The Fearless & Proud Podcast
Fox News
The Fearless and Proud podcast is hosted by FOX Business' Gerri Willis. The series looks at acts of bravery and strength by women. March is 'Women's History Month' and in this first season we look at women who played important roles in the 'Civil War' as soldiers, spies and nurses.
Location:
United States
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Fox News
Description:
The Fearless and Proud podcast is hosted by FOX Business' Gerri Willis. The series looks at acts of bravery and strength by women. March is 'Women's History Month' and in this first season we look at women who played important roles in the 'Civil War' as soldiers, spies and nurses.
Language:
English
Website:
https://radio.foxnews.com
Episodes
Women of FOX News Honor 'Women's History Month': Alex Hogan
3/30/2024
We are back with the 'The Fearless and Proud Podcast' series looking at the journeys and accomplishments of women in the past and present. March is 'Women's History Month' and in this season we are speaking to some of our favorite females at FOX. We hear what and who has inspired them, and the motivations that have driven them to be successful. In this segment, we speak with Alex Hogan, FOX News London-based foreign correspondent, about her time as a reporter covering stories in dozens of countries and multiple war zones. We ask her about the women of history that have intrigued her and who she considers her most important role models. Click Here to listen & subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:19:25
Women of FOX News Honor 'Women's History Month': Janice Dean
3/30/2024
We are back with the 'The Fearless and Proud Podcast' series, looking at the journeys and accomplishments of women in the past and present. March is 'Women's History Month' and in this season we are speaking to some of our favorite females at FOX. We hear what and who has inspired them, and the motivations that have driven them to be successful. In this segment, we speak to Janice Dean, FOX News' senior meteorologist, author and activist about her beginnings in radio to her start in TV here at FOX. She shares with us her personal health struggles and why she took on a popular governor to hold him accountable. Click Here to listen & subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:28:39
Women Of The Civil War: 'Breaking Molds And Inspiring Future Generations'
4/16/2023
'The Fearless & Proud podcast' series looks at acts of bravery and strength by women. March is 'Women's History Month' and in this first season we discuss women who played important roles in the 'Civil War' as soldiers, spies and nurses. We ask our guests for some of their final thoughts on the war and women's roles in it. We explain that the Fearless & Proud women of the Civil War broke many gender role molds and inspired future generations of women to understand they can have the same responsibilities as men, and be just as effective. We will also talk about the Victorian idea of a 'good death' and how that changed. Click Here to listen & subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:20:44
Women Of The Civil War: 'Nurses, The Battlefield Angels'
4/9/2023
'The Fearless and Proud podcast' series looks at acts of bravery and strength by women. March is 'Women's History Month' and in this first season we discuss women who played important roles in the 'Civil War' as soldiers, spies and nurses. The Civil War brought advancements in the treatment of traumatic wounds and ideas of sanitizing medical facilities. The start of the war opened the door to women becoming battlefield nurses as there was an overall shortage of nurses. This episode will discuss the founding of the 'United States Sanitary Commission' and their multiple roles in advising on the physical and mental health of soldiers, organizing military hospitals on land and water and their overall mission to give wounded soldiers relief. Click Here to listen & subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:23:26
Women Of The Civil War: 'Female Spies On Both Sides'
4/2/2023
'The Fearless and Proud podcast' series looks at acts of bravery and strength by women. March is 'Women's History Month' and in this first season we discuss women who played important roles in the 'Civil War' as soldiers, spies and nurses. Women had major roles in espionage during the Civil War, sharing enemy troop locations and movements, smuggling much needed supplies and money, and taking part in military raids. We will discuss various examples including Southern spy Belle Boyd who's career in espionage started accidentally after shooting and killing a Union soldier who insulted her mother. And then a Union spying duo, Elizabeth 'Crazy Bet' Van Lew and her slave counterpart Mary Bowser, who both worked together to form an underground spy network out of Richmond, VA. Click Here to listen & subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:25:27
Women Of The Civil War 'The Foreign Fighter & The American Legend'
3/26/2023
'The Fearless and Proud podcast' series looks at acts of bravery and strength by women. March is 'Women's History Month' and in this first season we discuss women who played important roles in the 'Civil War' as soldiers, spies and nurses. In this episode we will be looking at two intriguing women of the war. First, Cuban born Loreta Janeta Velazquez who is sent to the United States for an education by her well-to-do Spanish family. After falling in love with a Confederate soldier her dreams soon turn to fighting, spying and any other adventure she could have. We then move onto the legendary Harriet Tubman who many will know from her work as a conductor on the 'underground railroad'. We will discuss her time as a nurse, soldier and spy for the Union Army, and talk about the 'Combahee River Raid', a turning point in the war. Click Here to listen & subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:26:43
Women Of The Civil War 'How They Hid In The Military Ranks'
3/22/2023
'The Fearless and Proud podcast' series looks at acts of bravery and strength by women. March is 'Women's History Month' and in this first season we discuss women who played important roles in the 'Civil War' as soldiers, spies and nurses. As the war approached their kitchen windows or as their own loved ones went off to fight, women decided to don a uniform or disguise and join the struggle in ways not done before. We will discuss how these women maintained their disguise and why the era's social morays helped their deception on both sides from clothing to the way they handled themselves among the military ranks. These brave women were always on the verge of being found out and we will learn what happens when their female identities were discovered. Click Here to listen & subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:23:43
Women Of The Civil War 'Reasons They Joined The Fight'
3/22/2023
'The Fearless and Proud podcast' series looks at acts of bravery and strength by women. March is 'Women's History Month' and in this first season we discuss women who played important roles in the 'Civil War' as soldiers, spies and nurses. In this first episode, host Gerri Willis looks at how the outbreak of the Civil War changed the lives of women: their status, altered their roles and gave them new opportunities in the process. We will hear about the various reasons that drove them to participate in the war: political pride for the side they were on, financial reasons and slaves trying to end slavery. Also, outside of those direct roles in the conflict, we discuss how they began having a larger role running plantations and northern businesses when their husbands and sons went off to war. Click Here to listen & subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:19:50
The Fearless & Proud Trailer
3/9/2023
In season 1, we honor Women’s History month. The Fearless and Proud Podcast takes a look at the most powerful women of the civil war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:02:43
Preparing For Tax Day 2019 with H&R Block’s Kathy Pickering
4/9/2019
Welcome to Rich is Not a Four-Letter Word, the podcast for your wallet. I’m Gerri Willis with the Fox Business Network. Tax Day 2019 is fast approaching and this year, more than ever, you�ll want to take special care with your filing as this is the first year that tax reform takes effect. Kathy Pickering, executive director of the Tax Institute at H&R Block, says tax filers should be prepared for many changes. First off, tax rates were lowered across the board in every tax bracket. New...
Duration:00:11:58
Golfing Legend Nancy Lopez on the Inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur Event
4/3/2019
Welcome to Rich is Not a Four-Letter Word, the podcast for your wallet. I’m Gerri Willis with the Fox Business Network. This week golf history will be made as the inaugural Augusta National Women�s Amateur event gets underway at Augusta National , the home of the season-starting PGA major, the Master�s Golf Tournament. It will be the first time Augusta�s famed park-like setting will be home to a women�s competition. It�s been just seven years since the club allowed women as members. Augusta...
Duration:00:05:52
Orangetheory Fitness Co-Founder Ellen Latham On How She Created Her Empire
3/28/2019
Welcome to Rich is Not a Four-Letter Word, the podcast for your wallet. I’m Gerri Willis with the Fox Business Network. Ellen Latham is the co-founder� of Orangetheory Fitness, the highly successful gym franchise that is taking the country by storm. Latham, an Exercise Physiologist, is attempting to help members remake their bodies from the ground up to be healthier and better off. I spoke with her recently about building the business. Here are the takeaways: Focus on what you have, not what...
Duration:00:14:34
Princeton Review’s Rob Franek On College Admissions Cheating Scandal
3/19/2019
Welcome to Rich is Not a Four-Letter Word, the podcast for your wallet. I�m Gerri Willis with the Fox Business Network. This week, I�m talking to Rob Franek, Editor-In-Chief of the Princeton Review, about the college admissions scandal. Prosecutors announced that 50 people took part in a scheme that involved cheating on standardized tests or bribing college coaches and school officials to accept students as college athletes even if the student never played that sport. Two Stanford University...
Duration:00:11:40
Veronica Dagher on the Habits of Financially Successful Women
2/8/2019
Hello and welcome to Rich Is Not a Four-Letter Word, the podcast for your wallet.� I�m Gerri Willis with the Fox Business Network. Today my special guest is Veronica Dagher, Wall Street Journal wealth management reporter and the host of the podcast, Secrets of Wealthy Women, a series of fascinating conversations with successful women talking about how they made it and how they manage their money. Here are the takeaways: Financially successful women take an active role in their finances. They...
Duration:00:13:08
America’s Best 401(k) Founder Tom Zgainer On High-Quality Retirement Programs & More
1/25/2019
Welcome to Rich is Not a Four-Letter Word, the podcast for your wallet. I’m Gerri Willis with the Fox Business Network and today I’m talking with Tom Zgainer, CEO and founder of America’s Best 401(k) about market volatility. What should retirement savers and 401(k) investors do when the market posts big swings? And, how can you identify the fees and costs that are robbing your precious savings? Zgainer knows a lot about this because his company advises small business about how to set up high...
Duration:00:16:41
The Bullet Journal Founder Ryder Carroll On Organizing Your Life With Analog Journaling
1/16/2019
Welcome to Rich is Not a Four-Letter Word, the podcast for your wallet. Every year about this time, I start thinking about how I can organize my work�life and my private life better. How can I never miss an appointment, plan for the future and get my to do lists done for both home AND work? I’ve bought expensive organizers, tried organizing apps and even used a white board in my office at home. But none of that has seemed to work, until now. What’s my secret? Its the Bullet Journal or BuJo...
Duration:00:16:41
Gerri & Siblings Reminisce On Christmas Memories
12/21/2018
On this special holiday edition of the �Rich Is Not A Four Letter Word� podcast, Gerri Willis from the Fox Business Network is reporting from the New York Stock Exchange, but not on what you might think. She was joined by her brother and sister, Steve and Frankie, to reminisce on their favorite holiday traditions, memories, gifts, etc. The Willis siblings share stories about their long car trips to visit family as children, how they like to celebrate the holidays now, and Frankie even shares...
Duration:00:06:45
Dennis Gartman of The Gartman Letter On Market Volatility & Trade
12/14/2018
Hi, I’m Gerri Willis from the Fox Business Network and host of the podcast, Rich is Not a Four-Letter Word. Up 500 points one day, down 500 the next. The stock market has been incredibly volatile. Has it got you down? Well, on this episode I spoke with legendary markets newsletter writer Dennis Gartman about his views on the market and what individual investors should be doing right now. Gartman, whose newsletter The Gartman Letter is read by many of the leading banks, brokerages, and energy...
Duration:00:12:01
Supermodel and Entrepreneur Christie Brinkley On Her Bellissima Prosecco
11/29/2018
Hi, I’m Gerri Willis from the Fox Business Network and host of the podcast, Rich is Not a Four-Letter Word. I talked to legendary supermodel and businesswoman Christie Brinkley on the New York Stock Exchange floor about her new product Bellissima Bambini. As an entrepreneur and owner of multiple businesses, Brinkley is proud to offer the only zero sugar, all natural, certified organic prosecco in the marketplace. She reiterates the importance of offering a 100% natural product by sharing...
Duration:00:05:06
The Best Black Friday Deals with Matt Granite
11/21/2018
Hi, I’m Gerri Willis from the Fox Business Network and host of the podcast, Rich is Not a Four-Letter Word. The holidays are coming up, and I was happy to be joined by Matt Granite (@TheDealGuy) on the podcast! Matt breaks down everything you need to know about Black Friday deals, from which vendors to check out, which categories have the biggest markdowns, and which types of deals to avoid. Listen to the podcast to find out how to get the best bang for your buck this holiday season! Take a...
Duration:00:11:00