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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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Dr. Sherry Peel Jackson is a retired IRS agent, CPA, and Certified Fraud Examiner who’s helped over 100,000 professionals legally reduce taxes and build lasting wealth. With over 35 years of experience, she’s the creator of the KPG System—a proven method to Keep, Protect, and Grow your income without risky investments. She’s also the author of How To Escape The Rat Race and a passionate speaker empowering people to take control of their finances and create generational wealth.  🔑Key Takeaways🔑 💰 📈 What the IRS Doesn’t Want You to Know: Learn the inside secrets of how to reduce your tax burden—from write-offs you never knew existed to paying your children, plus the story of “Chesty Love” and how she succeeded writing off a breast augmentation. Plus, how to audit-proof your business from the get-go. 💪 🚀 From Whistleblower to Wealth Coach: How to turn pain into purpose, and what inspired Sherry to walk away from the IRS and create a mission-driven business dedicated to helping others escape financial traps. 👩‍🔬 🌱 How Women Entrepreneurs Can Build Legacy Wealth Without Overworking or Overspending: Why women need a new financial playbook—and how they can grow wealth without burnout, reclaiming work-life balance. Learn Sherry’s KPG System to Keep, Protect, and Grow income and wealth.  🔥✨ Escaping the Rat Race: The 3 most important moves you can make this year to start building financial freedom and generational wealth, even if you’re drowning in taxes, debt or limited income. 💼 🤝 Lawsuit Protection and Legal Risk: The U.S. business environment is litigious, so learn how to structure your business to protect personal assets, how to use family limited partnerships and trusts as protective tools, plus examples of complex corporate structures by wealthy individuals. Also, the inside skinny on how to protect yourself from challenging employment laws. ⚡📚 Your Business Structure Matters: The way you set up your business can make or break your risk exposure. Sherry shares that corporations often provide better protection for your personal assets than LLCs, especially in a litigious environment like the U.S. 🌍💡 Prepare for Uncertainty—Diversify & Protect: The importance of ‘structuring your business—and personal finances—to weather economic and political storms, plus why now is the time to invest in hard assets (real estate, gold, silver, even global property) and always having a ‘Plan B’ in case of major market shifts. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/wings-950 More about Sherry at Sherry Peel Jackson https://sherrypeeljackson.com/
Jenny Young is the Founder and CEO of Brooklyn Robot Foundry, the vibrant and inclusive brand dedicated to prioritizing diversity and empowerment for children of all backgrounds and communities through STEAM education. Jenny is a trained mechanical engineer turned entrepreneur to bring a more diverse, inclusive and creative approach to STEAM education. Founded in 2011 and with four locations open currently, the brand focuses putting the “art” in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and sharing the fun of STEAM education with children everywhere, inspiring them to continue a life full of exploration, problem-solving, and imagination.
Brittney Lincoln is the CEO and Founder of Females in Franchising, a dynamic platform dedicated to empowering women in the franchising industry. With over 13 years of experience spanning home services, beauty, and medical franchises, Brittney has built a reputation as a connector, educator, and strategist in the franchising world. She is passionate about providing a space for women to collaborate, learn from industry experts, and grow both personally and professionally. Her expertise lies in helping business owners understand franchising, scale their brands, and take their locations from one to 100. She’s also a partner in Limitless Franchise Growth, a franchise sales organization (FSO). 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 ✨🤝 Why Community Matters in Franchising: Franchising can be isolating for women—whether you’re a franchisee, franchisor, or vendor. While other industries offer executive women robust networks, franchising often leaves women searching for peers who truly understand the unique challenges of this “not-quite-corporate, not-quite-entrepreneurship” field. 💡🚀 Franchising: Is It For You? Whether you’re dreaming of scaling your own brand or exploring business ownership through franchising, learn what it really takes to turn a business into a franchise, how to avoid common mistakes, leverage must-have systems for success, plus how to find—and vet—the right franchise for you. 💼 ⚡Roadmap for Aspiring Franchisees & Owners: Why profitability and repeatability are king when thinking about franchising your business. Plus, systems, documented processes, and team support are musts if you want to scale and support franchisees successfully. And if you’re looking to buy a franchise? Seek a reputable franchise consultant to find the right fit for your goals and lifestyle. 🧠✨ The Mindset Shift: Why abundance, not scarcity, powers women’s success—and how Females in Franchising is setting a culture where women “don’t compete, we complete each other.” 👩‍🔬 📈 Females in Franchising: Learn all about Brittany’s new community platform (now with a waitlist!)—designed to foster authentic connections, mentorship, collaboration, and resource-sharing just for women in franchising. Think: in-depth peer groups, a community-driven job board, and expert-led “mentorship minutes” calls. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/wings-948 More about Brittney at Limitless Franchise Growth  
Christine Fruehwirth is the CEO and Founder of FlexCareers Consulting, and with more than 20 years of career counseling and life coaching experience, she helps college grads land jobs and stay-at-home parents return to the workplace. She’s a passionate advocate for technology, and helps students and “re-launchers” alike hone their skills for the new “AI Age”, including creative problem solving and entrepreneurial skills. A former career consultant and instructor of a Career Management Strategy course at George Washington University, and most recently Georgetown University, developed an expertise in helping undergraduates of all majors recruit for and successfully obtain internships and full-time positions in the financial services industry, where she previously spent a decade focused on consumer and later investment banking at America, Capital One, Wells Fargo, and Lending Tree. Christine is also the author of Surviving Life’s Storms and Thriving in the Aftermath. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🚀 📈 Find Your Inner Entrepreneur: Why it’s necessary in the new “Age of AI” to develop problem-solving skills (not just being a “problem identifier”), build a personal brand that reflects your values, interests, and skills, and develop networking strategies and interview skills. 🤖💡Boost Your AI Proficiency: Everyone’s talking about the jobs AI will eliminate, but at the same time, every company needs people who are proficient in AI, from prompts to tools to creating AI systems. Now is the time to take some AI courses. 💼 👥 Rebuild Your Network if You’re a Re-Launcher: For women returning to work after having a child or any other prolonged absence, its vital to make LinkedIn your best friend to connect and reconnect, build an entrepreneurial “flexible work” strategy and professionalize any volunteer or board work as you update your technical skills. ✨💪Adaptability & Mindset Are Everything: Whether you’re starting your career or returning after a break, being adaptable, continuously learning, and shifting your mindset from “problem identifier” to “problem solver” is essential to growth and opportunity. 🛠️👩‍🔬 Technical & Relationship Skills Go Hand-in-Hand: Staying current with technology (especially AI tools) is critical, but so is strengthening your networking and relationship-building skills. Businesses are built on trust, collaboration, and personal connection—qualities that never go out of style. 🤝 🌱 There's No One "Right" Path: Whether through entrepreneurship, upskilling, or redefining your career path entirely, building a fulfilling professional life today means being open to unconventional journeys. Colleges may not be fully prepared for this shift—so it’s up to everyone to create and seize your own opportunities. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/wings-947 More about Christine at FlexCareers Consulting    
Lindsey S. Mignano is the founder of SSM Legal, an entrepreneurial Silicon Valley corporate lawyer representing emerging technology companies and industry-adjacent firms and small businesses. Her practice spans technology company business formation and expansion into US markets, M&A (flips, entity or asset sales), commercial and technology transactions, and venture financing. Lindsey has been recognized as a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers every year from 2016-2024, an honor awarded to only 2.5% of attorneys under the age of 40. In 2025, she was awarded the Super Lawyers distinction for the first time at the age of 40, an honor awarded to only 5% of attorneys. Separate from her law practice, Lindsey speaks often about diversity issues in the fields of law, tech, and venture. In 2023, Lindsey founded Venture Betches, a venture fund of funds, and Syndicate Betches, a real estate syndicate fund of funds, both with a social justice mission to bring investment opportunities to historically underrepresented accredited limited partners who identify as female and/or BIPOC/minorities. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 💰 🚀 Fewer Early-Stage Deals, But Bigger Checks for the Chosen Few: While overall early-stage investment (seed & Series A) is down sharply, those who do close are raising larger rounds. AI startups are a bright spot—median deal size for early-stage AI is $4.6M vs. $3.5M in other sectors. 🛠️🔥The Funding Bar Is Higher Than Ever: VCs are pickier, demanding traction, ARR, and “proof” even at seed stage. This can be a real Catch-22 for founders who need funding to hit those milestones. 👩‍🔬🛑 The Gender Gap Persists—And Is Widening: Female founders face staggering disparities in deal count and dollars. In 2025, only 5.3% of all deals went to all-female teams, and a shocking 0.8% of total venture dollars. The dynamic is especially tough for solo women founders in technical AI, who often face pressure to take on male CTOs and cede equity to “pass” the VC filter. ✨💡 Tips for Women and Diverse Founders: Feeling daunted? Seek out emerging venture managers and female-run funds for your first checks—but be mindful of not being pigeonholed at the next funding stage. Build authentic relationships with decision-makers (not just associates). Don’t hesitate to get creative about showcasing traction, even with limited resources. Find legal and business partners who share your values and play the long game. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/wings-946 More about Lindsey at SSM Legal  
Esther Wildenberg is committed to empowering women while leaving a sustainable legacy today and for the next generation. She’s Co-Founder and President of Codebreaker Technologies, a world leader in personality coding. She’s also the author of The Undermined Soul, a book dedicated to help women step into their power in business sharing the lessons she learned along the way. By the age of 33, she was the CEO of a consulting company in Europe, leading a team of over 800 employees. From there, she held multiple C-Suite Executive Leadership positions while building her own consulting and coaching company in the Netherlands. With over two decades of international experience, she understands culture, diversity, inclusion, and the power of team like no other. Her passion? People. Her mission? To equip and empower people to manifest their own greatness in business and in life.  🔑Key Takeaways🔑 👩‍🔬 🚀 Women are the World’s New Asset Class: Why women will dominate business because of innate superpowers like intuition, multitasking and relationship-building. The data is clear: Despite women receiving less than 2% of venture capital, female-founded companies deliver higher returns and greater longevity. When women invest in women, we all rise. ✨💪 Reclaim Your Narrative: Esther wrote her book, The Undermined Soul, as a legacy for her son, sharing how she transformed being undermined into her source of strength. She reminds us that our greatest obstacles are often society’s limiting beliefs—ones we can choose to rewrite. ❤️⚡Real Power = Emotional Intelligence: Whether leading a company or pitching to investors, understanding people’s values is key. Esther’s approach—rooted in relationship-building and her personality coding technology—demonstrates that empathy and adaptability drive true results. 🎯 💡 Bonus Insight: Esther also gives us a sneak peek into Codebreaker Technologies and its revolutionary personality coding tech that’s helping women entrepreneurs win more sales, faster—all by understanding human behavior in seconds. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/wings-945 More about Esther at Code Breaker Tech Get Esther’s book, The Undermined Soul, with FREE PDFs and a FREE 15-minute consultation.  
Scarlett Stanhope, aka The Biz Hippie, teaches coaches to conquer their finances and own their worth so they can be fully supported by the work they love. Scarlett harnessed the power of money to break free from her workaholic career path and pursue her dreams. She uses a combination of tangible money management strategies as well as a variety of coaching techniques to help her clients transform their mindset and relationship to money, allowing them to strategically achieve their goals and live their best lives. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 ✨🛠️Change Your Money Story: Why it’s vital to heal your relationship with money before you invest in your business growth and financial management.   💰📈 Why Making More Money Doesn’t Solve Your Money Problems: Rich or poor, you can run the same stressful treadmill, without joy or happiness.  💪❤️Balancing Hustle and Flow: Learn how to swing from the extremes of structured action to mindful flow can help you find the equilibrium that assures entrepreneurial success around living a harmonious life true to you.  💼 🌱Overcoming Fear of Lack: Learn how to rewire your brain from scarcity to abundance, and why it starts with self-awareness and evolves into savvy and empowering money management strategies. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings944 More about Scarlett at The Biz Hippie Get a Free 30-minute Abundance Activation session designed to help you uncover the pitfalls that have been holding you back.
Dr. Nona Djavid is a serial entrepreneur and transformational leader, and author committed to helping business owners and entrepreneurs break through limiting beliefs around time, money, and success. As the founder of eLIVate Club and the Part Time Million Dollar Business coaching platform, she empowers women to create businesses that align with their dream lifestyles while working less and achieving more. With a background in neurology and chiropractic care, Dr. Nona blends science, philosophy, and universal truths to teach her clients how to master the energetics and mechanics of abundance. As the founder of eLIVate Club and the Part Time Million Dollar Business coaching platform, she empowers women to create businesses that align with their dream lifestyles while working less and achieving more. Dr. Nona’s transformative insights have been featured in major outlets such as Forbes, NBC News, and CBS News, and she is a sought-after speaker. Through her work, she helps clients quantum leap their income, time freedom, and personal growth. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🔥🛠️The One Week A Month Lifestyle:  Learn how to scale without burnout, and the mindset it takes to live a life of freedom and success, without trade-off, guilt or apology. 💪 🤟 The 4-Step Framework for Unreasonableness: How to shift your mindset from scarcity, make your nervous system feel comfortable in abundance and freedom, and break the addiction to struggle hardwired into our emotions, belief systems, and nervous systems. 👩‍🔬 🚀 What Stops Women from Building 9-figure+ Businesses: Deep down, most women have fears of being “cast out” for succeeding too much, perhaps overshadowing their men or alienating women friends. What it takes to break out of that cycle of limiting beliefs. ✨💡 Quantum Leaps in Business and Life: What that means in practical terms, and how entrepreneurs can create exponential success without working harder. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings943   More about Nona at eLIVate.me Listen to Nona’s podcast, The Unreasonable Life
Rajia Abdelaziz is the CEO and co-founder of invisaWear, a company at the forefront of smart jewelry and life-saving technology. An advocate for women’s and children’s safety, Rajia scaled invisaWear to reach over 100,000 customers, successfully raised millions of dollars, and earned coveted recognition including Forbes' 30 Under 30 North America, Boston Globe’s Tech Power Players, BostInno’s 25 Under 25, and the New England Innovations Award. Just last week invisaWear was selected by Oprah Winfrey for this year’s Back to School List. As a minority female CEO, Rajia is passionate about mentoring other young entrepreneurs to pursue their dreams and beat the odds, guiding aspiring entrepreneurs at UMass Lowell’s Entrepreneurship program. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 💪 🛠️Building from Personal Experience: Why many successful businesses are inspired by personal trauma and challenge, and how a college class project quickly became a mission to keep women (and everyone) safer with smart jewelry and cutting-edge 24/7 alert systems.  💰 📈 Breaking Barriers in Fundraising: Raising capital as a young female founder is never easy. Learn how Rajia pitched 100 investors before she ever got a single yes.  What turned the tide was making her pitch personal for investors—asking them to think about protecting the women in their own lives.  🔥 🤝 Bold Moves, Strong Partnerships: Why entrepreneurship means never taking no for an answer, and daring to reach for the seemingly impossible. Learn how Rajia cold-emailed an executive at ADT, which led to a game-changing partnership. 📌 👥Businesses Don’t Fail; People Quit: Success is always around the corner, so don’t let setbacks take you off course. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/wings942 More about Rajia at invisaWear  
Gabriela Rosa is a fertility specialist, reproductive health educator, Harvard University-awarded scholar, and the CEO and founder of The Rosa Institute—the world’s first virtual and holistic fertility clinic. Gabriela and her team have helped 140,000 couples in 110 countries, and her treatment methodology has become an authority in its industry for identifying and addressing biochemical obstacles that guide couples in overcoming infertility and recurrent miscarriage, despite previous reproductive difficulties and failed treatments. She is also the host of the TalkSex with Gabriela Rosa™ podcast. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 💼 💪From 80-Hour Weeks to Virtual Triumph: How to balance the demands of motherhood with entrepreneurship, set your own boundaries to build a business around your life rather and make business work on your own terms. Learn how Gabriela went from selling her time to selling her expertise with a program-based business that supports the right patients in 110 countries. 💡👩‍🔬 Take It or Leave It: How to set bold boundaries and having the confidence to do business on your own terms without apology or guilt. Hint: Let perfectionism go, and build systems that support you and your expertise. 🚀 💰 The Secret to Sustainable, Scalable Success: Don’t ever accept “business as usual” or others’ blueprints. Learn how to work less for a bigger impact, and in Gabriela’s case, an astonishing 78.8% live birth rate—even for “hopeless” infertility cases. 📚✨ The Science Behind Fertility Breakthroughs: Learn why IVF is not the only answer, and take Gabriela’s free 30 day Fertility Challenge. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings941
Sheila Buswell is the CEO and Co-Founder of Buswell Biomedical, a veteran of the US Army, and the author of Is This Seat For Me? Overcoming Imposter Syndrome in Everyday Life and Business. In her book, Sheila shares her personal experiences overcoming sexism in engineering and tech and dealing with impostor syndrome, as well the stories of a diverse group of accomplished individuals who struggled with self-doubt but found ways to overcome it. She hopes to help others who feel limited by their beliefs experience more freedom and realize they are enough. 🔍🤖 AI's Transformative Potential: Learn how AI can learn an individual's unique motion patterns, a game-changer for mobility compared to traditional methods that can’t finely personalize such assistance.  🤝 🚀 Overcoming AI Fears and Biases: Why educating people on AI's benefits and potential, with relatable, empowering stories to demystify AI is crucial. 💡💰 Navigating the Venture Landscape: Why it’s vital for female founders raising venture capital to find aligned partners who believe in you and your mission. 👩‍🔬🔥 Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: How to overcome doubts on your entrepreneurial journey. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings940
Bizzie Gold is the CEO and Founder of Break Method, a first-of-its-kind behavioral diagnostics system that uses data analytics to predict and reprogram patterns of thought and behavior with 98.3% accuracy. An industry disruptor to the core, Bizzie is revolutionizing the way mental health, addiction recovery, and human performance are approached. She has founded and scaled eight global brands, and Break Method with its brain pattern mapping technology that avoids confirmation bias in therapy, challenges the outdated financial and therapeutic models that keep clients trapped in endless cycles of dependency. She is also the author of the new book, “Your Brain is a Filthy Liar”. 🤔💭Understanding the Break Method: Not your average therapy program with endless narrative-based sessions, Break Method maps over 200 historical data points to create a unique “brain pattern” for each individual, forming the foundation of a targeted, efficient, and sustainable personal transformation moving clients beyond the “process-perfection trap” into deep self-trust, resilience, and freedom from repetitive subconscious patterns.  ✨💡The Power of Self-Trust: Learn how Bizzie’s upbringing cultivated extraordinary self-belief, and why learning to trust yourself is the antidote to perfectionism. 🔥🛠️Entrepreneurial Reinvention: Many entrepreneurs struggle with burnout, self-sabotage, or repeating toxic cycles, and Break Method helps founders identify and break the subconscious patterns driving these behaviors to “rewire at the source” and bolster emotional intelligence to clear the path for success.  👥 🧠 Organizational Impact: Learn how brain pattern mapping is changing the game for hiring, leadership, and team optimization in companies of all sizes. 👩‍🔬 🤟Transformation Stories: Hear how Break Method is delivering 180-degree life changes from ending debilitating medication cycles to breaking toxic relationship patterns and helping entrepreneurs and their teams succeed.
Kimberly Mitchell is a transformational leader dedicated to empowering individuals and small businesses as the Founder and CEO of the business training company Ujoozi, and its personal transformation system, Journey to Joy. A U.S. Air Force veteran and mental health advocate, Kimberly transitioned to civilian life pursuing a career in training and leadership development, working across multiple industries, from technology rollouts to government initiatives, including the 2010 Census Project with its the first-ever digital data collection. Her work with the Rochester Schools Modernization Program led to the creation of an innovative small business training initiative, impacting local entrepreneurs and serving as a model for other municipalities. Simultaneously, she started several event planning and photo booth businesses before pivoting to create Ujoozi, now a thriving six-figure business. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 💡 🌍Finding Your Inner Compass in Uncertain Times: Start by going inward to understand the limiting beliefs you may hold about yourself.    💪 🚀 The Power of Self-Sufficiency: Why women must take control of their futures, with strategies to become self-sustaining in all areas of their lives, to claim their right to a seat at every table—in business, leadership or advocacy. 🤝 👩‍🔬 Sister Circles:  Why support and sisterhood are crucial for women in business, whether it’s a support group of women or simply one woman quietly encouraging another. Women need permission and a community to step into their full power—especially when the world tells us to shrink or play small. 🔥 🤟 Your ‘Prime Time’ is Now: Don’t let perfectionism trap you into procrastination, or fear of playing a bigger game. It’s never too late to claim your power, kick limiting beliefs to the curb, and help lift other women. ❤️✨Transforming in Joy: Why transformations happen when we peel back the layers, recognize the negative voices running on autopilot, and challenge them—plus why joy is not a reward you earn—it’s always inside, waiting for you to clear away the clutter and see it. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings938   More about Kimberly at Ujoozi - https://ujooziu.com/  
Michelle Taylor is the founder of the Women and Wealth Initiative, a transformative platform aimed at empowering women to take control of their financial futures. With over a decade of experience in financial services, Michelle is committed to closing the wealth gap by providing financial education and a supportive community for women from all walks of life. From business owners preparing for exit strategies to stay-at-home moms managing household budgets, Michelle’s initiative helps women define and achieve their version of financial success with confidence and clarity. Michelle also hosts the podcast, Talk Wealthy to Me. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 ✨💰 Start With Your Money Story: Why understanding and addressing the beliefs you hold about money is foundational to your wealth. Learn what makes many women undervalue themselves based on stories they've absorbed from family, society, or past experiences—and how to rewrite these narratives. 💡 🚀 Financial Literacy is Power (and It’s Never Too Late): It’s okay not to know everything. What matters is the willingness to ask questions—even ones that feel “stupid”—and seek out resources and communities where you can learn at your own pace.  🤝 👩‍🔬 Community and Big Conversations: Surround yourself with like-minded women who challenge and uplift you. Don’t shy away from discussing money, investments, and big dreams. The more we talk candidly with one another, the more we all learn, and the easier it becomes to shatter old paradigms. 📈 🌱Financial Independence Toolbox: Whether you’re just starting your business, setting investment strategies, or figuring out how to diversify your income, here are specific strategies you can implement right now: Have conviction in your “ask”—know your worth; build your business “family” for mentorship and honest feedback; diversify your income and investments with a smart strategy tailored to you; and replace fear and scarcity with learning and community. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings937   More about Michelle at Women In Wealth  
Jenny Young is the Founder and CEO of Brooklyn Robot Foundry, the vibrant and inclusive brand dedicated to prioritizing diversity and empowerment for children of all backgrounds and communities through STEAM education. Jenny is a trained mechanical engineer turned entrepreneur to bring a more diverse, inclusive and creative approach to STEAM education. Founded in 2011 and with four locations open currently, the brand focuses putting the “art” in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and sharing the fun of STEAM education with children everywhere, inspiring them to continue a life full of exploration, problem-solving, and imagination. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 👶💪Empowering the Next Generation: Learn how robotics is empowering kids as young as 2, demystifying engineering while fostering creativity and problem-solving with STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics).   🤝 🌱Franchising with a Mission: With 10 locations in the Northeast U.S. and plans for national and global expansion, learn about Brooklyn Robot Foundry’s unique franchise model that emphasizes community impact and supports a diversity of small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs with a passion for education and innovation. 📈🔥Bootstrapping Innovation: Learn what it takes (hint: living lean) to build a thriving business without outside investment, plus how to overcome challenges like tariffs and complex supply chain management to maintaining brand integrity as a franchise.  💰💡Banking on Childhood Curiosity: Jenny shares her journey from tinkering in her Ohio garage to revolutionizing STEAM education for children. Growing up in a family of mechanical engineers and creatives, her passion for understanding how things work paved the way for her inspiring career in robotics. ⚡📚 Transformative Learning Experiences: Discover the incredible transformations children undergo as they interact with and build their own robots, from fostering creativity to enhancing problem-solving skills and finding newfound confidence and excitement through robotics—plus how the Foundry is pioneering education across all age groups. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings936   🤖 More about Jenny at Brooklyn Robot Foundry  
Judy Weber is a serial entrepreneur and business expansion expert helping women grow confidence and incorporate proven business strategies for scale while building on a foundation of faith. A former trial lawyer who has built businesses across marketing, real estate and interior design, Judy teaches her clients to think and win like a courtroom dynamo, integrating her legal experience with her faith-fueled approach to entrepreneurship. Host of the long running, globally ranked Bold Business Bold Faith podcast, Judy’s mission is to normalize miraculous results for Christian women in business, emphasizing that success is inevitable when one operates from a place of calm, confidence, and certainty. She serves service-based businesses with coaching and the “Miraculous Mastermind” to master scaling. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🔥 🤟 How to be B.O.L.D. Learn the business strategies behind the acronym to help master scalable success. 📚💪 Strategize to Win: What entrepreneurs can learn from trial lawyers—from mastering active listening and critical thinking to move beyond "winging it" to simplifying complexities and mastering storytelling to effectively communicate and connect with customers. 🧠✨ The Role of Faith: How to open up your leadership to divine inspiration, plus how faith in God or Source keeps entrepreneurs grounded and resilient and on-mission no matter the headwinds and challenges.  👥 🚀 Your Team will Make or Break You: Hint—your team is not an expense; it’s a profit source. Learn how to build a team of revenue generators where every team member’s KPIs and OKRs are tied—directly or indirectly—to revenue. 🎯💬 Know What You Believe: It’s ok to be polarizing. Why it’s vital to know who you are for who you are against, and unapologetically claim your corner. 🌱 📈 Scalable Strategies: Insights on building a revenue-generating team, cultivating intentional offer suites, and creating strategic, automated funnels to accelerate growth. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings935 👉 More about Judy at JudyWeber.co http://judyweber.co Get Judy’s Ultimate Hiring Guide for free to learn who to hire, when to hire, how much to pay and where to find great people https://www.judyweber.co/hiringguide Listen to Judy’s podcast Bold Business, Bold Faith https://www.judyweber.co/podcast  
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 Get Sara's books https://www.saraconnell.com/books Listen to Sara’s podcast, The Rise Get Sara’s 7 Steps to Write a Revenue Generating Bestselling Book plus bonus templates and worksheets that have generated hundreds of bestsellers
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. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings933
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.  🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings923 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. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings931 More about Michelle at Gladieux Consulting  
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