Support is Sexy

What do you do when everyone is telling you to stop focusing on something your heart tells you is right for your business and instead they advise to just focus on money (especially when you really need that money)? What do you do when you can leverage your "difference" as an American living in Prague, but you've also had to navigate being considered "different" your whole life? What do you do when...

Tyrona Heath, Global Lead of the B2B Institute at LinkedIn and owner of her own B2B Consulting agency -- Spectacled Marketer, is passionate about connecting people to information needed to make intelligent decisions. She delivers educational content to help marketers stay on top of the latest in B2B marketing strategies, and teaches and writes about B2B marketing, inbound marketing strategy, accou...

Jenn Nicken was working as a marketing executive at Apple iTunes when her travels inspired her to launch a company that would let people learn to cook from renowned international chefs without ever leaving their kitchens. From this inspiration, The Chef and the Dish was born! By taking a cooking class on The Chef and the Dish, users get connected private, live lessons via Skype with top chefs in I...

On today's REWIND of the Support is Sexy podcast recorded in Sofia, Bulgaria, yoga instructor and Adidas marketing executive Kremena Yordanova shares the importance of celebrating your failures, how yoga helped her soften up and why she embraces a both-and mindset rather than an either-or mindset when it comes to creating the life and doing the work you love. For more interviews with women entrepr...

On today's Support is Sexy podcast REWIND EPISODE -- recorded during my travels in Valencia, Spain, I speak to empowerment coach Jodie Rogers, who consults corporations on building relationships, team building and redefining success. Jodie, who was born near Belfast, Ireland, and relocated to Valencia with her husband, talks about the importance of having the courage to take action and gaining con...

On this REWIND of the Support is Sexy podcast, I take you to a streets cafe in Valencia, Spain, where I interviewed Kate Redding -- owner of Valencia Private Tours. Kate fell in love with Valencia after visiting 20 years ago, got married, and filled a gap in the travel market with her company Valencia Private Tours. And I fell in love with interviewing women entrepreneurs like Kate in person, as t...

This episode makes my eyes water every time I listen to it. I know what a blessing is to have my mom in my life at this stage of my life. I also know a good word is meant to be shared (even if part of the word includes my mother spreading my business in the streets). :)  Listen in to our chat during a day filled with running errands and words of wisdom about vision commitment, faith and more.  Tha...

Today's Support is Sexy REWIND episode was a dream come true. I had he opportunity to speak to Jnane Tamsna hotel owner Meryanne Loum-Martin in the hotel's garden in Marrakech, Morocco. I read about Meryanne — a visionary of the industry and the first and only Black woman to own a hotel in Morocco — in several publications, including Essence and Black Enterprise — more than a year ago, and I vowed...

I've been stalling on launching courses for way too long -- even though developing a best-in-class online learning platform for women entrepreneurs is part of my vision! No more stalling, I'm proud to announce the Support is Sexy Academy, or SiS Academy for short. Please go to sis.academy to check out the courses, and see what I've been up to and how I can help you grow your business! Plus, be sur...

Today's Support is Sexy REWIND episode was recorded in Johannesburg, South Africa, at the home of Yvette Gayle -- a highly respected, 20+ year former executive of the music industry for companies like Sony, Universal and Interscope Geffen Records, where she worked with artists like Nas and Mary J. Blige. Yvette shares what it means to leave your high-level job, move your family to another country...

This week, I'm in Martha's Vineyard spending high-quality time with my besties for some weeklong girl bonding. While I'm away and take some time to reset during my travels, you'll hear episodes of the podcast from Morocco, Bulgaria, Prague, Cape Town, Spain and more as we highlight women I interviewed while I traveled and lived within 5 different countries last year. It was an experience of a life...

Thanks to Jill Salzman's search of a better way to connect with other mompreneurs in 2010, she created Founding Moms -- which, today, is a global organization of offline meetups and online resources for more than 12,000 mom entrepreneurs to build better businesses. Her weekly masterminds take place in 60+ cities and she has online resources that include video courses, forums, weekly Q&A, business...

Dr. Marcia Morgan is a Criminologist and CEO of Migima -- a woman-run, international criminal justice research, training and consulting firm founded in 1980. Migima specializes in gender and sexual violence issues and dedicated to giving women a voice. Migima has written more than 20 national "gender-responsive" training curricula for staff in prisons and jails on how to support incarcerated women...

As generous women, we want to give everything away; as business women we must remember that recognizing our value helps us become better entrepreneurs and better women. On this episode of the Support is Sexy podcast I share news of how I pushed myself to recognize my value (with help of my coach) and create something that I can offer as a service to my audience rather than giving it all away, as I...

"No" is a part of the process when you're an entrepreneur. You will have disappointments, or moments when you think it's going to go one way (your way) but it goes in another. You will have times when you feel highs and lows in the same day, and the lows may throw you for a loop. That's okay, as my coach Margo Geller says, "first feel , second solve." And as I share in this episode, after you feel...

In this episode of the  Support is Sexy  podcast, I share how you can relieve the weight of a "have to" by shifting your language to "get to." Instead of thinking about whatever it is as something you "have to" do -- think of it, with gratitude even, as a "get to." Being intentional about your language helps you level up your mindset and shift your perspective to one of hope and optimism. Get insp...

In this episode I share the beauty of realizing that you have the power to "skip a chapter." You don't have to be tied down by something that's not working just because it's what you think you're "supposed" to do. Give yourself to freedom to go where the inspiration leads you. Get even more inspiration from women entrepreneurs around the world at supportissexy.com ! Learn more about your ad choice...

Keep showing up! Even when no one is there. Are you showing up just for others or are you showing up for your vision and yourself? Whether others are watching or not, the Universe sees you and knows that you. Show. Up. Be the example for yourself and for others in your commitment to your vision. Here, I share how a run in the park (and a missing truck) reminded me about the importance of showing u...

Lucrezia Bisignani is a social entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of London-based Kukua, an entertainment and education company founded in 2014 to produce educational content for children in Africa to help battle illiteracy throughout the continent's 200 million children. Kukua reaches these children through the use of mobile apps, toys, an upcoming TV franchise and Super Sema — Africa's first a...

On this episode of the Support is Sexy podcast, I share what I learned from listening to Ed Mylett's podcast about the value of doing just one more. One more rep, one more step, one more minute working on that project not only puts you way ahead of the competition in the long run, it gives you more confidence and a sense of accomplishment than you had the day before. So do it: Just. One. More. Lis...

Today we're celebrating three years of the Support is Sexy podcast! Here are three key things I've learned during this journey, which has taken me around the world interviewing women entrepreneurs and sharing their stories -- from Morocco to Spain to Prague and more. Hear more for inspiring women entrepreneurs around the world at supportissexy.com ! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastc...

Lesley Jane Seymour is a legendary magazine editor, who has been editor-in-chief of some of the most well-known women's magazines in the world, including Redbook , Marie Claire and most recently More magazine. Full stop. And when More magazine closed up shop and folded in 2016, Lesley opened herself up to what might be next after a long, successful career in media -- an industry that was constantl...

Stefanie Gass is the host and creator of The Mompreneur Mastermind Show Podcast and Podcast Pro University. As she says, "fueled by iced coffee, oversized lounge clothes, mom buns, and snuggles from her littles… she is a wife and mama on a mission." Stefanie has six online, self-study courses covering social media marketing, sales, funnels, and podcast creation, and through private coaching she te...

Traditional startup advice doesn't always apply to female or minority founders. Nontraditional founders don't always have the same resources as other entrepreneurs -- but investors, business books, and blogs assume you do. They won't know you're the first person to go to college in your family. They won't know you don't have access to a "friends and family" funding round. In her new book, Mechanic...

It's that time, mid-year already, when we start to reflect (and probably beat ourselves up) about the things we said we were going to commit to doing at the start of this year but we have yet to even start. It happens. What will separate you from the rest and get you to take the first step is that you have to commit to  recommit , and you may have to do that again and again. Stumbling or never sta...