Wings of Inspired Business

Melinda Wittstock
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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.

  1. 1D AGO

    Communities for the Neurodivergent: Synchrony Co-founders Rebecca Matchett, Brittany Moser, and Jamie Pastrano on Leveraging AI for Social Connection

    Jamie Pastrano, Rebecca Matchett and Brittany Moser are the co-founders of Symphony, a platform pairing AI-powered social coaching with intentional interest-based matching, in a safe, simple, and supportive space for the neurodivergent. Jamie, inspired to build the new app by her son's autism, joined with serial entrepreneur Rebecca, COO, with a track record of building successful fashion companies, including alice+olivia and TrioFit, and Brittany Moser, an autism specialist and digital learning expert. The Synchrony app launches this month. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🌱 🧠 Build from Real Need: Synchrony was born out of lived experience and genuine gaps in resources for neurodivergent adults—reminding us that the best business ideas solve real, personal problems. 🤝 🤟 Community Over Competition: Unlike mainstream social or dating apps, Synchrony is thoughtfully designed to foster authentic connection—one-on-one, interest-based, and with the unique needs of its community at the center. 🚀 🤖 AI for Good: By leveraging AI-driven social coaching, the platform empowers users with tailored, in-the-moment support—breaking down communication barriers in ways traditional groups can't. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings967 More about Jamie, Brittany and Rebecca at Join Synchrony joinsynchrony.com

    46 min

  2. JAN 27

    Salon to Software: Entrepreneur Erin Mills on When to Walk Away and Build Something Better

    Erin Mills is a visionary serial entrepreneur, salon owner, and advocate for women's healing and empowerment, driven by a mission to create spaces where safety, growth, and authenticity thrive. From real estate to salon stylist, Erin built her salon business, Theory Salons, to challenge the male-dominated salon industry and its often-unsafe environments, before walking away from all but one of her locations to reinvent herself as a software entrepreneur with a new technology, Flamingo Salon Software, launching later this year. Her journey of reinvention also inspired her to create the Be Brave Community and a new podcast, I Think You Should Be Brave. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 💼 🚀 Closing Chapters, Opening Doors: The power of reinvention, and how, after seven years as a multi-salon owner in the beauty industry, Erin Mills closed all but one of her locations—a process that forced real self-reflection about identity, ego, and the drive we attach to our businesses. Her story is a powerful reminder that "letting go" can feel like the ultimate failure but often brings new freedom and clarity. 🤝✨ Lessons in Leadership and Resilience: Learn about the psychological impact of shifting gears, and why our self-worth is not tied to the tangible money and success that comes from any one venture.  Erin shares how even the best leader can't control every outcome—people leave, change happens, and that doesn't mean you failed. 🤖📈 A Tech-Driven Future: Learn about Erin's journey from service-based salon ownership to scalable software, and how she's building Flamingo Salon Software, a dynamic new platform designed for salons, spas, and service-based businesses, built on her real, lived experience in the industry. Beta testing is in full swing, and a launch is planned for Q3.   👩‍🔬❤️ Balancing Marriage and Entrepreneurship: Working with a spouse? Erin shares honest thoughts on balancing roles, staying in their lanes, and cultivating strong boundaries at home and work.  🔥🦄 It's Time to Be Brave: Erin shares how she built the Be Brave Community to help women entrepreneurs with the unique pressures of comparison, judgment, the need to constantly prove "you're enough," and why vulnerability gives everyone permission to show up authentically. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings966 More about Erin at Theory Salons and Be Brave Community http://www.theorysalons.com https://bebravecommunity.com

    36 min

  3. JAN 20

    Personalized Ayurvedic Wellness: Serial Entrepreneur Arjita Sehti on Revenue, Resilience and AI Ethics

    Arjita Sethi is a serial entrepreneur, physical therapist, certified yoga teacher, Ayurveda practitioner, and meditation expert, recognized as a leading voice at the intersection of AI and wellbeing. She is the founder of Shaanti, an AI-powered wellness platform creating personalized rituals rooted in Ayurveda, and New Founder School, which equips entrepreneurs with practical strategies to launch and grow sustainably. Arjita sits on the advisory board of the NASDAQ Entrepreneurial Center, teaches entrepreneurship at San Francisco State University, and has impacted hundreds of thousands of people across 40 countries through her businesses, teaching, and advisory work. A TEDx speaker, angel investor, and advocate for women in technology, she brings her philosophy of life-synced success into her work as a partner and mother. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 📝 🤖 Ancient Meets AI: How AI enables highly personalized and holistic Ayurvedic wellness rituals, routines and practices to your unique body type and your current season of life. While Ayurveda teaches that every person is unique and needs personalized wellness routines, AI and data makes those customized health recommendations available 24/7. 🛠️🔥 Redefine Success by Your Own Metrics: After scaling then shutting down a venture-backed AI startup, Arjita made a conscious decision to bootstrap her businesses for more autonomy, sustainability, and alignment with her personal values. There is no "one size fits all" in entrepreneurship. Learn how she bootstrapped her virtual business school, grew it to $1 million in annual sales, and stayed true to her values (and wellbeing!). ❤️ 🤝 Transparency & Vulnerability Build Community: Learn how Arjita created a thriving support network for other entrepreneurs by openly sharing her struggles and learning from failure. She says: "99% of businesses might fail, but 99% of entrepreneurs don't." 🌱 ✨Entrepreneurship as a Spiritual Journey: Forget overnight success stories—real entrepreneurship involves failure, resilience, vulnerability, and growth. Learn the importance of self-awareness and sharing our journeys to support other women. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings965 More about Arjita at New Founder School https://newfounderschool.com/ Special January Launch Offer:  Start the year with intention! Visit findshanti.com to access Shanti at the launch price of $200/year. PLUS get access to Arjita Sethi's masterclass on the foundations of Ayurveda and how to build holistic habits.

    54 min

  4. JAN 13

    Fear to Freedom: Transformation Coach Martine Cohen on Mastering Aligned and Authentic Entrepreneurship

    Martine Cohen is a transformative coach and former corporate attorney dedicated to empowering individuals to lead themselves authentically, separate their identity from their emotions and thoughts, and make choices from a place of deep inner awareness and alignment. Author of No More Layers: Discover Your Inner Power and Reclaim True Freedom From the Inside Out, Martine believes that true success comes from within, and she is passionate about guiding others to find ease, joy, and fulfillment by removing the layers that obscure their inner light. As both a lawyer and corporate leadership consultant, Martine is known for her ability to help high-achieving professionals navigate personal and professional transitions. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 📝✨How to be a Master Communicator: Why everything starts within you, and how to reframe your inner dialogue, show up to the person not conversation topic, and engage through active listening, negotiation, and compassion. 💬💪The Antidote to Fear is Curiosity: Why fear only exists in future; not in the present. "When the brain gets curious, it forgets to be afraid. And when the brain gets curious, it leans into something rather than away from it…. fear does not exist in the present." ❤️ 🚀 Awareness, Adventure and Alignment Drive Growth: Learn Martine's 3-pillar process, starting each day with a check-in: get curious about your thoughts, notice what's driving your actions, and make decisions that feel truly aligned with who you are. 🧠 💡 Success Blocks Are Layered and Unique: How women entrepreneurs often grapple with both the fear of failure and the fear of success, usually rooted in early conditioning or societal expectations. Rather than adopting a "masculine" approach to leadership and business, Martine urges women to lean into their authentic strengths—intuition, communication, multitasking, and a creative vision—for sustainable success. 🛑🔥From Crisis to Calling: Martine's own journey was catalyzed by a traumatic brain injury. Losing her identity as a high-achieving strategist, she faced fear and darkness head-on. This led her to discover that "we're not our brains," and propelled her to help others transform from the inside out. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings964 More about Martine at Martine Cohen

    45 min

  5. JAN 6

    Plateaus to Profits: Entrepreneur Celi Arias on Scaling With the "Grown Ass Business" Method

    Celi Arias is the CEO and Founder of The Grown Ass Business, where she guides entrepreneurs through her proprietary methodology, Key Growth Systems, to build strong business foundations. Recognized as a top coach by The Upside in 2024, Celi helps clients break free from revenue plateaus and burnout by focusing on core business principles over quick fixes. Her approach emphasizes clarity and control, optimizing essential business departments to ensure solid foundations for scaling up to seven figures and beyond. She's busy building software to scale her own business, now in beta at Get Scale. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🚀 🤝 Moving from the "Messy Middle": How to get past the "invisible ceiling" in your business and scale past the plateau. Often ambitious founders plateau because we're told to "lean into your strengths" and stay in our zone of genius. That works—until it doesn't. So many founders reach an invisible ceiling, and the tempting response is to just double down on what you're already good at. But doing more of what worked before isn't enough to create multi-seven-figure growth. Hint: the answer is never working harder, hiring more people like you, or doing more of what you're already doing. 🌱 🔄 GAB Method: Learn the Grown Ass Business method to overcome your blind spots. It's all about SHOWING (not just telling) you where you're missing the mark. By visualizing the six core "growth engines" of your business, she helps founders pinpoint the weak spots—be it sales projections, marketing effectiveness, or operational systems. This approach helps solopreneurs and early-stage teams work smarter, not just harder, as they scale. 📈 💰More is not a Number: Whether you're at six figures or scaling beyond, having clear sales projections, knowing your cycles and analyzing your financial data and other KPIs is foundational. "More" isn't a number you can measure! 🎯 🔥Focus on Profitable, Simple Offers: Service businesses often overwhelm themselves and their prospects with too many options. Get laser-focused—2-3 clear offers with intentional, strategic pricing can make all the difference. 💪⚡Build the Right Team (and Systems): Scaling isn't about hiring more people who are just like you. Fill the gaps in your business by mapping your blind spots and bringing in complementary skills, so all growth engines are aligned and working together. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings963

    57 min

  6. 12/30/2025

    Red Carpets to Rest Wear: Celebrity Stylist and Entrepreneur Engie Hassan on Building Community for Women

    Engie Hassan is a celebrated red-carpet fashion stylist turned CEO and Founder of The Revelist, a membership community to help women in midlife feel better about themselves. An alum of Vogue, French Vogue, Teen Vogue and Numero, Engie is a sought-after arbiter of taste and a go-to connector, helping clients broker meaningful alliances with the who's who of the fashion industry in the U.S., Europe and across the Arab world. Tastemakers such as Anna Wintour have lauded Engie for her vision for clients and the late Karl Lagerfeld singled out her eye for accessories. From The Oscars to the SAG Awards, Hassan dresses some of the most glamorous women and men in the world, and as a Style Commentator she has hosted red carpet style interviews and offered insights for ET Arabia, InStyle, NBC, Vogue Arabia, Grazia Middle East, Conde Nast Travel, The Express, The NJ Morning Show and many others. Engie has also styled music videos for Zach Matari (Fl!p it), Lauryn Hill, Tony Nominee Joshua Henry (Grow!), Jackie Nese, Frances Rose, Lily Massie, Mikel James, Deanna Demola and Young GVD. She's also worked as a personal stylist for Orlando Bloom, Miranda Kerr, Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Andre Holland, Amir Arison and more. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 ✨🔥 Celebrity Stylist to Community Builder: From a personal shopper to red carpet celebrity stylist, Engie shares her entrepreneurial path and purpose helping women navigate major transitions—career changes, perimenopause, and even postpartum—through her new venture, the Revelist. ❤️💬 What You Wear Matters More Than You Think: How years of seeing women transform emotionally through styling led Engie to a powerful insight: feeling good in our clothes can spark real internal change, build confidence, and help us reach new heights. 👩‍🔬 🚀 The Power of Women's Communities: Women facing major life changes crave a safe, relatable space to talk openly. That's why the Revelist is all about connection—both online (with a newsletter reaching 250,000 women!) and now increasingly in-person, with retreats and wellness events. 💡 🎯 Actionable Styling Tips (No Big Budgets Needed!): Styling doesn't have to be expensive or overwhelming. The golden rule on rebuilding your closet and confidence, at any price point? Start by getting clear on your goals, shop your closet first, and always use a good tailor. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings962 More about Engie at The Revelist https://therevelist.com

    34 min

  7. 12/23/2025

    Scaling Pediatric Therapy: Entrepreneur Luba Patlakh on Resilience and Navigating Uncertain Times

    Luba Patlakh, a passionate and dedicated speech language pathologist, is the founder and director of Kidology, Inc., a pediatric practice specializing in speech, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and ABA services. With over 15 years of experience in the field, Luba's expertise and compassion have shaped her approach to child development. She has built a thriving private practice over the past decade, where her innovative and client-centered approach has empowered families to help their children achieve significant milestones in speech and development. Her deep commitment to fostering inclusive and community-rooted services has earned her recognition as a winner of the Entreprenista 100 Award, and in 2024, she was named to the Inc. 5000 list for growing her business at an impressive rate. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🚀 🛠️Scaling Secrets: Why resilience, constant learning, and adaptability drive growth, and how Luba scaled her pediatric therapy business from a solo practice to nearly $4 million in annual revenue in 10 years.  "Once you have a stable process, it's repeatable—that's where scalability comes from." ❤️✨Mission Always Comes First: Despite healthcare and education funding cuts and insurance reimbursement hurdles, Luba's commitment to her team and to underserved families has never wavered. "Everyone here has to have the heart for it—you're not just here for the money, but it is still a business."  📉 💪Navigating Turbulence: Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) are vital for more than 7.5 million American children, yet Kidology must grapple with insurance cuts and delayed reimbursements to keep doors open for the families who need its services most. Luba's top tip? Get smart with finances, diversify service offerings, and always, always put people first. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings961   More about Luba at Kidology Inc https://kidologyinc.com/   Listen to Luba's podcast, The Growth Lab  https://linktr.ee/growthlabpodcast

    35 min

  8. 12/16/2025

    Living Longer, Better: Longevity Entrepreneur Leslie Kenny on Innovating the Anti-Aging Vitamin Primeadine

    Leslie Kenny is the CEO and founder of Oxford Healthspan, an innovative longevity company with a game-changing supplement called Primeadine. An Oxford-based longevity expert and Harvard alum, Leslie founded Oxford Healthspan after reversing her own Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and infertility and giving birth naturally at 43. Now 60, with a biological age of 21, she's committed to helping others optimize their health span. Leslie is also co-founder of the Oxford Longevity Project, a nonprofit dedicated to public education on aging smarter with science-backed strategies. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🌱 ✨Spermidine, the Miracle Anti-Aging Ingredient: Learn about Leslie's discovery of spermidine (now branded as Primeadine) and how food-derived compounds can help slow—and even reverse—the biological aging process.  💡🌐 Ethical Supplement Development: How Leslie's commitment to transparency and quality in the supplement industry is changing the game. Learn how she refused to cut corners with fillers or manufacturing shortcuts, ensuring her products are safe, well-researched, and truly beneficial—even if that means lower margins and a slower process. Plus, how Japanese longevity principles influenced her philosophy and product development. 📚 🤟 Consumer Education Matters: Bringing a new category of product to market isn't just about sales—it's about teaching people what's possible. From changing perceptions around aging to demystifying scientific terminology, Leslie's educational approach sets her apart as both a scientist and a leader. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings960 More about Leslie at Oxford Healthspan Get 15% off Primeadine

    44 min
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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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  • Creator
    Melinda Wittstock
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2026
  • Episodes
    971
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Wings Media LLC 2019
  • Show Website
    Wings of Inspired Business