Support is Sexy

Oh my, it's our anniversary! Hooray for you and me!!! Thank you SO MUCH for making this first year of the Support is Sexy podcast so extraordinary! More than 100,000 downloads, 257 episodes and counting, interviews with more than 150 incredible women entrepreneurs around the world -- from Singapore to Dubai to London to San Francisco -- the journey has been more than I every could have imagined! I...

Dahcia Bastien became fascinated with the idea of becoming an entrepreneur during college at University at Albany, when her boyfriend-now-husband, Jacques Bastien -- who freelanced throughout school -- defined entrepreneurship as the freedom to create something that's your own. Dahcia didn't know exactly what that freedom looked like for her, but what she made sure to do was remain open to the pos...

While we're busy building our businesses, creating lives we love and gathering experiences along the way, it is important to remember to give. How are you giving with intention? What are the ways that you are choosing to support someone who may be less privileged than you are? On this episode, I challenge you to give some thoughts to the ways that you're giving and being of service in your busines...

5-4-3-2-1... If, within just five seconds, you challenged yourself to do the thing you said you were going to do -- to keep a commitment, send that email, make that call, feed the kids, go to the gym -- think of how different (and productive!) life would be.   This is a lesson I'm learning while reading the book, The 5 Second Rule, by Mel Robbins. I highly recommend it! Such a simple concept that...

Pam Perry knew very early on that she was meant to be an entrepreneur -- partly because she liked figuring out more efficient ways of doing things and partly because she was fired from nearly every job she had as a teenager. Seventeen years later, Pam is celebrating nearly two decades as CEO of Pam Perry PR and Founder of Ministry Marketing Solutions -- helping her clients push their dreams forwar...

Scareletta Media Founder and Social Stylist Melanie Mackie considers herself an accidental entrepreneur. The United Kingdom native began as a blogger in 2009 sharing tips about social media, long before many were turning to the internet for content and the market had yet to become saturated in the U.K. and throughout the world. Through her work online, and because of the freedom and flexibility it...

We've all heard the phrase, "Fake It Til You Make It." On this episode of the podcast, I propose that, instead, you "Work It Til It's True!" You're not a fake; you're a woman with vision, with dreams, with ideas, and with a plan! So let's work it until that dream becomes a reality. Here are the three phases of working it until it's true: VisionPlanClaim It! Listen to find out how to work each phas...

If there's one thing that entrepreneurship teaches you, whether you're ready for the lesson or not, it's how resourceful you are -- or not. This is one of the things that life strategist SharRon Jamison loves about entrepreneurship, and what she learned from her parents, who always had a side hustle when she was growing up. SharRon -- a native of Missouri who moved around 14 times with her teen pa...

I get it -- when you're building your business and creating something sexy it's go, go go, right? If it's going well, you don't want it to stop so you keep pushing; or, if it's not going so well, you feel like you can't stop so you keep pushing. Either way, the result is you pushing and pushing and pushing.  Here's the thing about pushing, eventually, if you're not careful, your body will push bac...

When Gilda Squire's mom passed away when she was 15, it impacted the trajectory of her life. Instead of graduating high school and going directly to George Mason College -- which was her dream, she ended up working for the FBI in order to take care of herself and make her own money. And since then, the Ruther Glen, Virginia, native has felt like her mother has been with her as her guardian angel,...

I don't care how gentle a rejection is, there's always some part of it that makes us say, "Ouch!" I went through this recently after receiving a rejection from an agent about my book proposal for the "Support is Sexy" book. (OUCH!) But, I learned something from this experience. On this episode, I share what I learned from the experience, and three ways that you can handle rejection as the journey...

Whether starting a business or you're already in the swing of things and looking for new ways to serve your customer, client or audience, the best way to find out what they need is to ASK! You know better than anyone what you feel would be most helpful to you at this stage of your business. So I'm asking you, help me help YOU! :) Tell me what what you want, what you need, what will truly help you...

As women in today's world, we certainly are embracing our agency more and creating lives and businesses that we love; but there are still times when we have to be reminded that WE have control of our own narratives. At a time when our decisions, our bodies and our access to opportunities continue to be blocked in many ways, remember that you are the author of your life (or the co-author, if you're...

Since she was 14 years old, growing up in Littleton, Colorado, Ann Shoket always knew that she would be a woman of the world, one with great power. Though she's not sure exactly where that confidence came from at such a young age, the author and celebrated former magazine editor says she was always confident in the power of women. Years later, Ann would install that girl power into teen girls arou...

Born in the Philippines, Maria-Karmina Landicho came to the U.S. at age three and was taught from early on by her father that everything was possible; but, as an immigrant, she often felt like an outsider. When she found her parents' typewriter and began to write, Maria-Karmina discovered the thing that made her feel like she belonged: telling people's stories and later becoming a journalist. Toda...

This week is for the dreamers who are ready to become DOERS. And in support of moving you through that sometimes frustrating process, I'm doing a series this week on the podcast called "Get Out Your Dreams." Each day, we'll focus on a part of the process and I'll ask you questions that I think will help you work through it — questions that I, and many of my clients, have used in the past. Today's...

This week is for the dreamers who are ready to become DOERS. And in support of moving you through that sometimes frustrating process, I'm doing a series this week on the podcast called "Get Out Your Dreams." Each day, we'll focus on a part of the process and I'll ask you questions that I think will help you work through it — questions that I, and many of my clients, have used in the past. Today's...

This week is for the dreamers who are ready to become DOERS. And in support of moving you through that sometimes frustrating process, I'm doing a series this week on the podcast called "Get Out Your Dreams." Each day, we'll focus on a part of the process and I'll ask you questions that I think will help you work through it — questions that I, and many of my clients, have used in the past. Today's...

This week is for the dreamers who are ready to become DOERS. And in support of moving you through that sometimes frustrating process, I'm doing a series this week on the podcast called "Get Out Your Dreams." Each day, we'll focus on a part of the process and I'll ask you questions that I think will help you work through it — questions that I, and many of my clients, have used in the past.   Today'...

This week is for the dreamers who are ready to become DOERS. And in support of moving you through that sometimes frustrating process, I'm doing a series this week on the podcast called "Get Out Your Dreams." Each day, we'll focus on a part of the process and I'll ask you questions that I think will help you work through it -- questions that I, and many of my clients, have used in the past.   Today...

There will be times -- in business and in life -- where you may feel like a loser. Times when you are definitely losing the game you're playing -- no money coming in, relationship not flourishing, work just not working. But no matter the circumstance or the struggle, always remember that you are a WINNER. Always.   DON'T MISS AN EPISODE! SUBSCRIBE to Support is Sexy podcast on Apple Podcasts or on...

Ashleigh Blatt made her first sales pitch in the aisle of her parents' carpet store when she was just six-years old. Ever since then, the upstate New York native has had the entrepreneurial itch. Though she didn't give in to that itch until after she spent a few years working in an office and living what she calls the "fluorescent light life," Ashleigh knew she wanted to be more than just one of t...

Support is sexy. By now, you'd think I know this; but even I need a reminder once in a while. We all do. So in this episode I share a few reminders not only of the ways that support is so sexy, but also some tips on HOW to effectively ask for and accept support. Sometimes we don't realize we are the only ones holding ourselves back from the support we need to move forward.    DON'T MISS AN EPISODE...

Who is the woman you have to become to become the woman you want to be? To create the business you want to create? To experience the life you want to experience? To make your dream a reality? You may have to become the woman who is on some other shit. On this episode I talk about how to become OK with being the woman who is on some other shit when it comes to creating the business and life of your...

Genecia Alluora has been working since she was 14 years old. Not because she wanted to; but in order to help support her family who struggled financially in Singapore, where she was born and raised. During that time, Genecia was bullied by some of the kids at her school, was an introvert and, she says, was considered an "ugly duckling." Today, Genecia is a former Miss Singapore International, a se...