Gals Guide

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 Bangladesh. 

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

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. Garmin. Born into slavery she was a Union spy in the Confederate White House.  

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 Indiana. A powerful and poignant special episode, Madge Saved Lives, releases on the 100th anniversary of Madge Oberholtzer’s kidnapping, March 15, 1925. This episode shines a light on a harrowing event in history that sparked s...

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 African-American life. Her characters were working professionals and dealt with themes of feminism, "passing" and racial discrimination. Learn more about Jessie on this week's episode.

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

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 was the rebel gal behind the "Club from Nowhere." 

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).

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

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

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 out of South Korea.

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 Out of Africa. Learn about this Danish traveler and her many adventures.  Season 8 of the Gal's Guide Podcast returns in January 2025!

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 band The Sugarcubes before going solo. There was also that swan dress...

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 from 1980-1996.

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! 

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 perspective, but that of the ancestry of the people, the Andeans. Learn about the fantastic historian Maria Rostworowski.

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 Carmen's life in two Americans and her many talents. 

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 gruesome with the tale of Catherine “La Vosin” Monvoisin. This French black magic sorcerer was the head of a powerful network that provided poisons, love potions, and abortions. She might have killed over 1,000 people but...

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. 

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

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. 

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 5 patents. Learn all about this innovative woman.  

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 pick, Rith Imogen Stout the "no-work" garden method author. 

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 Beetlejuice, and the mom in Home Alone. But to Riwo she's so much more.

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 the newspaper Provincial Freeman, a weekly paper starting in 1853 that circulated around southern Ontario that advocated equality, integration, and self-education for Black people.