How to Build Real Sisterhood in Business

In this conversation, Tammy Maynard discusses the importance of authentic sisterhood among women in business. She emphasizes the need for real connections, overcoming feelings of isolation, and the steps to cultivate supportive relationships. Through personal anecdotes and practical advice, she encourages women to embrace vulnerability and seek out genuine community, ultimately leading to personal and professional growth.

Takeaways

• Real success in business doesn't mean doing it all alone.
• Isolation can hinder personal and professional growth.
• Many women feel unseen and unsupported in their journeys.
• Sisterhood is about being real and vulnerable with each other.
• Building trust takes consistency and showing up for one another.
• Encouragement and support are essential in sisterhood.
• Finding alignment with like-minded women is crucial.
• It's important to celebrate others without expecting anything in return.
• Vulnerability can be a source of strength, not weakness.
• Creating a micro community can foster deeper connections.

Chapters

00:00 The Importance of Real Sisterhood
02:22 Overcoming Isolation in Business
04:37 Steps to Cultivate Sisterhood
07:27 Empowering Women Through Connection
09:40 A Prayer for Sisterhood

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Chapters

• 0:00 The Importance of Real Sisterhood
• 2:22 Overcoming Isolation in Business
• 4:37 Steps to Cultivate Sisterhood
• 7:27 Empowering Women Through Connection
• 9:40 A Prayer for Sisterhood

Transcript

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Welcome to the Unmuted CEO Podcast. I'm Tammy Maynard, and this is where Montrepreneurs come to turn quiet potential into free paid impact. If you've been billing in silence, second guessing your voice, or wondering when you'll finally step into the spotlight, you're in the right place. Here there's no fluff, no perfection, just real conversations about visibility, confidence, and building a business that works with your life, not against it. So grab your coffee girl, your tea, or whatever keeps you sane today. And let's dive in. Today, I want to talk about the side of women's empowerment that doesn't get a cute hashtag. While women don't always support other women. Is it jealousy? Is it trauma? Is it culture? Or is it something deeper? Something we need to drag into the light if we ever want to change it? If this makes you squirm, good. You can't heal what you won't confront. How many times have you heard community over competition? Empowered women empower women. Or we rise by lifting others. But here's the truth, sis. Sometimes the most hurtful words in business and life come from other women. Not men, not clients, but sisters. The silent unfollows. The girl I'm rooting for you in public. Then she thinks she's all that in private. The group chat you're not in, the deals you weren't invited to, the support that's conditional if you're not too successful, not too loud, not too different. Let's get real. Not every woman is happy to see you win. Studies show women report higher rates of workplace sabotage, exclusion, and even bullying from other women. If her success feels like your failure, you'll start resenting her. Church culture. Sometimes even our faith spaces pit women against women. Think ladies ministry drama or pastor's wife politics. I have lost friends when my brand grew. I've been the outsider in groups run by women who preached sisterhood on Sunday and whispered about me on Monday. I've had ideas stolen, invitations revoked, even seeing women try to turn others against me just because I refuse to shrink? Have you ever been there? The pain is different when it comes from a woman you rooted for. Let's have a real conversation though. Imagine you're at a branch with your closest girls. Have you ever felt another woman low-key competing with you in business or motherhood? Do you trust other women with your ideas? Or do you hold back because of past drama? Are you ever afraid your success will cost you your friendships? If you're nodding, you're not alone. Common confessions I've heard in DMs and circles. Some were I love to support women until they start doing better than me. I want to root for my friends, but it's hard when they have what I'm praying for. Act happy for her, but I'm jealous. I'm scared to outshine my mother. What if she stopped helping me? Since there's no shame in admitting this, but there's danger in pretending it's not real. Here's the cost of fake sisterhood. Let's talk consequences. We stay small, afraid to outgrow our circle. We stop collaborating because we don't trust. We build brands, not bonds, keeping relationships shallow. We pass on the poison, teaching the next generation that women are unsafe. Here's a stat that will shock you. Over one in three women leaders have had another woman actively undermine or withhold support for their career. That's not just mean girl energy. That's a cycle of sabotage. Here's some unpopular truths about why we do this. Let's go a little deeper. Jealousy isn't always about money or looks. It's often about freedom, watching a woman do what you're afraid to do. Religious spaces don't always heal this. Sometimes they hide it. Sisterhood requires safety and honesty. Most of us haven't learned how to say, sis, I'm struggling to celebrate you. Pray for me. Here's where it gets controversial. Sometimes women will root for you until you reach a level that makes them confront their own excuses. And sometimes we secretly believe that if another woman wins, God has less left for us. That's not kingdom. And it's not community. But how do we change it? By building real sisterhood. This is where we start the revolution. One, get honest about envy in yourself and in others. When you feel it, name it and pray about it. DM a sister, whoever inspires you or whoever triggers you. Ask, can you talk about it? Stop pretending and start healing. Two, stop networking. Start bonding. Build relationships with no agenda. Show up for women who can't help you. Celebrate publicly. Support privately. Number three, protect your energy and your vision. Not everyone is your people. Set boundaries with toxic or drama-driven circles, even faith ones. Number four, make room at your table. Mentor women who remind you of old you. Share resources, contacts, strategies, no gatekeeping. And number five, let go of the one queen myth. God's table is big enough for us all. Your win is not my loss, and my shine doesn't dim yours. Let's do the work. On air and off. Here's your homework and mine. You need to forgive for past sabotage or competition. Who do you need to cheer for, even if it stings? Who can you invite up with you instead of competing against? If you're in the sisterhood group, let's make this a safe space for hard honesty. Here's the faithful foundation. What God says about sisterhood. Let's anchor this. Look in Ecclesiastics chapter four, verse nine through ten. Two are better than one. If either of them falls down, one can help the other up, but pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Look at Romans chapter twelve, verse fifteen. Rejoice with those who rejoice, mourn with those who mourn. And also Proverbs chapter twenty seven verse seventeen. As iron sharpens iron, so one woman sharpens another. My translation says. The enemy wants women isolated, intimidated, suspicious, and alone. But God wants us healed, whole, and united. Let us pray sis. Dear God, right now I pray for every woman carrying wounds from other women, sisters, friends, mentors, church ladies, business partners, whoever. Pray for the one who feels safer alone, who trusts nobody with their dreams, who has been backstabbed, left out, torn down by women who should have covered her. God heal the wounds other women caused. Break the cycles of jealousy, sabotage, and insecurity. Forgive us for every time we rooted against a sister. Gossip, withheld, or compared. Release us from the lie that there's not enough room. Show us how to celebrate each other, to pray for each other, to mean it when we say I'm happy for you. Give us courage to have hard conversations, to admit when we're jealous, to forgive when we're hurt, to build real bonds that can't be shaken by success or struggle. Raise up a generation of women who are safe for each other, who create circles, not cliques, who open doors, not shut them. And Lord, help us see ourselves and our sisters the way you do. Worthy, wanted, wildly loved. In Jesus' almighty name. Amen. Since I want your feedback, have you ever been sabotaged? Or have you ever sabotaged another woman or even unintentionally? I want you to tag me at Tammy Maynard underscore official or DM me your story. Join our unmuted sisterhood if you need a safer and healthier circle. Remember, your win is our win. We don't rise alone. We stay bold, stay honest, and stay unmuted. If this lit a fire in your soul, don't keep it to yourself. Share it with another woman who needs this word. And let's grow this movement together. Be sure to subscribe and leave a review so you never miss an episode. And don't forget to grab your free visibility checklist. Link in the show notes. Want more support and real conversations? Join our Unmuted and Seen sisterhood on Facebook. And let's build a community where every woman feels seen, supported, and celebrated. Remember, girls, your comfort zone is not your friend zone. Break free, be bold, and keep showing up. This is Tammy Maynard. And you've been listening to the Unmuted CEO podcast, where we turn fear into fuel and dreams into reality. I believe in you, and I hope you do too. See you next time, sis.