Women [In]...

Sondra Connor
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Every woman is a woman in something. Women in tech. Women in energy, trades, trucking, nursing, nonprofits, the back office nobody thanks. Each episode, host Sondra Connor talks to one woman about the field she works in, how she got there, and what it actually cost her. Not a panel. Not a keynote. No book to plug. Just one person describing what her job looks like once the LinkedIn filter comes off... the bad supervisor, the good one, the raise that didn't fix anything, the Tuesday she almost quit. The point isn't inspiration. It's information. You can't want a job you've never heard of, and most careers happen in the unglamorous middle that nobody writes about. The brackets are on purpose. You fill them in. New episodes all season. Want to be a guest? You don't need a book, a keynote, or a following... just a job you actually do. sondra@cheekyrooster.com

Episodes

  1. 3d ago ·  Video

    Women [In]… Private Sector to Higher Education with Lindsey Wilson

    Send us Fan Mail Nine years ago Lindsey Wilson couldn't answer a simple question about her own career: what is the point of all this? She was successful by every metric she could name except the one that mattered, so she left, took a deliberate step backwards in title and pay, and moved into a community college as an experiment. Today she is Chief Marketing and Communications Officer for Maricopa Community Colleges, and her whole job is telling other people's stories. She has a line about it that is hard to shake: it doesn't matter how big your megaphone is, it matters who you give it to. We get into what that costs in practice — the pay cut, the imposter syndrome that still shows up in rooms full of PhDs, and the part of the work she won't let AI near.

  2. Oct 30 ·  Video

    Women [In]… Medicine to Negotiation with Dr. Gloria Esoimeme

    Send us Fan Mail Dr. Gloria Esoimeme arrived in the United States with two hundred and fifty dollars and no admission letter — just a visiting visa and a plan. Inside ten years she had a master's, a PhD and a completed residency. Then she sat in a meeting where a colleague suggested asking for a three-day week and didn't ask, so Gloria did. Every doctor at that hospital still has that option, and she had already left by the time it mattered to her. She is not a woman who isn't afraid. She's a woman who is afraid and asks anyway.

    Women [In]… Medicine to Negotiation with Dr. Gloria Esoimeme

  3. Oct 23 ·  Video

    Women [In]… Corporate Finance to Entrepreneurship with Melissa K. Diaz

    Send us Fan Mail Melissa K. Diaz left corporate finance at a global hotel company because she kept suggesting things nobody wanted suggested. Now she co-owns an accounting firm and spends her days telling founders the truth about their numbers — which foundational documents they skipped, why the $40,000 legal problem arrives right when they can least afford it, and the gut check that tells you whether you actually need outside capital. Her test for whether your pitch works: explain it to a ten-year-old. Also, on the record: women manage their books better, and she can tell you exactly how she knows.

    Women [In]… Corporate Finance to Entrepreneurship with Melissa K. Diaz

  4. Oct 16 ·  Video

    Women [In]… Campaigns to AI Policy with Whitney Daniels

    Send us Fan Mail Whitney Daniels went to law school because a family member survived domestic violence and the laws that were supposed to protect her didn't work the way they read on paper. She left corporate America for a nonprofit, helped pass the bill that put Arizona's protective orders online, ran for the board of a county with a billion-dollar budget, and now advises the Governor on technology. Her test for any of it is the same one she started with: does this reach the person who has the least? Also, the part nobody warns you about — what running for office costs you in privacy, and why she is happier now that almost no one knows her name.

    Women [In]… Campaigns to AI Policy with Whitney Daniels

  5. Oct 9 ·  Video

    Women [In]… Automotive to Fitness with Alexandria Stylianou

    Send us Fan Mail Alexandria Stylianou spent a decade selling commercial fleet vehicles as the only woman in her department, walking into construction sites with buckets of licorice she'd stuck her own blown-up business card onto. She spent those same years competing in fitness — not after, alongside. Today she co-owns We Fix It Auto Repair, the shop her husband built from nothing in a friend's garage, and she runs Fierce Mom Fitness for moms over 35. She has already warned her husband that when perimenopause arrives, the thermostat is not up for negotiation.

  6. Oct 2 ·  Video

    Women [In]… College to Marketing with Amelia Christofferson

    Send us Fan Mail Most guests on this show are twenty years in, reconstructing a career from memory. Amelia Christofferson is reporting live from the start line — graduating in December, walking into one of the hardest entry-level markets in years. She talks about the jobs that are easy to get being the ones nobody wants, friends stuck in retail who can't afford to quit, and why asking someone for help finding a job is so much more awkward than any networking talk admits. Also: what she'd actually want an older woman in her field to do for her, which is not "mentorship."

    Women [In]… College to Marketing with Amelia Christofferson

  7. Sep 25

    Women [In]… Emergency Response to Nuclear with Danielle Allen

    Send us Fan Mail Danielle Allen has been a firefighter, a paramedic, a commercial pilot and flight instructor, a physics teacher in Vietnam, and now works in nuclear workforce development. We get into whether that's a real thread or a story assembled after the fact — plus what it's like when the equipment was never sized for you, and what the actual conditions are for women in nuclear right now.

    Women [In]… Emergency Response to Nuclear with Danielle Allen

  8. Sep 18 ·  Video

    Women [In]… Advertising to Higher Education with Dr. Connie Clary

    Send us Fan Mail Dr. Connie Clary has been inside roughly 670 creative firms, agencies, design studios, in-house teams, usually at the point where the creative is good and the business is not. She owned an advertising firm herself first, so none of it is theoretical: billable hours, scaling without wrecking the work, managing people who didn't get into this to be managed. For the past nine years she's been teaching it too, marketing and leadership through to doctoral level. We get into what actually goes wrong inside creative businesses, why it's the same few things in almost all of them, and what she says to a founder who's brilliant at the craft and quietly drowning in the company.

  9. Sep 4

    Women [In]… Aerospace to Organizational Development with Lauren Fitzpatrick Shanks

    Send us Fan Mail Aerospace engineering was not Lauren's idea. She was very good at it anyway, then worked out the work did not match what she believed, which is a much harder problem than not being good at something.

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About

Every woman is a woman in something. Women in tech. Women in energy, trades, trucking, nursing, nonprofits, the back office nobody thanks. Each episode, host Sondra Connor talks to one woman about the field she works in, how she got there, and what it actually cost her. Not a panel. Not a keynote. No book to plug. Just one person describing what her job looks like once the LinkedIn filter comes off... the bad supervisor, the good one, the raise that didn't fix anything, the Tuesday she almost quit. The point isn't inspiration. It's information. You can't want a job you've never heard of, and most careers happen in the unglamorous middle that nobody writes about. The brackets are on purpose. You fill them in. New episodes all season. Want to be a guest? You don't need a book, a keynote, or a following... just a job you actually do. sondra@cheekyrooster.com

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  • Creator
    Sondra Connor
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    9
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Sondra Connor
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