The Broad Beta Podcast
The Broad Beta Podcast and BroadBeta.com are spaces to openly share women’s and genderqueer experiences of climbing, skiing, and other mountain adventures, from the ordinary to the heroic. Our contributors tell stories that foster wildness within, and outside, ourselves. Through these stories, we hope to inspire and empower anyone who listens. Cover photo by @nathannorby of co-founder Jeannie Wall.
Podcasting since 2022 • 33 episodes
The Broad Beta Podcast
Latest Episodes
Jenna Malone: Hara Hachi Bu - A Story
The story on today's episode was written and read by Jenna Malone and published on the Broad Beta website in February of 2025 (originally published in The Avalanche Review 43.3). Check i...
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Steph Abegg: Information Sharing in the Climbing World - An Interview
Steph Abegg has become well known in the alpine climbing world for her detailed trip reports
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Season 4
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Episode 29
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44:21
Szu-ting Yi: Redefining Ambition - An Interview
Szu-ting Ye, known as Ting Ting in the climbing community, moved to the US from Taiwan to attend grad school in computer science in Philadelphia. During grad school, she discovered trad climbing at the Gunks, which changed the trajectory of her...
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Jan McDonald Bradley: Patent Leather Shoes Reflect Your Underwear - An Interview
Jan McDonald Bradley grew up in New York and ran away to Jackson, Wyoming, as a young adult. She shares her deeply personal journey as a woman in a man's world in the 1970's. She worked as the first female river guide in the Tetons and backcoun...
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Season 4
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Episode 31
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56:52
Brette Harrington: Don't Let the Winter End - An Interview
Brette Harrington does it all…extremely well. Her resume includes groundbreaking solos, 13+ trad climbs, and mind-boggling alpine and winter climbs, not to mention ski descents, big walls, and hard sport climbs. Only her heart and dedication to...
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Season 3
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Episode 30
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