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Alexis Contos

Founder of The Breadwinners, a community for breadwinner women, and host of The Breadwinners Podcast, based in Austin, TX.

Sep 8, 2026

24:04
So when you think about those women, what is the world that you want to build for them in five years, in 10 years? What are you steering toward as a vision that you want to bring them into?
24:21
I want to take one step back just to help define a bit on how I think about breadwinners and how we talk about it.
24:29
So to me, to your point around redefining, redefining the term breadwinner actually has to do with bringing important things into the home, right? It's an old, outdated term that meant...
24:41
actually back of the 1800s when it was coined, was literally bringing the bread home.
24:45
Like you are bringing the literal bread home to feed your family.
24:49
And then in the 60s and 70s, it kind of took this cultural shift into the person who's bringing home money.
24:55
To me, breadwinning is not just about the financial richness.

9 MINS LATER

33:50
Yes.
13:28
How did this new platform and community come to be? Take me back to the idea.
13:34
A little over a year ago, January 25, I decided to leave my corporate career of 20 plus years.
13:40
I have...
13:41
Three little kids.
13:42
I spent four plus years going through IVF and having three beautiful children.
13:48
And I just like put my head down and just kept doing it.
13:52
Actually, the first time you and I connected, I was on maternity leave with my second child.

24 MINS LATER

37:39
Do you have this vision of ultimately what this community and dinner series and all these partnerships, like what does this look like five years from now, 10 years from now?

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