On the 2026 International Women’s Day, this episode of The Jen Jul Podcast, Jen reflects on the women who carried generations quietly, often without recognition.

While much of the world celebrates famous leaders, CEOs, and trailblazers, this episode honors the women whose names rarely appear on stages or in history books. The mothers, grandmothers, aunties, elders, and everyday women who held families, communities, and cultures together behind the scenes.

Jen shares personal reflections from her own life as an Indigenous woman, remembering the women who raised her, the scent of willow roots and fresh-baked bread in her grandmother’s kitchen, and the everyday labor that shaped entire families. This episode also holds space for the women who worked without rest, the healers and knowledge keepers whose wisdom lived in plants and land, the women navigating systems that were never built for them, and the women we have lost too soon, including Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

It is a reflection on resilience, sacrifice, and the quiet power women carry across generations. This is for the women who never got a stage, but somehow kept everything else standing. If you are listening today, you are carrying someone’s story. Someone’s sacrifice. Someone’s hope.

So today, take a moment. Think of the woman who shaped your life. Say her name and honor her in a good way.

Happy International Women’s Day.