Podcasts about Jeannette Rankin

International Building Materials Dealer Calls to Debate John on Trump’s Tariff Plan // TODAY IN HISTORY 1917 - Jeannette Rankin, first woman elected to U.S. Congress, assumes office // 1917 - President Wilson asks for a declaration of war // LETTERS.

We wrap up Women's History Month 2025 with an episode all about the first woman to serve in the U.S. Congress. She was a suffragette, a pacifist, and a founding member of the ACLU. She's Jeannette Rankin!

Connie's motivational quote for today is by Jeannette Rankin, “Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both'” You've heard the expressions, Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus and you can't live with them, you can't live without them!  Why have these phrases and classifications been given through the years?    Guys and Ladies would you be interested in learning how to gain insight and understanding into the dynamics and behaviors related to family, friendships, personal health, and work.   My guest today is, Richard Avdoian.  Richard is the founder and CEO of Midwest Business Institute, Inc. a business coaching, consulting, and training firm since 1996. He works with businesses and associations committed to training and retaining highly motivated productive employees.   He is an employee development expert who specializes in enhancing employee potential and maximizing capabilities to provide exemplary customer service and increase productivity and profitability. He has worked in the health care field for over 27 years and with clients in over forty different industries providing programs and services in the area of teamwork, leadership, and employee development.   He is a nationally recognized speaker who offers keynote speeches, seminars & workshops that focus on enhancing human assets to increase productivity and profitability with the key being maximizing personal capabilities.   Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/kaqsLKv27SI   Email: richard@richardavdoian.com Website: http://www.richardavdoian.com/   Connie's #1 International Bestseller Book - ESP (Easy Sales Process): 7-Step to Sales Success:  https://whitmanassoc.com/resources/ Download Free Communication Style Assessment:  www.whitmanassoc.com/csa Connie's ESP (Easy Sales Process) MasterClass:  https://whitmanassoc.com/espmasterclass/   Stalk me online! LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/conniewhitman   Subscribe to the Enlightenment of Change podcast on your favorite podcast streaming service or YouTube.  New episodes are posted every week. Listen to Connie dive into new sales and business topics or problems you may have.   

Mary Woodard Lasker had a singular goal: saving lives by increasing medical research. Together with her husband, advertising genius Albert, they created the Lasker Foundation, bestowing the Lasker Awards. Known as the "American Nobels," these became the most prestigious research awards in America. The Laskers' next step was transforming the sleepy and ineffectual American Society for the Control of Cancer, reinventing it as the American Cancer Society in 1944. But the real increase in medical research funding occurred when Mary discovered a revolutionary source: the federal government. "I'm just a catalytic agent," she would insist, while she tirelessly lobbied Congress and presidents alike. She played a major role in expanding the National Institutes of Health from a single entity to the largest research facility in the world. A feminist who used her femininity wisely, Mary's ultimate victory was bringing together two political adversaries to help launch the original cancer moonshot: the 1971 National Cancer Act. Judith Pearson's biography Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker (Mayo Clinic Press, 2023) paints the portrait of a woman who was savvy, steely, and deliberate. Mary Lasker courageously positioned herself at the crossroads of politics, science, and medicine. At a time when women in research laboratories and the halls of Congress were anomalies, she smashed stereotypes in the fashion of Jeannette Rankin, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Shirley Chisholm. As eloquently described in this absorbing history, the country's march to conquer humanity's most feared maladies was well-fueled by its fearless and feisty crusader, Mary Lasker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Mary Woodard Lasker had a singular goal: saving lives by increasing medical research. Together with her husband, advertising genius Albert, they created the Lasker Foundation, bestowing the Lasker Awards. Known as the "American Nobels," these became the most prestigious research awards in America. The Laskers' next step was transforming the sleepy and ineffectual American Society for the Control of Cancer, reinventing it as the American Cancer Society in 1944. But the real increase in medical research funding occurred when Mary discovered a revolutionary source: the federal government. "I'm just a catalytic agent," she would insist, while she tirelessly lobbied Congress and presidents alike. She played a major role in expanding the National Institutes of Health from a single entity to the largest research facility in the world. A feminist who used her femininity wisely, Mary's ultimate victory was bringing together two political adversaries to help launch the original cancer moonshot: the 1971 National Cancer Act. Judith Pearson's biography Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker (Mayo Clinic Press, 2023) paints the portrait of a woman who was savvy, steely, and deliberate. Mary Lasker courageously positioned herself at the crossroads of politics, science, and medicine. At a time when women in research laboratories and the halls of Congress were anomalies, she smashed stereotypes in the fashion of Jeannette Rankin, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Shirley Chisholm. As eloquently described in this absorbing history, the country's march to conquer humanity's most feared maladies was well-fueled by its fearless and feisty crusader, Mary Lasker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Mary Woodard Lasker had a singular goal: saving lives by increasing medical research. Together with her husband, advertising genius Albert, they created the Lasker Foundation, bestowing the Lasker Awards. Known as the "American Nobels," these became the most prestigious research awards in America. The Laskers' next step was transforming the sleepy and ineffectual American Society for the Control of Cancer, reinventing it as the American Cancer Society in 1944. But the real increase in medical research funding occurred when Mary discovered a revolutionary source: the federal government. "I'm just a catalytic agent," she would insist, while she tirelessly lobbied Congress and presidents alike. She played a major role in expanding the National Institutes of Health from a single entity to the largest research facility in the world. A feminist who used her femininity wisely, Mary's ultimate victory was bringing together two political adversaries to help launch the original cancer moonshot: the 1971 National Cancer Act. Judith Pearson's biography Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker (Mayo Clinic Press, 2023) paints the portrait of a woman who was savvy, steely, and deliberate. Mary Lasker courageously positioned herself at the crossroads of politics, science, and medicine. At a time when women in research laboratories and the halls of Congress were anomalies, she smashed stereotypes in the fashion of Jeannette Rankin, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Shirley Chisholm. As eloquently described in this absorbing history, the country's march to conquer humanity's most feared maladies was well-fueled by its fearless and feisty crusader, Mary Lasker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/medicine

Mary Woodard Lasker had a singular goal: saving lives by increasing medical research. Together with her husband, advertising genius Albert, they created the Lasker Foundation, bestowing the Lasker Awards. Known as the "American Nobels," these became the most prestigious research awards in America. The Laskers' next step was transforming the sleepy and ineffectual American Society for the Control of Cancer, reinventing it as the American Cancer Society in 1944. But the real increase in medical research funding occurred when Mary discovered a revolutionary source: the federal government. "I'm just a catalytic agent," she would insist, while she tirelessly lobbied Congress and presidents alike. She played a major role in expanding the National Institutes of Health from a single entity to the largest research facility in the world. A feminist who used her femininity wisely, Mary's ultimate victory was bringing together two political adversaries to help launch the original cancer moonshot: the 1971 National Cancer Act. Judith Pearson's biography Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker (Mayo Clinic Press, 2023) paints the portrait of a woman who was savvy, steely, and deliberate. Mary Lasker courageously positioned herself at the crossroads of politics, science, and medicine. At a time when women in research laboratories and the halls of Congress were anomalies, she smashed stereotypes in the fashion of Jeannette Rankin, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Shirley Chisholm. As eloquently described in this absorbing history, the country's march to conquer humanity's most feared maladies was well-fueled by its fearless and feisty crusader, Mary Lasker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

Mary Woodard Lasker had a singular goal: saving lives by increasing medical research. Together with her husband, advertising genius Albert, they created the Lasker Foundation, bestowing the Lasker Awards. Known as the "American Nobels," these became the most prestigious research awards in America. The Laskers' next step was transforming the sleepy and ineffectual American Society for the Control of Cancer, reinventing it as the American Cancer Society in 1944. But the real increase in medical research funding occurred when Mary discovered a revolutionary source: the federal government. "I'm just a catalytic agent," she would insist, while she tirelessly lobbied Congress and presidents alike. She played a major role in expanding the National Institutes of Health from a single entity to the largest research facility in the world. A feminist who used her femininity wisely, Mary's ultimate victory was bringing together two political adversaries to help launch the original cancer moonshot: the 1971 National Cancer Act. Judith Pearson's biography Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker (Mayo Clinic Press, 2023) paints the portrait of a woman who was savvy, steely, and deliberate. Mary Lasker courageously positioned herself at the crossroads of politics, science, and medicine. At a time when women in research laboratories and the halls of Congress were anomalies, she smashed stereotypes in the fashion of Jeannette Rankin, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Shirley Chisholm. As eloquently described in this absorbing history, the country's march to conquer humanity's most feared maladies was well-fueled by its fearless and feisty crusader, Mary Lasker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Mary Woodard Lasker had a singular goal: saving lives by increasing medical research. Together with her husband, advertising genius Albert, they created the Lasker Foundation, bestowing the Lasker Awards. Known as the "American Nobels," these became the most prestigious research awards in America. The Laskers' next step was transforming the sleepy and ineffectual American Society for the Control of Cancer, reinventing it as the American Cancer Society in 1944. But the real increase in medical research funding occurred when Mary discovered a revolutionary source: the federal government. "I'm just a catalytic agent," she would insist, while she tirelessly lobbied Congress and presidents alike. She played a major role in expanding the National Institutes of Health from a single entity to the largest research facility in the world. A feminist who used her femininity wisely, Mary's ultimate victory was bringing together two political adversaries to help launch the original cancer moonshot: the 1971 National Cancer Act. Judith Pearson's biography Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker (Mayo Clinic Press, 2023) paints the portrait of a woman who was savvy, steely, and deliberate. Mary Lasker courageously positioned herself at the crossroads of politics, science, and medicine. At a time when women in research laboratories and the halls of Congress were anomalies, she smashed stereotypes in the fashion of Jeannette Rankin, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Shirley Chisholm. As eloquently described in this absorbing history, the country's march to conquer humanity's most feared maladies was well-fueled by its fearless and feisty crusader, Mary Lasker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mary Woodard Lasker had a singular goal: saving lives by increasing medical research. Together with her husband, advertising genius Albert, they created the Lasker Foundation, bestowing the Lasker Awards. Known as the "American Nobels," these became the most prestigious research awards in America. The Laskers' next step was transforming the sleepy and ineffectual American Society for the Control of Cancer, reinventing it as the American Cancer Society in 1944. But the real increase in medical research funding occurred when Mary discovered a revolutionary source: the federal government. "I'm just a catalytic agent," she would insist, while she tirelessly lobbied Congress and presidents alike. She played a major role in expanding the National Institutes of Health from a single entity to the largest research facility in the world. A feminist who used her femininity wisely, Mary's ultimate victory was bringing together two political adversaries to help launch the original cancer moonshot: the 1971 National Cancer Act. Judith Pearson's biography Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker (Mayo Clinic Press, 2023) paints the portrait of a woman who was savvy, steely, and deliberate. Mary Lasker courageously positioned herself at the crossroads of politics, science, and medicine. At a time when women in research laboratories and the halls of Congress were anomalies, she smashed stereotypes in the fashion of Jeannette Rankin, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Shirley Chisholm. As eloquently described in this absorbing history, the country's march to conquer humanity's most feared maladies was well-fueled by its fearless and feisty crusader, Mary Lasker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1107, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Da Or Ba Or Dee. With Da" Or "Ba" Or "Dee in quotes 1: When Santa gives these creatures P.T.O. in the summer, some travel up to 800 miles for grazing grounds. reindeer. 2: It's the last name of a film character played by both Gary Cooper and Adam Sandler. Deeds. 3: Its name origin is African but this instrument is now widely associated with the music of Latin America. marimba. 4: It's a word describing motorcyclist Bud Ekins, or the name of a Marvel hero. daredevil. 5: Herb Caen referred to San Francisco as this place "by-the-Bay". Baghdad. Round 2. Category: Sports Films 1: Sylvester Stallone was inspired to write this film after seeing underdog Chuck Wepner take on Muhammad Ali. Rocky. 2: In "Knute Rockne: All American", this actor delivered the famous deathbed line "Win one for the Gipper". Ronald Reagan. 3: This 1981 film about 2 participants in the 1924 Olympics ran off with 4 Oscars including Best Picture. Chariots of Fire. 4: Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins struck up a romance after meeting on the set of this baseball flick. Bull Durham. 5: This 1977 film featured Paul Newman as aging hockey coach Reggie Dunlop. Slap Shot. Round 3. Category: Home States 1: Butch Cassidy,Roseanne,Donny Osmond. Utah. 2: Robert Motherwell,Kurt Cobain,Bill Gates. Washington. 3: Thomas Dewey,Henry Ford,Madonna. Michigan. 4: Dana Carvey,Evel Knievel,Jeannette Rankin. Montana. 5: Amelia Earhart,Edgar Lee Masters,Dennis Hopper. Kansas. Round 4. Category: 7, 8 Or 9 1: Number of Snow White's height-challenged housemates. 7. 2: The one that starts with 2 vowels. 8. 3: In the famous Christmas poem, Santa's sleigh is pulled by this many tiny reindeer. 8. 4: Number of classic "Ancient Wonders" that included the Colossus of Rhodes. 7. 5: Some people compare happiness to being on this number cloud. 9. Round 5. Category: As A Young Man 1: …He covered the Boer War for the Morning Post, got captured, escaped and became a national hero. Winston Churchill. 2: …as a pre-teen this "Le Nozze di Figaro" composer wrote a one-act German singspiel. Mozart. 3: …he was tutored by Aristotle and then beat Darius III at Issus. Alexander the Great. 4: …in the 1300s B.C. he made Thebes Egypt's capital and changed his name to honor Amon. Tutankhamon. 5: …he ran his brother's senatorial campaign, then investigated Hoffa and the Teamsters. Bobby Kennedy. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used

Hello Great Minds!As we continue on with our soft start to Season 4, I figured it was time for me to go solo for our first Great Mind of Season 4  Jeanette Rankin!No Chasers, Psych, of Shots for her coming up, but maybe sometime down the road.  Key Topics: World War I, World War II, Pacifism, Women's Suffrage For more DGMH just head on over to Patreon Land to get access to soooooooo much more Great content here: patreon.com/dgmhhistoryBe sure to follow me on Facebook at "Drinks with Great Minds in History" & Follow the show on Instagram and Twitter @dgmhhistoryCheers!Music:Hall of the Mountain King by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3845-hall-of-the-mountain-kingLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Artwork by @Tali Rose... Check it out!Support the show

On this day in 1916, Jeannette Rankin became the first woman in American history to win a seat in Congress. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jeannette Rankin won an important first for American women on this day in 1916.

Jeannette Rankin won an important first for American women on this day in 1916.

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Lauren and Emily discuss the events of November 1-13 throughout history: the murder of Adrienne Shelly, Geraldo's chair to the face, the first woman elected to Congress, cringey "Diff'rent Strokes" episodes, and more!(Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio)

Some phenomena defy scientific explanation, and that is where we must diverge into the spiritual. For decades, rumors have swirled that UM is home to a number of unspeakable specters that haunt its oldest buildings.  As the spookiest night of the year approaches, the Kaimin called up its most seasoned ghostbuster, Editor-in-Chief Addie Slanger, for one more night of phantom examination in UM's own Jeannette Rankin Hall. But this time, she enlisted help from a true paranormal investigator, Jenn Keintz.  Addie sat down with "Kreepy" Cast host Austin Amestoy to chronicle the haunting of Jeannette Rankin Hall.   Questions? Comments? Reach us at editor@montanakaimin.com   A podcast from the Montana Kaimin, University of Montana's independent, student-run newspaper.

We're throwing it back (in history) this epi! M + B welcome our history buff virgo bff, Camille Weber. Cami is a co-founder of a blog named historic shuffle where her and her friend Emmy shed light on heroes and sheroes of the past that are sometimes overlooked and create a playlist for what they would have listened to! Cami features three historic shufflers, Genie Chance, Jack Jouett, and Jeannette Rankin and M + B try to guess their signs! In the pop culture world we discussCertified Lover Boy review and breakdown Dancing with the Stars confirmed and unconfirmed cast Kylie pregnancy confirmed by Kylie herself Olivia Munn and John Mulany expecting first child together Cardi B gave birth to baby #2 with Offset Enjoy, and make sure to share the epi and spread love! Happy listening! Socials:Historic Shuffle Camille TWSB Pod MarleeBrenna Playlists: Virgo Playlist Ecstatic Dance Playlist (collaborative, add fun songs please!) Genie Chance Jack JouettJeannette Rankin MUSIC CREDS: Malecon - https://bit.ly/al-maleconCalifornia - https://bit.ly/syb-amine-californiaBy SoyB & Amine Maxwell Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0https://soundcloud.com/soybmusichttps://soundcloud.com/aminemaxwell

We're throwing it back (in history) this epi! M + B welcome our history buff virgo bff, Camille Weber. Cami is a co-founder of a blog named historic shuffle where her and her friend Emmy shed light on heroes and sheroes of the past that are sometimes overlooked and create a playlist for what they would have listened to! Cami features three historic shufflers, Genie Chance, Jack Jouett, and Jeannette Rankin and M + B try to guess their signs! In the pop culture world we discuss Certified Lover Boy review and breakdown Dancing with the Stars confirmed and unconfirmed cast Kylie pregnancy confirmed by Kylie herself Olivia Munn and John Mulany expecting first child together Cardi B gave birth to baby #2 with Offset Enjoy, and make sure to share the epi and spread love! Happy listening! Socials: Historic Shuffle / Camille TWSB Pod Marlee Brenna Playlists: Virgo Playlist Ecstatic Dance Playlist (collaborative, add fun songs please!) Genie Chance / Jack Jouett / Jeannette Rankin MUSIC CREDS: Malecon - https://bit.ly/al-malecon California - https://bit.ly/syb-amine-california By SoyB & Amine Maxwell Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 https://soundcloud.com/soybmusic https://soundcloud.com/aminemaxwell --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We're throwing it back (in history) this epi! M + B welcome our history buff virgo bff, Camille Weber. Cami is a co-founder of a blog named historic shuffle where her and her friend Emmy shed light on heroes and sheroes of the past that are sometimes overlooked and create a playlist for what they would have listened to! Cami features three historic shufflers, Genie Chance, Jack Jouett, and Jeannette Rankin and M + B try to guess their signs! In the pop culture world we discuss Certified Lover Boy review and breakdown Dancing with the Stars confirmed and unconfirmed cast Kylie pregnancy confirmed by Kylie herself Olivia Munn and John Mulany expecting first child together Cardi B gave birth to baby #2 with Offset Enjoy, and make sure to share the epi and spread love! Happy listening! Socials: Historic Shuffle / Camille TWSB Pod Marlee Brenna Playlists: Virgo Playlist Ecstatic Dance Playlist (collaborative, add fun songs please!) Genie Chance / Jack Jouett / Jeannette Rankin MUSIC CREDS: Malecon - https://bit.ly/al-malecon California - https://bit.ly/syb-amine-california By SoyB & Amine Maxwell Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 https://soundcloud.com/soybmusic https://soundcloud.com/aminemaxwell --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Mike tell Gavin about Jeannette Rankin, the first women to serve in the House of Representatives. Follow us on Twitter Topic form Guest Form Gavin's Blog Leave us an audio message Youtube Channel

Welcome to episode 7 of Hattie Talks: Inspirational Women! Today, I'm talking about US politician and women's rights advocate Jeannette Rankin - in under 10 minutes. Enjoy!

We're at it again with "The Male Default" part 2! Work can be a dangerous place, especially if you're a woman. From cold office temps, to poorly fitting PPE, to sexist chemical exposure guidelines, the workplace just isn't made for women. It's a problem... and it's about time we talked about it! Plus, a ground breaking politician for the books!

In this episode Annette sits down with Carol Schwartz from the Jeanette Rankin Peace Center in Missoula, MT. JRPC's mission is working together for nonviolence, social justice, and environmental sustainability. They believe Peace must include the way we each live our lives and the thoughts, actions and speech that supports peace (nonviolence), the way we treat others (social justice) and the way we treat the planet (environmental sustainability). The Jeannette Rankin Peace Center is a resource to engage the community toward this goal. We focus our work on conversations that matter, connections with others and education. Together we are learning to BE the change! Find out more about the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center at jrpc.org

Connie's motivational quote for today is by Jeannette Rankin, “Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both'” Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/kaqsLKv27SI You've heard the expressions, Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus and you can't live with them, you can't live without them!  Why have these phrases and classifications been given through the years?    Guys and Ladies would you be interested in learning how to gain insight and understanding into the dynamics and behaviors related to family, friendships, personal health, and work. My guest today is, Richard Avdoian.  Richard is the founder and CEO of Midwest Business Institute, Inc. a business coaching, consulting, and training firm since 1996. He works with businesses and associations committed to training and retaining highly motivated productive employees. He is an employee development expert who specializes in enhancing employee potential and maximizing capabilities to provide exemplary customer service and increase productivity and profitability. He has worked in the health care field for over 27 years and with clients in over forty different industries providing programs and services in the area of teamwork, leadership, and employee development. He is a nationally recognized speaker who offers keynote speeches, seminars & workshops that focus on enhancing human assets to increase productivity and profitability with the key being maximizing personal capabilities. Email: richard@richardavdoian.com Website: http://www.richardavdoian.com/ Stalk me online! Website:  https://whitmanassoc.com/ Apple Podcast:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/enlightenment-of-change/id1313299091 Connie's #1 International Bestseller Book - ESP (Easy Sales Process): 7-Step to Sales Success:  https://whitmanassoc.com/resources/ Download Free Communication Style Assessment:  www.whitmanassoc.com/csa Connie's ESP (Easy Sales Process) MasterClass:  https://whitmanassoc.com/espmasterclass/ Subscribe and listen to the Enlightenment of Change podcast on your favorite podcast streaming service or on YouTube.  New episodes post every week - listen to Connie dive into new sales and business topics or problems you may have in your business.

A campaign is underway to feature Jeannette Rankin on the United States quarter. Representing Montana, Rankin was the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress.

Listen along with us as we talk about life with four kids and some history thrown in just for funzies. We're covering the incredible careers of The Soviet Night Witches and a couple great This Day In History facts for you as well. *This podcast doesn't contain swear words. As always, we want you to feel comfortable listening to this podcast with kids in the room. Sources: https://www.wrightmuseum.org/2020/10/01/the-soviet-night-witches/http://www.seizethesky.com/nwitches/nitewtch.htmlhttps://www.history.com/this-day-in-historyMaking a Difference: True Stories Celebrating our Better Selves. Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TSWFpod)

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Reunited and it feels so good! The ladies are back together and are bringing you a soft, supple attack of an episode! First, Emily starts the viral hashtag #showmeyourkindi while telling the story of Onake Obavva- a gal with incredible arm strength and isn't afraid to bash in someone's skull (or maybe 100 skulls.) Then, Kelley shares the story of Jeannette Rankin, a suffragette, die-hard pacifist, and first women to hold a federal office in the United States. Grab your wellies and get ready for a lot of hole talk because it's time to wine about herstory!** Mornings with u by Barradeen | https://soundcloud.com/barradeenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/winingaboutherstory/overview)

America's most produced playwright, Lauren Gunderson, and Ari Afsar, the original Eliza in Chicago's production of Hamilton, discuss their new work, Jeannette, which tells the story of Jeannette Rankin, America's first Congresswoman.

 For this helping of the Box Office Battle podcast we review the Jennifer Garner action flick Peppermint, the Aaron Sorkin courtroom drama The Trial of the Chicago 7, and the new Zemeckis family film Roald Dahl's The Witches. Plus we learn the differences between Jeannette Rankin and Jenette Goldstein, and how to count to twenty-eight!

Helen and Gavin continue their biography themed season by looking at a couple of female political firsts; Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin and Nancy Astor MP, although Gavin has an interesting curveball to throw into the mix. Helen's vocab of the episode tucks in its napkin to discuss American delicacy of Rocky Mountain Oysters.

Hello, and welcome to This Day in History. Here's what happened on November 7th. This year we're celebrating 100 years of U.S. women voting, but even before the 19th amendment was passed, Jeannette Rankin of Wyoming became the first woman ever to win a seat in Congress on this day in 2016. A dedicated pacifist, Rankin's first vote as a U.S. congresswoman was against U.S. entry into World War I.

Every weekday, listeners explore the trials, tragedies, and triumphs of groundbreaking women throughout history who have dramatically shaped the world around us. In each 5 minute episode, we’ll dive into the story behind one woman listeners may or may not know -- but definitely should. These diverse women from across space and time are grouped into easily accessible and engaging monthly themes like Leading Ladies, Activists, STEMinists,  Hometown Heroes, and many more. Encyclopedia Womannica is hosted by WMN co-founder and award-winning journalist Jenny Kaplan. The bite-sized episodes pack painstakingly researched content into fun, entertaining, and addictive daily adventures.Encyclopedia Womannica was created by Liz Kaplan and Jenny Kaplan, executive produced by Jenny Kaplan, and produced by Liz Smith, Cinthia Pimentel, Grace Lynch, and Maddy Foley. Special thanks to Shira Atkins, Edie Allard, Luisa Garbowit, and Carmen Borca-Carrillo.We are offering free ad space on Wonder Media Network shows to organizations working towards social justice. For more information, please email Jenny at jenny@wondermedianetwork.com.Follow Wonder Media Network:WebsiteInstagramTwitter

Simi catches up with Arianna Afsar. Arianna is best known for her starring role as Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton in the Chicago production of Hamilton. But Ari has had a stage presence all her life. She won the title of Miss California in 2010 and competed in American Idol as a high schooler. She went on to pursue musical theater via Hamilton and her latest project, Jeannette, an original musical that honors Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress in 1916. Off stage, Ari works closely with the ACLU of Illinois and other women's rights advocacy groups.In this episode, we dive into Ari's journey on stage, from American Idol to her musical, Jeanette. She shares the ins of working with icons like Lin-Manuel Miranda and the outs of a Broadway shuttered by the coronavirus. Most significantly, Ari presents a career that intersects her passions: women's rights and the theater. From hosting musical fundraisers for progressive candidates to opening for Michelle Obama at the United State of Women, Ari's trailblazing a path forward in activism through the arts.For more content, subscribe to our newsletter at trailblazers.substack.com. Follow us @southasiantrailblazers on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

Hello, On this Episode i quiz my frined Leigh. Grab your favorite drink and get ready to learn everything From Battling bunnies to Textured wallpaper and vodka olives. We hope you Enjoy the show. Please Follow us on Social Media. Website https://www.podserve.fm/w/FunfactsWith Patreon https://www.patreon.com/FunFactsWith Facebook https://www.facebook.com/FunFactsWith Twitter @FunFactsWith1 Instagram @funfactswith Sources a. http://www.travelthruhistory.tv/lied-to-about-paul-revere-but-the-truth-is-better/ b. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/when-the-olympics-gave-out-medals-for-art-6878965/#:~:text=For%20the%20first%20four%20decades,arts%20inspired%20by%20athletic%20endeavors. c. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Rankin a. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Esmeralda_(opera) b. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_(name) c. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Frank_Baum a. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_Galactica b. https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-story-of-via-galactica-the-scifi-broadway-musical-5722762 c. https://www.ancient-literature.com/greece_aeschylus_persians.html d. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Break_a_leg

Join Patti Armbrister for the Composting Not Just GOOD But GREAT Workshop (https://mailchi.mp/a8d9d66af778/compost-not-just-good-but-great-and-more-too) with the Wise Grower Guru!IDK why it seems to me it's easiest for me to talk when I am either walking or driving, when I have my computer out it seems like my mind is blank! So today I am driving, I am so excited I just got back from having lunch with Patti Armbrister and Robin Kelson and it was so good to see them. AERO - Alternative Energy Resource OrganizationRobin has been so busy! She became one of the co-directors of AERO the Alternative Energy Resource Organization and they are working really hard to help change four food systems to sustainable food systems. One question people ask me a lot about my Jeannette Rankin book is why do women make better representatives? And it's not necessarily that they are better but they do make up 50% of the population so they deserve 50% of the people and they tend to work more cooperatively finding solutions to problems. What can we do to help solve food systems?So we were saying what are the things we can do to help and I think I also talked about this with (https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/podcast-2/interview-287-bob-quinn/) , that Americans just don't spend enough of a percentage of their income on food. And that when Americans spent more of their paycheck on groceries they grew more of their own food. That up until the 1950s Montanans grew 70% of the food consumed here and that we need to get back to growing and eating locally. Also food subsidies, and you might not think that food is that cheap right now but it is compared to what other people pay in other countries and what we have paid in the past. So that makes it really hard for organic farmers to compete. For local famers. We had a big conversation about wheat in Montana, we have huge ranches and none of the wheat grown in Montana (https://www.farmflavor.com/montana/grown-montana-2018/) is shipped out of Montana, probably none of it is eaten here. So that's part of the problem. This article from 2015 shows that we export 80% of Montana wheat to Asia mostly Japan. (https://www.farmflavor.com/montana/grown-montana-2018/) So she's working on reducing food miles trying to get rid of the subsidies to the big cheap corporations for food and helping some of these local farmers a big piece is the government getting involved and forcing she was talking about these farm unions that it is not ok for the giant corporations to own all these gigantic farms but no one is really enforcing it This all leads to the poor health in the US. We could solve a lot of health issues in the US by and this is where Patti Armbrister was jumping in about how a lot of organic farms are struggling with their soil after just tilling and tilling and tilling and their not taking good enough care of the food soil web to keep growing food after 10 + years. Anyway that's what this is supposed to be about Patti teaches this composting webinar training, that she does and she has done it in Whitefish at the Spirit farm in Whitefish I think she said it was an hour long workshop and then there is 45 minutes of questions people ask. She said at the workshop they go outside and do some things but a lot of it is online and if you are composting properly and creating these worm castings is just the biggest way to be successful Also getting the most bang for your buck because if you are going to do the composting you might as well be getting the most nutrients you can from it! And when I just talked to Chrisitina Mcinnis from Soil Kit. (https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/podcast-2/320-soilkit-christina-woerner-mcinnis-foley-alabama/) Patti said I need to put some gypsum because everyone in Montana has too much calcium in their soil. So Patti is going to offer the Composting Course on July 18, 2020 from 9-11:00... Support this podcast

Years before the United States ratified the 19th amendment, a woman from Montana had already infiltrated Capitol Hill. Jeannette Rankin rose through the ranks of the women’s suffrage movement, bringing an electric energy to every town she visited. Her activism earned her a place on the ballot in 1916, and she landed a seat as a congressional representative for Montana - the first woman to ever achieve this distinction in the United States. As a congressperson, Jeannette became an integral part of 20th century US history from voting against entering World War I, to battling for women’s suffrage on the floor of congress, to making herself known as a pacifist again during World War II and later, the Vietnam War.  At the end of the episode, Jo is joined by Stephanie Schriock, the president of Emily’s List, to discuss why representation matters now more than ever. Main Sources Jeannette Rankin: A Political Woman. By: James J. Lopach, and Jean A. Luckowski.  Jeannette Rankin, America’s First Congresswoman, by Peter Aronson When Jeannette Said “No”: Montana women’s response to World War I - by Mary Murphy for Montana: The Magazine of Western History Suffragists Oral History Project: Jeanette Rankin: Activist for World Peace, Women’s Rights, and Democratic Government - Interviews Conducted by Malca Chall and Hannah Josephson Various articles found in the the digital archives of the House of Representatives and the Library of Congress Blog Articles from the NY Times in 1916, and United Press and the Suffragist in 1917 From NPR, The First Woman In Congress: A Crusader For Peace by Whitney Blair Wyckoff and The Lone War Dissenter on All Things Considered from Dec of 2001 Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

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Before Nancy Pelosi, before literally any woman was in federal office...there was Jeannette Rankin. 

Unladylike 2020 is the brainchild of documentary filmmaker Charlotte Mangin. It's an innovative multimedia series about little known but extraordinary women at turn of the 20th century whose legacies we all benefit from today. There are 26 ten minute films that combine archival footage, diary entries, animation, and dynamic artwork (funded by the NEA). Narrated by actors Julianna Margulies and Lorraine Toussaint, Unladylike 2020 puts the biographies of women like aviator Bessie Coleman, politician Jeannette Rankin and actor Anna May Wong in their historical and social context. But they also include interviews with contemporary women who are the direct beneficiaries of these trailblazers' legacies. The series began on March 3--with a new episode dropping each week at Unladylike 2020and PBS American Masters. Both websites are packed with information, so if you're home with the kids visit the websites. These films are perfect for family viewing, and they can open the door to thoughtful conversations. In this podcast, Charlotte Mangin takes us "backstage" and walks us through how Unladylike 2020 came to be. We talk about some of the women she chose, the innovative techniques she used to bring these women to life digitally and the joy of working with a team of women on stories about women.

Unladylike 2020 is the brainchild of documentary filmmaker Charlotte Mangin. It's an innovative multimedia series about little known but extraordinary women at turn of the 20th century whose legacies we all benefit from today. There are 26 ten minute films that combine archival footage, diary entries, animation, and dynamic artwork (funded by the NEA). Narrated by actors Julianna Margulies and Lorraine Toussaint, Unladylike 2020 puts the biographies of women like aviator Bessie Coleman, politician Jeannette Rankin and actor Anna May Wong in their historical and social context. But they also include interviews with contemporary women who are the direct beneficiaries of these trailblazers' legacies. The series began on March 3--with a new episode dropping each week at Unladylike 2020 and PBS American Masters. Both websites are packed with information, so if you're home with the kids visit the websites. These films are perfect for family viewing, and they can open the door to thoughtful conversations. In this podcast, Charlotte Mangin takes us "backstage" and walks us through how Unladylike 2020 came to be. We talk about some of the women she chose, the innovative techniques she used to bring these women to life digitally and the joy of working with a team of women on stories about women.

Unladylike 2020 is the brainchild of documentary filmmaker Charlotte Mangin. It's an innovative multimedia series about little known but extraordinary women at turn of the 20th century whose legacies we all benefit from today. There are 26 ten minute films that combine archival footage, diary entries, animation, and dynamic artwork (funded by the NEA). Narrated by actors Julianna Margulies and Lorraine Toussaint, Unladylike 2020 puts the biographies of women like aviator Bessie Coleman, politician Jeannette Rankin and actor Anna May Wong in their historical and social context. But they also include interviews with contemporary women who are the direct beneficiaries of these trailblazers' legacies. The series began on March 3--with a new episode dropping each week at Unladylike 2020 and PBS American Masters. Both websites are packed with information, so if you're home with the kids visit the websites. These films are perfect for family viewing, and they can open the door to thoughtful conversations. In this podcast, Charlotte Mangin takes us "backstage" and walks us through how Unladylike 2020 came to be. We talk about some of the women she chose, the innovative techniques she used to bring these women to life digitally and the joy of working with a team of women on stories about women.

Unladylike 2020 is the brainchild of documentary filmmaker Charlotte Mangin. It's an innovative multimedia series about little known but extraordinary women at turn of the 20th century whose legacies we all benefit from today. There are 26 ten minute films that combine archival footage, diary entries, animation, and dynamic artwork (funded by the NEA). Narrated by actors Julianna Margulies and Lorraine Toussaint, Unladylike 2020 puts the biographies of women like aviator Bessie Coleman, politician Jeannette Rankin and actor Anna May Wong in their historical and social context. But they also include interviews with contemporary women who are the direct beneficiaries of these trailblazers' legacies. The series began on March 3--with a new episode dropping each week at Unladylike 2020 and PBS American Masters. Both websites are packed with information, so if you're home with the kids visit the websites. These films are perfect for family viewing, and they can open the door to thoughtful conversations. In this podcast, Charlotte Mangin takes us "backstage" and walks us through how Unladylike 2020 came to be. We talk about some of the women she chose, the innovative techniques she used to bring these women to life digitally and the joy of working with a team of women on stories about women.

Episode Notes Be Better Today (Season 2, Episode 19) – Leadership: Jeannette Rankin One of my favorite quotes on leadership comes from women’s rights advocate and congresswoman, Jeannette Rankin, who once said, “You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.” Don’t force people. Lead people. Now, let’s get out there and #bebettertoday! This episode’s sponsor: Anchor Check out our other podcasts: The No Fear Project That Wine Pod FatMan Chronicles SUPPORT the Be Better Today podcast through The No Fear Project on Patreon! The Be Better Today podcast, The No Fear Project, and Paragon Media are committed to helping those with mental illness get help and to defeating the stigma. If you are having thoughts of harming yourself or suicide, please contact the Suicide Prevention Hotline for help now at 800-273-8255. Remember, you are not alone. Be Better Today is a production of Paragon Media. Copyright 2020 – All Rights Reserved

Stacie discusses her path within government and the importance women mentors played in her success within IT at NIH. She remarks on her "hero" Jeannette Rankin who inspired her during her time as a new working mom at the agency. Plus, Stacie discusses the importance of IT in public research to advance innovation.

⦁ DECEMBER 7 1787. Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the Constitution. 1941. Pearl Harbor bombed. 1988. Earthquakes wreak havoc in Armenia ⦁ DECEMBER 8 1914. Battle of the Falkland Islands starts. 1940. Bears beat Redskins 73-0 in NFL Championship game. 1941. Jeannette Rankin casts sole vote against joining WW2. 1949. Chinese Nationalists move capital to Taiwan. 1969. President Nixon announces Vietnam War will end. 1980. John Lennon shot. ⦁ DECEMBER 9 1835. The Texan Army captures San Antonio. 1917. Jerusalem surrenders to British troops. 1979. Smallpox is officially declared eradicated. ⦁ DECEMBER 10 1864. General William T. Sherman completes March to the Sea. 1898. Treaty of Paris ends Spanish-American War. 1915. Ford builds its 1 millionth car. 1963. Frank Sinatra Jr. endures a frightening ordeal. ⦁ DECEMBER 11 1915. Yuan Shih-kai accepts Chinese throne. 1936. King Edward VIII abdicates. 1941. Germany declares war on the US. 1994. Russian forces enter Chechnya. ⦁ DECEMBER 12 1963. Kenya declares independence from Britain. ⦁ DECEMBER 13 1577. Explorer Francis Drake sets sail from England. 1916. Soldiers perish in avalanche as World War I rages. 1937. The Rape of Nanking. 2000. Al Gore cencedes presidential election. 2003. Saddam Hussein captured.

My guest today is the epitome of a culture changer, Nathalie Molina Niño. She is an investor, serial tech entrepreneur, founder of Brava Investments, daughter of immigrants, author of the book LeapFrog, and a fierce advocate for building businesses that benefit women - particularly women of color. When we met, she was down to earth, has a ton of moxie, and is so rich with life-changing perspectives, tactics, and as she likes to call them, short cuts! If you are a person who is thinking about how to make your own impact, THIS is the episode you will want to hang on every word and share with your crew. Please enjoy (Transcript below). Nathalie Molina Niño O3 Outcomes Over Optics Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter Leapfrog Hacks Fast Company: Why is #Finance So White? - written by Nathalie Molina Niño This podcast is built for people who care about making an impact. And it's working! I truly hope you’ll not only subscribe, but leave a 5-star review and continue sharing these episodes. I'm also looking for sponsors for future episodes. You can reach me by email, Instagram, or Facebook. Thanks for listening and I'll see you next week! Nathalie Molina Niño Interview Transcript: Allison Hare: 00:05 Hey, I'm Allison Hare and welcome to Little Left of Center, the podcast that interviews culture change or is that are reshaping our world and breaking new ground. My guest today is the epitome of a culture changer. Nathalie Molina Niño, she is an investor, a serial tech entrepreneur, founder of Brava investments, daughter of immigrants, author of the book leapfrog, and a fierce advocate for building businesses that benefit women and particularly women of color. And we met, she was down to Earth, has so much moxie and is so rich with life changing perspectives, tactics, and as she likes to call them shortcuts. So if you're a person who is thinking about how to make your own impact, this is the episode you'll want to hang on every word and share with your crew. Please enjoy. I am so excited. I'm going to hit like fan girl out on you for a second. Allison Hare: 01:02 But I'm here with, with Nathalie Molina, Niño, am I, am I pronouncing that right better than most. Better than 99% of most my gift. It's mine. One of my gifts is that it's the Jersey thing. Yes, yes, for sure. And so Nathalie is a fact, the founder and CEO of Brava investments. She is a serial entrepreneur and author of leap frog, which is such an amazing book. I'm a fierce advocate of women into theater and arts, like known as the story teller. I mean just the widest myriad a multi-passionate ,I mean you're just, you're just fierce. And this is a little bit of a full circle moment for me because a year ago I had I had an idea and I had an idea for an app. So it was like a crowdsourced app for for women going through up from maternal health. Allison Hare: 02:03 So women that were interested in fertility or pregnancy or postpartum, and it was a crowd source app where people can review and find reviews on their ob Gyn as it relates to birth and like c-section rates and all of this. So I was speaking to somebody that I think you might know and her name is Jen maser. Yeah. and she, she mentioned you and she mentioned brava investments. And I'm like, what? So Brava investments is this VC or this venture capital firm that invest primarily or invest in women and invest in I'm probably screwing this. I'm just gonna interview myself while you're here. You just relax and make sure I'm not screwing anything up. So Brava investments, invest in companies that benefit women and. Nathalie MN:: 02:56 Brava actually is no longer I stepped away from brava. I am the founder of Brava and I'm now working on a next iteration of really my journey as a, as an investor based on everything that I've learned. Allison Hare: 03:10 So this is happening in real time or I haven't done enough research.? Nathalie MN:: 03:14 No, that's okay. So, so brava, you know, I was the founder and I haven't even launched what the next thing is going to be. I'm planning on launching it before the end of the year. So yeah, I mean it, it's real time and the focus of brava came obviously for me and the thesis, while it will evolve and it'll be bigger and even in my opinion, more amazing. Uthe one kernel that won't change is the thread that continues throughout, which is I invest in companies that can prove to me in some measurable way that they're impacting women at scale. Right? So that we're not just talking about creating one woman billionaire, but we're talking about raising up a billion women. Allison Hare: 03:50 Yes. So as I was as I was reading your book and realize the kind of impact that the companies that you touch or that you're interested in and that it that you invest in is so wide and varied and you are born of a multicultural la. What is Latinex? What does that mean? Nathalie MN:: 04:09 I Love that. Latinex it's, it's funny I see it as a group of mostly young people of Latin American descent who are seeing some of the limitations of a language that insists by design, right? Like many romance languages of having the feminine and masculine to everything. And it's a little bit like the one drop rule where it's like you can have a room of 500 women and they're Latinas. But the moment there is one man in that room. Now you have to use the word Latino's because that's the convention in Spanish. Right? And so what's happening with Latin X is a group of people that are saying, we don't like that. Nathalie MN:: 04:49 We understand that. That's how the language has always been structured. And it's been like that for hundreds of years. We know that language evolves. And so we're going to evolve it in this direction. And from now on, we say the non-gendered Latin x, which means it's not Latina, it's not Latino, it's no gender. I, it was an interesting journey for me to even think about that by the way, because I ended up going through the entire book leapfrog and removing all of the places where we were using Latino as the mixed gendered default. Yeah. And I'm trying to figure it out. And then meanwhile, we're super in the weeds. And then you have people that are not even in the community that are going, what the hell is this x thing? Yes. But primarily, and the point is that that 2% of VC funding goes to females and just a fraction of that go to what females of color? Allison Hare: 05:37 Women of color. Yeah. 0.2%. And I can't imagine that 98% of that, you know, that 98%. Nathalie MN:: 05:46 Yeah. That 98.8% of the good ideas, right. Can't, aren't coming from the group that happens to be the most entrepreneurial because it turns out that while in the u s and this is a stat that everybody knows, I think you women are starting more companies than men. And that's been the case for a long time. But the crazy thing is that of those women led startups, eight out of 10 of them are started by a woman of color. So how is it possible that the single most entrepreneurial community in this country is getting 0.2% of the venture capital? It makes no sense. Allison Hare: 06:17 So what are we getting wrong here? Like are women getting something wrong? Is it systemic? And why you like how, what ignited your fire? Nathalie MN:: 06:30 Uh I love that question because I think that a lot of the things that you see out there tackling this problem come from the frame of how are women broken and how do we fix it? Right? And I think that we need to be turning our eye more towards the system that's excluding them in what is clearly a systemic way. When you think about the numbers 0.2% is ludicrous and there's no explanation for that. Right? and, and you know what, what stirred me was, first of all, there's a lot of us, there's a group at Wharton that developed a study called project sage led by an amazing woman named Suzanne Beagle and project sage came out I believe two, two and a half years ago. So like 2017 and they cataloged all of the funds and all of the investment firms that focused on women. And at the time it was over 50 of us. And then they redid the study a year later and now we're upwards of 80. So there are a lot of people in the space. But when I was just beginning brava and really just beginning to invest full time I was coming out of a period of time where I was really focused on educating women, giving women resources and mentorship and all sorts of tools. Um as a part of the Athena Center, which is a center for leadership studies, it sits inside of the women's college connected to Columbia Barnard. And so I had spent years working on women and training them and providing them tools. And then it became really clear to me after working at that point with thousands of women that we were not the problem. Yeah. And that at the root of almost all of the moments when I saw a woman's growth and a woman's company's growth impaired, it was typically a lack of capital. And so I thought, well, if I'm going to get to the root of this issue, I'm going to have to get my hands dirty in the world of finance. So at the time, this was in 2015 I looked around and I kind of took a Cadillac. This is pre project sage. This is pre Wharton. Cataloging any of this. And I did my own catalog of this space and what I found was things that I couldn't quite get behind. Right. I found a couple of things. I saw that the funds that focused on benefiting women were only investing in women led startups. And while I am, no one can argue a huge supporter of women entrepreneurs, if I'm choosing between a company that is, I don't know, building an app to tell you what color lips to wear a lipstick to wear or you know, founded by a woman or I'm choosing between that and say two dudes that have cured breast cancer. I'm not going to invest in the app telling you what color lipstick to wear when I am sitting on the potential for a cure for breast cancer. And do I wish that that company was founded by a woman? Absolutely. But you can fix that. You can fix an executive team that needs more diversity. You can fix boards that don't have women. Those are fixable problems. Something core, like a business model that is working on lipstick versus working on breast cancer. You can't fix that, right. And so I'm always going to go towards the thing that's going to impact the most women, even if that means investing in male founders and then trying to fix their diversity issues. Allison Hare: 09:36 Is that unique to you? Because I feel like in your book you mention Arlan Hamilton who she is like a personal hero of mine and he's like, I don't know if you listen to that Start-up podcast series with her, God, she's amazing. You know, like both of you and Kat Cole who is, you know, she's here in Atlanta. So she is not only a global hero but a certainly a local hero as well for what she's doing,ufor women and women in business. So, you know, my question is how, you know, do you look at the world as things that are broken that you can fix? Like what is it? And like how does your brain organize information or you know, is there some part of it that's like, I can make money off of this, you know, like how does your brain organize where to spend and invest your time? Nathalie MN:: 10:27 I love that because I don't separate them. And here's why. I'll answer your last question first. So I don't think, how do I solve this problem or you know, it's not a choice between how do I solve the problem or how do we, or does this make money? Because I have come to the conclusion, and I came to this conclusion a long time ago, that the way that people certainly in the investment world are super excited about the next new shiny object, whether it be cannabis, whether it be AI, whether it be cryptocurrencies, right? These sexy, novel things that everybody starts pouring money into. The only way that investing in women or in businesses that benefit women is going to become the sexy new shiny object is if we prove to the market that it makes you more money than other categories. Well, that was the other thing that you said that men, people invest in ideas and women, they invest in outcomes and so they have to prove it first. So do you feel like, like how, how do we level the playing field or do you play the game where we've always played this way that you have to work extra hard, you have to prove, you know, and go above and beyond to prove that you can be in the same, you know, on, on the same playing field. How do you break through? I don't, I use this term and I others people have as well, but hustle porn, this idea of like we've gotta be the first one in and the last one out and work as hard and you know, that's a recipe for burnout. And then now amplify that to an entire community and get the word out and tell, you know, entire generations of be that entrepreneurs or just really ambitious career people. That this is how you get ahead and what you get as a whole community of really tired people. Right. And I think that what we also know is that you know what historically the big boy deals happen on the golf course or you know, I mean a lot of things happen in these contexts that aren't actually about working longer and harder than anybody else. It's about being strategic. And so that's really what I focus on. I work on focusing on what are the strategic moves that allow us to shortcut our way to success, not because we're cheating because I think that this is a thing that sometimes happens. Certainly when we tested the term shortcut, which I wanted to be on the cover of the book,usomehow or I would have liked for it to even be the title of the book. Nathalie MN:: 12:46 What we found is that women associate the word shortcuts with the word cheating. And the reality is, is anybody who has gotten success in any way that you define success have done it because they've taken shortcuts and they have been, you know, obviously there's a range of shortcuts that are kind that are illegal and get you landed in jail in the short time that are just efficient. Like, if you have a contact at somebody in a corporation that can get you your kid, an internship that is going to change the trajectory of their whole career, why wouldn't you do that for your kid? Right? And what we have as a whole segment of the population. And I think women oftentimes fall in that bucket that are not armed with those shortcuts because they're not aware of how they're done. Or they're just not thinking in that way where they can come up with their own shortcuts that no one's ever come up with before. Right. Because there's almost this idea of, I've got to go the long way. To your point, I've gotta be perfect. I've gotta be the first one in the last one out. But that's not how people have been successful in the past. And so we just have to be armed with our own set of shortcuts, which is ultimately why my book is basically 50 of them. Allison Hare: 13:45 So, and I love a lot of the shortcuts and my favorite one is Getting to NO, and you know, you're a great storyteller. If you wouldn't mind telling me about people asking you about getting to YES or at least naming a speech of yours or naming. Nathalie MN:: 14:00 Yeah, yeah. I mean that, it's funny, that hack came because of a very specific experience. I was somehow muscled by one of my best friends into doing a talk at this amazing conference called Animus in Puerto Rico, but I had never heard of it before my ignorance. I just had not known what it was about. And so a friend of mine kind of muscled me in and she said, they're getting a two for one deal. I get to speak if you also speak and I already committed you. It's like, great, but I get a weekend in Puerto Rico out of it. So I went,uI didn't think too much of it. They gave me the title of the talk and the title of the talk was the same title as the classic negotiation book getting to Yes. And so I was supposed to come up with some inspirational talk about getting to yes. I honestly didn't put a lot of thought or energy into it. I showed up, I decided the night before to go check out, you know, the space, and I walk into a room with over a thousand chairs. Beautifully organized. Clearly this conference is not a little podunk, you know? No, no one's ever heard of it kind of conference. Yeah, and I think, holy crap. Okay, this is bigger than I imagined. And then I go look at the lineup and I find out that one of my idols, Sonia Sotomayer so it's in my yard, Justice Sonia Sotomayor is speaking before me. Oh my goodness. And I nearly peed my pants and I thought, great, I have this totally mediocre. Talk about a talk topic that I didn't even choose. You didn't even feel like it was yours. You didn't feel like it was resonant with you? Not at all. It was kind of like I was really phoning it in is what I was planning on doing and I thought, this is ridiculous. A, I never phone anything in B. This is just me being tired. This happened by the way, I think a month, maybe even just a couple of weeks before I launched brava. Right. And Brava was fortunate enough to have a launch that was somewhat propelled and helped by the Obama administration. I used to advise the council on women and girls and they allowed me to launch my company with the United State of women at the White House in October before the administration had concluded. And so here I am just a couple of weeks before that preparation for the launch of my new company and I'm in Puerto Rico, kind of phoning it in. If you can imagine when I looked at the size of the venue and then I saw who was speaking before me, I thought, okay, this is, this cannot stand around [inaudible] excuse me. You are being called honey. I know. Excuse me. So I throw my speech away. Obviously I start over from scratch and I realize in that moment that we have been told by the folks who have been functioning in the old school sort of rules that getting to yes is the, is the, is the goal right? The, the default, which is what I think getting to yes means is that the default is no and you have to get people to convert from that no to the yes. And that's how you win. And I'm thinking that's not really the paradigm that women work in. First of all, what do I ha, you know, glass half empty perspective on the world that everything is a no until you convert it to a yes. So I object to that view of the world to begin with. And second, when I think about the talent and the super power that women have, it is not a challenge to get to yes. Women as individuals who have been saying yes to things like getting paid 70 cents or in the case of Latinas, you know, 55 cents on the dollar. We've been saying no to the injustices that we're subjected to every day. And it's actually something that we're really good at both in getting to yes within our families, both in being accommodating like yes is the rule by which we live and how we survive and how we've survived in this society as it is. And if anything, what we need to do is figure out how to say no. And so I ended up writing a speech overnight about essentially how we have to exercise that muscle of saying no. And if there is anything that compliments our super power for making lemonade out of the lemons that sometimes we get, it's actually this compliment of being just as good at saying no to the injustices, no 55 cents on the dollar, no to doing most of the hard, hard work. Um,even in the home, right? No to all of the things that don't make sense and using that muscle because I don't think we use it enough. All of us, myself included. Allison Hare: 18:14 But I think, I think that touches on something cause I feel like it's such a profound concept that, you know, like somebody like me who is scheduled from the moment I wake up until the moment I go to bed and a lot of it is I have the ability to say no, I just don't want to miss anything. Right. And I W I want to be there. I want to be the reliable one. Yep. And that really resonated for me. And I even think about it as dating, you know, like I met my husband when I was 34 and I had, you know, my first kid at 38, my second and 40, you know and I remember I, there was like a stretch of five years where I was single, you know, and I was like the quintessential single girl and I would go on dates because I should, you know, like even though I wasn't that interested and the moment it was, it was very clear for me was like, the discernment of this is not going to add to my life. I don't feel like it, you know, or this guy, I'm just, it's, you have, it's like almost like an internal trust of what is going to be nourishing. Yeah. And what is not going to be nourishing. So that's kind of how I put yes. But that's kind of how I process that. Nathalie MN:: 19:23 Um that concept of getting to know and it really does feel good in the, one thing that I will say that even though this is, this sounds like the sort of thing that only an investor would need to do in becoming an investor, one of the things that I had to do is I had to come up with my thesis, which industries am I going to invest in? What stage of companies am I going to invest in? And I had to make that decision based on where my superpowers are. Right? And so for example, even though I have worked with a lot of early stage women owned businesses, if you look at my career in tech for 15 years, most of my time was spent working with big companies like Microsoft, big companies like Starbucks, like Disney, like Mattel, MTV, the BBC, and making them bigger or taking a product that was just being launched and taking over the world with that kind of thing. So my background is probably better suited for that later stage company. That is where I have the most experience. And so one by one I went through and I decided this is my thesis. I do later stage investing. I focused on healthcare. It previously was education and consumer. Now I'm doing healthcare, consumer and infrastructure with a climate lens because I'm a former environmental engineer that never worked in her field. And so basically I figured out what are the things where I'm strongest and where my interests are also strongest. And let me figure out that this is my thesis. This is my lane. Right? And what happened is that now based on that, when an entrepreneur comes to me in their seed stage, when an entrepreneur comes to me and they're in the entertainment industry, these are not my industries. It might be an amazing startup that absolutely deserves to be invested in, but not by me because my thesis is clear. Yes. And what's interesting to me is I think whether you are an investor or not, that exercise is a really powerful exercise. And deciding where are my superpowers, where is my time best spent? And what happens is once you have really clearly articulated that saying no becomes so much easier. Allison Hare: 21:17 And the way I process that is, is to stand in your power. And when I was listening to your book, because I don't have any attention span to actually turn pages and read, but I can listen and process information. But as I was listening to it, you had objection after objection after objection that was knocked down and actually not even just knocked down, but just empowered. You know, like I don't have money, I don't have time. I don't know technology, I don't know, you know, like you called it the valley of death. And that's what happened to my idea. You know. So I started that and I'm, I'm grateful to be in this place where I have such a passion for culture to changers, which is how you're just sitting in front of me today. In my, in my husband's weird office. But but I think that standing in your power and not making excuses, but like owning what you're powerful at is probably the greatest gift you can give women. And one of the things I thought about is there are probably in this, this you can probably relate to, you're very multi-passionate you're very multifaceted. So I imagine that the people listening here in many cases are entrepreneurs. They are people who are interested in making a contribution. That's not just, I need to make a lot of money, but like I need to make an impact. Right? So how do you coach women that are either, so multi-passionate to either pick a lane or people who feel like they have gifts and talents but don't know where to start? Nathalie MN:: 22:55 They don't have the idea, right? Like how do you coach women to kind of cultivate their own power? I mean the two things that, cause I feel like those are two problems, right? There's the pick the thing I'm going to focus on, right? I tend to shy away from using the term pick a lane, even though it's one of those terms that comes to my mind all the time as well. Only because I find that oftentimes when people tell me pick a lane, it's really just a way of having me be limited in what I'm doing. Yeah. Right. And so I, yeah, I'd never want to limit these creative spirits. Right. And then there's the, the question of like, well, I don't have an idea. You know, how do I come up with an idea? But I feel like I want to do something entrepreneurial for those people. What I often remind them is that no company is ever taken up and, and you know, created and built and grown with one person. And people forget that entrepreneurs come in many shapes and sizes and introverts and extroverts in every possible, you know, quality and all. A lot of the Times people forget that that number two partner, that co-founder, that third employee, fourth employee, these are essential to making any entrepreneur successful. They are essential to any startup. And I think that if you have that entrepreneurial drive, but you don't have the idea, be someone's number two, find yourself a co founder, hitch your wagon on an idea that you absolutely love that maybe wasn't yours. You're still an entrepreneur and you're still exercising that entrepreneurial muscle. And so that's, that's that one. And then for the person who is deciding sort of where do I focus because I do have, you know, 10,000 interests. What I often remind people is that it's not that you have to choose one, it's that you just have to decide what order you're going to do them in. People make the mistake of looking at Martha Stewart and her empire, right? And think two decades to build that empire. People forget that she built it one component at a time and they look now at the TV show on the magazine and the merchandising products and right. All of these things happened incrementally. So nobody's asking you multifaceted, amazing creative person to pick one. All that the world needs is for you to decide which one you're going to do first. And I'm wondering when you consider investing or do you invest in an idea and a founder, you know what's important to you when you consider, you know, what's going to make the most sense? Cause there are a shit ton of ideas out there. Allison Hare: 25:22 And you're probably a hit from every angle. Like how do you, is it intuition? Is it gut? You know, how do you operate? Nathalie MN:: 25:31 You know, I think you try to process it. You try to create a process that takes some of the subjective out. You definitely try to do that because we all have biases. We all do. There is an amazing Broadway show called Avenue Q. Um, and there's a song that I always, that always comes to mind when I think about this, about everyone's a little bit racist. And the truth is we all are, you cannot live in a society where the bad guys are always black. Oh, we organized information. No, that you just stereotype to move on. We're just flooded. Well, you're also fed the stereotypes when the right, you know, the bad guys always black and the cleaning ladies always Latina. Nathalie MN:: 26:06 I mean, whether you want to believe the stereotypes and you know, these racist tropes or not, they're fed to you every day. Right? And so I think that there is an element of creating a process by which certain elements of selection are blind by which there's more of a democratization to access to information. But to your point about getting the same ideas multiple times, I have gotten the same tampon delivery service pitch to me at least 20 times. Right? It's not to say that it's not a good idea, but what ends up separating the one example of the same business for example that someone like me might choose is ultimately the formula of a great idea combined with a founder or a set of founders who you trust to be able to be uniquely poised to deliver and execute on this idea better than anyone else. Allison Hare: 27:01 How do you know when to take a gamble you mean or not always? All of those, that same time, you know, like how do you know? Nathalie MN:: 27:09 Well, here's the thing. I think sometimes you can't know and so it's time I have taken months. Allison Hare: 27:15 Do you feel it in your gut? Like some type of formula? Nathalie MN:: 27:18 I mean sometimes the, the, the gut to continue a conversation is ultimately the thing, right? But the gut has to be combined with data and sometimes that data is time. I have taken eight months to get to know founders. I have a set of founders who I love and they just happen to be in the middle of an unfortunate piece of litigation at the moment. But it's been a really interesting exercise for me to take the last year, year and a half to get to know them as human beings, to connect them to press when they needed a press, to connect them to other people who might be helpful to them. And so to, in the process of kind of coexisting with them, take in the data of how they react to certain situations and how they respond and you know, how were they in a pinch? Seeing them sort of live in an action. It gives me this sort of data that maybe validates an initial gut feeling because you're right, at first it was a gut feeling that these founders had potential. And then what happens over the course of many months in my case is getting to know them as human beings in his founders and seeing if my gut was right. That is so cool. I'm, Allison Hare: 28:17 And I'm wondering what is when do you get really lit up? Like tell me about the last time that you just were bursting at the seams. So whether it was an idea, like what about what you do? Cause you, you have something very unique that you carry a voice for a lot of people that may not know they have a voice. You have a very heavy responsibility where you are going against not only, you know the VC money and then minorities on top of that. Like you're constantly going against the grain. So what does success look like to you? Nathalie MN:: 28:58 Wow, that's a heavy question. You know, success looks to me, in a way. I think it's ups, it's, it's rendering a lot of what I'm doing obsolete, right? Success looks to me like people realizing that investing in companies that benefit women and especially investing in women isn't charity. It's just smart business. Right. so and, and to me the data has already been proving that out for a long time. And the fact that research after research proves this out hasn't changed the behavior of the investment community. And so it's clearly what's left is culture change, right? Because the data proves it out. If the investors made their decisions based on data, we would be swimming in women entrepreneurs getting VC money in all sorts of other money loans, you know, all sorts of other institutional capital. But what has to be happening now is more the culture shifting. And that's why interviews like this are important to me. Right. The other thing that, to me success looks like is that more investors look like you and me, that we have more women writing the checks, that we have more people of color being responsible for who gets the money and who doesn't. Because I think that once that happens, then we're not asking for anything. Right. I'm a big believer in not even having the conversation about whether we have a seat at the table. I love entrepreneurship because it is not about asking for a seat at the table. It's about creating your own new table. Yeah. Right. And that's why getting the investor community to look like you and I is probably the most telling for me. Sign of success. Where have you seen the culture shift in the, in the, not just you elevating entrepreneurs but in people saying yes and money flowing to these new companies. Allison Hare: 30:50 What is that needle moving look like for you? I will tell you. And how does that manifest itself? Nathalie MN:: 30:55 I have, I have to anonymize the names because these are startups that people know and their rounds that are highly publicized. But there was a relatively visible round of financing that happened and closed earlier this year. And it was a woman led startup and she was in a place where she had gotten enough traction with her business and enough attention publicly that her deal became a sexy deal that a lot of investors wanted a part of. Right? Not every founder is in that position. So she was in that fortunate position because of a number of factors where she became one of those prize deals. Right. And we, she was in a situation where an investor who approached her, who happened to be somebody that I knew came to me and said, you know, we tried to get a piece of this deal and we were told that the deal was closed, that she had already closed the round. And I said, well, that must be true. And of course, the very experienced investor looked at me and raised his eyebrow and said, Nathalie, you and I both know that if you want somebody in and around, you will make room. So I said, you know what, let me see what I can do. And so I happen to know the founder, she happens to trust me and have we happened to have a relationship. And I said, Hey, I'm calling you because so-and-so investor was really interested in year-round. Is it really closed? And she comes and she tells me, listen, I could make room for an investor if I wanted to, but have you looked at their website and their website is all white men. It was the usual thing that we see a lot of the times in the space now, which you didn't know is that this firm understand that that's a problem, are bringing on new partners and we're in the process of really re-imagining themselves from the ground up with equity in mind. But that is in a work in progress. So you weren't seeing it on the website and part of the work that they're doing was something that I was in dialogue with them about. So I'm basically mentioned to the founder. I said, this is happening. You should know they're actually a really interesting group to work with. You might want to reconsider. And then she made room for them. I love and they ultimately invested in her company. But what I think is interesting about that is look at how the power has shifted. You have a woman founder with a coveted business saying no to a group of all white male investors simply because it's not aligned with her values. And that means I like the voice. This is like this. Imagine the signals, it's sending the market, right? You all white male vcs have a competitive disadvantage because of the lack of diversity in your ranks and you would have been out of this incredibly interesting deal. Allison Hare: 33:30 But you're finding that, but you're finding that the diversity is important. So that is like the needle moving, right? That having a cultural diversity. Nathalie MN:: 33:39 That's an example sample of the culture shift. Now I want to see 50 of those any given quarter. I want to see that sort of dynamic continuing to happen. That is one example. Unfortunately probably in a sea of examples that are the reverse. But when I see an example like that play out, it shows me that we really are starting to see the culture shifting a little by little. Allison Hare: 34:00 That's amazing. That's kind of feel what success looks like. You know, the culture shifting or saying we need, we need more diversity. And you know, like I always say a lot that what you see becomes normal and a lot of that comes from art, right? So, you know, if, if you only see white people around you, you know, and the only black people you see are what you see on the news. You know, like it's, it's very easy to start believing that one is good or one is bad. But when, when art and when culture and what you see is around you. Nathalie MN:: 34:34 Totally. And when it was reality, which is why I often don't use the word diversity because we live in a country where, you know, 17% of the community here are Latin x, but that's not reflected in the media. It's certainly not reflected in who gets invested in. It's not reflected in so many ways. And so when people come to me and say, I want to create diversity, it's like, well, actually what you want to create is reality. You want your workplace, you want your bank, you want your VC, you want your board to reflect reality at the moment it doesn't. Right. Allison Hare: 35:05 That's amazing that you continue pushing that. And one of the things I thought was amazing about you or your differentiator is storytelling and your background in theater and arts. And I think you had shared a story about going to a story telling workshop and some things stuck out at you that having a ritual, a sacred ritual of writing set you apart from everybody else. So I want to hear more about sacred rituals and I like how you, how you position routines versus rituals, right? And what that looks like for you. Nathalie MN:: 35:40 Yeah. there is a an amazing choreographer who of course right now is escaping me, but she wrote a book called the creative habit. Her name is toilet Twyla Tharp. Yes. and I take a lot of my thinking from her and from that book, she's also a Barnard alum. She's amazing. Because I am one of those people who has, by virtue of having been an entrepreneur my whole life, never had routine. And if you had asked me maybe before I came across Twyla's work, what do you think about routine? I would have immediately vomited a little bit in my mouth because the idea of routine has simply never felt right to me. It felt, it felt not thoughtful. It felt mindless. And it felt arbitrary. And then I read this book from Twyla Tharp that says creativity is entirely about something that might appear like routine, but that she instead frames as ritual. And what I love about it, because I am such a brass tacks, like how do we get things done kind of person. Is it the way she communicated it is do you think that I show up every morning at eight o'clock into a room with 50 professional ballet dancers and simply say that today, I don't feel creative rehearsal is canceled. She's like, right, that's not how creativity works. Creativity is a muscle and you need a ritual to basically get you in the right head space to be able to deliver on something like creativity. Nathalie MN:: 37:09 And so what she talks about is how important it is that she wakes up every morning and she makes her a cup of coffee a certain way and she goes to a very specific corner in Manhattan to hail a cab. Like she has her morning sort of opening ritual so that every day when she walks into that studio at eight o'clock in the morning, there is no, I wasn't feeling it today. The creative, you know, Muse didn't show up. No. She shows up every morning like a muscle and delivers on being the most prolific choreographer alive in the world today. And she does it on demand every day as expected. And she delivers every time as the muscle. Yeah, because it's a muscle. And so when she framed it that way, I thought, well, being an entrepreneur is all about creativity and the nervousness of am I going to be able to do this again? Right. Am I going to be able to develop a new product? Am I going to be able to, after I exit this company, start a new one? Or was that last time just to fluke? All of the things that are ultimately imposter syndrome, but fundamentally I think that the thing that we humans and I do think it's male, female, everybody are most afraid of, is the idea that we're not going to be able to be creative again or ever if you don't think of yourself as creative. Allison Hare: 38:21 Do you feel that way as your in between with your next venture? Nathalie MN:: 38:25 Oh yeah. You do? Oh yeah. Wow. The thing I am known most for is starting things and ironically the thing that most scares me is starting things and I don't think that it's a coincidence., I mean it really does. It's when I noticed, I don't, I don't want to believe it's true, but when the voice, the ugly negative voices of Imposter Syndrome are the loudest is in these moments of transition when I'm in between, when I'm launching the new thing, when the little voice in your head has the success of the last thing was a fluke, or maybe if the last thing wasn't successful, well then that failure is going to follow you into the next thing. Those voices get really, really loud in these times. And that's why I don't think that, you know, maybe it's possible. My mentor says it's possible, but I don't think you ever grow out of imposter syndrome. If you're a thoughtful, you know, moderately humble person, those voices will always be there. I think what I have tried to do is to drown those voices out with the other side of the coin, right? With the voice that says in the case of my mentor, these words that have kind of become my mantra, which is you are the source of your own supply. You know, whatever you did before you can do it again. And the well from which you draw is you right. So you are the source of your own supply. And that's kind of become a mantra for me. And so when I hear those voices, all I can do is join them out with these others and it's become almost muscle now so that it's, as soon as those negative voices pop up, these words surface and I hear them really loud and clear and it kind of helps me realize that, oh, this is where I am. Allison Hare: 40:00 And I wonder if the question I asked before about finding your own voice or finding how you can impact, cause I'm a huge fan of Seth Godin and Seth Godin talks about writing every day and as he's published his blog daily, even on Saturday, Sunday, like clockwork for over a decade. And he said, there is no such thing as writer's block because your brain doesn't stop thinking. You just get paralyzed with is it going to be good or not? But it doesn't really matter if you just write what you're thinking. So I saw something recently from Marie Forleo. You can tell him like I'm kind of a student of everything. And Marie Forleo puts put something where every day she will follow her breath for 10 breaths before, you know, when she wakes up and she'll move, she'll do some kind of movement for a few minutes and she'll write. So write for a sentence or two or five minutes before she looks at any screen. And so I've been doing that. And so I thought if I take the Seth Godin thing of just having kind of the creative faucet of just me just forcing myself to just write or reflect whatever it is, it doesn't matter if it's good or bad, but by nature it's going to be real and it's going to get better. And if it is just kind of tapping into your creativity, it's your ritual that seems like that Rachel for you, Nathalie MN:: 41:22 Both of them are tapping into where I think they're coming from is there's a book called the artist's way. And in the artist's way, there's something called the daily pages. And the artist's way is one of these books that if you're not an artist and you aren't in the creative field, you might never have heard of it. But if you are, it's like a cult favorite. I mean it is a classic that people swear by and one of the exercises that she does is she says, wake up every morning and just write. Even if you are so uninspired that you write the same word again and again, it doesn't matter. Just wake up and do your daily pages. And it sounds like both of them are inspired by that. And it's the reason that when I looked for an agent for my book, I found the agency that represented the woman who wrote the artist's way because I was not interested in Leapfrog being something that surfaced like many books do for a few months and then sort of went away and disappeared. I wanted it to be this sort of quiet favorite of people who really connect with it and decide, okay, this is a paradigm shift for me and I need my friend who was starting a company to look at this. I need my niece who is thinking that she might be an entrepreneur to read this. I need to have basically a new set of rules. And I want it to have longevity the way that the artist way has had longevity because I do think it's a, it's a shift and if it influences the way that the artist way has influenced Seth Godin or Marie Forleo, that's it. That's winning. Allison Hare: 42:48 Right. Do you feel like the book changed you? Nathalie MN:: 42:51 Yeah. Oh, absolutely. I tell, I haven't told you writing the book, writing the book, not somebody else's book. Your book. No. Yeah, no. Writing the book. Absolutely. Did I, I talk about how, you know, the book is split into four sections. A ready, set, go fund grow and ready is not a chapter or section that I wanted to include it in the book. And the reason is because the rest, the other four sections are really brass tacks, tactical. Like these are very specific hacks that you can use to get ahead. The first section was really about getting yourself ready. Right? It was the inside game of getting my mindset ready. Thinking about imposter syndrome, thinking about all of the things that we need in order to have our head really on straight to be best positioned for success as we defined success. Like this idea of no instead of yes. I didn't want to write that section even though it was very present in my mind. And. Allison Hare: 43:49 Are you afraid of vulnerability do you think? Or just being public with it? Nathalie MN:: 43:52 I was afraid that it would be considered a self help book. Hmm. And I wouldn't be taken seriously and it would be put into, you know, in terms of the category of business books into that sort of ghetto of we don't take this so seriously because it's sounds and reads and feels more like a self help book. And so in my interest, totally I think misconstrued interest of being, you know, taken seriously among the boys who, right. You know, business books. There was this, I think, feminine, not excluded for women only because men and women benefit from this really holistic of what it means to be an entrepreneur that I wanted to leave out. And it was my co-writer, Sarah, who really insisted that these are the building blocks upon which everything else thrives. Right. And so it changed me because it ultimately reminded me that I can't show up without that piece. Right. That the two really complement each other that you can't talk about success in this brass tacks kind of way without making sure that there's a really solid foundation that is emotional, that is, you know, psychological. Allison Hare: 45:04 Cool. That is a whole person though. Like I wonder, did you feel like, you know, you growing up cause you, you left school did start your company at 19 years old. Did you feel like that armor was imperative? You know, back then, did you feel like it. Nathalie MN:: 45:17 Being in tech for 15 years? Yes, absolutely. Yes. I learned how to play the game their way and even to up the ante. So if men who succeed in tech are perceived as cut throat, if men who succeed in tech are perceived as being, you know, having sharp elbows, in order for me to thrive in that context, I felt like I needed to even be more of that more cutthroat, sharper elbows take no prisoners. Allison Hare: 45:47 Right. Like that there is probably a rush in there too for you. You know, like it was probably very thrilling. You get validated, you get plenty of positive reinforcement that that's the right thing to do. Nathalie MN:: 45:58 Absolutely. Until, and I do tell the story in the book until there was a moment where I put ultimately the life of a human beings second after the success of a company and somebody whose life was actually put in danger. And ultimately I was the one responsible. Right. And it was at that moment that it hit me where I had sort of arrived and it hit me that that's not the person my parents raised, right? That I had somehow got caught up in it and lost complete sight of at the core who I was raised to be, who I really am. Who I wanted to be. And so what's funny is people are like, oh, she had this Aha moment and then she's just been, you know, the amazing founder, manager, investor that everyone wants to be ever since, because she had this epiphany. It wasn't that way. The reality is, is when you see that you're capable of something like that, all it does is expose the sort of shadow side and all you can do from there onward is work on sort of climbing your way out. Right? Yeah. But you always know that that shadow side is possible. You always know that in your worst moments you could revert to that. And the work constantly is about making sure that you don't. Allison Hare: 47:14 Right. Do you feel like the way world has evolved over the past 20 years where it's much more acceptable to be more vulnerable and more of a fully whole self? Nathalie MN:: 47:27 I don't think so. Allison Hare: 47:28 You don't! Nathalie MN:: 47:29 But I think that what excites me about how we can get there is seeing the level of entrepreneurship that seems to be rising among women. Right? Because I think that that helps male founders. It helps female founders when we have a different group of people calling the shots, defining the culture of a company. Right. With all due respect to people like Sheryl Sandberg because somebody has to do the work of taking a Google or a Facebook or a Proctor and gamble or these huge monolithic companies and shifting their culture and for people like sit, you know Sheryl Sandberg who are doing that work, God bless. Right. But I really would rather focus my energy on building the new Procter and gamble or the next Google and building it right from scratch. Where the culture shift that you are talking about gets built into the DNA of a company. Allison Hare: 48:21 And I'm wondering what your thoughts are on which is kind of dovetailing off of that is you know, companies like, or people, I should say, like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are banding together to help solve health care and there are 145 CEOs of companies that have petitioned to lobby for gun control. You know, do you feel like the power is more in the hands of a corporation to change? What typically has been, what government is supposed to govern or fix. And do you feel personally responsible to maybe push that forward of, you know, changing healthcare or gun control or border control or things that are that are important and we just seem to be at a stalemate from a government perspective? Nathalie MN:: 49:09 I do think that we have to take a stand as business leaders. I actually had an interesting situation where there was last month a full page ad in the New York Times with a hundred, 280 CEOs who signed a letter talking about how the anti abortion legislation that is popping up in many states around the country is bad for business. And I was on the list of CEOs, I think probably one of the only ones who spoke Spanish. And so I did the Spanish media circuit, right? And I did a piece with CNN Espanol and I got pretty strong heat from Latin x population who are watching a leader in the business world go on national television and talk about how the human rights of our employees is paramount. And any laws and any state that looks to threaten the human rights of our employees is really threatening the health of our businesses because the health of our employees is directly tied to the health of our businesses. And so what I found is that I got a lot of heat for that. But you know what? At the end of the day, it's both who I am. It's what I stand for and every company that I invest in is going to have to reflect those values. Allison Hare: 50:23 And that's part of how we do culture shift. If the leaders of these large corporations aren't standing up for what they believe in and for what's right for their workers in their population or their consumers, then I think that people will start to vote with their wallet. And you see that all the time. If I go to a store and I'm choosing between a north face jacket and a Patagonia jacket, I don't know what north face stands for. I don't have any particular objections against the company. But what I do know is that Yvon Chouinard and Let My People Surf and all of the things that Patagonia stand for and 1% for the earth, these are all things that are embedded into the brand of Patagonia. And so all things being equal, I choose the product made by the person whose value aligns, whose values align with mine. And I'm not the only consumer who who buys that way. Allison Hare: 51:09 I think that is a culture shift to that we want to contribute with our dollars. People are buying TOMS shoes and there's so many more you know, socially conscious companies that are trying to figure out how do I give back? Yup. And it's such a beautiful, brilliant business decision, I think as a company, but it forces CEOs and companies to really consider their political, whether it is political leanings or not, or what their views and beliefs are of, do they put themselves on the line and is it worth it? You know? And I think it's become more normalized now and more socially acceptable where I don't know that that was the case 10 years ago. Nathalie MN:: 51:49 And part of it is because so much of just how we do business has become, or maybe it's become clear to us that the way that businesses are managing their operations actually have a direct impact, not just on our, you know, government, but also just on our day to day life on their ability to pollute the rivers that we're enjoying on their ability to use water when we have a scarcity of it on there, you know, influence, potentially undue influence, influence on the political process. I mean, all of these things start to impact our daily lives. And I think that we start to expect that from the companies that we support. Right? Allison Hare: 52:27 Yeah. So what do you, what do you know you've got a lot on your plate, right? You have a lot of responsibility. What do you know that you wish people could know? Nathalie MN:: 52:40 I am I'm about to publish an article in fast company, maybe by the time this podcast. Allison Hare: 52:45 Breaking News, right on little left of center Nathalie MN:: 52:49 Um that talks about this very thing that I wish more people knew about. And that is that when people watch for example, Shark Tank or the Prophet, we have kind of mythologized the role of the investor, right? The investor seems to be this godlike figure that stands behind a desk and watches people pitch and decides who gets the money and who doesn't get the money. And that so much tied to also self-worth, right? If I get rejected from an investor is my company, no good? Am no good, right? So much, right? We give so much power to these investors and what we forget or what we maybe don't know, and I wish everyone knew, is that investors have investors. And what I've done in this fast company article, as I've kind of broken down how the sausage gets made, because I think a lot of people don't realize how investment funds come together. And the fact that the investor who you meet is just the manager of a fund that was assembled using a lot of other people's money. And those other peoples, those other people are called Lps, limited partners, right? And those lps are the ones that decide who gets to have $100 million fund and who doesn't. And so what I talk about in the article is here's how the sausage gets made. And ps, those Lps, there are people, you know, because a lot of the times there's lps are the endowment at the college that you went to, or the LP is the pension fund. If you're a police officer or a teacher, right? Or maybe it's a vanguard or fidelity where your 401k is being managed. All of these places are places where we have influence. And so for example, if I'm a Latin X police officer in Los Angeles, 60% of the police force in Los Angeles or people of Color, are you picking up the phone and calling the pension that manages your retirement and asking them how many of the fund managers that you're investing in that are essentially managing my retirement look like me and have last names like mine, right? There are so much power in the individual, whether it's calling your alma mater to find out how they're managing their endowment or the nonprofit that you volunteer at, or you know, the 401k manager that is managing your retirement. All of these places are places where you have power. And if people rise up and start to ask questions about, if women represent 51% of the population, why is my retirement half of it not being managed by women investors? Right? I think that if more people understood how that sausage gets made, we would have very different companies being invested in and very different priorities around where money goes. Allison Hare: 55:33 Nathalie, that's so good. So what do you do for fun? Like what recharges and refuels you? Nathalie MN:: 55:41 Uh you know, my, my friends are my family. Even just here, I'm in Atlanta. I could've just flown in and parachuted right out, you know, one day, two days to do a speech. But I'm here for a week because one of my best friends just had a baby four weeks old. I can't think of anything that recharges your batteries more than a newborn. And just the, the sound and the smells and all of the excitement around a newborn. So my friends spending quality time with my friends you know, I try to make sure that my theater roots don't go away. Um so I'm helping with a Broadway show. For example, about Jeannette Rankin, who was the first woman to ever join Congress and be elected to Congress and. Allison Hare: 56:26 You're a playwright is your specialty. Do you act at all? Nathalie MN:: 56:29 No, no, no. In fact, I tried to bribe someone at Columbia University to help basically waive the requirement of making me take an acting class. It was torture. It was obviously like the sausage making. I love the sausage maker. Yeah. Yeah. I want to be the one that helps define how the story gets told. Allison Hare: 56:45 Oh, that's awesome. So how can people contribute to your mission? Nathalie MN:: 56:50 Uh follow me, I am always working on, you know, the last week for example, has been Bahama humanitarian efforts. I obviously get very involved with politics and supports certain candidates. There are all sorts of projects, creative projects like this Broadway show that I'm hoping to shepherd that are always keeping me up and keeping me excited about life. And if people want to get involved in any of these things and especially with the launch of my new company, which will happen within the next few months the best way to know is just to follow me. Allison Hare: 57:22 Oh, that's awesome. And I, and how can people find you? Nathalie MN:: 57:26 Best way to find me is Nathalie molina.com and it's Nathalie with an h and the h is there entirely just to confuse you, Allison Hare: 57:34 I have a cousin named Nathalie with h with the age. Amazing. She's french. She's french. Nathalie MN:: 57:39 My mother would say that exactly. She thinks we call her, she goes, it's a French name. The proper spelling is with an h. Allison Hare: 57:46 Okay. Well thank you so much for being here, Nathalie. This was great. I can't wait to see what you do next and you are a culture changer. Thank you for having me. Thank you. Thank you, Nathalie, for sitting down to talk to me and sharing your ideas of how to move a community and elevate women of all colors. Please pick up Nathalie Malina Niño's book leapfrog, or download it on audible, and I'll link her info in the show notes. As for little left of center. In addition to streaming on your favorite podcast app, these episodes are also now broadcasting on Decatur FM and salesforce radio. I truly hope you'll not only subscribe, but leave a review and continue sharing these episodes. I'm also looking for sponsors for future episodes, so please feel free to follow me on the socials and hit me up. Thank you so much for listening and I will see you next week.

In April 1917, Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress, faced an agonizing choice: should she, or should she not, vote for the United States to enter World War I?

Arianna "Ari" Afsar is a composer, singer, actress, activist and entrepreneur.  Ari wrote the music and lyrics for "Jeannette" -- a new musical about Jeannette Rankin, the first woman in Congress, which was recently workshopped at the Eugene O'Neill National Music Theatre Conference.  Hamilton fans know Ari as the original Eliza in the Chicago production of the show. Before that she was on American Idol (at age 16!) and was crowned Miss California just a couple of years later. She has a degree in ethnomusicology with an emphasis on jazz vocals from UCLA. She went directly from college to writing music for TV and film. And she has been an activist her whole life, starting with founding an organization bringing teens to perform at senior centers, and more recently has done extensive work with the ACLU an other human rights causes, including working on The Women’s March and opening for Michelle Obama at the Shrine Auditorium. This is all in addition to her new EP, “Somewhere I thought I’d Be,” released this Spring, which is available on Apple Music, Spotify and everywhere else you buy or stream music.  

En esta pildora de Mujeres con Historia recuperamos las efemérides feministas del mes de junio. Alba Ferrera, Tania Lezcano y Jéssica Murillo nos hablan de la vida y obra de: María Reiche, Jeannette Rankin y Manikarnika Tambe. ¿Quieres saber quiénes fueron y qué hicieron? Pulsa el play y disfruta

Jeannette Rankin - America's First Congresswoman with author Peter Aronson In 1916, Jeannette Rankin made history when she became the first woman elected to Congress, a full 100 years before Hillary Clinton made her historic run for president. Rankin was a groundbreaking politician, a leading suffragette, a leader in fighting for women's rights and, into her 90s, an outspoken anti-war activist fighting against the Vietnam War. She never gave in - and she never gave up. She was a #metoo leader a century ahead of her time. This inspiring biography for middle-grade readers, with more than 60 historic photographs, is now available from Amazon.com. For more infor visit: http://peteraronsonbooks.com/ ************************************************* For more information about BITEradio products and services visit: http://www.biteradio.me/index.html

This week on The Leftscape, Mary McGinley speaks with historian and performer Carol Simon Levin. After minoring in Women's History at Cornell University, Levin wasn't yet on her current path of immersion and fascination with the topic. It was a chance meeting at the gym and a conversation about Emily Roebling that led to more and more research, a book, and her one-woman performances that bring to life women from history, many of whose stories have been hidden from view. This discussion winds through stories of women including Jeannette Rankin, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Alice Paul. Thoughts on the voices of women of color and racial divisions within the feminist movement then and now recur throughout, and invite deep, ongoing conversation and analysis. In the news, the government shutdown continues and problems are growing from missed paychecks to missing personnel in national parks. Some Good Samaritans have tried picking up the slack when and where they can. A federal judge has ruled against a citizenship question on the 2020 census, and we all learned that the FBI opened an inquiry into whether or not Donald Trump was at any point working on behalf of Russian interests. This week, it's time to celebrate National Opposite Day (No, it's not!) and National Meat Week. Silly holidays aside, on January 27th, we have the deeply solemn Holocaust Remembrance Day. Also this week, The Leftscape sends out birthday love for Alicia Keys, Etta James, Ellen DeGeneres, Harriet Tubman, Oprah Winfrey, and Robin Renée remembers musician and friend, Warren Zevon. Things to do: Visit Carol Simon Levin online at tellingherstories.com. Check out her coloring book featuring facts about many courageous and tenacious American women: Remembering the Ladies: From Patriots in Petticoats to Presidential Candidates  Find out more about Middlesex-Somerset NOW Support Wendy Sheridan's excellent Kickstarter project, (Post)Cards Against Fascism!                    

Craig talks today with Udo Fluck, Director of Global & Cultural Affairs at Arts Missoula, and Betsy Mulligan-Dague, Executive Director of the Jeannette Rankin Peace center, to talk about the upcoming event "Know Thyself: A Cultural Identity Workshop" Saturday, January 26th from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm. To learn more about Arts Missoula, click here. To learn about the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, click here.

In this week’s podcast you’ll learn about a man’s exploration of his family’s ancestry, you’ll hear a young woman’s struggle to keeping her young daughters safe while writing and promoting her first book and memoir while surviving domestic abuse at home, you’ll descend into addiction and come out on the other side, before finally making friends with a person with whom you once vehemently disagreed. Our podcast today was recorded in front of a live audience on October 2, 2018, to a sold-out crowd at The Wilma in Missoula, MT. 8 storytellers shared their true personal story on the theme “It’s Complicated”. Today we hear from four of those storytellers. Our first story comes to us from Chris LaTray, whose father wants nothing to do with his Native American heritage. As Chris becomes an adult, he begins exploring this heritage, seeking understanding of who he is and where he comes from. Chris calls his story “How’s It Going, Chief?””. Chris La Tray is a writer, a walker, and a photographer. His freelance writing and photography has appeared in various regional and national publications. His first book, One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays from the World at Large, was recently released via Riverfeet Press. Chris is Chippewa-Cree Métis, and is an enrolled member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians. Follow Chris at chrislatray.com. Get Chris’ new book:  One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays from the World at Large Stephanie Land does the best she can as she navigates escaping and surviving domestic violence while keeping her young daughters safe and writing and promoting her first book and memoir. She calls her story “Setting the Missing Piece Down”. Stephanie Land’s work has been featured in The New York Times, the New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Vox, Salon and many other outlets. She lives in Missoula, Montana. Follow Stephanie at stepville.com. Her first book, MAID, Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive A Memoir is available starting in January 2019 from Hachette. Pre-order her book now! Steve Brester, a retired Missoula police officer, recovers from drug addiction and alcoholism after being caught stealing from the state crime evidence lab. Recovery led him to work towards ending unemployment for Missoula’s Low Income, Previously Incarcerated and Homeless Populations. Steve’s story is called “Addiction and Second Chance”. Steve Brester and his wife are native Missoulians, graduating from Sentinel and Hellgate respectively. They both attended University of Montana and have been married for 34 years. They have three adult children and two grandchildren. Steve is a retired City of Missoula Police Officer who served from 1992-2012. Learn more about Missoula Works. Betsy Mulligan-Dague’s work as a peace advocate leads her to forge an unlikely friendship with a Vietnam veteran. Together they move past their differences and see the importance of the work that each of them engages in. Betsy calls her story “My Friend Dan”. Betsy Mulligan-Dague has a 30 year history as a clinical social worker helping families and individuals address challenges in their lives. She has taught numerous groups to look at ways they can understand the emotions and needs behind communication. Since 2005, she has been the Executive Director of the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, where she has continued to focus on ways people can increase their communication skills to become better at peacemaking and conflict resolution, believing that our difference will never be as important as the things we have in common. She recently was featured in a full-length documentary, Beyond the Divide: The Courage to Find Common Ground about her efforts to build bridges between peace advocates and veterans. Betsy is a past president of the Missoula Sunrise Rotary Club and currently serves as the Chair of the State Peace & Conflict Resolution Committee for Rotary as well as a board member of the Waterton Glacier International Peace Park. She is available to speak on peace, peacemaking, conflict resolution, team building, nonviolent communication, women’s issues, social activism, the history and importance of Jeannette Rankin as well as specifics of nonprofit management, fair trade and earned income. See the trailer for “9 Pieces of Peace” See the trailer for Beyond the Divide Listen to “A Conversation Between a Peace Activst and a Vietnam Veteran” on PRX.

The guys talk to actor/singer/songwriter Arianna Afsar @ariannaafsar (original Eliza in @Hamiltonmusical in Chicago #hamiltonchi, currently working on an original musical about the life of Jeannette Rankin.) We go in depth about writing and creating your own work, and musical theatre as a tool for activism. Search “b-roll” or “actors connection” in the podcast app of your choice! The guys at @reproductionsco and @actorsconn, @tommypwalters @mjcerisano and @senormarces, are bringing you awesome interviews with guests from theatre, tv, film and production! Related Links: First Burn  Love You I Don't  Babylon Berlin  Upgrade  Hannah Gadsby: Nanette  Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King  INSECURE  Master of None - Uber Scene  Cast of Hamilton Chicago @The Women's March  Jeannette Rankin Ari's American Idol Audition William Hung - American Idol MKTO - Classic Wojtek the Bear Tommy Social Twitter: @tommypwalters Instagram: @tommypwalters tommy@actorsconnection.com Mike Social: Instagram: @mjcerisano mcerisano.com mike@reproductions.com Mauricio Social Twitter: @mauriciomarces Instagram: @senormarces

Jeannette Rankin had a belief: That women were essential to the health of our democracy. She became the first woman elected to Congress over a century ago. Now, Kathleen Williams is vying to follow in her footsteps. Plus, what if we filled all 435 seats in the House with women? Would it make a difference? The United States of Anxiety is supported in part by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Additional support for WNYC’s election coverage is provided by Emerson Collective, The New York Community Trust, and New York Public Radio Trustee Dr. Mary White. Loading...

We've got two Jeannette's today. One an early pioneer of suffrage in the U.S. The other, a scientific balloonist. Rankin http://history.house.gov/People/Detail/20147 https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/jeannette-rankin Piccard https://www.nature.com/articles/nchem.2702

Who was the first woman to hold federal office? Did you know that she held office before the 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was even passed? In today's 10 minutes, we meet Jeannette Rankin, the republican House Representative who was the first woman to be elected to federal office in 1916. We also explore the Woman Suffrage Movement, and Jeannette's involvement. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/history-in-ten/support

In April 1917, Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress, faced an agonizing choice. Should she, or should she not, vote for the United States to enter World War I?

The terrific Christie Buchele returns to help us discuss the remarkable Jeannette Rankin! Meanwhile, Zach shares his drinking problem with Brian, Christie isn't here for any nerd crap, and Brian definitely just saw Avengers.Support our show by donating over at our Patreon page!Be sure to check out all the awesome shows on the Denver Podcast Network!

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor sunk multiple ships and killed over 2,000 people at the Naval Base on Oahu. As soon as it happened, it appeared that Japan had brought America into World War II. Yet America's formal declaration of war was so important and crucial that President Franklin Roosevelt went before a joint session of Congress to urge a declaration of war the next day. Roosevelt's speech, in which he famously said that the Japanese attack would make December 7, 1941 "a date which will live in infamy," built a case for America already being at war with Japan. After dealing with a significant isolationist movement in America and a disinterest in participating in a second World War, Roosevelt's urging was key. Immediately after his 7 minute speech, the Senate and the House took up the vote. The Senate unanimously voted for the Declaration of War by a margin of 82-0; the House voted for it by a margin of 388-1. Only the pacifist Jeannette Rankin refused to vote for the declaration. The entry of the United States of America would turn the tide of the war significantly, changing the shape of the conflict.

Highlights The Suffragists in WWI @ | 01:20 The Battle of Passchendaele ends - Mike Shuster @ | 11:45 Ceremonial Groundbreaking episode announced @ | 16:30 Meet the designer of the National WWI Memorial - Joseph Weishaar @ | 17:30 Speaking WWI - “Snapshot” @ | 24:45 100C/100M in Jackson, MO - Lawson Burgfeld @ | 26:50 “Travels with Darley” on the Western Front - Darley Newman @ | 33:25 Native American Story of Service - Nick Brokeshoulder @ | 39:00 The Buzz - Katherine Akey @ | 48:50 more...----more---- Opening Welcome to World War 1 centennial News - It’s about WW1 THEN - what was happening 100 years ago this week  - and it’s about WW1 NOW - news and updates about the centennial and the commemoration. Today is November 15th, 2017. Our guests this week include: Mike Shuster from the great war project blog,    Joe Weishaar, architect and designer of the National WW1 Memorial in DC Lawson Bergfeld from the 100 cities/100 memorials project in Jackson, Missouri Darley Newman, the host and producer of “Travels with Darley” on PBS Nick Brokeshoulder, veteran with a Stories of Service about his grandfather And Katherine Akey the shows line producer and the commissions social media director... WW1 Centennial News is brought to you by the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library. I’m Theo Mayer - the Chief Technologist for the Commission and your host. Welcome to the show. [MUSIC] Preface Let's begin today’s show with a single word. Suffrage! What is that word? Is it about the process of suffering - well yea -  but only in a manner of speaking, The actual etymology or the history of the word comes the latin term for voting or to VOTE. It's a little hard to remember that 100 years ago, during the war that changed the world, a large part of the American citizenry had no democratic sway or say in the governance of the country. For some reason, in a majority of states, it was thought that you needed testicles in order to cast a vote. The Suffrage movement - the movement for women's right to vote - was in high gear during this time  and in 1916 during his presidential campaign, Woodrow Wilson promises that his democratic party will endorse women's suffrage - During that same election, the progressive state of Montana - surprise - surprise - elects suffragist Jeannette Rankin to the US House of Representatives. And just 4 days after being sworn in as the first woman to serve in congress, on April 6, 1917, the house of representatives is casting its historic vote about declaring war on Germany - which eventually passed 373 to 50.   Jeannette Rankin remains silent during the first reading of the roll call. So--- Former Speaker of the house - Joe Cannon of Illinois -- seeks her out on the house floor and advises: “Little woman, you cannot afford not to vote. You represent the womanhood of the country...  and in the American Congress.” So on the second reading of the roll, violating house rules about commenting on your votes, Rankin rises from her seat and intones...   “I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.” While the women of America are fully engaged in the war effort... from sending their sons and husbands and even daughters into an unknown future, to taking over critical infrastructure jobs and tasks on the homefront, and in dozens of other ways --  one hundred years ago this week, the pages of the New York Times are filled with stories about suffragists, pacifists, and President Wilson's change of position on the women's suffrage movement. Wow - So let's jump back in time 100 years and see what the fuss in all about!   World War One THEN 100 Year Ago This Week [MUSIC TRANSITION] It is the second week of November, 1917 and just a week ago, a socio political tsunami lands -- when on November 6th 1917:  Women in New York State win the right to vote!!  This sends shock waves through the political arena and emboldens the suffragists to take action in Washington DC. In the November 11th Sunday edition of the New York Times there are three articles about the suffragist in DC. [SOUND EFFECT] Dateline October 11, 1917 A headline in the New York Times reads: SUFFRAGISTS WARY OF OLD PARTY BIDS They Declare Purpose of Continued Nonpartisan Fight for Federal Amendment Denounce all Political BOSS ism Men Leaders See Danger to Their Prestige In New Political Holdings   And the story goes on to read: The Suffrage Leaders have decided to keep the Woman Suffrage Party and it's organized allies alive and militant as NON PARTISAN AGENCIES to continue the fight - at least until after the congress shall have adopted - and sufficient state legislatures shall have ratified the so-called Susan B Anthony amendment to the Federal Constitution. The amendment that shall provide for the enfranchisement of women in every nook and corner of the United States! Politicians of "the other sex" who heard of this yesterday realized with a sudden start that MAN was no longer the only pebble on the political beach. They were not slow to sense the potential behind the plan and marveled that the woman suffrage leaders with a stiff franchise fight on their hands should have found time to think up novel and catchy devices that nad never occurred to the men politicians at all. So in overview, the woman suffrage movement wins in New York state… and the suffrage leadership realizes the power of their numbers and decide to hold themselves non-partisan as a voting block until their goals are met --- all to the awed surprise and shock of the old boys club - who had not imaged that the ladies would have such strategic pluck!   [SOUND EFFECT] Dateline October 11, 1917 Another headline in today's NY Times reads: SUFFRAGISTS EAGER TO LEARN POLITICS They Throng to hear from President William taft in discussion of "Partnership of Democratic Nations"   And the story reads New York: That the Suffragists are determined to prepare themselves for the polls by receiving as much instruction as possible in the techniques of national and international politics was shown by the throng of women who flocked to Carnegie Hall yesterday to hear ex-president Taft deliver a lecture on a partnership of democratic nations under the auspices of the league for Political Education. Seldom has Mr. Taft had a more attentive, earnest, and interested audience, than these hundreds of women, who felt that the passage of the Suffrage Amendment in New York obliged them to absorb and understand more thoroughly than they had ever done before, the mysteries and intricacies of political science and international relations. And yet a third article is published in the NY times on this same Sunday - this one about a defiant protest in Washington.   [SOUND EFFECT] Dateline October 11, 1917 The headline reads: ARREST OF 41 PICKETS FOR SUFFRAGE AT WHITE HOUSE Police, Unable to Induce Them to Move On, Take them Off in “Black Marias.”   And the story reads: Forty one woman suffragists from fifteen states were arrested this afternoon for picketing outside the White House. Their adventure was one of the quietest and at the same time most sedately spectacular of all the picketing affairs yet staged. On former raids by picketers  the crowds had jeered, but today there was none of it. A murmur arose as the vanguard of suffragists marched across Pennsylvania Ave. They carried their usual display of banners, one at the head of the line reading: “Mr. President, in your message to congress, urge the amendment enfranchising women!” The police officers quietly informed them that they must “move on”. They replied that they intended on doing no such thing. The captain gave them a moment to wait, then motioning to the policemen standing by at his elbow, ordered the women escorted to the waiting “Black Maria”. They went without protest filling the wagons. Mrs. Oliver H P Belmont, member of the national executive Committee of the National Woman’s Party said: “What have we come to in America when splendid women, loving liberty are arrested for asking this simple question: ‘Mr. President, in your message to Congress urge the passage of the Federal Suffrage Amendment enfranchising Women!”   Two days later…. [SOUND EFFECT] Dateline November 13, 1917 A headline in the NY Times reads SUFFRAGISTS PICKETS GET ARRESTED AGAIN Thirty One, Including Many of The Former Prisoners, Taken at White House Again. Protesting Delegates of New York Fail to Obtain an Audience with the President.   And the story reads Thirty-one militant suffragists, most of who were among the forty-one arrested last Saturday, repeated their picketing before the White House today and were re-arrested. This followed a hearing at which the forty-one appeared before Judge Mellowney of the Police Court, who suspended the sentences. Mrs. William Kent of california stated: “My conscience is clear. I walked on Saturday afternoon from Cameron House to the further gate of the White House. I obstructed no traffic. I was moving. At the further gate there was no crowd. I held a banner which all might read.   The administration should commend instead of allowing a prison sentence to be imposed upon women who hold aloft words which show the utmost devotion to the ideals of political liberty on which our government is founded.” This explanation was offered by Mrs. Wiley: “I want to state that we took this action with the consecration of spirit. We took this action with willingness to sacrifice our personal liberty, in order to focus the attention of the nation on the injustice of our disenfranchisement, that we might thereby win political liberty for all the women of the country.” She closed with: The constitution says that Congress shall not in any way abridge the right of citizens peaceably to assemble and petition. That is exactly what we did. We peacefully assembled and then proceeded with our petition to the President for the redress of our grievance of disenfranchisement. The constitution does not specify the form of petition. Ours was in the form of a banner. To say that we broke the traffic regulations when we exercise our constitutional right of petition is in therefore itself unconstitutional!   President Wilson, a previously declared supporter of suffrage now finds himself in a bind. The suffragists are in a large part anti-war, growing in power, declaring themselves apart from established parties and seemingly ever more militant.  He comes to see the movement as a threat to the war effort. In the end a compromise is reached, the suffrage movement declares support for the war and the Susan B. Anthony amendment is ratified after being passed by the thirty-sixth state, Tennessee, on August 18, 1920. A woman’s right to vote becomes the nineteenth amendment to the United States Constitution - a movement that has a watershed moment 100 years ago this week in the War that changed the world!   [SOUND EFFECT] Great War Project At last the Battle of Passchendaele in Flanders ends. It is declared a victory for the allies - but at such costs - can anything really be considered a victory. Here to tell us about it is Mike Shuster, former NPR correspondent and curator of the Great War Project blog. The horror at Passchendaele is finally over! Mike:   [Mike Shuster]   Mike Shuster from the Great War Project blog. LINK: http://greatwarproject.org/2017/11/12/a-great-battle-is-over/   [SOUND EFFECT] The Great War Channel For video about WWI - we recommend the Great War Channel on Youtube hosted by Indy Neidell.   This week’s new episodes are:   The Russian October Revolution The Mad Baron - Roman von Ungern-Sternberg And The Last Hussar - August von Mackensen   Follow the link in the podcast notes or search for “the great war” on youtube. Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar     World War One NOW Now we are going to fast forward into the present to WW1 Centennial News NOW - and explore what is happening to commemorate the centennial of the War that changed the world! [SOUND EFFECT] Commission News Events: Recap of Groundbreaking Last week on November 9, 2017 the US World War One Centennial Commission hosted the ceremonial groundbreaking for America’s WWI Memorial at Pershing Park in Washington DC. The event marked an important moment in the projects realization with great guests speaking on the occasion including Muriel Bowser the Mayor of Washington DC, Congressmen Ted Poe, Emanuel Cleaver, Doug Lamborn and Kevin Yoder in a great bipartisan show of support, the administration's US Secretary of Veterans Affairs, David Shulkin, And The Chief of staff of the army, General Mark A. Milley - now this is a post that General Pershing himself held from 1921 to 1924, and that is just some of the great speakers… In fact it was such an interesting series of presentations, perspectives and information that next week we are dedicating a special thanksgiving holiday episode to bringing you the event!   [SOUND EFFECT]   Memorial Update Interview with Joe Weishaar Joseph Weishaar, who won the international design competition to become the Lead designer for the National World War I Memorial at Pershing Park in Washington, DC spoke at the event and is also with us here today. Joe, it’s the first time we have had you on the show but certainly will not be the last… Welcome!   [greetings]   [Joe.. we want to learn a little about you - your not an old hand at this memorial design thing - can you tell us how you decided to enter the design competition and the experience of getting selected?]   [So during the livestream of the ceremonial groundbreaking the chat room was full of comments from your hometown - your school, your family, your teachers -  Where did you grow up and who are all those folks?]   [Joe tell us a bit about your partnership with Sabin Howard - who we will have on the show when he gets back from New Zealand - how did you two hook up and what roles do each of you play?]   [OK - I have to do this to you… and i will ask you this again in the future - what is the most memorable thing about this experience for you so far?]   [Joe - I heard you just got married! Tell us about the happy bride.   [Well congratulations to both of you! And we look forward to having you come on the show for updates on the project and the journey of Joe Weishaar! Thanks Joe!] [goodbyes/thanks]   Joseph Weishaar is the architect and designer for the National World War One Memorial in Washington, DC. Go to ww1cc.org/memorial to learn all about the project - and we have the link in the podcast notes. Link: www.ww1cc.org/memorial Speaking WW1 And now for our feature “Speaking World War 1” - Where we explore the words & phrases that are rooted in the war  --- Americans have been known for shooting skills since the colonial pioneer days, and in World War One they continued to display their sharpshooting skills in the trenches. But shooting from a trench in the war was very different from shooting back home; lifting your head up while you carefully aimed in on a target could get you killed. So when you went to fire, speed was key. Snapping up over the parapet, aim, fire and drop became THE standard procedure, a procedure that came to be known as a  snapshot! The word snapshot had been used to describe a quick shot from a firearm during the 1800s, but came into much more frequent use during the war. Around the same time, the word was also borrowed for another activity - taking pictures! As we mentioned in episode #30, this era was the advent of roll film and small, portable cameras. This allowed people to take pictures casually and easily. These quickly composed photographs also became known as snapshots - pop up the camera - aim - fire with the same speed as their namesake riflemen. A game even emerged called “snapshooting,” a sort of photographic version of tag: where you tried to escape while someone raced around trying to catch you on film. It  was a kind of photographic version of hunting… but as we were preparing this article - it suddenly struck me how strange it is that we speak of shooting a picture, shooting video, shooting a selfie… I mean if you think about it - that’s completely backwards - nothing comes out of the camera - you’re not shooting anything - the light and image go INTO the camera - so you’re not shooting, you’re capturing something. But… somehow the term SnapCap just does not have the panache of this week’s speaking WWI word - SnapSHOT See the podcast notes to learn more!   link: https://www.amazon.com/Tommy-Doughboy-Fritz-Soldier-Slang/dp/144563 7839/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1508848013&sr=8-1&keywords=tommy+doughboy+fritz https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/photography https://books.google.com/books?id=e1uOAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA82&lpg=PA82&dq=snapshot+word+origin&source=bl&ots=lbRMBtv72g&sig=0z6RxsEwfHGJrS79B1ivAL5GoKI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjs3Nijnr7XAhWH0iYKHcyvC-M4ChDoAQgoMAA#v=onepage&q=snapshot%20word%20origin&f=false 100 Cities/100 Memorials [SOUND EFFECT   Jackson, Missouri Moving on to our 100 Cities / 100 Memorials segment about the $200,000 matching grant challenge to rescue and focus on our local WWI memorials. As you listen to our guest tell us about the project, remember that we are taking grant applications for the second round of awards - the deadline to submit the applications is January 15, 2018 - go to ww1cc.org/100Memorials to learn all about it.’   This week we are profiling the WW1 Doughboy Memorial Project in Jackson, Missouri-- one of the first 50 awardees of the 100 available grants. with us tell us about the project is Commander Lawson Burgfeld, USN RET, and the WW1 Doughboy Memorial Project Lead for the American Legion Post  #158   Welcome Lawson! [exchange greetings] [Lawson - looking through your grant application, your project reads like a textbook case for our program! First of all, the memorial in in front of your county courthouse where SO many WWI memorials are to be found - but there is so much more.]   [Would you start by telling us a bit about the project itself, please…]   [What made you decide to participate in the 100 Cities / 100 memorials project? How did you hear about it?]   Commander Lawson Burgfeld is the WW1 Doughboy Memorial Project Leader for American Legion Post  #158 in Jackson, Missouri a WWI Centennial Memorial project awardee!   If you have a local project you want to submit for a grant - go to ww1cc.org/100 memorials or follow the link in the podcast notes to learn more about how to participate in this program!   Link: www.ww1cc.org/100memorials   [SOUND EFFECT]   Spotlight in the Media “Travels with Darley” - France’s Western Front Region   For our Spotlight in the Media segment this week, we are speaking with Darley Newman, the host and producer of “Travels with Darley” on PBS, where she travels the world with locals as the guides to uncover great food, culture, history and outdoor adventures.   Darley produced a 2 episode series about traveling to France’s Western Front -  which is airing on PBS stations across the nation now... Welcome, Darley! [greetings]   [Darley, there are so many amazing things to focus on in France: the food, the wine, the fromage, the architecture… how did you come to focus on American WW1 sites as a topic for your travel show?]   [Which site sticks out in your mind as particularly affecting or interesting?]   [If I wanted to take a trip through the historic areas of the Western Front in Northern France - how should I prepare?]   [Last question - if I take this trip - what should I NEVER DO?]   [goodbyes/thanks]   Darley Newman is the host and producer of “Travels with Darley” on PBS, and you can watch the “Travels with Darley: France’s Western Front” episodes, see the online videos and get other special content by following the links in the podcast notes. Links:http://us.media.france.fr/en/node/6461 https://travelswithdarley.com/tv-show/pbs-tv-preview/#season-four-episodes Romagne Museum http://www.romagne14-18.com/index.php/en/   Remembering Veterans/Stories of Service Interview with Nick Brokeshoulder   This week in our Remembering Veterans segment, we have a special guest Nick Brokeshoulder from the Hopi Tribe of Arizona & Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma-  Nick is a Retired US Army-Sergeant First Class and is with us today to tell us about his Grandfather Guy Maktima (mahk-tay-ma), a son of the Hopi tribe.   Welcome, Nick!   [greetings]   [Nick… As a child of 12, Your grandfather was taken from his Hopi village by US cavalry troops and sent for “white” education in 1907. That is a pretty brutal experience - How do you think that affected his decision to join the military?]   [It turns out your grandfather also had musical talent and played the trombone! And played in the 158th Regimental band. Tell us that story!]   [when Katherine was researching your story, she came across a recording of the 158th regimental band - it’s possible your grandfather is in the trombone section of this recording! Let’s take a listen!]   [Play segment]   What was Guy Maktima experience during the war?   [What did Guy Maktima do after the war ended?]   [last question Nick - how has the Centennial of WWI affected your remembrance of your grandfather?]   Thank you Nick!   [goodbye/thanks]   Nick Brokeshoulder is the grandson of Private Guy Maktima (mahk-tay-ma), who served in the US Army during WW1. If you want to hear more stories of individuals who served in the war, head over to our Stories of Service page at ww1cc.org/stories  where you’ll also find a link where you can submit your veterans story.   Link: http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/commemorate/family-ties/stories-of-service.html   Recording of the 158th band: http://www.forttuthill.org/band.html   Articles and Posts The Expeditionary Corps of Armored Cars exhibit   In Articles and Posts this week, we are profiling unique story --- of a unique military unit that had adventures unlike any other, during the World War I --The Expeditionary Corps of Armored Cars. The Corps, often called ACM, was a military division formed by Belgian volunteers during WWI. It was sent to Russia at the request of the Tsar to fight the German Army on the Eastern front. After the Bolshevik revolution, the ACM corps found itself trapped in hostile territory, unable to return to Allied territory through Europe or the Middle East - so to reach safety, the Corps headed east, eventually reaching the US through China and Siberia. Talk about a road trip! The Embassy of Belgium has a new World War I exhibit on the ACM that has been traveling across the United States. We caught up with two members of the Belgian Embassy staff, who worked on the exhibit -- and you can read the interview with them at ww1cc.org/news or by following the link in the podcast notes. link:http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/press-media/wwi-centennial-news/3630-four-question-for-gaelle-powis-de-tenbossche-and-carl-vander-maelen.html   The Buzz - WW1 in Social Media Posts And that brings us to the buzz - the centennial of WW1 this week in social media with Katherine Akey - Katherine, what’s going on in the world of social media this week?   Hi Theo!   Veterans Day in Gondrecourt Veterans Day and Armistice Day commemorations took place all across the world last week, and you can see many photos and videos of various events shared on our Facebook and Twitter or on our social media wall at ww1cc.org/social. One post in particular that I wanted to share come from the Facebook page “Les Americains de la Gondrecourt Area”, a very franglais page that commemorates the history of the American presence in Gondrecourt during WW1. On November 10th,  the college students of Gondrecourt paid tribute to 131 American soldiers who died at the American hospital there between 1917 and 1919 by planting a tree in honor of each soldier. Each student received a card with the details of the American Soldier they were to represent in the commemoration, including his regiment and his hometown. You can see images from this commemorative event by following the link in the podcast notes. link:https://www.facebook.com/lesamericainsdegondrecourt/posts/516814575343417   Eagle Scout Sign Project Here in the states, a young man has completed a very ambitious project in Huntington, West Virginia. Benjamin Woodard has just finished installing 17 signs honoring WW1 soldiers as his Eagle Scout project in Ritter Park. The park already contains trees planted in honor of ww1 veterans as well as a WW1 Memorial Arch, so Woodard’s signs fit right in but also provided more information on the individuals who served. He did research on 91 local veterans of World War One during the course of the project. Coolest of all, he has given all that research to the Clio App, an app which takes your location and guides you to landmarks, museums, and historic sites nearby. People in Huntington will be able to open Clio and hear and read the stories of the soldiers that Woodard found during his work on his Eagle Scout project. Learn more about his project, and the Clio app, by following links in our notes. That’s it this week for the Buzz! link:https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clio-your-guide-to-history/id897995724?mt=8 http://www.wsaz.com/video?vid=453068653   Thank you Katherine. And that’s WW1 Centennial News for November 15, 1917 and 2017 Our guests this week were: Mike Shuster with a look back at the Battle of Passchendaele Joe Weishaar, talking to us about his voyage with the National WW1 Memorial at Pershing Park in Washington DC Lawson Bergfeld from the 100 cities/100 memorials project in Jackson, Missouri Darley Newman, giving us an insider look at her PBS travel episodes trip to Northeastern France Nick Brokeshoulder, sharing the story of his grandfather’s WWI service Katherine Akey the Commission’s social media director and also the line producer for the show. And I am Theo Mayer - your host. The US World War One Centennial Commission was created by Congress to honor, commemorate and educate about WW1. Our programs are to-- inspire a national conversation and awareness about WW1; This program is a part of that…. We are bringing the lessons of the 100 years ago into today's classrooms; We are helping to restore WW1 memorials in communities of all sizes across our country; and of course we are building America’s National WW1 Memorial in Washington DC.   We want to thank commission’s founding sponsor the Pritzker Military Museum and Library for their support. The podcast can be found on our website at ww1cc.org/cn   on  iTunes and google play ww1 Centennial News, and on Amazon Echo or other Alexa enabled devices. Just say: Alexa: Play W W One Centennial News Podcast. Our twitter and instagram handles are both @ww1cc and we are on facebook @ww1centennial. Thank you for joining us. And don’t forget to share the stories you are hearing here today about the war that changed the world! [music]   Up, point, aim, squeeze - Got it!  Snapcap - I mean Snapshot!   So long!

Using the digitized newspapers available on Chronicling America and Montana Newspapers, MHS Digital Projects Librarian Natasha Hollenbach focuses on how newspapers can add context and personal stories to the often-told narrative of World War I. Jeannette Rankin’s vote against US entry is highlighted, although with liberty loans and the Selective Service Act.

Most Montanans know that Jeannette Rankin was elected the first woman to the U.S. Congress in 1916. Fewer realize that the 1916 election (the first after Montana women won the franchise) also saw the election of May Trumper as state superintendent of public instruction and Emma Ingalls (R, Flathead County) and Maggie Smith Hathaway (D, Ravalli County) as representatives to the Montana House of Representatives. Senator Diane Sands explores the impact these women’s participation in state politics had on our state.

A century ago, Jeannette Rankin made history by becoming the first woman to serve in Congress. She was an instant star, though she was more likely to show up in the society pages than in the news section.

Show notes: http://bit.ly/2ecRMR8 Two Week Catch-Up: Jermaine visits Vegas & loves magic, goes full-ham on Diablo III Season 8, & plays/streams Osiris - "Your every move is magnified!" Robert does more volunteer work for Wonderlust, celebrates Jeannette Rankin - the first congresswoman ever elected to congress, and watches his 24th straight week of anime Darrell follows football, works a ton, joins Jermaine in playing more Diablo III, & watches Luke Cage & Atlanta Nerdy News: Robert wonders how on earth Samsung Galaxy Note 7s are catching on fire - airports around the world freak out Jermaine has a ton of questions about the new Nintendo Switch & is saddened if Nintendo's leaving the home market Darrell finds Tim Miller leaving the Deadpool sequel over creative differences to be depressing Trailer Talk: Logan Jermaine: "Even as a big comic book fan, I am not excited. Three stars" Darrell: "I like the song. Not enough to whet my whistle though. Three stars" Robert: "Not excited at all whatsoever the tiniest bit. 1.5 stars" John Wick: Chapter 2 Jermaine: "Directed by a stuntman! Looks fantastic. Five stars" Darrell: "It's like Equilibrium! Can't get deeper than that! Ten stars" Robert: "Kung-Fu choreography but with guns. Most exciting trailer of the year for me. Five stars" Review - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Jermaine: "Overall, good pacing. I did not hate it, even slightly enjoyed it. Do not recommend though" Darrell: "Transitions didn't make sense. I almost fell asleep. Do not recommend" Robert: "I did fall asleep. This movie commits the ultimate sin: it was boring. So bad. Run the other way from this movie" Recommendations: Darrell recommends This Is Us - "Well written show! Definitely check it out" Robert loves "love triangles" in The Pet Girl of Sakura Hall - "Also illustrates the differences between geniuses and normal people" Jermaine plays San Juan - "Build production buildings! Build cities! Forty-five minutes to play" Credits: "Well, John wasn't exactly the bogey man. He was the one you sent to kill the eff'ing bogey man" "Pet na Kanojotachi Kimi ga Yume wo Tsuretekita" from The Pet Girl of Sakura Hall

In commemoration of the centennial anniversary of the first woman being elected to the United States’ Congress, interpretive historian Mary Jane Bradbury portrays Jeannette Rankin, “America’s Conscience,” telling Rankin’s story from grassroots suffragist to being the only member of Congress to vote against the entry of the United States into both world wars. Bradbury uses Jeannette’s own words to share her views on equality and government reform—words that still ring true a century later.

On this episode we talk to actor and comedian Connor Ratliff about his obsession with Elvis Costello. Elvis attracts a lot of obsessed fans, but few have the depth of knowledge that Connor has. We get into little-known anecdotes and projects from EC's past, go over some classic songs and talk about how Elvis' music affected Connor personally! Also, Will talks about the first female congresswoman Jeannette Rankin who voted against entering both WWI and WWII, and Anthony discusses games in current politics, like how Republicans are suddenly saying they are really offended by income inequality. That's crazy, right?  

Join host Debra Norwood, Laughter Lawyer USA, in this Look Good !Feel Good! episode on Your True Colors Image Radio.  Our program always explores positive people,places and causes! Todays show: VALIANT WOMEN!  profiles amazing  women in history for Women's history month. We will hear from genealogist, historian and story teller, Isha Echols as she participates in this second  radio installment on the Civil Rights Movement, focusing on 19th century women who contributed to Women's rights. We will highlight surprising moments in history including that of the the largest woman's organization in the world, the Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  We'll  cover contraversial Mormon women in American history such as Emma Smith and Emmeline B. Wells, as well as famous African-American journalist and activist, Ida B.Wells and Women's Rights Activist, Jeannette Rankin. Our Book review for this episode: THE RED TENT by Anita Diamant. Join Isha Echols and Debra Norwood on a true adventure exploring the often supressed stories of women and bonding, birthing children and  birthing a nation! www.laughterlawyerusa.com twitter laughterlawyeru Friend me on Facebook at Laughter Lawyer USA 

In honor of Women's History Month, we are posting a series of podcasts about the contributions of women to American history and politics.  Today's podcast talks about  Congresswoman Jeanette Rankin of Montana and USCIS 100:23--Finding your US Rep with ZIP+4. For more info, visit www.uscitizenpod.com: March 3, 2010: US Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin of Montana

Marx, Trish. JEANNETTE RANKIN : FIRST LADY OF CONGRESS