001: Giving Women Wings to Succeed in Business

by | Apr 21, 2018 | Podcast | 0 comments

 

Hello and welcome to the inaugural show of Change It Up with Paula Shaw!

 

Melinda Wittstock, the creator of a podcast called WINGS of Inspired Business, and Dr. Janet “JJ” Sawyer, an expert in leadership, communication, and human relations, join me to talk about helping women kick off businesses in a big way!

 

We Discuss:

  • How different roles for women in business have been over the years
  • What tends to be the hardest thing for women in any business situation
  • Where we stand with sexual harassment in the workplace today
  • The importance of having conversations with clear, strong boundaries
  • Why women are having a hard time fitting into male paradigms
  • The beneficial balance of archetypal feminine and masculine qualities
  • Why resiliency is absolutely necessary to succeed in business
  • How to be successful and powerful without losing your femininity
  • The combination of mindset, mojo, and money
  • The importance of having clarity and knowing what you really want
  • The first thing that has to happen when you want to create your business
  • The magic that comes from manifestation and intent setting in your life

 

“I think that there’s still this ceiling that women have a hard time getting to rise up to push through.”  –  Dr. Janet “JJ” Sawyer

 

About JJ:

Do you know how important you are as a leader? What if you could learn your natural style of leadership and how to shift your leadership for the people you serve?

What if your leadership would result in improved productivity and gain greater profits?

For the past twelve years, Dr. Janet “JJ” Sawyer has worked with over 2,530 leaders throughout the United States providing leadership training and coaching services all focused on Leaders understanding and applying leadership behaviors and strategies to improve their POWER as a Leader.

Dr. Sawyer’s consulting business, JJ Sawyer Consulting, LLC, has an emphasis on LEADING with POWER for Positive Performance.

The POWER comes from becoming Self Aware, Intentional, and a Mindful Leader. This leadership coaching involves leaders in a Collaborative Conversational Coaching Workshops that includes The POWER of :

  • Becoming a Self-Aware and Intentional Leader
  • Creating a Collaborative and Cohesive Team
  • Leading by Managing the Effect of Change

All of these leadership workshops are aimed at helping leaders understand how to plan for their leadership in order to successfully work collaboratively with the people they lead while implementing change initiatives in their business and personal lives.

 

About Melinda:

Melinda Wittstock is a visionary entrepreneur, innovator, founder-CEO of four scalable media-tech businesses, and a passionate advocate for women in business and evolved social enterprise businesses.

She hosts a daily podcast on female entrepreneurship called WINGS of Inspired Business to help women get the right mindset to manifest the mojo and money they need to land their moonshot.

Melinda believes magic happens at the intersection of personal and business growth, and that women stepping into their authentic feminine power to innovate in business is the solution to the most intractable challenges in our world.

Her moonshot is to invest $10mm+ in 100+ female-founded and social impact companies in the next 10 years.  

With 25+ years experience as an award-winning host, journalist, and entrepreneurial executive across the world’s top media brands (BBC, London Times, ABC, CNBC), and launching four of her own successful media, tech, mobile apps, and predictive data analytics businesses, Melinda brings deep cross-disciplinary expertise to grow every executive leader, innovator, brand or business she works with across mindset, marketing, business development, product, and technology.

She is the CEO and founder of Verifeed, the predictive social intelligence company, helping brands and businesses get a growing and measurable Return on Authenticity™ or ROA™.

Melinda is also a mom to two great kids and a golden retriever, and a lover of global adventure, travel, and social good missions. She lives an “all in” life of endless curiosity – from her inner exploration of mindfulness, meditation, and yoga to her exploration of the world on her exotic travels.

 

“Resilience is absolutely necessary to succeed in business whether you’re a man or woman, and it’s a muscle that women may need to develop a little bit more.”  –  Melinda Wittstock

 

Resources Mentioned:

Stay tuned for the release of Paula’s new book, Saying the Right Thing: When You Don’t Know What To Say

Learn More About Host Paula Shaw

 

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