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The newspaper editors and the public in 1880 couldn't call women investigative reporters - that's what the men were called so  women reporters were dubbed "Stunt Women" and weren't taken seriously until their reports started changing laws, working conditions and regulations.

These brave, adventurous women of the 1880s and 1890s became the most exciting reporters as they did something the men hadn't done - they went undercover to find the truth of how people were treated as factory workers, as hospital patients, as patients with mental illness and so much more.

Join Kit and Sherlock as they talk about these amazing women starting with the famous Nellie Bly.

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Women have been inventing for centuries!  Join Kit and Sherlock as they dip into the plethora of women who have been inventing products from ice cream makers to airplane mufflers.

Inventions that you are still using today started with women centuries ago.

Celebrate the women who came before us paving the way to our success as inventors and entrepreneurs!

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It may seem like a frivolous thing but even today women lawyers are forbidden to enter some courts wearing pants!

How much longer are we going to be told who we are and what we should wear?

Women have been fighting for the right to dress as they choose for 175 years.  Why are we still battling this issue?

Join Kit and Sherlock for stories of women who defied the rules to wear pants.

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What is a cowgirl?  Ranch hand, ranch owner, Wild West performer, rodeo competitor, horse trainer, stagecoach driver, outlaw, cattle rustler - so many definitions.  But the ultimate definition is that a cowgirl is determined and fiercely independent.

In this episode we cover three different kinds of cowgirls.

Jo Monahan - socialite debutant turned bronco buster and cattle rancher.

Lillian Smith - trick shooter and trick rider who could outshoot anyone and rival to Annie Oakley.

Fox Hastings - bulldogging champion of her time who some say committed suicide but we think she may have been murdered.  Who shoots themselves in the stomach when committing suicide and then shoots herself in the head?  Never investigated.  What really happened to Fox Hastings?

Join Kit and Sherlock as they talk about these extraordinary women of the Wild West.

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Join us, Kit and Sherlock, as we share the stories of four women homesteaders in the Wild West.

The more we read about the women who came before us the more inspired we become.

Be inspired, learn about the Badass Women of America!

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Over 100,000 single women took advantage of the Homestead Act of 1862 and for the first time claimed land in their own name.

These women are not in our history books.  These women were instrumental in developing the West.  These were the badass women who lived in the wilderness so that they could have independence, adventure and claim their part of American history.

This episode is Part 1 of the single women homesteaders who braved the wilderness to develop the American West.

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Stagecoach drivers had the hardest job at the time.  Blizzards, rain, wind, bandits, and predators plagued their routes.  Driving a six-horse team through the night these women were determined to deliver the passengers, mail and supplies even if it meant traversing unforgivable conditions. 

Kit and Sherlock talk about two brave women who were the best-of-the-best stagecoach drivers.  Brave and revered by the townspeople whom they provided essentials for living in the Wild West.  Mary Fields and Charlie Parkhurst were the fierce women of the west who linked a connection between civilization and the newly populated American Wild West.

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Not every woman in the 1800s succumbed to the Victorian era of rules and don'ts.  Some went their own way - sometimes with good results and sometimes not so good results.

Today's episode introduces you to four women who sometimes had good results with their adventurous nature and sometimes not but they all had one thing in common - they lived their lives the way they wanted - sometimes with a gun and sometimes with a deck of cards and sometimes both.

Join Kit and Sherlock for the stories of Belle Starr, Pearl Hart, Eleanor Dumont and Poker Alice! 

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My mother-in-law, Marilyn Reber, was a woman who gently pushed against the  pressures of the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s to be the woman she wanted to be rather than the woman that society thought she should be.

Like so many adventurous women she slipped through the restraints of restriction and made her own way.

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25,000 brave women applied to be test pilots in 1942 for WW2.  1,074 made it into the program.  These women were the best of the best pilots in America!  They flew planes that men refused to fly.  

Join Kit and Sherlock as they reveal the path of women of adventure in 1942.  Celebrate the "women who came before us"!

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