Support is Sexy

Art Steele is the president of her own law firm, Law Office of Art Steele, host of the popular podcast, Legal-EASE for Entrepreneurs and she gets to be of service to entrepreneurs and small business owners who need her support. Listen as she talks about the three people you must have on your list as an entrepreneur and why legal advice is crucial from the very start of your business, plus the candid truth about how it's not easy to leave the "big job" and be an entrepreneur. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Want to know how to get those multi-million dollar contracts? For DC Media Connection President and CEO Angel Livas, collaboration is key, especially for women-owned businesses. On this episode of Support is Sexy, Angel shares insightful advice for why you should consider working with government agencies and how you need to prep your business to make sure you're ready to go when the opportunities (and the RFPs) become available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Marketing specialist Cloris Kylie has news for you: There's much more to being an influencer than how many followers you have. In fact, Cloris teaches her clients how to connect with influencers -- which may be even more impactful for your business -- rather than figure out how to be one. Learn the three mistakes entrepreneurs commonly make when reaching out to influencers and smart tips for ways you can show up to support them and their audiences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Know that whatever challenges you may be experiencing, whatever it is that's making you want to quit right now, it is probably appearing in your business or in your life because you're close to the finish line. Don't give up! Dig deep! Keep going! Get support! You're almost there! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Let's face it, in business, as in life, there will be times when we simply have to take the "L." Some may view it as a loss, but why not reframe it and view it as a LESSON. This is what social entrepreneur Rachel Osinaike -- author of the new book, Bounce Back: Turning Trials into Triumphs -- teaches other women how to do as they embrace where they are in the moment, know that they can bounce back from mistakes of the past and learn to change their story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After hearing news of the passing of fashion designer Kate Spade, I had to record this episode to make sure you know one thing: You are not alone. Never forget that. You are not alone. There are MANY ways that you can get support, so do not give up. You are not alone. SOME RESOURCES TO SUPPORT YOU: National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 800-273-8255 (TALK) International Help Line: To come. (We've reached out for this resource.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this episode of the Support is Sexy podcast, Tressa Azarel Smallwood -- founder of Life Changing Books, who has consulted more than 2000 authors -- she shares the ins and outs of self-publishing, common mistakes most authors make, and how to go after your business idea even when nobody believes in it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Shoptiques.com, where Olga Vidisheva is founder and CEO, started out with 25 boutiques, has more than 6500 boutiques and millions of customers, and Olga remains committed to helping these small businesses thrive in new ways. On this episode of the Support is Sexy podcast, Olga shares her winding journey, her steadfast mission, and why weighing your options and going with your gut is the way to survive as an entrepreneur. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On today's episode, I challenge you to show yourself a little bit of grace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On today's episode, I challenge you love up on YOURSELF! There are things that we beat ourselves up for, ways that we demean ourselves and a manner that we speak to ourselves that we would never use to speak to someone else. Even if you're not having these harsh thoughts out loud, they're just as powerful if you're thinking them. So today I challenge you to write down 10 (yes, TEN) things that you love about yourself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For your daily challenge on today's episode of the Support is Sexy podcast, I challenge you to do something that scares you. Only you know what that something is. So look at yourself in the mirror and decide, today is the day. Then take that first step. Not fearless, but brave. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On today's episode, I challenge you be more intentional (and responsible) about offering support to other women! Overall, are you being intentional about who you way you want to be, what you say you want to do and what you say you hope to have? Be, do, have with intention. This challenge includes a tip for how to do so when it comes to support. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, I'm going to propose a daily challenge for you each day with the intention of nudging you outside of your comfort zone and a little closer to your breakthrough. On today's episode I challenge you to let go of the things that no longer serve you -- in your business and in your life -- whether that's a physical product, a behavior, a belief or a bad habit. Let that thing go! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this episode, I challenge you to reflect on a question posed to us by Mary Shores, author of Conscious Communications, who was featured on episode 466 of the Support is Sexy podcast: What is your archetype? And what qualities that you admire in that individual may already exist in you? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this episode of the Support is Sexy podcast, wellness expert and business advisor Amina AlTai shares what it means to be "entreprenourished," why a healthy you equals a healthy bottom line, and why sometimes getting well means letting some things go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this episode of the Support is Sexy podcast, Jennifer Faherty -- founder of Financial Wealth Being -- shares how you can take a holistic approach to your relationship with money, an exercise you can do to change your thinking about money and smart tips for how you can determine your prices in your business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this episode of the Support is Sexy podcast, Monica shares the roadblocks women entrepreneurs come up against -- and some that we even create for ourselves -- that stop us from reaching those million-dollar milestones, and how to pivot and embrace the idea of changing up your plan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mary Shores has spent over a decade teaching businesses and individuals how to identify their goals, create new ways of thinking, and take action to create meaningful results. Listen today and get motivated to take action and move forward! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When it comes to your vision, better believe it! YOU are worthy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sarah Bay who is the co-founder of Bliss prospecting and Sarah talks to us about what prospecting means, why it's important to your business. Her company which she co-founded with her husband focuses on small businesses. So, she really gives insight on the ways that we can look at prospecting, how we can identify our ideal clients. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fitlosophy's founder, Angela Mader, shares how she created the company's flagship product, Fitbook™, and subsequent line of products and programs, to promote embracing a healthy lifestyle. She gives great insights building your brand and how being small does not mean you can't look big! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kongit is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (CA – 97773) and her therapeutic approach is eclectic, but firmly rooted in CBT, Narrative and Solution-Focused methodologies. She is an EMDR therapist and is completing advanced course work in Sex Therapy at The Buehler Institute of Orange County. Kongit is the Founder of the Inspired Journey Counseling Center in Downtown Los Angeles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rachel has spent several years of learning, coaching, and facilitating experiences on leadership development, organizational development, and racial equity. She believes all leaders have the capacity to catalyze and sustain positive change. She created a program that allows you to learn at your own pace, a program that makes complex topics approachable, and a program that propels my goals forward with intentional support. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this episode of Support is Sexy, I share instances of "ambition shaming" that women often come against as entrepreneurs, as career women, as moms, and simply as women who refuse to shrink in order to make everyone else in the room feel comfortable. It's time to step into your power and proclaim yourself as unapologetically ambitious! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ellie Hearne started Pencil or Ink after spending 10+ years helping people communicate. As a coach, content expert, and facilitator, she has seen firsthand the impact good communication has on businesses, individuals, and teams. Listen as we discuss the importance of communication, being a good listener and respecting people's time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Anjelica Malone is a doula and a perinatal wellness expert and she shares ways that we can make sure that we have our own voice that we're standing up for ourselves during pregnancy and certainly after pregnancy. This episode is for you if you want to learn how to use your own voice whether pregnant or not. How you can be an advocate for yourself and how can you be an advocate for someone else. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Erin Summ is a Confidence Coach and she shares with us how confidence can be learned. This episode is for you if you're having struggles with getting out there and being a confident entrepreneur. You'll find new ways to gain confidence and learn how to be a successful introvert! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You don't have to choose between work and travel. You can do both! Trish Kennelly, VP of Experience for Remote Year, a business where they arrange all travel, accommodations, and co-working spaces, so you can stay productive while working abroad. Find out more about stretching outside your comfort zone. Grow personally and professionally in each city you visit through immersive cultural experiences and professional exposure opportunities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A weekend spent with my girls, who have been my dearest friends for more than 20 years, served as a valuable reminder to me about the importance of tribe -- those people who are in your life and a part of your team personally and professionally. In this episode I share the importance of building your tribe. Because YOU deserve support. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A lap is a lap. That's what I learned in my final adult swimming lesson when a mental block kept me from completing the front stroke from one end of the pool from the other. I was caught up on what it had to look like, and how I was going to accomplish that goal. Once I let go of the HOW, I had a breakthrough, one that serves as a powerful reminder in today's episode: A lap is a lap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rachel Hollis speaks to women about how to get over these fears of who we think we are supposed to be as opposed to being who we're meant to be. IN THIS EPISODE: Overcoming fears that are holding us back from becoming the person we were meant to be Learn more about the business of her website TheChicSite.com Content creation and the business of blogging Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cianna Stewart started the no complaining project from her own desire to stop complaining. Cianna Stewart realized just how much she was complaining and just how much it was affecting her so she created a movement called the no complaint project Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Christina Garrett is the founder of running a momathon which is all about bringing together a community of moms and supporting them. In this episode: How to manage your household and make it all work for you The importance of having a vision for yourself and your family How you have to reverse engineer your success. Shaking off the superwoman notion How to stay prayed up and ready Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, I share an important lesson I learned during my adult swimming class about the importance of showing up consistently, being open, deciding what matters and learning how to breathe! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There are just a handful of women whom I consider my modern-day writer sheroes. NY Times bestselling author and entrepreneur Denene Millner is one of them. If you're in Atlanta on Thursday, April 26th, 2018, come out to the headquarters of Digital Undivided at 6:30PM for a fireside chat where I will get to ask Denene -- who was also episode SIX of the Support is Sexy podcast -- all my writer questions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Listen to Adrienne Lynch her share her story on building her successful company and why it is important to register your business as a minority or woman owned business. Adrienne Nicole Productions is a full-service video production company that provides engaging videography and photography content for clients looking to increase their visibility. They shoot, edit, produce, direct, create motion graphics, animation, and a lot more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Michelle Green, CEO of Biz of Baking, shares her journey of following her passion, building her business and helping food entrepreneurs find sweet success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of the Support is Sexy podcast, Nicole Roberts Jones -- CEO of the Fierce Factor Lab -- shares how women entrepreneurs (and career women, too!) can bankroll their brilliance, step into their power, create multiple streams of income and live lives they love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As we wrap our weeklong series on "Building Your Team," we close with chatting about a part of the process that may be them most difficult for some of us -- especially if we were a solopreneur who was, pretty much, running the business and doing everything by ourselves the past couple of years. That point of the process when you have to let go of the reins and move out of the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're continuing our series on "Building Your Team." Now that you've chosen your ideal teammates, let's talk about on-boarding -- the process, the documents and the tools that may be helpful in setting you and your team up for success! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As we continue our series on "Building Your Team," we chat about questions to ask yourself when thinking about finding your ideal candidate to bring on-board in your business. Not perfect, but, yes, ideal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this episode, we continue our series on Building Your Team and get real about areas in your business where you need support the most. What are the tasks that you're holding on to that you really don't need to do? Where are you saying "yes" when you should be saying "no" and delegating in order to grow your business? The exercise on this episode will help you decide where to bring in the support you need. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Your business is growing and you're at the point where you want to build your team. But where do you start? In this episode I share some of the questions I used to reverse engineer my vision for my company and how that helped me start to build a team to support me. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's time to stop playing small and hiding in the shadows in your business, your career, your relationship, your personal life. Stand in your light. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this episode of Support is Sexy, creativity coach and mentor Kristin Iris challenges all of the excuses many of us, as writers, lean on when we're having resistance with being our most creative selves. Kristin -- a writer herself, who takes a pull-no-punches approach to pushing creatives to stretch and complete the work they set out to create -- talks about how to get out of your head (and out of your own way), how to stop playing small and the truth about writer's block and what is really blocking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this episode of the Support is Sexy podcast, Emily Gaudreau talks about teaching your kids work ethic, grit, empathy and curiosity, being a maverick parent and showing them powerful examples of entrepreneurship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this episode of the Support is Sexy podcast, Nicole Brewer shares how she and her friend/business partner, who is also a travel lover, decided to launch their new business, iluv2globetrot.com, in order to support their travel community, how she gained coverage for the business on major sites such as BBC Travel and National Geographic, and what brands look for when working with travel bloggers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sometimes it's the smallest hurdles that stand in the way of us moving forward with what's best for us, what we want to experience, what we dream of. But you can do it, with support. Here's the lesson I learned about eliminating small hurdles this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this episode of the Support is Sexy podcast, Dr. Renee Matthews shares how, with unwavering intention, you can carve out your own niche, make your mark and optimize opportunities that will help you expand your brand and live your dream -- even if that dream includes sharing the stage with the legendary Oprah Winfrey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this episode of the Support is Sexy podcast, I share how a childhood memory of long road trips from New York to my parents' home in Alabama reminded me of something I need to learn to today as an entrepreneur who's growing her business and expanding her team: Sit back! Find out how to let go of the reins, trust the process and let your team rise to the occasion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices