The Breadwinners

About The Breadwinners

"The Breadwinners" is a podcast about the realities of working, earning, leading and balancing - and the choices we make when the workplace and the world don’t match what was promised. Hosted by workplace and leadership expert Rachael Lowell, "The Breadwinners" features illuminating conversations with leaders, builders, creators, entrepreneurs and everyday visionaries who have redefined what success looks like after realizing the old scripts no longer worked. Together we explore leadership, identity, family in all its forms, ambition, obligation, independence, interdependence and the systems that shape how we show up at work, at home and in the world. Welcome to "The Breadwinners." Still we rise!

Publisher

Rachael Lowell

Category

business · kids & family · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Mar 2020

Latest episode

30 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

4 of 195 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   30 Apr 2026

   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 Her Agenda Social: Rhonesha Byng IG Rhonesha Byng Linkedin Her Agenda IG Her Agenda Linkedin Croutons: ⁠Her Agenda Podcast Her Agenda Live⁠ Her Agenda Breakthrough Grant Her Agenda Groundbreakers *** "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

2. 

   9 Apr 2026

   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 The Flight School Taking Flight on Substack Social: https://www.instagram.com/abbyfalik https://www.instagram.com/launchyear https://www.linkedin.com/in/abbyfalik Croutons: Will we choose love, or fear? "We were born to fly." "How does my inner work intersect with my work in the world?" *** 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 & 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

3. 

   1 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

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

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

Published 1 Apr 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I sat down and wrote like Amazon style, like eight page memo on where I believe the future of the company was. And I shared it with my team, with the board, with the founder and CEO at the time. And it was really well received. And it's pretty natural sometimes when you're the one that creates the vision, that you're going to be the one then tasked with executing on it. And I'd already kind of proven myself to the team overall. And, you know, it's ironic to be CEO because you actually have more bosses because you have a board. Right. You were saying that. Absolutely. But that was how it happened. […]

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