Gals Guide
It’s a new month and a new look at wellbeing. This month the Gal Pals are picking women of history who embody safety & boundaries. Bonnie starts us off with Erin Brockovich, the paralegal and environmental activist who built a case again PG& E and won! Oh and they made her life into a movie! […]
Katie closes up Healing & Mental Health month. Her pick is Marsha Linehan, an American psychologist, professor, and author. Marsha created dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), an evidence-based psychotherapy that combines cognitive restructuring with acceptance, mindfulness, and shaping.. Learn more about Marsha Linehan on this week’s episode of the Gals Guide Podcast. The Gals Guide Podcast is off next week for Labor Day. Trigger Warning: This episode […]
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. Learning Theme […]
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 […]
Bonnie starts off a new month’s theme. August is Healing & Mental Health month and Bonnie’s pick is Leta Stetter Hollingworth. Leta was an American Psychologist known for her at Bellevue and her work with gifted children. Learning Theme of 2026 About The Gal’s Guide Podcast Join us each week to learn different aspects of […]
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, […]
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. Show Extras! Oral History transcript: https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-oral-histories/barbara-hackman-franklin-oral-history Barbara Franklin Enterprises: https://bhfranklin.com/ Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum article: https://womenshistory.si.edu/blog/women-who-reshaped-financial-power-and-economic-opportunity Learning Theme of […]
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 […]
Bonnie starts our monthly theme, Financial Health & Security, by talking about Katharine Dexter McCormick. Katharine was a rich lady, a suffragist, and helped fund the first birth control pill. Learning Theme of 2026 About The Gal’s Guide Podcast Join us each week to learn different aspects of personal and collective well being. Each of […]
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 […]
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. Learning Theme […]
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. Learning Theme of 2026 About The Gal’s Guide […]
Bonnie starts Creativity & Expression month by talking about Elizabeth Keckley. From slavery to the personal dressmaker to Mary Todd Lincoln, learn about Elizabeth and her dress-making business. Learning Theme of 2026 About The Gal’s Guide Podcast Join us each week to learn different aspects of personal and collective well being. Each of our presenters […]
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 […]
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. Learning Theme of 2026 About The Gal’s Guide Podcast Join […]
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