Wings of Inspired Business

Drea Lynn is an attorney, former corporate COO, and author of Smart Quit who helps entrepreneurs escape burnout, scale with confidence, and take control of their business and life with The Smart Shift System®. She also helps professionals make the leap into entrepreneurship with a four-phase framework. After years leading teams inside high-growth organizations, she walked away from the corner office - and the six-figure salary - to build her own consulting business. The exit didn't go to plan: she landed in six figures of debt before rebuilding to half a million in revenue. Her mission is to help one million people quit smart, build bold, and live free. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 💵Cash In, Clock Out: Knowing when to walk away from a job you've outgrown with a plan, not a panic, and how to master the mindset shift that helps you master your time freedom and grow wealth. Hint: It means being nimble, proactive, self-aware, and open to relentless learning. 💪 Prepare, Position, Pivot, Profit: Learn the 4 P's of the Smart Quit framework, including knowing when to walk away, and how to avoid the biggest mistakes most people make when they try to leave a job. 🛠️Preparation is power: Build a financial runway, assess your skills, and use your current role to gather relationships, skills, and systems to serve you in your future business.  💡 Profit isn't just money: True entrepreneurial "profit" is about building the life you want, not just the business. Consider your why and what freedom and fulfillment look like for you—otherwise, you risk building a new kind of prison for yourself. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings999 More about Drea at How To Smart Quit https://www.howtosmartquit.com/ and at DreaLynn.co  

Laura Henson is the Founder and CEO of HVM Communications, a boutique strategic communications agency focused on brand storytelling, media relations, and thought leadership for founders, women leaders, and mission-driven organizations. For 20 years, Laura has built a reputation as a trusted voice at the intersection of capital, visibility, and women's leadership. Laura is also an active investor across venture capital, private equity, and early-stage companies, with a portfolio that reflects her conviction that capital and communications are equally powerful tools for lasting change. She serves on the Executive Board of How Women Lead and the Goodnation Foundation. She is a contributing author at Inc.com and was named to the KNOW Women list of 100 Women to KNOW in America in 2025, and 100 Women to KNOW in New York in 2026. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 ✨Visibility is NOT optional: How to overcome persistent challenges women face in gaining visibility as entrepreneurs, including imposter syndrome, and how to make visibility part of your strategy from day one because it drives business opportunities, secures funding, and establishes credibility and influence. In a competitive landscape, it's vital not to leave your narrative up to others. ❤️Authenticity builds trust: In a world awash with performative content and skepticism, showing up authentically (not just "talking the talk" but "walking the walk") helps you stand out and create a lasting impact. Learn how. 💸 Invest in women: Whether it's supporting women-led ventures with capital or amplifying each other's expertise or buying each other's products and services, creating a virtuous cycle advances everyone. It's not charity; it's a path to creating more wealth, opportunity, and impact for all women.  🎯 Practical Steps for Founders: Build your networks on platforms like LinkedIn and join IRL communities because face-to-face interactions often turn into lasting business opportunities; set aside specific times each week to connect with new people, and focus on building trust.  💡 Leverage AI the Human Way: AI can help streamline busywork and free time for deeper, more authentic relationships, but it needs human oversight, critical thinking, and personal voice so you can stand out from the crowd with authenticity and build trust.  🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings998 More about Laura at HVM Communications Get a 15-minute Zoom to brainstorm your visibility: DM Laura on LinkedIn.

Karen Ahrens is the CEO and co-founder of Wait4me, a Los Angeles-based platform reimagining how people can reclaim time. It's the first "time broker" allowing people to buy and sell time, connecting clients with trusted, local personal assistants while also offering a concierge-style service tier. Karen's journey has been anything but linear — from working in industrial parts departments in Wisconsin to leading global digital transformation and CRM initiatives for Fortune 100 brands as a President within Omnicom. A former expat in Paris, street photographer, single mother, and avid trail runner, Karen finds balance on the canyon trails of the Santa Monica Mountains while building a company rooted in the idea that time is the most valuable commodity. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 ⌚Time is a Commodity: the value of time as a tradable asset, and how individuals can "buy" time from those with more flexibility—think simplifying errands, admin tasks, or even organizing your space so you can focus on what only you can do. 🛠️Niche Matters in Marketplace Platforms: How to build a successful peer-to-peer marketplace, and why specialization is vital, and how Wait4Me pairs on clients with talented local assistants for tasks that require a human touch, rather than trying to be "everything for everyone." 🤝 Human + Tech = Real Leverage: Even in a world overflowing with AI and automation, there's a growing demand for services that can't be done by bots—whether it's event prep, nuanced market research, or trusted, in-person support. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings997 More about Karen at Uwait4me https://uwait4me.com/  

Vivienne Wagner is the Founder and CEO of Houndstooth Media Group, a boutique digital marketing agency helping mid-sized businesses turn their websites into revenue-driving assets through strategic SEO and AI-driven optimization. Known for making complex marketing concepts clear and actionable, Vivienne advises business leaders on how to position their companies to be found by both human audiences and emerging AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity. Her approach increases organic visibility, drives qualified traffic, and reduces reliance on paid ads, enabling businesses to scale more sustainably. Through her SEO & AI Optimization Audit, she helps companies uncover missed opportunities, identify weaknesses, and build a clear roadmap for competing in today's evolving search landscape. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🎯 AI as the New Personal Referral: How AI Chatbots are becoming the new "word of mouth" so if AI isn't "seeing" you clearly, you simply won't be discovered by your ideal customers. 🔍 Get Specific, Get Found: Learn why context and nuance on your website are now critical. Businesses that take the time to describe real pain points, target audiences, and use real-world language from forums and social spaces are being matched by AI directly with their perfect-fit customers. 🧰 Practical, Actionable Tips: Make sure you optimize both website copy and image file names (e.g., "pink-blonde-curly-wig.jpg" instead of "img123.jpg"), build out robust FAQ sections mirroring real search queries and answer them conversationally and with keywords, and always attribute blog content to an actual human with expertise and authority (not just "the company").  💡 Paid vs Organic: Why you're wasting ad dollars if core best-practice SEO is not in place. Platforms still index the same foundational elements: clear copy, keyword-rich image names, relevant title tags, and, above all, transparency about who you help and how, plus how you can cut your ad budget if you get organic right. 🚨 Avoid "Founder Blindness": Don't assume you already know your customer—let data and conversation reveal new opportunities. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings996 More about Vivienne at Houndstooth Media Group https://houndstoothmediagroup.com/ Tune in to Vivienne's Free Webinar https://houndstooth-media-group.webinargeek.com/aio-webinar-get-your-business-found?cst=wings-of-inspired-business  

Deborah Sass is the CEO & Founder of SpaceVrse, a global space ecosystem connecting industry leaders, innovators, creators, and next-generation talent across more than 150+ countries. Her work focuses on shaping how space is communicated, commercialized, and culturally understood — beyond borders, sectors, and silos. Over the past 25+ years, she's worked across media, entertainment, and technology, partnering with some of the world's most influential organizations — from Mirror Group Newspapers and The Times in the UK, to TV networks including Channels 9, 7 & 10 in Australia, and later with global digital platforms such as Amazon, iTunes, Shazam, and Spotify. She is also a Co-Founder of AstroBridge Advisors, supporting companies, founders, and investors operating across space, emerging technologies, and future-focused industries — helping bridge strategy, capital, and opportunity on a global scale. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🚀 Who Gets to Build the Future? The case for radical diversity and inclusion in space innovation, exploration and research, and how SpaceVrse is democratizing access by making space relatable to non-experts, sharing stories and making connections for genuine accessibility in an industry that feels out of reach. 🤝 Diversity and Persistence Drive Progress: True innovation comes from collaborative, diverse teams and a refusal to accept "no". Plus, why sharing stories turns intimidating fields into accessible ones. Deborah says, "speak up, show up, and uplift those who've been historically underrepresented." 🤎Being 'The Only' in the Room: Why being an outsider is an advantage in a highly specialized industry. Fresh perspectives come from those without a traditional background and lead to groundbreaking opportunities. Learn how to overcome imposter syndrome with curiosity and a willingness to ask, "Why not?"  🌙 Cold Calls to Cosmic Ventures: Lessons learned as a woman of color over 30 years from her start driving sales off the Yellow Pages to global media executive, philanthropist, and now innovating in the space industry from a farm in Ibiza, a story of resilience, reinvention, and building across three continents. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings995 More about Deborah at SpaceVrse https://www.spacevrse.com/  

Robin Swan is a plant alchemist and the founder of Swan Apothecary, with over 30 years of experience in holistic health and cannabinoid medicine. Rooted in her Indigenous heritage, she blends ancestral herbal wisdom with modern cannabis science to create small-batch, full-spectrum formulations. Robin is known for integrating physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental healing into her approach to plant medicine. A passionate advocate for ethical business and patient-centered care, she champions safe cannabis integration and regulatory reform. Guided by her principle "Love All ~ Serve All," Robin brings a bold, heart-centered voice to the future of hemp and cannabis. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 ✨Trust Your Environment (and Intuition): We often lose touch with the resources around us. From roses in your garden to practical techniques like muscle testing, there are ways to find healing in your own back garden or at a local park.  💬Avoid Health Misinformation: The supplement, peptides and cannabis industries are rife with hype and misleading information, so always ask questions, seek third-party testing, and work with trusted practitioners. Never underestimate the value of personalized knowledge over trends.  🌙The Simplicity of Healing: Whether it's about approaching health through clean water, air, and simple plant-based teas, or making business decisions, Robin shares why "the higher the truth, the simpler the action." She says our human bodies mirror the simplicity and synergy of a house plant.  🌱 Indigenous Wisdom & Ancestral Healing: Raised by matriarchs experienced in herbal traditions both from the Eastern Band Cherokee Nation and hill people of Persia, Robin shares how real healing often starts by reconnecting with the land beneath our feet and why sitting on the ground or breathing in the fresh air can be powerful medicine all on its own. 🌹 Practical Plant Magic: Roses aren't just beautiful and fragrant—they're high in vitamins C, A, and E, and their petals make a gentle tea that can help balance menstrual cycles and support the heart. Plus, why the rose (with its thorns) is a guide to operating as a female entrepreneur: "We don't need to lead with our thorns. We just need to be ever present with them and know where our weapons are"  💡 Personalized Plant Medicine: Should you be taking turmeric or ashwagandha? Learn the basics of muscle testing to determine what's right for your unique chemistry. And why you should never respond to miracle cures on social media.  🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings994 More about Robin at Swan Apothecary [email protected]  

Adi Klevit is the leader and visionary of Business Success Consulting Group. Her 30 years of knowledge and experience as a trained Industrial Engineer, management consultant, and business executive give her a unique understanding of the challenges businesses face. Adi utilizes her practical know-how and wisdom to successfully help organizations and companies of any size dramatically improve their efficiency and performance. By leveraging her ability to understand business processes as well as people and drawing on her high-caliber skills in vital areas of personnel management, finance, and operations, Adi can help virtually any business owner achieve their goals and bring order to their lives. Adi is also the host of the Systems Simplified podcast and author of a new eBook, Stop Carrying Your Business in Your Head, the foundation for a full-length book on process documentation, knowledge transfer, and operational excellence. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 💰 The Hidden Cost of Avoiding Systems: Learn the most common mistakes businesses make when it comes to implementing systems, including the tendency for leaders to endlessly postpone documentation, promising to do it later but never making it happen. This delay leaves organizations vulnerable, especially when key employees leave and nothing is documented to keep operations running smoothly. 💡 The Importance of a "Single Source of Truth": How to avoid the "siloing" of data and the chaos created when standard operating procedures (SOPs) are scattered across multiple platforms. It's vital team members can access a central knowledge base to maintain alignment and efficiency. 🛠️Evolving Systems: How to make sure your SOPs are "living and breathing" documents that evolve alongside innovation, new learnings and changing circumstances. Revisit and revise regularly—especially when innovating or integrating new tools like AI—so your team is always aligned and able to learn from both successes and failures.  🤟 Getting Team Buy-In: Why it's vital for founders and the C-Suite to engage teams early, understanding their needs, and making process documentation a collaborative effort.  Documenting processes not only brings relief and certainty but supports innovation, learning, and employee retention. 🎯 Practical Implementation Tips: Break down the work into manageable bites (like weekly 90-minute sessions), customize for different team needs, consider creating admin dashboards, and use the right platforms for your stage and size.  🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings993  

Ashley Stahl is the founder of Wise Whisper, a boutique speaking agency that's helped hundreds of clients craft their signature speeches and get placed as speakers on hundreds of BIG stages around the world, including the TEDx stage. Ashley is also the international bestselling author of YOU TURN: Get Unstuck, Discover Your Direction, Design Your Dream Career, host of the You Turn Podcast (ranked on Apple in the top 100 mental health shows in the US) and a keynote speaker with a top 100 most viewed TEDx talk on YouTube. With a master's degree from King's College London's Department of War Studies, as well as a master's in psychology from University of Santa Monica, Ashley started her career in counterterrorism and learned speech writing while working for the government. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🎙️🔄 The Structure of an Impactful Keynote: How the "bones" (the outline and core points), the "soul" (the message and emotional impact), and the "heartbeat" (personal stories and authenticity) come together. You need a compelling, SEO-optimized title that speaks directly to your audience's late-night Google searches, an emotionally charged opening that hooks listeners from the start, and memorable stage presence, rooted in deep preparation and authentic connection. 🚀 🤝 Why Speaking Elevates Authority: Credibility is one thing, but even better is the type of authority that brings visibility and trust to your brand in a noisy world of "infobesity" and helping you become the first name people think of in your field. Get it right and that means more revenue, leads, or paid speaking gigs. 🧠✨Don't Wait for the "Perfect Time" to Share Your Story: Procrastination and perfectionism are often disguises for imposter syndrome. It comes down to mindset and the willingness to overcome blocks as you develop stage presence, and the journey of finding your voice is transformative—for both your business and your audience. 🦄❤️Your Unique Perspective Matters: In an age of AI and content overload, it's your human story and original thinking that truly resonate and differentiate you.  🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings992 More about Ashley at Wise Whisper Agency wisewhisperagency.com  

Jane Veron is co-founder and CEO of The Acceleration Project (TAP), a nonprofit that empowers small business owners and accelerates their growth through bespoke advisory services, generating a ripple effect that unlocks pathways to wealth creation and economic mobility. Jane has held strategy and marketing positions at Bain & Company and American Express. She is a dedicated public servant, having previously served on the Scarsdale Village Board and as Mayor of Scarsdale, New York. She was appointed to the Investment Capital Advisory Committee (ICAC) of the U.S. Small Business Administration and now chairs the Congressional Task Force on Jobs & the Economy. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🚀 Scaling Beyond Survival: Most small businesses (especially those led by women and underserved entrepreneurs) find it challenging to break the million-dollar revenue mark. Learn what it takes to get to 7 figures. Hint: Don't be afraid to dream bigger, hire for results and build systems. 📈 Master Your Numbers: 75% of business owners lack a firm grasp of their financials, often due to intimidating jargon. Learn how TAP demystifies these concepts—think cash flow, margins, pricing—so you can make decisions with confidence. 🦄 Fight Perfectionism: Imperfect action and seeking feedback will carry you further than waiting for perfection. 🤝 Relationships Matter: Networks and community open doors, provide support, and are crucial in both smooth and uncertain times. ✨You're Not Alone: Assemble your "board of directors" and rely on expert support, like TAP's blend of short-burst learning, deep-dive engagement, group coaching, and ongoing community. TAP's volunteer model is a force-multiplier; its teams have delivered over 66,000 pro-bono consulting hours—valued at $15 million—enabling small business owners across the country with free, high-caliber advice.  🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings991 More about Jane at The Acceleration Project  

Revekka Palaiologou, a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, is the CEO and founder of Dion, a next-generation social platform where people initiate connections by sending each other real drinks, coffees, and experiences that can be redeemed in the real world. By turning one of the oldest social gestures, buying someone a drink, into a digital interaction, Dion converts social intent into real-world transactions, creating a new way for people and brands to connect through real-world spending. The platform has already attracted thousands of members across cities such as New York and Miami, with tens of thousands of drinks sent globally and a growing waitlist of people eager to join the network. Category-defining brands, including LVMH (Moët Hennessy), Pernod Ricard, Cîroc, Revolve, and Groot Hospitality, have already activated through Dion, drawn by its ability to reach high-spending, curated communities that no ad or influencer can access. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🤝 Tackling the Loneliness Epidemic: Why all that "social snacking" is contributing to loneliness rather than bringing us together, and how social platforms can be used to foster IRL connection and belonging. ❤️Building Human-Centered Social Tech: How Dion bridges digital interactions with in-person experiences. Instead of endless swiping or likes, users can invite each other for coffees, drinks, or experiences — redeemable in the real world. Plus, how AI-powered vetting assures IRL safety. 📈 Redefining Metrics for Social Success: Forget vanity metrics; learn how Dion tracks real engagement, and how brands can become participants rather than advertisers, building direct relationships with consumers through "last mile" digital-to-real experiences. 🚀 Scaling Carefully, Empowering Brands: With a waitlist of 45,000 and 15,000 active users after less than a year, growth is intentional and focused on quality.  🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings990 More about Revekka at DionApp www.dionapp.com  

Anna Redmond is the Founder and CEO of Braav, where she deploys experienced Chief Security Officers into organizations that need to get serious about safety and risks. Her path into security was unconventional; she started in venture capital and studied at Harvard before shifting into the security world after recognizing how unprepared most companies are for real-world threats. She is now focused on modernizing challenge coins for military and first responders by building the first platform that gives these legacy symbols a digital twin—preserving not just the coin itself, but the story behind it. Her goal is to transform challenge coins from private artifacts into tools for identity, community, recognition, and eventually access and fundraising. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🚨 Security Isn't Just About Crisis—It's About Culture: Workplace violence often comes not from external threats, but from domestic situations that spill into the office, so it's vital to focus on compliance and employee wellbeing. Think of a workplace safety plan not just as risk mitigation: it's about retention and morale boosting. 🪙 Challenge Coins: A Tradition Reimagined: How Anna has innovated to create a digital platform to preserve and celebrate challenge coins, cherished tokens of recognition among veterans and first responders. She's dedicated to protecting the stories behind these coins for 30 million holders, creating "a space where valor and courage and kindness are celebrated and preserved". 💡 Not Your Average NFT: Why the platform is intentionally avoiding a spammy marketplace, by creating a space for authentic story-sharing and community connection. 🎯 Transparency in Security: Balancing surveillance tech with employee buy in by ensuring employees are included in decision-making about security practices with a visible plan so they know how and why cameras are used in workplaces. 🛡️ Is Your Business Protected? Why Anna recommends every business get an annual security assessment—even if it's just to understand vulnerabilities.  🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings989 More about Anna at Braav.co More about the challenge coins at allcoin.braav.co  

Serin Silva is an intuitive strategic advisor and executive coach who helps powerhouse women move from stuck to strategic growth. After two decades leading transformation as a VP at Fortune 500 companies, including taking Williams-Sonoma to half a billion in sales and launching Hearst Corporation's first digital division, Serin now guides CEOs and executives to make clear, confident, and energetically aligned decisions in the moments that matter most. Her work blends sharp business strategy with intuitive insight, a rare combination that's helped clients scale from $10M to $25M, land CEO roles, and transform from self-doubt to self-belief. Serin helps high-achieving women recalibrate how they lead, turning overwhelm into clarity and performance into purpose. Her clients include leaders from Apple, Patreon, Airbnb, Genentech, UCLA, and Microsoft.   🔑Key Takeaways🔑 ❤️📈 Balance Empathy and Effectiveness: Why empathy and compassion and tough decision-making and accountability is not contradictory because real growth happens when leadership finds this balance. 👩‍🔬 🚀 People & Purpose Over Pure Efficiency: Why workplace innovation and engagement truly flourish when companies operationalize values, foster psychological safety, and make room for creativity at every level. 👩‍💻💡 What Makes Women Leaders Unique: How women's traditionally "softer" approach—more collaborative, holistic, and calm—is a superpower, though "sometimes you've got to be the tough voice in the room." ✨💪Alignment Over Exhaustion: How to beat the burnout that comes with trying to "do it all". Serin says take more breaks, build a real support system, be honest about your true priorities and regulate your nervous system to stay calm and clear. 🌱🙏 The Power of Intuition: Trusting your gut isn't just a woo-woo cliché. Serin says it's vital to be mindful of your energy, leading with both your heart and your head, and create space for creativity not just busyness.  🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings988

Krystal Popov is a serial entrepreneur, the founder of Futurepreneur, and a passionate advocate for empowering kids and teens to become entrepreneurs. A mother of three, she believes young people have immense potential to start businesses but often lack the guidance to do so. After climbing the corporate ladder in engineering, Krystal left the traditional workforce to build four businesses. Today, she runs a seven-figure coworking and flex retail space in Tucson, AZ, and has launched Futurepreneur to help kids turn their creativity and tech skills into successful ventures. Through Business Startup Challenges, Krystal teaches kids essential entrepreneurship skills, including creativity, financial planning, team leadership, marketing, and sales. She's committed to filling the gap in education and inspiring the next generation of business owners. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🚀💡 Why Kids Need Entrepreneurship Now More Than Ever: It's not just about creating the next tech unicorn; kids need the confidence, resilience, creativity, and problem-solving skills entrepreneurship demands, and these superpowers are not taught by the school system. 💼 ✨Business in a Box:  How Futurepreneur gives kids hands-on experience—everything from opening a bakery and learning about pre-orders and packaging, to launching dog walking or T-shirt design businesses using Canva and AI. The biggest surprise? Parents are discovering their kids' hidden talents and unique strengths along the way. 📝🛠️ Real Skills for Real Life: Entrepreneurship isn't just about money skills, tactics and strategies: It's about mindset. With Futurepreneur, kids build the confidence to iterate, innovate, and pursue their true purpose. They also learn to pitch, market, budget, take feedback, and—most importantly—develop grit and confidence to pivot and persevere so they can stand out in a future job market dominated by AI and automation. 💪🤔Start Young and Foster Curiosity: Why Futurepreneur focuses on kids between ages 8 and 12, while their creativity and curiosity are still high. Krystal says it's vital to give them hands-on experience to develop grit, communication skills, and the confidence to try and even fail, plus it combats depression among so many youth.  🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings985   More about Krystal at Futurepreneur https://futurepreneur.com/

Chelsea Clark is the founder and CEO of Momfluence, a leading influencer marketing agency specializing in Mom creator-led campaigns for family, lifestyle, and consumer brands. With a deep understanding of the modern mom consumer, Chelsea helps brands build trust, relevance, and measurable growth through authentic partnerships with top mom creators across North America. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 👩‍👧‍👦👩‍🍼 Purposed-Designed Business: How to balance motherhood and entrepreneurship, why boundaries are everything, and how to optimize for freedom not just hustle. Listen for Chelsea's tips on building her business around school hours and delegating with intention.  🎯🤝 How to Work with Influencers: Start small and iterate. Whether launching a product or testing influencer collaborations, you don't need perfection to begin. Gift product, work with micro influencers, and learn as you go—progress matters more than perfection. ✨💡 Authenticity is everything in marketing: Partner with creators whose values align with your brand, and focus on real relationships over one-off paid posts. Consumers can spot authentic endorsements—and those drive true engagement. 👩‍💼💡 Business is Personal: Why the best entrepreneurial ideas often come from personal experience solving our own problems. 🌱🚀 Building Momfluence: How the agency and platform connects women creators and micro-influencers who have small but relevant audiences to brands that want more authentic, relatable and targeted marketing. Plus, why micro-influencers drive real results, and how AI is shaping the next wave of influencer analytics. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings986 More about Chelsea at Momfluence.co www.momfluence.co  

Jenn Donahue PhD is an entrepreneur, civil engineer, author, and retired US Navy Captain whose company JL Donahue Engineering works on large scale, high profile geotechnical projects for clients ranging from PG&E and Duke Energy to the Tennessee Valley Authority and Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). Over her military career, Jenn has built a bridge across the Euphrates River in the midst of the Iraq war, commanded an 800-personnel Battalion in Afghanistan, and constructed combat outposts in the middle of deserts filled with insurgents. Jenn has designed the seismic plans for a bridge over the Panama Canal and built roads by drilling and blasting in Ketchikan. She's the author of The Warrior Framework and the founder of Dare to Rise. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🎖📈 From Battalions to Boardrooms: What military leadership can teach us about entrepreneurship, and why entrepreneurship is a lonelier, more uncertain journey. Plus, how Jenn uses her experience as a commanding officer to shape multiple contingency plans in her successful business: "You need plans B through L", she says. 💡🤝 Finding Your Mentor: Why mentorship is vital to success, and how to muster the courage to simply ask for help from those at the top of their game makes all the difference. Hint: The most successful are often the most generous.   🚀💪 From Combat Zones to Fault Zones: How to handle uncertainty and make decisions when the data is unclear or contradictory, and what the military and assessing seismic engineering risk taught Jenn about the necessity to gather all perspectives, rely on your own experience and never let fear paralyze you.   🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings985 More about Jenn at Jenn Donahue www.jenndonahue.com Read her new book, The Warrior Framework

Aimee Rickabus is an entrepreneur, author, and podcast host dedicated to redefining women's leadership. Author of The Manage Her and host of the podcast by the same name, Aimee highlights how the invisible labor women perform every day translates into systems thinking, problem solving, and leadership skills that transform business and community. Aimee is also CEO of Tomahawk Information Solutions, a woman- and minority-owned technology company and value-added reseller of hardware, software and services for Fortune 500s and co-founded Mohawk Network Solutions with her husband. A mother of six and lifelong advocate for women, she inspires audiences to see their potential not just as professionals, but as whole, powerful individuals. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 ✨💡 Redefining Human Potential: Why success isn't a ladder but a garden, cultivated through relationships, purpose-driven work, and fulfillment—not just wealth or status. 🛠️🧠 Mastering Boundaries and Focus: How to compartmentalize life's competing demands, set non-negotiable boundaries, and be fully present—and how AI can maximize productivity, streamline business processes, and free up time for human creativity and better relationships. 👩‍🔬🔥 Why Motherhood is a Leadership Masterclass:  How the invisible labor of motherhood translates directly into advanced executive skills like systems thinking, project management, negotiating, and organizational leadership—and why moms make better entrepreneurs. 👩‍💻📈 Women, Venture Capital, & Building Our Own Tables:  Why it's time for women in tech to create their own opportunities, beyond patriarchal norms, and why conversations around investing, scaling, and tax strategy are essential in changing the entrepreneurial landscape for women. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings984 More about Aimee at The Manage Her themanageher.com  

Tricia Brouk is a three-time entrepreneur and strategic advisor who helps high-performing professionals transform into industry thought leaders through the power of authentic storytelling. With her experience as a seasoned and award-winning director, producer, and mentor to countless speakers, Tricia has put thousands of speakers onto big stages around the globe. Tricia founded The Big Talk Academy where she certifies speakers in the art of public speaking. She was the executive producer of Speakers Who Dare and TEDx Lincoln Square and is the producer and host of The Big Talk, an award-winning podcast and YouTube Channel. She's the author of two books, The Influential Voice: Saying What You Mean for Lasting Legacy and Being Smart is Stupid. Her work is featured on the award-winning documentary Big Stages on Amazon Prime. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🧠✨Being 'Smart' Is Stupid: Learn why it pays to be the "dumbest in the room", why traditional "smart" leadership often misses the mark, and how wise leaders tap into empathy, intuition, and self-awareness to create positive ripple effects in their organizations. 💡🎯 Redefining Success & Leadership: Forget the grind and the ego-driven norms of the corporate world. Every entrepreneur has power to make their own rules, especially women, so why not model new forms of leadership that prioritize people and mission gives others the permission to do the same. 💬🤝 Culture, Team, and Tough Choices: From embodying real gratitude (hear the story of Indra Nooyi's thank-you letters!) to navigating tough decisions like letting go of team members—even those you care about—learn how wise leaders build trust, foster a sense of abundance, and protect the health of their company culture. 🎤✨ The Art of Big Talks & Lasting Impact: Why embracing "Buddha nature" (think: grateful, grounded, people-first) is the true secret to great leadership, practical steps for creating a culture aligned with your values, and strategies for gracefully handling transitions and impermanence in your team. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings983 More about Tricia at Tricia Brouk triciabrouk.com  

Teesee Murray, a visionary technology executive, is the group president of Turtle & Hughes, and the CEO of Turtle x, a fourth-generation, independent, certified woman-owned enterprise—recognized as one of the nation's top women-led businesses. Teesee drives innovation at the intersection of energy, data centers, and emerging technologies. Known for transforming complex concepts like quantum computing and atmospheric water generation into practical, real-world solutions, Murray combines deep technical expertise with a passion for sustainability and accessibility. With a career defined by breaking barriers for women in tech, she is widely recognized for her ability to unite cutting-edge technology with business strategy, helping organizations reimagine what's possible in a rapidly evolving digital and environmental landscape. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🔥 Industry 5.0: Not just a buzzword—it's the next revolution, harnessing AI, advanced technology, and cutting-edge solutions to go beyond automation and create new ways for humans and technology to collaborate.  💡 Innovating for Impact: How a female-owned company is tackling today's challenges, from sustainable energy and data centers to secure networking and carbon accounting. Learn how Turtle connects the dots between environmental impact and real business results—think capping oil wells, carbon credits, and helping organizations like the LA Rams shrink their footprint. 👩‍💼 Women Leading Change: The unique strengths women bring to leadership—building ecosystems, fostering deep relationships, and making inclusion a core part of growth.  🤖 Embracing AI Together: How to turn fear into curiosity, keep humans at the center, and use technology as a tool to help teams and individuals thrive.  🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings982 More about Teesee at Turtle www.turtle.com  

Stephanie Georges is the co-founder of The Meraki Dignity Project, a women's movement dedicated to restoring dignity, with an immersive AI-enabled platform for women over 50 navigating key life transitions with intention. A Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative Senior Fellow, Stephanie is a seasoned executive and strategist with four decades of experience guiding organizations through disruption, reinvention and large-scale transformation. She began her career as a top-ranked Wall Street analyst during the telecom deregulation era before moving into C-suite roles in telecommunications and technology. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🌟 🤖 Shaping AI with Women at the Center: Why women's voices are vital in shaping an AI future that enables diversity, equity and inclusion in a way that honors women's experience, and how the Meraki Dignity Project is curating a women-focused AI platform by training it specifically to understand, serve, and protect women's unique needs.  ❤️✨The Heart of Dignity: Why true dignity is "generative"—when we honor each other's dignity, we all rise. Women's progress does not come at anyone else's expense. Learn how to reframe the conversation away from scarcity, where one group's success supposedly comes at another's expense, into a celebration of abundance, collective progress, and mutual respect. 👩‍🔬 🤟 An AI Platform by Women, for Women: The Meraki Dignity Project isn't just another online resource—it's a community hub powered by an AI ally named Sophie. Women can safely and anonymously answer thoughtfully designed questions and, in return, receive evidence-based, women-centered resources tailored for transitions in career, finance, health, and relationships. Plus, the AI helps connect women with others on similar journeys, so no one feels alone in their evolution. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings981 More about Stephanie at Meraki Dignity https://www.merakidignity.com/  

Annie Yatch is a serial entrepreneur and a transformational executive coach who works with founders, CEOs, and high-performing leaders who have mastered strategy and execution but still feel capped, exhausted, or disconnected. Building on her unique background as a counterterrorism analyst, Annie developed the ability to identify invisible threats before they cause visible damage—a skill she now applies to leadership, helping executives uncover subconscious patterns, nervous system overload, and relational instability that silently impact decision-making, authority, and revenue growth. After building multiple businesses herself while navigating extreme personal stress, Annie discovered that leadership breakdowns aren't caused by lack of strategy—but by instability in the operator. Founder of ReinventionXO, Annie helps leaders regulate their nervous systems, remove internal bottlenecks, and lead with clarity, authority, and sustainable energy—so success works not just in business, but in life. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🧠💡 Our Subconscious Runs the Show: Did you know that the very challenges and trauma you experienced as a child may be running the show in your adult business decisions? Learn why our so-called "superpowers" as founders often have roots in childhood moments where we learned to cope, control, or keep the peace. These patterns can propel us—but they can also keep us stuck. 🔥🤝 From Counterterrorism to Coaching: Hear how Annie's experience uncovering threats with the Defense Intelligence Agency now helps entrepreneurs identify—and eliminate—self-sabotaging patterns. 💰 📈 The TRUTH About Revenue Ceilings: Your current business "set point" (no matter if that's $300k or $20 million) is often an unconscious limit that ties directly back to deeply held beliefs about worth, value, or even "not surpassing" a parent's success. Rapid Rewiring with Huna: Annie introduces us to the Hawaiian tradition of Huna, an efficient neuro-emotional process that helps you break old patterns, release limiting beliefs, and operate from your authentic self. Take note: Your trauma patterns are not just yours—they show up in your team, your company culture, and the way you lead. 👩‍🔬🚀 Women Entrepreneurs & Survivor Leadership: Why many female founders get stuck in "over-masculinized" leadership, why people pleasing and imposter syndrome are so common, and how to break free by investing in your authentic self. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings980 More about Annie at ReinventionXO  https://reinventionxo.com/  

Tallulah Le Merle, a global thought leader in AI, leads AI investment strategy for Fifth Era & Blockchain Coinvestors, the asset management company focused on exponential technologies with a portfolio spanning 1,500+ startups (including 80+ unicorns like Chainalysis, Coinbase, Kraken, Opensea and Tether). On a mission to ensure business leaders drive AI innovation that is deeply human, conscious, and connected, Tallulah "Case for Hope in the Age of AI" keynote in San Francisco and the UK Parliament in London will soon debut as a book. A fractional COO with experience leading large-scale transformation for FTSE-100 firms, she helps companies scale with rigorous strategy and operational expertise to ensure they don't lose sight of culture, integrity and wellbeing. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🌟🤖 The Case for Hope (Not Hype!): Why "hope" isn't just wishful thinking—it's an imperative in the face of rapid AI innovation. Learn why conscious intention is vital, because if we only focus on dystopian outcomes, we risk building them.  🛠️🤝 Navigating Risks and Regulation: Why global cooperation is needed to create AI guardrails that enable and incentivize transparency, ethical use and development, and the inclusion of diverse voices, and how women can and must make their voices heard. ❤️💰 Conscious Capital and Building with Soul: Learn how venture capital is capable of driving positive change, and why founders should be able to convincingly answer, "how does what you're building create a flourishing human future?" Ethics, values and humanity must be at the core. ✨🌱 AI as a Democratizer and Human Flourishing: Despite the challenges, AI can help democratize access and empower communities—whether it's connecting people around dogs, improving mental health tools, or assisting entrepreneurs to scale ethically. The best ideas come from those who truly understand human needs, not just tech insiders. 💡🧠 The Uniquely Human Advantage: AI will never have a soul or true embodiment. Now more than ever, our collective, somatic, and ecological intelligences are assets. This tech should allow us to spend more time in real-life community, creativity, and connection. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings979 🔗 More about Tallulah at tallulahlamerle.com

Amanda Tress is the founder and CEO of FASTer Way to Fat Loss, one of the fastest-growing digital fitness and nutrition companies in the U.S. Founded in 2016, FASTer Way delivers a science-backed, sustainable approach combining intermittent fasting, whole-food nutrition, carb cycling, and strategic workouts. Under Amanda's leadership, the brand has grown into a multimillion-dollar company with thousands of certified coaches and over 564,000 clients worldwide. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 💡🤖 Human + Tech = Real Results: How Amanda's unique "digital franchise" model gives certified coaches top-tier education certification, robust marketing, a proven tech platform, and community support. This combo empowers trainers to focus on what they do best—coaching—while earning meaningful income. 🌍❤️ Community & Personalization are Game-Changers: Why real human connection—masterminds, community events, and pop-up workouts—plus AI-powered personalization is the unbeatable combo to custom-craft effective nutrition and workouts. ⚡️🚀 Disrupting with Generosity and Innovation: Learn how Faster Way pays out a 75% commission to coaches (far above industry standards), and why generosity pays multi-million-dollar dividends. 🔥🛠️The Ozempic Effect—and Why Muscle STILL Matters: How the rise of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, Zepbound, and Wegovy are reshaping the wellness landscape, why it's vital to maintain muscle mass with extra protein and weight training. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings978 More about Amanda at Faster Way to Fat Loss Learn about Certifications: Join the Next Cohort Waitlist  

Clare Baukham is a Global Wealth Architect, alternative investment curator, and creator of The Billionaire Woman platform. An award-winning financial advisor, she expanded into media as the executive producer of multiple TV series centered on wealth, power, and business. Clare has built her empire around one core truth: wealth is identity, structure, and seduction. Raised in a household where even fruit in winter felt luxurious, she did not inherit wealth; she engineered it through clarity, devotion, and radical self-belief. Today, she guides visionary women and men into a new era of prosperity, one that begins in the mind and is expressed through elegant financial architecture and a generational legacy. Clare's work dissolves fear around money and replaces it with discernment, power, and embodied wealth identity. She doesn't just talk about money; she opens the portal to it. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 ✨💵 Quiet Wealth in Volatile Times: Learn how to protect assets and move money out of the markets during global uncertainty. Plus, why old ideas about 'safe' assets no longer work in a new world, and why art is a recession-proof (even fractional) investment.  🔥❤️Authenticity in Business and Life: Why it's vital to embrace your true self in a world saturated with AI and filters. Clare says it's never been a better time for genuine, unfiltered content—and using genuine authenticity as your competitive advantage. 🦄💪 The Power of Reinvention: Clare's story is a testament to lifelong reinvention, especially for women juggling roles as daughters, wives, mothers, and entrepreneurs. She emphasizes that fulfillment comes not from chasing money, but from solving problems and serving others with passion. 💡💰 Alternative Assets & Fine Art Investing: Clare lifts the veil on art as an asset class, explaining how even non-billionaires can invest with as little as $25,000. She talks about the advantages, returns, and insider strategies that make art investment a powerful wealth builder. 🧠✨ Mindset is Everything: How a few tweaks to your subconscious wiring can make all the difference in growing true wealth. Clare shares how she helped one client go from $100mm to $1 billion just by changing her inner limiting beliefs. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings977 More about Clare at clearwealthgroup.com, clearartreserve.com, or on Instagram at @clairebaucham.

Teju Owoye is a serial entrepreneur, author, and wellness innovator. She began her entrepreneurial journey by founding The Sulte Group, a growth marketing agency serving celebrity clients like Def Leppard and Ice Cube and top B2B SaaS companies alike. After facing her own health challenges, she launched Clean Rebellion, a clean beauty brand voted the Best Multi-Use Body Wash by Byrdie two years in a row. Today, she leads WellZest, a platform that connects individuals to holistic health providers and wellness experiences worldwide. Teju is also the author of The Audacity Journal, a guided workbook for ambitious women reclaiming purpose, confidence, and joy in their next chapter. She also hosts the WellZest podcast. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🤖 🚀 How AI Is Reshaping Marketing: Learn how to leverage cutting edge AI tools to automate outbound marketing—freeing up more time for what really matters: authentic, human connection. From personalized video outreach to automating LinkedIn campaigns and cold outreach, Teju shares her stack (SendSpark, Expandi, SmartLead, Lindy, HeyGen and more) and proves that tech and authenticity can work hand in hand. ✨ 🤝 Return to Real Connection: In a digital-first world, the magic value of in-person and small group gatherings is growing. Learn ways to combine "experiences" with automation, and why meaningful connection (even direct mail and handwritten notes!) moves the needle far more than endless email drips. 🌟 🌱 From Eczema to a D2C Beauty Brand: How Teju launched Clean Rebellion from her own kitchen. What started with a crockpot and organic olive oil turned into an Amazon launch, and now—with expansion into products for active women—her brand is taking off. 📝 🎯 The Power of Problem Journaling: By noting everyday "stuck moments," Teju shares how she creates business opportunities that solve REAL needs. From her SALT Group agency to her wellness ventures, each business sprouted from a pain point she personally experienced. And much more… 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings976 More about Teju at Sulte.io, WellZest and Clean Rebellion sulte.io and wellzest.com and cleanrebellion.com

Madeleine Lambert is a co-founder of Originality.ai, a platform that provides a toolset to help content marketers, writers and publishers navigate the world of generative AI so they can publish with integrity. The company, which launched one week before ChatGPT, also specializes in AI detection technology, with solutions that help defend copyright, detect plagiarism, and beyond. Madeleine was also the co-founder of the marketing company Content Refined which was sold in 2022. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 📝✨Transparency & Integrity Matter More Than Ever: With the boom in AI-generated content, learn why it's important to use tools to detect AI involvement, plagiarism, and even fact-check information to maintain trust and credibility—plus the importance of transparency and responsible use, especially in academia and journalism. 🚀 🛠️ Navigating the Challenges of Innovation: Building solutions at the cutting edge comes with unique hurdles—from balancing ethical concerns to transparent communication about accuracy and the responsible use of AI detection tools. 🇨🇦 🤟 Canada's Leadership in Ethical AI: With its roots in Canada, Originality.AI stands out for its strong commitment to data privacy and security—an increasingly important advantage for international clients worried about data protection, plus why Canada is setting a different standard from the 'move fast and break things' approach elsewhere. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings975 More about Madeleine at Originality.AI originality.ai  

Dr. Shannon Decker is the Founder and CEO of VBC One, a consulting firm that partners with physician groups, health plans and vendors to optimize value-based care performance. With over 25 years of experience, including 17 in risk adjustment, quality and Medicare, she brings deep expertise in healthcare strategy, analytics, and operations. A published author and national speaker, Dr. Decker currently serves as a RISE fellow and on the faculty at Capella University. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 💪❤️Proactive, Value-Based Healthcare: Learn about the shift in healthcare from a reactive "sickness" model to a proactive, preventative value-based care approach, and why this not only improves patient outcomes but also offers opportunities for innovation—especially as the industry rapidly changes. 🤔 🚀 Turning Challenges Into Opportunity: How a layoff became a launching pad for Dr. Shannon Decker, and why when doors close, it's a signal to bring your vision, expertise and unique approach to make an entrepreneurial leap. ✨💡 Embracing Innovation Amid Change: The American healthcare industry is in flux, from new government regulations to the rise of AI and startups innovating in access and personalization. Learn how these changes signal growth opportunities—plus strategy and insights on how small and midsize health plans and provider groups navigating the shift to proactive care can best operate. 🤝 🌱 The Power of Visibility and Relationships: How to build a successful business from your previous contacts and professional networks, and why podcasts and relationship building at conferences can work miracles for finding and keeping clients. "Never burn bridges," says Dr. Shannon, and continually share your expertise with the world. 🙏 🦄 Grace in Entrepreneurship: How to allow yourself grace when transitioning from a structured employee role to running your own business, plus the secrets of resilience, why you need to expect the unexpected, adapt to new tempos, and remember that not everything has to go as planned to be right. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings974 More about Shannon at VBC One https://vbcone.com/  

Victoria Vaughan, an award-winning business leader and communication strategist, is the founder of B612, a New York–based PR agency serving high-growth technology companies. B612 clients are featured in top tier outlets such as NYT, WSJ, TechCrunch, Wired and have raised over $100m in funding in 2025. With over a decade in tech communications, Victoria previously served as CEO of the top-tier Web3 media company Cointelegraph, directly managing media strategy and operations. She was named a Best Business Owner by NYX awards'25. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🤖 💖 AI for PR: Learn how AI can help your business monitor trends and spot newsjacking opportunities faster than ever—while avoiding the "over-automation" trap. "Human connection now is even more important," says Victoria, so avoid AI-generated emails and use AI instead for research and targeting, then switch to genuine, human connection for pitching journalists.  💡 🚀 Stand Out in a Noisy World: With tech giants dominating headlines, scrappy emerging tech companies can get noticed by offering authentic, data-driven stories and strong points of view. Focus on building your thought leadership with compelling narratives that highlight your expertise and unique market insights.  🎯🌍 Niche is the New Mainstream: Why the most effective PR moves isn't always chasing a big outlet—it's finding the right outlet. Newsletters and Substack's are on the rise, often delivering better, more targeted results than traditional media because those audiences are loyal and deeply engaged. 🔥🛠️Build Relationships That Last: Why the gold standard in PR remains relationships—getting to know journalists, engaging with their work well before you pitch, and offering expertise proactively (even when there's nothing in it for you). It's a long game, but it pays off in trust and coverage when you need it most. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings973 More about Victoria at b612pr.com  

Lena McDearmid is the founder and CEO of Wryver, a consultancy that helps leaders create company cultures where people and performance thrive together. Previously Lena co-founded the fintech company Momnt, where she served as COO and Chief Culture Officer. With Wryver, she's on a mission to create teams that trust each other and organizations that are future-ready in an AI world. With more than 20 years in leadership, consulting, and culture strategy, she focuses on strengthening the trust, rhythms, and structures that determine whether teams succeed or stall.  🔑Key Takeaways🔑 ✨💡 Why Culture Isn't "Nice to Have"—It's Everything: Company culture spells the difference between success and failure. Study after study finds that 65% of business failures can be traced back to poor culture, not product or market missteps, but to things like leadership misalignment, weak communication, or lack of psychological safety. 🤝 🤎 Purpose Not Perks: Forget the ping pong tables and free snacks. Perks aren't culture. Culture is about how decisions get made, how disagreements are handled and how your company supports (or shames) failure. Are your team members confident to speak up and innovate or do they fear the consequences? 🌱🧠 Psychological Safety Is Non-Negotiable: To truly innovate, your team needs two big things: psychological safety and playfulness. Without trust and the freedom to fail, bold ideas won't surface. 🔥🛠️Leaders Go First (With Vulnerability): Learn why the best leaders model mistakes, hold themselves accountable, and invite feedback. It's not intuitive for everyone, and that's why not everyone who's good at their job should be leading people. You may be the CEO but you may need a Chief of Staff or a Chief People Officer. 🤖 ❤️AI Is Changing the Rules:  New tools can make teams more efficient, but AI will never replace creativity, empathy, and thoughtful leadership. Now, more than ever, a people-first culture is critical to your success.   👩‍🔬 🤟 For Female Founders—A Competitive Edge: Women are naturally collaborative and are building some of today's most successful, high-ROAS teams. The data is in—female-led companies consistently deliver higher returns, and their focus on culture is a major driver. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings972   More about Lena at Wryver https://wryver.com/  

Elizabeth Gore is the co-founder and president of Hello Alice, a technology company that provides access to capital, connections, and education to over 1.5 million entrepreneurs. In turn, Hello Alice's business health engine for banks and enterprise business services helps corporations increase engagement and transactions with small businesses. Hello Alice remains steadfast in its mission to ensure that every small business owner has the resources to thrive and live their dream. Elizabeth is the host of the Yahoo Finance show "The Big Idea," and is the small business columnist for Inc magazine. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 💰 📈 Financial Fitness for Female Founders: How to boost your financial fitness before seeking capital, and access some of the $60 million in small business grants and loans from 92 equitable lenders from Hello Alice. 🤖 🎯 AI Adoption Is Non-Negotiable: Whether you own a tech startup or a local bakery, integrating AI isn't just about innovation—it's about increasing efficiency, improving financial fitness, and staying competitive. Elizabeth says, "You can't operate a business today without it." 💪 🦄 Resilience in the Face of "No": Elizabeth and her co-founder had over 200 rejections on their funding journey, but perseverance paid off: after some lean early rounds, Hello Alice is now profitable and thriving. The lesson? Stay frugal, be capital-efficient, and build your network before you need it. 👩‍🔬 🚀 Why Women Make Outstanding Investors (and Need to Do It More!): It's not just about receiving capital—it's time for women to step up as investors, fund managers, and decision-makers.  🌐✨Building Resilience, Mindset & Community: How athletics helps shape the mindset of the best entrepreneurs. Learn how to "fail forward" with the grit of a top athlete. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings971 More about Elizabeth at Hello Alice https://helloalice.com  

Kristin Thomas is the Founder of Marble Collective, an AI-powered platform transforming how women's leadership is preserved, amplified, and discovered to make remarkable women easier to find, follow, and book, ensuring their legacies endure. Backed by 300+ women leaders, including more than 70 founding investors, Marble centralizes each leader's media, milestones, and body of work into a living digital portfolio, redefining visibility and legacy for women everywhere. Kristin's two-decade career in real estate and her board roles at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and YFCA shape her mission to elevate women's impact at scale. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 💰 📈 Women Investing in Women: Learn how Kristin built an entire community of women who became Marble's first investors, and why funding models for women-founded businesses must break traditional models.  ✨ 🚀 Legacy Amplification Matters: Women have been "succeeding in silence" for too long. Now, a centralized and searchable place for all the digital assets and media coverage of accomplished women, ensuring their stories and expertise don't get lost in the social media noise or buried in forgotten press releases. 🤝 👩‍💻 A New Era of Protected Networking: How Marble allows users to follow and engage with women at the forefront of industries—from science to entrepreneurship to leadership—without relying on algorithms, intrusive sales pitches, or unsolicited DMs—making meaningful connections possible while respecting time and boundaries. 📚🤖 AI-Driven Knowledge Sharing: By curating podcasts, articles, books, and lectures recommended by featured leaders, Marble isn't just celebrating achievements—it's creating a rich resource for inspiration and education, in turn shaping future AI training to better represent women. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings970 More about Kristin at Marble Collective https://www.marblecollective.com/  

Swati Vauthrin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Recess, the parenting platform redefining how families connect, learn, and shop through community and circular commerce. A seasoned engineering leader turned mission-driven founder, Swati spent over 15 years as an engineer building and scaling products at Instagram, BuzzFeed, ESPN, and Disney—most notably leading global growth for Instagram Reels. Her inspiration for Recess came directly from her own motherhood journey. As a mom of three, Swati experienced firsthand how isolating, overwhelming, and expensive parenting can be so she's building Recess to create the trusted, spam-free, AI-powered space she wished existed when she became a parent—where families can get real advice, find community, and shop high-quality secondhand gear safely and affordably. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🤝🌐 Why Purpose-Built Communities Are the Future: Why it's time to move on from the toxicity of social media, and build community around shared interests. Recess was born from real-life parenting challenges—aiming to combine trusted advice, local connections, and sustainable recommerce in one supportive digital village. 🤖💪 Women in Tech: What's the secret of successful women in tech? For Swati it started with curiosity and a Commodore 64, and it led her to become one of the few women innovating in engineering—the "0.1% of the 0.1%" as she puts it.  ❤️ 🛠️Empathy Drives Product Success: Women engineers bring empathy as a differentiating superpower to all things code, often outperforming male counterparts by understanding the "why," not just the "what," leading to products that genuinely help people and foster strong communities. 👩‍🍼 🚀 Motherhood and Entrepreneurship: Learn what motherhood teaches about leadership, time management, personal identity, and what real work-life integration looks like—and why no two journeys as a mom or a founder are exactly alike. 🦄✨ What Makes Recess Different: Built to be "a village", Recess focuses on community matched to your circumstances and interests, with advice, tips, and an innovative "re-commerce" feature that makes it easy to save money by passing along used products with a story, so every transaction is infused with warmth and meaning. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings969   More about Swati at RecessParenting.App https://recessparenting.app/  

Marcia Dawood is an early-stage investor and author of Do Good While Doing Well, TEDx speaker and host of The Angel Next Door podcast, with a new book debuting next month called Unapologetic Wealth. Marcia serves as the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee. She is a venture partner with Mindshift Capital and the chair emeritus of the Angel Capital Association (ACA), a global professional society for angel investors. She is also an associate producer on the award-winning documentary Show Her the Money. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 💰 🌐 The Current Investment Landscape: Learn why raising capital has become tougher than ever, especially for women and underrepresented founders. After the capital boom of 2020-2021, liquidity dried up, uncertainty spiked, and exit timelines stretched—all making it harder for startups to survive, let alone thrive. 👩‍🔬 💡 The Female Founder Advantage: Did you know women return up to 72 cents more on every invested dollar compared to men? So, what will it take for female-founded companies to overcome all the funding barriers and extra scrutiny—even though the data's on our side? 🌱 🤝 Why Women Must Start Investing in Startups: High net worth women can change the game, but what does it take for them to shift from charity donations to funding their mission-driven sister entrepreneurs? Hint: Women need to get more comfortable talking about money, deals, and investments, and learn about the benefits of angel and venture investing. 📈 💸 Generational Wealth Transfer: Women will have more money than ever to invest. Learn about the risks of underinvestment, the need for education about wealth stewardship, and how to move from a scarcity to an abundance mindset. 🔥 🚀 Boldness Wins: Women founders often pitch conservatively, while many male counterparts swing for the fences with confidence. The message? Don't underplay your vision or undervalue your business—be bold, ask for what you need, and own your big goals, because you are worth investing in. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings968 More about Marcia at Marcia Dawood 📚 Resources for Action Unapologetic Wealth: Pre-order Marcia's new book  The Angel Next Door Podcast: Listen in for real stories and advice on angel investing and how to get started.  Show Her the Money: Keep an eye out for this inspiring documentary coming to streaming in March 2026

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  

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

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.  

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  

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

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

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  

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  

Bianca D'Alessio, star of HBO Max's acclaimed series Selling The Hamptons, is recognized as the top real estate broker in both New York City and New York state. Bianca founded one of the top real estate brokerage teams in the United States, where she manages a $10 billion international real estate portfolio. Having rebuilt her career through adversity, Bianca attributes her success to the art of mastering intention. Author of Mastering Intentions: 10 Practices to Amplify Power and Lead with Lasting Impact, she emphasizes the vital synergy between personal branding and business culture, advocating for the transformative power of manifestation, mindset control, and resilience in achieving exceptional success across all facets of life. Bianca is regularly featured on Fox Business News, CNN, Bloomberg, Mansion Global, and Forbes, and she has a weekly real estate column in Money Magazine. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 ✨💡 Confidence and Authenticity Matter: Bianca's success didn't happen overnight. She emphasizes that confidence—especially in sales—comes from doing the self-work and learning to value your unique strengths. Sales isn't about being "smarmy"; it's about authentic connection, empathy, and understanding your client's true desires. ✨❤️ The Power of Intentional Living: After pushing herself to the brink, Bianca realized a balanced life fuels even greater business success. When she made time for relationships, fun, and self-care, not only did she "glow up" personally, but her business thrived too. Perfectionism can limit innovation, while vulnerability and intention create lasting impact. ✨🦄 Redefining Success & Embracing Failure: Learn how to move away from comparison and "aspirational" metrics because true growth comes from competing with yourself, learning quickly from failures (rather than fearing them), and giving your team permission to innovate—even if that means making mistakes. ✨💰 $11k to $10 Billion: What it takes to overcome self-doubt, imposter syndrome, and redefining what it means to "sell"—understanding people at a deep level and having the confidence to lead them through their biggest life decisions. ✨📈 Real Estate Outlook: Rising costs, low inventory, and creative ways to build wealth even when the "dream home" feels out of reach. Whether you're a buyer, seller, or real estate fan, Bianca's shares to help you see new possibilities. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings959 More about Bianca at BiancaDalessio.com https://www.biancadalessio.com

Nicole Rodrigues is the CEO and Founder of NRPR Group, the Beverly Bills public relations and marketing machine serving game changing companies from entertainment to tech around the world. NRPR focuses on building relationships that build long-lasting ties between clients, the media and their audiences. From startups to Fortune 500 companies within consumer tech, FinTech, HealthTech, enterprise, mobile, digital entertainment, lifestyle, sports, and consumer products, NRPR prides itself on a high-touch, results-focused approach to boost their clients' bottom line. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🔥 📝 PR as an Insurance Policy: In an age of AI deepfakes and viral scandals, its vital to be proactive and start creating and curating a steady flow of positive, authentic leadership content across your platforms, so you have a strong track record to counteract any attacks or fakes that threaten to damage your brand. ✨🤖AI is Productivity Hack Not a Job Replacer: Learn how AI can boost team productivity and eliminate "busywork"—think streamlined brainstorming and better workflow—for marketing and other tasks, while leaving room for the irreplaceable human touch in building authentic relationships and strategy. Hint: Use AI as your "intern," not your strategy. 🎭 👩‍🔬 The Authenticity Dilemma: Authenticity does not require "radically transparency".  Be yourself, but avoid venting political or divisive opinions as a CEO. Protect your brand—choose when, where, and how you show your values. 🚀 🤝 The Power of Thoughtful Human Connection: From handwritten thank-you notes to in-person meetups—what's old is new (and so effective) again. Taking the time to engage personally and meaningfully has never mattered more in a digital world that can feel disconnected. 🛠️💪Quick Takeaways & Action Steps: Start building positive, authentic content about you and your business now—think of it as your online "armor" Leverage AI as your creative assistant, not your boss Thoughtful, selective in-person connections are more powerful than ever CEOs and founders: keep your personal and business brands strategic, aligned, and intentionally public 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings958 More about Nicole at NRPR Group https://www.nrprgroup.com/  

Maria Castellucci Moore is the founder of the boutique winery and real estate business, Castellucci Napa Valley. She's also a multi-award-winning author of the children's book series Traveling Mindfulness, including Vivian in Paris and Sophia in Rome, and winner of the Gold Mom's Choice Award. First-generation American and mother to four children, Maria is also a board member of the San Francisco Opera Guild and Napa Valley's Ambassador to Charitable nonprofit organization, Roots of Peace— an organization that demines war torn lands and plants fruit orchards and vineyards worldwide. Maria also received the 2023 Most Intriguing Award for Napa Valley. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🍷🌱 Navigating Challenges: Pressures facing the wine industry, from shifting consumer tastes and competition from seltzers and European wines to reduced Napa tourism and a changing luxury market, how both hospitality and agriculture are feeling the economic squeeze, and creative strategies for weathering economic storms. ✨💡 Purpose Beyond Profit: Why diversifying your interests beyond building your business to also focus on positive social impact builds your resilience, joy and happiness. Maria shares her involvement with organizations like Roots of Peace and the San Francisco Opera Guild.  🤎 🤝 Immigration & Community: the critical role of hardworking migrant workers in agriculture, and the impact of the Trump Administration's anti-immigrant roundups on the California wine business. ✈️ 📚 Traveling Mindfulness – A Creative Journey for Kids: Maria's shares her inspiration for the children's book series, which blends the joy of travel with mindfulness, inviting kids to use their senses to find their unique happiness in Paris, Rome, London, and beyond.  🔥🛠️Advice for Entrepreneurs:  Stay hungry, stay curious, stay creative. In uncertain times, its vital to grow, pivot, and diversify. Maria reminds us: "If you're not growing, you're going backwards." 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings957 More about Maria at Maria Castellucci Moore Author  

Shellee Howard is the Founder and CEO of College Ready and CR Future Now, a Certified Independent College Strategist, and a best-selling author. A member of HECA and SOFA, she helps students gain admission to their best-fit colleges—often debt-free. As a mother of four, Shellee has firsthand experience with college success. Her son graduated debt-free from Harvard, earned his MD from UCSD, and is now an Orthopedic Surgery Resident at UCLA. Her daughter earned her BSN debt-free and became an RN in 2021. A sought-after speaker and consultant, Shellee has guided hundreds of students worldwide to top universities, ensuring they graduate debt-free and land jobs they love. Shellee also hosts the podcast, Parents: Is Your Teen College Ready? 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🌱🤔 Start Early, Self-Discovery Comes First: Why college prep should start in middle school, with parents guiding their kids to reflect on their interests, strengths, and values. Learn how to help your kids figure out who they are before choosing what to study with a mix of community service, internships, and real-world conversations with professionals. 💸 🎯 A Strategic (Not Emotional) Path to College: Why it's not about chasing school prestige or following the crowd. The best path involves empowering students to build standout resumes, match with colleges that value their unique qualities, and—most importantly—graduate without crushing student loans. 🎓💡 Scholarships (and How to Win Them): One of Shellee's most compelling stats: her seniors earned over $10 million in scholarships last year alone. Her secret? Treat the process like building a business—from early planning, crafting applications, and strategically picking colleges that want to reward your child's excellence. 👩‍💼 🛠️ For Young Entrepreneurs and Non-Traditional Paths: Not every student is destined for the Ivy League—or even a traditional four-year college. Learn how to explore all options, including trade schools and entrepreneurial ventures. There is no "one size fits all" path to success. ✨🤖 How AI Is Impacting College Decisions: How to best prepare your teen for an AI world, why teaching nimbleness, flexibility and resilience is key. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings956   More about Shellee at College Ready Plan https://collegereadyplan.com/  

Jennifer Tsay is the CEO and Co-Founder of the professional photography platform Shoott, which uniquely offers free photoshoots where clients only pay for the photos they love. Shoott operates in over 60 U.S. cities, supporting more than 750 freelance photographers with supplemental income, and maintain a 4.9 rating on Google across 2400 reviews and counting. With a diverse background in investment banking, strategic finance, project management, documentary film producing, and acting, Jennifer combines her passion for process with her love of art and storytelling to manage growth, strategy, and operations for Shoott. You may know Jennifer from her acting gigs on The Other Two, High Fidelity, The Village, The Blacklist, and Bored to Death as well as spots for Citi, AT&T Wifi, Samsung, Geico, and Manhattan Mini Storage. Jennifer is a Forbes #Next1000 entrepreneur and one of Brit + Co's 30 AAPI Founders We Love to Support, and recently appeared on Entrepreneur.com's Elevator Pitch Season 11. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🚀 📷 Disruptive Business Models Drive Growth: Learn how free photoshoots that let customers pay for the shots they love benefit consumers and creatives alike, allowing photographers to earn a steady income, find clients, and conserve their time. 🤟💰Solving the Artist Gig Dilemma: How photographic artists and gig workers can escape the feast-or-famine cycle with a platform that aggregates demand and creates accessible sessions in centralized, scenic locations, for steady income that supplements the work of talented photographers. 🦄 🎯 The 14-Day Rule: How to master lean, efficient marketing that gets results by testing quickly, abandoning things that don't work after 14 days, avoiding the impulse to get "stuck on theory" and trust your own data over fads. Plus, why chasing marketing trends isn't always best.  🎭📈 Acting to Investment Banking: How Jennifer's diverse experiences shape how she's building Shoott, blending creativity with data-driven problem solving. 🌍💡Scaling from NYC to 60 Cities (and Counting!): Learn how to navigate a double-sided marketplace, turn challenges into growth opportunities, hire remotely, and expand into new markets. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings955 More about Jennifer at Shoott.com 

Wendy Bronfein is the Co-Founder, Chief Brand Officer and Director of Public Policy at Curio Wellness, Maryland's leading medical cannabis company, where she focuses on driving the company's legislative agenda across multiple states and building the Curio brand. Wendy made the leap into the medical marijuana space after a long career in television. She was Creative Director of On-Air Promotions at LIVE! With Kelly & Michael and was a Managing Producer at BBC Worldwide Americas from 2006-2010. She has also served in various freelance production roles in New York and Los Angeles working on shows such as The Andy Milonakis Show, Wanda Does it, and The Sharon Osbourne Show. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🛠️📝 Navigating Regulatory Roadblocks: How to scale a business in a challenging industry like cannabis, where U.S. federal Schedule 1 drug status means excessive taxation and restrictions on banking, research, and marketing. This, when research shows safer communities, more state tax revenue, reduced opioid use, and lower teen consumption where cannabis is legal. 🤟❤️ Branding in a Constrained Industry: What to do when traditional marketing and advertising channels are closed off, and how to make creative, high-touch approaches, community engagement, and "ground game" outreach earn customer trust and build awareness. 🌈 🤎 Empowering the Next Generation of Diverse Entrepreneurs: Learn how Curio Wellness is taking bold steps to offer franchise opportunities specifically designed to help women, minorities, and disabled veterans break into the cannabis business—helping others navigate regulatory and financial barriers by supporting their capital needs and providing operational guidance. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings954 More about Wendy at Curio Wellness  

Chelsea Ryckis is the award-winning founder and president of Ethos Benefits, a firm dedicated to advancing fiduciary-driven health insurance strategies for employers nationwide to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse from employer healthcare plans while increasing savings for both employers and their employees. After suffering a traumatic brain injury as a Division 1 college athlete, Canadian-born Chelsea experienced the US healthcare system firsthand, inspiring her pioneering entrepreneurship in healthcare. Chelsea was awarded the industry's most prestigious award, Advisor of the Year, by Benefits Pro in 2024. She has also been named the Most Innovative Healthcare Consultant in the United States for 2024. Chelsea is the co-host of the Ethos Effect Podcast with her husband Donovan and producer of the documentary "It's Not Personal, It's Just Healthcare." 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 💰 📈 Misaligned Incentives Are Driving Up Costs: Traditional brokers work on commission, meaning they earn more when your company pays more. Always ask your vendors, brokers, and consultants, "How are you paid? What incentives shape your advice?" 💡🛑 Transparency Is Possible—But Not From the Big Players: Most major carriers bundle all aspects of the health plan in a "closed box," preventing employers from seeing claim-level data or understanding actual costs. By unbundling and using fee-based advisors, employers can regain control and thoroughly understand where their dollars are going. 🚀 🤝 Employers Have More Power Than They Think: 60-65% of Americans get insurance through work, yet most companies don't realize they can drive change. Simple steps like questioning your broker's incentives and exploring open-box plan options can lead to substantial savings and better employee care. ✨🛠️Smaller groups can save, too: Even with as few as 10 employees, innovative options exist—Chelsea shared a client success who saved $110,000 with just 22 workers. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings953 More about Chelsea at Ethos Benefits https://ethosbenefits.com/  

Kate Assaraf is a serial entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Dip Sustainable Hair Care, building a 7-figure beauty brand without Amazon, big-box retailers, or influencer gimmicks. Kate is also a Forbes columnist, and a mom of two who proves that entrepreneurship and motherhood can coexist without burnout—by prioritizing presence, purpose, and smart business choices. Kate has been featured in Allure, Cosmopolitan, Modern Salon, and The Unwash, was named NJ's Mompreneur of the Year (2024), and was honored as a "Woman of Courage" by Insigniam Quarterly. She's passionate about helping other moms in business build profitable brands without sacrificing their families, values, or sanity. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 🔥✨Dare to Be Different: When everyone zigged, Kate zagged, rethinking the beauty playbook. She said no to Amazon, no to advertising, and no to paid influencer marketing, and instead let truly delighted customers become the voice of her growing 7-figure brand.  💡 🚀 Product Over Hype: Tired of the "plastic-free at all costs, performance be damned" narrative and marketing tactics that overwhelmed consumers, Kate obsessed over making a product so good it always "overdelivered," turning skeptics into passionate advocates—her return rate is just 0.006%! 🌱 💰 Sustainable Growth, Real Impact: Learn how slow, meaningful and sustainable growth can mean bigger profits, and how to make sustainability profitable: Kate hires locally, gives back to causes, and fosters a business culture that truly respects employees and customers. 👩‍🔬❤️ Mompreneur Mindset: How to balance motherhood with mission-driven entrepreneurship without burning out. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/Wings952 More about Kate at Dip Already www.dipalready.com  

Lauren Morgan is the founder of Wild Wisdom, an energy master, and a trauma recovery and business coach on a mission to empower women overcome imposter syndrome, limiting beliefs and self-sabotage so they can turn their pain into purpose, transform their wounds into wisdom, and create heart-centered businesses. She brings her personal expertise with healing practices like Ayurveda, hypnosis, meditation, shamanism, energy work, and core belief work to help entrepreneurs grow abundant, purpose-driven businesses. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 ✨🔹 Your Business Has Its Own Consciousness: Think of your business as its own entity—almost like a child with unique needs, energy, and purpose beyond your own. When you recognize and honor that, you unlock new ways to co-create success. 🌙 💡 Tune In and Listen: Why the magic often happens when you slow down, get grounded, and create quiet space. By intentionally listening (whether through intuition, journaling, or mindfulness), you receive guidance on what your business truly wants to become—and how you can help it thrive. 🚀 📈 Alignment Leads to Growth: When you and your business are in sync, clients, opportunities, and abundance flow naturally. Lauren's real-world examples prove that when you embrace this energetic partnership, everything from your messaging to your customer base can shift in amazing ways. 🎙️Subscribe to Wings and get the full Show Notes at https://bit.ly/wings-951 More about Lauren at Wild Wisdom Coach www.wildwisdomcoach.com  

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/