Episodes
Episodes
Monday Mar 11, 2024
Bernadette Devlin - Katie's Irish Gal Pick
Monday Mar 11, 2024
Monday Mar 11, 2024
Katie continues Ireland Month with a campaigner for social justice, elected to Parliament at age 21, served prison time, wounded in an assassination attempt, and sometimes called "Ireland's Joan of Arc", Bernadette Devlin.
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
Lilian Bland - Bonnie's Irish Gal Pick
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
It's the start of Ireland Month! Bonnie's pick is an all-around adventurer. Lilian Bland is an aviator, horseback rider, lumberjack, painter, and car salesman. And when we say aviator we mean, she's the first woman to build her own plane 'cause it's 1910. And when we say car salesman, we mean the idea of cars is new.
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Mariama Ba - Katie's African Gal Pick
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Katie finishes up African Gals Month by sharing about Senegalese author, Mariama Ba. So Long a Letter is a novel expressing the fate and the frustration of African women. Mariama received the Noma Award, a major book award in Africa.
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
Agojie - Leah's African Gals Pick
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
Gal's Guide Film Club is discussing the Viola Davis movie The Women King. Leah wanted to dig deeper into the real-life all-female military regiment in the Kingdom of Dahomey known as the Agojie. If you are wondering if they are what the Dorje Milaje of Black Panther is based on - you are correct my friend.
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Professor Nox Makunga - Josh's African Gal Pick
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Josh returns to the podcast to talk about the medicinal plant biologist, Nokwanda Pearl Makunga. Professor Nox is a researcher in Biotechnology at Stellenbosch University. Her work is fascinating if you have a green thumb and even if you don't!
Thursday Feb 08, 2024
Huda Sha'arawi - Bonnie's African Gal Pick
Thursday Feb 08, 2024
Thursday Feb 08, 2024
It's a new month and Bonnie starts African Gal month with a trailblazer of the Egyptian Feminist movement, Huda Sha'arawi. Learn about this amazing suffragette.
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
Sister Elizabeth Kenny - Leah's Australian Gal Pick
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
Leah closes out Australian Gals Month with her pick. Sister Elizabeth Kenny (who was a military sister, not a religious sister) was an Australian Bush nurse who basically created physical therapy. At the time her methods of treating polio patients were unconventional but one day there was some help from the Mayo Clinic in the United States. Learn more about this amazing woman.
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Mary Reibey - Katie's Australian Gal Pick
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Katie's Australian Gal is a legendary businesswoman who started as a convict. Learn about Mary Reibey, an incredible woman who is on the money and became a role model for many.
Gal Pals
What if you could only share 1 cool thing about a topic? Would it be about ancient history? Would it be breaking news? Would it be safe for work? A group of gal-pals gathers to present to you one cool thing on topics like painting, gaming, movies, music and more.