Melinda Wittstock
The Primal Kitchen Podcast
Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti
4.4 • 717 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Elle Russ chats with Melinda Wittstock - a serial entrepreneur who has built 4 businesses in media and tech to 7- and 8- figure success. Formerly an award-winning journalist, executive producer, and TV anchor for the BBC, ABC News, CNBC/Financial Times Television and MSNBC, Melinda created and grew a BBC show to a 20 million audience and also innovated one of the first crowd-sourcing mobile apps, growing unique users to 3 million in 8 months. She is now the CEO and Founder of Podopolo, the world's first socially interactive and "gamified" podcast network. Melinda also helps business owners and entrepreneurs launch magnetic and profitable podcasts.
An acknowledged visionary in tech, media, mobile platforms and social content, 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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Mark Sisson. Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast, where we deliver a variety of fresh content to help you live awesome. |
| 0:09.9 | Enjoy the show. Engage with us online at marksdailyapple.com and on social media and send your questions to info at primalblueprint.com. |
| 0:21.9 | Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the Primal Blueprint Podcast. |
| 0:24.9 | Today we have an amazing woman. |
| 0:26.4 | We're going to learn a lot from. |
| 0:27.4 | Her name is Melinda Whitstock. |
| 0:28.7 | She is a serial entrepreneur who has built four businesses and media and tech to seven |
| 0:33.5 | and eight figure success. |
| 0:35.2 | She's formerly an award-winning journalist, executive producer, |
| 0:37.9 | and TV anger for the BBC, ABC News, and much more. She created and grew a BBC show to 20 million |
| 0:44.8 | audience and also innovated one of the first crowdsourcing mobile apps and some really interesting |
| 0:49.8 | stuff for podcasters. We'll get into all that she does soon. Welcome to the show, Melinda. Nice to meet you. |
| 0:56.4 | Yeah, Elle, it's great to be with you. Thank you for having me on. I've got, you know, you've been helping |
| 1:00.7 | entrepreneurs, and this has really been your mission. But tell us, like, how did you get started? |
| 1:05.5 | We know some of your background, and you were in tech and media. Tell us, how did, how did you move from there to what you're doing now? |
| 1:11.7 | I don't know. I think I've always been entrepreneurial. Like, there's a story about me. I was |
| 1:15.5 | almost six years old. And I went door to door with my black lab, demanding prepayment for my show. |
| 1:23.1 | And with a fistful of about $100, I came home and I asked my dad, you know, where could we find |
| 1:28.9 | a hundred chairs? So entrepreneurship has always been in my blood, but I've always been a media |
| 1:35.9 | person as well. And so all my businesses, there are five so far as an adult, have all |
| 1:42.0 | been around traditional media, digital media, social media, ad tech, |
| 1:45.9 | and lots of different back-end algorithms as well to sift and sort crowdsource content |
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