Episodes

  • Education as Dignity

    Education as Dignity
    Dec 23 2025
    Education doesn’t just open doors — it restores dignity. In Episode 9 of The Women’s Current, Sylvia Beckerman speaks with Lindsay Wyman of Mercy Learning Center about adult education, second acts, and what happens when women are supported with trust, structure, and belief.
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    48 mins
  • Raising Girls to Lead

    Raising Girls to Lead
    Dec 16 2025
    Raising girls to lead starts early. In this episode, Ms. President US leaders Amanda Cordano and Sofia Sahai discuss confidence, ambition, and why leadership training can’t wait.
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Laura Kaplan: Courage, Collective Action & Women Saving Women

    Laura Kaplan: Courage, Collective Action & Women Saving Women
    Dec 9 2025
    Laura Kaplan — member of The Janes and author of The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service — joins Sylvia Beckerman and co-host Molly Wadzeck for a powerful conversation about courage, secrecy, and the collective action that saved thousands of women before Roe.
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    1 hr
  • The Pad Project: Activism, Global Sisterhood & Girls Helping Girls

    The Pad Project: Activism, Global Sisterhood & Girls Helping Girls
    Dec 2 2025
    The Pad Project’s founder Melissa Berton and Gen Z advocate Jana Gandhi join Sylvia and Molly to explore how period equity became a global movement. They discuss girls helping girls, dismantling stigma, and the power of intergenerational activism. A hopeful conversation about access, dignity, and global sisterhood.
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    59 mins
  • Alka Joshi -Women, Reinvention & Resilience

    Alka Joshi -Women, Reinvention & Resilience
    Nov 25 2025
    Bestselling author Alka Joshi joins Sylvia and Molly to talk reinvention, resilience, and the women whose stories shape our own.
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    44 mins
  • Illana Raia: Mentorship for the Next Generation

    Illana Raia: Mentorship for the Next Generation
    Nov 18 2025
    Sylvia and Molly sit down with Illana Raia of Être Girls to explore how mentorship, access, and visibility can shape girls’ confidence and ambition across generations.
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    49 mins
  • Jona Frank — Redefining the Female Gaze

    Jona Frank — Redefining the Female Gaze
    Nov 11 2025
    Photographer and filmmaker Jona Frank joins Sylvia Beckerman to explore how her work — from Cherry Hill to her cinematic portraits — challenges how women are seen and how we see ourselves. Together they reflect on art, identity, and the courage to redefine the female gaze.
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Paulina Bren — The Women Behind the Walls

    Paulina Bren — The Women Behind the Walls
    Nov 4 2025
    Historian Paulina Bren joins The Women’s Current to revisit the iconic Barbizon Hotel — where generations of women found independence, ambition, and themselves. Hosts Sylvia Beckerman and Molly Wadzeck explore what it means to carve out space, redefine ambition, and ask if the tide is finally turning.
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    52 mins