Grief. One of the things that connects us all. Never welcome, rarely seen coming but the depths grief strikes in us rarely passes anyone over. When it strikes it throws your center of gravity completely out of any sense of what was solid ground and while we all have or will experience grief it is deeply personal at the same time. We wanted to talk about grief purposefully around the Holidays when so many feel completely out of step with feeling festive. Our Dear friend, Maria Sloan joins us and shares her loss as well as her experience through being a Grief Share leader. This is a very raw episode with the hopes of touching those who may feel seen by listening.

Sarah and I discussed the topic of data centers dodgyness a few weeks ago. Since then, we have been privy to so many areas fighting these beheamoth industrial data dumping grounds which made us want to visit the topic again. Many are behind in learning just how many of these centers there are and the real fun fact is that they are ramping up the building of more at a rapid, we are in a race pace. Lynne Taylor was part of a local fight against one moving into her area in North Carolina and they pushed back enough to halt the project, but as she wisely said, "for now." The amount of farmland being rezoned for these is quite alarming and while the horse is out of the gate, they need to be fought! Tune in and learn more. Watch your local government my friends, the sufficating control is real.

Friends, Sarah and I got into a passionate discussion based around the word streaming. Streaming; a word one would have never seen coming as a reference to so much and used so often. Upon pondering the word we compared an analogy of our own personal lives being a stream and wondered how much attention that stream is getting vs all the other streaming options. Caution, this conversation had us coming face to face with self-discipline. Tune in and catch the wave.

Both of the broads were abroad this past month; not together but near the same time and near the same part of the world. Sarah was off in various spots in the UK and Lauri was in Ireland with a northern dip to that Uk piece of Ireland. Just know that the stories of their adventures and observations were flowing and this episode is perfect for a mental vacation, some storytelling and some laughs. It's a great combo for this time of year. Come escape with us for awhile friends.

The days are shorter. There is less sunlight. The hectic season of Holidays is before us. The hustle, the bustle, the stress. Running on little sleep to get it all done. The Broads are calling for a time out to remind us that our bodies need attention, especially this time of year. Time for a self check on the status of what you are doing to armor up your body's defenses. We share some of our favorite immune builders, supplements, herbs and remedies as well as a gut check conversation. Time to love ourselves and the miraculous bodies we have been given. This was a fun episode chalk full of a call to arms for our health. Tune in and start addressing yourself as a Doctor for yourself.

In this episode we are discussing data center. aka: cloud storage and now AI training centers. While we are no experts on the matter, we present here a primer of some facts and a whole lot of thoughts on the realities of these centers. I think most humans are out living their lives, realizing and talking about the effects of AI and data collection yet these data centers are rather stealthy in their size, scope and how they are buying up the land to house them. This is a good conversation starter about something that is moving into so many communities and begs the question how sustainable are they actually? How will these communities be affected? How many jobs will they actual bring? The price, of as Sam Altman puts it in, "the demand we have for speed" is getting really expensive; in all ways.

Welcome to a Halloween chat with the Two Broads and Rae Hobbs, the podcast's third broad behind the scenes. Rae, who loves Halloween, joined us for a hang and we ended up with quite the interesting conversation regarding Halloween. Why so many love it, the history of it, the rise in the partaking in it, and much more. We all had to ponder about how the news and the things going on in the world have perhaps out hit the creepy meter of Halloween out of the park. Join us for this trick or treat episode of the Two Broad Casters.

MAHA: Making America Healthy Again. Considering the fast paced trajectory towards more and more chronic disease starting younger and younger, a fact filled need for our attention turned towards health could be the single most important thing to turn our attention to. However, is this just another distraction to make it seem like there is actual caring going on or are there some who do care, and if so, who and what can they acturally do? The broads get into the need for a movement like this but also the reality and of course needs and reality, questions and answers, problems and solutions are rarely squared up. Join us as we share our thoughts on the matter and we would love to hear yours as well. I like the acronym MYHA: Make yourself healthy again. It is to be seen if the HA stands for healthy again or HA as in, joke is on you. Again.