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The podcast about amazing and noteworthy women from history! A Broad is a woman who lives by her own rules; Broads You Should Know shares the stories of those Broads who have helped shape our world.
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Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
Mary Baker Eddy did not have things easy. As a young girl, she was plagued with fits and ill health and then later much family tragedy made life even harder to bear. Mary found much comfort, though, in the scriptures and her study of them and this love of the the Bible would lead to her becoming one of the only women in modern history to have formed a major religion: Christian Scientists!
Learn more about Mary's incredible story of resilience and the grassroots work she did establishing Christian Science here in the US and abroad.
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A Broad is a woman who lives by her own rules. Broads You Should Know is the podcast about the Broads who helped shape our world!
YT/IG/FB @BroadsYouShouldKnow & TW @BYSKpodcast
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3 Ways you can help support the podcast:
- Write a review on Apple Podcasts
- Share your favorite episode with a friend or on social
- Send us an email with a broad suggestion, question, or comment at BroadsYouShouldKnow@gmail.com
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Broads You Should Know is hosted by Sara Gorsky.
IG: @SaraGorsky
Web master / site design: www.BroadsYouShouldKnow.com
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Broads You Should Know is produced by Sara Gorsky & edited by Chloe Skye
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
When Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina showed up on the doorstep of Fyodor Dostoyevsky to serve as his stenographer, helping him complete his next deadline, she had no idea that that life was about to change big time.
What follows is an unusual courtship and unexpected happiness for both of them, despite Dostovesky's significant challenges, physical, familial and otherwise. Their resulting marriage seems to be almost the opposite of the Tolstoy's, and yet much like Sofia Tolstoyana - Anna clearly was responsible for much of Dostoyevsky's success, both before and after his passing.
Listen now for the story of a woman who, against many odds, was able to pull her husband out of debt and poverty cycles and into the literary hall of fame.
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A Broad is a woman who lives by her own rules. Broads You Should Know is the podcast about the Broads who helped shape our world!
YT/IG/FB @BroadsYouShouldKnow & TW @BYSKpodcast
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3 Ways you can help support the podcast:
- Write a review on Apple Podcasts
- Share your favorite episode with a friend or on social
- Send us an email with a broad suggestion, question, or comment at BroadsYouShouldKnow@gmail.com
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Broads You Should Know is hosted by Sara Gorsky.
IG: @SaraGorsky
Web master / site design: www.BroadsYouShouldKnow.com
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Broads You Should Know is produced by Sara Gorsky & edited by Chloe Skye
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Sophia Tolstaya never got a lot of fame or credit for all her accomplishments, in fact, she is generally reviled as famous Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy's b*tchy wife, but she was a brilliant talent and bright businesswoman herself. In fact, without her, Leo's work likely would never have been circulated so widely and successfully, nor would Leo have even been able to write such brilliant books - his characters draw inspiration from her, and her feedback deeply shaped the books and the mind of the man holding the pen.
In this episode we look behind those historic rumors to find a dirty smear campaign waged against Sophia towards the end of Leo's life, after his passing, and even beyond her death for another century. This episode is a fascinating (and heartbreaking) look at the building of a genius, and the destruction left behind in his wake at the expense of the woman who made him who he was.
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A Broad is a woman who lives by her own rules. Broads You Should Know is the podcast about the Broads who helped shape our world!
YT/IG/FB @BroadsYouShouldKnow & TW @BYSKpodcast
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3 Ways you can help support the podcast:
- Write a review on Apple Podcasts
- Share your favorite episode with a friend or on social
- Send us an email with a broad suggestion, question, or comment at BroadsYouShouldKnow@gmail.com
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Broads You Should Know is hosted by Sara Gorsky.
IG: @SaraGorsky
Web master / site design: www.BroadsYouShouldKnow.com
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Broads You Should Know is produced by Sara Gorsky & edited by Chloe Skye
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Before Bram Stoker wrote Dracula, even before Edgar Allen Poe wrote his Tell-Tale Heart, the genre of gothic horror was brought forth out of the incredible mind of a 21-year-old woman name MARY SHELLEY.
Mary had already suffered quite a bit of loss in her first 21 years and her connection to death, grief, and the existential human story created not only the first novel of its' kind, but what would also become one of the most quintessential horror novels of all time.
Listen now to hear the full story of Mary Shelley's fascinating, and heartbreaking life, and the birth of her Frankenstein.
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A Broad is a woman who lives by her own rules. Broads You Should Know is the podcast about the Broads who helped shape our world!
YT/IG/FB @BroadsYouShouldKnow & TW @BYSKpodcast
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3 Ways you can help support the podcast:
- Write a review on Apple Podcasts
- Share your favorite episode with a friend or on social
- Send us an email with a broad suggestion, question, or comment at BroadsYouShouldKnow@gmail.com
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Broads You Should Know is hosted by Sara Gorsky.
IG: @SaraGorsky
Web master / site design: www.BroadsYouShouldKnow.com
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Broads You Should Know is produced by Sara Gorsky & edited by Chloe Skye
Wednesday Mar 20, 2024
Wednesday Mar 20, 2024
This week, Sara brings us the story of Alexya Salvador, the first transgender pastor in Brazil and all of Latin America, and the first transgender person to adopt a child in Brazil.
As a young child, Alexya found great solace and belonging in the Catholic Church, so much so, that she entered seminary to begin a path to priesthood. But as her studies progressed she uncovered deeply held core teachings that made her feel like a criminal just for being gay.
Alexya's story is one of overcoming the great sorrow of losing her faith in the church, only to discover the true face of God and a new church family, ultimately becoming a beacon of hope and light for all transgender people in Brazil and South America (who face increasingly hateful rhetoric & violence just for being LGBTQ+).
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A Broad is a woman who lives by her own rules. Broads You Should Know is the podcast about the Broads who helped shape our world!
YT/IG/FB @BroadsYouShouldKnow & TW @BYSKpodcast
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3 Ways you can help support the podcast:
- Write a review on Apple Podcasts
- Share your favorite episode with a friend or on social
- Send us an email with a broad suggestion, question, or comment at BroadsYouShouldKnow@gmail.com
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Broads You Should Know is hosted by Sara Gorsky.
IG: @SaraGorsky
Web master / site design: www.BroadsYouShouldKnow.com
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Broads You Should Know is produced by Sara Gorsky & edited by Chloe Skye
Wednesday Mar 13, 2024
Wednesday Mar 13, 2024
This week, Sara brings us Sarah Winchester! When Sarah Winchester inherits the vast fortune of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company she decides to spend her fortune warding off the vengeful spirits of the victims of the Winchester rifle and builds the Winchester Mystery House - known widely as one of the most famous supernatural/haunted places in the US. But is that the real story? Listen now to hear the TRUE story behind the legend of Sarah Winchester.
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A Broad is a woman who lives by her own rules. Broads You Should Know is the podcast about the Broads who helped shape our world!
YT/IG/FB @BroadsYouShouldKnow & TW @BYSKpodcast
—
3 Ways you can help support the podcast:
- Write a review on Apple Podcasts
- Share your favorite episode with a friend or on social
- Send us an email with a broad suggestion, question, or comment at BroadsYouShouldKnow@gmail.com
—
Broads You Should Know is hosted by Sara Gorsky.
IG: @SaraGorsky
Web master / site design: www.BroadsYouShouldKnow.com
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Broads You Should Know is produced by Sara Gorsky & edited by Chloe Skye
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
This week, Sara brings us the Mongolian Warrior Princess, Khutulun Khan! Her remarkable battlefield prowess was only eclipsed by her mad skills in the wrestling arena. This Princess-who-would-be-Khan (Great-great Granddaughter of Genghis Khan and cousin of Kublai Khan) wrestled & defeated hundreds of men to avoid arranged marriage. She helped her father Kaidu hold onto his massive territory, but does she inherit her father's mantle when he dies? You'll have to listen to find out!
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A Broad is a woman who lives by her own rules. Broads You Should Know is the podcast about the Broads who helped shape our world!
YT/IG/FB @BroadsYouShouldKnow & TW @BYSKpodcast
—
3 Ways you can help support the podcast:
- Write a review on Apple Podcasts
- Share your favorite episode with a friend or on social
- Send us an email with a broad suggestion, question, or comment at BroadsYouShouldKnow@gmail.com
—
Broads You Should Know is hosted by Sara Gorsky.
IG: @SaraGorsky
Web master / site design: www.BroadsYouShouldKnow.com
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Broads You Should Know is produced by Sara Gorsky & edited by Chloe Skye
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
We're wrapping up Black History Month with the story of Carrie Johnson! During the 1919 race riots of Washington D.C., Carrie and her dad were holed up at home trying to stay out of trouble, but when white policemen barge into their home and their .38 rifle hits and kills one of the detectives, Carrie and her dad are carted off to jail and put on trial for first degree murder - a capital crime.
What follows is a strange series of events that is not particularly well documented, or at least the real underlying reasons aren't well known, but essentially her father turns on her in exchange for a case dismissal, so now 18 year old Carrie faces a potential death penalty sentence all by herself. What happens to Carrie? You'll have to listen to find out!
#blackhistory #blackhistorymonth #blackwomen
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A Broad is a woman who lives by her own rules. Broads You Should Know is the podcast about the Broads who helped shape our world!
YT/IG/FB @BroadsYouShouldKnow & TW @BYSKpodcast
—
3 Ways you can help support the podcast:
- Write a review on Apple Podcasts
- Share your favorite episode with a friend or on social
- Send us an email with a broad suggestion, question, or comment at BroadsYouShouldKnow@gmail.com
—
Broads You Should Know is hosted by Sara Gorsky.
IG: @SaraGorsky
Web master / site design: www.BroadsYouShouldKnow.com
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Broads You Should Know is produced by Sara Gorsky & edited by Chloe Skye
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
Continuing our celebration of Black History Month, guest Amelia Hammel brings us one of the most iconic Black Broads in American History - Harriet Tubman!
Born into enslavement, Harriet Tubman suffered great at the hands of her "owners" including, one night as a six-year-old, taking at hit to the head by a metal tub. This skull cracking moment would forever change her life - instilling her with a god-given mission to help free as many enslaved people as she could.
What follows is a lifetime of not only forging the Underground Railroad and helping almost a thousand people find freedom, but also a strong feminist voice in a world where non-white women's advocacy was seldom heard and never appreciated.
#blackhistory #blackhistorymonth #blackwomen #undergroundrailroad #harriettubman
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A Broad is a woman who lives by her own rules. Broads You Should Know is the podcast about the Broads who helped shape our world!
YT/IG/FB @BroadsYouShouldKnow & TW @BYSKpodcast
—
3 Ways you can help support the podcast:
- Write a review on Apple Podcasts
- Share your favorite episode with a friend or on social
- Send us an email with a broad suggestion, question, or comment at BroadsYouShouldKnow@gmail.com
—
Broads You Should Know is hosted by Sara Gorsky.
IG: @SaraGorsky
Web master / site design: www.BroadsYouShouldKnow.com
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Broads You Should Know is produced by Sara Gorsky & edited by Chloe Skye
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
We don't know much about the life of Alice H. Parker, except that the cold New Jersey winter annoyed her enough that she invented the first natural gas heater and "zoned heating" - the foundational technology for modern HVAC systems!
Listen now to hear more about her groundbreaking invention, and what we know about this woman who created perhaps the greatest creature comfort humanity has ever known!
#blackhistory #blackhistorymonth #blackwomen #blackinventors
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A Broad is a woman who lives by her own rules. Broads You Should Know is the podcast about the Broads who helped shape our world!
YT/IG/FB @BroadsYouShouldKnow & TW @BYSKpodcast
—
3 Ways you can help support the podcast:
- Write a review on Apple Podcasts
- Share your favorite episode with a friend or on social
- Send us an email with a broad suggestion, question, or comment at BroadsYouShouldKnow@gmail.com
—
Broads You Should Know is hosted by Sara Gorsky.
IG: @SaraGorsky
Web master / site design: www.BroadsYouShouldKnow.com
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Broads You Should Know is produced by Sara Gorsky & edited by Chloe Skye