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In this episode, Helen speaks with Ingri Pauline, a holistic women’s weightlifting coach, about rediscovering ancient wisdom about the female body. Ingri shares her insights on how to optimize self-awareness, physical and mental health, and productivity by tracking and honoring the menstrual cycle. 
 
Ingri's Links:
Instagram
Twitter
Website
Cycle Fundamentals

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In this episode, Helen speaks with Inez Stepman about the uses and limits of anti-feminism and how gender wars have flattened the sexes to stereotypes.
 
Inez Feltscher Stepman is a senior policy analyst at IWF and host of High Noon with Inez Stepman, a podcast that hosts conversations with heterodox thinkers on a variety of important cultural and political subjects. She has over a decade of experience in education policy, and also handles issues related to institutional capture and the definition of sex in law and culture. 
 

She is a Lincoln Fellow with the Claremont Institute and a senior contributor to The Federalist. Her work has additionally appeared in outlets such as USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and New York Post, and she has made appearances on Fox News, PBS, CSPAN, and NPR.

Inez has a BA in Philosophy from the University of California, San Diego, and a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. She lives in New York City with her husband.

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In this episode, Helen speaks with Mary Eberstadt about faith, family, feminism, and the future.
 
Mary Eberstadt holds the Panula Chair in Christian Culture at the Catholic Information Center in Washington DC and is Senior Research Fellow at the Faith & Reason Institute. She is an American writer whose contributions to the intellectual landscape traverse genres. An essayist, novelist, and frequent public speaker, she is author of several books of non-fiction, including How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization; Adam and Eve after the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution; and Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics. Her social commentary draws from fields including anthropology, intellectual history, philosophy, popular culture, sociology, and theology.  Central to her diverse interests are questions concerning the philosophy and culture of Western civilization and the fate and aspirations of post-modern man.

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Christine Emba is a columnist for The Washington Post writing about ideas and society. Prior, she was the Hilton Kramer Fellow in Criticism at the New Criterion and a deputy editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit, focusing on technology and innovation. In this episode, Helen talks with Christine about the absolute nightmare scenario that is modern dating, why love and sex seem so far from one another, and how women can be more honest about our desires—all topics covered in her recently released book, Rethinking Sex: a Provocation. 

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In this episode, Helen and Erika Bachiochi discuss the "lost vision" of women, our rights, and our social responsibility, detailed in Erika's newest book, The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision.
 
Erika Bachiochi is a legal scholar specializing in Equal Protection jurisprudence, feminist legal theory, Catholic social teaching, and sexual ethics. She is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a Senior Fellow at the Abigail Adams Institute in Cambridge, MA, where she founded and directs the Wollstonecraft Project.

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Helen and Abigail discuss the ways that various common ideas about womanhood lead to real personal damage. The conversation covers everything from performative femininity to birth control to transgenderism.

Abigail Favale, Ph.D., is a writer, professor, and speaker. She currently directs and teaches in the William Penn Honors Program, a Great Books curriculum at George Fox University. Abigail's essays and short stories have appeared in print and online for publications such as First Things, The Atlantic, Church Life, and Potomac Review. She has written regularly for Dappled Things, a Catholic literary magazine, and was awarded their J.F. Powers Prize for short fiction in 2017. A cradle evangelical, Abigail was received into the Catholic Church in 2014, and her conversion memoir, Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion, traces her journey from postmodern feminism to Roman Catholicism. Abigail is available to speak on a range of topics, but her primary focus is articulating the beauty and wisdom of Catholic teaching on sexuality, gender, and the body. Abigail is wife to Michael, and mother to Julian, Margot, and Benedict.

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Helen and Carrie discuss the importance of beauty, order, and tranquility in our lives as women -- and how these things are best cultivated in the context of home.
 
Carrie Gress is a Fellow at the Washington, D.C. based think-tank, Ethics and Public Policy Center and a Scholar at the Institute for Human Ecology at Catholic University of America.
 
She has a doctorate in philosophy from the Catholic University of America and is the editor at the online women’s magazine Theology of Home.
 
Carrie has written for numerous publications, including Aleteia, Catholic Vote, Catholic World Report, National Review, The Catholic Thing, The Federalist, The National Catholic Register, The Stream, and The Washington Examiner. She is a frequent guest on Ave Maria Radio, Catholic Answers, EWTN Radio, and Relevant Radio, and has appeared on Fox, BBC, CBC, EWTN and Russia Times television.

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Welcome to the introductory episode of Girlboss, Interrupted, where Helen explains the cultural landscape for modern women and explores the various new possibilities bubbling up in reaction against a once-popular but ultimately defunct feminist ideal.

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