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    Wings of Inspired Business

    Women entrepreneurs are changing the game of business, stepping into our authentic feminine power and growing consciousness to start and scale great companies. Listen to Wings to learn from women who've "been there, built that" with 7, 8 and 9-figure businesses, even billion dollar Unicorns. You'll learn how to manifest the mindset, mojo and money to create, grow and scale a business aligned with what makes your heart sing. Wings is hosted by Melinda Wittstock, a 4-time serial entrepreneur, tech visionary and award-winning journalist. Melinda focuses where personal and business growth meet, her insightful interviews with inspiring female founders and businesswomen providing actionable tips to help listeners to real and tangible results. These innovators, influencers, and investors all share their success secrets, epiphanies, and practical advice on how to get the confidence, connections and capital so you too manifest the success of your dreams in life and in business.
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    Bootstrapped Success: Entrepreneur Sanchita Shahi

    Bootstrapped Success: Entrepreneur Sanchita Shahi
    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.

    Inclusion is the Future of Work: Entrepreneur Lauren Tucker on Broken Leadership and Why Women Elevating Women are the Future

    Inclusion is the Future of Work: Entrepreneur Lauren Tucker on Broken Leadership and Why Women Elevating Women are the Future
    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”.

    Hire for Character: Entrepreneur Casey Cunningham on Leadership and Secrets of Building a $10mm Business

    Hire for Character: Entrepreneur Casey Cunningham on Leadership and Secrets of Building a $10mm Business
    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.

    Success Through Self-Acceptance: Skincare Entrepreneur Jeanne Retief on Self-Care and Inner Healing

    Success Through Self-Acceptance: Skincare Entrepreneur Jeanne Retief on Self-Care and Inner Healing

    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.

    Divorce and Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneur Anne Hamer on How to Protect Your Company and Assets

    Divorce and Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneur Anne Hamer on How to Protect Your Company and Assets
    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.

    Show Up Positive: Entrepreneur Rita Ernst on How to Create Great Workplace Cultures

    Show Up Positive: Entrepreneur Rita Ernst on How to Create Great Workplace Cultures
    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.

    Post-Traumatic Growth: Entrepreneur Kimberly Stark on Alchemizing ‘Sacred Storms’ of Hardship into Transformational Success

    Post-Traumatic Growth: Entrepreneur Kimberly Stark on Alchemizing ‘Sacred Storms’ of Hardship into Transformational 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.
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    Shared Purpose: Entrepreneur and Workplace Culture Expert Jessica Kriegel on Eradicating Poor Morale, Low Performance, and Missed Financial Goals

    Shared Purpose: Entrepreneur and Workplace Culture Expert Jessica Kriegel on Eradicating Poor Morale, Low Performance, and Missed Financial Goals
    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.

    Collaboration and Crowdfunding: Serial Entrepreneur Fran Maier on the Power of Community to Fast Scaling Business Growth

    Collaboration and Crowdfunding: Serial Entrepreneur Fran Maier on the Power of Community to Fast Scaling Business Growth

    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.

    How to Get Funded: Entrepreneur Chelsey Roney on How Proxi Landed its First Venture Capital Round

    How to Get Funded: Entrepreneur Chelsey Roney on How Proxi Landed its First Venture Capital Round

    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.

    Ambition Paradox: Entrepreneur Tracy Yates on How to Beat Your Inner Glass Ceiling

    Ambition Paradox: Entrepreneur Tracy Yates on How to Beat Your Inner Glass Ceiling
    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.

    Delegation Mastery: Entrepreneur Jenna Spencer on How to Scale Faster Without Burnout

    Delegation Mastery: Entrepreneur Jenna Spencer on How to Scale Faster Without Burnout
    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.

    Flame Bearers: Entrepreneur Jamie Mittelman on Changing the Narrative for Female Athletes

    Flame Bearers: Entrepreneur Jamie Mittelman on Changing the Narrative for Female Athletes
    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.

    The Greatness Game: Entrepreneur and Elite Coach Dena Patton on Mastering Sales, Systems and Mindset to Scale Your Business

    The Greatness Game: Entrepreneur and Elite Coach Dena Patton on Mastering Sales, Systems and Mindset to Scale Your Business
    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.

    Rapid Rewiring: Entrepreneur Michele Molitor on Removing Self Doubt and Imposter Syndrome

    Rapid Rewiring: Entrepreneur Michele Molitor on Removing Self Doubt and Imposter Syndrome
    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.

    Madam Trader: Entrepreneur Ashley Kyle Miller on Closing the Wealth Gap and Inspiring Women to Invest

    Madam Trader: Entrepreneur Ashley Kyle Miller on Closing the Wealth Gap and Inspiring Women to Invest

    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.

    Rise Reign Rule: Entrepreneur Rebecca Korn on Leveraging Adversity and Finding our Feminine Power to Build Wealth

    Rise Reign Rule: Entrepreneur Rebecca Korn on Leveraging Adversity and Finding our Feminine Power to Build Wealth
    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.

    Too Much On Her Plate: Entrepreneur Melissa McCreery on Why Many Overachieving Women Suffer from Emotional Eating and How to Overcome It

    Too Much On Her Plate: Entrepreneur Melissa McCreery on Why Many Overachieving Women Suffer from Emotional Eating and How to Overcome It
    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.

    Modern GenX Woman: Entrepreneurs Mimi Bishop and Jackie Ghedline on Relational, Emotional and Linguistic Intelligence to Boost the Wealth of 40+ Women

    Modern GenX Woman: Entrepreneurs Mimi Bishop and Jackie Ghedline on Relational, Emotional and Linguistic Intelligence to Boost the Wealth of 40+ Women
    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.

    Early-Stage Bootstrapping: Entrepreneur Rachel Hicks on Resilience and Learning as You Grow

    Early-Stage Bootstrapping: Entrepreneur Rachel Hicks on Resilience and Learning as You Grow
    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.