Mentor Buffet

Alexi Pappas

Booking Overview

This interview-led mentorship show features in-depth conversations with accomplished athletes, entrepreneurs, and creatives about the people and experiences that shaped their careers and personal growth, alongside occasional solo advice episodes. Strong pitches would include published authors, founders, elite athletes, and creative professionals with distinctive mentorship stories and meaningful achievements; booking difficulty is medium because guests are accomplished but not uniformly mainstream celebrities.

Metrics

Episodes: 81

Frequency: Multiple_weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

lexi.pappas@gmail.com

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Host

Alexi Pappas - Olympian, filmmaker, actress, and bestselling author known for work spanning elite athletics and creative storytelling.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Accomplished athletes, entrepreneurs, authors, artists, and other creative or professional leaders with a notable career journey and a specific, credible perspective on mentorship.

Required Achievements:

Published books, Founded or exited a successful company, Created a notable athletic or creative venture, Reached elite achievement in a professional field

Recent Guest Discussions

Allie Rowbottom - Writing Mentorship, Creative Development, Rejection, Feedback, Literary Influences, And The Role Of Conflict In Fiction.

Nils Arend - Designing A Life, Ambitious Goal-setting, Entrepreneurship, Creative Risk-taking, Running, And Founding The Speed Project.

Recent Topics

Mentorship, Athletes, Writing, Entrepreneurship, Personal Development

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Mentor Buffet

JENNY SIMPSON: Embracing change, showing up for yourself, and finding new things to be good at

September 17, 2026

Jenny Simpson, the World Champion and Olympic medalist track athlete, joins host Alexi Pappas to share about her experience with cardiac arrest, and the changes in her life that are coming as a result of never being able to run again. They talk about our relationship to the unexplainable, finding new teachers when we’ve outgrown old ones, and embracing the fact that we’re good at multiple things. Jenny shares about her relationship with her sister and the process of letting people show up for...

AMELIA MEATH: Feel It And Make Music

September 10, 2026

Amelia Meath of Slyvan Esso joins host Alexi Pappas on Mentor Buffet to share about her Aunt Carol who showed her how to be free, what it means to means to share creative and romantic partnership with the same person, and how to build a scene. They talk about how there’s no such thing as “the best,” meeting your icons, and what it means to be guided by intuition. Amelia also shares the feeling she’s after and what it means. She calls it disappearing. Sylvan Esso’s new album “Ow ∞” is out Sept...

ALLIE ROWBOTTOM: On fiction being true, honest feedback, and Lovers XXX

August 27, 2026

Allie Rowbottom, the author of Aesthetica, Jell-o Girls, and now Lovers XXX joins Alexi on Mentor Buffet to share about the mentorship she’s experienced from her husband, the writer Jon Lindsey, from her mom, who was constantly writing during Allie’s adolescence, and from her professors—who offered her reading lists that accelerated her toward her taste and style and set deadlines for her. One of her professors was the writer Maggie Nelson. Allie and Alexi also discuss rejection, the nature o...

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lexi.pappas@gmail.com

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