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Who is Tara?

by Leah Leach INTENTION My intention is to help make what I have learned in Buddhism approachable to all levels of readers regardless of faith or practice. I also cultivate the intention to share this wisdom with all beings. WHO IS TARA? Tara is the female representation of compassion, wisdom, and enlightenment. She is a […]

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Women of Agents of SHIELD

Kami finishes up Marvel Gal’s Month with her 3 favorite women of “Agents of SHEILD” and a plea to Kevin Fiege. There is also a lot of talk about our 3rd favorite dinosaur. Show Notes & Extras About The Gal’s Guide Podcast What if you could only share 1 cool thing about a topic? Would it […]

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Alexandra David Neel

We’ve covered outer space explorers, Rocky Mountain explorers, and deep ocean explorers; now it’s time for an inner-space explorer. Leah is still obsessed with Tibet and talks about the First Buddhist in France, who was also the first Western woman to reach Lhasa. Learn about the wild explorer whose books and travels inspired the Beat […]

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Dakinis

Leah wraps up folk tale & myth month with the female Buddhas of wisdom. Known in Tibetan Buddhism as Dakinis, Leah talks about how this fierce female drinks from a skull cup, stands on her own ego, and cuts you free from the thing that makes you unhappy. Show Notes & Extras Videos About The […]

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Tiamat

The Gal Pals have gathered around the metaphoric campfire to tell you folks tales of myth and legend. Katie brings us to ancient Mesopotamia to tell the creation tale of Tiamat, the Goddess of the Chaos and the Salt Sea, who created the world as we know it. We also talk about beer with glitter […]

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Qiu Jin

It’s the start of Season 4 of the Gal’s Guide Guide Podcast!! We are starting off – what can only be an amazing year – celebrating rebel gals. We are joined this month by author and history nerd, Pamela Toler! Bonnie Fillenwarth starts us off with a Chinese feminist revolutionary who founded a girls’ school […]

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Ching Shih

To wrap up pirate month Leah talks about the leader of Red Flag Fleet who was so powerful she got a pardon from the Chinese government and got jobs for most of her fleet before retiring into the life of a boss of a gambling den and a Madam. Ching Shih is a true bad-ass […]