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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Sep 28, 2026 · 28:39
Cathy finishes up Learning & Growing Month with a wonderful tie-in to National Hispanic Heritage Month. Cathy talks about Pura Belpre, the Latina librarian from Puerto Rico.…
Sep 21, 2026 · 38:34
Amy continues Learning & Growing Month with a walk in the woods to learn about life. Amy talks about Ella Flatau, a Danish woman who in the 1950's started the Walking…
Sep 14, 2026 · 26:18
Leah starts off Learning & Growing Month talking about one of the first female professors in the United States. She was hired as a professor in 1880. She spent over 30 years of…
Aug 31, 2026 · 50:42
Katie closes up Healing & Mental Health month. Her pick is Marsha Linehan an American psychologist, professor, and author. Marsha created dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), an…
Aug 24, 2026 · 29:12
It's Lauren's episode of Healing & Mental Health month. Her pick is Margaret Morgan Lawrence. She’s an American psychiatrist who wrote books about mental health in children in…
Aug 18, 2026 · 30:14
Leah continues our look at Healing & Mental Health month. Her pick is Demi Lovato. She’s a singer, songwriter and actress. She’s sold over 30 million records world wide so far.…
Aug 10, 2026 · 30:23
Bonnie starts off a new month's theme. August is Healing & Mental Health month and Bonnie's pick is Leta Stetter Hollingworth. Leta was an American Psychologist known for her at…
Jul 27, 2026 · 44:04
Katie 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…
Jul 20, 2026 · 36:36
Debbi 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…
Jul 13, 2026 · 32:33
Leah 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…
Jul 6, 2026 · 32:27
Bonnie 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…
Jun 22, 2026 · 27:42
Leah 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…
Jun 15, 2026 · 44:50
Klaire 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…
Jun 8, 2026 · 31:43
Katie 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…
Jun 1, 2026 · 43:32
Bonnie starts Creativity & Expression month by talking about Elizabeth Keckley. From slavery to the personal dressmaker to Mary Todd Lincoln, learn about Elizabeth and her…
May 18, 2026 · 35:57
Katie 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…
May 11, 2026 · 34:13
Jackie 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…
May 4, 2026 · 35:40
Leah starts off the month with our new theme. In May, Gals Guide is learning from women who found wellness with Movement & Joy in the body. Leah talks about the famous quote and…
Apr 27, 2026 · 28:46
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 was the one who sent us a…
Apr 20, 2026 · 35:45
Katie continues our learning theme - Nourishment & the Table - by talking about the Queen of Creole Cuisine, Leah Chase. Learn why her restaurant, Dooky Chase, was named one of…
Apr 13, 2026 · 32:04
Amy Dalton is back on the show! Amy continues our learning theme - Nourishment & the Table by talking about The Black Forager, Alexis Nikole Nelson. Learn from this adorable…
Apr 6, 2026 · 26:20
Bonnie starts our learning theme - Nourishment & the Table by talking about Desert Person, Claire Saffitz. Claire's describes being a desert person as "an attitude; it's about…
Mar 23, 2026 · 13:48
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 meditation by Lama Tsultrim…
Mar 16, 2026 · 32:06
Katie continues Rest as Resistance Month talking about Betty Ford. Learn about the former First Lady whose clinic provided rest and awareness of those with substance use disorders.
Mar 9, 2026 · 38:05
Debbi continues Rest as Resistance Month talking about Mother Jones. Learn about the activism of Mary G. Harris Jones to provide rest for the Industrial Workers of the World as…
Mar 2, 2026 · 31:42
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 founder of the Nap Ministry.…
Feb 23, 2026 · 30:47
Leah finishes Heart & Connection Month with a gal whose empathy for animals changed our understanding of the world. Learn about Jane Goodall and her amazing work with chimpanzees.
Feb 17, 2026 · 38:13
Katie continues Heart & Connection Month with a gal whose writing connected her readers to a larger world. Learn all about the amazing Nellie Bly and her investigative journalism…
Feb 9, 2026 · 30:28
Bonnie starts our Heart & Connection Month with another "puny pick." First there was a botanist for Rooted in Self Month, now there is a cardiologist for Heart & Connection…
Feb 2, 2026 · 1:01:16
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 sum up the 300 episodes in 300…
Jan 19, 2026 · 32:57
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 wrote essays, articles, novels,…
Jan 12, 2026 · 51:19
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 details on the year before Bonnie…
Nov 17, 2025 · 26:23
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 but it’s a journey and we’re…
Nov 10, 2025 · 32:03
Katie continues Political Change Month by talking about Jeannette Rankin, the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. The Republican Representative for Montana…
Nov 3, 2025 · 39:34
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 two things. I can be President…
Oct 27, 2025 · 29:47
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 their story. Remember Leah…
Oct 20, 2025 · 44:53
Julie continues Defiance Month by talking about N.O.W. The National Organization for Women.
Oct 14, 2025 · 36:06
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 officially run the Bost Marathon.…
Oct 6, 2025 · 36:59
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 medicine, Katie's writing…
Sep 29, 2025 · 25:18
Leah finishes up Personal Change Month with a gal who experienced the effects of mental illness and decided to create better conditions (not perfect) for those afflicted with…
Sep 22, 2025 · 49:10
Klaire continues Personal Change month with an abstract painter whose legacy personally effects one of our Gal Pals. Learn about Lee Krasner on this week's episode. Joined by…
Sep 15, 2025 · 25:43
Katie continues Personal Change month with a neuroscience journalist who covers drugs, addition and public policy. Learn about Maia Szalavitz on this week's episode. Joined by…
Sep 8, 2025 · 39:09
Bonnie starts of Personal Change month with a chemist who won a Noble Prize. Joined by Leah, Katie and Klaire Lockheart.
Aug 26, 2025 · 35:38
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 dove headfirst into…
Aug 18, 2025 · 28:43
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 been a wool skirt and until…
Aug 12, 2025 · 32:52
Katie continues courage month talking about sisters. The Mirabal Sisters courageously defied the foul dictator Rafael Trujillo known as el Jefe. Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa…
Aug 4, 2025 · 44:37
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. Learn about the unique history…
Jul 23, 2025 · 20:46
Riwo finishes up Freedom Month talking about a San Diego Public Librarian who stood up for Japanese American children during WW2 interments. Clara Breed sent books, letters, and…
Jul 14, 2025 · 23:30
Katie continues Freedom Month talking about SlutWalk an international movement. SlutWalk were protests to stop people asking "what was she wearing" when discussing rape and…
Jul 7, 2025 · 25:32
Bonnie starts off Freedom Month talking about Deborah Sampson, who disguised herself as a man to fight in the American Revolution.
Jun 16, 2025 · 27:57
Riwo finishes up Injustice Month with the mother of the LGBTQ movement, Barbara Gittings. She organized with Frank Kameny the first gay rights protest on July 4, 1965. She also…
Jun 9, 2025 · 39:14
Katie continues Injustice Month with a suffragette. Lucy Stone spoke out for women's rights, was the first Massachusetts woman to earn a college degree, and even kept her name…
Jun 4, 2025 · 35:31
Bonnie starts off Injustice Month with a crusader for justice, Ida B. Wells. As an author, journalist and civil rights leader, Ida brought information and power to the movement…
May 28, 2025 · 25:08
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 launch the United States' first…
May 21, 2025 · 26:14
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 called Tilly, was an…
May 12, 2025 · 32:49
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 story and what she was trying…
Apr 28, 2025 · 25:53
Riwo finishes up Rebellious Creative Expression month with Yayoi Kusama, a rebel in polka dots. She’s been called “one of the most important artists to come out of Japan.” She’s…
Apr 23, 2025 · 29:01
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 war correspondent,…
Apr 16, 2025 · 34:20
Rebellious Creative Expression continues on the Gal's Guide Podcast. Josh talks about Françoise d'Eaubonne, the French author who coined the term ecofeminism.
Apr 9, 2025 · 27:56
We're exploring Creative Expression within rebellion. Bonnie starts us off with the sculpture artist, Edmonia Lewis. Edmonia brought her African and Native American heritage to a…
Mar 31, 2025 · 26:35
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 Rima Sultana Rimu from…
Mar 28, 2025 · 37:55
Debbi continues Equality Month of our Rebel Era, by talking about the powerful activist, Fannie Lou Hamer.
Mar 17, 2025 · 19:16
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 Richards, or Mary J.R.…
Mar 15, 2025 · 49:34
March 15, 2025, will mark 100 years since the kidnapping, rape, and murder of Madge Oberholtzer. Madge’s trial was directly responsible for dismantling the Ku Klux Klan in…
Feb 24, 2025 · 27:09
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 showcased the true image of…
Feb 17, 2025 · 31:36
Riwo continues Solidarity Month with a powerful episode about the work of Tarana Burke and the #MeToo Movement.
Feb 12, 2025 · 24:18
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 Bus Boycott movement. She…
Feb 3, 2025 · 21:53
February is Solidarity Month at Gal's Guide. Bonnie starts off by talking about the movement and awareness of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW).
Jan 27, 2025 · 21:37
Riwo wraps up resistance month talking about the Tibetan warrior nun, Ani Pachen.
Jan 20, 2025 · 29:01
Katie talks about her resistance gal, Queen Boudica on this week's episode.
Jan 13, 2025 · 27:21
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 Season 8 with the 4B movement…
Dec 6, 2024 · 34:11
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's most famous for penning…
Nov 20, 2024 · 20:48
Kassie continues Scandinavian Gal Month with Icelandic musician and actress, Björk. Learn about how Björk started in music at age 11 and rose to international success with the…
Nov 13, 2024 · 15:44
Bonnie continues Scandinavian Gal Month with the first woman in the world to be democratically elected as president. Learn about Vigdís Finnbogadóttir the president of Iceland…
Nov 6, 2024 · 21:32
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 Ekeblad!
Oct 28, 2024 · 23:11
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 Spanish conquistador…
Oct 21, 2024 · 13:36
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 "Brazillian Bombshell" learn about…
Oct 14, 2024 · 31:23
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 October 17, 2022 - Katie gets…
Oct 9, 2024 · 15:05
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 Brazilian War of Independence.
Oct 1, 2024 · 30:03
Katie finishes up American Farmers Month with the Indigenous peoples' mythos of planting corn, beans, and squash.
Oct 1, 2024 · 22:01
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.
Sep 23, 2024 · 26:25
Debbi shares her American farmer gal, Harriet Williams Russell strong. Harriet was pivotal to water conservation in California. She was also known as the "Walnut Queen" and held…
Sep 16, 2024 · 21:57
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 gals. First up is Bonnie's…
Jul 24, 2024 · 32:55
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's Creek, the mom in…
Jul 15, 2024 · 32:47
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 was marked by her creation of…
Jul 8, 2024 · 26:46
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 the Roseland Theater. This…
Jul 1, 2024 · 35:31
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 working at the post office to…
Jun 17, 2024 · 24:45
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 female in the Fanta…
Jun 10, 2024 · 26:37
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 beauty and importance of…
Jun 4, 2024 · 24:41
Bonnie starts off Caribbean month with a Barbadian-Guyanese by way of Brooklyn, the fantastic Shirley Chisholm. The first African-American woman to run for President whose…
May 24, 2024 · 22:27
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 was on the battlefield with…
May 15, 2024 · 18:37
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 Japan Hot 100. She also has a…
May 8, 2024 · 18:27
Bonnie starts us off by learning about the controversial actress Komako Kimura. This gal managed two theaters in Toyoko, performed in nearly 500 plays, and created a movement.…
May 1, 2024 · 30:02
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 problematic guys. But…
May 1, 2024 · 24:28
Middle East Month continues with the first female Egyptian nuclear physicist. Sameera Moussa is Katie's pick. Learn about Sameera worked toward and hoped for a world where atomic…
Apr 17, 2024 · 35:21
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 polarizing but she is a woman who…
Apr 10, 2024 · 21:26
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 a friend of Xerxes 1, King…
Apr 1, 2024 · 31:49
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 Jackie. Jackie is a native…
Mar 28, 2024 · 30:16
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 (also spelled Maeve, Mave, Meave)…
Mar 18, 2024 · 21:59
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 about the many albums,…
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