Wings Of...inspired Business

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.