There are many fashion podcasts, but few are as unfiltered and raw as I’m Not Dead. The show was founded last year by fashion world friends Sarah Clary and Christina Glickman.

The goal of the podcast was to create a community where women can connect over shared experiences. The podcast name comes from women seeing each other. “It represents the resilience of women in the face of pressure to do it all,” said Glickman.

“It’s about finding strength in vulnerability, courage in adversity, and finding the moments of joy that remind us of what it is to be, and feel, alive.”

It’s a safe space, and women like Julianne Moore, Jennifer Grey and Megan Rapinoe have been guests. The focus is on building connections without any judging or pettiness. “This is a place where women can engage in meaningful conversations about triumphs, failures, and everything in between,” said Clary, who worked as a designer at J. Crew and helped Jenna Lyons launch her brand, Loveseen before joining the editorial team at Coveteur.

Meanwhile, Glickman is a TEDx speaker who has hosted her own podcast called Xtra: Life & Style Unscripted, and is the managing director of beauty brand, Beautycounter.

The podcast is now in its second season, and they have a wide variety of guests of women you know—or should know. It includes Mary McGee, an 87-year-old motorcycle road racer who has blazed through the desert with Steve McQueen and Jamie Lynn Sigler, who is best known for her role in the HBO series, The Sopranos but now runs a podcast called Messy with Christina Applegate. They recently had athletes Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird talk about their new podcast, A Touch More, too.

“It will always be about women and their stories,” said Clary. “It all started with a phone call last January. We felt like a lot of women we knew seemed to have an invisible expiration date hanging on them. That there was a chapter closed or that they didn’t have permission to change. And honestly, it made us mad.”

She explains: “We wanted to shout: ‘hey, women, you aren’t dead if you decide to change careers, or you decide to get divorced or never have children.’ We wanted women to know they are more alive than ever, so we decided we needed to do something to ignite that feeling. And that started with women supporting women through storytelling.”

The I’m Not Dead podcast identifies itself more broadly than just a podcast. It is a self-proclaimed media company but defining that 2024 is somewhat of a challenge considering the media industry is in constant flux. Their merch shop features an array of branded fashion items, from a embroidered blue collar shirt, to socks, striped pajamas, caps and tote bags.

“Women aren’t one thing, so we don’t want to talk to our audience in just one way,” said Glickman. “That’s the beauty of modern media: accessibility. We want to engage with women on various platforms whether it be through the podcast, social media, products and, most importantly, in a way that matters.”

The recent episode featuring Julianne Moore had the actor offering insight into her own life. As she said: “I think women knowing that there is more opportunity makes it easier to feel generous with one another, and I think we have also learned as we are doing this, we have learned that our greatest allies are each other.”

The duo feel that women should be having more honest conversations with each other. “Celebratory ones, funny ones,” said Glickman. “The ones that make you feel less alone and motivated to move through life in a way that’s on your own terms. And that no matter how you show up you have allies rooting for you.”

Clary said she has shared her most vulnerable moments on the podcast, and it has helped women going through the same thing.

“I want women to find community in their conversations with other women,” she said.

The podcast’s sponsor for the second season is a fashion brand called Mother. To support the podcast, the brand is donating to Everytown For Gun Safety to help support safer gun laws.

Next up, Glickman and Clary will continue to host the podcast through its second season and continue to grow the brand.

“We do believe that everyone has a story,” said Clary. “We want to share the everyday hustle, reinventions, perseverance, insecurities and grit of the women you don’t know. The women that are putting their head down, doing it and failing and succeeding, all without celebration.”

Listen to I’m Not Dead on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.