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.
The Broad Beta Podcast
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 life. She took a NOLS course, met her mentor who eventually became her husband, and went on to establish first ascents around the world. She has written articles for the Alpinist, and she has published books about climbing in her native language of Chinese. Along the way, she underwent the AMGA rock guide track and became a full time climbing guide.
Ting Ting settled in Las Vegas in 2019 and began guiding full time. In 2023, she started her own podcast called Female Guides Requested. We recently connected because of our overlapping audience, and we had lots of fun hearing her story, how her podcast came to be, and how we can combine our podcast powers.
Female Guides Requested website & Female Guides Requested on Apple Podcasts
Female Guides Requested on Instagram
Alpinist magazine articles by Szu-ting
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Hosted by Jeannie Wall & Cat Coe
Edited & produced by Cat Coe
Music: Intro music by HoliznaCCO, transition song by Ketsa (The Road 2), conclusion song by BOPD (1.26 beat 1). All music sourced on freemusicarchive.org