Boss Bxtch Podcast

This week on Boss Bitch we welcome Gabrielle Utsey! Writer, creative executive and all around joy. We chat about her road to Los Angeles, paved with some, interesting character to say the least, and her plans for the future.

This installment of Lost Boss Bitch, we bring you Mary Wollstonecraft - a woman whose writings argued that women are not inferior to men - what a concept! Along with the Voodoo queen of New Orleans - Marie Laveau!

This week we interview Rebecca's cousin and real life teen Kate Leib! It was endlessly fascinating hearing about what it's like as a young woman in high school and what the hell a Finsta is. Check it out!

This week, it's all about strong women writers. First up, we chat Laura Ingals Wilder, settler, pioneer, teacher and writer of the beloved Little House on the Prairie children's books. Then we move onto Martha Gelhorn who may be best known as Earnest Hemingway's third wife, but we know her as a Boss Bitch journalist who wasn't afraid to put her life on the line for the story.

This week we chat with Lindsey Barrow and Jen Curran two thirds of the team behind the new Los Angeles feminist comedy theater. They talk about their history in the comedy community and the motivation that spurred The Ruby.

This installment of Lost Boss Bxtch we bring you a couple of pioneers in their fields! Madame CJ Walker was the first woman to become a self-made millionaire with her line of haircare products, and Bessie Coleman became the first woman of African American and Native American descent to hold a pilot's license after crossing the ocean a couple of times to get there. Both badass boss bitches with fascinating stories that are a great listen, indeed!

Today we bring you a chat with the amazing Rachel Stivers. Rachel is a costumer who got her start as a teen working at Music Circus in Sacramento when it was literally run out of a tent. She's since gone on to using her skills in countless TV shows. She gives us the sweet deets on what it's been like to work her way up, and tells us her secrets in effective shopping.

This week, we chat about a Sophie Scholl a woman who, as part of the White Rose Resistance, spread anti-Nazi literature, and Sarah Winchester a woman who, as part of the Winchester family, was worried she was cursed so she built a house to trick spirits. Don't ever accuse us of not being MULTIFACETED!

This week, we sit down with Boss Bxtch owner of E&M Tax Services Erin Wayland. We pick her brain to decipher the new tax code and get some invaluable advice to stay ahead with that money, honey! Give it a listen!

This week, we delve into the lives of two very different Lost Boss Bxtches. First, we explore the life of Harper Lee, writer of one of the most important novels of our time To Kill A Mockingbird. We then delve into the fascinating life of Sandra Avila Beltran a Mexican drug cartel boss also known as Queen of The Ocean. NBD.

This week we have HOT takes from comedian, actor and author Selena Coppock. She talks Boston, sexism, comedy community and OF COURSE The Bachelor and walks us through the creation of her stand-up comedy album "Seen Better Days."

This week we continue with our Lost Boss Bxtch Black History Month as we explore the lives of groundbreaking entertainer and low key spy Josephine Baker along with Lil Hardin Armstrong who may historically be known as the wife of Louis Armstrong, but should be recognized for being an amazing musician in her own right (and with the woman who got Louis to get rid of his bangs).

This week, we have a chat with fine art photographer and Boss Bitch Elena Dorfman. In her work she, “explores tensions between the natural and the artificial, the human and the animal, the real and the fabricated.” And yes, she’s as fascinating as she sounds. Give it a listen!

This week's Lost Boss Bxtch installment brings you ground breaking and glass ceiling shattering chemist Marie Daly along with Civil Right activist and educator Mary McLeod Bethune.

This week we sit down with comedian, producer and Tourette spokeswoman Chelsea White. She gives us some insight on breaking into the industry of TV production along with what it's like living with Tourette. It's a fun and informative chat you won't want to miss!

This week we bring you two Jewish icons from a similar era with very different stories. First, Hannah Szenes, a Hungarian poet and paratrooper her dedicated her short life to rescuing Jews from Nazi occupied Hungary. Then, Theda Bara, one of the biggest actors of the silent film era who is credited with being the medium's first true sex symbol.

This week we are joined by Jessie Birschbach. Sommelier, Editor for SOMM Journal, Managing Editor for Tasting Panel AND comedian. What we’re saying is, this Boss Bitch knows how to party. You won’t want to miss it. We’re certainly glad we didn’t.

In this week's Lost Boss Bitch installment, we bring you Saint Quiteria who literally lost her head because of her convictions and feminist Margaret Fuller who believed that with an education women could do anything they damn well pleased.

If you’re looking for some 2018 magic, you’ll love this week’s guest Angela Sanchez! Magician, magic historian, feminist and author, Angel breaks down the tightrope act that is gender politics  and the history of magic. And YES she has some tricks up her sleeve, for BOSS BITCHES ONLY!

In this week's Lost Boss Bxtch Lindsay and Rebecca discuss two women who dominated in two very different ways. Billie Jean King was a groundbreaking tennis player that went ahead and shattered that glass ceiling, and Triệu Thị Trinh was a Vietnamese warrior who built a resistance and, we can imagine, shattered skulls from atop her war elephant.

This week we have Emmy-award winner Linda Morel, powerhouse producer of shows like Key and Peele, Teachers, Playing House and more! She talks trade secrets and sage words you will NOT want to miss!

This week, Rebecca and Lindsay explore two women writers of yore: English novelist Mary Anne Evans aka George Eliot who adopted a male pen name in hopes of being taken more seriously and poet Phillis Wheatley who was brought to the States as a slave, but carved a path to freedom with her sharp mind and poetry. 

This week we interview pop musician Cassandra Violet (you might recognize her from our theme song!) Cassandra talks about skirting the line between your passion and day job, and what keeps her creating. Also, the world podcast premiere of her single "Invisible Man" off her new EP!

This week's Lost Boss Bitches are chock full off advice and moxy...we bring you the stories behind Ask Ann Landers and Dear, Abby...and Elizabeth Blackwell, America's first medical school graduate and college-educated doctor!

In the first episode of season 2, Lindsay and Rebecca interview Liz Devine, a CSI who worked on CSI (original and Miami, baby!) The woman has jumped into many a maggoty dumpster to solve a murder, and we have tons of questions for her from grad student to crime scene investigator to TV writer....and BEYOND.

This week on Boss Bitch we talk to entertainment reporter and cultural journalist Jacqueline Willis about celebrity conspiracies, gender dynamics in the entertainment biz and, of course, Dave Navarro.

In this week’s very special Boss Bitch, we sit back down with rockstar chef Kristyne Starling and Rebecca gives her the Tarot treatment. What do the cards have in store for her? You’ll have to listen to find out!

This week we talk reproductive health and get free medical advice from licensed acupuncturist, herbalist and holistic fertility coach Jacqueline Gabardy!

One of these women kidnapped her own daughter, one faked her own kidnapping. On this episode of BOSS BITCH, evangelism meets abolitionism and women's history ain't never been the same.

This week, we talk to a boss bitch who can take the heat of our "studio" (Rebecca's 102 degree apartment) as well as a world-class kitchen. Meet Kristyne Starling, head chef, restaurant consultant and instructor who's worked at top restaurants all over the country. SPOILER ALERT: she goes KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL on us and you don't wanna miss it!

It's the women of the revolution episode with a Lost Boss Bitch that'll have you shaking in your BRITCHES. Gunslingers, soldiers and dog lovers alike- this week take a peek into the lives of Pauline Cushman, Frances Clayton and Annie Oakley!

This week you get two boss Bitches for the price of ONE: teachers and union organizers Julie Van Winkle And Gloria Martinez! Both work tirelessly for the United Teachers Los Angeles, the second largest teachers union in the US- and boy do they have some eye-opening info about education for YOU!

For this week’s Lost Boss Bxtch, we bring you two forgotten badasses. Juana Ines De La Cruz, a nun, philosopher and poet whose focus on feminism, misogyny and the hypocrisy of men did not earn her many fans in the church at the time. And Bobbi Gibb, the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon when people still thought running long distances would cause a woman’s uterus to go on and fall right out of her body.

In our first Boss Bitch bonus episode, Rebecca gives Vera Santamaria an impromptu tarot card readying, and *spoiler alert* most of it came true.

On a very special episode of BOSS BITCH, holy shit do we get real with pop artist Mary Purdie, who talked about art, miscarriage and what we DO/DON'T know about our bodies. DO NOT MISS THIS.

The founding mother of DNA meets the journalist who committed herself to a madhouse. Who wins the battle of patriarchal perseverance: Nelly Bly or Rosalind Franklin? It's an episode of Lost Boss Bitch that will test your WITS!

Do you like DEGRASSI: THE NEXT GENERATION, PLAYING HOUSE and BOJACK HORSEMAN? Well then you're going to love TV writer and Canadian darling Vera Santamaria. She tells us some JUICY Degrassi secrets, Canada to America culture shock and how to be nice in a room...but not too nice.

This week on Lost Boss Bxtch, we explore the forgotten First Lady of film, Alice Guy-Blache and get the REAL story of Pocahontas!

In episode 3 of BOSS BXTCH, Lindsay and Rebecca talk to #1 ranked female competitive eater in the world (and former vegetarian!) MOLLY SCHUYLER about being at the top of the eating world, her four kids, her motorcycle and her strange eater origin story. 

For the first Lost Boss Bxtch episode, Lindsay and Rebecca jump in to the amazing lives of Nancy Wake (A SPY) and Eleanor Roosevelt (AN ICONIC FIRST LADY).   #funfearlessfemale #spy #1914 #CivilRights #NewDeal #firstlady #tree

In the inaugural episode of Boss Bxtch, Lindsay Harbert Silberman and Rebecca Leib interview TV writer/actor/producer/showrunner Tracey Wigfield about writing the season finale of 30 Rock with Tina Fey (and ahem, winning an Emmy for it), Catholic School, closet organizing, getting her foot in the door of a writer's room and her new show on NBC, "Great News!"