Kim Wensel
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The world tells us to pick a lane. I’m interested in what happens when we don’t.

Kim Wensel

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Hi, I’m Kim!

My work explores what happens when highly capable people outgrow the version of success they once worked so hard to achieve.

  • 10,000 Tabs Podcast

    Conversations About Change

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  • The Multi-Hyphenate Dilemma

    New Book: Coming Oct. 2026

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  • Pattern Lab

    When You're Ready to Make a Big Move

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Something has shifted.

It’s not just you.

The people I spend time with have spent years building meaningful careers, businesses, and lives. From the outside, everything still works. But the version of success they once worked so hard to achieve no longer fits.

Even without a five-year plan, many are considering change for the first time. The sense that there has to be more has suddenly become stronger than staying put.

That’s when I get the call.

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10,000 Tabs: The Newsletter

The space between the podcast and the mood board: essays, creative fuel, and the occasional existential spiral.

Like most elder millennials, I followed the traditional path: high school to college, college to work, work to grad school, grad school to marriage and a steady job.

When I landed, I learned pretty quickly that the dream I was working towards was never fully within reach.

My twenties and thirties were spent trying on titles and crossing industries, but something about them always felt restricting; like I was leaving out an integral part of myself in order to belong.

Today, through writing, consulting, and interviews, I explore what happens when women trust themselves more than the public opinion on their lives and evolve their work accordingly.

About

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You just see things and pull them out of people when they’re not even aware they’re there.

Leadership Consultant

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What

I’m Thinking

About Now

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It took me two years to write a book about trying to figure out what comes next. There's probably a joke in there somewhere.

Weeks after moving across state lines— mere days after the kids boarded the bus to brand new schools—I declared I would be taking three months off from client work. "A beautiful season of space," I named it. And right then, before we'd even settled into a routine, the idea for my one day book hit me.

What started as an attempt to publish a very serious business book morphed into a memoir by winter, and after months of writing and rewriting, finally settled back somewhere in the middle. There were four names, thirty subtitles, and many mishaps. Turns out the whole process of writing was very meta for a book about navigating the messy middle.

It's called The Multi-Hyphenate Dilemma and it's available for pre-order now.