Podcasts are awesome. Truly. Think about it, they represent basically a piece of radio you can carry around and personalize by your own moods, tastes and interests. We can pretty much build our own radio station by postcasts. No timetables to follow, no dates to draw inside a calendar, no fixed appointments. If we´re into history we can dowload all the BBC collection about The Tudors, if we´re into heart problems we can listen to cheesy programs, if we want to learn a new language we can find episodes about Polish and German and so on. The list is the longest.
We live in a rush, always stuck in metros and bus. We don´t even have time for breakfast and we grab croissant on the way to the office. With postcasts we can be sure to find a safe place, a quiet corner that we can use to take care of our mind – and ourselves. Podcasts are there, like proud horses, are there waiting for the ´play´ button to be pressed. They don´t move, for sure. You can take them around during holiday, on the beach, wherever you feel like it. Sometimes it´s far more better to have in your earphones a nice program instead of David Guetta, don´t you think?
One of these horses is calleed The Broad Experience. According to The Guardian this weekly show is one of the “10 best lesser-known podcasts”. This surely said something, if not about popularity, about the quality of the content.
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Behind the microphone of the show is the british journalist Ashley Milne-Tyte. She speaks about women, careers and situation in which every woman come across during working life. She does it with an adorable accent – of course – but also quietly. The show is full of phone calls, interviews with girls and professional women that are honest and outspoken about heir own stories. Every episode is about a different topic: work and intimacy, why calling a colleague ´darlin´ is not really that cool, what it means to be a freelancer woman, communication and mis-communication, career and family issues, competition among co-workers, personal and economical retribution and so on.
I see myself in every episode, I get into every woman´s pants and the emphaty towards every protagonist is great. The show is helping me to getting closer to problems that are not directly mine, like changing a career after decades (I still remember an episode about a Wall Street borker that suddenly decided to become a ice-cream maker, for example), then again racism and discomfort about ethical reasons. I´m carried by the trasparency and the way dialogues are constructed. Sometimes I really feel like I´m sitting on a sofa, talking to friends over coffee or tea.
You can find the Broad Experience on iTunes, Acast, SoundCloud, Stitcher and TuneIn. Besides that, on thebroadexperience.com you can find all the episodes´ transcripts and information like bio and links about women who spoke during the podcast, interesting references about books and magazine articles.
So, what are you waiting for? Like my mom use to say “I´m warning you, this thing is out and you should check it. REALLY check it.´
