Two Broad Casters

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...

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...

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. ...

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 relationsh...

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...

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 mad...

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 w...

In this episode we dive into our wholeness as human beings with Homeopath, Lindsay Hazelwood. Lindsay gives us understanding as to what homeopathy is, how it works, its history as well as things it is not.  Listen and learn to know a little more about what could be an option for your health at some point.  This will introduce you to some facts that there are options to what we now call traditional...

In this episode we discuss a large segment of society most generally overlooked; those coming out of the prison system, aka: forgotten people. With special guest Kleopatra Gaiter from The Dismas House in Nashville, TN, together we step into the shoes of these people a bit and discuss why it matters that we pay more attention to this segment of fellow humans. Learn about the successful program of r...

Dennis Ferrier joins the Two Broads for a great conversation that had us discussing why one should never say "things can't be any worse".  We got to discuss some of our favorite topics; Blessings, gratitude, mind set, people showing up, community and more. Dennis has been doing a segment investigative reporter show for 30+ years and is a real investigator journalist for the people. The Ferrier Fil...

The two broads have a lovely conversation with Kent Kearney, discussing his first novel, " Eyes That Do Not See."   Kent caught Lauri's attention when she learned he was born in the town of Kearney, NE, the same town where she had grown up and saw a review of the book on a Facebook group.  His book tells the tales of his Great Grandfather and takes you through Ireland, an orphan, the potato famine...

Listen to this episode where the Two Broads share some of their highlights and lessons learned in 2023.  They discuss goals, dreams, self work and more for both themselves personally and for the podcast.  A great cast to listen to as you begin your entries into that new calendar you just got.  Insightful and motivating.  Also, the Two Broads have invited you to be on their cast;) Happy New Year! ...

As we approach a New Year the Two Broads would like to encourage everyone to not forget about spending more time in nature and to find an adventure.  Special guest, Allan "Right Turn" Morales shared with us just some of his stories and motivation that backpacking the Appalachian Trail has given him.  He even wrote a great book about it, Find Yourself Backpacking The Appalachian Trail , filled with...

After a typical silly intro the Two Broads take on the topic of caregivers.  In many instances these are people who feel isolated and unseen.  We wanted to spotlight these people who are taking on the huge task of full time care taking of someone else who aren't able to take care of themselves.  It can be a very lonely journey and ones own life gets completely pulled off the stove.  For some, they...

In this episode we have two guests.  We invited one of the Broad's Dad onto the show, Edgar Brouillette, as well as Son, Ethan Hildebrandt for his second guest spot so that four generations could gather in conversation.  Amazing how things have changed within the age span represented.  Understanding from one another and wisdom from each other is the key to bridge generations not gap them. We are a...

In this short cast Lauri and Sarah have a conversation about how dug in many people get in their regular patterns and way of life.  Then, life can throw those curve balls knocking you totally off base.  Some people rebound and pivot much quicker and some people struggle to find the exact place from where they fell.  Sometimes are minds are too rigid leaving no pathways obvious.  It is good to stre...

Happy Thanksgiving out there in Broad Band Land!!  In this short but salty episode, Lauri and Sarah heat up the mics on the topic of compassion.  Throw in some sympathy and empathy and you end up with a passionate discussion about adjectives vs verbs and how our culture is tending to turn good qualities into ways to avoid and bad qualities as excuse conditions.  Food for thought on this, the week...

Welcome to our pre Holiday podcast where we chat about Thanksgiving and Christmas and generally the year end season of celebration, gratitude, giving and all things lovely.  However, so many times this is not the case for how many feel about it all.  Perhaps a reboot of our mindsets about the triggers of the season are in order?  A cast filled with refection, some coping ideas, getting creative wi...

The Two Broads had helicopter parenting on their minds but per usual the conversation quickly grew into something more zoomed out.  Parenting is hard, awesome yet hard but we wondered if sometimes we make it harder by being in our own way, forgetting to make it fun and missing things that could ease the weight of responsibility. Parenting may be extra hard when we are racing to  grow up before our...

Poet, Actor, teacher, Cameron Mitchell joins us on this podcast.  We discuss his very unique and creative projects he has going on and how they tie into community building.  Of course, as per usual with most Two Broad Casters podcasts, we stretch the conversation into something even deeper.  Words! The magic of the gift of communicating, how important they are to share, how they can encourage or d...

This week the broads get into a motivating and passionate discussion about volunteering.  How there is such beauty in the giving.  Being a part of seeing a human get a hand up is one of the greatest gifts we have been given.  Volunteering can aid in anxiety, depression, loneliness, and feeling isolated as it pulls us away from our own sometimes levels of too much about our self and our needs.  It'...

In Episode #58, the two broads have a chat on self employment. How it has changed over the years and how the time for ideas has flourished and has changed the landscape of culture.

In Episode #57, the two broads have a conversation about how it seems like between some people pining over an era of the past they had or reliving a trauma from their way back, too many may be spending too much time dwelling in the past.  Add to that all of the folks feeling anxious about the future and combined there may be too few with their heads in the present.  Just another Broad branded conv...

These two broads were on a month long hiatus from recording so this was our post adventure cast to fire back up.  Sarah had been in Europe for three weeks and Lauri was farm sitting for Sarah as well as revisiting her old home state of Tennessee.  

So many desire a meaningful relationship. So many broken relationships. So many broken hearts. So many feel disheartened about not finding true love. The Two Broads have a conversation about perhaps some fresh perspectives about this topic and how we disregard red flags or dismiss important discussions before barreling forward.  Where should it start?  Well, we conclude, it starts with you.