Gals Guide

Erin Brockovich - Bonnie's Pick for Safety & Boundaries Month

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 Brockovi

Pura Belpré - Cathy's Pick for Learning & Growing Month

Cathy finishes up Learning & Growing Month with a wonderful tie-in to National Hispanic Heritage Month. Cathy talks about Pura Belpre, the Latina librarian from Puerto Ri

Ella Flatau - Amy's Pick for Learning & Growing Month

Amy continues Learning & Growing Month with a walk in the woods to learn about life. Amy talks about Ella Flatau, a Danish woman who in the 1950's started the Walking Kin

Maria Sanford - Leah's Pick for Learning & Growing Month

Leah starts off Learning & Growing Month talking about one of the first female professors in the United States. She was hired as a professor in 1880. She spent over 30 ye

Marsha Linehan - Katie's Pick for Healing & Mental Health Month

Katie closes up Healing & Mental Health month. Her pick is Marsha Linehan an American psychologist, professor, and author. Marsha created dialectical behavior therapy (DB

Margaret Morgan Lawrence - Lauren's Pick for Healing & Mental Health Month

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 childr

Demi Lovato - Leah's Pick for Healing & Mental Health Month

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 s

Leta Stetter Hollingworth - Bonnie's Pick for Healing & Mental Health Month

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

Ellen "Nellie" Cashman - Katie's Pick for Financial Health & Security Month

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 A

Barbara Hackman Franklin - Debbi's Financial Health & Security Month

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

Maggie Lena Walker - Leah's Pick for Financial Health & Security Month

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 Pe

Katharine Dexter McCormick - Bonnie's Pick for Financial Health & Security Month

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 fi

Tove Jansson - Leah's Creativity & Expression Pick

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

Artemisia Gentileschi - Klaire's Pick for Creativity & Expression Month

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

Beatrice Wood - Katie's Pick for Creativity & Expression Month

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 "

Elizabeth Keckley - Bonnie's Pick for Creativity & Expression Month

Bonnie starts Creativity & Expression month by talking about Elizabeth Keckley. From slavery to the personal dressmaker to Mary Todd Lincoln, learn about Elizabeth and he

Eunice Kennedy Shriver - Katie's Pick for Movement & Joy in the Body

Katie finishes up Movement & Joy in the body month by talking about Eunice Kennedy Shriver and her work creating Special Olympics. Did you know Special Olympics first sta

Dorothy "Tommy" Dermody - Jackie's Pick for Movement & Joy in the Body

Jackie continues our learning theme of finding wellness with Movement & Joy in the body. Jackie talks about Dorothy "Tommy" Dermody, the Irish fencer who was from County

Ginger Rogers - Leah's Pick for Movement & Joy in the Body

Leah starts off the month with our new theme. In May, Gals Guide is learning from women who found wellness with Movement & Joy in the body. Leah talks about the famous qu

Selma Miriam - Leah's Pick for Nourishment & The Table

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 sen