Spark Sessions
With Sonya Locke

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About Spark Sessions
Spark Sessions with Sonya Locke is a fresh, empowering podcast that brings together women leaders across industries and life experiences to share their stories, lessons, and defining moments.
Hosted by Sonya Locke, award-winning entrepreneur, innovator, and founder and CEO of EDS Service Solutions, the show celebrates women who are breaking records, building legacies, and sparking change in business, science, sports, service, and life.
Each episode is a space for dynamic & candid conversations that showcase what it means to lead, grow, and thrive as modern women who lead with purpose.
The Goal?
From science to storytelling, entrepreneurship to advocacy, Spark Sessions is about inspiring the next generation through real women, real voices, and real impact.
The Purpose Behind the Mic
The Purpose Behind the Mic
In every corner office, purpose-driven company, clinic, nonprofit, or space where bold ideas are brought to life, there are women building legacies, driving change, and leading with purpose
Spark Sessions is a space to amplify those voices, especially the ones who don’t always get the spotlight.
This podcast is more than a show. It’s a movement for women who are balancing ambition with authenticity, strategy with soul, and leadership with life.
Our purpose is to:
- Inspire: Share stories that empower women at every stage of their lives.
- Connect: Build a community of leaders who support, uplift, and learn from each other.
- Ignite: Spark ideas, conversations, and change. One episode at a time.

What We Talk About
Each episode dives into honest and energizing discussions around themes such as:
- Leadership in business and beyond
- Entrepreneurship, innovation & scaling impact
- Advocacy, equity, and breaking barriers
- Women in science, medicine, and technology
- Career pivots and reinvention
- Building and managing teams through mentorship and collaboration
- Navigating motherhood and work-life integration
- The personal growth behind professional success
Who We’re Looking For
We feature women from all backgrounds, industries, and experiences. Whether you’re building companies, advancing equity, shaping culture, championing a cause, or making courageous moves behind the scenes, you have a spark worth sharing!
We’re looking for women who are:
- Trailblazers in their fields or community
- Executives, entrepreneurs, healthcare leaders, creatives, or changemakers with a unique story
- Bilingual, multicultural, or first-generation leaders with a powerful perspective
- Mothers, mentors, and multi-hyphenates balancing life and leadership
- Women who are passionate about lifting others as they climb
Signature Segments
Each episode follows a thoughtful structure designed to ignite authentic conversations and lasting inspiration. Here’s what you can expect:

1. Pivot & Rise: The Early Spark
Every success story has a beginning. In this opening segment, guests revisit the pivotal moment they found their “spark”: the leap, shift, or defining experience that set them on their path.
2. The Burn: Challenges, Risks & Resilience
No journey is without its fires. Guests open up about the trials, setbacks, and risks that tested their strength and fueled their growth.
3. Burning Question: A Big Conversation
Each episode includes a bold, thematic “burning question” that connects the guest’s experience to a broader cultural, leadership, or generational issue.
4. The Inner Fire: Identity, Presence & Power
Exploring visibility, authenticity, and leadership on how guests step into their power in spaces that might have not always been built for them.
5. Fan the Flames: Habits, Rituals & Motivation
Guests share the habits, mindsets, and rituals that keep their fire burning
6. Passing the Torch: Legacy & Impact
Legacy is about the lives you touch. In this segment, guests share what impact they hope to leave behind and advice for the next generation.
7. The Fire Round: Rapid-Fire Q&A
A quick, fun burst of bold, yet easy questions
8. The Final Spark: One Truth That Fuels You
Each episode closes with a simple, but profound question: What’s your spark? or the personal truth that carries the guest through every chapter of their life.
Hot Topics
A glimpse into the bold, timely themes we explore with every guest. Inspiring stories of leadership, resilience, reinvention, and impact.
Breaking Barriers
in Male-Dominated Industries
Reinvention
Pivoting to Find Purpose and Power
Legacy Leadership
Building Businesses That Outlast You
The Mentor Effect
How One Connection Can Change Everything
Resilience Through Rejection
Turning No Into Rocket Fuel
Redefining Leadership
Across Generations
Brain Health and Longevity
for High-Achieving Women
From Hustle to Harmony
Creating Sustainable Success
Investing in Women
Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Power
Lessons in Empowerment
Building Crowns, Confidence, and Empires
Women Redesigning Power Structures
and Leading New Movements
Purpose, Profit, and People
Why True Leaders Refuse to Choose Just One
Owning the Room
Visibility, Presence, and Leading Authentically
Motherhood, Mentorship, and Mission
Balancing Impact and Identity
The Ageless Advantage
Thriving in Health, Leadership, and Life After 50
From the Lab to the Boardroom
Leading Breakthroughs in STEM Fields
Breaking Records, Building Empires
Women Changing the Game in Sports
Athletes, Advocates, and CEOs
How Women in Sports Are Leading Beyond the Court
Rewriting the Rules of Growth
How Ambitious Women Keep Evolving at Every Age
The Details
Where?
We film each session in-person at Aperturent Studios in Atlanta, GA. Each episode takes about 2 hours to film with lunch and beverage of choice provided.


Deliverables
We will provide you with photos and soundbite clips for you to use on your social media as you wish – including a professional edited headshot.
Our Process
After receiving your invite email and reviewing the details of the theme we hope to explore in your episode, we will confirm a date based on your availability to film.
We will provide a robust episode outline with all questions ahead of time, so you are able to prepare and feel comfortable!

Why Be A Guest?
As a guest on Spark Sessions, you’ll have the opportunity to:
- Share your story with a growing and engaged audience
- Build upon your personal and professional brand
- Connect with other powerhouse women in our network
- Be featured on our social media and digital promotions
- Have a fun, uplifting, and memorable conversation in a cozy, welcoming studio (cocktails or tea included!)
- Be the spark that helps other women rise & inspires generations to come
