Two Broad Casters

In this episode the Two Broads go on a bit of a rant about something that bothers them both and that something is how people now days seem to really be lining up in self censoring. The politically correct movement of hijacking words, forbidding words and word manipulations are starting to pay off.

The broads have noticed a lot of misuse of the term gaslighting. Is it due to not knowing what it is? Is it used as an alternative word for ghosting? Is it another word that gets thrown around too much which leads it to be watered down? The broads discuss and get down to the darkness that it really is.

Yes, the two broads, who consider themselves to be "recovering people pleasers" discuss this futile habit that almost always gets the opposite of what the people pleaser thinks it can do. A quick examination from two broads who have been down that soul sucking life path and see it for what it is. A short but thought provoking cast about this which may help a fellow pleaser out there or to understand what is underneath the tendency to "make everyone alright". P.S. You can't.

Seems everywhere you turn situations seem nefarious. The Broads got on a pre-show roll about many things that rather grind their gears, so carried it into a recorded cast so you could get in on the question oriented rant. Starting with our food supply, a topic the Broads hold near and dear and broadening out from there, this cast intent is that many more would start questioning and talking about how it is we can find resolve or trust when the very essence of food production is being intentionally altered. All that fat chewing and more!

In the Two Broads efforts to bridge generations by understanding one another we like to have guests who represent the younger generations so that they can come on and give insight to what today's world looks like for them. Sarah's son, Connor Jenkins, who is a very ambitious 22 year old, came on the show to discuss his disappointment in what buying a house looks like. Home ownership itself seems under attack. Prices are ridiculously over inflated. Good conversation winding around tax brackets, home buying and just for fun, global communism. You'll own nothing and be happy about it.

Lauri was able to catch up with her friend, writer, political commentator, experienced activist and co-founder and President of Based Politics, Hannah Cox. Our catch up conversation after several years centered around watching someone's career take off and grow, the extra layers of distraction that being a determined female in worlds like the music business and the political sphere can present. We discuss how you have to be aware of those challenges yet rise above them and how to do it without losing your core or becoming jaded. We hope our discussion can be helpful to women out there that have a passion and a drive in realms that are particularly still, by and large, man clubs. We discuss how women often hurt each other when they could be helping each other and how there is still work to be done there. A casual and heart felt conversation with someone who set out to use her voice and remains standing against the tides. Just in time for International Women's Day!

This is a quick cast where the Two Broads, #soul sisters, discuss being unhappily married which was prompted by an Instagram video Sarah found. Of course the broads made the conversation more broad and touched on the state of "happy" in general and our tendencies to be unrealistic in our relationships; especially considering the amount of actual work people dedicate themselves to their relationships. A rather counter cultural point of view that promotes the premise of "happiness".

Sexual exploitation, sex traffick, sex industries, sexual abuse; all weaving a web of shame, guilt, dysfunction, generational trauma, lives not fulfilling their purpose, low self esteem, vulnerabilities, broken families and more is just a touch on where we find ourselves off of the by-product of the soul less underbelly side to sex. Great conversation with Brooke Carlson, founder and director of Disrupting Traffick in Lincoln, NE. Brooke has worked with the survivors of so many of these types of stories across the globe for over 12 years.

The Broads sink their teeth into the topic of food in this episode. We discuss how far removed we are in our daily awareness of what it actually is, its only purpose and gratitude for it. In our day and age we have by and large a very dysfunctional relationship with food replacing the gratitude with everything from shame, guilt, sadness, overindulgence, hoarding and more. It really is a mass madness not to mention the downfall of food itself. How toxic it is, how addictive they make some foods, how sick modern food is making us and more salty nuggets. The broads grab our attention luring us to examine our relationship with food and to get back to the gift for the mind, body and spirit that it really is. Bon Appetit!

Back to a favorite topic of the Two Broads, this week's episode is about creativity flexing with special guest, artist, Tom Blood, who is a painter from the St. Louis, MO area. We got to be inspired by Tom's love of the creative process which is genuinely expressed in his colorful, whimsical, happy paintings delivered in a surreal presentation form. Of course too, as all organic conversations will flow we zoomed out into the Caritus Connections non-profit organization he is President of which is an awesome service to the under served in St. Louis. We learned about his time in advertising, marketing art, the importance of creating and more. Tom was delightful to talk with and I rate this cast as a happy cast;)