It’s the start of Photography Month at Gal’s Guide, and Bonnie starts us off with an image that took thousands of terabytes of data to produce – it’s the first image of a black hole! Bonnie talks about Dr. Katie Bouman, the adorkable face of the team that made the impossible possible! Show Notes & […]
Leah wraps up Olympic month by taking us back in time to 776 B.C. to the time of the Heraean Game (AKA Girl Olympics) where running with a boob out. What a challenge! Leah also brings up loopholes so the ladies play with the oil-drenched guys and then talks about how all the nakedness was […]
The Gal Pals find Olympic games where they can sit or lie down, meanwhile Katie tells us about Lottie Dod, who never sat still. Voted the best versatile female athlete by Guinness World Records, Lottie played a ton of sports, including winning Silver in Archery and being the youngest ever female singles champion at Wimbledon! […]
Edan shares what Olympic greatness is all about with a French figure skater who didn’t win Gold but should have. Learn all about the amazing Surya Bonaly! Show Notes & Extras Videos About The Gal’s Guide Podcast What if you could only share 1 cool thing about a topic? Would it be about ancient history? […]
It’s the start of Olympic Gal month, and Bonnie is giving us “What For!” Well, actually, she’s telling about an Olympic swimmer who swam the English Channel, who might have coined the phrase “What For!” Gertrude Ederle learned to swim in a New York river with a rope around her waist. She’s the “Grease Smeared […]
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 […]
Katie learns that some seashells are for taking. Bonnie is missing her rocks. Leah was so poor that she stole a napkin. And Amy steals from the Pope. After confessing their crimes, the Gal Pals learn about the gals who went deep diving in a lead ball the size of a yoga ball to research […]
Climb the mountain! Pet the peacock! This is the advice from the drunk gal-pals, which might not be the best to follow. However, Katie tells about an English explorer who traveled all around the world. In one adventure, the locals trapped her in a house and set it on fire! Learn about the lady who […]
It’s the start of Explorer Gals Month, and Katie brought us a mountain cookie, Amy reminds us that no one knows how to pee in public anymore, and Bonnie tells us about a gal who was so smart she was kicked out of school. Explore outer space with astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. Show Notes & Extras […]
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 […]
Gal's Guide