On this week’s Riveting Broads’ episode, Molly and Jacqui take a minute to reflect on everything happening in our world due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. With the sudden and devastating loss of Molly’s dad, Don, Molly and Jacqui attempt to to navigate the unimaginable pain associated with grieving and coping through any major disruption in your own way.  The broads talk about collective trauma, coping with loss during a pandemic, and how there is no right way to do things right now, so we’re just doing the best we can (and listening to medical professionals’ advice).  To support the Kelley Family,  friends and loved ones can make a contribution in Don’s name to Harborlight Community Partners, of which he was a devoted supporter and long time board member, or any local nonprofit on the front lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic.  IF you have been affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic, you can refer to list this of references and resources for individuals and businesses in MA.   Thank you to our front line workers for the sacrifices you continue to make for the greater good and health of our society. Please support them by  staying home (if you can).

Collective Disruption, Loss, and Doing The Best You Can | With Molly Merluzzi and Jacqui Richard

For this week’s Riveting Broads’ episode, Molly and Jacqui are joined by Dianna Ciruolo, owner and founder of Staffing Studio, a Diversity & Inclusion Consultant from an ally-ship position, speaker, feminist, and author, to talk about the importance of ally-ship and looking outside of the box past your own perspective to see others’ and how you can help them.   The three broads explore their individual experiences with altering personal biases. being aware of the barriers some face that others don’t, communicating about privilege, and channeling adversity and luck as vehicle for change.  To see the “Life of Privilege” video mentioned in this episode, click here. Also, jokes!

Ally-Ship, Awareness, and Action for An Inclusive Future | With Dianna Ciruolo

Volunteerism, Humility and Finding the Time to Feel Fulfilled | With Colleen Hendry

For this week’s Riveting Broads’ episode, Molly and Jacqui are joined by Myozen Joan Amaral, owner and founder of Zen Center Northshore, to talk Buddhist Principles, human suffering, the true meaning of Zen, and what happens when you’re able to ‘be with everything.’ 
The three broads explore their individual experiences with suffering, preconceived notions of what it means to be ‘zen,’ building communities of support, and how to give ourselves space to find our way.
Also, jokes!

Zen is Everything | with Myozen Joan Amaral

On this week’s Riveting Broads’ episode, Molly and Jacqui are joined by Amanda Goedde, disruptor, activist, community manager, inclusivity advocate and wellness influencer, to discuss how to handle being newly  ‘known’ on the internet, diversity, inclusion, acceptance and managing anxiety. 

The three broads talk about feeling insecure online, learning to say ‘no’ to opportunities that take you away from your authentic self,  separating yourself from your online presence, and how to establish healthy boundaries with your technology. 

Also, jokes!

For more information on how to attend or support the 2020 Riveting Broads Summit, please visit the following link. We can’t wait to say hello!

We're All Influencers! Unpacking Ego and the Modern 'Audience' | With Amanda Goedde

TW: Discussions of physical, emotional, and sexual assault. 

On this week’s special Riveting Broads’ episode, Molly talks to Jacqui about her experience with domestic abuse. Through recounting her relationship, the broads discuss the blurred lines of toxic vs. abusive behavior, mixed with the confusion, manipulation, policing, intimidation and the loss of oneself. 

Further, they discuss how to validate one’s experience and how to move on from trauma. Or alternatively, how to support someone going through it. 

NOTE: If you or a loved one are in an abusive situation, you are not alone. We are here and there are resources for you. If you are local to the North Shore, please consider using HAWC as a resource.  HAWC provides free services to abuse victims. To understand if what you’re experiencing is abuse, or to start making a safety plan, call their hotline at 1-800-547-1649.

Second-Guessing and Seeking Justice in the Gray Areas of Abuse | With Jacqui Richard and Molly Merluzzi

For this week’s Riveting Broads’ episode, Molly and Jacqui are joined by Alyse Grimm, owner and founder of Things to Do in Salem, to talk body image, weight loss, dysmorphia and the common missteps that can happen when commenting on other people’s bodies. 

The three broads explore their individual experiences with internal and external judgments, comparison, focusing on metrics vs. their levels of confidence and how unsolicited opinions whether positive or negative can have a powerful impact. 

Also, jokes!

Body Image, Dysmorphia and Asking the Right Questions | With Alyse Grimm

On this week's episode, the broads were joined by Ajna Pisani, psychotherapist and transformative coach, to explore the pervasive misinformation surrounding sex and intimacy. 

The three women discuss libido as a life-sustaining energy, body autonomy, arousal preceding desire for women and the challenge to but value of prioritizing pleasure over 'productivity' when it comes to building a solid foundation of intimacy and connection.

Jetpacks, Pleasure and the Stories We Tell Ourselves | With Ajna Pisani

On this week's episode, Molly and Jacqui are joined by Meg Grant, educator, writer, radical empath and Director of the Academic Access Studio and Adjunct Professor at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA.

The three broads talk about the power of exercising radical acceptance, owning the evolution of one's personal narrative and how it's fine to follow life's 'squiggly line'.

Also, jokes! 

Radical Acceptance, Squiggly Lines and Respecting Your Evolving Narrative | With Meg Grant

On this week’s special Riveting Broads’ episode, the broads take the time to reflect back on a whirlwind six month podcast journey. And what a journey it has been! 

What they’ve learned, what they’re planning and how they hope to continuously evolve through the Riveting Broads’ platform.

Going Steady, 360 Reviews and Future Talk | With Jacqui Richard & Molly Merluzzi

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!

Systems Philanthropy | Arts, Culture and the Power of Human Connection | With Karen Ristuben

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!

You're Not Tricking Anyone | Imposter Syndrome and Representation  | With Doneeca Thurston

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!

Code Switching, La Comunidad and Activism through Art  | With Rosario Ubiera-Minaya

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!

Coming to the Table Together | Considering White Fragility, Womanhood and Trauma | With Christine Armstrong

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!

Questioning Burnout as a Badge of Honor & the Weird Ways We Relate to Each Other | Kati Nalbandian

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.

BONUS LIVE SHOW | Women Builders Panel | 2019 MA Tiny House Festival

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.

www,mwpc.org
Twitter: @dfshand, @rivetingbroads, @mollymerluzzi

Civil Disobedience and the Importance of Misbehaving Women | With Dawne Shand

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.

Operating While Female | Icebergs, Impact and Intention | With Denise Wallace

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!

Hometown Heroes | What Happens When Our Past & Present 'Selves' Meet Each Other | With Julie Flowers

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

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