The Broad Experience (The Broad Experience)
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| 14 Nov 2017 | Episode 114: My Answer is No (If That's OK With You) | 00:24:58 | |
A lot of women have trouble saying no to requests at work and in the rest of life. We don't want to let people down, and many of us enjoy helping others. But too many women are withering under the weight of tasks and favors they've taken on because they couldn't bring themselves to say no. In this show I talk to psychiatrist and author Nanette Gartrell about how to set boundaries with bosses and colleagues without damaging your relationships. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 10 Mar 2020 | Episode 151: Mary Lou at 94 | 00:29:48 | |
In this episode we meet a true broad - a 20th century woman who has bucked convention in more ways than one. Mary Lou landed her first job as a telephone operator in 1941, and went on to become a social worker and then a teacher. Along the way she married, had six children, divorced, and became a (very) independent woman. Today, at almost 95, she’s settled down with her partner Al and tells me, ‘I’ve had a fantastic life.’ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 23 Jun 2020 | Episode 157: More Than Power Poses | 00:51:55 | |
In this episode I hand over the reins to Lauren Schiller, host of Inflection Point. In this show she and writer Ruth Whippman (a fellow Brit) discuss the very American idea that if you just try hard enough, you can get pretty much anything you want - from a better figure to a better job. But Ruth says self-belief plus a few girl power T-shirts and social media slogans do not an equal society make. Tune in to hear Lauren and Ruth discuss what needs to change for 'empowerment' to lead to real power. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 21 Aug 2016 | Episode 90: Working with Asperger's | 00:06:56 | |
This is a mini-episode. It sprang from my conversation with Tina Alberino, who featured in the last show on the beauty business. She surprised me at the end of our interview by mentioning she was awkward with people. I'd just had an animated 40 minute conversation with her, so I probed, and this short show is the result. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 10 Apr 2018 | Episode 124: Fair Pay, part 2: Transparency Matters | 00:18:38 | |
This is the second part of a two-episode show on women's pay. In this one we talk about why companies should be more transparent about their pay practices. Payscale's Lydia Frank says you don't have to brandish everyone's paychecks, but let's end the silence around compensation. It's not rude to discuss money at work - people want to make sure they're being paid fairly. And we talk to University of Iceland professor Thorgerdur Einasdottir about Iceland's new equal pay law. It puts the onus on employers, not employees, to ensure men and women are getting paid the same for equal work. Finally we come back to negotiation: is it fair that women have to negotiate for better pay when studies show many of us hate doing it and fare worse then men? Comments welcome as usual. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 05 Apr 2016 | The Broad Experience 81: Money vs. Fulfillment | 00:26:02 | |
In this show two guests take on two listener questions. The first asks whether women have to strive so much for equality. Can't they just be happy if they enjoy their jobs...even if they know the guy before them got paid more for doing the exact same thing? Another listener says there's a huge gap between her and her husband's salaries. She likes her job, but wonders if she should give it up to stay home with her child so her Silicon Valley spouse can have what his colleagues do: a stay-at-home wife 'who makes his life happen.' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 01 Jun 2021 | Episode 176: Thinking Differently: Neurodiversity at Work | 00:31:00 | |
This show is all about working with neurodiversity - having a condition such as ADHD, or Asperger’s or anything else that means your brain functions a bit differently from a lot of your colleagues'. Emma Case had always wanted to work in fashion, and she loved it - but at the same time she had trouble with things that seemed totally straightforward to others. It took years to work out why. Emma now runs Women Beyond the Box, a platform that celebrates the successes of neurodiverse women. Michelle Jones and Paige Jeffrey are in this category too. Paige often found the office a confusing environment but didn’t know why until last year. Michelle’s world was rocked when, in her late thirties, she received some shocking news about her brain. All three women have struggled at times, but they’ve all learned use their particular brains to fuel their success. And each of them wants workplaces to open up, to be more inclusive - to recognize that neurodiversity can be a benefit to a project or a team rather than a hindrance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 23 Nov 2020 | Episode 166: How to Work Better from Home - a conversation with Laura Vanderkam | 00:24:16 | |
Working from home is the new normal for a lot of us. But that doesn't mean we like it. Or that we're good at it. In this episode I sit down with Laura Vanderkam, author of I Know How She Does It, What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, and, most recently, The New Corner Office: How the Most Successful People Work from Home. Working from your house or apartment has taken on new meaning - and stress - in the pandemic. But Laura says there are ways to gain focus, force yourself to stop at the end of the day, and make the rhythm of the whole thing work for you. WFH won't go away when the pandemic does, but doing it well is a skill that most of us need a little help mastering. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 22 Jan 2018 | Episode 118: A Year for Women? | 00:25:45 | |
We could be entering a new era for women at work. Women aren't whispering about bullying or harassment any more, and we're speaking up about equal pay more often. Everything feels different than it did just a few months ago. A lot of us are excited about the future. Could this be the year more women see equality at work, and will men support that evolution (or revolution?) Two guests on different continents talk about their hopes and fears for the year ahead. Anne Libby is a longtime management expert and observer of workplace dynamics. Nastaran Tavakoli-Far co-hosts The Gender Knot podcast from London. Send feedback to ashley@thebroadexperience.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 18 Dec 2015 | The Broad Experience 75: Redefining Success | 00:27:03 | |
It's the end of the year - a time when a lot of us think about changing our lives in one way or another. In this show we talk to two traditionally successful women who left their old work lives for the unknown. But jumping meant leaving their identities behind as well as their paychecks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 31 Dec 2017 | Episode 117: Behind the Scenes at The Broad Experience | 00:17:19 | |
This time, a short show in which I'm the interviewee. Sara Holtz of the Advice to My Younger Me podcast talks with me about how I came to start The Broad Experience, what goes into making it and why production tends to be seat-of-the-pants. For more on the life of an independent podcaster, check out TheBroadExperience.com for a photo of my recording studio, AKA my clothes closet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 02 Jun 2016 | The Broad Experience 85: Far From Home - Women in Aid | 00:21:30 | |
A lot of us give to causes we care about. But how many of us ever think about the workers at some of these nonprofits - aid organizations like Doctors Without Borders, the Red Cross, or Oxfam? The aid world is full of women, and in this show we meet one of them. Work/life balance? Not easy when you and your partner need a UN helicopter to visit one another. The job can be physically grueling and also dangerous. Sexual harassment happens all the time. But the work is also rewarding and challenging in ways she couldn't have imagined. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 28 May 2018 | Episode 127: Resilience | 00:25:54 | |
"Empower yourself. You will be underestimated and misunderstood. Do it anyway." Those were some of the first words I heard Dana Canedy speak at a women's careers event earlier this year. In this show I ask Dana to expand on that advice. She was the first person in her family to go to college. She had dreamed of being a writer from childhood, and had a long career in journalism, much of it at the New York Times. But along the way she experienced terrible loss. Now she is a single mother to a 12-year-old boy and she runs the Pulitzer Prizes, the first woman and person of color to do so. In this episode she talks about resilience, handling yourself at work, and the joy of giving back. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 08 Apr 2019 | Episode 143: True Equality: When it's OK to be Mediocre | 00:20:50 | |
We all need inspiration in the form of successful women. But sometimes the pitches I get about the latest amazing, do-it-all star who's 'killing it' can make me feel tired rather than inspired. Financial Times columnist Pilita Clark is in the same boat. She argues that true equality means not having to be utterly stellar to receive recognition. In this show we discuss her theory that women should be allowed to be as mediocre as any man. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 28 Sep 2016 | Episode 92: Illness and Secrecy | 00:23:00 | |
A lot of people are working with some kind of health condition. Many of them keep that a secret from bosses and co-workers. In this show we look at perceptions of weakness at work, and talk to two guests with health issues. One of them is still deciding how and when to reveal her condition, and wonders if she does, will she ever be promoted again? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 17 Aug 2020 | Episode 160: Stress and the Benefits of Being Outside (re-release) | 00:25:12 | |
When I first made this show I could never have imagined how large a role both stress and getting outside would play in our lives in 2020. In this episode I talk to science writer Florence Williams, author of The Nature Fix, about how spending time outside can help lower our stress levels and allow us to gain perspective on daily problems. Most of us live and work in urban environments, spending hours a day in front of a screen. Nothing could be less natural. In this show we talk about how spending time outdoors can improve our lives in multiple ways, and how women can benefit even more than men. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 29 Nov 2016 | Episode 96: Burnout | 00:20:32 | |
Anyone can burn out at work, but women seem to be doing it faster and younger than men. In this show we take a closer look at what leads to burnout and how to prevent it in the first place. My guests are career and burnout coach Dana Campbell and journalist and former BuzzFeed News editor Stacy-Marie Ishmael. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 10 Nov 2020 | Episode 165: Yes, You Can Negotiate During Covid | 00:25:26 | |
Now may not seem like the best time to ask for what you want at work, whether that's more money, a new title, or more time off. Everyone's under stress and putting in extra hours, right? But this situation isn't ending any time soon. And you may be about to burn out. So why NOT ask for what you want and need? In this episode we meet negotiation coach Fotini Iconomopoulos. We talk about her background as a child of Greek immigrants and what that taught her about advocating for herself. And we discuss how women in particular can stop their empathy getting in the way of reaching their goals. Because you can improve your situation, even during tough times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 15 Jul 2021 | Episode 178: Working Couples - Your Questions Answered | 00:10:40 | |
This is a quick follow-up episode to the last show with INSEAD professor Jennifer Petriglieri, author of Couples that Work. We tackle a few of your questions, covering everything from 'how do we split the invisible home and parenting tasks?' to couples with different working styles to couples living apart for work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 28 Jun 2017 | Episode 108: Conservative Women Speak Up | 00:29:16 | |
America is politically divided, and women with different views are not talking to eachother. In this show we hear from two conservative women about their lives and views on politics, feminism, and being an out conservative in a liberal workplace.And we meet a lifelong liberal who's set on getting both groups of women to enter politics for the good of democracy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 05 Apr 2018 | Episode 123: Fair Pay, part 1: It Begins with Babysitting | 00:28:12 | |
This show kicks off a two-part exploration of the pay gap and women's ongoing efforts to get equal pay for equal work. First, we talk to researcher and author Yasemin Besen-Cassino. She found out the pay gap begins a lot earlier than you might think - at age 14. (Male babysitters get paid more than female ones!) Then we meet Lydia Frank from Payscale to talk about the importance of pay transparency and why even women with MBA degrees often fail to get a raise. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 12 Jun 2017 | Episode 107: Expect the Unexpected | 00:23:16 | |
Lauren Tucker was like a lot of other women who've been working in corporate life for years - itching to go out on her own. So she did. But things didn't turn out the way she expected. In this show we talk about dashed hopes, reinvention in a new place, why diversity in the ad business still sucks, and caring for your parents when everything around you is falling apart. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 21 Dec 2017 | Broad Experience teaser | 00:02:40 | |
Just recorded a new teaser to mark the show's five-year anniversary. Pass it along and help TBE land more listeners! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 02 Aug 2017 | Episode 110: Stress and the Benefits of Being Outside | 00:25:52 | |
In this show I talk to science writer Florence Williams, author of The Nature Fix, about how spending time outside can help lower our stress levels and allow us to gain perspective on daily problems. Most of us live and work in urban environments, spending hours a day in front of a screen. Nothing could be less natural. In this show we talk about how spending time outdoors can improve our lives in multiple ways, and how women benefit even more than men. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 09 Dec 2020 | Episode 167: Power and Body Language (re-release) | 00:21:16 | |
Today we revisit the theme of body language in the workplace: hunching, spread legs, eye contact, and kissing - all in a business setting. We meet Yale psychology professor Marianne LaFrance, who discusses how men and women play up their power, or lack of it, through non-verbal communication. And Financial Times journalist Elaine Moore talks about how she deals with unwanted male kisses at business meetings. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 13 Sep 2017 | Episode 111: Hiring Hell | 00:22:22 | |
Remember rejection letters? Some of us do, but they're a lot less common in today's hiring world. In this show we look at how and why the hiring process is getting longer, not to mention more frustrating and less polite. Two recent job seekers discuss their experiences and Allison Hemming of The Hired Guns brings some perspective.
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| 10 Oct 2016 | Episode 93: Women in Politics (re-release) | 00:29:59 | |
Countries like the US and UK may thrive in many areas, but not when it comes to women in politics. The US Congress is about 20% women and in the UK, Parliament is 23% female. Yes, it's an improvement on former decades, but in 2016 why aren't more women holding power at a national level?We have two fantastic, outspoken guests on today's show, which was first released in early 2015: Megan Murphy, former Financial Times Washington bureau chief (now with Bloomberg), and Madeleine Kunin, former and first woman governor of Vermont. She once ran against Bernie Sanders. We discuss the landscape for women in politics today, what life as a female politician is actually like, and why it's so important that more women go into politics in the first place. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 10 Mar 2017 | Episode 101: Your Work, Your Private Life | 00:26:14 | |
The boundaries between work and home are fraying all the time. We spend work time doing personal stuff, and time at home working. We talk about our personal lives at work too, and vice versa. But some of us aren't comfortable sharing much about our home lives with colleagues - we like our boundaries. Yet not sharing can put us at odds with a world where everyone's connected on social media. My first guest guards her privacy, but wonders if she's hurting her career by being circumspect. My second guest has a different take on openness at work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 21 Mar 2018 | Episode 122: Leading in Faith (re-release) | 00:28:12 | |
It's far more common than it used to be to see women in roles such as rabbi or priest. But these hard-won jobs aren't without their frustrations as well as their triumphs. In this show we meet three women. One went straight to her calling from college, the other two are career-changers. We talk about how women are viewed by the congregation, what you can get away with when you preach, and how getting ahead can still be tougher for women - even within denominations where women are accepted as leaders. Appearance came up much more than I expected during these interviews. These women have to manage their image just as carefully as any corporate executive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 18 Apr 2016 | The Broad Experience 82: Generation Clash | 00:19:42 | |
This week we look at generational conflict between women at work. We all know it’s there, lurking, even if we talk about it behind eachother’s backs. This show features a generation expert plus a baby boomer and a millennial on the gaps in experience and understanding between women. This is the first of two shows on this topic. Next time we get Generation X's perspective. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 07 Mar 2016 | The Broad Experience 79: Equal and Different | 00:21:00 | |
In this show we reconnect with a previous guest, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox. You won't hear her use expressions like 'women's leadership'. We talk about the concept of balance, nature versus nurture, why companies have to stop looking for women to fit their cultures - and why internal women's networking groups may be a waste of time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 07 Aug 2019 | Episode 149: Forgiveness at Work | 00:17:34 | |
In this episode we look at forgiveness as a career tactic. A lot of us stew for weeks or months over things that have happened at work. My guest Christie Lindor decided the way to get ahead in her career was to forgive the aggressions - micro and otherwise - she was subject to at the office. She talks about how and why she chose forgiveness as a way forward, and how focusing on what you want to come out of a bad situation can help you deal with hurt, anger and resentment. If you're fuming over a work situation right now, tune in. This is the last episode you'll hear for a while as The Broad Experience goes on hiatus for a few months. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 14 Nov 2016 | Episode 95: Better in Scandinavia | 00:28:02 | |
The Nordic countries have a reputation for equality and excellent work/life balance. American women look enviously at these nations as they scrape together a short maternity leave or finish another 10-hour day.But here's the paradox: there are just as few women in powerful roles in Scandinavia as there are in the US. Why? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 27 Feb 2018 | Bonus episode: Femininity and Power | 00:09:31 | |
"When you see the countries that have been run by women, they’re not necessarily the Anglo-Saxon countries." In this extra episode we're back with Avivah Wittenberg-Cox. She's fresh from 30 years of living in France, and a keen observer of how gender plays out all over the world. "Anglo-Saxon cultures do not like, embrace, or value femininity," she says. Ouch. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 13 Jul 2017 | Episode 109: Ambition on Hold | 00:22:35 | |
In this show we reunite with Tess Vigeland, one of the guests on my most popular show to date - episode 75, Redefining Success. Within a few years Tess quit a longtime job as a national radio host, wrote a book, got divorced and set off to travel the world. She had always been fueled by ambition, and lots of it. She also valued herself mostly through her job. We talk about how her attitude to ambition, success and office politics has changed in the 18 months she's been on the road. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 03 May 2016 | The Broad Experience 83: I Did It My Way | 00:20:26 | |
This is the second of two shows on generational differences at work. They're there, even if we don't always acknowledge their existence. This time we focus on Gen X women and some of the ways in which they differ from their younger colleagues and fail to understand them - and vice versa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 24 Jun 2016 | Episode 87: Work and Intimacy (part 2) | 00:26:03 | |
In this show we hear the second half of my conversation with sexuality counselor Evelyn Resh. We talk about why prioritizing your children can backfire, the sex/work dynamic in gay relationships, and why Evelyn hasn't been taking her own advice - and how she's trying to change that. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 30 Oct 2018 | Episode 135: The Comeback | 00:23:39 | |
Many women will take time out of the workforce at some point in their careers. But getting back in can be notoriously hard. In this show we meet Lisa Unwin, co-author of the book 'She's Back'. We discuss how to change your attitude to persuade an employer (and yourself) of your worth, how to frame an absence from the workforce, and why career and motherhood have a lot in common with a game of chess. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 05 Mar 2019 | Episode 141: When I'm 85 - an interview with Madeleine Kunin | 00:26:04 | |
A few years ago I spoke to former Vermont governor Madeleine Kunin for a show called Politics is Power. When I took some of her career advice and wrote it up in a LinkedIn post, it got hundreds of (positive) comments. So when I heard she had a new memoir out about being in her eighties, I couldn't wait to talk to her again. In this show we discuss what it's like to officially be an old woman, and talk about some of the highs and lows of reaching your eighties. We discuss how she's changed as a person and go back in time to her childhood, to parts of her career, and to the time she became single again at 60 after years of marriage. She found love again at 71. Being 85, she says, 'is not what I pictured in my mind.' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 17 Nov 2015 | The Broad Experience 73: A Nanny Speaks Up | 00:22:28 | |
The income gap between women is widening fast as well paid, highly educated women outsource traditionally female tasks to women who earn far less, and have little job security. First I talk to Alison Wolf, a professor and a labor market expert. Then we spend the rest of the show with Jennifer Bernard, a Trinidad-born, New York-based nanny. We hear about the unequal work environment that is the home, how she began to gain confidence on the job, and what makes her feel successful. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 11 Aug 2021 | Episode 179: Sixtyish and Loving It: Perseverance and the Midlife Career Change | 00:20:15 | |
In the last couple of episodes we talked about the transitions working couples go through. In this show we re-meet a former guest, one half of one such couple. Heather McGregor embraced a big career change at 55, going from entrepreneur to academic dean, continuing a period in her life where she's switched from supportive partner to family breadwinner. Heather has always had an eye on the future, planning for what might come next. She believes it's never too late for a career change - if you prepare ahead of time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 31 Aug 2021 | Episode 180: A Book of Her Own (re-release) | 00:23:12 | |
Scan the business section of any bookstore and you'll see reams of books written by men, far fewer by women. In this show, which originally aired in 2018, we talk about women as writers and readers of business books. Is it imposter syndrome, fear, or lack of time that stops women from putting fingers to keyboard? Is Lean In a business book or a self-help book? And why are female authors less likely to embrace a publicity blitz when their book is published? My guest is Alison Jones, owner of Practical Inspiration Publishing, host of the Extraordinary Business Book Club podcast and author of This Book Means Business. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 16 Sep 2021 | Episode 181: Digital Body Language | 00:23:32 | |
Nearly all our workplace communication is digital. Gone are the days when faxing seemed like efficient new technology (believe me, it did at one point). Emails, team communication programs like Slack, texting, instant messaging - they’re all convenient and speedy. They can also cause a lot of angst. In this show I sit down with Erica Dhawan, author of the book Digital Body Language, to talk about why digital communication can be so fraught with frustration and anxiety. Is that terse email simply direct, or does a more sinister meaning lurk in those short sentences? Are emojis OK at the office and if so, for whom? I’m also joined by Liz Zelnick, whose experience in a past job made her think again about her use of exclamation points. And we look at the advantages of virtual meetings, where stereotypes can fade into the background. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 07 Oct 2021 | Episode 182: Doing What Matters | 00:19:25 | |
Lauren Tucker is a longtime advertising executive and, as a Black female, she's rather unusual in that industry The last time we spoke she was finding it tough to land a job in her field in a new city. Today she runs her own successful inclusion management business, where she grapples with everything from cultural blind spots to terrible job descriptions. Still, Lauren is itching to find out what's around the corner. Looking back, she sees a career that despite her ambitions was largely controlled by others. Her job's demands influenced what she did with her life. Today, she wants her job to be in service of her life - and her perspective on life has changed quite a bit in the last few turbulent years. She still has a lot to do. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 28 Oct 2021 | Episode 183: Rejection | 00:23:57 | |
Rejection plays a part in everyone's work experience. But women are socialized to seek approval, and as my first guest says, 'rejection is the opposite of that.' In this show I speak to Jessica Bacal, author of The Rejection that Changed My Life, about the sting of rejection and what we can learn from it. We also meet nonprofit leader Amy Campbell Bogie. She talks about two searing rejections she went through, and how to emerge gracefully from what can feel like a slap in the face. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 17 Nov 2021 | Episode 184: The Long Game | 00:30:01 | |
A lot of people are quitting their jobs at the moment. In the US, more than 12 million people left jobs voluntarily between July and September. They are fed up, burned out after months and months of pandemic working, and some are wondering, what am I doing this for anyway? Is this what I really want to do with my life? If not, what do I want to do instead? In this show Dorie Clark helps us answer some of those questions, which all involve the need for long-term thinking. She talks about the ideas in her new book, The Long Game: how to be a long-term thinker in a short-term world. We discuss how to carve out time to think about the future, identifying what’s most meaningful to you, and casting off the expectation that you ‘find your passion' (too much pressure!) We also meet consultant Tom Waterhouse, who had a long-term plan to have a family before it was too late. But realizing his dream meant infuriating his bosses. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 01 Dec 2021 | Episode 185: Women Getting Paid | 00:19:16 | |
In this show we're talking about women getting paid. Two business owners weigh in on how to charge for your services and how to respond to people who ask if they can 'pick your brain.' We tackle a question from a woman who knows she's paid less than the last man who did her job, but asks if she's happy, how much should she care? And we hear from a negotiation expert on how to use the negative voice in your head - the one that says 'you can't ask for that much!' - to help you get what you want. This episode distills some findings from past shows. I'm using it as a springboard to more coverage on women and money in 2022. Guests today are Adrienne Graham, Kathy Caprino, Jacquette Timmons and Natalie Reynolds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 17 Dec 2021 | Episode 186: Our Obsession with Winning (and how to re-think) | 00:23:50 | |
The culture of winning pervades our lives. From sport to the classroom to the workplace, we're supposed to 'kill it' or congratulated for 'crushing it.' But all that crushing can take a toll on the psyche, as Olympic athlete Cath Bishop can attest. Cath spent years training in her sport, rowing, and competed in three Olympic Games. When she left sport she thought she'd left the obsession with winning behind. Instead she found it was pretty much everywhere. In this episode we discuss what winning actually means if you want to achieve long-term success (which looks a lot different than what most people think of as 'success.') We talk about the gendered language around winning, and the young female sports stars who are rejecting the winning narrative. Cath is the author of 'The Long Win: the search for a better way to succeed.' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 04 Jan 2022 | Episode 187: Redefining success (revisited) | 00:27:38 | |
It's the start of a new year - a time when a lot of us think about changing our lives. In this show we re-visit a conversation with two traditionally successful women who left their old work lives for the unknown. But jumping meant leaving their identities behind as well as their paychecks. Radio journalist Tess Vigeland left her job at the top of her game, and initially wondered if she was nuts to have done so. Whitney Johnson was itching to move away from her comfortable existence at Merrill Lynch and challenge herself in new ways. She invites other people to do something similar, even if you may not think you need disrupting. This conversation feels just as relevant in pandemic times as it did when we recorded it, as more and more people re-consider what success actually means. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 07 Feb 2022 | Episode 188: You vs. Burnout | 00:24:21 | |
Two years into a pandemic many of us are overwhelmed at work, feeling we have little control, and dealing with a lack of support from our organizations. Burnout rates are up all over the world. But they were bad even before Covid-19 came along. So what can we do about it? In this episode we meet three women who know burnout first-hand. Danielle Fried works for a small business that exploded during Covid. It took a health crisis for her to realize she was a frazzle of her former self. Jennifer Moss is the author of The Burnout Epidemic: The Rise of Chronic Stress and How We Can Fix It and a longtime expert on happiness and unhappiness at work. She says it's up to leaders to solve this problem, and there is plenty they can do about it. Jamie Hand is one such leader, managing her own stress levels while tackling burnout one team member at a time. Jennifer's pandemic dog Maple made her presence felt during our interview. For an outtake, go to the episode 188 page at TheBroadExperience.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 07 Mar 2022 | Episode 189: Stop Telling Women to Find an Equal Partner | 00:19:57 | |
Bobbi Thomason studies gender for a living. She was aware of the pitfalls couples can fall into, even those who assumed their relationship would be absolutely equal. Still, when her own marriage foundered over career equality (or the lack of it), she was gutted. At the same time she was reading social media comments urging women to demand a ‘50/50 partner.’ ‘I tried that,’ she thought, ‘and it didn’t work.’ In this episode we hear Bobbi’s story. She says sticking to her belief that she deserved a partner as willing to sacrifice for her as she was for him, has cost her a great deal. But she’s learned through academic research and personal experience that support comes in many forms, and that all women need a ‘village’ to get ahead. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 31 Mar 2022 | Episode 190: Difficult Relationships: managing drama at work | 00:27:42 | |
Business and economics reporter Stacey Vanek Smith has not only reported on the gender pay gap and other workplace discrimination, she’s experienced it firsthand. But it hasn’t put her off the workplace. Far from it. In her book, Machiavelli for Women, she explores how women can thrive in a setting that was not designed for them. In this show - the tenth anniversary episode of The Broad Experience - we focus on a few areas that are rarely discussed, in particular the relationships women have with other women at work, and how to manage them when things get tricky. We delve into the inequities mothers face after coming back from parental leave, and our shared experience of receiving vague, discouraging and useless feedback - and what to do next. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 20 Apr 2022 | Episode 191: Woman in Command: Life in the Army | 00:32:43 | |
In her early twenties, bored by her office job, Kelly joined the British Army for a life of adventure. This was just before 9/11. She’d grown up a relatively conflict-free world. Suddenly everything changed. Kelly spent almost 19 years in the Army doing multiple jobs in different parts of the world, including Iraq and Afghanistan. She loved much of what Army life gave her. Other things were less appealing, from sexual harassment to fellow officers who couldn’t handle women in authority...to the loneliness of being a woman in command when one of your soldiers is killed. In this show Kelly - who asked me not to use her last name so she could speak freely - looks back on her career, what she learned, and what she wishes could have been different in the ultimate male environment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 12 May 2022 | Episode 192: Better in Scandinavia (re-release) | 00:28:48 | |
This time we're revisiting an episode about working women in the Nordic countries. Scandinavia has a reputation for equality and excellent work/life balance. American women look enviously at these nations as they scrape together a short maternity leave or finish another 10-hour day. But here's the paradox: there are just as few women in powerful roles in Scandinavia as there are in the US. Three women in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark take us behind the scenes to find out why. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 26 May 2022 | Episode 193: Bucking the System | 00:18:45 | |
I knew I wanted to talk to Professor Raina Brands when I spotted a tweet of hers last year in which she revealed that her CV contained some updated, and quite personal, information - information most of us wouldn’t reveal to an employer. In this episode Raina discusses her project to help women ‘de-bias’ their careers, something she and her colleague Aneeta Rattan write about on their site, Career Equally. She explains what that means, why it’s important, and how we can get started. She also talks about why she decided to get personal in public and what the response has been. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 13 Jun 2022 | Episode 194: How to Confront Bias | 00:22:55 | |
In this episode my guests Raina Brands and Aneeta Rattan share ideas about how to call out bias so it can’t sit there in the background, subtly undermining our progress. Confronting bias can seem intimidating to many women. It means awkwardness, and making people (including us) feel uncomfortable. But as you heard if you listened to the last show with Raina, causing discomfort is no reason not to call out unfairness when we see it. Aneeta describes how she treads the fine line of her own discomfort in speaking up, vs. continuing to exist in a biased system. Raina and Aneeta are both professors who run the site Career Equally. This show is full of ideas on how to 'de-bias' your career. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 20 Aug 2018 | Episode 132: The Military Spouse and the Challenge of Work | 00:29:04 | |
Why is it so hard to combine a career with military life? That's the question we look at in this show, brought to you by Stacy Raine, a military wife herself. Women who marry a US service member often start out with careers of their own. But as time goes by and families move around the country, military spouses find it tough to find work. This show looks at the reasons behind that, what we can do to change the status quo, and why the rest of us should care. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 07 Sep 2022 | Episode 195: The Road Less Traveled | 00:21:36 | |
Lots of us dream of leaving corporate life to travel the world. Meena Thiruvengadam did just that, incorporating travel into her career. But sometimes following your dream occupation means flouting expectations of what you should be doing - including expectations your traditional Indian family has for you. In this episode we discuss the exhaustion that can come from trying to make things work at work, the frustrations travelers of color often face, and the many joys of traveling alone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 28 Sep 2022 | Episode 196: Where Partner Violence Meets the Workplace | 00:35:16 | |
When longtime Canadian journalist Anna Maria Tremonti was 23, she married a charming guy she met through work. He turned out to be violent, a secret Anna Maria kept from everyone, including her colleagues. This was quite a feat given his attacks would sometimes leave her with visible bruises she’d have to cover up before heading into work. In this episode she and I talk about her long-ago marriage and the scars it left behind. We discuss the positive role work played in her life, even as she strove to keep any signs of her tumultuous home life hidden. Anna Maria is the writer and host of the six-part CBC podcast Welcome to Paradise. My second guest is Beth Lewis, director of Standing Firm, a Pittsburgh-based organization that trains businesses to spot signs of abuse in their employees, as well as signs that they might have an abuser on staff. Standing against partner violence and abuse is a big part of health and wellness that many companies currently bypass. You will hear some descriptions of partner violence in this episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 25 Oct 2022 | Episode 197: Facing the Music | 00:30:10 | |
In this show we meet three musicians, all performers and teachers, and get a sense of how much the traditional world of classical music is changing. We also hear some of their playing. Lydia Brown, now a professor of collaborative piano at Juilliard, began her career mentored by several women who worked to established her profession. Yet despite this female influence, she says she’s had to fight to achieve the same success as a male pianist. Renate Rohlfing was one of Lydia’s students. Now in her late thirties, she has had a successful career, traveling far and wide to play. But it took her a long time to realize that performing does not have to mean sticking to old expectations of what a woman ‘should’ look like on stage. French horn player Christine Stinchi is working on her doctorate at Rutgers University. She performs in pants, and has had plenty of women mentors in what was for so long a male field. She sees a hopeful future for women in brass. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 14 Nov 2022 | Episode 198: From Convent to Corporate | 00:24:55 | |
Ellen Snee decided to become a nun in the early ‘70s, which seemed an inopportune time. Society was changing rapidly, there were riots on her college campus, and as a friend told her, nuns and priests were abandoning convents and the priesthood, not joining. But Ellen felt a sense of mission and purpose that didn’t go away. She spent 18 mostly happy years with an international order of nuns, the Religious of the Sacred Heart. In a stereotype-busting conversation, Ellen describes how life in a convent gave her a freedom her married girlfriends lacked, how she hoped to change the Catholic Church from the inside, and how taking a vow of chastity didn’t mean the end of her relationships with men. Since leaving the convent in the early 1990s Ellen has used her wisdom and insights within corporations, to help professional women “learn how to know what they know, how to recognize their desire, and how to pursue it.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 30 Nov 2022 | Episode 199: Age and Possibility | 00:28:35 | |
Ageism and sexism are sometimes described as a double-whammy that hits women later in life. Which is a bit worrying, because I’m 52 and wrapping up this show after a decade of production. Onto new things - I hope! My first guest lives in New Zealand and recently got back into the workforce in her fifties after being out for more than a decade. It feels like that notorious double-whammy is hitting her, yet it’s impossible to truly measure. She wants people to know that many 50-plus women aren’t coasting on a sea of contentment and financial security. Avivah Wittenberg-Cox agrees that ageism is rampant, but says we need to re-frame things if we’re going to improve life for older workers. And that starts with educating employers about the advantages of maintaining and engaging 50-plus employees, a group that includes more women than ever before. It’s up to us to do our part as well, she says, including “recognizing that usually what got you here isn't going to get you through the next phase.” As usual she's sprouting with ideas that I plan to use in my own next phase. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 20 Dec 2022 | Episode 200: You and Your Money | 00:31:24 | |
Shame, guilt, trauma…these are just some of the words that came up in my conversations for this show on women’s relationship with money. Why IS that relationship so complicated? Two women with different money backgrounds, knowledge, and expectations, help me delve into that question. My first guest, Sarah Wolfe, grew up with little knowledge of how to handle money and a mother who told her she didn’t really have to worry about it anyway. She just needed to find a guy who would. But that advice didn’t work out so well. Kristine Beese is CEO of Untangle Money, which helps women plan, save, and spend. Her own life experience and years in the financial services industry taught her just how poorly it caters to women. Yet women tend to work less over a lifetime, earn less, and live longer than men - if anyone needs solid monetary advice, it’s us. The final episode of The Broad Experience will be out in January. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 25 Jan 2023 | Final Episode: What's Changed in Ten Years | 00:33:37 | |
In this, the final episode of The Broad Experience, I talk to three women about what has changed for women at work during the past decade, and what remains to be done. I began this show in 2012. Back then women and the workplace was a little discussed topic, and almost no one was podcasting about it. But my own experiences at work had convinced me this subject deserved much more attention. And while one measly decade barely registers in the arc of history, it means something to those of us who live through it. There has definitely been progress during the years I’ve worked on this show. My guests are based all over the world. Branca Vianna is a longtime listener who lives in Rio de Janeiro. Today she is the founder and president of a highly successful podcast company in Brazil, Radio Novelo. Frequent guest Avivah Wittenberg-Cox is back in London after a stint at Harvard. She always has an intriguing take on where we are, and where we should go next. Heather McGregor, once known as Financial Times columnist Mrs. Moneypenny, was in one of my first podcasts, and I was delighted that she agreed to be in my last. She’s now living and working in Dubai. I can’t tell you how rewarding it’s been to make this show during the last almost 11 years. Thanks for listening and for all the emails and other messages of support. It means a lot when you work alone from your closet. Onward. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 29 Jul 2018 | Episode 131: Would You Work in a Women-Only Space? | 00:22:41 | |
Women-only workspaces are becoming more and more popular for freelancers and entrepreneurs. One such space, The Wing, has garnered a lot of press and is opening branches in multiple US cities as well as abroad. For fans, these spaces are a haven for professional women. But others say a women-only office is no triumph for equality. In this show I visit the Brooklyn branch of The Wing and meet up with one of its members, podcaster Mallory Kasdan. I also talk to former TBE guest Leigh Stringer, a workplace expert, and to UK-based Amy Rowe. Amy works from a co-working space herself, but it has plenty of men - and she likes it that way. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 25 Feb 2021 | Episode 171: Unconventional | 00:26:20 | |
Erica Heilman is the host of the podcast Rumblestrip. The Atlantic recently named her series ‘Our Show’ the best podcast of 2020. But before she was a brilliant podcaster, Erica was a lot of other things. She was a seller of muffins, she was a theater performer, she milked cows, she worked on a TV news show, then in documentaries, then for a healthcare website…and that’s not all. It took Erica a while to get where she wanted to be. And she’ll be the first to admit she had no idea where that was. She is not the only person who’s struggled to work out, what am I doing? What am I good at? How best do I use the skills I actually have? Some of us take longer to get there. We wish it were different, but it’s not. This is a show about the messiness of the unconventional career path. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 05 Feb 2017 | Episode 99: Hate to Delegate | 00:23:53 | |
A lot of women admit it: we have trouble delegating. How many times have you said, "It's just easier if I do it"? But you can't pull off a senior role without giving away some of your work to other people. In this show we look at the cultural reasons why women shy away from delegation, and how we can get more comfortable with it. My guests are coach and consultant Rachael Ellison and management professor Jodi Detjen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 14 Sep 2020 | Episode 161: What is Happening to Women's Careers Right Now? | 00:23:25 | |
In this episode I sit down with Jessi Hempel, host of LinkedIn's Hello Monday podcast about the future of work. If you have family responsibilities the future may have shrunk to this week and managing what's right in front of you. As Jessi puts it, for many of us career questions 'exist in a different plane in time, and we're not existing in that plane right now.' She and I talk about how the last six months have affected women's careers in particular, and what might happen next. We discuss who's able to get ahead right now, and the delights of a supportive manager whose home/work life is as crazy as your own. We don't have a crystal ball, but we wonder - will this pandemic have lasting effects on women's progress? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 22 Mar 2017 | Episode 102: When Women Work For Free (re-release) | 00:20:45 | |
Women have a problem valuing themselves, both setting prices and believing they're truly worth something in the marketplace. A lot of us charge too little for our work. Sometimes we don't charge at all. It's a complicated, multi-layered issue, and part of the reason women earn less than men. As someone who squirms whenever I have to talk about how much I'm worth, I knew I had to tackle the topic on the podcast. Guests are Adrienne Graham and Kathy Caprino. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 22 Feb 2016 | The Broad Experience 78: Unpacking Sexual Harassment | 00:20:44 | |
This is the second of two shows looking at unwanted attention at work. This time I talk to Jennifer Berdhahl, who actually studies sexual harassment for a living. We talk about what really motivates it, how to tackle it, and why it's such a problem in one area in particular: academia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 04 Feb 2019 | Episode 139: The Coaching Cure, part 1: The Coach | 00:28:02 | |
The coaching industry has been exploding over the last several years. Life coaches, wellness coaches, career coaches, executive coaches - it can seem like everyone's hiring a coach for something. And the industry is dominated by women. This is the first of two shows in which we look at why coaching has become so popular and why women in particular want to become coaches, and clients. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 15 May 2018 | Episode 126: The Hell of Networking (re-release) | 00:20:49 | |
All the career manuals say it: to get ahead at work, you have to keep expanding your network. But for a lot of women there's something cringey about networking, from walking up to strangers and introducing yourself to the feeling of fakeness networking can bring. In this show I talk to three guests about how to get over a horror of networking and why you should bother. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 24 Jun 2019 | Episode147: Forced Out (re-boot) | 00:24:27 | |
Most of us have a bad breakup with work at some point. You don't have to be fired for things to end on a sour note, but however the end comes, leaving a job in difficult circumstances is one of the hardest experiences to go through. In this show we meet two women who know this first hand: Marion Kane, longtime food writer at some of Canada's top newspapers, and Heather McGregor, a frequent guest in this show's early years and now executive dean of the Edinburgh Business School. We hear their stories and get some advice on how to recover your confidence and your livelihood after a rocky exit. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 14 Oct 2020 | Episode 163: No Kids. Working Hard. | 00:18:46 | |
We're still in a pandemic and we know women's careers are suffering. So many of us are managing working from home and family at the same time. But what if you don't have kids, or your children are grown up? In this show we meet two child-free women with different experiences of work during Covid. One feels her career is thriving. The other wonders what ambition means anymore when she just wants to get offline before midnight. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 07 Feb 2022 | Introducing Remote Works | 00:14:02 | |
Work has changed forever. Our host Melanie Green is on a journey to learn how we can thrive in work through 2021 and beyond. We'll share stories about the challenges and possibilities those changes bring. We'll hear about the tools, tech, and best practices that power flexible work. Produced by Citrix. Follow along @Citrix Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 17 May 2016 | The Broad Experience 84: When Women Decide | 00:22:16 | |
For centuries women didn't have the opportunity to make decisions outside the home. Now they do. But even today, after decades in the workplace and in public life, our decisions are questioned more than men's. In this show we meet Therese Huston, author of the new book How Women Decide: What's True, What's Not, and What Strategies Spark the Best Choices. We discuss myths around women and decision making, why we're still second-guessing Marissa Meyer two years after she canceled Yahoo's work-from-home policy, and what's at stake when women take a risk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 07 May 2019 | Episode145: Working through Menopause | 00:26:31 | |
You're commuting to work and you start overheating; you're suddenly feeling more anxious about everything; you can't sleep properly, and your colleagues and family are driving you nuts. Many women in their forties start feeling these signs of peri-menopause. And in the UK, some employers are actually moving to support their female staff as they go through this transition. But menopause still remains largely under-discussed, particularly in the youth-obsessed US (why would you admit you're menopausal when the workplace is already sexist and ageist?) In this show we meet a menopause coach and an employee who are both determined to bring more transparency to one of the last workplace taboos. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 25 Jul 2016 | Episode 88: Selling Empowerment | 00:24:23 | |
Women's conferences are springing up all over the place, promising empowerment, inspiration, and motivation. But at the end of the day are they galvanizing real change, or do they just make women feel good? My guests are SHE Summit founder Claudia Chan, and New Yorker writer Sheelah Kolhatkar. Her Business Week piece about women's conferences earlier this year inspired this episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 30 Jul 2020 | Episode 159: Science Evangelist | 00:24:53 | |
Ainissa Ramirez has loved science since the age of four. But her dreams of becoming a scientist were almost squelched when she got to college. When she graduated she vowed to make other people's journeys through science better than her own. Today, she's helping thousands of people understand and appreciate how the world works - and maybe even go into science themselves. In this episode we talk about the ups and downs of her career, leaving academia to go out on her own, and some of the amazing stories in her new book, The Alchemy of Us. And she has some solid advice for other women scientists who may be finding their workplaces...challenging. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 05 Apr 2017 | Episode 103: Conservative State of Mind | 00:18:40 | |
Patricia Jones was born and raised in Utah, a state with a conservative bent and one of the highest wage gaps in the US. 60% of the population is Mormon, but belonging to a conservative faith never stopped Pat from having a family and a career, first running a business, then as a politician. In her latest role she's on a mission to raise the status of women at work in Utah. And that means persuading a lot of pale males it's a good idea. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 15 Nov 2018 | Episode 136: Loyalty Has Limits | 00:22:03 | |
So many women stick around in jobs they've had for years, unsure of their next step. In the first part of this episode we look at why it can be so hard to move on even when we know we should. In part two we talk about emotions in the workplace. Is it OK to cry openly (really?) or should we stick with the conventional advice to flee to the bathroom? We learn about gender and the science of tears. And we meet someone who has to watch her tone of voice and expression pretty much all the time for fear of being misunderstood. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 15 Dec 2017 | Episode 116: The Reckoning | 00:24:40 | |
Sexual harassment at work used to be something everyone knew about but no one talked about. Now everyone is talking about it. Scores of women are publicly naming prominent men as harassers. Many of those men have lost their jobs. But what does the reckoning mean for women in the workplace, and the power dynamic between the sexes? This show features two guests, Laura Linnaeus from the US and Linda Betts from Australia. Each has a different idea of what #MeToo and the current climate will do for women's careers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 16 Mar 2021 | Episode 172: Speaking While Female | 00:22:40 | |
This episode takes a step back in time to look at the history of women as public speakers, and how the past relates to the present. If you look at history books or speech anthologies, you might assume women didn't say very much in public until the 20th century. But that's far from the case. My guest, speechwriter and coach Dana Rubin, has compiled a speech bank of women's speeches going back hundreds of years. Women were speaking up...it's just that HIStory wasn't interested. And that legacy, Dana argues, affects the way women see themselves as speakers today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 06 Jun 2019 | Episode 146: Ageism, or Prejudice Against Our Future Selves | 00:26:51 | |
This is the second of two shows on what happens as women in the workforce get older. And a lot of it isn't good. Women can experience a double whammy of prejudice that men don't, and it's affecting our bank accounts apart from anything else. In this episode we meet women's leadership professor Terri Boyer, and founder of Magnificent Midlife Rachel Lankester. Each discusses age discrimination (which is perpetrated by both men and women) and suggests ways we can tackle it, beginning with women not buying into the narratives we've been fed over the years. OK, centuries. And we meet late-in-life lawyer Kate Wiseman, who's having a positive experience of being an 'older woman' at the office. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 28 Nov 2017 | Episode 115: Putting Yourself First | 00:24:49 | |
For many women, looking after after ourselves in the midst of work and family life can feel like a stretch. In this show we meet two women who ignored what their bodies were telling them before switching tack and putting themselves first. I made this show because listeners wanted an episode on self-care - but only if it felt real. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 21 Mar 2016 | The Broad Experience 80: Daughters in Charge (re-release) | 00:19:54 | |
Traditionally it was always men who followed their fathers into the family business. But in the last 15 years, the number of women joining family firms has quintupled. More and more daughters are choosing to go where once only their brothers did - and some are taking over the reins. But even today, women face a different set of challenges when they enter family companies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 04 Feb 2021 | Episode 170: Emergency: Women in Medicine during Covid | 00:29:09 | |
Dara Kass had always known emergency medicine was for her. She loved the excitement of the ER, the fact that she always had too much to do. It was only when she had a baby that she realized the emergency room, like so many other workplaces, wasn’t going to fit in with her - she was expected to fit in with it. She set out to change that for her and everyone else. But when Covid-19 hit New York last spring, Dara was presented with challenges she could never have imagined - catching the virus herself, protecting her family, working through a relentless pandemic, and the loss of a colleague to suicide. She still wants to bring gender equity to emergency medicine. But she says workers’ mental health has to take priority now and as we emerge from this pandemic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 28 Sep 2020 | Episode 162: The Coming Shift: What's Happening to Our Careers (part 2) | 00:25:12 | |
In the last episode you heard Jessi Hempel and I ask, what is happening to women’s careers right now? So many of us are still at home, often with family underfoot, attempting to manage children’s schooling or simply care for them while also doing our own jobs. Much has been written about the ‘women’s recession’ and the enormous pressure women are under during this pandemic. In this show Avivah Wittenberg-Cox offers a more hopeful perspective. She sees this crisis is an opportunity for organizations to change the way they do things and make the workplace fairer for everyone. She says a generation clash between men is part of the current problem. And she says many of us will undergo a big shift in our careers in the months and years ahead, whether we welcome it or not. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 21 Jun 2018 | Episode 129: Will They Still Like Me? The Power of Negotiation (part 2) | 00:22:56 | |
When Neda Frayha landed her first job as a physician she didn't even think to negotiate. The money was a big jump from what she'd been earning as a medical resident. Who was she to complain? Then years later she learned she was on less money than her peers. In this episode Neda talks about her route to becoming a negotiator. We discuss her fears along the way, the need to be liked and the concern that she was being 'too pushy' (she wasn't). This is the second of two episodes on the art of negotiation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 20 Feb 2019 | Episode 140: The Coaching Cure, part 2: The Coachee | 00:26:34 | |
This is the second of two shows on women and the coaching industry. This time we find out about one novice coachee's first experience of leadership coaching at work. We talk to management expert Anne Libby and coach trainer Terry Maltbia about why coaching has become so popular in the last couple of decades, especially among women - and why anyone picking a coach should ask questions first. And we meet Christine Whelan, a professor of consumer science and an expert on the self-help industry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 03 Dec 2015 | The Broad Experience 74: On Confidence | 00:20:31 | |
Study after study shows women have less confidence than men. But you hardly need a study to work that out. Just look around you - how many women do you know who exude the same self-belief as the men in your life? Confidence, or the lack of it, is a big issue in many women's careers, including my own. In this show I talk to business owner Denise Barreto, whose confidence I envy, and NPR reporter Stacey Vanek Smith, who shares a lot of my hangups. She has to psych herself up to ask for things at work, because she's not quite sure she deserves it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 31 Mar 2020 | Episode 152: Young Breadwinner | 00:24:58 | |
My guest in this episode started working right around the time most of us started school. Marie was just five years old when her acting work began supporting her entire family. But as she got older she noticed all the best parts were going to the boys, while the roles she was getting relied on her looks. Her dreams of continuing in acting were dashed when she realized what she was expected to do to get better parts. Today she has a totally different career, but she’ll never forget what show business taught her - about professionalism, teamwork, and sexism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 19 Oct 2017 | Episode 113: What's in a Name | 00:33:25 | |
Plenty of us work remotely in one way or another, known to clients or collaborators by name only. In this show we meet a woman who, in her profession, is often assumed to be a man. We talk about how she deals with that, and her distaste for female titles - especially 'Ms.' And I talk to a man and woman who swapped names and identities for a week at the office. The results were revealing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 17 Dec 2020 | Episode 168: Home Alone | 00:30:21 | |
Being single is a lifestyle choice for some women and an unwelcome reality for others. In this episode we meet three women, each with different perspectives on living and working alone, especially during a pandemic. Retired professor Joan DelFattore has been happily single for decades. Susie, a consultant, is mourning the lack of a husband and children. Her isolation during Covid just makes everything feel worse - particularly when HR seems fixated on families. And psychotherapist Magali Rozenfeld says being by yourself can provide unexpected opportunities for growth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 05 Feb 2018 | Episode 119: Women in Medicine are Burning Out | 00:34:01 | |
Most women and quite a few men have at least one female doctor. A lot of those doctors are burning out faster than their male colleagues. In this show we talk about why. We discuss burnout and lack of empathy in a profession that on the surface seems to be all about it; how women judge one another’s success, and how they can help eachother. My guests are family doctor Robin Devine and maternal fetal medicine specialist Heather Anaya. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 14 Apr 2020 | Episode 153: Partnership in the Pandemic | 00:32:55 | |
Last month an article appeared in The Atlantic with the title The Coronavirus is a Disaster for Feminism. One striking line reads, ‘The coronavirus smashes up the bargain that so many dual-earner couples have made in the developed world: We can both work because someone else is looking after our children. Instead, couples will have to decide which one of them takes the hit.’ But is that true? In this episode we meet three married women in Canada, the US, and the UK, and one (male) sociologist, Daniel Carlson, who has studied couples and the division of labour in the home. Kristen Elworthy and Anna Lagerdahl have children and Samantha Murphy doesn’t. Each has found the pandemic has affected her work/life balance in unexpected ways. And it’s not all about housework and childcare - women may be carrying a greater emotional load at this time, which affects many aspects of our lives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 22 Dec 2016 | Episode 97: Women's Work | 00:22:40 | |
We talk a lot on the show about being a woman in a man's (work) world. But lots of women are in female-dominated fields, and that can bring its own challenges - one of them being lower pay. Meanwhile your boss is still likely to be a man. Tune in to hear from listeners in two majority-women fields and from sociologist Marianne Cooper. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 13 Jul 2020 | Episode 158: Caring in a Crisis | 00:21:30 | |
A lot of us have been able to work from home during lockdown these last few months. One group of workers that hasn't is paid caregivers - aides, mainly women, who are paid by the hour to help elderly, frail and disabled people accomplish some of the tasks of daily living. In this show we meet two women who have been doing care work for three decades - Susie Rivera in Texas and Maria Colville in Massachusetts. Their job is one of the fastest growing in the U.S. But it pays poorly and a lot of people don't see its importance...until they need that care themselves. Some clients are grateful and gracious, others less so. Each woman feels called to her role. As Maria puts it, "The opportunity to make an impact in someone else's life," is its own reward. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 27 Oct 2017 | Bonus Episode: Unpacking Sexual Harassment | 00:23:47 | |
Before the revelations about Harvey Weinstein, Bill O'Reilly, Roger Ailes and Donald Trump, Jennifer BerdhahI and I sat down to talk about sexual harassment. Jennifer is a professor at the University of British Columbia who studies harassment and power in organizations. In this show we look at what motivates sexual harassment, why anti-harassment trainings don't work, and what we can do about all of it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 07 May 2021 | Episode 175: Rejecting Resilience | 00:23:56 | |
In this show we consider the idea that resilience is overrated. When Omolara Thomas Uwemedimo attended medical school she learned to be stoic and to power through. But during her career as a pediatrician and professor, she powered through so much that her body turned on her. She says too many Black women are supporting their workplaces - and everyone else - to the detriment of their health. She wants to change that. Therapist Camesha Jones was a student when she experienced a mental health crisis. Today she's bringing mental healthcare to women in Chicago whose needs have too often not been met. Mental health, she says, "is the gateway to having the life that you want." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||