Episode 195: The Road Less Traveled
The Broad Experience
The Broad Experience
5.0 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Lots of us dream of leaving corporate life to travel the world. Meena Thiruvengadam did just that, incorporating travel into her career. But sometimes following your dream occupation means flouting expectations of what you should be doing - including expectations your traditional Indian family has for you.
In this episode we discuss the exhaustion that can come from trying to make things work at work, the frustrations travelers of color often face, and the many joys of traveling alone.
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| 0:37.8 | Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace and success. |
| 0:55.4 | I'm Ashley Milmte. |
| 1:02.0 | This time, leaving the corporate world to go out on your own and follow a dream occupation, |
| 1:07.5 | which can also mean rejecting expectations of what you should be doing. |
| 1:12.3 | I was raised to want a spouse and kids and to be surrounded by all of these people, |
| 1:17.1 | but now I'm like, you know, I'm really glad that I don't have responsibilities that I don't think I want. |
| 1:18.2 | You know, sometimes I like just spending time with myself. |
| 1:21.5 | I make it a point of at least trying to take one solo trip a year. |
| 1:25.8 | And traveling alone can feel liberating. |
| 1:29.3 | Coming up on the broad experience. |
| 1:41.9 | Summer in the Northern Hemisphere has just come to an end. And if we're lucky, some of us will |
| 1:46.4 | have travelled during that time. And a lot of us, if we were listing our interests, would probably |
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