10,000 Tabs

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 strange feeling of getting exactly what you wanted only to discover that the adjustment is harder than expected.

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About The Show

10,000 Tabs is a podcast about 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 explores how we make meaning, find clarity, and move forward anyway.

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, Kim sits down with entrepreneur and former marketing agency owner, Rebecca Teaff, for a candid conversation about success, identity, and the pressure to keep growing simply because everyone else thinks you should.

Together, they explore what it means to outgrow a version of success that once fit, the difference between building a business and building a life, and why more isn't always the answer. Rebecca shares the realities of stepping away from a thriving business, redefining ambition, and learning to make decisions based on what she wants now.

This conversation is about responsiveness, reinvention, and giving yourself permission to want something different—even when your life looks great on paper. It's also a reminder that success isn't a destination. It's a moving target, and sometimes the bravest thing you can do is stop chasing someone else's definition of it.

In this conversation, Kim and Rebecca discuss:

About The Show

10,000 Tabs is a podcast about 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 explores how we make meaning, find clarity, and move forward anyway.

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, they unpack the lifelong conditioning many women experience around being “good,” agreeable, emotionally available, and endlessly accommodating and how those patterns can slowly disconnect us from ourselves.

Catherine shares her transition from practicing law into yoga, and meditation, but this conversation goes far beyond career pivots. It’s about what happens when your identity has been built around being liked, understood, useful, and needed—and the uncomfortable reality that growth often requires disappointing people.

This episode is an invitation to ask: What would change if you stopped managing everyone else’s experience of you?

On this episode Catherine and Kim discuss:

About The Show

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 explores how we make meaning, find clarity, and move forward anyway.

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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...

Kim and Clara cover these points and the pressure many high-achieving women feel to prove themselves—to be smart enough, accomplished enough, and thoughtful enough to deserve the life they actually want.

In this episode, they discuss:

About The Show

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 explores how we make meaning, find clarity, and move forward anyway.

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 six different lives. From studying music in Chicago to performing on cruise ships around the world, losing her voice and falling into depression, rebuilding her life through school and corporate work, and now stepping into a caregiving role for her mother, this conversation explores what it means to keep evolving when every version of your life asks something different of you.

Together, Kim and Khloé talk about the pressure to perform, the emotional complexity of outgrowing old identities, and the reality that many workplaces don’t actually want our “full authentic selves”—despite what modern work culture claims.

This episode is about adaptation, self-worth, creativity, survival, and the quiet fear so many people carry: Do other people think I’m doing this right?

Kim and Kloé discuss:

About The Show

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 explores how we make meaning, find clarity, and move forward anyway.

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: adaptability, self-direction, intuition, and the ability to rebuild after disappointment.

On this episode Tanyika and Kim discuss:

About The Show

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 explores how we make meaning, find clarity, and move forward anyway.

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 shares her deeply personal decision making process, including:

Why turn around and release this the same week? Why not wait to see how registration goes? Kim shares answers to those questions and more, offering a rare glimpse into the messy middle that we miss when consuming stories from the other side.

About The Show

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 explores how we make meaning, find clarity, and move forward anyway.

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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 guests, share the evolution of The Bench, and the patterns she sees over and over again in highly capable women who know they want something more, but keep delaying movement toward it.

From unfinished creative projects and career pivots to the quiet resentment that builds when we ignore what we really want, this episode explores the emotional cost of staying where we are simply because it feels familiar, responsible, or safe.

Kim unpacks the “curse of capability,” the pressure to keep holding everything together, and why so many women wait until burnout, layoffs, or life transitions force them to make changes they already knew they needed.

In this conversation, Kim shares

About The Show

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 explores how we make meaning, find clarity, and move forward anyway.

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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 time since having a baby, she returns to the mic to talk about being visible in the void, struggling to find brain capacity when her body was asking so much of her, and navigating porous transition points.

On this episode India and Kim discuss:

About The Show

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 explores how we make meaning, find clarity, and move forward anyway.

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 she calls “honest rooms.” Together, they explore how the stories we tell ourselves aren’t always chosen—they’re shaped by what once felt necessary for acceptance, safety, or belonging.

But at some point, those same stories start to feel limiting.

This conversation is about what it takes to recognize that shift and begin rewriting the narrative in a way that actually reflects who you are now.

About The Show

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 explores how we make meaning, find clarity, and move forward anyway.

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