{"podcast":{"title":"The Scenic Route with Victoria Steward","slug":"the-scenic-route-with-victoria-steward-7782802","podcast_index_feed_id":7782802,"rss_url":"https://api.riverside.fm/hosting/S6ZcgSiO.rss","website_url":"www.victoria-steward.com","image_url":"https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/951714c0-7b4d-4675-bd36-b3bd278f8546/logos/46260bbc-d587-4fc0-b414-b393efa55bf4.png","author":"Victoria Steward","episode_count":19,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T22:19:55.428806+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-scenic-route-with-victoria-steward-7782802"},"episode":{"title":"Multipassionate and Done Apologizing for It: Lizbeth Marquez on Following Every Aha","slug":"multipassionate-and-done-apologizing-for-it-lizbeth-marquez-on-following-every-aha","published_at":"2026-07-22T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-scenic-route-with-victoria-steward-7782802/multipassionate-and-done-apologizing-for-it-lizbeth-marquez-on-following-every-aha","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-scenic-route-with-victoria-steward-7782802","url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/4e43c2766432bdc31fcfec9eeaf19a43856c7b8956322093856fb8e289c4960e/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiI3YmYyMTBhMi0yMjZlLTQyZTYtOWY4YS0zNzVmODQ4NmQ1NTciLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI5NTE3MTRjMC03YjRkLTQ2NzUtYmQzNi1iM2JkMjc4Zjg1NDYiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2OTlmNjIyYzM1MDAxYzBlOWJlNGFlNGIiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmEyZWJjMmMxNjNiYjU2ZDg4ZWVkYzgzL3ZpY3Rvcmlhcy1zdHVkaW8tUGhZZDAtY29tcG9zZXItMjAyNi02LTE0X18xNi0zNS0yNC5tcDMifQ==.mp3","audio_url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/4e43c2766432bdc31fcfec9eeaf19a43856c7b8956322093856fb8e289c4960e/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiI3YmYyMTBhMi0yMjZlLTQyZTYtOWY4YS0zNzVmODQ4NmQ1NTciLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI5NTE3MTRjMC03YjRkLTQ2NzUtYmQzNi1iM2JkMjc4Zjg1NDYiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2OTlmNjIyYzM1MDAxYzBlOWJlNGFlNGIiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmEyZWJjMmMxNjNiYjU2ZDg4ZWVkYzgzL3ZpY3Rvcmlhcy1zdHVkaW8tUGhZZDAtY29tcG9zZXItMjAyNi02LTE0X18xNi0zNS0yNC5tcDMifQ==.mp3","summary":"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 ward, an events business, a brand strategy practice, a high-ticket sales career, and now a podcast she co-hosts with her best friend. For years she carried all of it like a flaw. She figured she was scattered, maybe had ADHD, couldn’t settle on the one thing she was supposed to pick. This conversation is about the moment that story flipped. Victoria and Lizbeth, two podcast hosts who each spent two decades in one world before following a feeling into another, get into what it actually takes to trust the next aha: how Lizbeth knew when to move, why she never leapt without building a bridge first, and a hard-won lesson about choosing a business partner that cost her more than money. 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