Zero Limits: Business Growth Secrets

Melinda Wittstock is the CEO and Founder of Podopolo, the AI-powered interactive podcast app revolutionizing podcast discovery and discussion and making podcasting profitable for creators. Melinda is a 5-time serial entrepreneur and visionary innovator in media and tech.

Melinda also hosts the fast growing "Wings of Inspired Business" podcast named by Entrepreneur Magazine as #8 of 20 of the top business podcasts for 2020. The Wings mission is to #LiftAsWeClimb, helping female founders leverage their feminine power and collaborate to change the game of business and succeed without tradeoff, guilt, or apology.

Formerly a senior executive, producer, host, and award-winning journalist for some of the world’s leading media brands, including the BBC, Times of London, ABC, CNBC and Financial Times, Melinda created and grew a BBC TV show to a 20 million audience. Steve Jobs told her she "asked the best questions" when she interviewed him as a 24-year-old correspondent of the Times of London. Melinda went on to innovate one of the world’s first crowd-sourcing mobile apps, growing unique users to 3 million in 8 months. Her previous companies include Capitol News Connection, a political news agency serving 300+ TV and radio stations nationwide with localized news at scale for a daily audience of 3 million people; NewsiT, an award-winning mobile app for crowd-sourced content with game changing algorithms to assess user-generated contributions for relevance and reliability; and Verifeed, the social intelligence platform assuring a Return on Authenticity™ from social media engagement.

A spiritual practitioner of meditation, yoga, and gratitude Melinda is passionate about encouraging conscious leadership and evolved entrepreneurship using business as a canvas to transform lives and solve global challenges.

Her travels have taken her to many exotic places including Sir Richard Branson's Necker Island and the Amazon Rainforest. She's a loving mom to two teenagers and a golden retriever.

Melinda has spoken at SXSW, Voice Global, Podfest Global, Podcast Movement, The Podcast Show – London, Google, Harvard University, Fidelity Investments, Maverick 1000, Unicorn, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, MIT, Georgetown University, Relentless MV, Columbia University, Underground Online Seminar, Pinnacle Global Network and many more. She even debuted as a standup comic with a 20-minute set at Caroline’s on Broadway in New York.

Steve Little is an acclaimed serial entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, and mergers and acquisitions expert well known for generating accelerated value growth and extraordinarily high acquisition value multiples for his companies and clients.

He sold his first company at age 15 for nearly $250,000 and never looked back. Steve has scaled 6 successful startups to private 9-figure acquisitions and has assured his many clients explosive value growth, highly lucrative acquisitions often at 10X-20X multiples, and impressive IRR as founder and managing director of Zero Limits Ventures.

At Zero Limits Ventures, Steve spots unique opportunities for valuation growth where others don’t – whether triple bottom line social impact models, customer engagement strategies, or other strategies beyond revenue and earnings growth. Steve has also raised more than $2B in startup and growth funding for a multitude of businesses in a broad range of industries. He led the buy-side M&A team for a major technology innovator, acquiring and successfully integrating 9 companies in less than 12 months.
Known as the “The Activator”, Steve has personally taught, coached and mentored hundreds of business owners, corporate executives and entrepreneurs, helping his clients overcome the myriad of complex challenges to develop breakthrough strategies for peak individual and team performance, rapid scaling, and conscious leadership to generate truly legendary impact and astounding financial returns.

Steve is also a 4-time champion bodybuilder and powerlifter, an accomplished musician, and a dedicated and loving father to two amazing and talented daughters.

As a purpose driven entrepreneur who recognizes how blessed his life is, Steve is committed to giving generously his time and money to addressing the needs of a broad range of vital global initiatives including:

Support Younglife Africa and the daily care needs of hundreds of children and orphans in Malawi Africa
Support The Pachamama Alliance permanent protection of the sacred headwaters of the Amazon rain forest
Support the BVI Art Reef Project and the creation of a new underwater coral reefs in the US and British Virgin Islands
Assist Oceans Unite with the extensive global ocean cleanup initiatives around the word
Support Beneath The Waves and the preservation of shark species in the US and British Virgin Islands
Support for Virgin Unite, the non-profit foundation created to unite people and entrepreneurial ideas to create opportunities for a better world.

Apply for a private consultation with Steve: https://www.zerolimitsventures.com/apply-to-work-with-steve-little/