Female Firsts: Sarah Bickford
Stuff Mom Never Told You
iHeartPodcasts
4.0 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Yves joins us to spotlight the mysterious, mythical and Wild West story of the first Black woman to own a utility company in the US state of Montana, Sarah Bickford.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:09.3 | Hey, this is Annie. |
| 0:10.4 | And Samantha. |
| 0:11.3 | And welcome to Steph on Never Told You, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:29.7 | And it is time for another edition of Female First, which means we are once again joined by the stupendous, the spectacular, Eves. |
| 0:30.8 | Welcome, Eves. |
| 0:32.7 | Hello, thank you for the welcome. |
| 0:36.6 | Yes, thank you for being here as always. |
| 0:40.4 | How have you been, Eves? Any updates? |
| 0:49.2 | Yeah, I've been pretty good, honestly. I have been really in my learn new things back because I always want to learn a lot of things. |
| 0:54.7 | But now it felt like a good time to try to learn a lot of them. So I'm slow rolling them. I'm like, |
| 1:02.9 | I'm introducing them in stages. And I'm like, I like to commit to things, but I'm also willing to step out if I understand that something really isn't the thing for me. So I started, I'm a piano |
| 1:09.0 | dance classes. So I've done two classes so far. And I love to dance. And I think I can be well suited to this style of dance, but I'm not, I don't know. I have the rhythm and like I have the capacity to learn it well, I think, but I'm not good at it yet. So, |
| 1:29.8 | um, like I'm also never danced before and I'm never taking a dance class before. So I also |
| 1:35.4 | don't know just like the technique and the format and the learning steps. Like all of that is new |
| 1:40.3 | to me. I just kind of like do what I want and feel good in my body dancing, but like |
| 1:44.5 | the technicality of it I'm not familiar with. So having to get used to that, I'm hoping to start |
| 1:50.8 | surfing class, surfing lesson soon, because I want to learn something water base where I actually |
| 1:57.0 | have to like swim, because I have the privilege of being around water right now and being able to serve. |
| 2:02.5 | So I just kind of want to do it for the novelty and the physicality of it and to do something that will challenge my brain and my body in ways that haven't been challenged before. |
| 2:11.1 | But I'll sign up for that soon. |
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