Women IN — The women who actually do the work

The women who actually do the work.

One woman per episode, describing the field she works in, how she got there, and what it actually cost her. No panel. No keynote. Just the conversation you'd have with a friend who finally tells you what the job is really like.

Information first. The inspiring part takes care of itself.

You should finish an episode able to say "that's for me," or, just as usefully, "that is absolutely not for me." Ruling something out is progress, and it's the half of career advice nobody gives you. The lift comes on its own, once somebody tells you the truth about her work. Every guest gets the same four questions.

EPISODE 001 · AEROSPACE → ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Lauren Fitzpatrick Shanks

CEO and Chief Wonderer, KeepWOL

Aerospace engineering was not her idea. She was very good at it anyway: first Black woman to graduate from the University of Kansas' aerospace engineering department, first to win the AIAA international design competition, six figures within a few years of graduating. Then she worked out that the work did not match what she believed, which is a much harder problem than not being good at something.

She nearly did the PhD in psychology instead of the MBA. The pull toward how people actually work together never went away, and eventually it became a company. We get into what that early salary meant at 25, what it costs to stay somewhere out of alignment, and why she calls the venture capital she raised a false success metric.

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EPISODE 002 · ADVERTISING → CONSULTING & TEACHING

Connie Clary

Consultant to creative firms · Professor · Former agency owner

Six hundred and seventy creative firms. That is roughly how many marketing agencies, design studios and in-house teams Connie has been inside across twenty-five years, 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 did not get into this to be managed.

For the past nine years she has been teaching it too, marketing and leadership through to doctoral level. We are getting into what actually goes wrong inside creative businesses, why it is the same few things in almost all of them, and what she says to a founder who is excellent at the craft and quietly drowning in the company.

SEASON ONE, DATE TBA

EPISODE 003 · NUCLEAR, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

Danielle Allen

Podcast Host & Creator, Naked Nuclear

Firefighter. Paramedic. Commercial pilot and flight instructor. Physics teacher in Vietnam. She now works on nuclear recruiting and workforce development, hosts Naked Nuclear, and is taking a graduate nuclear engineering class on top of all of it.

We are getting into whether there is genuinely a thread through all of that or whether that is a story assembled afterwards, the fire truck seat built for someone twice her size, and what is actually working for women in nuclear right now, not only what is not.

RECORDS 9 SEPTEMBER 2026

EPISODE 004 · MARKETING, STARTING OUT

Amelia Christofferson

Marketing and sales student, Grand Canyon University

Amelia is still in it. She finishes her marketing and sales degree in December, and has already run the American Marketing Association's Grand Canyon chapter, with nine executive officers reporting to her, and mentored three undergraduates through GCU Women in Business.

Most career shows talk to people thirty years in. This one also talks to someone standing at the very start of it: what she is being told, what she believes, and what she is already worried about. Ask us again in ten years.

SEASON ONE, DATE TBA

EPISODE 005 · CAMPAIGNS → AI POLICY

Whitney Daniels

Senior Advisor to the Governor of Arizona

Whitney leads the Governor's Artificial Intelligence Steering Committee, the body that pulls government, academia, industry and community into one room to decide how Arizona actually uses AI. She is a lawyer by training, and she came up through campaigns and political strategy before moving inside the building. Nationally she has worked on AI governance with the National Governors Association, the Partnership for Public Service, InnovateUS, Princeton and the Aspen Institute.

Government is where most people assume nothing moves. We are getting into what it takes to shift an institution that size, what campaign work teaches you that an agency never will, and the line she actually argues: that technology should not just make government more efficient, it should make it more trustworthy.

SEASON ONE, DATE TBA

You're more interesting than you think.

You don't need a book, a keynote, or a follower count. You need a job you actually do and a willingness to be honest about it. If you just thought "nobody would want to hear about my work," hi. That's exactly who this show is for.

Any field, any level, any title, or no title at all

About 45 minutes, recorded remotely, zero prep

You'll see the four questions before we hit record. No gotchas

Season one is booking its first ten guests. You'd be among the first

Nominating someone else works too. We love a good setup

Sondra Connor

Sondra has spent twenty years in marketing, most of it in industries that are hard to explain at a party: cybersecurity, enterprise IT, HR tech, energy, nuclear, AI. Ogilvy, PetroSkills, CyberScout, Ricoh, Culture Amp, and most recently Nuclearn, where she ran marketing and communications for an AI platform built for the nuclear power industry.

She founded The Cheeky Rooster, a fractional marketing firm, in 2023, and co-founded RAISUN Technology Services in 2025. She has an MBA and a bachelor's degree in creative writing, a combination that makes more sense than it sounds.

From 2023 to 2026 she was an adjunct professor at Grand Canyon University, teaching Introduction to Marketing to business students. That is where this show started. She is not a career coach and will not pretend to be one. She is just very good at getting people to tell her the true version.

The women who actually do the work.

Information first. The inspiring part takes care of itself.

What she chose

What it cost

What she ran into

What she'd tell herself

The first five.

Lauren Fitzpatrick Shanks

Connie Clary

Danielle Allen

Amelia Christofferson

Whitney Daniels

Follow now, and it turns up on its own.

Every field has one.

You're more interesting than you think.

Sondra Connor

The women who actually do the work.

Information first. The inspiring part takes care of itself.

What she chose

What it cost

What she ran into

What she'd tell herself

The first five.

Lauren Fitzpatrick Shanks

Connie Clary

Danielle Allen

Amelia Christofferson

Whitney Daniels

Follow now, and it turns up on its own.

Every field has one.

You're more interesting than you think.

Sondra Connor

Get the next one when it lands.