Gals Guide
Season 8 is great! For the 2025 season, we are exploring rebel gals, and we are holding a space open for guests. If you have not yet listened to an episode of the Gal’s Guide Podcast, we highly recommend you do so before signing up. Our show is a bit different than other podcasts. We […]
Katie ends our Around the World theme with a baroness and author. Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke went by many names when she wrote. She’s most famous for penning Out of Africa. Learn about this Danish traveler and her many adventures. Season 8 of the Gal’s Guide Podcast returns in January 2025! About The Gal’s Guide […]
Kassie continues Scandinavian Gal Month with Icelandic musician and actress, Björk. Learn about how Björk started in music at age 11 and rose to international success with the band The Sugarcubes before going solo. There was also that swan dress… Videos About The Gal’s Guide Podcast Join us on an adventure to get to know […]
Bonnie continues Scandinavian Gal Month with the first woman in the world to be democratically elected as president. Learn about Vigdís Finnbogadóttir the president of Iceland from 1980-1996. About The Gal’s Guide Podcast Join us on an adventure to get to know famous and infamous women from around the world. Each of our presenters has […]
Riwo starts off Scandinavian Gal Month with Swedish royalty who saved her country with alcohol! Learn all about the gal with a brain for science, Eva Ekeblad! About The Gal’s Guide Podcast Join us on an adventure to get to know famous and infamous women from around the world. Each of our presenters has a […]
Riwo finishes up South American month talking about a historian who taught us how to learn about the Incas not from a western perspective, not from a Spanish conquistador perspective, but that of the ancestry of the people, the Andeans. Learn about the fantastic historian Maria Rostworowski. About The Gal’s Guide Podcast Join us on […]
Julie shares with us the colorful life of the gal known for her fruit hats, singing, and dancing – Carmen Miranda. There is much more to this “Brazillian Bombshell” learn about Carmen’s life in two Americans and her many talents. About The Gal’s Guide Podcast Join us on an adventure to get to know famous […]
It’s Katie’s Birthday week and we have a special coupon code for 15% off our event A Night With the Witch and Famous. The episode originally aired October 17, 2022 – Katie gets gruesome with the tale of Catherine “La Vosin” Monvoisin. This French black magic sorcerer was the head of a powerful network that […]
It’s the start of South American Gal Month! Bonnie leads off with a national hero of Brazil, Maria Quitéria! Learn about this lieutenant in the Brazilian War of Independence. About The Gal’s Guide Podcast Join us on an adventure to get to know famous and infamous women from around the world. Each of our presenters […]
Katie finishes up American Farmers Month with the Indigenous peoples’ mythos of planting corn, beans, and squash. About The Gal’s Guide Podcast Join us on an adventure to get to know famous and infamous women from around the world. Each of our presenters has a pick. Is she ancient history? Is she breaking news? Is […]
Before there was Rosie the Riveter, there were the Farmerettes. Riwo shares the history of the gals who were called to help America by being farmers. About The Gal’s Guide Podcast Join us on an adventure to get to know famous and infamous women from around the world. Each of our presenters has a pick. […]
Debbi shares her American farmer gal, Harriet Williams Russell strong. Harriet was pivotal to water conservation in California. She was also known as the “Walnut Queen” and held 5 patents. Learn all about this innovative woman. About The Gal’s Guide Podcast Join us on an adventure to get to know famous and infamous women from […]
We’re Back! It’s been a bit of a break but we’ve found our way out of the cornfields and back to the Gal’s Guide Library to talk about American farmer gals. First up is Bonnie’s pick, Rith Imogen Stout the “no-work” garden method author. Videos About The Gal’s Guide Podcast Join us on an adventure […]
Riwo closes up Canada Month with her “TV mom” and a major happiness factor in her life, Catherine O’Hara. This talented comedian is the mom in Schitt’s Creek, the mom in Beetlejuice, and the mom in Home Alone. But to Riwo she’s so much more. UPDATE: No podcast episode in August as Riwo will be […]
Barb tells the tale of the first female publisher in Canada, Mary Ann Shadd Cary. Mary was born and died in the United States but her time in Canada was marked by her creation of the newspaper Provincial Freeman, a weekly paper starting in 1853 that circulated around southern Ontario that advocated equality, integration, and […]
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