Chatty Broads with Bekah and Jess is a podcast listed under Spotify’s lifestyle section. I was attracted to this podcast after seeing it in the lifestyle section because I like the word “broad” and I love a great chatty podcast.
This podcast is longer than most, episodes lasting usually between one and a half to two hours. I liked the longer podcasts because it’s good for on the go downloading. I can download a single two hour podcast and be good for the whole day, as opposed to downloading 3 shorter podcasts to fill my listening needs.
The downside, in my opinion, to the length is that for every podcast I listened to, I felt as if the last 30 minutes were unnecessary to the overall point. What I mean is, by hour 1.5, we had already gotten to the deep point of the subject matter, explored it, had a great place to wrap it up, and yet the broads are still chatting. However, this is the name of the podcast after all! Chatty Broads lives up to it’s name, and I think if you were someone who had a long work commute, having one longer and chattier podcast would be pretty nice.
Another downside I found in this podcast is that I am just under the age group of relatability. Bekah and Jess are both married and have children/are pregnant, and a lot of their banter relates back to married and mom life. I cannot, however, give anything a lower rating just because I am not their target demographic. I can imagine a lot of mom’s in married life truly enjoying their gentle and funny takes on their lifestyle.
Even though I’m not able to relate to their mom world, I really liked Jess and Bekah’s content. In the episodes I listened to they offered what I would describe as a new take on hip subjects of art, sexuality, sustainability, and spirituality. For example, in episode 106 (WTF is Human Design?) the broads invite over Erin Claire Jones to talk about innovations in human design. Human design in this context is not, to everyone’s surprise, build-a-baby technology, but the idea that your birthday can tell you a lot more about who you are and how you preform in a professional environment.
It has resembles astrology, and it’s advertised to be useful in making successful work teams. Depending on your exact date of birth you get a chart, and this chart will tell you all types of things that can help you succeed in your professional life. Let’s say if you’re a #52, you are in hyperdrive after waking up, have a surge of creative energy that must be harvested into practical ideas immediately or you will lose the thought, and then you need a mental break around 3pm. Or if you are a #68 you are motivated all day, and act as the mule of progression in your workplace, sort of helping the 52s keep on track, and you may also need to sleep in your own bedroom at night.
Those are ideas I am paraphrasing from the podcast, the traits don’t correspond to the exact numbers I gave, but you get the basic idea. I hope that if I ever work at a job that used this kind of human design to make work teams, my chart would say I can’t work weekends.
I enjoyed the episodes of Chatty Broads I listened to, and will continue to dabble in their content in the future. I would recommend this podcast to new moms, young married professionals, and, people interested in new age ideas from a practical perspective.