Best Of: Mary McLeod Bethune
Womanica
Acast Creative Studios
4.3 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
This back to school season, we're bringing back some of our favorite Womanica episodes you might have missed. Today's Womanican is Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955). She was a pioneering American educator and education activist, civil rights activist, stateswoman, philanthropist, writer and humanitarian.
This month, we’re heading back to school – and we’re taking you along with us! For all of September, we’ll be bringing back some of our favorite Womanica episodes you might have missed. You’ll hear me – and some talented guest hosts – share both iconic and under-appreciated stories. But there’s a twist... each week is dedicated to a different school subject. For our final day, we're bringing you the story of one incredible teacher!
History classes can get a bad rap, and sometimes for good reason. When we were students, we couldn’t help wondering... where were all the ladies at? Why were so many incredible stories missing from the typical curriculum? Enter, Womanica. On this Wonder Media Network podcast we explore the lives of inspiring women in history you may not know about, but definitely should.
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 Educators, Villains, Indigenous Storytellers, Activists, and many more. Womanica 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.
Womanica was created by Liz Kaplan and Jenny Kaplan, executive produced by Jenny Kaplan, and produced by Grace Lynch, Maddy Foley, Brittany Martinez, Edie Allard, Lindsey Kratochwill, Adesuwa Agbonile, Carmen Borca-Carrillo, Taylor Williamson, Sara Schleede, Paloma Moreno Jimenez, Luci Jones, Abbey Delk, Hannah Bottum, Lauren Willams, and Adrien Behn. Special thanks to Shira Atkins. Original theme music composed by Miles Moran.
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| 0:13.0 | Join me as we dive into captivating stories and research-backed ideas that have empowered me |
| 0:18.0 | and others to lead lives with more clarity and intention. |
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| 0:24.0 | Listen to Every Day Better on the LinkedIn Podcast Network, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your |
| 0:28.0 | podcasts. History is filled with unexpected stories and I'd like to tell you about them. I'm |
| 0:34.8 | Aaron Mankey and for the past six years I've been sharing history's most curious |
| 0:38.6 | tales on my podcast Cabinet of Curiosities such as the surprising country that invented the |
| 0:44.1 | Crescent and the wrestling champ who won the White House. And now these amazing |
| 0:47.8 | stories and many more have been compiled into my new book. Curious to know more? |
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| 1:02.3 | I'm NK, and this is Basket Case. What is wrong with me? A show about the ways that |
| 1:07.7 | mental illness is shaped by not just biology, swaps of different meds, but by culture and society. |
| 1:14.0 | By looking closely at the conditions that cause mental distress, |
| 1:18.0 | I find out why so many of us are struggling to feel sane, |
| 1:21.0 | what we can do about it it and why we should care. |
| 1:24.0 | Oh look at you doing a therapy girl. |
| 1:25.0 | Listen to Basket Case every Tuesday on the I Heart Radio app, |
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