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  • Have A Big Vision (But Write It Down) with Ashwini Anburajan
    Apr 1 2026
    Ashwini Anburajan is the CEO of Obi, aka the Kayak for rideshare. She has been a journalist, a founder, a venture investor on either side of going to business school, has worked at startups and unicorns, and through it all remembers watching her immigrant parents as they struggled to build a good life in a new country. In this episode of The Breadwinners, host Rachael Lowell talks with Ashwini about taking career and workplace advice with a grain of salt, how stepping into the CEO seat can completely change your mindset, and why putting your vision on paper is the best way to ship it to reality. SHOW NOTES Obi Appoints Ashwini Anburajan as CEO to Lead Next Phase of Growth [Obi]The Kayak of Rideshare: Obi's New CEO Bets on Pricing Transparency and AV Growth [Forbes] Social:https://www.instagram.com/aanburajanhttps://www.instagram.com/obiridershttps://www.linkedin.com/in/aanburajanhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/aanburajanhttps://x.com/anburajanhttps://x.com/obiriders Croutons:Self-Driving Taxis Are Catching On. Are You Ready? [NYT]The Cost of Autonomy: Tesla, Waymo, and the New Rideshare Battleground [Obi]Why 'Burnout' Feminism Is Replacing the Girlboss, Lean In Era [Bloomberg] Bio: Ashwini Anburajan is a seasoned entrepreneur, startup operator and investor currently serving as CEO of Obi, the world's largest global rideshare aggregator where she has more than doubled growth over the past 18 months Her career is multi-fold having worked across disciplines in politics, media, consumer tech, and data. In her personal life, she is a champion of female entrepreneurs, theater and the underserved. *** "The Breadwinners" Season 7 is a joint production between Reworking Leadership and The Smart Friends Network, generously supported by Ruth Ann Harnisch. "The Breadwinners" was founded by Rachael Lowell and Jennifer Owens in 2019. Host: Rachael LowellExecutive Producers: Rachael Lowell, Rachel SklarAudio Engineer: Ron PassaroOriginal Music: "Perfect" by Hannah BakkeRick Snell: GuitarCesar Moreno: BanjoNyssa Grant: FiddleErik Alvar: BassJustin D. Cook: Keyboard, Percussion, and OrchestrationVocals: Hannah Bakke, Cassidy StonerHannah Bakke: Music and LyricsTo stay up to date with The Breadwinners, please follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebreadwinnerspodcast Find Rachael Lowell at https://reworkingleadership.com & take the SHIFT assessment here: https://leadtheshift.aiIf you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, review & share! Thank you for listening. Still we rise! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Don't Stay There and Rot! with Dorie Clark
    Mar 26 2026
    Dorie Clark has been thinking about reinvention for decades, since it was foisted upon her when she was fired the day before 9/11. She's kept busy since then as an entrepreneur, consultant for Fortune 500 companies, high-level keynote speaker, four-time Thinkers50 Top 50 global business thinker, and bestselling author of The Long Game, Reinventing You, Entrepreneurial You, and Stand Out. In this episode of The Breadwinners, host Rachael Lowell talks to Dorie about how to play the long game when your job disappears, why racking up credentials feels safe but is probably not your ticket out of uncertainty, and why being a good friend might be the most underrated professional skill. SHOW NOTES Dorie Clark: https://dorieclark.com https://learn.dorieclark.com/courses/expertBooks: The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World Entrepreneurial You: Monetize Your Expertise, Create Multiple Income Streams, and Thrive Reinventing You: A step-by-step guide to reinventing you Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea & Build a Following Around It Social: https://www.instagram.com/dorieclark https://www.linkedin.com/in/doriec https://twitter.com/dorieclark https://www.youtube.com/DorieClark Croutons: Dorie Clark: The real reason you feel so busy (and what to do about it) [TED] Dorie Clark: Me, myself, I [Thinker's 50] Working Identity by Herminia IbarraWham! [Netflix] Bio: Dorie Clark helps individuals and companies get their best ideas heard in a crowded, noisy world. She has been named four times as one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50, was also cited as one of the top 50 leadership and management experts by Inc. magazine. She is a keynote speaker and teaches executive education for Columbia Business School.She is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of The Long Game, Entrepreneurial You, Reinventing You, and Stand Out, which was named the #1 Leadership Book of the Year by Inc. magazine.A former presidential campaign spokeswoman, Clark has been described by the New York Times as an “expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives.” She is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review and Fast Company, and was honored as the #1 Communication Coach by the Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards. She consults and speaks for clients such as Google, Yale University, and the World Bank. Forbes has declared that “her insights connect marketing, social media, communications, learning technologies, and personal discovery to give us a blueprint for success in the future economy.”She is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, a producer of a multiple Grammy-winning jazz album, and a lyricist in BMI's Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Advanced Workshop, one of the nation's leading musical theatre training programs. Learn more at dorieclark.com and you can subscribe to her e-newsletter at dorieclark.com/subscribe. ***"The Breadwinners" Season 7 is a joint production between Reworking Leadership and The Smart Friends Network, generously supported by Ruth Ann Harnisch."The Breadwinners" was founded by Rachael Lowell and Jennifer Owens in 2019.Host: Rachael LowellExecutive Producers: Rachael Lowell, Rachel SklarAudio Engineer: Ron PassaroOriginal Music: "Perfect" by Hannah BakkeRick Snell: GuitarCesar Moreno: BanjoNyssa Grant: FiddleErik Alvar: BassJustin D. Cook: Keyboard, Percussion, and OrchestrationVocals: Hannah Bakke, Cassidy StonerHannah Bakke: Music and LyricsTo stay up to date with The Breadwinners, please follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebreadwinnerspodcastFind Rachael Lowell at https://reworkingleadership.com & take the SHIFT assessment here: https://leadtheshift.aiIf you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, review & share! Thank you for listening. Still we rise! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • PhD in Pivoting with Christina Wallace
    Mar 20 2026
    Christina Wallace isn't trying to convince you to leave the safe, traditional path - she just knows that it's just as risky as anything else. What she does suggest is to treat your life as a portfolio of your interests, skills, and passions so your options - for joy, satisfaction, success and liquidity - can be diversified. That's exactly what she did as a classically trained musician, math prodigy, entrepreneur, author and now Harvard Business School lecturer and Broadway producer, and it is her recipe for success in her book "The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger than Your Business Card." In this episode of The Breadwinners, host Rachael Lowell talks to Christina about her lifelong love of math, how Broadway is like a startup, why storytelling is innately human, and when exactly that straight track can turn into spaghetti. SHOW NOTES https://christinawallace.comhttps://www.nvpbroadway.com Social:https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinawallacehttps://www.instagram.com/cmwalla Croutons: "Christina Wallace on Success Beyond a Single Lane" https://www.thewiesuite.com/post/christina-wallace-on-success-beyond-a-single-lane "The only way to future-proof your career? Be more than one thing"https://www.fastcompany.com/91371963/the-only-way-to-future-proof-your-career-be-more-than-one-thing-future-proof-career-advice "Gwyneth Paltrow Helps Turn Astronomer’s Infamy on Its Head"nytimes.com/2025/07/28/style/gwyneth-paltrow-astronomer-spokesperson-coldplay-scandal.html *** "The Breadwinners" Season 7 is a joint production between Reworking Leadership and The Smart Friends Network, generously supported by Ruth Ann Harnisch. "The Breadwinners" was founded by Rachael Lowell and Jennifer Owens in 2019. Host: Rachael LowellExecutive Producers: Rachael Lowell, Rachel SklarAudio Engineer: Ron PassaroOriginal Music: "Perfect" by Hannah BakkeRick Snell: GuitarCesar Moreno: BanjoNyssa Grant: FiddleErik Alvar: BassJustin D. Cook: Keyboard, Percussion, and OrchestrationVocals: Hannah Bakke, Cassidy StonerHannah Bakke: Music and Lyrics To stay up to date with The Breadwinners, please follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebreadwinnerspodcast Find Rachael Lowell at https://reworkingleadership.com & take the SHIFT assessment here: https://leadtheshift.ai If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, review & share! Thank you for listening. Still we rise! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Don’t Punch Yourself in the Face with Paulita David
    Mar 9 2026
    If you’re wondering whether your role is becoming obsolete, maybe it’s time to build the next one. Every job Paulita David has ever had didn’t exist before she stepped into it. She’s the U.S. Large Customer Sales Lead at Reddit and spent a decade at Google, where she became the highest-ranking Latina at the company. She built teams that consistently outperformed. Google even studied her leadership to understand why. The answer? An unconscious bias toward diversity. In this episode of The Breadwinners, host Rachael Lowell talks with Paulita about and why diverse teams outperform, why the best careers are often the ones you invent yourself, and of course, how not to punch yourself in the face. Social Linked In https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulita-d-8554a31 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/paulitadavidofficial Bio Paulita David is Reddit's Senior Managing Director, Head of US Large Customer Sales. She leads a team that oversees the US business for Reddit’s advertising. Previously, Paulita worked at Google for a decade, holding several roles including Head of Strategy & Operations for the Americas Sales Team, and Google’s internal creative agency known as Creative lab. Most recently she served as Head of US Multicultural, where she led efforts to inspire and educate multicultural consumers and connect them more closely with the brands they love. With her deep understanding of multicultural consumers, Paulita founded PD Strategies to be an advisor to business leaders wanting to dedicate more resources to their multicultural efforts. Paulita has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Northwestern University. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family, continuing her advocacy work, and browsing her favorite Reddit community ⁠⁠r/MadeMeSmile⁠⁠. Croutons⁠ The Cultural Impact of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show [PBS] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-cultural-impact-of-bad-bunnys-super-bowl-halftime-show Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show Wasn’t a Gamble. It Was an NFL Growth Strategy. https://www.adweek.com/media/bad-bunnys-halftime-show-wasnt-a-gamble-it-was-an-nfl-growth-strategy/ [AdWeek] Reframe the Value Proposition of Diversity {HBR] https://hbr.org/2024/11/reframe-the-value-proposition-of-diversity *** The Breadwinners Season 7 is a joint production between Reworking Leadership and The Smart Friends Network, generously supported by Ruth Ann Harnisch.The Breadwinners was founded by Rachael Lowell and Jennifer Owens in 2019. Host: Rachael LowellExecutive Producers: Rachael Lowell, Rachel SklarAudio Engineer: Ron PassaroOriginal Music: "Perfect" by Hannah BakkeRick Snell: GuitarCesar Moreno: BanjoNyssa Grant: FiddleErik Alvar: BassJustin D. Cook: Keyboard, Percussion, and OrchestrationVocals: Hannah Bakke, Cassidy StonerHannah Bakke: Music and LyricsTo stay up to date with The Breadwinners, please follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebreadwinnerspodcast If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, review & share! Thank you for listening. Still we rise! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Polycrisis? What Polycrisis? with Farrah Bostic
    Feb 27 2026
    If you feel like everything is too much right now - too much change, too much pivoting, too much pressure - then Farrah Bostic gets you. She's the founder of The Difference Engine, a consultancy that helps companies get radically clear on their goals, where to meet their audience, and the best decisions to take them there. She asks uncomfortable questions and cuts through noise and bloat straight to get to the right answers. She's also the creator and host of Cross Tabs, a podcast about people, data and power. In this episode of The Breadwinners, host Rachael Lowell talks to Farrah about ethics as a North star, adaptability as a practice, and how to brace for polycrisis (pandemic, climate change, AI tech bros). If you're a little over rolling with all these punches - this is for you. SHOW NOTES Farrah Bostic Websitehttps://www.farrahbostic.com The Difference Enginehttps://www.thedifferenceengine.co Cross Tabs Podcasthttps://www.crosstabspodcast.com Social https://www.linkedin.com/in/farrahbostic https://bsky.app/profile/farrahbostic.bsky.social X https://x.com/farrahbostic Croutons“Jamie Dimon Wants Everyone in the Office. Is a $3 Billion Building the Answer?” [WSJ] https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/jamie-dimon-270-park-avenue-jp-morgan-chase-return-to-office-72966a51 "What is this era of calamity we’re in? Some say ‘polycrisis’ captures it" [The Guardian] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/polycrisis-disasters-politics The SHIFT Assessment (Security, Horizon, Impact, Fluidity, Ties) https://leadtheshift.ai *** The Breadwinners" Season 7 is a joint production between Reworking Leadership and The Smart Friends Network, generously supported by Ruth Ann Harnisch. "The Breadwinners" was founded by Rachael Lowell and Jennifer Owens in 2019. Host: Rachael LowellExecutive Producers: Rachael Lowell, Rachel SklarAudio Engineer: Ron PassaroOriginal Music: "Perfect" by Hannah BakkeRick Snell: GuitarCesar Moreno: BanjoNyssa Grant: FiddleErik Alvar: BassJustin D. Cook: Keyboard, Percussion, and OrchestrationVocals: Hannah Bakke, Cassidy StonerHannah Bakke: Music and Lyrics To stay up to date with The Breadwinners, please follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebreadwinnerspodcastIf you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, review & share! Thank you for listening. Still we rise! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Finding Your Track with Susan Dominus
    Feb 18 2026
    Susan Dominus is a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine, a lecturer at Yale, and the author of The Family Dynamic: A Journey into the Mystery of Sibling Success. Her feature “Women Have Been Misled About Menopause” won the National Magazine Award and was the #1 gift-shared Times article of 2023. She was also a member of the Times team that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. In this episode of The Breadwinners, host Rachael Lowell talks to Susan about how siblings shape our achievements and choices, inherited financial anxiety, knowing when to leave a job, and the value in not chasing every dollar. If you've ever tried to find the track and then realized you needed to make your own - this is for you. SHOW NOTESSusan Dominus: https://www.nytimes.com/by/susan-dominushttps://www.susanpdominus.comBook:The Family Dynamic: A Journey into the Mystery of Sibling Success Social:https://www.instagram.com/suedominushttps://www.linkedin.com/in/susandominus Croutons: “Women Have Been Misled About Menopause” by Susan Dominus, Feb. 1, 2023 2018 Pulitzer Prize Citation - Public Service Bio:Susan Dominus is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and the author of The Family Dynamic: A Journey into the Mystery of Sibling Success. In 2018, she was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for public service for its reporting on workplace sexual harassment. She won a Front Page Award from the Newswomen’s Club of New York and a Mychal Judge Heart of New York Award from the New York Press Club. She has studied as a fellow at the National Institutes of Health and Yale Law School. Her article about menopause in The New York Times Magazine won a National Magazine Award in 2024. She teaches journalism at Yale University. *** "The Breadwinners" Season 7 is a joint production between Reworking Leadership and The Smart Friends Network, generously supported by Ruth Ann Harnisch. "The Breadwinners" was founded by Rachael Lowell and Jennifer Owens in 2019.Host: Rachael LowellExecutive Producers: Rachael Lowell, Rachel SklarAudio Engineer: Ron PassaroOriginal Music: "Perfect" by Hannah BakkeRick Snell: GuitarCesar Moreno: BanjoNyssa Grant: FiddleErik Alvar: BassJustin D. Cook: Keyboard, Percussion, and OrchestrationVocals: Hannah Bakke, Cassidy StonerHannah Bakke: Music and Lyrics To stay up to date with The Breadwinners, please follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebreadwinnerspodcast If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, review & share! Thank you for listening. Still we rise! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Steady in the Chaos with Carla Zanoni
    Feb 13 2026
    Carla Zanoni is a journalist, poet, and media leader who's held senior roles at the Wall Street Journal, TED, and now runs the engagement journalism program at CUNY’s Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. She's also someone who went into recovery at 23 and has rebuilt her life more than once. In this episode of The Breadwinners, host Rachael Lowell talks to Carla about what she calls "the alchemy of surrender" - those moments when the playbook stops working and you have to get quiet enough to see what's actually true. We talk about the myth of the linear career path, why bringing your whole self to work isn't cringey when it's real, and what it means to lead from a place of integration rather than compartmentalization. If you've ever felt like you were supposed to chart a course from A to B but life had other plans, this one's for you. SHOW NOTES Carla Zanoni:https://www.carlazanoni.comhttps://carla.substack.comBooks:Knowing / Saber: In English y Españolhttps://www.carlazanoni.com/writingSocial:linkedin.com/in/carlazanonihttps://www.instagram.com/carlazanonicarlazanoni.bsky.social Bio: An award-winning journalist with more than 20 years of experience, Carla’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and TED Talks. She was the first Latina named to the Wall Street Journal’s masthead and served as TED’s first head of audience development. Today, she leads the engagement journalism program at CUNY’s Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, produces and guides strategy for The On Being Project, and consults with publishers and thought leaders on media and narrative strategy. She shares personal essays in her monthly newsletter, The Em Dash. Carla is writing a literary memoir about coming of age in 90s New York — reconciling her immigrant childhood, the city’s underworld, and the detours that led her here. "The Breadwinners" Season 7 is a joint production between Reworking Leadership and The Smart Friends Network generously supported by Ruth Ann Harnisch. "The Breadwinners" was founded by Rachael Lowell and Jennifer Owens in 2019.Host: Rachael LowellExecutive Producers: Rachael Lowell, Rachel SklarAudio Engineer: Ron PassaroOriginal Music: "Perfect" by Hannah BakkeRick Snell: GuitarCesar Moreno: BanjoNyssa Grant: FiddleErik Alvar: BassJustin D. Cook: Keyboard, Percussion, and OrchestrationVocals: Hannah Bakke, Cassidy StonerHannah Bakke: Music and Lyrics To stay up to date with The Breadwinners, please follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebreadwinnerspodcast If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, review & share! Thank you for listening. Still we rise! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Season 7 Trailer
    Feb 3 2026
    Welcome to Season 7 of "The Breadwinners," a podcast about how we navigate work, life, ambition and identity even as the ground shifts wildly beneath us. Join host Rachael Lowell, Executive Coach & Creator of the SHIFT Framework, for conversations with amazing and inspiring creatives, builders, experts and leaders about all the ways in which the world of work is radically different from what we expected (and what we were sold). What happens when the career you built disappears overnight, when your world shakes on its foundations, and when you have to keep leading? It can be messy, expensive and sometimes painful - but also freeing, with unexpected promise and potential. Even in the chaos of 2026 (and "chaos" is being polite), we can still be ambitious, inspired, hungry and driven by big dreams. Welcome to "The Breadwinners" - where we are doing it all, having it all, and ever rising. "The Breadwinners" Season 7 is a joint production between Reworking Leadership and The Smart Friends Network, generously supported by Ruth Ann Harnisch. "The Breadwinners" was founded by Rachael Lowell and Jennifer Owens in 2019. Host: Rachael Lowell Executive Producers: Rachael Lowell, Rachel Sklar Audio Engineer: Ron Passaro Original Music: "Perfect" by Hannah Bakke Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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