On this week’s episode, Jacqui and Molly are joined by Karen Ristuben, Program Director at the Essex County Community Foundation where she manages the Creative County Initiative in partnership with the Barr Foundation and many other arts funders across Essex County (North of Boston). This effort, over a 5-year period, will invest more than $2 Million in the arts, culture and creative sector.

The three broads discuss the role of figurative and literal bridge-building, place-making, arts and culture, creative ‘bridgers’ and creative capital in building rich, sustainable, diverse and alluring community ‘destinations’ that attract and inspire current and prospective citizens.

Also, jokes!

On this week’s Riveting Broads’ episode, Molly and Jacqui are joined by Doneeca Thurston, Director of the Lynn Museum and Lynn Arts, to explore Imposter Syndrome, or the tendency to question or justify away one’s own success and how age, race and gender can intertwine to create the perfect cocktail of insecurity.

The three broads discuss representation in leadership, how women are taught to shrink themselves in different ways, owning your self worth and expertise and unlearning what success look like in order to clear the way for your own success.

Also, jokes!

Jacqui and Molly are joined by Afro Latina activist, Executive Director at Amplify LatinX and founder and owner at Cojuelos Productions, Rosario Ubiera-Minaya, to explore the politics of language, code switching (or the shifting of identity to assimilate into different environments), community activism and leadership development through the lens of the LatinX experience.

The three broads explore ambition, trauma, cultural diversity and the power of representation in publicly artistic expression.

Also, jokes!

On this week’s episode, Molly and Jacqui are joined by Christine Armstrong, Managing Director of the Transformative Culture Project and Board Member at Miranda’s Hearth to explore the concepts of intersectionality, trauma, identity and dissociation.

The three broads discuss how the institutional canon we are taught early on in our educational system, media coverage and power dynamics overall inform how ethnic and racial stories are told - which ultimately informs how many understand only one version of the American experience.

Also, jokes!

On this week’s Riveting Broads’ episode, Jacqui and Molly are joined by Kati Nalbandian, Director of Marketing and Creative Development at the Creative Collective, to explore what it means to always identify as ‘busy’, the often shame-laden world of ‘burnout’ as professional women and changing the way we empathize and connect with peers, colleagues and prospective partners.

The broads talk about the reality of FOMO in career development and the acceptance that self-care in the form of self-preservation, rest and authentic conversation can become the healthy proxy to answering, “How are you doing?” with honesty and shameless vulnerability.

Also, jokes!

On this BONUS Riveting Broads’ episode, Jacqui emcees (Molly was on family vacation!) the Women Builders Panel at the 5th Annual 2019 Massachusetts Tiny House Festival, featuring an inspiring panel of women builders and tiny house owners including Nora Eschenheimer of the Tiny Traveling Theatre, Shorty Robbins of Shorty’s Tiny House Nawaka, Andrea Burns, Brynn Burger of The Mama on the Rocks and Miranda Aisling of Miranda’s Hearth and Aubergine Tiny House.

The panel participants chronicle their unique and inspiring journeys as women and homeowners in forming transient communities by building sustainable living solutions, ownership, sexism and thinking outside the box in order to forge your own path.

Also jokes!

Recording captured beautifully by Jesse Dufault of the Tiny Traveling Theater.

On this week’s episode, Jacqui and Molly are joined by Dawne Shand, the Board Officer tasked with leading the Mass Women’s Political Caucus’ charge on the North Shore of Boston to talk civil disobedience, agency and the importance of women running for office.

The three broads talk about building gender parity in communities across the region, socialization of gendered behaviors, the cultural significance of misbehaving women and how Jacqui and Molly are definitely, maybe, someday going to run for office.

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On this week’s episode, Jacqui and Molly are joined by Denise Wallace, Owner and Executive Director at Creative Thinking Leadership to talk about the trials and tribulations of operating while female at the intersection of your personal and professional worlds.

The three broads address the complications and perceptions around leadership, the distinction between intention and impact, how tolerance is a particularly gendered expectation and, finally, how periods, fertility, miscarriages, pregnancy, breastfeeding, trauma, adoption, and parenting infiltrate our lives.

The Riveting Broads are joined by Julie Flowers, At-Large City Councillor and Reverend at the First Baptist Church in Beverly, Massachusetts to talk about the complications of coming back to live and work in your hometown.

The three women explore anxiety projection, levels of authority, how success is gendered and the nuances of self-acceptance in the face of imposter syndrome.

Also, jokes!

P.S. DON’T FORGET TO VOTE IN YOUR LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW!

In the studio this week, Molly and Jacqui are joined by Salem City Councillor and Candidate for the 6th Congressional District of MA, Lisa Peterson, to talk about how intentional & purposeful leadership styles are viewed through a gendered lens and the false dichotomy between passion or drive and “like-ability”.

The three broads talk about finding your purpose, the impossible, unattainable vision of what ‘acceptable’ leadership looks like and some helpful tips on how to tangibly measure your life’s direction in a non-scary, inspiring way.

Also, jokes!

For information on how to support her campaign, check out: www.lisapeterson2020.com