The Girl Scout Way Podcast

Check In

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:42:26 GMT

Hey y'all! This Week is a little late but we're here and we're chatting about how the year has been going and what we have planned coming up! It's been a lot and we are gearing up for cookies as well, so a nice chill episode to just sort of relax was a nice change!

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Cookies are Comin'

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 20:00:20 GMT

Today is a tips and tricks episode for COOKIE SEASON!!! Cookie season is underway for some or looming on the horizon for others. Either way we have you covered for things we’ve learned in the past, and things others have taught us.

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Famous Girl Scouts

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:00:12 GMT

Today We talk about famous girl scouts including Sally Ride, Taylor Swift, and Martha Stewart! If we didn’t talk about your favorite famous Girl Scout please email us so we can learn more about all the amazing women out there in the world!

Email: thegirlscoutwaypod@gmail.com

Top 10 Most Influential Girl Scouts of All Time - Discover Walks Blog

Former Scout Venus Williams talks weather, cookies, motivation

50 Famous Girl Scouts - Celebrities Who Were Girl Scout Members

Abigail Breslin through the years: From child star to fearless woman at 22

Women’s History Month: 9 Famous Girl Scouts Who Left Their Mark on History | The Trailhead

11 People You Didn't Know Were Girl Scouts | Mental Floss

How Much Money Has Taylor Swift Donated To Charity This Year? What We Know - Newsweek

Feeling the Burn

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 20:00:16 GMT

Hey all! Welcome back to the last half of the 24/25 GS Year! We are at it today discussing Volunteer burnout, and ways to address it.

Email us at: thegirlscoutwaypod@gmail.com with COOKIE QUESTIONS and we will get them answered in our cookie episodes!

Donation & Giving

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:00:12 GMT

Today we’re talking charity & giving! This episode is filled with ideas for a single meeting or other event (like a weekend day) that you can do with your girls who may be interested in doing good for the community this holiday season. Note: these can be done all year!!

https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/20-items-your-food-bank-needs-the-most/?srsltid=AfmBOopvtEFGOYmfNGX0C-kRLMWznnjv1H761lf97T9_JNB0ANPFNzkI

What has your troop done for charity and giving? Email us at thegirlscoutwaypod@gmail.com

On A Pin

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 20:00:26 GMT

Hey there y’all! Today we talk about the greatest American Institution, SWAPS. Ok maybe not the GREATEST, but still an amazing Girl Scout tradition that is seeing a resurgence! We love SWAPS and enjoy creating them with our girls.

What sort of SWAPS have you made? Share recipes and photos with us at thegirlscoutwaypod@gmail.com

Shout out to the Girl Scout History website!! https://gshistory.com/

Links for SWAP ideas:

https://www.gssc-mm.org/content/dam/gssc-mm-redesign/documents/SWAPS.pdf

https://www.pinterest.com/girlscoutsrv/swaps/

https://www.pinterest.com/modernmedieval/girl-scout-swap-ideas/

https://www.gscwm.org/content/dam/gscwm-redesign/documents/Simple%20Crafts%20and%20SWAPS.pdf

Juliette Gordon Low SWAP

Material for 1 SWAP:

1 green button
2 skin tone pony beads (i drew a face on 1)
1 white tri-bead (the bead with the 3 lobes)
6 green tri-beads
1 green pony bead
Embroidery Floss

Assemble:

String 1 skin tone pony bead on the floss and then fold in half so the bead holds the others in place
String the 6 green tri beads on the doubled up floss
String 1 white tri bead on the doubled up floss
String 1 skin tone pony bead on the doubled up floss
Separate the 2 halves of the floss, and string one half through one hole of the button and one through the other hole in the button to make a hat that sits straight on JGL’s head
String the single green pony bead on the two halves of the floss, creating the top of the hat
Tie the string to a safety pin

Managing Girl Behavior

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 20:00:15 GMT

Hey all! We’re back with managing girl behavior (the negative kind). Negative behavior in meetings or outings can be tough to deal with, so we give you some tools to help get things under control, or at least a semblance of control.

Have a question or comment? Email us at thegirlscoutwaypod@gmail.com

Democracy

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:00:13 GMT

Hello everyone! Today is a long one, we deep dive into the democracy badges! This means we will talk about all the badge requirements and ways to earn the badges at each level. This will likely be our longest deep dive episode because there is a democracy badge at each level. If you’ve got one or two levels you’ll find the skip to time below!

Daisies: 7:26

Brownies: 14:30

Juniors: 23:13

Cadettes: 34:06

Seniors: 44:55

Ambassadors: 53:02

Want to get in touch with us? Email us at thegirlscoutwaypod@gmail.com

TAPs & HAPs

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 20:00:21 GMT

Take action projects and Highest Award Projects are on our minds today! Jill’s daughter just completed her silver award and we are deep into leading the Daisy Flower Garden journey for our girls! This got us thinking about the difference between TAPs and HAPs and how we can effectively lead them. There are tons of linked resources today so take a moment to check them out!

Got a question? Think we’re full of baloney? Let us know at thegirlscoutwaypod@gmail.com

Minor note: Abby does use a curse word in this episode toward the end.

https://www.girlscouts.org/en/activities-for-girls/juniors/take-action-activity.html

https://www.girlscouts.org/content/dam/girlscouts-gsusa/forms-and-documents/our-program/Badges/Junior-Take-Action-Guide-Engineering.pdf

https://www.girlscouts.org/en/members/for-girl-scouts/badges-journeys-awards/highest-awards/bronze-award.html

https://www.girlscouts.org/en/members/for-girl-scouts/badges-journeys-awards/highest-awards/silver-award.html

https://www.girlscouts.org/en/members/for-girl-scouts/badges-journeys-awards/highest-awards/gold-award.html

Badge Police

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 19:00:25 GMT

Today’s episode is all about badges, a little history, a little modern, a little of this, a little of that. There are lots of ways to lead girls through a badge, and we hit on the spirit of the badge vs verbatim badge work.

How do you lead badges for your girls? Let us know at thegirlscoutwaypod@gmail.com

Source:

https://www.georgiahistory.com/resource/juliette-gordon-low/early-girl-scouting/

Trading Up?

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 19:00:21 GMT

Hey y’all, today we talk the maker badges! Did you know the creation of them was sponsored by Stanley Black & Decker? We didn’t! We go over the discourse around these badges as they turn a year old, and discuss how we have led them for our girls.

Want to email us? thegirlscoutwaypod@gmail.com will get you in contact with us if you have a thought, question or comment you’d like to have us read on a future show!

Multi-level Madness

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 19:00:10 GMT

This week Awe discuss what it’s like being the leaders of a multi-level troop.Speficially how we got there, why we made the decision we did, and how to do combined badgework.

Link to all the badges at the different levels: https://www.girlscouts.org/content/dam/gsusa/forms-and-documents/members/highest-awards/Daisy_GSUSA_BadgesAwardsAndPins.pdf

That’s a great resource for the pins and stuff too!

Are you in a multi-level troop? Do you want to send us an email? thegirlscoutwaypod@gmail.com will get you directly to our inbox, we love listener letters!

Money Money Money

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 19:00:25 GMT

Today Jill and Abby talk through how their troop manages money. Between buying supplies and fundraising there are lots of ways to manage troop funds, what is discussed in the episode is what works for Jill & Abby, but what are your thoughts? Email us at thegirlscoutwaypod@gmail.com

Link to the proposal for the fee increase: https://www.girlscouts.org/content/dam/gsusa/forms-and-documents/members/ncs-con23/24_57NCS_DWB_24-09-10.pdf

New Year Kickoff

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 19:10:23 GMT

Happy New Girl Scout Year! Today on the podcast Jill and Abby chat about what the girls want to do this year, talking with parents, and big dreams for the rest of the season.

How did you kick off this year? Send us an email at thegirlscoutwaypod@gmail.com we will do our best to read listener emails on the show!

Quick Announcement

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 19:30:16 GMT

Hey! It's Abby just popping in to say thank you to all our supporters, to those of you who have pointed out audio quality issues, we should have them resolved going forward! Thanks for you continued support!