Final Episode: What's Changed in Ten Years
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, a...
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Women’s experiences at work can be challenging, rewarding, and downright ugly – sometimes in the same week. The Broad Experience ignites candid conversations about women, men, careers, and s...
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20 of 207 episodesEpisode 200: You and Your Money
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...
Episode 199: Age and Possibility
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 wrap...
Episode 198: From Convent to Corporate
Ellen Snee decided to become a nun in the early ‘70s, which seemed an inopportune time. Society was changing rapidly, there were riots on he...
Episode 197: Facing the Music
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 c...
Episode 196: Where Partner Violence Meets the Workplace
When longtime Canadian journalist Anna Maria Tremonti was 23, she married a charming guy she met through work. He turned out to be violent,...
Episode 195: The Road Less Traveled
Lots of us dream of leaving corporate life to travel the world. Meena Thiruvengadam did just that, incorporating travel into her career. But...
Episode 194: How to Confront Bias
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, sub...
Episode 193: Bucking the System
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...
Episode 192: Better in Scandinavia (re-release)
This time we're revisiting an episode about working women in the Nordic countries. Scandinavia has a reputation for equality and excellent w...
Episode 191: Woman in Command: Life in the Army
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 grow...
Episode 190: Difficult Relationships: managing drama at work
Business and economics reporter Stacey Vanek Smith has not only reported on the gender pay gap and other workplace discrimination, she’s exp...
Episode 189: Stop Telling Women to Find an Equal Partner
Bobbi Thomason studies gender for a living. She was aware of the pitfalls couples can fall into, even those who assumed their relationship w...
Episode 188: You vs. Burnout
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 or...
Introducing Remote Works
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 sto...
Episode 187: Redefining success (revisited)
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 trad...
Episode 186: Our Obsession with Winning (and how to re-think)
The culture of winning pervades our lives. From sport to the classroom to the workplace, we're supposed to 'kill it' or congratulated for 'c...
Episode 185: Women Getting Paid
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 p...
Episode 184: The Long Game
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 Septemb...
Episode 183: Rejection
Rejection plays a part in everyone's work experience. But women are socialized to seek approval, and as my first guest says, 'rejection is t...