Gals Guide

Selma Miriam - Leah's Pick for Nourishment & The Table

27 Apr 2026

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The world is a better place because Selma Miriam was in it... and we might not have known about her without the support of our patron Tony Vasquez. He...

Leah Chase - Katie's Pick for Nourishment & The Table

20 Apr 2026

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Katie continues our learning theme - Nourishment & the Table - by talking about the Queen of Creole Cuisine, Leah Chase. Learn why her restaurant,...

Alexis Nikole Nelson

13 Apr 2026

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Amy Dalton is back on the show! Amy continues our learning theme - Nourishment & the Table by talking about The Black Forager, Alexis Nikole Nelso...

Claire Saffitz - Bonnie's Pick for Nourishment & The Table

06 Apr 2026

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Bonnie starts our learning theme - Nourishment & the Table by talking about Desert Person, Claire Saffitz. Claire's describes being a desert perso...

Meditation - The Ground of Being

23 Mar 2026

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Leah finishes up Rest as Resistance month with a meditation. She learned this meditation from the Tara Mandala Center. She has been led in this medita...

Betty Ford - Katie's Rest as Resistance Pick

16 Mar 2026

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Katie continues Rest as Resistance Month talking about Betty Ford. Learn about the former First Lady whose clinic provided rest and awareness of those...

Mother Jones - Debbi's Rest as Resistance Pick

09 Mar 2026

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Debbi continues Rest as Resistance Month talking about Mother Jones. Learn about the activism of Mary G. Harris Jones to provide rest for the Industri...

Tricia Hersey of the Nap Ministry - Leah's Rest As Resistance Pick

02 Mar 2026

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Leah starts off Rest as Resistance Month with the woman who wrote the book on it, Tricia Hersey. Learn all about the amazing teaching artist and found...

Jane Goodall - Leah's Heart & Connection Pick

23 Feb 2026

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Leah finishes Heart & Connection Month with a gal whose empathy for animals changed our understanding of the world. Learn about Jane Goodall and h...

Nellie Bly - Katie's Heart & Connection Pick

17 Feb 2026

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Katie continues Heart & Connection Month with a gal whose writing connected her readers to a larger world. Learn all about the amazing Nellie Bly ...

Helen B. Taussig

09 Feb 2026

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Bonnie starts our Heart & Connection Month with another "puny pick." First there was a botanist for Rooted in Self Month, now there is a cardiolog...

300th Episode

02 Feb 2026

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It's our 300th episode! Leah, Bonnie, and Katie recorded a live, interactive show with host Editor Amber! The Gal Pals be drinking. See if they can su...

Joan Didion - Katie's Pick for Rooted in Self Month

19 Jan 2026

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Katie continues Rooted in Self Month by telling us about Joan Didion. Learn about the writer who was a pioneer in the form of New Journalism. Joan wro...

Jeanne Baret - Bonnie's Pick for Rooted in Self Month

12 Jan 2026

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It's the start of Season 9! The Gal Pals are back, starting off our year by learning about Personal & Collective Well-being. Leah gives you the de...

Tye Leung Schulze - Leah's Political Change Pick

17 Nov 2025

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Leah finishes Political Change Month with the first Chinese woman to vote in America...and she was a pinball wizard. I know, I know seems like a jump ...

Jeanette Rankin - Katie's Political Change Pick

10 Nov 2025

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Katie continues Political Change Month by talking about Jeannette Rankin, the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. The Republican ...

Alice Roosevelt - Bonnie's Political Change Pick

03 Nov 2025

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Bonnie starts of Political Change Month with the infamous Alice Roosevelt. Have you heard the quote by her dad Theodore Roosevelt? “I can do one of ...

Lady Eleanor Butler & Sarah Ponsonby - Leah's Defiance Pick

27 Oct 2025

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Leah wraps up Defiance Month with a pair of queer Irish ladies that she found so adorably defiant that she just wanted to be in their orbit and share ...

N.O.W. - Julie's Defiance Pick

20 Oct 2025

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Julie continues Defiance Month by talking about N.O.W. The National Organization for Women. 

Kathrine Switzer - Katie's Defiance Pick

14 Oct 2025

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Katie continues Defiance Month by talking about Kathrine Switzer. After a Jock tried to rip off her bib number, Kathrine is the first woman to officia...

Olga of Kiev - Bonnie's Defiance Pick

06 Oct 2025

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Bonnie starts Defiance Month with Olga of Kiev. A gal who killed a lot of people who tried to marry her and yet was made a saint. Leah's on cold medic...

Dorotheat Dix - Leah's Personal Change Pick

29 Sep 2025

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Leah finishes up Personal Change Month with a gal who experienced the effects of mental illness and decided to create better conditions (not perfect) ...

Lee Krasner - Klaire's Personal Change Pick

22 Sep 2025

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Klaire continues Personal Change month with an abstract painter whose legacy personally effects one of our Gal Pals. Learn about Lee Krasner on this w...

Maia Szalavitz - Katie's Personal Change Pick

15 Sep 2025

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Katie continues Personal Change month with a neuroscience journalist who covers drugs, addition and public policy. Learn about Maia Szalavitz on this ...

Dorothy Hodgkin - Bonnie's Personal Change Pick

08 Sep 2025

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Bonnie starts of Personal Change month with a chemist who won a Noble Prize. Joined by Leah, Katie and Klaire Lockheart. 

Annette Kellerman - Leah's Courage Pick

26 Aug 2025

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Leah finished up courage month talking about a rebel in a swimsuit. In an era where women were expected to be silent and modest, Annette Kellerman dov...

Camogie Uniform - Jackie's Courage Pick

18 Aug 2025

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Jackie continues courage month talking about the Camogie and it's women's uniform. Camogie is a sport similar to hurling. The uniform in the past has ...

Mirabel Sisters - Katie's Courage Pick

12 Aug 2025

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Katie continues courage month talking about sisters. The Mirabal Sisters courageously defied the foul dictator Rafael Trujillo known as el Jefe. Patri...

Victoria Woodhull - Bonnie's Courage Pick

04 Aug 2025

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Bonnie starts of courage month with a gal who was so courageous she ran for President of the United States before women even had the right to vote. Le...

Clara Breed - Riwo's Freedom Pick

23 Jul 2025

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Riwo finishes up Freedom Month talking about a San Diego Public Librarian who stood up for Japanese American children during WW2 interments. Clara Bre...

SlutWalk - Katie's Freedom Pick

14 Jul 2025

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Katie continues Freedom Month talking about SlutWalk an international movement. SlutWalk were protests to stop people asking "what was she wearing" wh...

Deborah Sampson - Bonnie's Freedom Pick

07 Jul 2025

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Bonnie starts off Freedom Month talking about Deborah Sampson, who disguised herself as a man to fight in the American Revolution. 

Barbara Gittings - Riwo's Injustice Pick

16 Jun 2025

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Riwo finishes up Injustice Month with the mother of the LGBTQ movement, Barbara Gittings. She organized with Frank Kameny the first gay rights protest...

Lucy Stone - Katie's Injustice Pick

09 Jun 2025

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Katie continues Injustice Month with a suffragette. Lucy Stone spoke out for women's rights, was the first Massachusetts woman to earn a college degre...

Ida B. Wells - Bonnie's Injustice Pick

04 Jun 2025

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Bonnie starts off Injustice Month with a crusader for justice, Ida B. Wells. As an author, journalist and civil rights leader, Ida brought information...

Mary Sherman Morgan - Katie's Innovation Pick

28 May 2025

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Katie closes up Innovation Month with a gal who invented a new rocket fuel. Learn about Mary Sherman Morgan and how her invention of Hydyne helped lau...

Beatrice Schilling - Bonnie's Innovation Pick

21 May 2025

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Bonnie continues Innovation Month (that's weird to type, normally Bonnie starts a month! ) with a rebel with a need for speed! Beatrice Shilling, also...

Lizzie Magie - Riwo's Innovation Pick

12 May 2025

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Riwo starts off Innovation Month with a rebel with a board game. Learn about the actual inventor of the game Monopoly, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Magie. Her s...

Yayoi Kusama - Riwo's Creative Expression Pick

28 Apr 2025

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Riwo finishes up Rebellious Creative Expression month with Yayoi Kusama, a rebel in polka dots. She’s been called “one of the most important artis...

Lee Miller - Katie's Creative Expression Pick

23 Apr 2025

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It's Katie's turn to tell us about her pick for Rebellious Creative Expression month. Lee Miller was creative and rebellious in many ways. Lee was a w...

Françoise d'Eaubonne - Josh's Creative Expression Pick

16 Apr 2025

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Rebellious Creative Expression continues on the Gal's Guide Podcast. Josh talks about Françoise d'Eaubonne, the French author who coined the term eco...

Edmonia Lewis - Bonnie's Creative Expression Pick

09 Apr 2025

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We're exploring Creative Expression within rebellion. Bonnie starts us off with the sculpture artist, Edmonia Lewis. Edmonia brought her African and N...

Rima Sultana Rimu - Katie's Equality Pick

31 Mar 2025

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Katie finishes Equality Month of our Rebel Era by talking about the young peace activist from the Young Women for Leadership (YWL). Learn about the Ri...

Fannie Lou Hamer - Debbie's Equality Pick

28 Mar 2025

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Debbi continues Equality Month of our Rebel Era, by talking about the powerful activist, Fannie Lou Hamer. 

Mary Bowser - Bonnie's Equality Pick

17 Mar 2025

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Bonnie starts off Equality Month of our Rebel Era, by talking about the amazing Civil War spy. Known by a couple of names Mary Elizabeth Bowser, Mary ...

Madge Saved Lives - Special Episode

15 Mar 2025

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March 15, 2025, will mark 100 years since the kidnapping, rape, and murder of Madge Oberholtzer. Madge’s trial was directly responsible for dismantl...

Jessie Redmon Fauset - Katie's Solidarity Pick

24 Feb 2025

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Katie finishes up Solidarity Month by talking about the author Jessie Redmon Fauset. As an editor of The Crisis as well as a poet and novelist, Jessie...

Tarana Burke - Riwo's Solidarity Pick

17 Feb 2025

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Riwo continues Solidarity Month with a powerful episode about the work of Tarana Burke and the #MeToo Movement. 

Georgia Gilmore - Julie's Solidarity Pick

12 Feb 2025

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Julie continues Solidarity Month at Gal's Guide. Julie tells us Georgia Gilmore who used food as a connecting and fundraising tool for the Montgomery ...

MMIW - Bonnie's Solidarity Pick

03 Feb 2025

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February is Solidarity Month at Gal's Guide. Bonnie starts off by talking about the movement and awareness of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Wome...

Ani Pachen - Riwo's Resistance Pick

27 Jan 2025

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Riwo wraps up resistance month talking about the Tibetan warrior nun, Ani Pachen.  

Boudica - Katie's Resistance Pick

20 Jan 2025

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Katie talks about her resistance gal, Queen Boudica on this week's episode.

4B Movement - Bonnie's Resistance Pick

13 Jan 2025

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2025 is Gal's Guide Rebel Gal Era. We're dedicating each month to the various ways women rebel. January is "Resistance" month. Bonnie starts off Seaso...

Karen Blixen - Katie's Scandinavian Pick

06 Dec 2024

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Katie ends our Around the World theme with a baroness and author. Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke went by many names when she wrote. She'...

Björk - Kassie's Scandinavian Pick

20 Nov 2024

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Kassie continues Scandinavian Gal Month with Icelandic musician and actress, Björk. Learn about how Björk started in music at age 11 and rose to int...

Vigdís Finnbogadóttir - Bonnie's Scandinavian Pic

13 Nov 2024

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Bonnie continues Scandinavian Gal Month with the first woman in the world to be democratically elected as president. Learn about Vigdís Finnbogadótt...

Eva Ekeblad - Riwo's Scandinavian Gal Pick

06 Nov 2024

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Riwo starts off Scandinavian Gal Month with Swedish royalty who saved her country with alcohol! Learn all about the gal with a brain for science, Eva ...

Maria Rostworowski - Riwo's South American Pick

28 Oct 2024

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Riwo finishes up South American month talking about a historian who taught us how to learn about the Incas not from a western perspective, not from a ...

Carmen Miranda - Julie's South American Pick

21 Oct 2024

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Julie shares with us the colorful life of the gal known for her fruit hats, singing, and dancing - Carmen Miranda. There is much more to this "Brazill...

Special Witchy Offer, Birthday Dedication and Flashback episode of Katie's Catherine Movoisin

14 Oct 2024

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It's Katie's Birthday week and we have a special coupon code for 15% off our event A Night With the Witch and Famous.  The episode originally aired O...

Maria Quiteria - Bonnie's South American Pick

09 Oct 2024

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It's the start of South American Gal Month! Bonnie leads off with a national hero of Brazil, Maria Quitéria! Learn about this lieutenant in the Brazi...

The Three Sisters - Katie's American Farmer Gal Pick

01 Oct 2024

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Katie finishes up American Farmers Month with the Indigenous peoples' mythos of planting corn, beans, and squash.  

Farmerettes - Riwo's American Farmer Pic

01 Oct 2024

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Before there was Rosie the Riveter there were the Farmerettes. Riwo shares the history of the gals who were called to help America by being farmers. ...

Harriet Strong - Debbi's American Farmer Pic

23 Sep 2024

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Debbi shares her American farmer gal, Harriet Williams Russell strong. Harriet was pivotal to water conservation in California. She was also known as ...

Ruth Stout - Bonnie's American Farmer Pick

16 Sep 2024

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We're Back! It's been a bit of a break but we've found our way out of the cornfields and back to the Gal's Guide Library to talk about American farmer...

Catherine O'Hara - Riwo's Canadian Gal Pick

24 Jul 2024

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Riwo closes up Canada Month with her "TV mom" and a major happiness factor in her life, Catherine O'Hara. This talented comedian is the mom in Schitt'...

Mary Ann Shadd Cary - Barb's Canadian Gal Pick

15 Jul 2024

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Barb tells the tale of the first female publisher in Canada, Mary Ann Shadd Cary. Mary was born and died in the United States but her time in Canada w...

Viola Desmond - Katie's Canadian Gal Pick

08 Jul 2024

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Canada Month continues! This time Katie tells us about the civil rights activist Viola Desmond. She made history when she refused to leave her seat in...

Lucy Maud Montgomery - Bonnie's Canadian Gal Pick

01 Jul 2024

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It's Canada Day! Bonnie is starting us off with the author of Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery. Learn about how this Canadian author used wo...

Celia Cruz - Riwo's Caribbean Pick

17 Jun 2024

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Riwo finishes up Caribbean Month talking about the Queen of Salsa, Celia Cruz. This colorful Cuban singer part of Tito Puente's Orchestra and the only...

Miss Lou - Barb's Caribbean Pick

10 Jun 2024

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Barb continues Caribbean month by talking about the cultural icon of Jamaica. Miss Lou was an author, poet, and folklore expert. Learn and embrace the...

Shirley Chisholm - Bonnie's Caribbean Pick

04 Jun 2024

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Bonnie starts off Caribbean month with a Barbadian-Guyanese by way of Brooklyn, the fantastic Shirley Chisholm. The first African-American woman to ru...

Tomoe Gozen - Riwo's Japan Pick

24 May 2024

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Riwo closes our Japan Month with a slice of shogun history. Tomoe Gozen was an onna-musha, a female warrior. She was taught defense and offense. She w...

Ado - Kami's Japan Pick

15 May 2024

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Kami continues Japan Month with J-Pop star Ado. Her debut song "Usseewa" reached more than 100 million plays in record time and hit #1 on Billboard Ja...

Komako Kimura - Bonnie's Japan Pick

08 May 2024

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Bonnie starts us off by learning about the controversial actress Komako Kimura. This gal managed two theaters in Toyoko, performed in nearly 500 plays...

Çatalhöyük - Riwo's Middle East Pick

01 May 2024

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Riwo's has gone rogue. She has as her pick an ancient site in what is now Turkey. Çatalhöyük has many twist and turns. It is a journey through some...

Sameera Moussa - Katie's Middle Eastern Gal Pick

01 May 2024

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Middle East Month continues with the first female Egyptian nuclear physicist. Sameera Moussa is Katie's pick. Learn about Sameera worked toward and ho...

Sama El Masry - Amy's Middle Eastern Gal Pick

17 Apr 2024

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Amy returns to the show with an insightful look at the controversial actress and belly dancer, Sama El Masry. Sama's views and delivery may be polariz...

Artemisia 1 of Caria - Bonnie's Middle Eastern Gal Pick

10 Apr 2024

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Bonnie starts us off with an exploration of women in the Middle East. Artemisia 1 of Caria was a Queen of what is now Turkey. She commanded ships, was...

Kate O'Brien - Jackie's Irish Gal Pick

01 Apr 2024

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Did you think Ireland Month was over?! Well, we found a pot of gold on this April Fools Day! Gal’s Guide just happens to be so lucky because we know...

Queen Medb - Riwo's Irish Gal Pick

28 Mar 2024

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Riwo's pick is pre-Christian times in Ireland. Her pick is also part historical but also part myth and legend. She’s a complex woman. Queen Medb (al...

Sinéad O'Connor - Lori's Irish Gal Pick

18 Mar 2024

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Lori continues Ireland Month by talking about singer, songwriter, and activist Sinéad O'Connor. The Pope and Prince tie into this episode as we learn...

Bernadette Devlin - Katie's Irish Gal Pick

12 Mar 2024

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Katie continues Ireland Month with a campaigner for social justice, elected to Parliament at age 21, served prison time, wounded in an assassination a...

Lilian Bland - Bonnie's Irish Gal Pick

06 Mar 2024

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It's the start of Ireland Month! Bonnie's pick is an all-around adventurer. Lilian Bland is an aviator, horseback rider, lumberjack, painter, and car ...

Mariama Ba - Katie's African Gal Pick

26 Feb 2024

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Katie finishes up African Gals Month by sharing about Senegalese author, Mariama Ba. So Long a Letter is a novel expressing the fate and the frustrati...

Agojie - Leah's African Gals Pick

21 Feb 2024

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Gal's Guide Film Club is discussing the Viola Davis movie The Women King. Leah wanted to dig deeper into the real-life all-female military regiment in...

Professor Nox Makunga - Josh's African Gal Pick

14 Feb 2024

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Josh returns to the podcast to talk about the medicinal plant biologist, Nokwanda Pearl Makunga. Professor Nox is a researcher in Biotechnology at Ste...

Huda Sha'arawi - Bonnie's African Gal Pick

08 Feb 2024

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It's a new month and Bonnie starts African Gal month with a trailblazer of the Egyptian Feminist movement, Huda Sha'arawi. Learn about this amazing su...

Sister Elizabeth Kenny - Leah's Australian Gal Pick

31 Jan 2024

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Leah closes out Australian Gals Month with her pick. Sister Elizabeth Kenny (who was a military sister, not a religious sister) was an Australian Bush...

Mary Reibey - Katie's Australian Gal Pick

23 Jan 2024

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Katie's Australian Gal is a legendary businesswoman who started as a convict.  Learn about Mary Reibey, an incredible woman who is on the money and b...

Edith Cowan - Barb’s Australian Gal Pick

15 Jan 2024

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Australian Gals Month continues! Barb's pick is a social reformer who was the first woman to serve as a member of Parliament. 

Julia Gillard - Bonnie’s Australian Gal Pick

08 Jan 2024

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It is a new season of the Gal’s Guide Podcast! Can you believe it, it’s season 7! We’ve got a slightly new spin on all of 2024’s episodes. We’...

Susan La Flesche Picotte

27 Nov 2023

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For the last episode of Season 6, Barb ends Medicine Woman month with Omaha Medical doctor, Susan La Flesche Picotte. Season 7 begins on January 8, 20...

Gladys Tantaquidgeon - Leah’s 1 Cool Medicine Woman

13 Nov 2023

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Medicine Woman Month continues! Leah tells us about the amazing Gladys Tantaquidgeon who was 3rd generation medicine woman who lived to age 106! 

Qi-yo Ke-pe - Bonnie’s 1 Cool Medicine Woman

08 Nov 2023

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Bonnie stars of Medicine Woman with the Great Healer of the Native Americans, Qi-yo Ke-pe. 

Baba Yaga - Bonnie’s 1 Cool Folklore Gal

03 Nov 2023

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Bonnie finishes up Folklore Month with the Slavic hero/villain the Baba Yaga!

Kisa Gotami - Leah’s 1 Cool Folklore Gal

25 Oct 2023

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Leah shares a Buddhist folktale of Kisa Gotami and the Mustard Seed. 

Aleshea Harris - Kassie’s 1 Cool Folklore Gal

20 Oct 2023

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Kassie talks about the amazing modern playwright who has a folklore twist. Learn and celebrate Aleshea Harris and her play "Is God Is." 

Lozen - Barb’s 1 Cool Folklore Gal

12 Oct 2023

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Barb tells us about Lozen, the Chiricahua Warm Springs Apache who was a skillful warrior and a shield to her people. There is a trigger warning for th...

Folklore Bonus Episode

01 Oct 2023

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October is Folklore Gals Month. To set the tone, Katie Young shares a quick and bonus episode about the lore of Banshees.