Ambition sounds different with support.
Support is Sexy centers conversations with women building meaningful lives, businesses, careers, and communities. Its interviews move from personal turning points to practical lessons about asking for help, leading with clarity, and choosing work that fits.
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Support is Sexy is a long-running interview show built around one central idea: having support is not a weakness in ambitious lives. The conversations focus on women who have built careers, companies, bodies of work, public missions, and second chapters with help, courage, and repeated recalibration. It is warm without being weightless. A typical episode lets a guest’s story breathe, then turns that story toward a question the audience can carry into work, relationships, money, purpose, or self-care. Recent conversations show the show’s range. Jean Ibáñez-Payne talks about workplace culture, DEI, tokenism, and why real belonging cannot be handed off to HR. Jelan Agnew frames burnout recovery as a life redesign that starts with an empty notebook and a more honest baseline. Stephanie Morimoto brings self-care into the business lane, talking about Asutra, Venus Williams, QVC, Amazon, and direct-to-consumer growth. JerriAnne Boggis connects Black history preservation to shared memory, resilience, and the hard work of changing beliefs. Tara Roberts brings a writer’s and explorer’s eye to history, ancestry, and following the pull toward meaningful work. Marcia Dawood makes angel investing feel more accessible while tying money to support for companies trying to create change. Other episodes reach into the future of work, DEI strategy, performance, fitness, entertainment, and athletic discipline. The show does not flatten these subjects into generic empowerment. It favors stories that reveal the cost, the support system, and the decision point. The result is a grounded companion for high-achieving women who want to grow without pretending they can or should do everything alone.
Made for: Support is Sexy is for women navigating leadership, entrepreneurship, career change, burnout recovery, creative purpose, and the emotional work of asking for help. It especially fits listeners who like personal growth framed through real conversations with women in motion.
What sets it apart: The show blends coaching-style reflection with guest-led storytelling, so practical takeaways emerge from lived experience rather than canned advice. Its range across business, wellness, culture, history, equity, and money gives women’s leadership a wider, more human frame.
With more than one million downloads and listeners around the world, the Support is Sexy podcast features inspiring conversations with over 500 diverse women leaders around the world who share how they started, when they struggled and how support played a role in their success. Join host Elayne Fluker -- a top executive coach for high-performing women and author of the book, Get Over "I Got It" (HarperCollins) -- as she facilitates dynamic conversations that will support you along YOUR journey of personal and professional development. (To learn more about Elayne, visit www.elaynefluker.com.)
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Elaine Fluker connects business decisions and career transitions to the practical support that helps women keep moving.
Support is Sexy turns business conversations into candid examinations of how women build careers, companies, and working lives with help from other people.
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A clear case for designing workplace equity instead of assuming it.
Jean Ibanez-Payne makes a straightforward case that culture change starts with leadership, not with HR alone. Elaine Fluker keeps the discussion grounded through TI Verbatim Consulting, where Jean lays out a people first approach that uses AI and human judgment together to sort…
Burnout, reinvention, and the discipline of starting from a baseline.
Support is Sexy offers a steady conversation with life coach Jelan Agnew about burnout, reinvention, and what it means to start again from a baseline.
Self-care works best when it fits the life you actually live.
Stephanie Morimoto's return keeps self-care tied to actual work, not as an escape from it. Elaine Fluker guides the discussion through the habits that make a day easier to manage: five intentional breaths between meetings, getting to bed 15 minutes earlier, and a neck massage…
A reflective conversation on preserving Black history when public attention and institutional resolve begin to fade.
This episode treats the preservation of Black history as civic labor that has to outlast moments of public attention. Jerrianne Bogus, executive director of the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire, explains the Trail's role in building awareness and appreciation of African…
A reflective conversation about purpose, support, and following the work that feels light.
Tara Roberts and Elaine Fluker shape a conversation that traces how Written in the Waters grew from Roberts's attention to divers, history, and work that felt aligned.
A grounded conversation about workplace feedback, equity, and the culture decisions leaders have to own.
Workplace culture comes through as a leadership duty, not a side project handed off to HR. Jean Ibanez-Payne, founder and CEO of TI Verbatim Consulting, uses 15 years in corporate life to argue that employees feel valued and respected when leaders model the standards they want…
Gina Diaz connects immigration fear with the difficult work of beginning again.
Gina Diaz gives the episode a steady center by tying immigration fear to the drive to keep moving. As a Chicago immigration and real estate attorney, and the founder of Diaz Case Law, she speaks from both personal pressure and professional purpose.
Women's issues, tested against real lives.
Women's stories with a public-service heart.
Host Elayne Fluker interviews Jean Ibáñez-Payne, founder and CEO of TI Verbatim Consulting, about creating people-first workplace cultures.
Host Elayne Fluker interviews Gina Diaz, a top immigration and real estate attorney in Chicago.
Host Elayne Fluker introduces herself and her coaching services, then interviews Leslie Jane Seymour about reinvention.
Culture cannot just be handed off to HR.
Burnout is the starting point here.
Elaine Fluker welcomes Stephanie Morimoto back to Support is Sexy.
Elaine Fluker speaks with Jerrianne Bogus, executive director of the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire, about preserving 450 years of Black history in a state often framed as white.
Elaine Fluker, executive coach for high-performing women, opens with clear excitement for Tara Roberts.
Host Elayne Fluker interviews angel investor Marsha Dawood about what angel investing is and how to support diverse startups.
Host Elayne Fluker interviews DEI strategist Nzinga Zingshaw about the current state of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.
Host Elayne Fluker interviews Andia Winslow about her career as a professional golfer, voiceover artist, and actress in the series 'A League of Their Own'.
Host Elayne Fluker interviews Trey Anthony about her journey as a Black female playwright and author, focusing on self-love and support.
Host Elayne Fluker interviews Candice Dobie about courage and her new book, Cool Girls Guide to Courage.
Host Elayne Fluker interviews Michelle Swittenberg, CEO of two fitness businesses, about her plan to retire in her 40s and transition into entrepreneurship.
Host Elayne Fluker interviews entrepreneur Jennifer Love about money metamorphosis and building wealth.