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Gals Guide
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From the Gals Guide Women's History Academy, tune into this weekly share of a woman of history. Each Gal Pal presents their pick of the month, their share doesn't need to be a thesis statement, and drinking is encouraged...so this show is a lot of fun!
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Ellen "Nellie" Cashman - Katie's Pick for Financial Health & Security Month
2w ago00:44:04Tap to summarizeKatie finishes up Financial Health & Security Month with a prospector during the Gold Rush who built a church, a restaurant, and a boarding house. She was known as "The Angel of Tombstone," not the pizza, the Val Kilmer movie. Learn about this amazing Irish woman from County Cork! Special note: no episode next week, August 3, 2026.
Transcribe →Barbara Hackman Franklin - Debbi's Financial Health & Security Month
3w ago00:36:36Tap to summarizeDebbi continues Financial Health & Security month with Barbara Hackman Franklin. Businesswoman, board executive, and the 29th U.S. Secretary of Commerce are just a few of Barbara's financial pursuits. Learn more about this powerhouse on this week's episode.
Transcribe →Maggie Lena Walker - Leah's Pick for Financial Health & Security Month
4w ago00:32:33Tap to summarizeLeah continues Financial Health & Security Month with the first Black woman to establish a bank in the United States. Maggie Lena Walker not only opened the Saint Luke Penny Savings Bank, but she was the first Black woman to be president of a bank in the United States. Learn more about the financial well-being Maggie created for her community in this week’s episode.
Transcribe →Katharine Dexter McCormick - Bonnie's Pick for Financial Health & Security Month
Jul 600:32:27Tap to summarizeBonnie starts our monthly theme, Financial Health & Security, by talking about Katharine Dexter McCormick. Katharine was a rich lady, a suffragist, and helped fund the first birth control pill.
Transcribe →Tove Jansson - Leah's Creativity & Expression Pick
Jun 2200:27:42Tap to summarizeLeah finishes up Creative & Expression Month with Moomins!!!!! Leah talks about the Swedish-Finnish artist, Tove Jansson, who created a colorful universe for her and her characters to escape to. The Moomin world is about admitting your joys and fears, looking for a place of safety, knowing danger is out there, but that you’ll always discover new ways to incorporate what “home” means.
Transcribe →Artemisia Gentileschi - Klaire's Pick for Creativity & Expression Month
Jun 1500:44:50Tap to summarizeKlaire is back on the podcast talking about an amazing Italian painter who started producing works as a teenager. Artemisia Gentileschi's life was full of challenges and obstacles, including an abuser and rarely getting credit for her paintings. Learn about Artemisia's fierce paintings of women that are gorgeous and haunting to look at.
Transcribe →Beatrice Wood - Katie's Pick for Creativity & Expression Month
Jun 800:31:43Tap to summarizeKatie is taking a pottery class and found inspiration and kinship with Beatrice Wood. Beatrice was a potter and involved with the Dada movement, giving her the nickname "Mama of Dada." Learn about Beatrice's fascinating life in pottery, art, literature, and French names we struggle to say.
Transcribe →Elizabeth Keckley - Bonnie's Pick for Creativity & Expression Month
Jun 100:43:32Tap to summarizeBonnie starts Creativity & Expression month by talking about Elizabeth Keckley. From slavery to the personal dressmaker to Mary Todd Lincoln, learn about Elizabeth and her dress-making business.
Transcribe →Eunice Kennedy Shriver - Katie's Pick for Movement & Joy in the Body
May 1800:35:57Tap to summarizeKatie finishes up Movement & Joy in the body month by talking about Eunice Kennedy Shriver and her work creating Special Olympics. Did you know Special Olympics first started with Eunice hosting a summer camp on her farm in Maryland? Learn more about Eunice and her work on behalf of persons with disabilities.
Transcribe →Dorothy "Tommy" Dermody - Jackie's Pick for Movement & Joy in the Body
May 1100:34:13Tap to summarizeJackie continues our learning theme of finding wellness with Movement & Joy in the body. Jackie talks about Dorothy "Tommy" Dermody, the Irish fencer who was from County Tipperary. Not only did she compete in the Olympic Games, but she also made movement and fitness invaluable for kids around Ireland.
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