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Hosted by Victoria Steward · business · EN · 35 episodes
What if the detour was never a wrong turn? We get handed one map early on: the superhighway. Pick the career, hit the milestones, stay in the fast lane somebody else drew for us. And one day a lot of us look up and realize it's been heading somewhere we never actually chose. This is a show about the people who got off it. I'm Victoria Steward. I spent 20 years as a federal civilian engineer/project manager before I left on a gut feeling and started taking my own scenic route. Every week I sit down with interesting people who made a change, sometimes sudden, sometimes so gradual they almost missed it, that sent their life somewhere they never saw coming. The kind of stories that inspire you to start dreaming into your own. If you've started to wonder whether there's a different road available to you, you're in exactly the right place. ✨ New episodes every week. Subscribe so you don't miss one.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWhat if the detour was never a wrong turn? We get handed one map early on: the superhighway. Pick the career, hit the milestones, stay in the fast lane somebody else drew for us. And one day a lot of us look up and realize it's been heading somewhere we never actually chose.
The Scenic Route with Victoria Steward is hosted by Victoria Steward. The show has published 35 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Falling Apart or Falling Together? Amanda Pieraldi on Grief, Reinvention, and Resilience" (21 October 2026, 27 minutes), "Why Do I Care So Much What Everyone Thinks? Valerie Marston on Learning to Trust Yourself" (14 October 2026, 41 minutes), and "The Warrior of Balance: Sasha Larkin on Strength, Service, and Self-Discovery" (7 October 2026, 53 minutes).
The Scenic Route with Victoria Steward publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 44 minutes across 35 episodes.
Booking probability for The Scenic Route with Victoria Steward is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Scenic Route with Victoria Steward requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Scenic Route with Victoria Steward's contact route on record: verified email.
Victoria Steward hosts The Scenic Route with Victoria Steward, a business show with 35 episodes published.
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Episode #35
Amanda Pieraldi is the host of the Spiritual Gangster Podcast, co-host of Bees on a Mission, and the author of three books! None of this was the original plan. Amanda's identity was built around being a wife and a...
Episode #34
Valerie Marston is a mental health and mindset coach and a full-time HR professional. She helps women worry less about what other people think, stop letting other people's opinions and moods decide their self-worth, and...
Episode #33
Sasha Larkin knew she wanted to be a police officer from the time she was a kid watching CHiPs, and she never wanted anything else. She spent 26 years with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and retired as...
Episode #32
Manisha Sahni was convinced her career had been a straight line. Predictable. One sensible step after another. She grew up in India with two career options, doctor or engineer, and chose computer science without ever...
Episode #31
Danielle "Bird" Boone has been writing since she was four, when her mom taught her that words on paper could say what she could not say out loud. She spent her career behind the scenes in Chicago television and live...
Episode #30
Christmas vacation, about eight years ago. Shalini Patel’s youngest had fallen asleep on her shoulder, so she took a selfie to show her husband. Then she looked at the picture and thought: whoa, what happened to me? She...
Episode #29
Heather Quigley found out she had been selected for sponsorship to move further up the leadership ladder. It should have felt validating. What came up instead was no. She had a PhD in chemical engineering, a...
Episode #28
Laura Shepherd's mother sat her in front of the moon landing when she was four years old. She wanted to be an astronaut. Laura was not good at science, so that dream fell away. But the the explorer did not. It is still...
Episode #27
Angela Gerber was the kid who was going to be a shark biologist, then a fashion designer, then an anesthesiologist. She started college pre-med and was in art school one semester later. Today she runs The Marketing...
Episode #26
Ali Reznikoff was offered a promotion. A good one, steady, the kind you take. She freaked out and went to woodworking school in Maine instead. What followed was not a plan. It was a chain of things she said yes to...
Episode #25
At nineteen, Giuseppina Derudas left Sardinia for London with an acceptance letter and English good enough to pass a test but not good enough to follow an aerospace engineering lecture. She had wanted to be an...
The Scenic Route with Victoria Steward
At nineteen, Giuseppina Derudas left Sardinia for London with an acceptance letter and English good enough to pass a test but not good enough to follow an aerospace engineering lecture. She had wanted to be an...
Episode #24
One of Stephanie's first clients was a fifteen year old who had just picked up a stack of legal charges. It was her first week out of grad school, and nobody had finished training her. She figured it out, but there were...
Episode #23
Magnolia Cloyd wanted to be a chef. Then she heard that only one in four restaurants makes it, decided she would be one of the three that fail, and went to study marketing and entrepreneurship instead because it felt...
Episode #22
Justin Anderson knows that trade or setting aside a part yourself, especially the creative side. He spent years as a network engineer, keeping systems running to precision, while the writer in him sat in a drawer next...
Episode #21
Jo Bee had been teaching dance for twenty years when she started noticing something on her birthday. Not New Year, her birthday. Every year the same question would arrive: what happens now? She was good at her job. She...
Episode #21
Jo Bee had been teaching dance for twenty years when she started noticing something on her birthday. Not New Year, her birthday. Every year the same question would arrive: what happens now? She was good at her job. She...
The Scenic Route with Victoria Steward
What if the exit you keep rehearsing is one you could actually negotiate Julie Harris Oliver was walking into the building to quit her job with no plan, phone pressed to her ear, when her mom said the words that stopped...
Episode #19
What if the path that looks like you can’t make up your mind is actually the most honest thing about you? Lizbeth Marquez has started more things than most people try in a lifetime: a hair care line born in an oncology...
Episode #18
Maren Londahl-Smidt did the in-between. She built her private practice while she was still working her hospital job. First clients on two evenings, then a third day, then a fourth, waiting until she knew her practice...
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