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Dr. Katie Nelson and Olivia Meikle
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S22E176 THE CASTAWAY Marguerite de La Rocque
[audio updated 6/02] Marooned on a frigid island in 1641, a young French woman single-handedly fought off polar bears, starvation, and loneliness, buried her lover, her maidservant, and her newborn…
S22E175 THE ENTOMOLOGIST Evelyn Cheesman
Over the course of her 87 years, self-taught British entomologist Evelyn Cheesman went on eight solo insect-collecting expeditions across the South Pacific, collected almost 100,000 specimens,…
S22E174 THE MATRIARCH OF CHINATOWN Ou Shee Eng
For 61 years, Ou Shee Eng's tiny apartment in Seattle's Chinatown was the heart of a community of women. Possessing the rare ability to read and write Chinese, Ou Shee was the reader and scribe of…
S22E173 THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE Catherine Jemmat
After a lifetime of betrayal and abuse as an 18th century sex worker, Catherine Jemmat broke the ultimate social taboo: she wrote the truth about her life. Her "scandalous memoir" helped change the…
S22E172 THE GIRL SCOUT Juliette Gordon Low
Juliette Gordon Low was a classic Southern Belle when she married her handsome prince. But she learned the hard way that "happily ever after" is a harmful fantasy. We can do better for girls, she…
S22E171 THE PREACHER Jarena Lee
In 1819 an itinerant Methodist preacher set off across a brand-new nation to spread the gospel to its people. Over the decades of her unique ministry, Jarena Lee would witness both incredible…
S21E170 THE KLONDIKE QUEEN Shaaw Tláa (Kate Carmack)
On a day like any other in 1896, Shaaw Tláa was washing dishes in a Yukon creek. But something shiny caught her eye... and the Klondike Gold Rush began. It's an insane chapter of world history:…
S21E169 THE SCANDALOUS WOMAN Uno Chiyo
Uno Chiyo rose to fame in 20th century Japan as a writer, designer, domestic goddess, and fashion icon - mostly by marketing herself as just a scandalous woman. But this "Bad Girl of Good…
S21E168 A WINTER OF CONTENT Laura Lee Davidson
To snowy Ontario, Canada for our 2026 Christmas Special! Living out the dream of countless exhausted women, Laura Lee Davidson retreated to an island in the middle of a lake, and lived there alone…
BONUS EPISODE Voices of Women Festival
At the recent Voices of Women Festival, we invited folks to pop into our ad-hoc recording box to record the 60-second story of their favorite historical woman. The results are a delight - and include…
S21E166 THE BLACK NATIONALIST Queen Mother Audley Moore
Queen Mother Audley Moore was one of the most respected, most influential, longest-lasting influences on the US Black Nationalist movement, the Pan-African movement, the movement for Reparations, and…
THE EXECUTIVE Katharine Gibbs
In 1917, Katharine Gibbs rebounded from personal tragedy in an unusual way: she decided to train a subversive, feminist army. Nearly broke and with just a high school education, Gibbs trained women…
THE BIRD OF ILL OMEN Catherine Crowe: 2025 Halloween Special
Catherine Crowe was a wildly acclaimed Victorian novelist, playwright, social critic and …ghost hunter? Her novels were as popular as Charles Dickens,’ and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Martineau,…
THE MYSTERY The Ivory Lady
When a history-making Copper Age burial was unearthed in southern Spain in 2008, the world was stunned by the incredibly beautiful - and utterly unprecedented - artifacts found in the tomb of the…
S21E162 THE FOLKLORISTA Violeta Parra
Violeta Parra needs no introduction in Latin America: not only did she record the greatest album in Chilean history, she also collected two thousand folk songs, danced in the Poor Circus, sang in the…
S20E161 THE WITNESS Leonora Sansay
Leonora Sansay lived through the last chaotic years of the Haitian Revolution - but the book she wrote about it would tell an entirely unexpected story. Join returning guest Dr. Maria Windell as we…
S20E160 THE TUGBOAT PIONEER Thea Foss
135 years ago, Norwegian immigrant Thea Foss lived in a ramshackle driftwood houseboat on the coast of Tacoma Washington. Kind, capable, and hard-working, she was an anchor for hundreds more…
S20E159 THE SHAMAN QUEEN Himiko
In the 3rd century, a mysterious queen ruled the Kingdom of Yamatai (modern-day Japan) with a wise and steady hand. Her reign lasted almost 70 years - but what can we really know about her, when her…
S20E158 THE PEACE WEAVER Eva Palmer Sikelianos
What if we could reopen a primordial spiritual portal, and summon peace on earth? For Eva Palmer Sikelianos in 1920s Greece, world peace wasn't a lofty dream-- it was an achievable goal. The key, Eva…
S20E157 THE VAGABOND PRINCESS Gulbadan Begum
At the dawn of the Mughal Empire, a bold and brilliant Princess outlived three Emperors, and managed to create an adventurous, wildly unexpected life for herself during one of the most tumultuous…
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