Strong Women

Series produced by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota

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A look into the impact of women leaders and women's leadership roles in Minnesota.

Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by the people of Minnesota.

Stories of the lives of women in northern Minnesota. A look into the impact of women leaders and women's leadership roles in Minnesota.


56 Pieces

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We decided to take our final Strong Women focus group on the road and headed over to visit our friends at the incredible Balsam Moon Preserve in Pi...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2022
  • Length: 23:46
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We decided to turn in a new direction for the next round of Strong Women focus groups. We know that all around the world women and girls are making...

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  • Added: May 25, 2022
  • Length: 16:05
  • Purchases: 1
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100 Rural Women has a mission to serve and support rural women: identify, connect and create relationships, models of networking, leadership, mento...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2022
  • Length: 19:33
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It was with heavy hearts during our Friday Morning Show broadcast today that we remembered Kathy Dodge - longtime member, volunteer and host of the...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2022
  • Length: 07:16
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This week the MN Legislature heard HF 2750/SF 3052: a proposal to require MN schools to provide free menstrual products from 4th -12th grade. See t...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 10:23
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Lauren Nickish joined us on the Thursday Morning Show to talk about the 2022 class of Legendary Women of Brainerd Public Schools. This year's induc...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2022
  • Length: 13:11
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Maria Surma Manka, Co-Founder & Co-Chair of Women's Leadership Fund and Sandi Larson, Director of Women’s Business Alliance join Heidi Holtan on th...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 12:44
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There's a part of Jessica Nordell's "The End of Bias" that makes perfect sense to me. She writes: In the field of ecology, there's a notion of an ...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2021
  • Length: 16:17
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Strong Women facilitator Laura Connelly joins Heidi Holtan to discuss the recent women’s focus group they held to talk about women and emotions.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 09:32
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Strong Women facilitator Laura Connelly joins Heidi Holtan to discuss the recent women’s focus group they held to talk about women and emotions.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 13:18
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October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Mandie Alto is the Executive Director at Advocates for Family Peace in NE MN and she joined ...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2021
  • Length: 10:51
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This morning for our Strong Women project, we talked with Ethelind B. Kaba - she's the Executive Director at the Ann Bancroft Foundation. She told ...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2021
  • Length: 12:32
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Last week the MN DNR announced they were fining Enbridge Energy 3.3 million dollars for piercing a groundwater aquifer during construction of it's ...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 09:58
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We've had a lack of rain and drought conditions this year that have lead to wildfires in northeastern MN and difficult conditions for area farmers....

  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 14:22
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Her latest book is called "1001 Secrets Every Birder Should Know - Tips and Trivia For the Backyard and Beyond". She talked with us today about whe...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 18:16
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Mary Casanova's latest book of fiction published by the University of Minnesota Press is her third on Rainy Lake. Set in the year 1922 this time w...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2021
  • Length: 15:38
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Author Anita Diamant and producer Melissa Berton join Heidi Holtan and John Bauer for Strong Women on the Friday Morning Show. Anita Diamant is a...

  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 25:57
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DNR Commissioner Sarah Strommen joins Heidi and John on the Thursday Morning Show to talk about the importance of fishing to the state of Minnesota...

  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 08:30
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Tami Charles is a New York Times bestselling author and writer of numerous books for children and young adults. She joins Heidi and John on the Fr...

  • Added: May 05, 2021
  • Length: 17:06
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Lauren Nickish is a retired music educator, an actress and a playwright. She joins Heidi Holtan and John Bauer on the Friday Morning Show to talk ...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2021
  • Length: 10:35