Babes in Bookland
A podcast celebrating women's memoirs, one story at a time!
Podcasting since 2024 • 50 episodes
Babes in Bookland
Latest Episodes
Let's Talk About Death, Baby // Alua Arthur's "Briefly, Perfectly, Human"
Are you living your most authentic life?Mortality has a way of cutting through noise. My friend, Cara, and I open season three with Alua Arthur’s memoir Briefly Perfectly Human and ask how getting real about death can help us li...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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Moon Math and Quiet Confidence // Katherine Johnson's "My Remarkable Journey"
How far could you go if you believed in yourself?Katherine Johnson’s memoir My Remarkable Journey is more than a space-age origin story; it is a study in how confidence, education, and community can shape history. Ea...
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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BONUS: "The Holiday" Deep Dive with Jackie and Danielle of the No More Late Fees Podcast!
Ready for a holiday watch that actually holds up? We close the year with Jackie and Danielle from No More Late Fees and dig into why Nancy Meyers’ The Holiday still hits. It's a rom-com where self-respect is the twist, friendship is...
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Season 2
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AUTHOR CHAT: Danilyn Rutherford on Her Memoir "Beautiful Mystery"
Does love need words? I sit down with anthropologist and author, Danilyn Rutherford, to explore Beautiful Mystery, her memoir about raising Millie, a luminous daughter who communicates beyond speech, and the radical shift t...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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1:10:35
AUTHOR CHAT: Ashley Russell's "What's Cooking Good Looking"
How do you honor the ones you love?Our guest, author and maker Ashley Russell, brings her grandmother, Wanda’s, kitchen back to life with a cozy, retro-modern cookbook that feels like a hug and reads like a memoir. We dig into how a gran...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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