more meaningful and collaborative way with a disruptive touchscreen collaboration platform enabling genuine human connection. CEO and founder of Touchjet, Helen shares her advice on overcoming isolation, building a community of mentors and supportive peers, and how to pursue big dreams with persistence.
Heather Wentler is the co-founder of Doyenne, a networking group for female entrepreneurs who are committed to helping each other succeed. Also founder of the companies Fractal and Madison SOUP, Heather shares how women can best support each other, what stops women from playing bigger in entrepreneurship, and how to overcome disparities in funding and other opportunities.
Darla LeDoux is a transformational retreat leader, founder of Aligned Entrepreneurs, and the author of Retreat and Grow Rich. Learn on this mentoring minisode how to get into alignment with your true purpose, why the power is always in the “now”, how to leverage divine inspiration, and what it takes to play a bigger game.
Amy and Matt Stefanik are two entrepreneurs with a “family first” vision that has strengthened their marriage and parenting along the entrepreneurial roller coaster. They were riding high when the real estate bubble burst their dreams of financial freedom in 2007, and they share how they reinvented in business and in love with meditation and other conscious practices to improve their communication. Amy is the CEO and founder of The Entrepreneurs Wife™ and Matt is the CEO and founder of two e-commerce companies, Funnel Buildr and Futimmo.
Kelsey Ramsden is a serial entrepreneur in construction and real estate who builds highways, airports, bridges and communities. Along the way she’s learned why it is vital to “play all out”, live a full life without regret and die so happy you have what she calls a “FUNeral”. Twice voted Canada’s top female entrepreneur, Kelsey is also an investor, cancer survivor, mom of three and the author of the bestselling book, Success Hangover. We talk about the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, how to get the most of your time and spend it wisely, and never run out of cash!
Kelly McCausey calls herself an “instigator of communities”. Founder and CEO of Love People and Make Money, she was one of the earliest pioneers of Internet Radio, founding Work At Home Mom’s Radio back in 2003. It evolved into a massive community and a paid membership site – combining the affinity of community with the power to collaborate and educate. Kelly shares how she helps entrepreneurs create communities around content.
Lee Caraher describes herself as the “Chief Bacon Officer” in her family, and shares why “work-life balance” is a myth. An expert in all things PR, digital content marketing, and social media as CEO and founder of Silicon Valley’s Double Forte Group, Lee implores women in business to stop apologizing and define success for themselves rather than accepting someone else’s definition.
Rhonda Britten is the founder of the Fearless Living Institute, the first and largest “train the trainer” coaching certification program in the world. A four-time bestselling author and the first ever reality TV life coach on NBC’s Starting Over, Rhonda teaches the methods she used to overcome crippling depression and suicide attempts born of personal tragedy when at 14 she witnessed her parents' murder-suicide. Learn how to overcome fear in this inspiring must-listen episode.
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 is also the author of “The Myth of the Nice Girl”. On our mentoring Minisode, we talk inspiration, challenges and what it takes to raise angel and venture capital for women entrepreneurs.
Darla LeDoux is a transformational retreat leader, founder of Aligned Entrepreneurs, and the author of Retreat and Grow Rich. Learn on this episode how to create inspiring retreats, how to take inspired action, and why the Mayan Lazy Bee is the ideal role model for entrepreneurs who want to work less and achieve more.
Carrie Kerpen is an entrepreneur and author of the bestselling book Work It! Secrets for Success from the Boldest Women in Business. CEO of Likeable Media, Carrie shares important inspirations from #MeToo, how to trust your intuition, why building networks and relationships is vital, and how not to negotiate against yourself in business.
David Dachinger and Tamara Green are the co-founders of Loving Meditations, an app helping thousands beat cancer and other illnesses and traumas. Grammy Award nominee and composer David survived Stage 4 cancer with the help of guided meditations created by his psychotherapist wife Tamara, also dubbed by Elle Magazine as the “Soul Centered Love and Relationship Expert”. Learn how they leveraged adversity to deepen their own love and launch a fast-growing business.
Jules Schroeder believes life is too short not to embrace the authentic you and make every moment count. Founder of Unconventional Life – the podcast, the column, the epic experiences – Jules advises women entrepreneurs to reject conventional wisdom, move past all the “should’s” and trust your truth on our mentoring minisode.
Marina Barayeva is a portrait photographer and entrepreneur who left her native Russia behind to move to Beijing where she now helps business owners in China and beyond grow their influence. Learn today why you put a multiplier on your influence when you focus on a very specific niche, plus tips on how to reinvent yourself on the journey.
Mari Connor is no stranger to the day-to-day ups and downs of being an entrepreneur, and she shares why improv acting is exactly what we all need to get past our fears. Mari is a Facebook advertising ninja helping online influencers, and in the advice minisode today she shares how to boost your confidence.
Sigrun transformed her life from corporate “turnaround” CEO to entrepreneur, doubling her revenue every year for the past four years and now headed into the 8 figures. A strategic coach, podcaster and international speaker, Sigrun shares her mission to help women in business and how she is scaling her company to support a lifestyle she loves with travel, golf and a lot of time with her family.
Heather Wentler is believes all women and girls are strong, independent individuals capable of success. Heather pivoted into entrepreneurship as the Founder of software companies Fractal and Madison SOUP, and now as Co-founder and Executive Director and of Doyenne, a platform for women entrepreneurs to collaborate to create a better community lifting all women in business. She shares advice on the challenges of growing and scaling a business.
Rikka Zimmerman is a global consciousness leader and creator of Life Transformed Classes and Coaching Certification Program. She shares how a terrifying diagnosis giving her 8 weeks to live set her on a course to help people find true success and abundance through self-love. Also a singer-songwriter with her new album “The Miracle” debuting in the top 20 albums on iTunes, she shares her gamechanging advice for women in business plus a special gift.
Allison Maslan is a 10X serial entrepreneur and now pays it forward to entrepreneurs and business owners as CEO of Pinnacle Global Network, a mentoring and mastermind company. Her bestselling book, Scale or Fail, is a must-read for entrepreneurs on how to master scale, and today Allison shares her advice about mentoring, hiring and firing and creating replicable systems so that you run your business rather than it running you.
Christy Whitman is a transformational leader, celebrity coach and New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Having It All – and together with her entrepreneur husband Frederic Gobeil, the host of The Couple’s Retreat. They share how they co-created in business, co-parent, and co-design their lives together with their two young boys in marriage and in business partnership
TL Robinson is the founder of MASS EDEN, a fast-growing body care brand for skin-sensitive and health conscious consumers. Learn how “accidental entrepreneur” TL found her voice in a noisy marketplace with a differentiated solution and message that has allowed her to bootstrap a successful online boutique specializing in green beauty and skincare products in only 2 years.
Jill Raff is a customer experience strategist obsessed with helping businesses Transform Transactions Into Interactions™ so they can turn customers into loyal fans and your best salesforce by building on “real-ationship”. Founder of The Jill Raff Group, she grew up learning from McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc about the customer journey, her grandparents and parents operating McDonald’s #150. She shares her “how to” advice on creating a customer-first company culture, plus who is doing it well and who is not.
Sheri Orlowitz is a leveraged buyout specialist and investor who has raised over $100mm to build, buy, and sell companies across manufacturing, real estate, and now the fast-growing cannabis industry where she is starting a venture capital fund. Founder of the private investment firm Artemis Holdings Group, Sheri is also a former Justice Department prosecutor perfectly placed to help her portfolio companies in the cannabis industry navigate the legal and regulatory minefield. We talk investing, what it takes for women in business to raise money, plus the mindset of a successful entrepreneur and why abundance thinkers and problem solvers get ahead.
Carey & Demir Bentley reinvented their lives, leaving the Wall Street pressure-cooker behind for a nomadic lifestyle supporting their fast-growing business LifeHack Bootcamp, a 60-day productivity program combining personal accountability with a daily practice to unleash your best productivity every single day. Learn how they left behind an 80-hour-a-week Wall Street lifestyle that was making them sicker and sicker and took the entrepreneurial leap, plus life and productivity hacks.
Amy Stefanik is a bestselling author and entrepreneur growing two successful brands – The Entrepreneur’s Wife™ and the supplement company Visentials. On her journey from supportive wife to entrepreneur, Amy learned that its the people around you that will mean the difference between success and failure. Now Amy and Wings Host Melinda Wittstock are collaborating on an immersive Retreat called Wings of the Empowered Woman for entrepreneurs who want to manifest abundance in ALL areas of their lives and play bigger.
Michelle Manning Kogler helps entrepreneurs and thought leaders clear any blocks, traumas, or limiting beliefs that could be sabotaging business success. A transformational healing specialist, medical intuitive, and certified high-performance coach, Michelle is also the author of “Quantum Soul Clearing – Healing the Scars Life Leaves on the Soul” and Founder of the “Quantum Soul Clearing Process”. She shares how she lost 85 pounds in 7 months by clearing her trauma from sexual assault and how she doubles her female clients’ income within months by clearing “generational beliefs”.
Estrella Jaramillo, co-founder of femtech platform B-wom, shares how women entrepreneurs often let themselves down with what she calls the “nice girl syndrome”. Rather than shying away from conflict or caring about being liked by everyone, women in business must put mission first, be OK with saying “no”, and prioritize time in alignment with that mission. Estrella’s company B-wom assists women in all stages of life from pre-fertility to menopause with health education, tracking tools, and personalized care. She shares advice too on how to know and understand the motivations and needs of your customers.
Anne Juceam is the founder of Reality Fantasy League, a website and growing viral phenomenon that combines the thrill of fantasy sports to Reality TV fandom. Anne, who also consults for early stage startups on operations and project management, shares how she turned her own passion for The Bachelor and Top Chef into a game with friends that now has more than 25,000 active customers.
Ashley Crouch is a PR phenomenon helping her clients capture the imagination of national editors. Bestselling author of The Rebel’s Guide to Landing Publicity like a Royal and founder of Appleseed Communications, Ashley shares advice on how to scale a company quickly by hiring premium talent and setting premium prices, plus why it is never too soon to go for placement in the top media outlets. It creates instant credibility and a proliferation of “as seen on” logos that make everything else easier from there, whether landing clients, raising your prices, or getting that Facebook ad campaign to convert.
TL Robinson is the founder of MASS EDEN, a fast-growing body care brand for skin-sensitive and health conscious consumers who won’t sacrifice on quality or compromise their personal identity. Learn how “accidental entrepreneur” TL has bootstrapped a successful online boutique specializing in green beauty and skincare products in only 2 years, and how best to turn your “side hustle” passion into a growing business.
Yvonne Silver is an entrepreneur and the bestselling author of "Words, Women & Wisdom: The Modern Art of Confident Conversations". She shares words that elevate the confidence of women in business, plus advice around how to align with your values, ask for help and hire the right team members early enough to grow your business without burnout.
Ali Skylar and Jamie Greenberg have been in businesses together for most of their long and successful marriage. They share how they are two parts of a whole, their very different traits in alignment on mission and purpose. These days they are most passionate about A Brand You Way – a company Jamie founded to help entrepreneurs capitalize on their creativity. Jamie ran a successful entertainment agency for years while also growing and selling a multimillion toy company, while Ali, also a lyricist and songwriter, produced plays and musicals. She is also creator of Sucky To Soulful, a website dedicated to helping parents transform “Ahh Crap!” unto a “Wholy Shift!” with tools, blogs and courses guaranteed to catapult people into personal growth at the speed of life.
Gigi and Makena Sage are founders of Lumina Life, a global coaching and seminar company helping go-getter women reach their full potential for financial success AND fulfillment. They share how to build a business on your own terms, why giving back unlocks an abundance of wealth and freedom, and how to balance our masculine “go mode” with a feminine “flow mode” to avoid burnout. Learn too how Gigi as a single mom with 5 homeschooled kids traveled the world to build her empire on her own terms – and how Makena started helping her mom at age 7.
Joya P. Gallasch is an intuitive entrepreneur, spiritual teacher and self-love activist who has overcome severe trauma and PTSD to step into joy, playfulness and self-love – and help others do the same. Her mantra? “Feel to heal, shift to uplift”. She shares her mission to empower women to fully express their gifts by connecting to their self-love, playfulness and magic.
Melinda Wittstock has grown four successful businesses from startup to 6, 7 and 8 figures, and today on International Women’s Day she shares the secrets of success for women in business. Today Melinda interviews some of the most accomplished female founders about their Mindset, Mojo and Money secrets. Guests include Kara Goldin, Alllison Maslan, Jennifer Love, Jules Schroeder, JJ Virgin, Teresa de Grosbois, JuliAnn Stitick, Natalie Ledwell, and Christy Whitman.
Meaghan Connell and AJ Connell are business partners, adventures partners and life partners. Co-founders of data company Praxis Metrics, the couple shares how they scaled their business and their lives by being data-driven in everything they do. AJ and Meaghan run their business remotely, automate most of their life, keep their bodies fit and healthy, stay productive, and grow their relationship, all while traveling the world and coming back to a bank account that had more money than when they left. We talk personal growth and geek out on data, automation, and balancing the masculine and feminine energies within ourselves.
Alexis Neely is a legal entrepreneur bringing consciousness and artistry to business, the law, wealth building and legacy planning. Known also by her artists’ name Ali Shanti, Alexis shares her advice on overcoming fear, stepping into your true mission, and overcoming limiting beliefs like “money dysmorphia.”
Dame Doria “DC” Cordova has inspired some of today’s greatest wealth experts – including Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield and Robert Kiyasaki – and touched the lives of millions globally with her Money & You® program. She’s the owner and founder of Excellerated Business Schools®, a global organization with over 118,000 graduates since 1979. Bestselling author, philanthropist, transformational leader, and speaker, Doria shares her mission of encouraging entrepreneurs to use business as a canvas for social good – and what it takes to move from scarcity thinking to abundance in all areas of our lives, lifting as we climb to eradicate global poverty.
Michele Williams is a certified “Profit First” professional who helps creative business owners and entrepreneurs focus on the financial health and profitability of their companies. CEO of Scarlet Thread Consulting, Michele shares actionable tips on how to know your true value, why you need to know your numbers, and why you have to let go of the inner control freak to grow and scale a business.
Christy and Cody Burch have three young kids, two businesses and a lot to juggle. Cody is the creator of the One Hour Funnel and Christy is the founder of boutique event management company Your Branded Event.
Learn how they set out to build businesses that fit a flexible lifestyle with lots of travel and time with their kids, and why they are constantly reinventing themselves and their businesses.
Baeth Davis is an entrepreneur, coach and expert in scientific hand analysis known as the Palm Pilot for the Soul of Your Business™. Baeth draws on her intuition and extensive shamanic experience, as well as her 20 years as an entrepreneur, to help entrepreneurs and leaders align with their life purpose and get paid for their passions. Today Baeth shares her advice on how to delegate the “busy work”, find your true voice as a communicator, and let go of traumas that hold us back in business and life.
Sheri Orlowitz is a leveraged buyout specialist and investor who has raised over $100mm to build, buy, and sell companies across manufacturing, real estate, and now the fast-growing cannabis industry where she is starting a venture capital fund. Founder of the private investment firm Artemis Holdings Group, Sheri is also a former Justice Department prosecutor perfectly placed to help her portfolio companies in the cannabis industry navigate the legal and regulatory minefield. We talk investing, what it takes for women in business to raise money, plus the mindset of a successful entrepreneur and why abundance thinkers and problem solvers get ahead.
Ruby Fremon is a “breakthrough” coach helping thought leaders align with their true authentic purpose. Creator of the 3-day leadership training intensive Amplified Soul Live® and named an “Inspirational Woman” by the Huffington Post, Ruby shares how to embrace and overcome failure: Why it is an opportunity for learning and growth, why all entrepreneurs must embrace risk and take ownership.
Natalie Ledwell and Glen Ledwell are serial entrepreneurs and co-founders of the hugely successful and revolutionary personal development company Mind Movies. Married young and founding myriad businesses together before Mind Movies exploded on the scene in 2008, Natalie and Glen divorced 5 years ago yet maintain most friendly, respectful and effective executive relationships in business. How do they do it? They share how they navigated the crosscurrents of love and business plus the secrets of building a great team, and creating profitable and sustaining joint venture and affiliate agreements.
Jill Raff is a customer experience strategist obsessed with helping businesses Transform Transactions Into Interactions™, by putting people first. Founder of The Jill Raff Group, she shares her advice for entrepreneurs: Focus on the ONE thing that feeds your soul AND your wallet. We talk intuition, self-value and how to focus when you have too many ideas.
Gigi and Makena Sage are founders of Lumina Life, a global coaching and seminar company helping go-getter women reach their full potential for financial success AND fulfillment. They share how to build a business on your own terms, why giving back unlocks an abundance of wealth and freedom, and how to balance our masculine “go mode” with a feminine “flow mode” to avoid burnout. Learn too how Gigi as a single mom with 5 homeschooled kids traveled the world to build her empire on her own terms – and how Makena started helping her mom at age 7.
Carly Stein is the CEO and founder of a fast-growing nutraceuticals company called Beekeeper’s Naturals. A former Goldman Sachs trader, Carly left it all behind and is now scaling quickly. She shares the conundrum of having to let go of all the skills she mastered in order to take her company to the next level. We talk fear, freedom and why conscious capitalism is the future.
Lena Phoenix and Steven Sashen are sprinting with their fast-scaling business Xero Shoes, and today on Valentine’s Day we get a peek inside the lives of a “Couplepreneur”, how they manage their love of business and the business of love, and why they rejected Kevin O’Leary’s offer of $400,000 on Shark Tank. This episode is the first in a series of weekly Wings Of Inspired Business interviews with married entrepreneurs. What is it like to juggle it all? What makes it work?
Anna Scheller is known as the “black belt of sales” helping entrepreneurs master selling with confidence by building trusted relationships and leading customers to value. Also the host of podcasts Black Belt Selling and Sales Mastery Anna shares tips on how to transcend limiting beliefs that keep us playing small, trust our intuition, and view our mistakes as opportunities for learning.
Ashley Crouch knows how to build buzz for women entrepreneurs and experts by crafting compelling storylines that capture the imagination of national editors. Founder of Appleseed Communications, Ashley shares why it is never too soon to go for placement in the top titles: It creates instant credibility and a proliferation of “as seen on” logos that make everything else easier from there, whether landing clients, raising your prices, or getting that Facebook ad campaign to convert. We also talk about her passion lifting women in the developing world as the first 1-for-1 agency.
Lee Caraher describes herself as the “Chief Bacon Officer” in her family, and shares why “work-life balance” is a myth. An expert in all things PR, digital content marketing, and social media as CEO and founder of Silicon Valley’s Double Forte Group, Lee implores women in business to stop apologizing and define success for themselves rather than accepting someone else’s definition.
Estrella Jaramillo is the co-founder of femtech platform B-wom, serving women in all stages of life from pre-fertility to menopause with health education, tracking tools and personalized care. She shares the challenges of raising venture capital investment when your product is geared only to women, plus important advice for women in technology.
Brandee Powell is a conscious entrepreneur helping others step into higher consciousness is the Co-Creator of the Rythmia Life Advancement Center in Costa Rica, where she infuses ancient and modern wisdom, plant medicine and breakthrough technologies for healing and inspiring entrepreneurs to conscious leadership. Brandee shares what it is like to connect deeply within to understand your true genius and purpose, balance the masculine and feminine energies, get into flow and surrender to inspiration.
Yvonne Silver is an entrepreneur who helps women in business gain confidence, and she believes women entrepreneurs flourish when we harness the authentic feminine energy of flow and collaborate with each other with an abundance mindset. Bestselling author of "Words, Women & Wisdom: The Modern Art of Confident Conversations", Yvonne shares her process for growing your confidence in business and life.
Diana House is a lawyer turned award winning serial entrepreneur, and after selling her two e-commerce businesses, she’s transitioning to a new business forcing her to get out of her comfort zone and build a compelling personal brand. Diana, also a real estate investor and private lender, now teaches entrepreneurs about money and finance so they can grow businesses profitably, and today we talk about personal branding for introverts plus how to take more risks and “chase down your zone of genius”.
Alexis Neely is a legal phenomenon and entrepreneur bringing consciousness and artistry to business, the law, wealth building and legacy planning. Known also by her artists’ name Ali Shanti, Alexis shares her journey to consciousness using the canvas of entrepreneurship, and shows how to live an inspiring, multidimensional life with her process of “intention, surrender and trust.” Learn too how she’s transcended money limitations, let go of the need to “do it all” and on her way to a $25m business.
April Yvette is an entrepreneur and motivational speaker who transformed her life from a $9 per hour job to $9 million in real estate profits in one year. Then she became an inventor, her product featured on Shark Tank, and now she helps people with a compelling story align to their purpose and build a profitable business. Today she shares her advice on how to leverage your setbacks, get into “inspired action” and why it’s vital you share your unique gifts with the world with “meaningful fame”.
Debi Silber knows what it’s like to break through from betrayal – whether in business, love or friendship – and shares today her own entrepreneurial journey and her PhD findings as a holistic psychologist and transformational coach on what it takes for women to recover from betrayal. Debi is the bestselling author of The Unshakable Woman: 4 Steps to Rebuilding Your Body, Mind and Life After a Life Crisis.
Kelsey Ramsden is a serial entrepreneur in construction and real estate who builds highways, airports, bridges and communities. Along the way she’s learned why it is vital to “play all out”, live a full life without regret and die so happy you have what she calls a “FUNeral”. Twice voted Canada’s top female entrepreneur, Kelsey is also an investor, cancer survivor, mom of three and the author of the bestselling book, Success Hangover. We talk about the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, how to get the most of your time and spend it wisely, and never run out of cash!
Melitta Campbell coaches would-be female entrepreneurs how to start businesses from scratch. She won a Wings contest for an all-expense-paid day of 1:1 coaching with 4X serial entrepreneur Melinda Wittstock with a stay at the 5-Star Watergate Hotel in D.C. with luxury spa treatment thrown in. Melitta shares all she learned about scaling, systems, recurring revenue, mindset, beating perfectionism, passive income, sales funnels and more – plus why she now talks about “world domination”.
Arlene Gale is a bestselling and award-winning author who helps executives and entrepreneurs write books to build their businesses, and nonfiction and fiction writers build businesses around their books. She shares why successful entrepreneurs all share an abundance mindset, curiosity and a willingness to be wrong and ask for help. CEO of BookWritingBusiness.com, Arlene also has an eighth bestselling book out right now called Book Business Blueprint: Build Credibility, Stand Out from the Competition, and Skyrocket Sales by Writing Your Book.
Ruby Fremon is a “breakthrough” coach helping thought leaders step into the light, and align with their true authentic purpose. Creator of the 3-day leadership training intensive Amplified Soul Live® and named an “Inspirational Woman” by the Huffington Post, Ruby shares her personal story of how she broke through, let go of limiting beliefs, why “hitting rock bottom” was what she needed to see and connect with her true soul purpose.
Britt Stromberg believes the best entrepreneurs are like choreographers: They can see every move on the dancefloor and how a team can be aligned in perfect timing and grace. A creative marketer and serial entrepreneur with a 25-year background in advertising, brand development, market research, and content strategy for consumer retail and technology companies, Britt shares what ballet taught her about resilience, rejection and leadership. Now CEO and founder of Underwire Media, Britt shares her advice for women in business: Learn to be kinder to yourself.
Lee Caraher is an expert in all things PR, digital content marketing and social media. CEO and founder of Silicon Valley’s Double Forte Group, Lee shares what is working (and not working) in 2019 for companies that want to stand out from the crowd with an effective and engaging message that converts. She shares her entrepreneurial journey plus advice on how to attract and retain top millennial talent with inspiring workplace cultures.
Meg Clarke knows how to help your customers find you on Google. Founder of Clapping Dog Media, she shares more of her cutting edge SEO techniques, plus the inside skinny on how an Enneagram personality test can help you better serve customers. Plus we geek out on dogs and how they inspire mindfulness and success.
Carly Stein left behind her lucrative Wall Street trading career at Goldman Sachs to pursue her true passion. A beekeeper, Carly discovered the miraculous healing properties of bee propolis and created a fast-growing nutraceuticals company called Beekeeper’s Naturals. Committed to conscious capitalism, Carly is using her company as a platform for sustainable farming and pesticide free beekeeping. We talk about overcoming fear and taking the leap into the unknowns of a startup as well as how to hire a great team and scale it fast to meet growing demand.
Joy Schoffler knows how to bootstrap a company to swift profitability on operational revenue alone. That’s how she built financial technology PR agency Leverage PR, before selling it to step into the investment world where she now encourages women to invest in other women entrepreneurs. Co-founder and Chief Strategic Officer of Upside Avenue and Casoro Capital, Joy shares her insights on how to manage money as an entrepreneur, where to invest it and why you have to pay yourself as your grow your business.
Diana House is a lawyer turned award winning serial entrepreneur. She’s built and sold two e-commerce businesses and now she teaches entrepreneurs about money and finance so they can grow businesses profitably. Also a real estate investor and private lender, we talk about women investing in women, how to grow the valuation of your business and when it’s too late to think about exit.
Bettina Hein is a serial technology entrepreneur now remaking what we know of the web into its newer version, a decentralized 3.0 version where we own and control our own data. CEO and founder of HelloYellow, and SVOX and Pixability before, Bettina talks about what it takes for women to play bigger to launch moonshots and why, just like in childbirth, it helps not to know or understand all the challenges before you take the leap.
Kelsey Ramsden moves the earth, literally, as a serial entrepreneur in civil construction and real estate where her multinational company builds highways, airports, bridges and communities. Twice voted Canada’s top female entrepreneur, Kelsey is also an investor, cancer survivor, mom of three and the author of the bestselling book, Success Hangover. We talk about the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, how to inspire as a team leader and much more.
Debi Silber knows what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur – the resilience and unshakeable faith it takes to innovate and grow a business. In today’s advice Minisode she shares how to “walk though fear”. Also a holistic psychologist and author, Debi shares inspiration and lessons you won’t want to miss as 2019 kicks off.
April Yvette is an entrepreneur and motivational speaker who one day reached the end of her rope and transformed her live from struggling single mom with a $9 per hour job to a real estate phenomenon earning $9 million in one year. Then she became an inventor, her product featured on Shark Tank, and now she helps people with a compelling story align to their purpose and build a profitable business.
Brandee Powell is the Co-Creator of the Rythmia Life Advancement Center in Costa Rica, where she infuses ancient and modern wisdom, plant medicine and breakthrough technologies for healing and inspiring entrepreneurs to conscious leadership. Brandee shares the adversity that propelled her to success as an advertising agency phenomenon, creator of products like children’s DJ toy Beamz with rapper Flo Rida, and now into enlightened transformation.
Melinda Wittstock is a 4-time serial entrepreneur and an award-winning journalist. Host of Wings, Melinda shares what it takes to take inspired action in alignment with your intentions for the New Year with practical advice. You’ll learn how to set powerful intentions, identify the gaps in your life, take focused action to ensure you work less to achieve more, and how to find the one word that will be your guide star for 2019.
Cynthia James is a transformational specialist and one of today’s best loved inspirational leaders and teachers guiding thousands of people to make changes at a deep level for lasting healing in their lives. With her latest program, Advanced Awareness Coaching, Cynthia helps high-level business owners and entrepreneurs find depth, focus and results. Learn more about Cynthia’s healing process, her entrepreneurial journey and how you can transform your life.
JuliAnn Stitick is a motivational speaker, author and brand strategist for global brands and Golden Globe and Oscar winners. Known as ‘The Personal Brand Expert’ because she uses the insights from her own personal healing journey to go “beneath the brand” – helping entrepreneurs and executives go deep in their own personal growth as the basis for creating the most authentic and magnetic branding. Learn how to leverage what you may want to hide for profitable impact, and get a sneak peek on JuliAnn’s new book, Purpose Crisis: Stop the Inner Struggle, Find Your Life's Meaning and Reveal the Magnificent You That's Ready To Be Seen.
Mary Shores put a multiplier on her business growth when she discovered the power of words to plant the seeds of positive outcome. Author of Conscious Communications, Mary credits her “Do Not Say” list with rapid growth for her collections agency to a $40 million business, and shares practical tips you can implement right away in how you and your team members speak that spell the difference between profit and loss.
Melinda Wittstock is a serial entrepreneur who has built four successful businesses in digital media and tech. Christmas Day, she says, is the perfect day to “open the gifts within”, that is, honor what truly makes you unique so you can step into your true purpose and passion to succeed in business. Melinda has a special gift to share with you too.
Naomi Mdudu is the CEO and Founder of the Lifestyle Edit, where her compelling mix of content, coaching, and retreats help female founders find alignment and inspiration in their businesses. A former journalist and marketing maven, Naomi shares her advice on how to work “on” your business instead of always “in” it, plus how to build a supportive “business family” of other entrepreneurial peers and mentors to assure your success.
Britt Stromberg is a creative marketer and entrepreneur with a 25-year background in advertising, brand development, market research, and content strategy for consumer retail and technology companies. CEO and founder of Underwire Media, which curates must-read information for female founders Britt talks about when legacy starts to matter and how to align with your true purpose. Listen today to learn how to start up again from scratch, overcome perfectionism, and scale into your mission.
Helen Thomas is a serial entrepreneur in technology and digital media now connecting us in a more meaningul and collaborative way with a disruptive touchscreen collaboration platform enabling genuine human connection. CEO and founder of Touchjet, Helen shares her advice on overcoming isolation, building a community of mentors and supportive peers, and how to pursue big dreams with persistence.
Baeth Davis is an entrepreneur and coach known as the Palm Pilot for the Soul of Your Business™. An expert in scientific hand analysis and human design, Baeth draws on her intuition and extensive shamanic experience, as well as her 20 years as an entrepreneur, to help entrepreneurs and leaders of all kinds unleash and align with their life purpose, so they can get paid for their passions. Listen today to learn how to step into alignment so you can profit from your purpose.
Heather Dominick is a transformational leader who helps entrepreneurs get into alignment with their true purpose and passion. She shares her advice about how to reject the “energy of comparison” and others’ agendas for us. Creator of the award-winning “A Course In Business Miracles”, Heather is helping “highly sensitive entrepreneurs” (HSEs) leveraging their intuitive strengths and find ways around the circumtances that leave many in overwhelm or burnout.
Entrepreneur, YouTuber and Intimacy Expert Allana Pratt shows how vulnerability is a true strength in business, inspiring transformational leadership. She shares how to see the “gift in the wobbly”, all those entrepreneurial challenges and problems, as an opportunity for growth – personal and business.
Susan Bratton has built an extraordinary empire advising men and women how to put the intimacy and passion back into their relationships. Known as the “Dear Abby of Sex”, Susan is CEO and co-founder of Personal Life Media, and she shares how she is turning back the clock on aging, detoxifying her home and her life, and why its vital for women to “know the numbers” or the KPI metrics that drive your business growth.
Joy Schoffler built a financial technology PR agency from startup to scale and then when she exited by selling Leverage PR, she stepped into the investment world where she now encourages women to invest in other women entrepreneurs. Co-founder and Chief Strategic Officer of Upside Avenue and Casoro Capital, Joy shares her insights on investing, what it takes to create a great company, and tips for female founders.
Whitney Cox left a big Wall Street career behind to transform her life and in the process she saved her own life. With her life coaching business Warrior Girl and now living the life of her dreams in Colombia, Whitney shares her advice about how to align your business with your soul purpose and why you must avoid “should’s” and “to do’s” because all too often these words suggest we’re fulfiling someone elses’ dreams and not our own.
Meg Clarke is an expert in cutting edge SEO techniques, including Google’s increasing emphasis on voice search, and she shares the inside skinny on how entrepreneurs can make their businesses more easily found by potential customers online. Founder and president of Clapping Dog Media, Meg also shares her own entrepreneurial journey and how dogs have inspired her success.
Dr. Connie Reimers Hild has always had an uncanny ability to see the future – and she believes women entrepreneurs are changing the game of business. CEO of Wild Innovation, Connie helps entrepreneurs, business owners and leaders leverage fast-changing trends, technology and attitudes for business growth and mission-driven social impact. She shares her advice about integrating motherhood into entrepreneurship, and why it’s important to enjoy the journey not just the destination.
Anna Scheller is known as the “black belt of sales” helping entrepreneurs master selling with confidence by building trusted relationships and leading customers to value. Anna is also a podcast host, with Black Belt Selling and Sales Mastery. She shares her secrets of how she became an entrepreneur, juggling business growth with 7 kids, and how to let go of any limiting beliefs around money and sales.
Debbi Dachinger is a visibility expert who helps her clients dare to dream bigger and get on stages and TV. She shares her advice about why asking for help can make us feel so uncomfortable, and why real growth (personal and business) comes from pushing through our resistance. Debbi, host of the syndicated radio show Dare To Dream, shares what is inspiring her and how to think positively abut resistance.
Michele Williams is a certified “Profit First” professional who helps creative business owners and entrepreneurs focus on the financial health and profitability of their companies. Through her consulting agency, Scarlet Thread Consulting, she helps entrepreneurs assure profitability from the beginning. She shares her advice and entrepreneurial journey.
Bonnie Bruderer says entrepreneurs have to be willing to get uncomfortable in order to get comfortable, that growth comes when we get out of our comfort zones. Bonnie is the founder and CEO of the fast-growing Binge Networks, which now reaches hundreds of millions globally via smart TVs and connected devices as a distribution channel for videos and podcasts like Wings Of…Inspired Business. She shares her advice for women in business.
Bettina Hein is onto her third game-changing business – remaking what we know of the web into its newer version, a decentralized 3.0 version where we own and control our own data. CEO and founder of HelloYellow, and SVOX and Pixability before, Bettina shares her excitement at the promise of blockchain technologies allowing us to secure and validate our online identities in this brave new world. We also talk fundraising, how to overcome venture capital resistance to funding female founders, and balancing innovation with young kids.
Amy Schuber is the acclaimed host of the podcast Inspired Conversations and a strategic business coach. We talk about why women in business so often fall into isolation, and the crippling impact of not growing meaningful relationships and connections. She shares her advice and how connecting and growing a business network has changed the game for her.
Melinda Wittstock is a serial entrepreneur who has built four successful businesses in digital media and tech. She shares today on Thanksgiving how her daily gratitude practice was the spark that ignited her success and helped her find alignment with her true passion and purpose. Join Melinda to learn how to use gratitude practically in your life – and to learn what she is grateful for today.
Alexandra Stockwell is a family physician turned entrepreneur and relationship coach, guiding men and women to bring pleasure and purpose into all aspects of married life and create emotional and sensual intimacy. She shares her advice on self-care, what entrepreneurs need from relationships and why women entrepreneurs are uniquely positioned to solve major societal challenges with evolved consciousness.
Arlene Gale is a bestselling and award-winning author who helps executives and entrepreneurs write books to build their businesses, and nonfiction and fiction writers build businesses around their books. CEO of BookWritingBusiness.com, Arlene also has an eighth bestselling book out right now called Book Business Blueprint: Build Credibility, Stand Out from the Competition, and Skyrocket Sales by Writing Your Book.
Dr. Gayle Carson built and scaled a 350-person business as a woman in the 1950s and 1960s, balancing entrepreneurship, marriage, motherhood and a gig as the TV spokeswoman for Clairol. Now she’s busy with her first love as a podcaster and owner of SOB Radio Network, and yes, SOB stands for “spunky old broad”. She shares her advice on how to overcome adversity and why your mindset is the key to success.
Helen Thomas is a serial entrepreneur in technology and digital media now connecting us in a more meaningful and collaborative way with a disruptive innovation enabling genuine human connection. CEO and founder of Touchjet, Helen shares her mission, vision, and ups and downs of building a Silicon Valley Unicorn and why her innovative tech will change how we communicate, collaborate and learn.
Mary DeMuth is an author and entrepreneur helping business leaders grow their influence and impact as CEO of Book Launch Mentor. Also a podcaster who brings her faith to the world with Pray Every Day, Mary shares tips on how to hire, inspire and build great business relationships without “over-giving”. She also talks about her latest book The Seven Deadly Friendships - How to Heal When Painful Relationships Eat Away at Your Joy.
Susan Bratton has built an extraordinary empire advising men and women how to put the intimacy and passion back into their relationships. CEO and co-founder of Personal Life Media, Susan is as the “Dear Abby of Sex”. If only the Google, YouTube and Facebook algorithms loved her as much as her customers! Learn how Susan is pivoting her 8-figure business into supplements and energy bars while leveraging endorsements and affiliate marketing deals to take her business to the next level.
Kelly Leonard walked away from a high 6-figure salary at a F500 to start her own consulting business, where she helps executives and entrepreneurs leverage LinkedIn to grow revenue and build profitable strategic relationships with her BOOST™ methodology. Today she shares how to get out of your own way as an entrepreneur, accept change, let go of control, and learn how to hire and inspire a great team.
Melinda Wittstock launched Wings Of…Inspired Business a year ago today to celebrate the entrepreneurial journeys of women “succeeding in silence”. One year in, Wings has grown into a movement as Melinda works to catalyze an ecosystem where women in business mentor each other, buy from each other and invest in each other. Today Melinda talks about what it takes to succeed, how to get out of fear and scarcity, and why we all need a “business family” of mentors and coaches to succeed.
Destinee Berman helps spiritual leaders and healers bring their teachings online with her “Launch Your Calling” program so they can turn their dharma into a scalable education business. On today’s Wings minisode, Destinee shares important tips on how to balance your creativity with the business “busy work”, set clear boundaries and put processes in place, so you can release any self-sabotaging patterns and step fully into your light.
Heather Dominick is a transformational leader who believes there’s a correlation between spiritual and business growth. Creator of the award-winning “A Course In Business Miracles”, Heather is helping “highly sensitive entrepreneurs” (HSEs) leveraging their intuitive strengths and find ways around the circumtances that leave many in overwhelm or burnout.
Andrea Shillington is a top brand strategist who learned along the way that the secret of magnetic messaging is being more “you”. Known as the “Business Soul Architect” because she helps her entrepreneur and executive clients create heart-centered brands that align deeply with their passion and purpose, Andrea shares advice on how to differentiate yourself in the marketplace by focusing on what truly makes you unique, in particular leveraging those challenges and difficulties we often tend to keep hidden.
Amy Schuber is celebrating her 4th year as a podcaster with a half-million downloads now for Inspired Conversations. We talk about what led her as a strategic business coach to jump into podcasting, how its helped her find her voice and grow her business, and why she believes ‘you are the one you’ve been waiting for’.
If you’ve ever run a Facebook ad campaign, or want to, this episode is a must-listen. Entrepreneur Mari Connor is the go-to maven of Facebook advertising, and she shares what works, what doesn’t and why. We talk about her leap from copywriting to building an agency, and how she did it.
Mary Shores put a multiplier on her business growth when she discovered the power of words to plant the seeds of positive outcome. Author of Conscious Communications, Mary credits her “Do Not Say” list with rapid growth for her collections agency to a $40 million business, and shares practical tips you can implement right away in how you and your team members speak that spell the difference between profit and loss.
Sharla Jacobs is the co-founder of Thrive Academy where she and her husband Jesse Koren have helped 50,000 holistic healers, coaches and entrepreneurs transform their passion into profitable businesses and realize their first $10,000 month. Sharla advises entrepreneurs to embrace community and connection if they wish to succeed, and look deep inside to get rid of any money blocks or limiting beliefs standing in their way.
Debbi Dachinger is a visibility expert who helps her clients dare to dream bigger. So much of entrepreneurial success necessitates getting exposure to boost your influence and impact – and that means bestselling books, media appearances and keynote speeches. Debbi, host of the syndicated radio show Dare To Dream, shares the inside skinny on how to get on stages and TV.
Paula Shaw is a life transition expert helping people navigate the crosscurrents and challenges of change. Often synonymous with personal and business growth, change nonetheless brings with it growing pains. Paula shares how the best way to cope with the entrepreneurial ups and downs is by learning to put yourself first, create space for solitude and not allow yourself to be blown off course by others’ agendas.
Naomi Mdudu is the CEO and Founder of the Lifestyle Edit, where her compelling mix of content, coaching, and retreats help female founders find alignment and inspiration in their businesses. A former journalist and marketing maven, Naomi shares how she learned to leverage intuition for inspiration to live an intentional life in flow – and how her business grew faster once she rejected the “hustle”.
Melissa Gonzalez, CEO of Lionesque Group, shares the secrets of scale she’s learned since her jump into entrepreneurship from a successful Wall Street career. Melissa is transforming shopping with retail “pop up” experiences that connect brands to consumers in exciting new ways – and she shares how the scaling “marathon” requires strategic collaboration.
Jules Schroeder is all about playing big. Founder of Unconventional Life – the podcast, the column, the epic experiences – she shares how to manifest our life dreams by daring to play big and align with their true purpose. We talk about her new venture Billionaires Society, the Grammy she’s manifesting, and how to step into our true greatness.
Reelika Schulte teaches women around the world how to leverage their life experiences to create automated online and “evergreen” coaching businesses. CEO and founder of Design Dream Lifestyle, Reelika shares why it’s important to learn how to “let go”, trust your team and focus on working “on” your business instead of “in” it.
Allison Maslan has built 10 businesses from startup to the high 7 and 8 figures. Today Allison launches her new bestselling book Scale or Fail. She shares the five stages of scaling from solopreneur “Seeker” to scaling “Visionary”, what stands in the way of most entrepreneurs reaching the tipping point in their business when they can focus on working on their business instead of in it, and why scaling success is a bit like mastering the trapeze.
Diane Forster reinvented her own life, escaping a corporate job and a bad marriage to become an award-winning inventor, bestselling author, and keynote speaker. Diane describes herself as an Intentional Living Expert, and her company, I HAVE TODAY, helps women step into the “power of now” and live fearlessly and intentionally through all of life's transitions.
Bonnie Bruderer believes that “mindset is everything” in entrepreneurship. She shares how her willingness to scrap her original business model led her to seize the day in the fast-growing OTT television industry with Binge Networks, which now reaches hundreds of millions globally as a distribution channel for videos and podcasts like Wings Of…Inspired Business. Learn how and when to pivot, and the mindset you need to succeed.
Cynthia James is a transformational leader and entrepreneur guiding thousands of people to make changes at a deep level for lasting healing in their lives. She shares important advice on how to hire and inspire your team to work in flow with your purpose, passion and mission, and other vital insights for women in business.
Andrea Shillington is known as the “Business Soul Architect” because she helps her entrepreneur and executive clients create heart-centered brands that align deeply with their passion and purpose. Andrea is a F500 branding strategist who shares how she now helps business owners understand the emotional scaffolding we’ve built around us, and peeling it back create an authentic and magnetic brand.
JuliAnn Stitick is a motivational speaker, brand strategist for global brands who helps entrepreneurs and executives go deep in their own personal growth as the basis for creating authentic magnetic branding. Author of Purpose Crisis: Stop the Inner Struggle, Find Your Life's Meaning and Reveal the Magnificent You That's Ready To Be Seen, JuliAnn shares how to beat perfectionism and attract and build a team that leverages your strengths so you can do what you love.
Dr. Gayle Carson built and scaled a 350-person business as a woman in the 1950s and 1960s, balancing entrepreneurship, marriage, motherhood and a gig as the TV spokeswoman for Clairol. Now she’s busy with her first love as a podcaster and owner of SOB Radio Network, and yes, SOB stands for “spunky old broad”. Learn how she did it, and why your mindset is the key to success.
Katrina Sawa is known as the “Jumpstart Your Marketing” coach, teaching business owners how to scale to 6-figures and beyond with converting funnels, systems and sales training. Katrina created a global business that allows her to live a life of freedom and balance, and she shares practical hacks on the mental and emotional “right stuff” you need to succeed.
Mary deMuth is an inspiring author of 35 books, an entrepreneur who helps business leaders grow their influence and impact by writing their story at her company Book Launch Mentor, and a podcaster who brings her faith to the world with Pray Every Day. Mary shares her entrepreneurial journey, how entrepreneurs must find their true authentic voices as they “re-story” their lives, her latest book The Seven Deadly Friendships - How to Heal When Painful Relationships Eat Away at Your Joy and why relationships matter.
Jean Ginzburg is a marketing maven helping businesses from Fortune 500s to innovative startups best leverage the latest in social media marketing, funnel optimization, retargeting and more to engage and convert customers. We “geek out” together on authenticity, the latest technology, marketing hacks, and more.
Dr. Connie Reimers Hild has always had an uncanny ability to see the future. CEO of Wild Innovation, she now helps entrepreneurs, business owners and leaders leverage fast-changing trends, technology and attitudes for business growth and mission-driven social impact. She works with fast-growing 7 and 8 figure startups and F100 corporations, as well as nonprofits, and we discuss a $7.6 trillion opportunity for women who she believes are best placed to profit from the future.
Erica Keswin is on a mission to transform corporate culture and customer service by helping business leaders embrace their values to drive higher value in their businesses. A workplace strategist also self-described as a “professional dot.connector”, Erica works with many of the world’s biggest brands to create company cultures of connection and collaboration. We talk about the transformational power of mission-based values, what she’s discovered as founder of the Spaghetti Project, and her new book Bring Your Human to Work: Ten Sure-Fire Ways to Design a Workplace That is Good for People, Great for Business, and Just Might Change the World.
Franziska Iseli is an entrepreneur, brand strategist and marketing visionary on a mission to innovate for social good. She shares her inspiring journey, irrepressible spirit, and how she embraces the magic of “woo” to build and scale four businesses. CEO of Basic Bananas, Franziska is also trailblazing in the “evolved enterprise” social good movement with OceanLovers.com. We talk adventure, flow consciousness and how women can step into their authentic feminine power.
Entrepreneur Alycia Darby Zimnoch shares her advice for women in business and why women must lift as they climb, and find our voices and feminine power together. Alycia is the creator or StartYourShow.com, helping business owners become instant celebrities via online video shows that attract exactly the right new clients and customers.
Christy Whitman shares truly transformational insights on how to change our relationship with work and money to create truly happy, abundant and impactful lives. Transformational leader, New York Times bestselling author and celebrity coach, Christy’s new book Quantum Success: 7 Essential Laws for a Thriving, Joyful and Prosperous Relationship with Work and Money unveils how entrepreneurs and business owners can leverage inner growth to put a quantum multiplier on their success and happiness.
Melinda Wittstock launched Wings Of…Inspired Business to honor the entrepreneurial journeys of women and catalyze an ecosystem where women in business step into their authentic power and purpose, extend their influence and impact, and lift each other to new heights of success. Today Melinda interviews some of the most accomplished female founders about their Mindset, Mojo and Money secrets. Guests include Kara Goldin, Alllison Maslan, Jennifer Love, Jules Schroeder, JJ Virgin, Teresa de Grosbois, JuliAnn Stitick, Natalie Ledwell, and Christy Whitman.
Jennifer Love is a Shark Tank conquering, 5X serial entrepreneur, $100mm raising success whose chocolate company NibMor was named a top food and beverage company in the U.S. Now her mission is about advancing women: CEO of One More Woman, she’s focused on helping women entrepreneurs attain financial freedom and scale their business beyond $1mm+ with healthy profits – a mission she shares with Wings.
Lena Elkins knows what it’s like to go from broke to breaking new barriers as an entrepreneur: She found the secret to building a scalable global coaching business. She’s added a new partner to the business fold – her husband. She shares advice on how to partner with your partner, keep the romance alive as you crush it in business, how to live an intentional life without letting current circumstance dictate your future, and much more.
Serial entrepreneur Sharon Kan is on a mission to help moms learn entrepreneurial skills and create lucrative microbusinesses with her new platform, Pepperlane. A four-time founder and three-time CEO with four exits to her name, Sharon believes moms can help other moms – high performing female founders and executives need more help, and stay at home moms who want to return to the workforce need opportunities.
Cynthia Pasquella-Garcia overcame extreme trauma as a child to transform her own life by helping others transform as an entrepreneur, celebrity nutritionist, bestselling author, in-demand speaker, TV and media personality, and philanthropist. CEO of the Institute for Transformational Nutrition (ITN) Cynthia shares her go-to advice for women in business, and it’s about getting out of our bubbles of isolation and knowing our boundaries.
Whitney Cox left a big Wall Street career behind to transform her life and in the process she saved her own life, and how helps others in transformation with her life coaching business Warrior Girl. Learn how Whitney found her true passion and purpose after surviving breast cancer and now lives the life of her dreams in Colombia.
Jules Schroeder believes life is too short not to embrace the authentic you and make every moment count. Founder of Unconventional Life – the podcast, the column, the epic experiences – Jules advises women entrepreneurs to reject conventional wisdom, move past all the “should’s” and trust your truth.
Natalie Ledwell is “walk your talk” proof of the law of attraction, now reaching 4 million people worldwide with Mind Movies’ innovative guided visualizations, and now launching a global children’s curriculum called Personal Growth Studies to give kids 5-18 the mindset and other tools they need to live creative, fulfilling lives of financial freedom. We talk the specifics of manifestation, team building and much more.
Kathryn Kemp Guylay is on a mission to make business fun – and everything else entrepreneurs should be doing like writing books. Entrepreneur, 6-time author, CEO of the learning platform MakeEverythingFun.com, and CEO of the Ketchum Innovation Center, Kathryn shares her insights on how to best leverage your unique strengths, passion and purpose.
Cynthia James is a transformational specialist and one of today’s best loved inspirational leaders and teachers guiding thousands of people to make changes at a deep level for lasting healing in their lives. With her latest program,
Advanced Awareness Coaching, Cynthia helps high-level business owners and entrepreneurs find depth, focus and results. Learn more about Cynthia’s healing process, her entrepreneurial journey and how you can transform your life.
Carey Bentley is on a mission to help entrepreneurs design lifestyles of personal freedom by helping them boost their productivity and effectiveness. CEO and co-founder of online productivity company Lifehack Bootcamp, Carey shares how to thrive (rather than merely survive), how to find your true mission and enjoy the ride.
Sharla Jacobs is the co-founder of Thrive Academy where she and her husband Jesse Koren help holistic healers, coaches and entrepreneurs transform their passion into profitable businesses. Their heartselling method has helped them help 50,000 coaches worldwide attain their first $10,000 Month. Collectively over the past 14 years their clients have earned over $100 Million.
Cynthia Pasquella-Garcia overcame extreme trauma as a child to transform her own life by helping others transform theirs as a phenomenally successful entrepreneur. Well-known to many as a celebrity nutritionist, bestselling author, in-demand speaker, TV and media personality, and philanthropist, Cynthia is the founder CEO of the Institute for Transformational Nutrition (ITN) and creator of the show, What You’re REALLY Hungry For. Learn how to overcome obstacles in your life for business success.
Serial Entrepreneur Renee Warren juggles a lot: Her growing business, twins, travel, Crossfit, friendships, and marriage to another high performing serial entrepreneur. Founder of The Family Academy, and before it the Silicon Valley startup PR firm Onboardly, Renee has valuable advice for women in business about how to apply startup principles to your home life so we can juggle it all without putting ourselves last.
Aydika James is an entrepreneur, artist and innovator who combines her talents to innovate for social good. Founder of Secret Samurai Productions, Aydika combines art, play, psychology, technology and more to create mobile marketing vehicles – including some incredible “art cars” at Burning Man through to epic social impact works like the transformation of an old WW2 ship into a giant sculptural “Art Reef” eco-dive site in the British Virgin Islands. We talk about what to do when we feel blocked, experience self-doubt or hold ourselves to impossible standards.
Melissa Gonzalez is transforming our shopping experience with retail “pop up” experiences that connect brands to consumers in exciting new ways. She shares her transformation from Wall Street executive to entrepreneur and must-listen advice for women wanting to change the game of business.
Jules Schroeder is all about playing big. Founder of Unconventional Life – the podcast, the column, the epic experiences – she is showing by walking her own talk how people can manifest the lives of their dreams by daring to play big and aligning with their true purpose. We talk about her new venture Billionaires Society, the Grammy she’s manifesting, and how to step into our true greatness.
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. Author of Work It: Secrets For Success From the Boldest Women in Business, Carrie shares her go-to advice ond ‘work-life integration’, alignment, and how women can be their boldest, badass selves.
Brooke Erol is on a mission to humanize the workplace by helping people align with their authentic purpose and passion. CEO and founder of Purposeful Business and author of From Hierarchy to High Performance and
Create a Life You Love, Brooke shares her advice for women in business on asking for help, raising money, and finding your own powerful and purposeful voice.
Eleanor Beaton grew up wanting to be a “supermodel investment banker” and 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 and how to walk the line between playing by the rules and changing the game.
JuliAnn Stitick is a motivational speaker, author and brand strategist for global brands and Golden Globe and Oscar winners. Known as ‘The Personal Brand Expert’ because she uses the insights from her own personal healing journey to go “beneath the brand” – helping entrepreneurs and executives go deep in their own personal growth as the basis for creating the most authentic and magnetic branding. Learn how to leverage what you may want to hide for profitable impact, and get a sneak peek on JuliAnn’s new book, Purpose Crisis: Stop the Inner Struggle, Find Your Life's Meaning and Reveal the Magnificent You That's Ready To Be Seen.
Regina Huber has seen firsthand that when businesses of all shapes and sizes leverages the innate feminine values of inclusiveness, transparency, risk awareness, and co-creation, magic happens. It translates directly to faster growing and more sustainable bottom-line results. Founder and CEO of Transform Your Performance, Regina’s work across 5 continents is changing the way the game if business is played. Learn her secrets of transformation – personal, professional and corporate.
Amy Stefanik is a bestselling author and entrepreneur growing two successful brands – The Entrepreneur’s Wife™ and the supplement company Visentials.
Erica Keswin is a workplace strategist with a special superpower: She’s a “professional dot.connector” who works with many of the world’s biggest brands to create company cultures of connection and collaboration. We talk about the transformational power of relationship, what she’s discovered as founder of the Spaghetti Project, and her new book Bring Your Human to Work: Ten Sure-Fire Ways to Design a Workplace That is Good for People, Great for Business, and Just Might Change the World.
Eileen Gittins’ moonshot is to create the world’s largest pipeline of young female entrepreneurs. The Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur has lead three VC-backed companies as CEO, including growing the self-publishing platform Blurb to $70mm+. Now with Bossygrl, Eileen is helping young women learn entrepreneurial skills and start businesses. We talk about raising venture capital, and how to overcome challenges for women in business.
Phoebe Mroczek helps entrepreneurs and business owners reject the “hustle” and reconnect with themselves and rewrite the rules of business by putting the “being” ahead of the “doing”. She calls it “Unbecoming”, also the name of her popular podcast. Learn how Phoebe helps her clients increase their profits by putting fun ahead of money.
Jennifer Love’s mission as CEO of One More Woman is to help women entrepreneurs scale their businesses beyond $1mm+ with healthy profits – and she shares how to get into inspired flow. A Shark Tank conquering, 5X serial entrepreneur who built the chocolate wholesaler NibMor, Jennifer shares why success doesn’t have to be hard.
JJ Flizanes is an inspiring entrepreneur and podcaster who has followed her inner voice to evolve her business – and she shares how openness to business transformation is paying off. An Empowerment Strategist, director of Invisible Fitness, and host of several podcasts including Fit 2 Love and Spirit, Purpose & Energy, JJ is proving every day that transformation IS about mind, body AND spirit.
Kelly Fitzsimmons is a 4X serial entrepreneur and pioneer in voice recognition technology, cyber security and virtual reality with several 8 and 9 figure businesses and exits to her name. She shares her ups and downs and important advice for women about how to leverage, profit and grow (and never hide) from failure, with a new book out this fall that tells the story of how entrepreneurs bounce back from extreme adversity.
Diane Forster reinvented her own life, escaping a corporate job and a bad marriage to become an award-winning inventor, bestselling author, and keynote speaker. Diane describes herself as an Intentional Living Expert, and her company, I HAVE TODAY, helps women step into the “power of now” and live fearlessly and intentionally through all of life's transitions.
Kelly Fitzsimmons is a 4X serial entrepreneur and pioneer in voice recognition technollgy and cyber security software with several 8 and 9 figure businesses and exits to her name. She shares important advice for women in tech seeking funding, inspired by her own harrowing #MeToo attack by an investor which sent her into depression, isolation, shame – and now recovery with a new virtual reality company and a new book out this fall.
Lena Elkins knows what it’s like to go from broke to breaking new barriers as an entrepreneur: She found the secret to building a scalable global coaching business, and she shares how she stays true to doing what she loves – copywriting and funnel building – while hiring her ‘weaknesses’ and other secrets every business owner needs to know to break through the $1mm barrier.
Jean Ginzburg is a marketing maven helping businesses from Fortune 500s to innovative startups best leverage the latest in social media marketing, funnel optimization, retargeting and more to engage and convert customers. We “geek out” together on authenticity, the latest technology, marketing hacks, and more.
Kimi Morton and Pua Pakele And Cabot are on a mission to help entrepreneurs fall in love with their businesses and their lives! Co-founders of the company Best Life Ever, Kimi and Pua share how they empower business owners to embrace both passion and productivity to achieve big dreams without burnout.
Regina Huber is on a mission to empower women – and get businesses to leverage women’s emotional intelligence and values such as transparency, sustainability and risk awareness to corporate leadership. She’s the Founder & CEO of Transform Your Performance, and on this advice minisode, Regina talks about mindset and “heartset” as the key to success, plus many more must-listen tips for women in business.
Gitte Pedersen is on a mission to revolutionize cancer treatment. Co-founded of Genomic Expression, Gitte and her brother Morton discovered that different people need different treatments depending on their RNA. Their innovation takes on Big Pharma, which Gitte says wastes $70 billion per year on inffective oncology drugs. She shares her journey as a female entrepreneur, how to eliminate your fears, how to raise venture capital, and what it was like on Sir Richard Branson’s Necker Island.
Kathryn Kemp Guylay is on a mission to make business fun. Entrepreneur, CEO of the learning platform MakeEverythingFun.com, and CEO of the Ketchum Innovation Center, Kathryn shares her insights on why fun in business boosts the bottom line, the recipe for innovation, and why when we’re creating in fun we attract the best team members, serve our customers better, and enjoy our lives.
Sally Helgesen is on a mission to help women to recognize, articulate and act on their greatest strengths – and help companies organizations create more inclusive cultures. Bestselling author of How Women Rise and renowned leadership coach, Sally talks about the “perfectionism trap” and other traits that stand in women’s way, and how to step into true empowerment as business leaders and entrepreneurs.
Kim Sutton is an entrepreneur who knows a lot about how to juggle: She owns a growing marketing agency, hosts a popular podcast and somehow keeps it all together as a mom to five kids, eight cats and a dog. In this advice minisode, Kim shares her advice on self-care, sleep, focus and why perfectionism is the enemy of success.
Lucy Danziger was the editor-in-chief of Conde Nast’s Self Magazine, where she was a pioneer in digital publishing and grew online subscribers to 6.5 million. Now she’s reinventing herself as CEO and founder of Hintd, a social shopping and bookmarking website akin to Pinterest. We talk women in business, women’s health, and transformation.
Katrina Sawa is known as the “Jumpstart Your Marketing” coach, teaching entrepreneurs how to create converting funnels, get the sale and price their products and services correctly. She shares on this episode how she created a global business that allows her to live a life of freedom and balance, and she shares practical hacks you won’t want to miss.
Reelika Schulte teaches women around the world how to leverage their life experiences to launch their own thriving online and “evergreen” coaching business. CEO and founder of Design Dream Lifestyle, Reelika shares tips on automated marketing funnels, how to create “evergreen products” and ways to create passive income.
Christy Whitman has helped thousands of people transform their businesses and their lives as CEO and Founder of the Quantum Success Learning and Coaching Academies and the bestselling author of The Art of Having It All. She shares how to leverage inner energy work and meditation for outward success in business and life – and why our hearts are often a better guide than our minds.
Jennifer Love is a Shark Tank conquering, 5X serial entrepreneur, $100mm raising success whose chocolate company NibMor was named a top food and beverage company in the U.S. Now her mission is about advancing women: CEO of One More Woman, she’s focused on helping women entrepreneurs attain financial freedom and scale their business beyond $1mm+ with healthy profits – a mission she shares with Wings.
Melinda Wittstock shares how an ‘aha’ moment a year ago today led her to find her true voice and independence. A 4X serial entrepreneur and CEO and founder of the social intelligence company Verifeed, Melinda shares how she had gotten out of alignment with her authentic purpose and how she found her way back building a fast growing platform to help women take flight and soar high as leaders, innovators, influencers and high-performing entrepreneurs. Happy 4th of July!
Brooke Erol is on a mission to humanize the workplace – by helping people align with their authentic purpose and passion. CEO and founder of Purposeful Business and a Author of Create a Life You Love, Brooke shares how she helps leaders create fun and purposeful environments so everyone – team members, clients, vendors, suppliers and shareholders – are more fulfilled, happy and productive.
Allison Maslan is a 10X serial entrepreneur and now pays it forward to entrepreneurs and business owners as CEO of Pinnacle Global Network, a mentoring and mastermind company. Her new book, Scale or Fail, debuts this October, and she shares important tips for women in business on how to master scale.
Carey Bentley is on a mission to help entrepreneurs design lifestyles of personal freedom by helping them boost their productivity and effectiveness. CEO and co-founder of online productivity company Lifehack Bootcamp, Carey shares how to get more done, make more money, and have time for all your personal passions … by working only 30 hours a week.
Sophia Yen is 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 and technology innovations for women’s reproductive health that can also make women more successful in business.
Maddie Brown is an entrepreneur and CPA helping business owners manage and leverage money to build their dream businesses and lives. We talk about money – how to attract it, keep track of it, hold on to it, grow it and leverage it for your business success. We also demystify a few things, focus on common mistakes entrepreneurs and business owners make, and how to grow the value of your business and live a life of financial freedom.
Natalie Ledwell is “walk your talk” proof of the law of attraction, now reaching 4 million people worldwide with Mind Movies’ innovative guided visualizations, and launching a global children’s curriculum called Personal Growth Studies to give kids 5-18 the mindset and other tools they need to live creative, fulfilling lives of financial freedom. Natalie advises on self-care and how to combine visualization with massive inspired action for exponential growth.
Entrepreneur Paula Shaw is a life transition expert helps people navigate the crosscurrents and challenges of change. Often synonymous with personal and business growth, change nonetheless brings with it growing pains. We talk about how to handle painful transitions, including grief, anxiety and depression, as well as how to make change our friend, something to be welcomed and embraced.
Entrepreneur Destinee Berman helps spiritual leaders and healers bring their teachings online with her “Launch Your Calling” program. Learn how to turn your dharma into a scalable education platform and business, and what sparked Destinee’s jump from marketing for Twitter, HP and Microsoft into the spiritual growth space.
Entrepreneur and author Sharon Bowes is a change catalyst with some 30 years coaching business leaders how to innovate and manage change. In this episode we talk about the nature of change and innovation, at a time when we are all being called to adapt at breakneck speed – and how to leverage powerful catalysts for “slingshot success”.
Entrepreneur Rachel Brenke shares why its vital not to sacrifice your health and wellbeing to reach your business goals, and why we all do better when we’re enjoying the ride and balancing our personal needs with the demands of business. Host of the popular Business Bites podcast, Rachel is a mom of 5, cancer survivor, Team USA athlete, and massive social media influencer. We talk about the mindset and mojo you need to succeed in this inspiring advice minisode.
Entrepreneur Alycia Darby Zimnoch helps business owners become instant celebrities via online video shows that attract exactly the right new clients and customers. Creator of StartYourShow.com, Alycia helps entrepreneurs develop a personal brand that aligns with their true passion and purpose while building trusted relationships and influence.
Christy Whitman is a transformational leader, celebrity coach and the New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Having It All. CEO and founder of the Quantum Success Learning Academy and Quantum Success Coaching Academy, a 12-month Law of Attraction coaching certification program, she’s helped thousands of people worldwide to achieve their goals in business and life, and shares how to leverage inner growth for quantum success and happiness.
Kim Sutton owns a growing marketing agency, hosts a popular podcast and somehow keeps it all together as a mom to five kids, eight cats and a dog. In the wake of Kate Spade’s tragic suicide, Kim shares openly about her own struggles with depression and how she came back from the brink to help others boost their positive productivity by sleeping more and doing less.
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.
Aydika James is an entrepreneur, artist and innovator who combines her talents to innovate for social good. Founder of Secret Samurai Productions, Aydika combines art, play, psychology, technology and more to create mobile marketing vehicles – including some incredible “art cars” at Burning Man through to epic social impact works like the transformation of an old WW2 ship into a giant sculptural “Art Reef” eco-dive site in the British Virgin Islands, as an ocean rehabilitation zone that stimulates the local economy and supports youth education. We talk about how to leverage play for impactful entrepreneurship.
Natalie Ledwell is “walk your talk” proof of the law of attraction, now reaching 4 million people worldwide with Mind Movies’ innovative guided visualizations, and now launching a global children’s curriculum called Personal Growth Studies to give kids 5-18 the mindset and other tools they need to live creative, fulfilling lives of financial freedom. We talk the specifics of manifestation, team building and much more.
Kelly Leonard walked away from a high 6-figure salary to start her own consulting business, where she helps executives and entrepreneurs leverage LinkedIn to grow revenue and build profitable strategic relationships with her BOOST™ methodology. She shares what it took to make the leap from her executive leadership roles at GE Capital, Price Waterhouse Coopers and Kaiser Permanente to launching her consulting business Taylor-Leonard, and emerging as a TV host, keynote speaker and author.
Learn why powerful women in business must learn to avoid “business as usual” and leverage authentic feminine traits such as inclusive collaboration and authentic connection. Beth Wilson, transformation coach to Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and CEOs shares insights on the nature of transformational leadership and how women’s advancement can also lift men.
Allison Maslan knows first hand the secrets of scale: She has built 10 businesses into the 8 and 9 figures and now pays it forward to entrepreneurs and business owners as CEO of Pinnacle Global Network, a mentoring and mastermind company. Her new book, Scale or Fail, debuts this October, and she shares how it was burnout and a devastating car accident that enabled her to “get out of her own way” and master scale.
Amy Stefanik is a bestselling author and entrepreneur growing two successful brands – The Entrepreneur’s Wife™ and the supplement company Visentials. She shares her transformation story from supportive wife to entrepreneur, recovery from foreclosure and financial ruin, and how to build a unified family vision for success.
Rachel Brenke is a lawyer turned entrepreneur whose passion is to help creative entrepreneurs leverage their passion with legal protection they need to thrive – from contracts and business formation to intellectual property law. Host of the popular Business Bites podcast, Rachel is a mom of 5, cancer survivor, Team USA athlete, and massive social media influencer. We talk about the mindset and mojo you need to succeed in this inspiring episode.
Mack McKelvey’s mission as CEO and Founder of SalientMG is to help women, minority and LGBTQ executives build their personal brands. The marketing visionary executive who helped Millenial Media fast-grow to IPO, Mack shares talks about mantras, epitaphs and why silence is the voice of complicity.
If you’ve ever run a Facebook ad campaign, or want to, this episode is a must-listen. Entrepreneur Mari Connor is the go-to maven of Facebook advertising, and she shares what works, what doesn’t and why. We talk about her leap from copywriting to building an agency, and how she did it.
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.
Kedma Ough wants to pay it forward. The multipreneur is already bootstrapping two new businesses, and while she’s at it, she’s helping women in business get funded – with investment, loans, crowdfunding, and other creative financing methods. She shares her inspiration, her financial tips, and how to juggle it all!
Arnita Johnson got to the point where she had so much credit card debt she had to choose between feeding her baby or herself. Now she runs a multi-million dollar business, as founder and CEO of AMB Credit Consultants. Her transformation came when she told God that if she turned her life around she’d help others. She shares her inspiration, her financial literacy tips and proof that we can all overcome adversity.
Rachel Braun Scherl calls herself the Vagipreneur™, with a new book out called Orgasmic Leadership: Profiting from the Coming Surge in Women's Health and Wellness. She shares 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.
J Kelly Hoey is a former attorney turned early stage investor, technology influencer and author of a great new book, Build Your Dream Network. Her storied career is one of transformation, and can only be explained by her unique ability to tap into networks and make valuable connections. Learn how to leverage your expertise, your networks and your finances to build a lucrative passive income.
A lot of women in business don’t ask for help, and it stands in the way of scale. Lauren Le Munyan is an entrepreneur coach who helps her clients “kick ass” – by aligning their true authentic purpose with their business. She shares advice on how to ask for help, get inspiration from quieting the mind and having fun!
Rania Hoteit is the serial entrepreneur who is innovating at the cutting edge of technology. Think robots, articifical intelligence and 3D printing – and a superbrain able to connect the dots across disciplines to see opportunities and value where others do not. CEO and fo-founder of ID4A Technologies, Rania is also a recognized leader in women’s empowerment and gender equality, and she shares how women in tech can get noticed – and funded.
Shana Glenzer has been the Chief Marketing Officer of successive hot Washington D.C. tech startups – SocialRadar, MakeOffices, Aquicore and now Crowdskout. Along the way she built a huge following using the power of meetups. Now the DCFemTech Meetup has more than 13,000 members. We talk about women in tech, paying it forward to women coming up and how to grow your influence.
Entrepreneur Mary Shores built a $40 million collection agency, overcoming tragedy and adversity with gratitude, and now helps entrepreneurs and businesses “defeat the freakout”, get into alignment and create their ideal life. Author of Conscious Communications, Mary explains how her “do not say list” transformed her business and shares other techniques to change the game in your business and life.
Entrepreneur Maribeth Kuzmeski got tired of being the proverbial “only woman in the room” serving the financial services sector as President of Red Zone Marketing. She created a foundation to provide women in business witth female role models and mentors they need to succeed. Today she puts on the “advice wings” to talk personal brand and how to command a room.
How early should entrepreneurs invest in branding, marketing and earned media? It’s never too early according to marketing mavens Mary Cochran and Alison Werning, partners in the startup and hi-tech PR firm Launching Labs. We talk about how to create a differentiated message and story in a crowded and noisy marketplace – and why its a prerequisite of success in business.
Investor and Entrepreneur Karen Rands describes herself as a venture catalyst and compassionate capitalist – and specializes now in teaching women how to invest in mission-driven entrepreneurs to do good in the world as they built wealth. We talk crowdfunding, angel investing and investor education.
Bestselling author of Mass Influence and Entrepreneur Teresa des Grosbois shares how to become a viral influencer and thought leader. We dig deep into why some things go viral, and talk giving forward, “evolutionary business” for social good, and personal growth.
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 for women to raise angel and venture capital.
Serial entrepreneur Sharon Kan is on a mission to help moms learn entrepreneurial skills and create lucrative microbusinesses with her new platform, Pepperlane. A four-time founder and three-time CEO with four exits to her name, Sharon believes moms can help other moms – high performing female founders and executives need more help, and stay at home moms who want to return to the workforce need opportunities.
Kara Goldin broke her Diet Coke habit by putting fruit in her water. It was the ‘aha’ moment that lost her 50 unwanted pounds and she’s now on target for $1bn unicorn status. Kara is founder and CEO of hint®, a healthy lifestyle brand that produces unsweetened water. Melinda Wittstock talks to Goldin about what inspires and frustrates her as a female entrepreneur, and why the biggest obstacle to success are the walls we build ourselves.
JJ Virgin knows from personal experience that the most inspirational leaders and entrepreneurs are those who went through hard times and came out stronger. JJ wants to make 1 billion people healthy, and she’s built 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.
Learn in this episode with entrepreneur and wealth maven Katherine Dean how to manifest money, grow it, keep it, and make it work for you so you can live a life of financial freedom with multiple income streams, and why this is important for female founders to have the runway to invest in their own business growth.
Ping Fu is an artist and a scientist whose chosen expression is business. She talks about the 3D imaging and 3D printing technology she created as co-founder of GeoMagic – and how from Invisalign braces to NASA space missions – she has “entrepioneered” the way products are designed and manufactured worldwide. Listen to why “Bend Not Break” is the mantra that’s guided her from the terror of gang rape in a Chinese prison to the fearless flow state of Burning Man.
Entrepreneur Victoria Kuleshova is innovating in the artificial intelligence space. Learn why, despite all the innovation – and proof it transforms profit margins of major companies AI remains hard sell. CEO and co-founder of Gallantra Business Intelligence, Victoria the challenges of educating customers AND raising enough capital to match the runway you need to educate that market. Plus, advice for women in technology.
Susan Harrow shows CEOs, entrepreneurs, authors, speakers and socially conscious businesses how to double or triple their business by using sound bites effectively – helping her clients shine on Oprah, 60 Minutes, Good Morning America, the New York Times, Inc and beyond. Author of Sell Yourself Without Selling Your Soul, Susan is a black belt in Aikido and helps young women 12-24 protect themselves with a new course in verbal self-defense. We talk #MeToo, #NotMe, messaging, PR, and how women can make their voices heard.
Veronica Cool took the leap from Corporate America to entrepreneurship when she realized she was giving away valuable advice on how to engage the fast growing and affluent Hispanic American market. Now CEO and founder of Cool & Associates helping businesses bridge the cultural gap, she shares how to live an intentional life, value yourself, and know your worth.
Silvia Christmann is a growth expert, helping companies scale and accelerate rapid growth. Today she puts her Wings to advise women entrepreneurs about confidence, the roots of self-doubt and how to overcome challenges by surrounding ourselves with the right people.
Inventor and PR For Anyone Founder Christina Daves puts on the “Advice Wings” to share her tips on how to play the “pinball” game of entrepreneurship, from staying true to your passion to “me time” – and what’s inspiring her right now.
Serial entrepreneur and Internet marketing phenom Heather Ann Havenwood has built companies from zero to millions in less than a year. She’s also lost everything in bankruptcy and foreclosure, only to rebuild again. Author of the bestselling SexyBoss™ books and host of the national radio show “The Win”, Heather puts on the Advice Wings to talk reinvention, her new chatbot gig and her passion to boost the fortunes of female entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneur Ana Manduley believes American women business owners are missing a big opportunity by not expanding globally. A champion of women in STEM and international collaboration in all of her numerous entrepreneurial and executive roles over the past 25 years, Ana shares her tips on global networking, mentoring and more.
Paula Brown Stafford and Lisa T Grimes spent their 25+ years in the C-Suite as wary competitors innovating in biotech. Now they are partners, paying it forward for women in business coming up, with a new management consultancy called Habergeon and as co-authors of the new book, Remember who YOU are: Achieve Success, Create Balance, Experience Fulfillment.
Overwhelm. Overthinking. Overdoing. Entrepreneur and transition expert Rikke Hansen shares how women in business in their 30s and 40s can stop the self-sabotage and make the leap to build their ideal businesses and lives.
June is a entrepreneur and industry thought leader with over 15 years of high-tech experience at companies like HP, Citrix, Riverbed, and NetApp. She founded Phala Data, an enterprise software startup at the intersection of Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - and innovated her way to six patents.
Entrepreneur Shari Aldrich is on a mission to relieve pain for one million people by 2025. Founder of BodyMechanics, Shari has innovated a process for training massage therapists, and better yet, training them to run their own businesses. She shares her inspirations, challenges and her go-to advice on how to leverage adversity to your advantage.
Patricia Karpas spent many years innovating by building brands and new businesses within larger companies – CNBC, AOL, Time Warner, NBC and Gaiam – before taking the leap into building a business around her love of meditation. The co-founder of the app Meditation Studio, named by Apple as one of its Top 10 of the year.
Mack McKelvey’s mission as CEO and Founder of SalientMG is to help women, minority and LGBTQ executives build their personal brands. The marketing visionary executive who helped Millenial Media fast-grow to IPO, Mack shares why women often forget to build their personal brands, and what’s in a name.
On this 100th Episode of WINGS of Inspired Business, host and serial entrepreneur Melinda Wittstock shares the secret of inspired success in business and life. Together with guests Kara Goldin, Tina Sharkey, Ping Fu, JJ Virgin and others, Melinda talks Mindset, Mojo and Money: How to get past your fears, align your business to your “soul purpose”, and valuing yourself so you can create value for others.
Succeeding in business takes many talents, and without integrity it’s much harder. Entrepreneur and civility expert Sue Jacques puts on the Advice WINGS to share her tips on “walking your talk”, honoring commitments and why a “pause” is often where the magic happens.
Veronica Cool took the leap from Corporate America to entrepreneurship when she realized she was giving away valuable advice on how to engage the fast growing and affluent Hispanic American market. CEO and founder of
Cool & Associates, she now helps entrepreneurs and F500s alike bridge the gap to cultural gap and take advantage of a $1.5 trillion opportunity.
Entrepreneur, brand strategist and marketing visionary Franziska Iseli shares her inspiring journey, irrepressible spirit, and how she embraces the magic of “woo” to build and scale four businesses. CEO of Basic Bananas, Franziska is also trailblazing in the “evolved enterprise” social good movement with OceanLovers.com. We talk adventure, flow consciousness and more.
Entrepreneur and PR For Anyone Founder Christina Daves shares all she learned as an inventor about how to generate FREE business buzz across media. Learn how she got her company CastMedic on The Today Show, won Steve Harvey’s Top Inventor competition and boosted her social media following to more than 75,000.
Rosie Aiello staged an international escape after 25 years of domestic abuse – and reinvented herself as an award-winning entrepreneur and best-selling author. She puts on the Advice WINGS to share her mission to “end family terrorism”, and how to own and speak your truth and be heard, and maintain your boundaries for success in business and in life.
Entrepreneur Lauren Raja lost her young husband and her beloved grandmother within a year, and in her grief she created a fast-growing fashion pajama company in their names, JustinJean. She shares how she turned her grief into creativity and provides must-listen lessons on how to find your true passion and live “all in” with no regrets.
Entrepreneur CJ Scarlet hid her shame for many years after two violent sexual assaults and it ultimately left her battling two life-threatening autoimmune diseases that crippled her startups. Author of The Badass Girl's Guide: Uncommon Strategies to Outwit Predators, CJ shares how she’s now healing others and gives practical advice of how women can “lift as we climb” and be “bad victims” to succeed in business.
Entrepreneur Shari Aldrich is on a mission to relieve pain for one million people by 2025. CEO and founder of BodyMechanics, Shari has innovated a process for training massage therapists, and better yet, training them to run their own businesses. She has a big vision – and she shares how the loss of her finger in a freak accident led her to entrepreneurial success.
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 puts on the Advice WINGS to share her inspiration for 2018 and provides practical tips to manifest inner peace and outer success.
Happy International Women’s Day! We celebrate with entrepreneur Julia Pimsleur who has a big mission to help women entrepreneurs crack the $1mm+ revenue ceiling. Julia, who learned the hard way how to scale her business Little Pim to $1mm+ and beyond, is ‘Chief Empowerista’ of Million Dollar Women and has graduated 70 women so far with her teachings on mindset, skillset and how to leverage the right networks. She shares her strategies on scaling.
What makes a marketing message get heard in our ADD world? “Wow Whisperer” Diane Curran shares her secrets on how women in business can find their unique voice and leverage their innate relationship building skills to master social engagement. Author of The Marketing Deal, Diane provides practical tips on messaging, public speaking and how to grow your business with authentic marketing.
Entrepreneur Maribeth Kuzmeski got tired of being the proverbial “only woman in the room”. Serving the financial services sector as President of Red Zone Marketing, Maribeth decided to roll up her sleeves, “give forward” and create a foundation to get women in finance and entrepreneurship the female role models and mentors they need to succeed. Maribeth shares her tips on resilience, confidence and how to command a room.
Entrepreneur Kaaren Whitney Vernon on what it takes to educate a marketplace and how she pioneered a new way to engage Millenials with scripted series on YouTube for big brands like Walmart and U by Kotex with shift2, the company she recently sold to Shaftsbury. She puts on the ‘Advice WINGS’ today to talk networking and how to find the support we need as women in business.
Serial entrepreneur and Internet marketing phenom Heather Ann Havenwood has built companies from zero to millions in less than a year. She’s also lost everything in bankruptcy and foreclosure, only to rebuild again. Author of the bestselling SexyBoss™: How Female Entrepreneurship is Changing the Rule Book and Beating the Big Boys and host of the national radio show “The Win”, Heather talks reinvention, her new chatbot gig and her passion to boost the fortunes of female entrepreneurs.
Learn what it’s like to be a location-independent entrepreneur who follows her heart – and opportunity – all over the world. Silvia Christmann is a growth expert, helping companies scale and accelerate rapid growth. Find out how she can work her magic from anywhere in the world, and get her tips for creating multiple streams of passive income.
Learn why powerful women in business must learn to avoid “business as usual” and leverage authentic feminine traits such as inclusive collaboration and authentic connection. Beth Wilson, transformation coach to Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and CEOs shares insights on the nature of transformational leadership and how women’s advancement can also lift men.
Serial entrepreneur Sharon Kan is on a mission to help moms learn entrepreneurial skills and create lucrative microbusinesses with her new platform, Pepperlane. A four-time founder and three-time CEO with four exits to her name, Sharon talks about what is inspiring her, and she puts on the “Advice Wings” about how to “let go” our fears, and embrace the adventure of entrepreneurship.
Learn in this episode with entrepreneur and wealth maven Katherine Dean how to manifest money, grow it, keep it, and make it work for you so you can live a life of financial freedom with multiple income streams, and why this is important for female founders to have the runway to invest in their own business growth.
There is nothing like staring death directly in the face to learn that life is too short to be rude and unkind. Former forensic death investigator turned entrepreneur and civility expert Sue Jacques is on a mission to create civil company cultures. Learn in this episode how to create “gossip-free zones”, why politeness translates directly to profit, and how align to your truth by listing your “pregrets”.
Technology can be used for good – or bad. Denise Tayloe is protecting kids online as cofounder and CEO of Privo. “I don’t know how to give up”, she says of her years growing a SaaS technology company and trying to raise venture capital. Leaern Denise’s success tips – and why it’s mission critical to surround yourself with mentors and networks to assure your success in business and life.
Real estate entrepreneur Karen Briscoe has sold more than $1.5billion worth of residential properties, and she shares “Five Minute Success” methodology that can be applied to any business. Karen puts on the ‘Advice Wings’ to share how women in business must focus on sales and leadgen to succeed, and embrace the positivity of change.
Every entrepreneur needs mentors and coaches and Lauren Le Munyan says she helps her clients in technology, media, fitness, fashion and design “kick ass” – by helping them align their true authentic purpose with their business. Learn practical methodologies to establish your vision, mission and culture, and create the right structures and systems to execute your ideas.
Online dating is a confusing business, so this Valentine’s Day entrepreneur Jen Hecht shares how to apply business, marketing and branding skills to your “dating strategy”. Host of the Dating Advisory Board Show, Jen shares practical tips on personal branding and now to navigate the business of romance.
Entrepreneurs need to think BIG if they want to persuade venture capitalists to invest, and technology entrepreneur Theresa Szczurek shares what it takes to bring investors to the table, and why she brought in a male CEO in her first company to get the check. Now founder and CEO of Radish Systems Theresa provides practical tips to grow, fund and scale your business.
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Silicon Valley entrepreneur Eileen Gittins’ moonshot is to create the world’s largest pipeline of female entrepreneurs with the app Bossygrl for “teenpreneurs”. She puts on the ‘Advice Wings’ to share how women can more confidently ask for – and get – the money and success they want and deserve.
Dale Nirvani Pfeifer knew she had a calling, and she set out to make it easy and frictionless to donate with one click to any charity on social media. CEO and founder of Goodworld, Dale is helping to revolutionize payments for social good. With a new deal with MasterCard, Dale talks about her startup’s fast growth, how the first VC she pitched laughed at her and what it takes to succeed as a female entrepreneur.
Roselle Safran helped keep us safe at Homeland Security in the computer emergency readiness team and then the Obama White House before she took flight as an entrepreneur, now with two successful companies. President of cybersecurity company Rosint Labs, Roselle illuminates the path for anyone who wants to make the leap, from how to bootstrap and raise capital to the mindset you need to succeed.
Virtual Assistant turned entrepreneur Trivinia Barber shares her pathway to scalable growth, why women need to get better at asking for – and receiving – the help they need growing their businesses, and why we all need to have our own personal “guardrails”. Trivinia is founder CEO of PriorityVA, the boutique company matching elite online entrepreneurs like Amy Porterfield and Todd Herman with highly skilled VAs.
Danielle Tate puts on the ‘Advice WINGS’ to show would-be women entrepreneurs how to lift off what she calls a “sticky floor.” Founder and CEO of MissNowMrs and author of Elegant Entrepreneur, Danielle talks about her inspirations, frustrations and the mindset you need to start and grow a company.
Rosie Aiello staged an international escape after 25 years of violent domestic abuse – and reinvented herself within 4 years as an award-winning entrepreneur and best-selling author. Listen to her inspiring story, learn how to turn adversity into a powerful mission, and what it takes to overcome limiting beliefs and succeed in business.
Technology entrepreneur JC Herz talks about what it takes to build a scalable cyber security enterprise software business, how to raise venture capital, and her transition from journalist to pioneering big data geek as the COO of Ion Channel. A Crossfit expert and enthusiast, JC shares her lessons learned…from her time on the Harvard men’s crew team … and beyond.
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Imagine a life of effortless success. If that sounds too good to be true, learn how to transform your life with entrepreneur Jackie Knechtel, a visionary leader and pioneer in the area of Flow Consciousness. Co-founder of the Flow Consciousness Institute, she guides mission-driven entrepreneurs to effortlessly create exponential success in life and business.
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Teresa de Grosbois is the ultimate influencer. The bestselling author of Mass Influence, international speaker and chair of the Evolutionary Business Council, Teresa puts on the ‘Advice WINGS’ to encourage women entrepreneurs to play big, know the “rules of influence” and live their dreams.
Bestselling author of Mass Influence and Entrepreneur Theresa des Grosbois shares how to become a viral influencer and thought leader. We dig deep into why some things go viral, and talk giving forward, “evolutionary business” for social good, and personal growth.
Sophie Howe is one of the youngest female CEOs in artificial intelligence, setting out to build a $1bn unicorn by innovating what she calls a “touchless world”. Co-founder of Xesto.io, a platform for developers to create smart applications based on our gestures, Sophie talks about raising capital and commercializing her technology.
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Serial entrepreneur Sharon Kan is on a mission to help moms learn entrepreneurial skills and create lucrative microbusinesses with her new platform, Pepperlane. A four-time founder and three-time CEO with four exits to her name, Sharon believes moms can help other moms – high performing female founders and executives need more help, and stay at home moms who want to return to the workforce need opportunities.
Technology entrepreneur Silvia Pfeiffer has lead the way in web video innovation, and turns her original passion to be a doctor to the telemedicine space with Coviu, the video platform she cofounded and is now scaling as its CEO. We talk venture capital and challenges for women in tech.
Moneeka Sawyer is a “joy coach” and creator of the Blissful Real Estate Investor Formula. She puts on the ‘Advice WINGS’ to show how making money and building wealth is a joyous experience. Author of “Choose Bliss: The Power and Practice of Joy and Contentment,” she talks about how to defeat money blocks.
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Entrepreneur Amanda Curtis began as a fashion designer before spotting an opportunity to transform her industry with innovative technology. Co-founder and CEO of Nineteenth Amendment and Forbes 30 Under 30, Amanda talks about what it takes to “stiletto strap” a disruptive business in an old-fashioned industry.
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Serial Entrepreneur Renee Warren juggles a lot: Her growing business, twins, travel, Crossfit, friendships, and marriage to another high performing serial entrepreneur. Founder of The Family Academy, and before it the Silicon Valley startup PR firm Onboardly, Renee has valuable advice for women in business about how to apply startup principles to your home life so we can juggle it all without putting ourselves last.
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Entrepreneur Kaaren Whitney Vernon shares how she pioneered a new way to engage Millenials with scripted series on YouTube for big brands like Walmart and U by Kotex with shift2, the company she recently sold to Shaftsbury. We talk innovation in marketing, customer engagement, and what it’s like to exit your company.
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Entrepreneur and CEO of Likeable Media Carrie Kerpen shares the highlights of her new book, Work It! Secrets for Success from the Boldest Women in Business. We talk inspirations from #MeToo, why building networks and relationships is vital, and how not to negotiate against yourself in business.
Jody Colvard is a pioneer who set out to change the game for women in business by teaching them how to create podcasts, TV and radio shows. We talk inspiration, challenges and what it takes for women to be heard in their full authentic feminine power.
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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 for women to raise angel and venture capital.
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Entrepreneurs Amy Poinsette and Jessica Billingsley are capitalizing on one of the fastest-growing businesses in the US, marijuana. Co-founders of MJ Freeway, they share what it takes to scale, raise capital and build a great team culture.
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Emunah Malinovitz puts on the ‘Advice WINGS’ today with suggestions of how women can manifest lucrative and lasting relationships in business – as leaders, innovators and team members. CEO of Sacred Love That Lasts, Emunah focuses in particular in helping women step into their authentic feminine power.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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”.
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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.
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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.
Diane Curran puts on the ‘Advice WINGS’ today to show why women are best suited to leverage social media to grow their businesses. The “wow whisperer” and owner of The Marketing Deal, Diane helps business owners transform their inner critic into a powerful “inner ally”.
Bestselling author of Mass Influence and Entrepreneur Theresa des Grosbois shares how to become a viral influencer and thought leader. We dig deep into why some things go viral, and talk giving forward, “evolutionary business” for social good, and personal growth.
There’s no glass ceiling for female entrepreneurs; there’s a “sticky floor,” says Danielle Tate, the founder CEO of MissNowMrs and author of Elegant Entrepreneur. We talk making the leap from corporate to startup, living a life of no regrets, and the mindset you need to soar.
Jolen Philbrook believes you need an abundance mindset to succeed in business. She puts on the ‘Advice WINGS’ today with suggestions of how to create a wealthy consciousness and overcome subconscious “money blocks”.
Lauren Flanagan is one of the first female technology entrepreneurs to make the leap to fulltime Angel and VC investing. She’s invested in 40+ female-founded and led companies from her two funds - BELLE Capital USA and Phenomenelle Angels. She shares her excitement about what’s possible for #WomenInTech and how to get funded.
Sophia Wise One puts on the ‘Advice WINGS’ today with suggestions of how women can get past any feelings of shame, trauma, and stagnation or difficult transitions. An entrepreneur, Reiki master and ‘real deal’ shamanic practitioner, Sophia advises: Share your “me too” and listen to your body (aches and pains provide important clues about our mental and emotional wellbeing).
Dawniel Winningham left her executive position at JP Morgan Chase to pursue her dream – helping others pursue their dreams. We talk about the mindset and mojo women in business need to manifest money – and why women entrepreneurs often underestimate their true value.
Jennifer Hudye is a young entrepreneur who has built the most sought-after copywriting agency in the online marketing space. Founder Conscious Copy & Co, Jennifer riffs with WINGS Host Melinda Wittstock about what it means to be “authentically authentic” and shares why you must truly know yourself and your values as an entrepreneur if you want to manifest outsize success in business.
Anna Felix puts on the ‘Advice WINGS’ today with suggestions of how women can grow their wealth. Co-founder of NexVision Investments, Anna talks financial literacy, cash flow living and how to “be your own bank” to keep wealth in the family like the Rockefellers did.
Angel Rich is changing the game of wealth. Angel is the founder and CEO of fintech company WealthyLife where she creates games and apps like CreditStacker to make learning about money easy and fun. She shares her vision, her journey and why she’ll be only the 17th African American woman to raise $1m for her business.
WINGS host Melinda Wittstock gives thanks to all the SuperSheros who have inspired her own entrepreneurial journey – and the women innovators in business who inspire every day. And as a “give forward” Melinda asks you to nominate all the enterprising women you want featured and interviewed on WINGS.
As entrepreneurs we get used to failure. It’s feedback. Dawn Gluskin built a $3mm+ technology business from her living room with a six month old baby. It grew too fast, and her world came crashing down. Now she’s back stronger than ever as the CEO and founder of Blissed Communications – and she shares her story of reinvention.
Meet Rania Hoteit, the serial entrepreneur who is innovating at the cutting edge of technology. Think robots, articifical intelligence and 3D printing – and a superbrain able to connect the dots across disciplines to see opportunities and value where others do not. CEO and fo-founder of ID4A Technologies, Rania is reinventing the supply chain for companies like Walmart, Steelcase and Amtrak. She’s also a recognized leader in women’s empowerment and gender equality.
Some 2 billion of us suffer from deteriorating eyesight – with a condition called presbyopia. And Geeta Singh, the co-founder of MagOptics, knows it doesn’t have to be this way. This entrepreneur is pioneering a cure for all of us who reach for our reading glasses. She shares her journey from the Fortune 500 world of corporate boardrooms, mergers and acquisitions and IPOs to what it’s like innovating in MedTech and trying to raise venture capital.
Meet the teenage girl who is already building a life of financial freedom! Leanna Giancola is only 16 and already this female entrepreneur has launched her Profit Playbook program to teach kids investing and financial literacy for kids aged 5-15
Sometimes as women in business we shy away from putting on our WINGS and daring to soar. Jen Dalton is a certified master brand strategist and she says women work hard, get it done, but forget to tell the world! She’s the CEO and founder of BrandMirror, and also the author of The Intentional Entrepreneur, a bestselling book that shares her process for building your personal brand as an entrepreneur.
It’s hard to succeed in business or in life unless we are fit and healthy Danielle Brooks, the founder of Lake Washington Wellness, talks about her own struggles with food and how she was inspired to become a nutritional therapist and entrepreneur, and write her book Good Decisions Most of the Time.
Lucy Danziger was the editor-in-chief of Conde Nast’s Self Magazine, where she was a pioneer in digital publishing and grew online subscribers to 6.5 million. Now she’s reinventing herself as CEO and founder of Hintd, a social shopping and bookmarking website akin to Pinterest. We talk women in business, women’s health and transformation.
Yvonne Silver is a growth catalyst, helping women in business flourish as CEO and founder of We Flourish. An entrepreneur with 8 startups to her name, she shares with WINGS’ Melinda Wittstock how she helps social enterprise entrepreneurs transform themselves, their business and the world.
Arnita Johnson got to the point where she had so much credit card debt she had to choose between feeding her baby or herself. Now she runs a multi-million dollar business, as founder and CEO of AMB Credit Consultants. Her transformation came when she told God that if she turned her life around she’d help others. She now shares financial literacy tips at her blog Luxurious Credit.
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.