Sky Meltzer: Pioneering Conscious Entrepreneurship
Sky Meltzer is a mission driven leader and entrepreneur with over 20 years of global consumer, investment, and management experience.
Truly a pioneer in conscious entrepreneurship, he is the founder and executive chairman of WellSet and formerly the CEO of Manduka, where he grew revenue by over 40 times.
I met Sky when we both spoke at Lead with Love Summit in Aspen, CO where the seeds for this conversation were planted. It’s a delight to share this interview with you!
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We discuss:
- How to choose business opportunities
- Running a purpose driven business
- Rethinking marketing for healers and co-founding Wellset
- Sky’s personal experience with alternative medicine
- The power of acupuncture
- Sky shares the pillars behind Manduka’s wild success
- Healing the planet by building a community of healers
- Knowing your value as a healer and building a business around it
- Social media as an amplifier
- The consciousness of business
- Pioneering conscious leadership
- Intuition as a compass
- Spontaneity and the art of creating
- Growing your capacity for calling in opportunities
- The power of meditation
- Sky’s “social media diet”
- Top lessons in Sky’s career so far
- Trusting your intuition as an entrepreneur
Mentioned:
- Ksenia on Jess Meltzer’s podcast, Indecisively Decisive: Tiny Homes, Productivity and Social Media
- Founder of Lead with Love Gina Murdock
- Lauren Roxburgh
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About Sky Meltzer:
Sky Meltzer is a mission driven leader and entrepreneur with over 20 years of global consumer, investment, and management experience. He has a track record for building authentic and premium brands in the health and wellness space. He is the founder and executive chairman of WellSet. Prior to Wellset, Sky was the CEO of Manduka where he led the company from the founder’s garage to become the global leader worldwide for technical yoga equipment. Under his leadership the company grew revenue by over 40 times and had two successful private equity exits.
Before Manduka, Sky was the Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for YogaWorks. Sky spent the ten years prior working in the technology, media, and finance sectors, holding positions that span from investment banking analyst at Soundview Financial Group to Brand Manager at MGM Studios.
Sky currently serves as a board member for YogaWorks, Pear Sport and Manduka. He is an investor and advisor to several wellness and technology startups. Sky graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in economics. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and four kids.
Quotes by Sky Meltzer:
- “You don’t learn this [important lesson] in business school or in economics… value intuition more than the head.”
- “Making business projections is important but it takes away the spontaneity, the real art of creation and listening to your intuition and to what’s in front of you.”
- “The new paradigm [of business] is being right here, right now, addressing the biggest task at hand and allowing the outcome be so much bigger than what was on the projection model because there is room for spontaneity, listening, adjusting and moving toward where to motion is.”
- “The life of an entrepreneur is an iterative cycle of growing one’s capacity for problems, opportunities and lessons.”
- “Intuition is there if you listen to it.”
