10,000 Tabs

Sloan Door spent much of her twenties moving—across states, across the country, overseas, and back again. She describes herself as someone who was always searching, with no grand plan for where any of it was leading. Then, within a matter of months, a woman who had barely ever signed a lease owned a house, was helping raise a child, and bought the coffee shop where she worked. Suddenly she had deb...

For the first time, I’m sharing a piece of The Multi-Hyphenate Dilemma with you. My book comes out October 13, and rather than spend an episode telling you what it’s about, I wanted you to actually hear some of it. The Multi-Hyphenate Dilemma is about the messy middle of career change—the period when you know something no longer fits but you don’t yet know what comes next. It’s also about what mak...

How bad does it have to get before someone decides to change? Austin Rampt started using drugs and alcohol at 13, looking for relief from anxiety and shame he didn’t yet know how to name. What followed is a story that almost defies belief—addiction, recovery, extraordinary business success, relapse, and more than one moment that seems like it should have changed everything. In this episode, we tal...

Do you really have to burn the boats to make a meaningful change? Matt Higgins’ book, Burn the Boats, argues that keeping a Plan B can get in the way of fully committing to what we want. I expected to disagree with a lot of it. I did—and I was surprised by how much I agreed with, too. For the first BOOK TALK episode of 10,000 Tabs, I’m digging into self-trust, instinct, risk, boredom, blank space,...

Cara Chace knows how to do hard things. She spent years as a Special Agent working high-stakes cases, walked away from a stable government career without knowing exactly what would come next, built a successful business, and later faced a period when her health forced her to step away from work altogether. But this conversation isn't really about whether we can do hard things. It's about the quest...

I've been changing directions in my career for nearly two decades. And while every pivot has looked different from the outside, I've started to notice some remarkably familiar moments inside them. In this solo episode, I'm looking back at the parts of career change we tend to leave out of the before-and-after story: the strange stretch when the old thing no longer fits, the new thing isn't clear y...

Elena Khazanova arrived in the United States as a refugee after fleeing the former Soviet Union with her family. In this conversation, we talk about immigration, trauma, somatic therapy, cancer, and what it really takes to rebuild a life one ordinary decision at a time.   In this conversation Elena and Kim discuss: The real human experience of becoming a refugee and having to flee the place you ca...

When Monique Jackson-King was eight years old, she watched Who's the Boss? and decided she wanted to become Angela Bower, the successful marketing executive who seemed to have it all. Years later, she did. An MBA. A coveted role at Amazon. Leadership. Influence. The career she'd imagined for decades. Then it disappeared. In this conversation, Monique shares what it felt like to lose not just a job...

Kim sits down with therapist, yoga teacher, and relational healing facilitator Ateeka Contee to explore what it means to trust yourself through multiple reinventions. After beginning her career in corporate America with an MBA, Ateeka left behind stability to pursue yoga teaching, eventually returning to school at fifty to become a therapist. Along the way, she learned that the most meaningful car...

Many of the conversations on this show have circled career change. This one is about change that ripples through every corner of your life. Change that you didn't expect and would never choose. Therapist and Kim's former student, Rachel Cash, joins 10,000 Tabs for a conversation about about mental illness, caregiving, identity, and a type of grief many people experience but few have language for:...

For years, the message was clear: work harder, push through, build the thing, chase the goal. And now I have the conditions I want and am realizing I have no idea how to live inside of this reality. In this solo episode, I reflect on a surprisingly difficult season of spaciousness and confronting the discomfort of no longer striving. This is about ambition, identity, motherhood, burnout, and the s...

Back in the height of Girlboss culture, success seemed to have a clear formula: grow bigger, earn more, scale faster, and keep moving the goalposts. For many women, those communities opened doors. They created spaces where ambition wasn't something to hide. But what happens when you achieve the thing you once worked so hard for—and realize you don't want it anymore? In this episode of 10,000 Tabs,...

What happens when the version of you everyone depends on is the very version you’re trying to outgrow? In this episode of 10,000 Tabs, Kim sits down with writer, teacher, and former attorney Catherine Zack to explore the hidden cost of being the dependable one—the woman who anticipates everyone’s needs, keeps things running smoothly, and quietly carries far more than anyone realizes. Together, the...

When you come from an academic family, "dating coach" definitely wasn't on the bingo card as a potential career. Even so, she's always been meant for it.  The "she" we're talking about is Clara Artschwager , a coach, writer, mother, former start-up marketer, and much more. And the conversations she's most interested in having today sound like... What does the next half of life look like? What do I...

What happens when the thing you built your identity around suddenly disappears? In this episode of 10,000 Tabs, Kim sits down with performer, creative, event planner, and storyteller Kloé Mallard for a conversation about identity, reinvention, grief, and learning how to rebuild yourself after life changes direction unexpectedly. At just 30 years old, Kloé says she feels like she’s already lived si...

What if the people who seem “good at change” became that way because life kept asking them to begin again? In this episode of 10,000 Tabs, Kim sits down with strategy leader and former fashion designer, Tanyika Fraser , for a conversation about reinvention, resilience, and proving people wrong. Together, they explore the hidden strengths many multi-hyphenate women develop through nonlinear careers...

Most public conversations about change are retrospective. This one is coming to you in real time. On the last episode, Kim announced her latest offer, an opportunity to join her for an intimate in-person gathering in the fall. This episode walks back on that offer. Instead of saying "everything happens for a reason" or pushing through because "anything worth having is worth working for," Kim share...

It's been one year of this podcast! From Why Is Nobody Talking About This? to 10,000 Tabs, thank you for being here. 📣 Big Announcement: the newest (and current) way to work with Kim is by joining The Bench: Fall Break. Listen through this episode to learn what Fall Break is and how you can sign up to join her in the mountains this fall. Kim takes the mic solo to reflect on her conversations with...

Overachievers know how to do. To push. To make it happen. What they (👋🏼 hey, me too!) struggle with is slowing down. When you're forced to step away, you also lose the congratulations, the gold star, the "great job" comments. And that can be disorienting. So who do you become when you're forced to pause your work? That's what my friend and colleague, India Tizol , are discussing. For the first t...

What happens when you learn—early or slowly—that being fully yourself isn’t always safe? In this episode of 10,000 Tabs, Kim talks with narrative advisor and story coach Jessica Graham about the quiet ways we learn to hide parts of who we are—and how those patterns follow us into adulthood, our relationships, and our work. Jessica shares her experience with codependency, 12-step programs, and what...

Sometimes the hardest voice to hear is your own. In this episode of 10,000 Tabs, Kim talks with real estate entrepreneur, coach, and educator Tina Beliveau about the long journey of learning to trust your intuition. Tina’s life has been shaped by dramatic turning points. After struggling through painful teenage years and addiction, she got sober at 17 and began the lifelong work of understanding h...

10,000 Tabs is a podcast about career change, reinvention, and what happens when life no longer fits the way it used to. Each episode explores the moments when something shifts—when the version of life or work that once made sense no longer fits, and the next chapter hasn’t fully revealed itself yet. Through candid conversations with founders, creatives, leaders, and everyday people, the show expl...

What happens when the thing you’re “supposed” to build stops fitting the life you actually want? In this episode of 10,000 Tabs, Kim talks with photographer and writer Rachel Larsen Weaver about the subtle shifts that change the direction of our work—and our lives. Rachel began her career as a high school English teacher before picking up a camera while raising young children and writing a blog. W...

This is 10,000 Tabs. A show about how people navigate change when the path forward isn’t obvious.   Every other week, I sit down with someone who has navigated one of those moments — a pivot, a realization, a reinvention, or simply a quiet internal shift that changed how they live or work.   These aren’t career retrospectives. They’re not business playbooks. And they’re definitely not promotional...

On the first full-length episode of 10,000 Tabs, host Kim Wensel invites her long-time designer, creative collaborator, and friend, Shauna Haider to be the interviewer.  Together they unpack the many iterations of Kim’s career—from international development work and corporate consulting to entrepreneurship, community building, and storytelling—and the moments that forced her to rethink the version...