Featured Post Side Colume Widget?

I’m looking for the same thing. Has anyone seen anything that does something like this?

After looking through a TON of widgets and plugins I finally found one that does the job well enough.

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/limited-category-lists-widget/

Limit the widget to show only posts with for whatever category you want.

In my case I created a “featured” category, found the category id, plugged it into the widget options, and I was good.