The Breadwinners

Owning It with Rhonesha Byng

Rhonesha Byng has a mantra: No one ever slows her agenda. It’s motivated her for the last 18 years of building her award-winning digital media company, and provided its name - Her Agenda - with the goal of providing resources and inspiration for professional women as they ascend in their careers. Core to this mission is autonomy - as a critical element underlying the success of her audience, and for Rhonesha herself. In her two decades building Her Agenda, Rhonesha has retained 100% ownership and control, which has served her as she's navigated the shifting, roiling media landscape with the agility required to adapt. In this episode of The Breadwinners, host Rachael Lowell talks to Rhonesha about why it's crucial for women to prioritize their own power, why community is her secret weapon, and what it takes to build something that lasts. SHOW NOTES Rhonesha Byng [https://www.rhonesha.com/] Her Agenda [https://heragenda.com/] Social: Rhonesha Byng IG [https://www.instagram.com/neshasagenda/] Rhonesha Byng Linkedin [https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhoneshabyng/] Her Agenda IG [https://www.instagram.com/heragenda/] Her Agenda Linkedin [https://www.linkedin.com/company/heragenda-com/posts/?feedView=all]  Croutons: ⁠Her Agenda Podcast [https://heragenda.com/podcasts/] Her Agenda Live⁠ [https://heragenda.com/t/her-agenda-live/] Her Agenda Breakthrough Grant [https://grant.heragenda.com/] Her Agenda Groundbreakers [https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhoneshabyng/] *** "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 Rick Snell: Guitar Cesar Moreno: Banjo Nyssa Grant: Fiddle Erik Alvar: Bass Justin D. Cook: Keyboard, Percussion, and Orchestration Vocals: Hannah Bakke, Cassidy Stoner Hannah Bakke: Music and Lyrics To stay up to date with The Breadwinners, please follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebreadwinnerspodcast [https://www.instagram.com/thebreadwinnerspodcast] Find Rachael Lowell at https://reworkingleadership.com [https://reworkingleadership.com/] & take the SHIFT assessment here: https://leadtheshift.ai [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 [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Take Flight with Abby Falik

Abby Falik is constantly thinking about what it actually means to prepare for a life - not just a career. She took a year off during undergrad to travel Latin America alone, then convinced her university to give her credit for it. She went to business school not because she cared about business, but because she wanted to learn how to work with power. This was the mindset that led to her founding Global Citizen Year, which encourages graduating high school students to take a gap year, and now The Flight School, which takes that thinking one step further, providing fellowships to graduating students for a “launch year” - and for an education that she says is “higher than higher ed.” Abby’s thinking about travel, entrepreneurship, self-discovery and lifelong learning is fascinating, and I loved this conversation. We talked about where self-permission comes from, why the most formative learning often happens outside the classroom, and why real change is *always* an inside job. SHOW NOTES AbbyFalik.com [http://abbyfalik.com/] The Flight School [https://theflightschool.org/] Taking Flight on Substack [http://abbyfalik.substack.com/] Social: https://www.instagram.com/abbyfalik https://www.instagram.com/launchyear https://www.linkedin.com/in/abbyfalik Croutons: Will we choose love, or fear? [https://abbyfalik.substack.com/p/will-we-choose-love-or-fear] "We were born to fly." [https://abbyfalik.substack.com/p/welcome-to-taking-flight] "How does my inner work intersect with my work in the world?" [https://abbyfalik.substack.com/p/begin-again] *** 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 Rick Snell: Guitar Cesar Moreno: Banjo Nyssa Grant: Fiddle Erik Alvar: Bass Justin D. Cook: Keyboard, Percussion, and Orchestration Vocals: Hannah Bakke, Cassidy Stoner Hannah Bakke: Music and Lyrics To stay up to date with The Breadwinners, please follow us on Instagram:  Find Rachael Lowell at https://reworkingleadership.com [https://reworkingleadership.com/] & take the SHIFT assessment here: https://leadtheshift.ai [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 [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Have A Big Vision (But Write It Down) with Ashwini Anburajan

Ashwini Anburajan is the CEO of Obi [https://rideobi.com/], 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 [https://rideobi.com/ashwini/] [Obi] The Kayak of Rideshare: Obi's New CEO Bets on Pricing Transparency and AV Growth [https://www.forbes.com/sites/sindhyavalloppillil/2025/08/12/the-kayak-of-rideshare-obis-new-ceo-charts-a-course-for-rideshare-pricing-transparency-and-av-growth/] [Forbes] Social: https://www.instagram.com/aanburajan [https://www.instagram.com/aanburajan] https://www.instagram.com/obiriders [https://www.instagram.com/obiriders] https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanburajan [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanburajan] https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanburajan [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanburajan] https://x.com/anburajan [https://x.com/anburajan] https://x.com/obiriders [https://x.com/obiriders] Croutons: Self-Driving Taxis Are Catching On. Are You Ready? [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/technology/personaltech/zoox-driverless-taxis-san-francisco.html] [NYT] The Cost of Autonomy: Tesla, Waymo, and the New Rideshare Battleground [https://rideobi.com/tesla/] [Obi] Why 'Burnout' Feminism Is Replacing the Girlboss, Lean In Era [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-16/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 Lowell Executive Producers: Rachael Lowell, Rachel Sklar Audio Engineer: Ron Passaro Original Music: "Perfect" by Hannah Bakke Rick Snell: Guitar Cesar Moreno: Banjo Nyssa Grant: Fiddle Erik Alvar: Bass Justin D. Cook: Keyboard, Percussion, and Orchestration Vocals: Hannah Bakke, Cassidy Stoner Hannah 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 [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Don't Stay There and Rot! with Dorie Clark

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://dorieclark.com/] https://learn.dorieclark.com/courses/expert [https://learn.dorieclark.com/courses/expert] Books: The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World [https://amzn.to/4dMyqmh] Entrepreneurial You: Monetize Your Expertise, Create Multiple Income Streams, and Thrive [https://amzn.to/48c5hgK] Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future [https://amzn.to/48c5hgK] Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea & Build a Following Around It [https://amzn.to/4886cPe] Social: https://www.linkedin.com/in/doriec⁠ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/doriec] ⁠https://www.instagram.com/dorieclark [https://www.instagram.com/dorieclark] ⁠https://www.youtube.com/DorieClark⁠ [https://www.youtube.com/DorieClark] ⁠https://twitter.com/dorieclark⁠ [https://twitter.com/dorieclark] Croutons:  Dorie Clark: The real reason you feel so busy (and what to do about it) [https://www.ted.com/talks/dorie_clark_the_real_reason_you_feel_so_busy_and_what_to_do_about_it] [TED] Dorie Clark: Me, myself, I [https://thinkers50.com/blog/me-myself-i/] [Thinker's 50] Working Identity by Herminia Ibarra [https://herminiaibarra.com/working-identity-book/]Wham! [https://www.netflix.com/title/81137188] [Netflix] Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsyHQgiem8c] [Wham!] Careless Whisper [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izGwDsrQ1eQ] [George Michael] Andrew Ridgley, Great Friend [https://youtu.be/DZFBXy5rgHg?si=tHPoXMuDC0umi5bt&t=174] [Tonight Show] Bio: Dorie Clark has been named four times as one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50, and was recognized as the #1 Communication Coach in the world by the Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards. Clark, a consultant and keynote speaker, teaches executive education at Columbia Business School, and she is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of The Long Game [https://dorieclark.com/longgame/], Entrepreneurial You [https://dorieclark.com/entrepreneurialyou/], Reinventing You  [https://dorieclark.com/reinventingyou/]and Stand Out [https://dorieclark.com/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.” A frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, she consults and speaks for clients including Google, Microsoft, and the World Bank. You can download her free Long Game strategic thinking self-assessment at dorieclark.com/thelonggame [https://dorieclark.com/thelonggame]. *** "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 Rick Snell: Guitar Cesar Moreno: Banjo Nyssa Grant: Fiddle Erik Alvar: Bass Justin D. Cook: Keyboard, Percussion, and Orchestration Vocals: Hannah Bakke, Cassidy Stoner Hannah Bakke: Music and Lyrics To stay up to date with The Breadwinners, please follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebreadwinnerspodcast [https://www.instagram.com/thebreadwinnerspodcast] Find Rachael Lowell at https://reworkingleadership.com [https://reworkingleadership.com/] & take the SHIFT assessment here: https://leadtheshift.ai [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 [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

PhD in Pivoting with Christina Wallace

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.com [https://christinawallace.com] https://www.nvpbroadway.com [https://christinawallace.com] Social: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinawallace [https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinawallace] https://www.instagram.com/cmwalla [https://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 Lowell Executive Producers: Rachael Lowell, Rachel Sklar Audio Engineer: Ron Passaro Original Music: "Perfect" by Hannah Bakke Rick Snell: Guitar Cesar Moreno: Banjo Nyssa Grant: Fiddle Erik Alvar: Bass Justin D. Cook: Keyboard, Percussion, and Orchestration Vocals: Hannah Bakke, Cassidy Stoner Hannah Bakke: Music and Lyrics To stay up to date with The Breadwinners, please follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebreadwinnerspodcast [https://www.instagram.com/thebreadwinnerspodcast] Find Rachael Lowell at https://reworkingleadership.com [https://reworkingleadership.com/] & take the SHIFT assessment here: https://leadtheshift.ai [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 [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]