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In Episode 49, we discuss badasses Patti LaBelle, world renowned singer, performer, and entrepreneur, and Mary Pleasant, 'The Mother of Human Rights in California,' whose life story was straight-up tabloid fodder. Betches get it done!

In Episode 48, we discuss the inspiring stories of Fran Drescher, the influential sitcom producer/writer/star, who also started the Cancer Schmancer Movement, which helps women with early cancer detection and prevention, and Bessie Stringfield, the African American badass biker chick, who defied race and gender norms by traveling around the United States on her Harley in the 1920s. AMAZE-BALLS BETCHES.

After a long hiatus, we're back to regale you with the amazing stories of the legendary Reba McEntire, country superstar of stage and screen, and Isabel "Belle" Bilton, a dance-hall performer in Victorian London who went on to become the Countess of Clancarty. Impressive betches.

This week's episode divulges the stories of San Mao, aka Echo, the Chinese travel-writer with a tragic yet inspiring life story, and Kate Warne, the first female detective in the US, who helped stop an attempted assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1861. Get it, betches.

This week we delve into the stories of Kate Shelley, who was the first women in the US to have a bridge and a train named after her because of her heroic deed of saving hundreds of lives by preventing a catastrophic railroad crash, and Paula Yates, the famous British TV presenter/rock journalist who infamously died of an accidental heroin overdose in 2000.

Episode 44 deals with Amelia Bloomer, who edited the first women's newspaper, and also popularized the progressive style of dress known today as "bloomers," and bad-ass spy (with a wooden leg she called Cuthbert!)Virginia Hall, who helmed undercover operations for the UK and America during WWII. Badass betches to say the least!

This week's episode covers Maya Lin, the incredible sculptor best known for her design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and her work on the 9/11 Memorial, and Sylvia Rivera, the drag queen and LGBTQ activist/advocate who co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries in the 1970s; she also shares a birthday with Heather! INSPIRING BETCHES!

This week we fill you in on Arizona Kate "Ma" Barker, who was (or wasn't?!) the matriarch of the Barker-Karpis gang in the Public Enemy era, and Ranavalona, the Queen of Madagascar, who ruled with ferocity during the 19 Century. Scary betches!

This week we get REAL with the stories of Diana Nyad, the champion long-distance swimmer, who accomplished things in her 60s that most of us could only dream of doing at our physical peak in our 20s or 30s, and Mary Bowser, the slave-turned-spy who worked for the Union Army as a undercover member of Jefferson Davis's household staff during the Civil War. I mean, what are the rest of us even doing with our lives?!

This week we fill you in on Clara Hughes, the only person to have won multiple medals in both Summer and Winter Olympics, as well as being a huge advocate for mental health treatment/awareness, and Ida Laura Pfeiffer, who was basically the first travel blogger, having spanned the globe and written countless travel logs in the 18th Century, a feat almost unheard of in her time.