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Ashley Milne-Tyte at UMKC

Image sourced via Creative Commons through Google Images
Image sourced via Creative Commons through Google Images

By Matiara Huff

Last week, UMKC hosted Ashley Milne-Tyte, the creator of a podcast called The Broad Experience, about women, the workplace, and success. Before attending her talk, I listened to a lot of her podcasts and I love them. My favorite one is called A Difficult Decade, in which Ashley talks to two women in their twenties to hear their perspectives on their workplaces. Both of them got into the fields that they wanted  straight out of college, in their early 20s. They both have very similar problems regarding communication in their workplaces.

In the podcast, Ade Okeowo tells a story about a situation when she offered a solution to a problem to one of her male coworkers and he blew her off. Then, her boss offered the same solution. Ade was frustrated because when she offered the solution, it was not accepted by her male coworkers.

April Laissle tells a story about when she was applying for internships she was super worried that she wouldn’t get any offers. While her boyfriend, who is studying in the same field at the same school, was worried about how he was gonna choose which offer to accept. Both of their stories give an interesting perspective on the situations twenty-somethings may have to deal with when going in to the workforce. Throughout the podcast , they bring up how older people always tell them that your twenties are the worst years of your life. Both of these women are trying to make the best of their twenties, while other people are making it harder for them.

There is a lot more to this podcast that I didn’t talk about, and Ashley has many more interesting podcasts like this one.