Wings of Inspired Business

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

Jenna Biancavilla is a trailblazing entrepreneur on a mission to empower people to take charge of their financial future. In 2016 Jenna launched her company, Pearl Capital Management, a fiduciary financial planning firm advising on over $180 Million in assets under management. Alongside her sister, she co-founded Svvy, a disruptive technology company aiming to revolutionize the financial services industry by empowering women investors and providing them with vetted advisor connections they can trust. Jenna is also deeply committed to giving back to her community. She volunteers with several charities, including mentoring foster children through Court Appointed Special Advocates and is a foster mom to a rotating cast of shelter dogs. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 👥 🔥Hire Fast: Learn why it’s never too early to invest in team members to help you grow your business so it can run without you.   💪❤️Empower Your Team: Beyond the power of effective delegation, learn why it’s important to be a great coach and mentor to your team.   ⏱️🌙Guard Your Time: Learn the time management secrets that enable Jenna to run several businesses, volunteer and have a fulfilling, enjoyable life.   📈 🚀Bootstrapping to Success: How women-led companies can thrive even without outside investment, and how to create optimistic yet realistic financial projections to attract investors while emphasizing sustainability.   💼 💡 Financial Navigation and Resources: How Pearl Capital Management acts as a "financial quarterback," ensuring coordinated and comprehensive financial plans, plus how the fintech firm BeSvvy.com is connecting business owners to trusted local advisors through a smart matchmaking service.   👩‍🔬 💰 Funding Women Entrepreneurs: Why more women must start investing in each other’s startups to change the game of venture capital, how women founders outperform exclusively male teams, and how to present your opportunity to investors.   🐾 🤟 Balancing Act: How to manage multiple roles with passion and purpose.   🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings908   🔗 Connect with Jenna at Pearl Capital Management and Svvy

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.  🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings907 More about Ashley at Ice Cream Social

Alicia Berberich is a visionary leader who’s made it her mission to connect women to each other in inclusive, collaborative and supportive networks to help them grow their businesses. She began the Women in Business Roundtable in 1992 in San Francisco, which became the largest networking group through the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. She went on to found the Women's Marketing Luncheon series to create a smaller environment and now Alicia coaches women entrepreneurs to achieve their goals by harnessing the power of manifesting and overcoming their negative self-talk. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🚀 📈 Manifesting Business Success: Learn the DESIGNED framework for actionable steps to manifest goals—from clarifying desires and aligned energy to inspired action gratitude, and beyond.  💼 🔥Support and Mentorship: Why women must support one another in business for all of us to succeed, and why collaborative and inclusive networks foster the connections and capital we all need to grow successful businesses.   👩‍🔬 🤟 Harnessing Wisdom and Energy: Learn why women in their 50s and 60s bring a unique blend of experience, confidence, and renewed energy, often finding their entrepreneurial stride as they navigate life changes like children leaving home and post-menopause vitality. 🧠 💡 Mindset Mastery: How to overcome inner saboteurs and negative self-talk and foster a positive mindset, and why using "loving kindness" and positive self-dialogue can help overcome imposter syndrome or anything holding you back from your dreams.   🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings906 More about Alicia at Alicia Berberich Download Podopolo from either app store to create and share your favorite clips of this episode on any social media or messaging platform, follow Wings there and keep the conversation going on Podopolo app in episode comments.

Maria Maldonado Smith is the founder and Chief Empowerment Officer of MMS Consulting and creator of the Executive Vision Imagery program. After 18 years of award-winning success in the corporate space, working as a sales leader for Fortune 500 companies across three different industries, Maria brings her unparalleled combination of experience to her proprietary process and interactive trainings, helping companies understand the science and benefits of goal setting for their employees. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🌍✨Align on Vision and Values: Learn why uniting a team around shared vision and values and a roadmap for how those are operationalized leads to a happy workplace culture with increased productivity and productivity.  ⚖️📈Balance in Management: How to avoid toxic micromanagement without confusing employees with too much autonomy, and strike the balance between the trust and independence team members need, with clear expectations and onboarding processes to set them up for success. 💡 🌱Understanding Employee Goals: Why it’s vital to engage with team members on a personal level. Ask: "What do you want? Who do you want to become? What do you want to create?" This understanding helps in aligning individual aspirations with company objectives and enhancing overall team engagement. ⚡ 🚀 Challenges in Growing Companies: Rapid growth can be overwhelming for founders. Learn how to set yourself up for success by having proper systems and practices in place to maintain quality as you scale. 🤝 👥 Hiring to Trust: How to patiently build recruitment and hiring processes that help you align your new hires around shared values and expectations so you can feel safe empowering your team.   🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings905 More about Maria at MMS Consulting Firm Listen to Maria’s podcast Creating the Vision  

Caitlin Copple and Holly Conti are the co-owners of Full Swing Public Relations, a fast-growing agency helping underrecognized leaders positively impact the world as entrepreneurs, authors, speakers and political candidates. Caitlin founded Full Swing in 2019, brought Holly in as Head of Digital Marketing, and together they’ve grown into a 7-figure company, with clients featured in Fast Company, Inc. Forbes, New York Times, Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, PopSugar, CNN, and many others. They’ve helped clients launch multi-six-figure courses and memberships, earn six-figure book deals,10x their email lists, and 100x their social following. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 📌 💡 Why Long-Term Thinking Beats Quick Wins: How to focus on long-term relationship building with media partners, and understanding what journalists are looking for and how to best approach them. 💪 🚀 How to Bolster Earned Media: Learn how to make your brand story and solution relevant to journalists and the news agenda, a why a "soft pitch" strategy and crafting strong, problem-solving stories tailored for journalists always wins the day.  🤖 🤝 AI vs. Humans: AI can boost efficiency in research and content creation but there is no replacement for authentic human connection in securing impactful media placements. Plus, the need for more transparency and diversity in AI models. 👩‍🔬 🌱 Balancing Entrepreneurship with Motherhood: How it’s possible to find leverage in your business to be both a good mom and a successful business owner, and why its vital that women support each other. Plus, hear the story of how Full Swing PR lead the impactful “My Village” campaign during the COVID-19 pandemic. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings904 More about Caitlin and Holly at Full Swing PR Get Full Swing PR Freebies Download the 1-page PR Plan  Download Podopolo from either app store to create and share your favorite clips of this episode on any social media or messaging platform, follow Wings there and keep the conversation going on Podopolo app in episode comments.

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. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings903 🎯More about Ruchi at https://www.watchherprosper.com/ Get Ruchi’s free Redefining Prosperity workbook

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. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings902 More about Jenna at Jenna Capozzi Download Jenna’s free workbook at Lead With Jenna

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. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings901 More about Molly at https://hiringandempowering.com

Dr. Jeanine Staples-Dixon is the CEO and Founder of coaching company Literacy for Life and a Professor of Literacy and Language, African American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She focuses on dismantling supremacist patriarchies through research, teaching, and coaching. Jeanine recently started The Supreme Love Project movement to support marginalized people, mainly women and people of color, to heal the relational and social terrors in their souls and launch revolutions in their lives. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 👩‍🔬 🤟 Embracing Full Personhood: How to move beyond the binary expression of masculine and feminine energies to integrate fractured aspects of ourselves to move from performative to personhood, reduce exhaustion and increase agility and connectedness.   🏳️‍🌈🤎 Challenging Patriarchal Values: How to overcome societal conditioning and subconscious programming to unleash your full potential, and how to create supportive communities and break free from competitive and hierarchical socialization.   ❤️ 🚀Balancing Strength and Softness: Why Vice President Kamala Harris is an ideal role model for women in how to authentically step into the biggest version of ourselves as leaders, blending strategic, driven masculine energy with nurturing, intuitive feminine energy, and why this balance not only promotes personal success but can also lead to transformative business practices with positive social and environmental impacts.   🧠✨Evolving from Performativity to Authenticity: How to overcome patriarchal indoctrination and subconscious programming to break free from performative roles to fully embodied authentic personhood for sustained energy and accomplishment.   🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings900   More about Jeanine at The Supreme Love Project https://thesupremeloveproject.com/

Nancy Lyons is the CEO and co-founder of Clockwork and an outspoken advocate for making workplaces more inclusive, flexible, and adaptable. Nancy says no one does great work if they’re worried or if they can’t bring their whole self to work, and her consultancy focuses on transforming businesses and business leadership through experience design, technology for change enablement, and creating workplace cultures that support human complexities, nuances and intricacies. She’s also the author of the interactive Project Management: Pixels, People, and Process, A Human-Centered Approach to Producing Digital Products, and Work Like a Boss: A Kick-in-the-Pants Guide to Finding (and Using) your Power at Work. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🚀 🤟Intrapreneurs Over Hierarchy: Why traditional corporate hierarchies are becoming obsolete as technology democratizes workplaces, and how to bring entrepreneurial thinking into organizations to inspire creativity and innovation.  ❤️ 🌈 Cultural Values in the Workplace: Learn how to operationalize values like innovation and inclusion in day-to-day work, and why values must be visible in actions and how they contribute to a thriving corporate culture. 👩‍💼 🤝 Women Leading the Future: The under-appreciated yet vital qualities women bring to leadership roles, and why qualities like empathy, creativity, and relationship-building become essential with AI taking over repetitive tasks. 🌐🤎Prioritizing DEI Initiatives: While some companies pull back on DEI efforts, diversity and inclusion are proven to assure business growth and innovation. ✨💡 Creating an Empathetic Culture of Trust: Why engaging in respectful dialogues and understanding diverse perspectives is critical to defuse conflicts and elevate conversations and effective collaboration through curiosity and active listening. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings899 More about Nancy at Clockwork Get Nancy’s latest book, Work Like a Boss

Aurora Winter, serial entrepreneur and founder of Same Page Publishing, combines the best of Silicon Valley with the best of Hollywood to help entrepreneurs and thought leaders grow their businesses with memorable messages and best-selling books for multiple streams of income and impact. Aurora is author of several award-winning fiction and non-fiction books, including "Turn Words Into Wealth: Blueprint for Your Business, Brand, and Book," and “Magic, Mystery, and the Multiverse.” She’s also the founder of several other businesses including the charter boat company Pacific Quest Yacht Sales, the film production company Random Harvest Productions, and Grief Coach Academy. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🧠 💡The Neuroscience of Communication: Learn the “Spoken Author” structure to craft is messages that resonate with your audience, starting with the “croc brain” for attention, the midbrain for social proof, and the neocortex for your core message. 💰 📈 Million Dollar Messages: The surprising 27X value of a great story and how to use approaches like “Myth Busting” and the “Hero’s Journey” to find ways to resonate and establish rapport with customers and investors. 📖 📝 The Book Inside You: Learn how your story, mission and expertise can easily manifest in a best-selling book that grows your business and impact.    🛠️🔥Leveraging Artificial Intelligence: Why AI is a powerful assistant and can help you understand your audience, but can never replace the unique essence of human creativity and lived experience that makes for truly great storytelling. 🚀✨ Growing Resilience and Adaptability: How to master the most effective entrepreneurial mindset for your success. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings898 More about Aurora Winter at https://www.aurorawinter.com/ and if you'd like help creating, publishing, and promoting your book, visit www.SamePagePublishing.com and get your gift Thought Leader starter library. You can also book a free consult at https://bookcall.biz

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. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings897

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. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings886 More about Caroline at OrganiCare https://www.organicare.com/  Get a discount on FemiClear and use discount code is PODCAST25https://femiclear.com/

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. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings895   More about Danielle at Kickstart Accounting https://kickstartaccountinginc.com/danielle-hayden   Get your Money Personality Type https://kickstartaccountinginc.com/quiz   Get the 3 Numbers Every Business Owner Should Know  kickstartyournumbers.com   Download Podopolo from either app store to create and share your favorite clips of this episode on any social media or messaging platform, follow Wings there and keep the conversation going on Podopolo app in episode comments.

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. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings894 More about Susan at Meritage Leadership https://meritageleadership.com/ Get 20% off Enneagram Applied using the coupon code DRUMM for four self-paced sessions, paired with a unique Enneagram Leadership Style Assessment and a comprehensive 20+ page report to deepen leadership insights.  https://susandrumm.kartra.com/page/Join-EnneagramApplied  

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. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at:  https://bit.ly/Wings893

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.   🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings891 Download Podopolo from either app store to create and share your favorite clips of this episode on any social media or messaging platform, follow Wings there and keep the conversation going on Podopolo app in episode comments.

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.   🔥🛠️📝✨💡 🚀 🤝 🌱 🔄 👩‍🔬 🤟 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings891  Get 10% off a stay at Sanu Postpartum. Use code 10PEROFF at checkout. https://sanupostpartum.com/ Download Podopolo from either app store to create and share your favorite clips of this episode on any social media or messaging platform, follow Wings there and keep the conversation going on Podopolo app in episode comments.

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. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings890 Download Podopolo from either app store to create and share your favorite clips of this episode on any social media or messaging platform, follow Wings there and keep the conversation going on Podopolo app in episode comments.