Melissa Wood-Tepperberg on Setting Intentions

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Melissa Wood-Tepperberg went from working in nightclubs and modeling to becoming one of the first people to start streaming workouts online. That turned into her own health and fitness app, which now has thousands of paying subscribers. Today, Melissa has almost one million Instagram followers and her app, Melissa Wood Health, is a case study at Harvard Business School — despite the fact Melissa never went to college herself. In this episode, Melissa talks about: How meditation changed her life Experimenting as a way to figure out your career path Learning to listen to your gut How she stopped comparing herself to other people

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0:00.0	I always say to myself, be who you are, be exactly who you are.
0:09.2	Try not to let all of the outside noise change who I really am on the inside.
0:17.1	I'm Carly Zaken and I'm Danielle Weisberg.
0:20.1	Welcome to 9-5-ish with the skin.
0:22.8	We've run into so many questions over the years and had so many moments where we needed advice
0:29.0	and we got it from women who'd been there.
0:32.6	And that's what we're bringing you with this show.
0:34.7	Each week we're helping you get what you want out of your career by talking to the smartest
0:39.0	leaders we know.
0:40.5	Because we know your work life is a lot more than 9-5.
0:44.4	Alright, let's get into it.
0:48.9	Today our guest is Melissa Wood-Teperberg.
0:51.8	She is an entrepreneur and the founder of Melissa Wood Health, a fitness app.
0:56.6	A lot of you are probably familiar with.
0:59.4	On her platform, she streams her Pilates workouts to tens of thousands of paying subscribers
1:06.3	and her celeb fans.
1:08.2	Not to mention, she's also got almost a million people following her on Instagram.
1:13.2	Her platform has even become so successful.
1:16.5	It's now a case study for entrepreneurship in the creator economy at Harvard Business
1:21.6	School.
1:22.6	Melissa, welcome to the show.
1:24.8	Thank you.
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