A career pivot story that treats luck as earned readiness.
Erin Lydon's path from publishing and writing into Wall Street, poker, and executive advising gives Business & Finance listeners a clear look at what reinvention can look like in real life.

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Leadership stories beyond the title.
Women to Watch Media with Sue Rocco is a polished interview series centered on women building companies, funds, nonprofits, media work, and executive careers. The conversations move from biography to practical lessons, with a steady focus on leadership choices made under pressure.
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Women to Watch Media with Sue Rocco is a long-running interview series about women leaders and the lives behind their titles. Its center of gravity is personal biography. A guest may arrive as a founder, CEO, advisor, publisher, designer, or global talent leader, but the conversation usually starts earlier, with family background, early work, moves between places, and the decisions that made a later role possible. The pacing is measured. It gives guests time to connect a career event to a larger lesson, rather than compressing every answer into quick advice. Recent conversations have moved through financial education, venture capital, nonprofit funding, data and analytics, affordable housing, jewelry entrepreneurship, wellness, community alliances, and human resources leadership. The show is especially interested in pivots. Erin Lydon describes saying yes before knowing exactly how to do the thing. Vivienne Hsu reflects on leaving secure finance work for the satisfaction and risk of entrepreneurship. Shalanda Armstrong’s episode frames investment and financial education against an uncertain economy. Shikha Miglani’s conversation connects an India-to-United-States life path with data, analytics, and AI. Ann King Lagos brings a later-life reinvention story from global jewelry leadership into her own fashion jewelry work. Erin Krolikiewicz talks about heart-centered leadership inside human resources. Sandra Lawrence’s appearance points toward Philadelphia community work and intergenerational programs. Julia Stewart’s episode begins with childhood moves in California before turning toward wellness entrepreneurship. The series also has a broadcast-like rhythm, with sponsor breaks, partner messages, and recurring references to the Women to Watch platform and YouTube presence. That structure can make some episodes feel formal, but it also gives the interviews a dependable shape. The appeal is not hot takes or founder mythology. It is the slower work of hearing how capable women narrate risk, responsibility, reinvention, and purpose in their own words.
Made for: Best for listeners interested in women’s leadership, career reinvention, entrepreneurship, nonprofit work, and thoughtful business interviews. It suits people who prefer patient, story-led conversations over rapid-fire advice.
What sets it apart: The series pairs executive and founder profiles with a biographical, almost mentoring-style interview cadence. Its recurring Philadelphia professional network and sponsor-partner structure give it a distinctive community media feel.
Women to Watch® Media is the premier global media platform for women leaders. We tell the real story behind the titles of some of the most accomplished women worldwide. Our mission is to inspire and encourage more women to pursue leadership roles worldwide.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Sue Rocco makes leadership legible through candid accounts of career pivots, operating responsibilities, entrepreneurship, and financial decision-making.
Women to Watch Media with Sue Rocco turns leadership interviews into working accounts of how careers and organizations change. Sue Rocco keeps the conversation close to decisions: moving from sales into operations, leaving portfolio management to build LENDonate, or using an…
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A career pivot story that treats luck as earned readiness.
Erin Lydon's path from publishing and writing into Wall Street, poker, and executive advising gives Business & Finance listeners a clear look at what reinvention can look like in real life.
A focused venture capital conversation with a brief uneven opening.
Women to Watch follows venture capital as Shalonda Armstrong, founder of 100 KM Ventures, discusses a newly launched firm against a moment of economic uncertainty.
A founder story that connects finance, volunteering, and nonprofit fundraising into a clear career shift.
Vivian Hsu's path from active equity strategies at a mutual fund firm to founding LENDonate reads less like a hard pivot than a steady reworking of the same instincts.
A grounded look at moving from sales into operations and how that shift changes work.
The piece stays centered on a move from sales into operations, and that focus gives it a clear workplace lens. It treats hybrid work as a real productivity model for companies, while still leaving room for the idea that its value can differ from person to person.
A reflective conversation on keeping human connection at the center of leadership and human resources.
Leadership at Novartis Pharmaceutical comes through as a human practice before it becomes a management method. Sue Rocco's conversation with the Global Head of Talent centers on leadership coaching and on the guest's choice to lead from a heart-centered place.

The women behind wine country labels, in conversation.

Odd questions, followed patiently down to the incentives.



Host Sue Rocco interviews Elim Santouric, founder of Women on Stage, about her journey from Turkey to Switzerland and her work addressing workplace bullying.
Host Sue Rocco interviews Sandra Lawrence, Associate Publisher and CEO, about her career and leadership journey.
Host Sue Rocco interviews Jamie Middleman, founder of Flamebearers, about her upbringing and her platform for female Olympians.
Host Sue Rocco interviews Inga Smits, CEO of Cable and Wireless Communications, about her personal and professional journey during COVID.
Sue Rocco interviews Erin Krolikiewicz, Global Head of Talent for Novartis Pharmaceuticals.
An interview with Katie Gore, president of Quadel, who shares her journey from homelessness to leading an affordable housing consultancy.
Sue Rocco interviews Colleen Bashar, Senior Vice President of Enterprise Operations and Chief of Staff to the CEO at Guidewire Software.
An interview with Julia Stewart, founder and CEO of Alorex, discussing her background and journey as a woman leader.
Erin Lydon starts with yes.
Shalonda Armstrong has recently launched 100 KM Ventures, and the host uses that news to talk through economic uncertainty, money choices, and the nerve it takes to start a company like this.
The host opens by framing the conversation for listeners interested in the non-profit sector.
Host Sue Rocco interviews Sheikha Maglani, co-founder and CEO of Sarti, about her background growing up in India and her journey to becoming a tech entrepreneur.
Sonia Weigle, founder and CEO of The Catalytic Collective, tells Sue Rocco how growing up in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, as one of few Black students shaped her resilience and self-direction.
Kimberly McGlonn tells Sue Rocco how growing up in Milwaukee amid parental absence, mental-health challenges, and substance use shaped her leadership values.
Host Sue Rocco interviews Anne King Lagos, owner of Realm Fine Fashion Jewelry, about her journey of starting over later in life after a successful global career.