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Right Answers Mostly

The First Female Self-Made Millionaire, Madam CJ Walker!

Right Answers Mostly

Claire Donald & Tess Bellomo

History, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.3634 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This week we tell the inspiring story of the pioneering entrepreneur and beauty mogul, Madam CJ Walker. From being the first member in her family to be born into freedom after the emancipation proclamation and her remarkable rise to becoming the first female self-made millionaire, we talk about the challenges she faced as a black woman in the early 20th century, her groundbreaking business strategies and her unwavering commitment to empowering other women. This is Madam CJ Walker! Created and produced by Tess Bellomo and Claire Donald Join our PREMIUM (PREMIUM is our new Patreon), follow us on socials and buy merch HERE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Enough from the Tragl.

0:02.0

Spiele Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and 4 and grinds as if it's 2002.

0:08.0

A legendary remake of original games with 9 parks, crasser tricks, platform-overgreifed multiplayer

0:14.0

and ab-gaffirned new game modi.

0:17.0

Holt you the new Tony Harks Pro Skater 3 and 4 and

0:20.0

and the world, the Schwed Stivet, Stip Nye.

0:23.1

Now, now,

0:27.2

can't be able up the 11th, July.

0:30.1

Welcome back to Write Answers Mostly,

0:32.2

a podcast on what you didn't learn in history class,

0:34.4

but you really wanted to.

0:35.7

My name's Claire Donald.

0:36.8

My name is Tespelomo. Hello, everyone. Happy Monday or whatever day you're listening on. We are so happy to be

0:43.0

back with you. We really are. Thanks for, thanks for sticking with us. If you're new here, welcome.

0:47.8

Yes, we like to say that history is just gossip, which is really true. Usually Tess and I will have a cocktail or a joint. If you listen

0:55.8

to our Bob Marley episode last weekend, you know what we're talking about. You sure do. And yeah,

1:00.0

I'm like maybe I take a break from smoking for the non-patri-on episodes, you know? Yeah. Yeah,

1:07.7

exactly. We do our best. But right now we're having a cup of tea. We're feeling very, very zen,

1:13.2

Zen win. We are feeling Zen. It's Valentine's Day here at Spotify. Yes, guys, it's so funny. There's

1:18.6

like a DJ in the lobby and Tesson. Should we just like grind on each other? There's like no one dancing,

1:23.2

but they went all out. It's so cute. They have like little cards, Spotify-themed Valentine's Day cards. is our membership of 799, our little membership club. 799 a month, you get two bonus episodes.

1:45.3

You're added to our close friends list.

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