Melinda Wittstock is a 4-time serial entrepreneur, acclaimed podcaster and visionary in all things tech and media. She’s the CEO and founder of Wings Media, a platform dedicated to helping women grow and scale businesses around their true purpose and passion, and host of the podcast Wings Of…Inspired Business. Her moonshot is to invest $10m in 10 years in women-owned businesses. She’s also the CEO and founder of the social intelligence company Verifeed. She’s a single mom to two great kids, an avid adventurer, and meditation fanatic.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Melinda’s Aunt Bea
- Steve Jobs
- Ping Fu
- Kara Goldin
When business started difficulties overcame:
“the times when cash flow is really bad and it’s like crap can I make payroll. What if I don’t make payroll and you are sweating it by yourself and you don’t your team to know. And it’s like your clients are late paying… or the funding didn’t come through, or things like that. We had an employee that stole $40,000 from us in this really elaborate fraud and she actually went to jail. But the company went through all sorts of stuff while that was going on, it was just so painful for people because we all felt personally betrayed by this person” …[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself Book by Michael A. Singer
- The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life’s Perfection Book by Michael A. Singer
Favourite Quote:
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” Anais Nin
Recommended Online Resources:
- ClickFunnels – Gives You Everything You Need To Market, Sell, Deliver Your Products Online. Without Having To Hire or Rely On A Tech Team!
- ActiveCampaign – Integrated email marketing, marketing automation, and small business CRM. Save time while growing your business with sales automation
- Canva – Create beautiful designs with your team Use Canva’s drag and drop feature and layouts to design, share and print business cards, logos, presentations and more
- Slack is where work flows It s where the people you need, the information you share, and the tools you use come together to get things done
- Dropbox – Bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and keep your files safe
- Google – is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
- Social Media
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Dare to dream and dare to play big. It is just as easy to create a small business as a big business. Or another way of saying that it is just as difficult to create a small business as it is to create a big business. So first of all don’t limit yourself artificially. The second thing is make sure you are in alignment with your business. Make sure that what you are doing truly does align to your true purpose in life, your talents, what you love to do, your strengths, and your mission. Because to be an entrepreneur is to ride a roller-coaster of ups and downs and palpitating moments where you are struggling. And if it’s not connected to some higher purpose or mission it’s very very difficult in those moments” …[Listen for More]
More About Melinda Wittstock:
- Verifeed LLC (WINGS of Inspired Business)
- Melinda Wittstock
- Melinda Wittstock on Linkedin
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.” Socrates
Other Quotes From the Chat with Melinda Wittstock:
- “if there is a wall in front of you climb over it, go around it, go under it, go through it, whatever you have to do”
- “I couldn’t go very far until I really figured out that I needed to ask for help. I needed coaching and I wanted to know who was the best doing whatever I was trying to do and get to know them and asked them questions”
- “you can only do the best with what you’ve got in any given circumstance”
- “a life well lived is I think just doing the best you could with what you had at that time and then not getting all hung up on would have could of should of because that just makes you feel bad and holds you back and doesn’t help you”
- “if you can see it you can do it”
- “if you can visualise it and you can really feel it and feel the gratitude for having achieved it you can do it. But if you can’t see it it is not going to happen”
- “when the lesson is learned the experience is no longer necessary”
- “minute I could get out of my own way with some of these limiting beliefs or feelings of unworthiness or whatever it was that any of us feel suddenly everything opened up for me”
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