So, Who is She?

The woman at the center of our story was a young French noblewoman. She owned land. She was educated. She could read. She was, by the standards of her age, someone of standing and the kind of woman who, might have learned Latin, played music, read philosophy, corresponded with intellectual peers. She didn't deserve what happened to her. So, Who is She? is about telling the stories of women the...

She climbed the highest peak in more than seventy countries by then. She led forty-four all-female mountaineering expeditions around the world. Somewhere in the sky above us, an asteroid bears the number she was assigned when astronomers named it in her honor. Pluto, the farthest thing we can reach from where she was born in that small printing family in northern Japan, a mountain range carries he...

What makes her story truly remarkable isn't just what she accomplished. It's how she accomplished it. She did it as a woman in an era when women weren't supposed to run businesses. When women weren't supposed to break engagements or question authority or fight in court. She did it while being arrested, while being called a fraud, while facing constant scrutiny and resistance. So, W...

Have you ever been told you couldn’t do something? She was told time and time again that she could not, should not, will not, but she did not let that stop her. She chartered a bank, launched a boycott, scared some powerful men and then designed her own wheelchair! She didn’t do some things, she did everything! So, Who is She? is about telling the stories of women the world forgot to mention and w...

For nearly a century, this doctor kept a secret. Had anyone found out, jail would have been certain and a lifetime of accomplishments would have been wiped away. Accomplishments that included a groundbreaking caesarean section and decades of public health reform across the British Empire. This doctor proved, by simply doing the work, that every argument ever made for keeping women out of medicine...

Fourteen centuries before Cleopatra, she was one of the first female pharaohs, not queen, not regent, Pharaoh. She proved something that wasn’t supposed to be possible, women could be Pharaohs. So, Who is She? is about telling the stories of women the world forgot to mention and whose accomplishments were buried, forgotten or lost. This episode will feature one woman’s amazing story. Be sure to li...

This story is about a mysterious woman who didn’t let something like a silly idea about jobs women should have or not have, stop her from trying to do what she wanted.  So, Who is She? is about telling the stories of women the world forgot to mention and whose accomplishments were buried, forgotten or lost. This episode will feature one woman’s amazing story. Be sure to listen to the end where I w...

This is my first episode and I'm still learning, but would love your help by leaving a comment letting me what you love...or hate or maybe you just want to say hi! Thanks! This episode will feature one woman’s amazing story. I love this story because it features a woman who not only helps other women, but also proves how resilient she is. Stay tuned to the end where I reveal her name. Sources...