Iron Butterfly Media
Iron Butterfly
Stories from the most powerful women you've never heard of. Eighty years ago, Eloise Page joined the OSS, trailblazing a path for what ultimately became the United States Intelligence Community. She rose the ranks from secretary to case officer, defying the norms of her time, and eventually became the first female Chief of Station at CIA. Along the way, Eloise earned the code name “Iron Butterfly.”These are the women who have shaped our world, and whose influence continues to ripple through time, space, and generations.
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Oct 27, 2026
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Episodes
Dawn Meyerriecks: Heritage Oak on the Weight of Leadership and Funny Stories from the CIA (Pt 2) 27.10.2026 42:22
On this very special season of Iron Butterfly Podcast , we’re going inside our first documentary feature film, titled The Power We Hold: Stories from Women Spies . This film features 10 of the most powerful women you’ve never heard of, and this season, we’ll get up close and personal with each of them. Each month, we’ll highlight a different woman, with each episode presented in two parts. In this...
Dawn Meyerriecks: Heritage Oak on Becoming an Engineer, First Jobs, and an Unexpected Love of Piano (Pt 1) 21.10.2026 35:57
On this very special season of Iron Butterfly Podcast , we’re going inside our first documentary feature film, titled The Power We Hold: Stories from Women Spies . This film features 10 of the most powerful women you’ve never heard of, and this season, we’ll get up close and personal with each of them. Each month, we’ll highlight a different woman, with each episode presented in two parts. In this...
Dawn Meyerriecks: Heritage Oak on Becoming an Engineer, First Jobs, and an Unexpected Love of Piano (Pt 1) 13.10.2026 35:57
On this very special season of Iron Butterfly Podcast , we’re going inside our first documentary feature film, titled The Power We Hold: Stories from Women Spies . This film features 10 of the most powerful women you’ve never heard of, and this season, we’ll get up close and personal with each of them. Each month, we’ll highlight a different woman, with each episode presented in two parts. In this...
Ellen McCarthy: Big Mac on Leaving Government, Trust in Intelligence, & Thinking Big (pt 2) 29.09.2026 52:46
On this very special season of Iron Butterfly Podcast , we’re going inside our first documentary feature film, titled The Power We Hold: Stories from Women Spies . This film features 10 of the most powerful women you’ve never heard of, and this season, we’ll get up close and personal with each of them. Each month, we’ll highlight a different woman, with each episode presented in two parts. On this...
Ellen McCarthy: Big Mac on Sean Connery, the Coast Guard, Taking Risks, & Finding Her Purpose (pt 1) 15.09.2026 47:05
On this very special season of Iron Butterfly Podcast , we’re going inside our first documentary feature film, titled The Power We Hold: Stories from Women Spies . This film features 10 of the most powerful women you’ve never heard of, and this season, we’ll get up close and personal with each of them. Each month, we’ll highlight a different woman, with each episode presented in two parts. On this...
J'Tia Hart: Sable Sage—The Future is Fierce 18.08.2026 19:59
On this very special season of Iron Butterfly Podcast , we’re going inside our first documentary feature film, titled The Power We Hold: Stories from Women Spies . This film features 10 of the most powerful women you’ve never heard of, and this season, we’ll get up close and personal with each of them. Each month, we’ll highlight a different woman, with each episode presented in two parts. On this...
Susan Miller: California Cool 22.07.2026 1:16:50
On this very special episode of the Iron Butterfly Podcast, we take a quick break from our documentary series to sit down with retired CIA officer Susan Miller. Susan explores her remarkable journey from growing up in Northern California to building a career in intelligence. She reflects on her path to the CIA, from her college years and application process to the excitement of her first overseas...
Chitra Sivanandam: Maven Gray on Remote Sensing, Failure as Fun, and Living as an Experiment (pt 2) 23.06.2026 35:19
On this very special season of Iron Butterfly Podcast , we’re going inside our first documentary feature film, titled The Power We Hold: Stories from Women Spies . This film features 10 of the most powerful women you’ve never heard of, and this season, we’ll get up close and personal with each of them. Each month, we’ll highlight a different woman, with each episode presented in two parts. In this...
Chitra Sivanandam: Maven Gray on Immigrant Community and Being an Artistic Engineer (pt 1) 09.06.2026 35:29
On this very special season of Iron Butterfly Podcast , we’re going inside our first documentary feature film, titled The Power We Hold: Stories from Women Spies . This film features 10 of the most powerful women you’ve never heard of, and this season, we’ll get up close and personal with each of them. Each month, we’ll highlight a different woman, with each episode presented in two parts. In this...
Laura Thomas: Firefly on Recruiting Spies, Exfiltrating Assets, & Dating as a Case Officer (pt 2) 19.05.2026 33:22
On this very special season of Iron Butterfly Podcast , we’re going inside our first documentary feature film, titled The Power We Hold: Stories from Women Spies . This film features 10 of the most powerful women you’ve never heard of, and this season, we’ll get up close and personal with each of them. Each month, we’ll highlight a different woman, with each episode presented in two parts. In this...
Laura Thomas: Firefly on Annie Oakley, Fake IDs, Getting a CIA Pseudonym, & a Fake Cavity Op (pt 1) 05.05.2026 29:58
On this very special season of Iron Butterfly Podcast , we’re going inside our first documentary feature film, titled The Power We Hold: Stories from Women Spies . This film features 10 of the most powerful women you’ve never heard of, and this season, we’ll get up close and personal with each of them. Each month, we’ll highlight a different woman, with each episode presented in two parts. In this...
Karen Gibson: Kumquat on her First Star, Beating Breast Cancer, and the Sergeant at Arms pt. 2 21.04.2026 44:33
On this very special season of Iron Butterfly Podcast , we’re going inside our first documentary feature film, titled The Power We Hold: Stories from Women Spies . This film features 10 of the most powerful women you’ve never heard of, and this season, we’ll get up close and personal with each of them. Each month, we’ll highlight a different woman, with each episode presented in two parts. In this...
Karen Gibson: Kumquat on a Rugged Upbringing, War Stories, and Tolkien’s Chick with the Sword pt. 1 07.04.2026 38:22
On this very special season of Iron Butterfly Podcast , we’re going inside our first documentary feature film, titled The Power We Hold: Stories from Women Spies . This film features 10 of the most powerful women you’ve never heard of, and this season, we’ll get up close and personal with each of them. Each month, we’ll highlight a different woman, with each episode presented in two parts. In this...
Tish Long: Mimi on Creating an Intel Agency, as the First Female Director & Being a Step-Mom, pt 2 24.03.2026 52:35
On this very special season of Iron Butterfly Podcast , we’re going inside our first documentary feature film, titled The Power We Hold: Stories from Women Spies . This film features 10 of the most powerful women you’ve never heard of, and this season, we’ll get up close and personal with each of them. Each month, we’ll highlight a different woman, with each episode presented in two parts. On this...
Tish Long: Mimi on Becoming an Engineer, Being the Only Woman, & Conquering Public Speaking (pt 1) 10.03.2026 59:09
On this very special season of Iron Butterfly Podcast , we’re going inside our first documentary feature film, titled The Power We Hold: Stories from Women Spies . This film features 10 of the most powerful women you’ve never heard of, and this season, we’ll get up close and personal with each of them. Each month, we’ll highlight a different woman, with each episode presented in two parts. On this...
Sue Gordon: Humble Servant on Sally Ride, Cancer Treatment, and Grief as a Doorway (pt 2) 17.02.2026 54:34
On this very special season of Iron Butterfly Podcast , we’re going inside our first documentary feature film, titled The Power We Hold: Stories from Women Spies . This film features 10 of the most powerful women you’ve never heard of, and this season, we’ll get up close and personal with each of them. Each month, we’ll highlight a different woman, with each episode presented in two parts. This th...
Sue Gordon: Humble Servant on Duke Basketball, a Meet Cute, and Early Career at CIA (pt 1) 03.02.2026 1:03:20
On this very special season of Iron Butterfly Podcast , we’re going inside our first documentary feature film, titled The Power We Hold: Stories from Women Spies . This film features 10 of the most powerful women you’ve never heard of, and this season, we’ll get up close and personal with each of them. Each month, we’ll highlight a different woman, with each episode presented in two parts. This th...
Carmen Medina: Kind Rebel at Work on MI6, the Dawn of the Internet, and Male-Ordered Systems, Part 2 20.01.2026 40:37
On this very special season of Iron Butterfly Podcast , we’re going inside our first documentary feature film, titled The Power We Hold: Stories from Women Spies . This film features 10 of the most powerful women you’ve never heard of, and this season, we’ll get up close and personal with each of them. Each month, we’ll highlight a different woman, with each episode presented in two parts. For par...
Carmen Medina: Kind Rebel at Work on Curiosity, Her Puerto Rican Roots, and Being a Bad Bureaucrat 06.01.2026 49:40
On this very special season of Iron Butterfly Podcast , we’re going inside our first documentary feature film, titled The Power We Hold: Stories from Women Spies . This film features 10 of the most powerful women you’ve never heard of, and this season, we’ll get up close and personal with each of them. Each month, we’ll highlight a different woman, with each episode presented in two parts. For epi...
Inside The Power We Hold: Stories from Women Spies, Iron Butterfly's First Feature Documentary, Part 2 16.12.2025 41:09
Welcome back for Part 2 of our Season 9 premiere of the Iron Butterfly Podcast that goes inside our first feature documentary film, The Power We Hold: Stories from Women Spies. For five years, this podcast has been our way of amplifying stories from the most powerful women the world has never heard of. More than 100 episodes later, this community has grown into something much larger than we ever i...
Inside The Power We Hold: Stories from Women Spies, Iron Butterfly's First Feature Documentary, Part 1 09.12.2025 52:01
Today, we’re launching a special Iron Butterfly Podcast season that goes inside our first feature documentary film, The Power We Hold: Stories from Women Spies. This season is our way of bringing you along for the ride. In these two part episodes, we’re inviting you into deeper conversations with each woman from the film, covering her life, family, career, and the unseen moments that shaped who sh...
Andrea Wallis Aven: A Historical Special Episode on her aunt, an OSS veteran, Jane Wallis Burrell 18.11.2025 1:10:07
In this special historical episode of the Iron Butterfly Podcast , we’re joined by researcher and storyteller Andrea Wallis Aven , whose lifelong passion for genealogy and history has illuminated generations of her family’s extraordinary service. Through meticulous research, Andrea has traced the lives of her Wallis and Stewart ancestors, uncovering a remarkable lineage of veterans who served thei...
CC Durall: Wave Rider on Language, Translation, Human Capital, and the power of Self-Reinvention 15.07.2025 58:24
In the powerful Season 8 finale, we sit down with Celia "CC" Durall—CEO of CD Possibilities, leadership coach, and a former force within the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. With a career rooted in human capital and workforce strategy, CC brings a wealth of experience and insight to this closing chapter. She shares her story of growing up as a third culture kid, the daughter of di...
Lucy Ferguson: Steel Bubbles on British Intelligence, Diplomacy, and James Bond 01.07.2025 59:14
In this special FVEY episode, we’re joined by Lucy Ferguson, Minister Counsellor for Foreign, Security and Development Policy at the British Embassy in Washington, DC. With a career spanning pivotal global roles—including working directly with the British Foreign Secretary and representing the UK at the G20 (yes, she was the UK’s “yak”)—Lucy brings a unique and candid perspective on diplomacy behi...
Yolanda Reid: Mercedes on the NSA, Cybersecurity, and Strength through Adversity 17.06.2025 1:05:16
Today’s episode features the remarkable Yolanda, an Associate Partner in Cybersecurity whose career spans everything from scaling antenna towers to exploring the quantum computing horizon. Yolanda takes us through her one-of-a-kind journey—beginning as a high school intern at the NSA, rising through the ranks to become a full-time intelligence professional, and now leading organizations through th...
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