Call for Speakers from Jeannie Wall:

Greetings! We are super stoked to meet you all at the Montana Women’s Climbing Festival this September. 

We are the women behind Broad Beta, a community of women and queer climbers, backcountry skiers and wilderness adventurers of all ages, abilities and ethnicities who want to hear and share your warrior stories of wild adventures and transformative experiences in wilderness. Check us out and sign up for our newsletter at broadbeta.com and Instagram @broad.beta

 We are once again hosting a BROADcast night of story telling at the rock festival. If you want to share an adventure or experience with this amazing community, we would love to work with you on a 10-minute presentation! Please contact jeanniewall@broadbeta.com if you’d like to be a presenter.

Your story can be comedic, tragic, transformative and everything in between. Through our honest sharing of these experiences we are inspired, informed, connected and emboldened to believe in ourselves and to expand our vision of what’s possible. Broad Beta and the MWCF are spaces that offer a sense of belonging to a community of kindred spirits and a stronger connection to the wildness that enlightens and fuels our souls. We believe that a safe space to be vulnerable is how we gain strength. We will use that strength to create the change we want to see and to protect the places that fuel us.

We look forward to a night of sharing your untold personal journeys, their joys, sorrows, struggles and epiphanies. Our stories not only shape us, they form our future. They give us a broader perspective of each other and the world. We know that as a connected, confident, women and queer mountain community, we can positively change how we view and treat each other and the earth. 

Join us and together, we will embolden each other to embrace wild ideas, wild experiences and the preservation of wildness. 

“The power of women united, I am again reminded, is an invincible thing.”  - Sarah Strohmeyer  

Broad Beta BROADcast Story Telling Tips

Our main theme is vulnerability, our space is supportive and safe to share our stories with full honesty. Themes of partnerships, mentorships, goals, and crazy wild experiences are all important. Our hope is to share your emotional ride in this story telling adventure, the laughs, joys, tears, struggles, successes and failures and how life led you there and where it took you during and afterward.

Questions to ask yourself:

• What did this adventure give you (and your partner) and vice versa?

• How do these skills transfer to the rest of your life?

• Did it change and inform you? How and why?

• Were you changed by the climb or before it and then wanted to prove or accomplish something?

• When and where did the change in you occur?

• Why do you take risks or go on these adventures? What do they give you?

 Suggestions to create a compelling story:

• Who is your story about?

• Why is it important?

• What are three words you’d like everyone to walk away with?

• How do you want your audience to feel?

• What other aspects of your life play into all of the above?