The Broad Experience
207 episodes listed below
Journalist Ashley Milne-Tyte interviews researchers and authors on women, money, bias, and burnout.
The Broad Experience is a measured interview show about women, work, and the private costs of public success. Its conversations move from personal stories to wider patterns, tracing how money anxiety, bias, burnout, and workplace expectations shape careers.
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The Broad Experience is a solo-hosted interview podcast in which journalist Ashley Milne-Tyte speaks one-on-one with a rotating slate of guests about women's working lives. Episodes typically run 20 to 35 minutes and pair a personal story or listener anecdote with expert analysis from an author, academic, or industry professional. Recurring subject areas include personal finance and financial anxiety among women, workplace burnout and the limits of individual self-care fixes, confronting bias in performance reviews and promotions, and the culture of winning and achievement carried over from sports into work. Later episodes broaden into labor and policy topics, including domestic worker protections in Brazil, pay transparency laws, and ageism, alongside reflections on women's board representation. Guests are frequently authors of business or research-driven nonfiction (Jennifer Moss, Kath Bishop), organizational behavior academics (Anitha Rathan, Raina Brands), and founders of women-focused financial or career platforms (Christine Beasley of Untangle Money, the Career Equally co-founders). The show also revisits earlier guests, such as gender consultant Aviva Wittenberg-Cox and university administrator Heather McGregor, to check in on how their thinking has evolved over the podcast's run. Ashley Milne-Tyte closed the series after 11 years and 207 episodes, with a final episode reflecting on what had and hadn't changed for women at work. The tone is conversational and journalistic rather than scripted or narrative-driven, with occasional sponsor mid-rolls. The show suits working professionals, managers, and researchers following workplace gender dynamics, financial equity, and burnout research rather than listeners seeking general motivational content.
Made for: Working professionals, especially women, interested in workplace gender dynamics, career strategy, and research-grounded interviews on bias, burnout, and financial equity.
What sets it apart: Grounds workplace-gender conversations in specific research, named studies, and labor policy (bias research from London Business School, WHO burnout classification, domestic worker labor law) rather than general motivational or lifestyle content.
Women’s experiences at work can be challenging, rewarding, and downright ugly – sometimes in the same week. The Broad Experience sparks candid conversations about women, men, careers, and success. We discuss the stuff everyone’s thinking about, but not always talking about. Leaves you feeling more enlightened and less alone. Hosted by journalist Ashley Milne-Tyte. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
The Broad Experience connects women's financial and career decisions to the workplace systems shaping them.
Ashley Milne-Tyte keeps returning to the gap between workplace advice and the conditions people actually face. Through focused interviews and personal accounts, The Broad Experience examines money anxiety, burnout, bias, and the pressure to treat winning as the only credible…
Burnout loses its yoga alibi when Ashley Milne-Tyte asks what your employer actually changed.
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A grounded final episode on women at work, labor protections, and what progress looks like after ten years.
The Broad Experience closes with Ashley Milne-Tight looking back on a decade of conversations about women, work, and success. The episode asks a plain business question: have workplace conditions actually improved, or has the conversation simply become louder?
A candid listen on women, money shame, debt anxiety, and the hard relief of starting from where you are.
Money is framed here as both a practical burden and an emotional inheritance, especially for women who absorbed fear, shame, or silence long before anyone taught them how to save, manage debt, or plan for retirement.
A grounded, practical conversation about confronting workplace bias without leaving all the risk with the person experiencing it.
The Broad Experience makes workplace bias feel less abstract by focusing on what happens in the room: who gets thanked, who gets eye rolls, and how race, gender, status, and power can change the cost of saying the same thing.
A practical workplace burnout episode that moves past wellness fixes and asks what employers actually change.
Burnout lands here as a workplace problem, not a personal failure to be fixed with yoga apps or a week off. Ashley Milne-Tight keeps the episode grounded in the pandemic-era reality of blurred home-office boundaries and employees still being treated as if business were running…
A smart workplace conversation about winning, ambition, and the aggressive language business borrows from competition.
This episode takes the language of winning out of sport and puts it under a workplace lens. The Broad Experience uses Kath Bishop's Olympic rowing experience to question the macho story of success, where winners are expected to hate losing and every contest becomes proof of…
Isabel Berwick and FT colleagues dissect CEO loneliness, burnout and workplace power shifts.
This is the podcast's last look back.
The show's 200th episode turns to money, and it gets tender fast.
Bias can look painfully ordinary.
Burnout is everywhere now.
Winning is everywhere.