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my daughters name is (with Anusha and Emma)
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In a world where we are all named after our daddies, my daughters name is becomes our record of women: their accomplishments, their struggles, and their lives. Hosted by Anusha Shankar and Emma Halleen, we go on an entirely unserious journey to explore some seriously cool women in history, both past and recent. Buckle up, enjoy the journey, and remember: we are actors. Not scientists.

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  1. 1d ago

    I PERSONALLY DON'T ENDORSE DOING CRIMES

    Welcome to our MONTH! OF ! CRIME ! In our first themed month of our lives (!!!) we’re gonna go on a journey to meet some lady criminals. This week’s theme? Con Artists. We explore some women, myths, and legends in the conning field.  Emma goes first this week and we meet the mythical Barbara Erni, The Goden Boos. What does Boos mean? We don’t know. We talk big trunks, bigger chests, and how someone can become super prolific in their death. Anusha goes next, and we meet confidence queen, Bertha Heyman, or as she was known, Big Bertha. Pretending to be an heiress is something we all do from time to time, I mean we all live in LA, don’t we? Also, is it really a con if someone decides to just give you $1000? Discuss in the comments because we have our thoughts too.

  2. Aug 27

    LET ME WAX MY BOWLING BALL

    Women in Sports! Women in sports! Women in Sports! Anusha and Emma are back, and this time we’re talking about some sporty spice baaaaddies.  Anusha has the floor first and reminds us just how cool Billie Jean King is. We talk her 39 grand slam titles, LGBTQIA+ advocacy, and work with Title IX. Emma’s next and she tells us the story of Mia Hamm and the 99ers (coming to theatres soon!!!) we talk women in football and why Bend it Like Beckham is a perfect movie that we’re both about to rewatch riiiiight now.   __ Sources used for this episode-  BILLIE JEAN KING https://www.npr.org/2011/06/26/137429485/remembering-the-first-of-billie-jean-kings-50-wimbledons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Jean_King https://www.billiejeanking.com/biography/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Riggs  https://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/articles/cy95g0q9qrzo https://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/ImpactReport2025/?_gl=1*1pdxuvr*_gcl_au*MTk1NjU3MjgwLjE3ODU5NjY5ODA. https://www.tennismajors.com/our-features/on-this-day/may-1st-1981-the-day-billie-jean-king-was-outed-138210.html https://chicagolgbthalloffame.org/king-billie-jean/ https://digitalmag.theceomagazine.com/billie-jean-king-ilana-kloss/?r=global MIA HAMM https://inside.fifa.com/tournaments/womens/womensworldcup/france2019/news/mia-hamm-usa-2908130 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-jul-09-sp-11018-story.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cwy5k0gq2vgo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0KlWlGMC8Y&t=30s https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Mia_Hamm_Soccer_64 https://www.miafoundation.org Episode 3 Fact Check sources — https://now.org/constitutional-equality/https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-effects-health/alcohol-topics-z/alcohol-facts-and-statistics/alcohol-and-young-adults-ages-18-25https://www.brandeis.edu/stories/2023/october/witchcraft.html https://www.walkfree.org/what-is-modern-slavery/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servitude – Welcome to my daughters name is. A loose history podcast about women. Each week, Anusha and Emma travel far and wide (on the internet, of course) and visit bad ass women who've contributed to our society in fun, sexy, and meaningful ways. If you don't know these women or their accomplishments yet, you will by the end of the episode! Follow for more xoxo

  3. Aug 20

    GO BE A WITCH OR SOMETHING

    Anusha and Emma are back, and this week we’re talking about LAW. And women in law. And laws that have done things to women (and people). Dun dun (Law and Order SVU Sound effect) Emma goes first this week, and reintroduces us to American lawyer, jurist, and associate justice of the Supreme Court: the Notorious RBG. Ruth Bader Ginsburg. We talk the constitution, the 14th amendment, and Suits. Anusha then takes us waaaay out left, and we talk about the Salem Witch Trials. Specifically about Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborne, and the effects of one of the biggest cases of mass hysteria in the USA. We find out that due process is a beautiful thing, that we are not going to fact check anything about physics, and see that it’s insane that neither of us talked about Elle Woods. At all.  — Sources used for this episode-  RBG  https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/13th-amendment https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/14th-amendment https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/15th-amendment https://constitution.congress.gov https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/404/71/ https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/411/677/ https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/420/636/ https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/421/7/ https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/429/190 https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/439/357/ https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/reporter/F2/469/469.F2d.466.71-1127.html https://www.aclu.org/issues/womens-rights https://www.aclu.org/documents/aclu-history-driving-force-change-aclu-womens-rights-project https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/timelinesupremecourt20060302.pdf https://www.aclu.org/documents/aclu-history-decade-landmarks-women https://www.eeoc.gov/statutes/title-vii-civil-rights-act-1964 https://www.justice.gov/crt/voting-section https://www.archives.gov/women/era https://time.com/5481422/rbg-movie-male-plaintiff-history https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ruth-Bader-Ginsburg THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS/WOMEN IN LAW  https://historyofmassachusetts.org/sarah-good-accused-witch/ https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/people/osborne.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/unraveling-mysteries-tituba-salem-witch-trials-180956960/ https://theconversation.com/most-witches-are-women-because-witch-hunts-were-all-about-persecuting-the-powerless-125427 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_women_lawyers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_first_women_lawyers_and_judges  Episode 2 Fact Check Sources — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectualhttps://www.baus.org.uk/museum/164/a_brief_history_of_the_flush_toilethttps://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/pierre-curie/https://researchinpoland.org/news/the-90th-anniversary-of-the-death-of-marie-curie/https://www.britannica.com/story/radium-girls-the-women-who-fought-for-their-lives-in-a-killer-workplacehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiumhttps://www.earthdate.org/episodes/marie-curies-double-nobelhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_shielding — Welcome to my daughters name is. A loose history podcast about women. Each week, Anusha and Emma travel far and wide (on the internet, of course) and visit bad ass women who've contributed to our society in fun, sexy, and meaningful ways. If you don't know these women or their accomplishments yet, you will by the end of the episode! Follow for more xoxo

  4. Aug 13

    WHO IS LUKE???

    Today, we are ALL women in STEM. Anusha and Emma explain complicated physics and chemistry, which is great, since neither of them has been in a science class since high school. Unless you count the one unit on plate tectonics Anusha did in college that one time.  It’s Anusha’s turn to go first this week, and we meet Chien-Shiung Wu, the First Lady of Physics. Anusha uses her extensive theatre background to explain parity, quantum entanglement, superposition, and a whole load of other very simple theoretical physics (suuuure). Emma then takes us right back to the Mother of Modern Physics, Marie Curie. We tackle radioactivity, the radium girls, atoms, and why everyone should own a lead box or two.  — Sources used for this episode -  CHIEN-SHUING WU  https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/topics/asian-pacific-american-world-war-ii https://repository.uclawsf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1136&context=hastings_race_poverty_law_journal https://ue.berkeley.edu/projects-initiatives/guide-150-years-women-uc-berkeley-mural/chien-shiung-wu https://www.winus.org/the-winning-edge/women-in-nuclear-history-chen-shiung-wu/  https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/profile/chien-shiung-wu/ https://scienceexchange.caltech.edu/topics/quantum-science-explained/entanglement https://www.committee100.org/in-memoriam/chienshiungwu/  https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/12/13/chien-shiung-wu-biography-physics-grandmother/ https://www.nps.gov/people/dr-chien-shiung-wu-the-first-lady-of-physics.htm MARIE CURIE  https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1911/marie-curie/lecture https://www.nist.gov/nist-and-nobel/other-nist-connections-nobel-prize https://www.loc.gov/item/04010116 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1911/marie-curie/lecture/ https://www.amnh.org/explore/ology/ology-cards/162-marie-curie https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7856499 https://www2.lbl.gov/abc/wallchart/chapters/appendix/appendixe.html https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2014/07/03/the-revolutionary-who-discovered-radium/amp https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/science-history-marie-curie-discovers-a-strange-radioactive-substance-that-would-eventually-kill-her-dec-26-1898 Episode 1 Fact Check Sources —  https://www.goodrx.com/health-topic/womens-health/why-do-you-crave-chocolate-on-your-period?srsltid=AfmBOopYHYTw9wMOntCe0NTMFGbYbaL6zsRWMS9qSoA6y1tAI5ArW3kD https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2025/only-37-of-us-states-require-sexual-education-in-schools-to-be-medically-accurate/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluedo — Welcome to my daughters name is. A loose history podcast about women. Each week, Anusha and Emma travel far and wide (on the internet, of course) and visit bad ass women who've contributed to our society in fun, sexy, and meaningful ways. If you don't know these women or their accomplishments yet, you will by the end of the episode! Follow for more xoxo

  5. Aug 6

    NOT A DOCTOR

    Anusha and Emma visit two baddies in the field of reproductive health. Emma introduces us to Ida Tin, Danish femtech entrepreneur, author, and co-founder and CEO of the period app, Clue. With Anusha, we meet Margaret "Meg" M. Crane, an American inventor and graphic designer who created the first at home pregnancy test. They laugh, they cry, and they remind everyone that, at the end of the day, they are simply just ACTORS. ---- Sources -- IDA TIN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72GZkQsAoeA https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2025/only-37-of-us-states-require-sexual- education-in-schools-to-be-medically-accurate/ https://www.academia.edu/19934678/The_Year_the_Period_Went_Public https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Tin https://helloclue.com/authors/ida-tin MARGARET CRANE https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/14D30302A038355CB787358800D17D44/S0025727300028386a.pdf/on-an-ancient-egyptian-method-of-diagnosing-pregnancy-and-determining-foetal-sex.pdf https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-orange-san-bernardino/about-us/blog/a-brief-but-wild-history-of-pregnancy-tests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Crane  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/unknown-designer-first-home-pregnancy-test-getting-her-due-180956684/ https://www.clearblue.com/pregnancy-tests/pregnancy-test-history-101 - Welcome to the very first episode of my daughters name is. A loose history podcast about women. Each week, Anusha and Emma travel far and wide (on the internet, of course) and visit bad ass women who've contributed to our society in fun, sexy, and meaningful ways. If you don't know these women or their accomplishments yet, you will by the end of the episode! Follow for more xoxo

  6. Aug 1

    my daughters name is (coming soon)

    In a world where we are all named after our daddies, my daughters name is becomes our record of women: their accomplishments, their struggles, and their lives. Hosted by Anusha Shankar and Emma Halleen, we go on an entirely unserious journey to explore some seriously cool women in history, both past and recent.  Buckle up, enjoy the journey, and remember: we are actors. Not scientists.  Coming soon!!!

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In a world where we are all named after our daddies, my daughters name is becomes our record of women: their accomplishments, their struggles, and their lives. Hosted by Anusha Shankar and Emma Halleen, we go on an entirely unserious journey to explore some seriously cool women in history, both past and recent. Buckle up, enjoy the journey, and remember: we are actors. Not scientists.

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    my daughters name is (with Anusha and Emma)
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    2026
  • Episodes
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