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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 Jan 03, 2024
Wednesday Jan 03, 2024
Wahoo! We made it through 2023!! The year wouldn't be complete without a Broads recap, though. Sara brings you a snapshot of some of the most incredible Broads we lost this year and all of their accomplishments, both for women specifically and all of humankind.
Then we take a dive into the United Nations’ Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2023. A little intimidating for some, but absolutely CRUCIAL for really comprehending the true level of gender inequality and what it means for the future of women in the world - as well as what we can do about it!
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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 iTunes
- Share your favorite episode on social media / tell a friend about the show!
- 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 Dec 27, 2023
Wednesday Dec 27, 2023
We've got a fabulous 2023 recap episode brewing, but it's not ready yet, so today we revisit our (one and only) New Year's Broad: Betsy Ross! That's right - Betsy Ross was born on January 1st.
You may already know that Betsy Ross designed the first American Flag. But did you know that she increased sewing efficiency by switching from a 6-pointed star to a 5-pointed star, making it possible to create the stars with a single snip? Or that she was disowned by her Quaker family for marrying a man who was non-Quaker? Her life surrounding the creation of the flag was rife with tragedy, making her even more of a Broad You Should Know.
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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!
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YT/IG/FB @BroadsYouShouldKnow & TW @BYSKpodcast
@ChloeJadeSkye
@SamLAEggers
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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 Dec 20, 2023
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
When America ran out of Santas during World War II what happened? Was Christmas cancelled while the men were overseas fighting? NOPE! The Rosie the Riveter spirit persisted, and WOMEN stepped up to the plate! But not everybody was happy about it.
Learn how these Santa Broads came to be, who loved them, who hated them, and most importantly - DID THEY WEAR THE BEARD, TOO?
Also, what the heck is the origin of Santa Clause and the modern American Christmas? When did Mall Santas emerge and why? All this and more in this special holiday episode of Broads You Should Know.
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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 iTunes
- Share your favorite episode on social media / tell a friend about the show!
- 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 Dec 13, 2023
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
Jeanne Villepreux-Power has to be one of the most interesting STEM broads from the 19th Century! The daughter of a shoemaker and a seamstress, Jeanne follows her mother's line of work and slays it, making dresses for the top royalty and high society Europeans. After marrying a well-to-do merchant, though, she doesn't have to work for a living anymore - she's living the high life! Except...the genteel life didn't sit with her. She rolls up her sleeves and becomes a SCIENTIST.
Jeanne quickly becomes the leading expert on nature and wildlife, and especially MARINE life on Sicily. Her fascination with a certain special little cephalopod named Argonauta argo (aka the paper nautilus) leads her to one of the most important inventions in the history of marine biology - she invents the the AQUARIUM!
The research and discoveries she makes peering into her aquariums will end up shaking the foundations of what people understood about the Argonauta, but do the other scientists accept her radical new observations? 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!
3 Ways you can help support the podcast:
- Write a review on iTunes
- Share your favorite episode on social media / tell a friend about the show!
- 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 Dec 06, 2023
Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
Chloe Skye joins Sara for a long overdue check-in on all the exciting girl power moments of the moment including the fun-loving and *actually highly successful* film THE MARVELS. Despite what the box office magazine reports are saying, this movie is kicking the butts (in box office returns AND hearts) of other movies released around the same time INCLUDING Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon AND Ridley Scott's Napolean. Both of THOSE films are being lauded as successes, so why is The Marvels being called a failure? Sara & Chloe have some theories.
Also, why the F*CK is COP28 being held in the UAE, and led by the head of a major oil company? Greta called it years ago: It's all blah blah blah.
And finally a quick toast to two MAJOR leading ladies in US history who've recently passed - the first female justice of the Supreme Court Sandra Day O'Connor, and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter; Both incredible women who fought hard to carve their own legacies at a time in history when women generally weren't allowed to wield any kind of influence over the state of the world - and YET... they persisted!
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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!
3 Ways you can help support the podcast:
- Write a review on iTunes
- Share your favorite episode on social media / tell a friend about the show!
- 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 Nov 29, 2023
Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
Germany in the 1500's was a pretty risky time to be a midwife - even a really good one. And so it was with poor Walpurga Hausmännin when 20 years of brilliant midwifery and healing was snatched away by a stupid rumor and some very unfortunate circumstances, leading to her arrest and subsequent witch trial.
However, her story turns bizarre at her trial, when she confesses (under torture, of course), to countless instances of infanticide, vampirism, and even repeated s*x and malicious deeds with a demon named Federline. Of all the witch trials we've learned about so far on this podcast - this one is sure the most disturbing, both due to her extensive confession, and the absurdly long, incredibly horrific manner in which she was killed. This episode is not for the weak of stomach or the faint of heart. Listen on at your own risk!
Before the episode gets too gnarly, though, Sara takes a few minutes to recap some of the super interesting facts we've learned about witch trials so far in this series - especially in light of all the misinformation she's been hearing lately. Turns out a lot of people don't know what the bleep they are talking about.
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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!
3 Ways you can help support the podcast:
- Write a review on iTunes
- Share your favorite episode on social media / tell a friend about the show!
- 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 Nov 22, 2023
Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
While history marks the first Thanksgiving as being in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1621, it turns out that when Christopher Columbus (and his *sshole brother, Bartholomew) first land in modern-day Haiti in 1492, they were warmly welcomed and assisted in a similar fashion by today's Broad, Anacaona!
A powerhouse leader of the Taino people, Anacaona led her people NOT into war, as so many neighboring tribes had done, but with a true matriarchal vision of peace and prosperity for all, she tried to erase division between the Spanish and the Taino through intermarriage, which was a remarkably effective strategy...until Nicolas de Ovando arrives from Spain as the new Governor.
Join us for this remarkable and heartbreaking story AND take part in our special Thanksgiving Challenge to donate your Thanksgiving expenditures to Indigenous Tribes which once resided on the land which you now live. Find out your local tribal information at native-land.ca.
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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!
3 Ways you can help support the podcast:
- Write a review on iTunes
- Share your favorite episode on social media / tell a friend about the show!
- 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 Nov 15, 2023
Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
Sara has been busy MOVING this week, and didn't have time wrap up her research on some GERMAN WITCHES (come back next week!!), so today enjoy this throwback episode with Chloe bringing us the story of not one... not two... but THREE broads you should know, and they're together in this episode because they all have one thing in common: they were indestructible.
Joy Andrew is likely turning 100 this year. And one thing's for sure—it was not an easy journey. She was almost assassinated. Her plane crashed into the desert. She beat COVID. And that's not even the whole story!
Check out the episode to hear about Joy, Margery, & Richmodis, why they were indestructible, and why they're most definitely Broads You Should Know.
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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!
3 Ways you can help support the podcast:
- Write a review on iTunes
- Share your favorite episode on social media / tell a friend about the show!
- 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
odern Eyes with Skye and Stone" & "Skye and Stone do Television"
Sam's short: "Dickie & Bea"
www.BroadsYouShouldKnow.com web design by Sara Gorsky
Email us: BroadsYouShouldKnow@gmail.com
Produced by Chloe Skye & Jupiter Stone; Edited by Chloe Skye
Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
When King James IV of Scotland (later James I of England) has his grand wedding plans thwarted by bad weather in 1590, an investigation is launched as to the cause. Instead of discovering the gross incompetence of the men in charge of outfitting the royal fleets, they find a much more sinister cause - WITCHES who conspired to send tiny devils in barrels across the ocean to cause the storms and prevent James' marriage!
Historians can't tell us very much about Ana Koldings because not much documentation of her witchcraft trial exists, but when Ana confessed to these crimes against the crown, she became not only a dangerous, but also a celebrity witch dubbed "Mother of the Devil".
Hear the full story of how this strange trial came to be and how it inspired James to ignite the witch trial fires in Scotland for centuries to come.
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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!
3 Ways you can help support the podcast:
- Write a review on iTunes
- Share your favorite episode on social media / tell a friend about the show!
- 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 Nov 01, 2023
Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
Taking a break from the heavy-hearted witch trial content for a minute - we revisit one of our favorite BYSK episodes about a different kind of witch - THE NIGHT WITCHES! Dubbed the nachthexen by the german troops who heard nothing but a WHOOSH before their camps went up in flames - The Night Witches were a hastily trained, poorly equipped, all-female Russian Air Force unit who struck fear into the hearts of Nazis and turned the tide of World War II. They were fearless and brilliant and their story will take your breath away.
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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!
3 Ways you can help support the podcast:
- Write a review on iTunes
- Share your favorite episode on social media / tell a friend about the show!
- 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