Women claiming room, story, and direction.
The Women On Top centers patient conversations with women whose work and lives carry hard-won lessons. Valerie Lynn steers guests through personal branding, public leadership, freeride skiing, illness, writing, and space ambition with an encouraging but serious touch.
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The Women On Top is a warm, interview-centered podcast about women building lives that do not separate ambition from truth. Valerie Lynn guides the room with an encouraging presence, but the show mostly gives guests space to think aloud and arrive at the lesson in their own language. The conversations often start with achievement. They rarely stay there. Personal branding becomes a discussion about why women wait to be confident before becoming visible. A campaign story becomes a lesson in talking to strangers, finding networks, and believing that first-generation leadership belongs in public life. A skiing career becomes a way to talk about grief, risk, quitting, and the possibility that changing direction can be a form of courage. The show is not only about success. It is also about what success asks a person to carry. Sarah Arvizu speaks from the aftermath of stage three breast cancer, where health, identity, food, sleep, exercise, and fear all take on new meaning. Megan Febuary frames writing as a practice that can reveal what the body and memory have been holding. Jenneh Rishe brings endometriosis and chronic illness into focus through advocacy, diagnosis, policy, and the exhaustion of being dismissed by medical systems. Alyssa Carson opens the frame outward, toward Mars exploration, STEM, and the future of life on Earth. Across these episodes, the show keeps returning to voice. Not polish. Not performance. Voice as proof that a woman’s story, work, body, and ambition are allowed to take up room. The pace is measured, sometimes repetitive in the human way real reflection can be, and often more like guided testimony than debate. It suits listeners who want mentorship that feels personal rather than packaged. It also suits anyone drawn to conversations where business, health, creativity, public leadership, and healing are treated as connected parts of the same life.
Made for: For listeners drawn to women-led conversations about ambition, recovery, leadership, creativity, health advocacy, and personal reinvention. It especially suits people who prefer patient, emotionally literate interviews over quick-take advice.
What sets it apart: The show pairs mentorship language with unusually personal testimony, letting guests connect public achievement to private cost. Its range moves from branding and Congress to breast cancer, endometriosis, trauma-informed writing, freeride skiing, and Mars exploration without losing its intimate register.
HELLO, Gorgeous.Welcome to The Women On Top — the mentorship podcast you’ve always wanted, designed by women, for women.Here, we’re not about competition; we’re about collaboration. This is where female leaders, rising disruptors, and bold changemakers pull back the curtain and share the lessons, the failures, and the breakthroughs that shaped them. Think unfiltered wisdom, candid conversations, and the kind of advice you’d only get if you were sitting across from them over coffee—or champagne.From boardrooms to startups, side hustles to personal reinventions, we’re learning directly from women who are rewriting what leadership looks...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Valerie Lynn turns candid interviews with women into practical thinking about visibility, professional identity, reinvention and the relationships that make ambition possible.
Valerie Lynn treats ambition as a lived problem, using guest interviews to connect professional choices with identity, loss and recovery. Conversations move from Melanie Borden's personal-brand strategy and Dalourny Nemorin's congressional campaign to Molly Armanino's…
This is where ambition meets the inconvenient question: who are you without the achievement?
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A direct reminder that visibility matters, especially for women who keep waiting to speak up.
Melanie Borden and Valerie Lynn spend most of the conversation on visibility, not polish. Melanie comes across as a grounded brand strategist, and the point stays simple: if expertise never gets seen, searched, or trusted, it stays stuck in the background.
A political profile framed around connection, networking, and first-generation ambition.
Women on Top follows Delorne Namoran, a public defender, community advocate, and candidate for New York's 15th congressional district, through an argument that leadership often starts with small acts of connection.
A ski profile that treats changing direction as a real form of strength.
Valerie Lynn's conversation with Molly Armanino follows a world-class freeride skier from South Lake Tahoe to the freeride world tour, but it works best as a profile of how a person changes without pretending that change is simple.
A breast-cancer story about rebuilding identity, not just recovering.
Sarah Arvizu is the center of this episode, and the conversation stays close to what a breast-cancer diagnosis does to identity, routine, and the way she thinks about food, sleep, and exercise.
A reflective conversation about writing as a way to surface what the body has been holding.
Valerie Lynn hosts Women on Top and brings on Megan February, introduced here as a trauma-informed writing coach, author, and founder of For Women Who Roar.
Birth choices, argued in plain language.
Warm health talk for messy real life.
Melanie Borden calls out the holding-back pattern without dressing it up.
The host starts by asking Delorne Namoran about her background and whether she ever pictured a career like this.
Valerie Lynn welcomes Molly Armanino, a world-class freeride skier from South Lake Tahoe known for taking uncommon lines.
Valerie Lynn opens with icebreakers before settling into Sarah Arvizu's story.
Valerie Lynn welcomes Megan February, a trauma-informed writing coach, author, and founder of For Women Who Roar.
This episode features Jenna Reich, a registered nurse and chronic illness advocate, discussing endometriosis, navigating the healthcare system, and advocating for women's health.
Host Valerie Lynn interviews aspiring astronaut Alyssa Carson about her journey in space exploration and the importance of dreaming big.