“I was born in paradise,” Carmen Maria Montiel says of her home county of Venezuela. But “bureaucracy and corruption” turned her homeland into a nation she hardly recognized. 

Montiel, a journalist, writer, political activist, and Miss Venezuela 1984, says her home country was destroyed by crippling economic policies and poor immigration regulations.

"It's exactly what happened in Venezuela," Montiel says, comparing America’s open border policies to Venezuela's immigration policies in the ‘70s and ‘80s. 

Montiel joins the “Problematic Women” podcast to share her own story of immigrating to America, and to discuss the parallels between Venezuela’s downfall and what she is currently seeing in America. 

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Up on today’s Problematic Women – We are celebrating a week of action for education freedom. We tell you why it matters and how education choice programs could change the field of education forever. 

Plus, a teenager had an illegal abortion and then tried to destroy the evidence with her mom. We explain how the mainstream media reacted. Plus, there is a new social media app that is trying hard not to be like Instagram. We tell you what you need to know. And as always, we’ll be crowning our Problematic Woman of the Week!

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Up on today’s Problematic Women, everything in America seems to be going woke these days. A new report from The Heritage Foundation takes a deep dive into how woke ideology reached the home of our Founding Fathers. We also share the stunning story of a Chicago mom who lost custody of her daughter for insisting that her daughter is a girl. Also, in case you missed it, the Senate passed a major spending bill over the weekend, and we breakdown what’s in the bill, why it matters, and its likely future in the House. 

And as always, we’ll be crowning our Problematic Woman of the Week!

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America's health care system operates like a big business. Doctors and hospitals are overwhelmed with red tape, which takes time away from the patient-provider relationship.

For the health care system to put patients first again, Dr. Marion Mass says it must "cut the glut, open the books, and make everybody play by the same rules."

Mass, a pediatrician and co-founder of Practicing Physicians of America, joins the "Problematic Women" podcast to discuss how the health care system became the monster it is today, and what can be done about it. She also shares her personal story of learning to balance career and motherhood. 

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Up on today’s Problematic Women – We talk about birth control and why the FDA is considering changing its rules and allowing over-the-counter birth control. Plus, Congress is trying to codify gay marriage into law. But why now? We break it down. And YouTube has pledged to remove video on unsafe abortion practices. And as always, we’ll be crowning our Problematic Woman of the Week!

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When political leaders can't define what a woman is, society has a problem. 

The radical left has detached sex and gender from "material reality,” says Abigail Favale, author of the book “The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory."

Removing fact and biological reality from sex has led to a “subtle denigration of … the female body in our culture,” Favale says. 

Favale joins this edition of the “Problematic Women” podcast to discuss the difference between gender and sex, and why it’s so important to understand and celebrate the uniqueness of the female and male body. 

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In this very special episode of Problematic Women, hosts Lauren Evans and Kelsey Bolar go off script and reflect on the last five years producing Problematic Women. They discuss the podcasts's origin story, share some of their favorite memories, and recall some notable  Problematic Women of the Week. Also, Genevieve Wood joins us as a very special Problematic Women of the Week. 

Check out the Elle Magazine article here that started it all!

Read Kelsey Bolar's response piece in The Federalist here.

And watch our favorite documentary featuring Sue Ellen Browder here.

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A woman serving in our military went on TikTok to vent her anger over Roe v. Wade being overturned. Some of the points she makes need to be addressed, and debunked. Plus, Elon Musk is calling off his big deal to buy Twitter - or is he? We break it down. And it’s the middle of summer, so we take a little time to discuss some of the big blockbusters of the season. Anyone else seen "Top Gun: Maverick" more than once? And as always, we’ll be crowning our problematic woman of the week!

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Free speech has been under attack for a long time on college campuses. Now more than ever, students and parents need tools to navigate the woke culture within education. 

“I think we see college administrators giving themselves huge powers because … they have these speech codes, where they ban 'hateful' speech, 'offensive' speech, and sure, that sounds fine, but let's think who's defining those terms,” Nicole Neily says. “It's not a constitutional scholar. It's some petty tyrant with a huge amount of discretion to pick winners and losers.” 

Neily, the founder of Speech First and Parents Defending Education, two organizations fighting for civil liberties and education in America, joins the podcast to discuss her storied career and commitment to the fight for free speech on college campuses.  

Neily also discusses why she's sued some of the nation's largest universities, and the turning point we find ourselves in in America's education system. 

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Singer Macy Gray and actress Bette Midler made headlines recently for saying only women are women. 

The two celebrities made their bold statements—bold for this day and age, at least—over the July 4th holiday weekend. 

“WOMEN OF THE WORLD! We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our name!" Midler, 76, wrote on Twitter. “They don’t call us ‘women’ anymore; they call us ‘birthing people’ or ‘menstruators’, and even ‘people with vaginas’! Don’t let them erase you! Every human on earth owes you!”

Gray, 54, appearing on Piers Morgan's show on the Fox Nation streaming service, discussed the issue of transgender "women"—biological men—competing on women’s sports teams. 

“I will say this, and everybody is going to hate me, but as a woman, just because you go change your parts, doesn't make you a woman,” Gray said.

Famed “Harry Potter” author J. K. Rowling has repeatedly been maligned for making similar comments to those of Midler and Gray. 

The increase in celebrities’ willingness to say "only a woman can be a woman," raises the question: Is the transgender movement on the ropes? Common sense is like kryptonite to the transgender craze. If society's influencers are brave enough to continue sharing about biological reality, the theory that men can be women may collapse like the house of cards it is. 

The timing of Gray’s and Midler’s remarks might also have been influenced by the Supreme Court’s June 24 decision to overturn the court's 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion ruling. 

When Roe was overturned, “the sea of protest signs outside the court referred not to ‘birthing people’ or ‘people who menstruate,’ but instead to women, losing their rights, or politicians trying to control women’s bodies,” Douglas Blair wrote in a recent Daily Signal commentary. 

The political left may be waking up to the reality that they cannot be outraged over women losing abortion access in some states while at the same time declaring that a man can be a woman. 

On today’s episode of the “Problematic Women” podcast we discuss the ways in which celebrities' willingness to state facts about sex and gender could influence national opinion on the transgender issue. 

Also on today’s show, we explain why it’s not dangerous for women to use period tracker apps. And there is a crisis at the Southern border. Now, some Texas counties have declared they are under what they are calling "an invasion.” We explain what you need to know. 

And as always, we’ll be crowning our "problematic woman" of the week.

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