Send us a text Welcome back to Speaking of Her. For our Spooky Season Finale, Lucy leads us into one of the most haunting corners of women’s history — where industrial progress, poverty, and silence collided in the shadows of Victorian London. We’re telling the story of the matchstick girls — the young women who worked long hours in match factories, dipping sticks into white phosphorus that slowly poisoned them from the inside out. What followed was a terrifying and agonizing condition called...
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Send us a text Welcome back to Speaking of Her. For our Spooky Season Finale, Lucy leads us into one of the most haunting corners of women’s history — where industrial progress, poverty, and silence collided in the shadows of Victorian London. We’re telling the story of the matchstick girls — the young women who worked long hours in match factories, dipping sticks into white phosphorus that slowly poisoned them from the inside out. What followed was a terrifying and agonizing condition called...
Sailing Into Disaster - The Tami Oldham Ashcraft Story
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Sailing Into Disaster - The Tami Oldham Ashcraft Story
Send us a text Welcome back to Speaking of Her. This week, Jess takes us on a gripping voyage through the harrowing true story of the courageous — Tami Oldham Ashcraft. What was meant to be a dream sailing trip across the Pacific with her fiancé turned into a nightmare when they were caught in the path of a Category 4 hurricane. In an instant, everything changed — and Tami was left alone, adrift in the vast ocean with no mast, no engine, and only her instincts to guide her. In this episode, J...
Speaking of her
Send us a text Welcome back to Speaking of Her. For our Spooky Season Finale, Lucy leads us into one of the most haunting corners of women’s history — where industrial progress, poverty, and silence collided in the shadows of Victorian London. We’re telling the story of the matchstick girls — the young women who worked long hours in match factories, dipping sticks into white phosphorus that slowly poisoned them from the inside out. What followed was a terrifying and agonizing condition called...
