Rebel Women Podcast

An informative look into the lives of well-known, lesser-known, and obscure women throughout history and into the current day, this podcast seeks to enlighten and inform its listeners in an engaging discussion perfect for the car ride to work or school. Each episode will delve in the remarkable life of one woman whose contributions changed how we understand, how we interact, or how we navigate the world.

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Episodes

Episode 6: Anne Sexton

The troubled and complicated life of the poet Anne Sexton is covered in this week's episode. This episode comes with a trigger warning as there are themes of abuse and suicide, so please proceed with caution. From her tumultuous upbringing, to delving back into writing poetry after a 10 year hiatus, the accomplished poet and Pulitzer Prize winner makes a complicated portrait of woman dealing with her own personal demons as she railed against the expected norms of the 1950 and 1960. You can find ...

May 17, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 6

Episode 5: Rigoberta Menchu

This week's episode features another Nobel Prize Winner, Rigoberta Menchu. Fighting for her people, the Maya of Guatemala, in 1980 she gave testimony about the atrocities her people had faced at the hands of the military regime that had taken power in the 1960's. Her tireless efforts to make the people of the world understand what was happening in her country led her down the path of political activist and a fighter of freedom. If you would like to find more information, head over to the website...

May 03, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Episode 4: Hatshepsut

The subject of today's episode is the longest reigning king of Egypt, Hatshepsut! For over twenty years in the late 1400's BC, Hatshepsut would make the unprecedented move to claim the throne of Egypt as a woman and heir to her father's throne. After ascension, ancient Egypt would become one of the most prosperous ancient civilization that had ever existed on Earth. In this episode, her accomplishments and her contributions to ancient Egyptian religion and culture are covered, and the reason for...

Apr 19, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Episode 3: Jill Wine-Banks

This week's episode brings us to the mid 1970's when the Watergate Scandal broke. The Rebel Woman of the day is Jill Wine-Banks who worked tirelessly on the Watergate prosecution team. Jill worked at a time where sexism was rampant, and women's rights had only just started taking shape in the forms of right to education, the right to access birth control, and the right to your own bank account. Jill helped to bring down a criminal president, and with history repeating, this episode felt relevant...

Apr 05, 2023•46 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Episode 2: Selma van de Perre

This week's Woman du Jour is the life of Dutch Jewish Resistance fighter, Selma van de Perre, née Velleman. In this episode, I delve into her life as a young, 20 something woman who works as a courier for those fighting the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and is eventually captured and sentenced to prison in the infamous Ravensbrück concentration camp that was the only all female concentration camp. Her story makes up one of many women at the time that fought in ways people couldn't have ima...

Mar 22, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Episode 1: Marie Curie

In the first episode of Rebel Women Podcast, Marie Curie makes her appearance. A double Nobel Prize winner, once in physics and once in chemistry, Marie Curie was an incredible woman who discovered radioactivity and two elements. In this episode, your host, Ana Heermann, covers her young life and education, her journey to the discovery of polonium and radium, her later life after winning her first and second Nobel Prizes, and her contribution during WWI. While an hour is not nearly enough to cov...

Mar 08, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 1

Who do you think of when I say...

Who do you think of when I say, "Doctor," "Lawyer," or "Physicist?" By default, do you picture a man in those roles? Well I am here to change that with one Rebel Woman at a time! Tune in March 8th for the first of twelve episode, each featuring an ordinary woman that has done the extraordinary. Looking for more information? You can find my website at rebelwomenpodcast.com , or hop over to the Rebel Women Podcast on Instagram , TikTok , and Twitter !...

Jan 17, 2023•2 min

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