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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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  • S9 · E441
    Monday · 29 min

    Margaret Morgan Lawrence - Lauren's Pick for Healing & Mental Health Month

    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 inner cities. Learn more about Margaret Morgan Lawrence on this week's episode of the Gals Guide Podcast. Trigger Warning: This episode does mention suicide and self-harm.

  • S9 · E440
    August 18 · 30 min

    Demi Lovato - Leah's Pick for Healing & Mental Health Month

    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. She’s an artist that is constantly evolving and experimenting with her voice and her sound. She also struggles with mental illness and turns that struggle around to be an advocate for others and be a light in the dark. Learn more about Demi Lovato on this week's episode of the Gals Guide Podcast.

  • S9 · E438
    July 27 · 44 min

    Ellen "Nellie" Cashman - Katie's Pick for Financial Health & Security Month

    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 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.

  • S9 · E437
    July 20 · 36 min

    Barbara Hackman Franklin - Debbi's Financial Health & Security Month

    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 Barbara's financial pursuits. Learn more about this powerhouse on this week's episode.

  • S9 · E436
    July 13 · 32 min

    Maggie Lena Walker - Leah's Pick for Financial Health & Security Month

    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 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.

  • S9 · E434
    June 22 · 27 min

    Tove Jansson - Leah's Creativity & Expression Pick

    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 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.

  • S9 · E433
    June 15 · 44 min

    Artemisia Gentileschi - Klaire's Pick for Creativity & Expression Month

    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 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.

  • S9 · E432
    June 8 · 31 min

    Beatrice Wood - Katie's Pick for Creativity & Expression Month

    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 Dada." Learn about Beatrice's fascinating life in pottery, art, literature, and French names we struggle to say.

  • S9 · E430
    May 18 · 35 min

    Eunice Kennedy Shriver - Katie's Pick for Movement & Joy in the Body

    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 with Eunice hosting a summer camp on her farm in Maryland? Learn more about Eunice and her work on behalf of persons with disabilities.

  • S9 · E429
    May 11 · 34 min

    Dorothy "Tommy" Dermody - Jackie's Pick for Movement & Joy in the Body

    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 Tipperary. Not only did she compete in the Olympic Games, but she also made movement and fitness invaluable for kids around Ireland.

  • S9 · E428
    May 4 · 35 min

    Ginger Rogers - Leah's Pick for Movement & Joy in the Body

    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 how it might be truer (and wiser) than we might have given it credit for. "Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but did it backwards...and in high heels." Also, a tribute and wish for Mother's Day.

  • S9 · E427
    April 27 · 28 min

    Selma Miriam - Leah's Pick for Nourishment & The Table

    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 DVD of the amazing documentary A Culinary Uprising: The Story of Bloodroot. Leah closes our learning theme with a wonderful example of Nourishment & The Table. Selma Miriam created a space for well being in so many women’s lives. Learn and share the story of Bloodroot a feminist, vegetarian, restaurant, and bookstore in Bridgeport Connecticut.

  • S9 · E426
    April 20 · 35 min

    Leah Chase - Katie's Pick for Nourishment & The Table

    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 the 40 most important restaurants of the past 40 years by Food & Wine.

  • S9 · E425
    April 13 · 32 min

    Alexis Nikole Nelson - Amy's Pick for Nourishment & The Table

    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 forest fairy of a woman, all about how the outdoors are full of things we can eat and how we can have fun learning what is edible and what isn't.

  • S9 · E424
    April 6 · 26 min

    Claire Saffitz - Bonnie's Pick for Nourishment & The Table

    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 embracing cooking and eating as fundamental sources of pleasure."

  • S9 · E423
    March 23 · 13 min

    Meditation - The Ground of Being

    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 Allione as well as Lopon Charlotte Rotterdam. It’s a practice that can be done whenever you need it. It has a seed of Buddhism with mindful compassion at its center but you can use this process with any spiritual path, including no specific spiritual path.

  • S9 · E422
    March 16 · 32 min

    Betty Ford - Katie's Rest as Resistance Pick

    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.

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