Saved Seats | Replaying Our Pilot Episode: Kim Chappell on the Dinner That Started It All

About this episode

In this pilot episode, Alexis Contos and Kim Chappell discuss the challenges of balancing career and family life while rejecting the pressures of hustle culture.

One year ago, we gathered a group of extraordinary women around a dinner table at SXSW — and The Breadwinners was born. In honor of our one-year anniversary, we're bringing back the episode that started it all for the listeners who've joined us since. "You're not hitting your skincare routine, being a great mom, crushing it at your job, putting dinner on the table, and having sex with your husband in 24 hours every day," says Kim Chappell, Chief Brand Officer at Bobbie. "Nobody is. That's not happening." In this pilot episode, Alexis Contos sits down with Kim to talk about what it actually looks like to build a career and a family at the same time — without the performance. They dig into returning to work after maternity leave, the guilt that quietly follows you back, and why the "girlboss" era left so many of us more exhausted than empowered. What comes after hustle culture? A new conversation about what it means to be a breadwinner — one that goes beyond the paycheck and into how we define success, boundaries, and what we're actually building. If you're new to the community, this is where it all began and we're excited to revisit our origin. So, welcome! The Breadwinners Join…

People in this episode

Host: Alexis Contos

Guest: Kim Chappell

Topics covered

• career
• family
• motherhood
• work-life balance
• success
• boundaries

Keywords

• dinner
• SXSW
• one-year anniversary
• girlboss
• guilt
• breadwinner

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Bobbie

Books & works: Saved Seats, Breadwinners

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