Episodes

  • Episode 15 - The North Star Of Female Hunters with Skullbound TV’s Jana Waller-Bair

    Episode 15 - The North Star Of Female Hunters with Skullbound TV’s Jana Waller-Bair
    Jan 3 2025
    Gabby Hoffman is joined by Jana Waller-Bair of CarbonTV’s Skullbound TV Fameon this week’s Sportswoman Show. Jana, as Gabby calls her, is ‘the North Star of outdoor pursuits for women’, and shares her incredible journey from Wisconsin to worldwide hunter in this in-depth episode. Jana talks with Gabby about getting the impact her father had in noticing his ‘Sherman Tank’, as she was nicknamed, and her love of the outdoors. So from letting her tag along in the pheasant fields and duck blinds of Northern Wisconsin to today leading a top TV show in the Outdoor Space, Jana shares her lifetime of experience in the great outdoors and what it has meant to her to share that passion across an industry which is embracing more and more women every day. Get to know your host: https://gabriellahoffman.com Learn more about Trout Stream Studios: https://www.troutstreamstudios.com Subscribe to the substack here: https://gabriellahoffman.substack.com/ Find Jana on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/skullboundtv/?hl=en Watch Skullbound TV on CarbonTV here: https://www.carbontv.com/shows/skull-bound-chronicles/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    32 mins
  • Episode 14 - “It is the best time to be a female angler” with Kayak Angler Wendy Biles

    Episode 14 - “It is the best time to be a female angler” with Kayak Angler Wendy Biles
    Nov 15 2024
    Gabby Hoffman is joined by Wendy Biles of Wendy Biles fishing on this week’s Sportswoman Show. Wendy is an avid and up-and-coming Kayak Angler who’s been profiled in many different angling magazines for her kayak fishing adventures. She talks with Gabby about getting started by fishing with her dad, the differences between fly and spin fishing from a kayak, being dragged around by a 10 pound bass, wrangling alligators from her kayak, the struggles of landing a tarpon on a kayak, saltwater fishing from a yak, landing a 30 pound bull redfish, tips and tactics to get started, and more! Get to know your host: https://gabriellahoffman.com Learn more about Trout Stream Studios: https://www.troutstreamstudios.com Subscribe to the substack here: https://gabriellahoffman.substack.com/ Find Wendy on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/wendy_biles_fishing/ Subscribe to Wendy’s Youtube here: https://m.youtube.com/@wendybilesfishing2508 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    23 mins
  • Episode 13 - PropTalk Magazine Publisher Mary Ewenson on Sailing, Publishing, and Inspiring Women Outdoors

    Episode 13 - PropTalk Magazine Publisher Mary Ewenson on Sailing, Publishing, and Inspiring Women Outdoors
    Nov 1 2024
    Gabby Hoffman is joined by Mary Ewenson, publisher of and of Country Outdoors fame for this week’s Sportswoman Show! Mary Ewenson grew up on the Severn River, just north of Annapolis, Maryland, spending much of her summers on the water. After college, she taught high school math for several years before turning her love for sailing into a new career in 1995, when she and her friend Dave Gendell started SpinSheet Magazine. Mary is a pioneering figure in the outdoor media industry. Mary’s initial foray into the marine industry with SpinSheet has grown over the years to include PropTalk Magazine, PortBook, a stake in the Annapolis BoatShows, and most recently FishTalk Magazine, which she started with Chesapeake angler Lenny Rudow. Mary talks about the Annapolis Boat Show, her career, conserving the Chesapeake Bay Area from invasive species, and what led her to make her passion for sailing and the outdoors into a career. Get to know your host: https://gabriellahoffman.com Learn more about Trout Stream Studios: https://www.troutstreamstudios.com Subscribe to the substack here: https://gabriellahoffman.substack.com/ Learn more about Mary: https://www.ewespirit.org/mary-ewenson-president Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    31 mins
  • Episode 12 - Country Music + The Outdoors: A Match Made In Heaven With Mary O’Neill Phillips of Country Outdoors

    Episode 12 - Country Music + The Outdoors: A Match Made In Heaven With Mary O’Neill Phillips of Country Outdoors
    Sep 13 2024
    Gabby Hoffman is joined by Mary O’Neill Phillips of Country Outdoors fame for this week’s Sportswoman Show! Mary is a pioneering figure in women's sports. Discover her inspiring journey, from her early days as an outdoors woman and her immigration to America to her groundbreaking achievements in the outdoor media space. Learn about the challenges she faced, the victories she celebrated, and her enduring impact on the world of outdoor sports and country music. SUBSCRIBE NOW on your platform of choice and fill out the form to ENTER THE DRAWING to win TWO FREE TICKETS to Field And Stream Festival with special thanks too Country Outdoors! To Win, Simply: SUBSCRIBE to the Sportswoman Show on your podcast platform of choice Follow us on Instagram @troutstreamstudios, gabriella_hoffman and @fieldandstreamfest Tag your concert and/or hunting buddy! Like the post on Instagram and tell us who you’re most excited to see at Field And Stream Fest! https://www.troutstreamstudios.com/sws-field-and-stream-fest-2024 Get to know your host: https://gabriellahoffman.com Learn more about Trout Stream Studios: https://www.troutstreamstudios.com Subscribe to the substack here: https://gabriellahoffman.substack.com/ Learn more about Mary’s Country Outdoors Project: https://www.countryoutdoors.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Episode 11 - From Backyard Pheasants To African Safari’s With PA SCI’s Ashley Frederick

    Episode 11 - From Backyard Pheasants To African Safari’s With PA SCI’s Ashley Frederick
    Aug 9 2024
    Gabby Hoffman is joined by Ashley Frederick, from the PA chapter of the Safari Club International. The two discuss Ashley’s ‘weekend warrior’ status as a hunter, what it’s like living and working in the East Coast sportswoman’s paradise of Pennsylvania, growing up hunting with her dad after an early pheasant hunting trip, the lasting impact of the speech her dd gave her before her first ram hunt, how that informs her motivation and experiences as an international hunter, her designs on a markhor hunt and so much more! Get to know your host: https://gabriellahoffman.com Learn more about Trout Stream Studios: https://www.troutstreamstudios.com Subscribe to the substack here: https://gabriellahoffman.substack.com/ Learn more about Ashley Frederick: https://www.instagram.com/grandtitas/?hl=en Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    23 mins
  • Episode 10 - Katie Pavlich: The Ultimate Sportswoman

    Episode 10 - Katie Pavlich: The Ultimate Sportswoman
    Jul 23 2024
    Gabby Hoffman is joined by Katie Pavlich of Fox News fame, one of Gabby’s good friends and someone Gabby would call ‘the ultimate sportswoman’. Katie shares her experiences growing up in Flagstaff Arizona, near a ski resort, and the way her early outdoor adventures without cable TV and a hunter safety instructor Dad shaped her sportswoman lifestyle to this day. Katie then dives into the third season of her Fox Nation hit “Luxury Hunting Lodges of America”, fly fishing the Tongass, and more. Get to know your host: https://gabriellahoffman.com Learn more about Trout Stream Studios: https://www.troutstreamstudios.com Subscribe to the substack here: https://gabriellahoffman.substack.com/ Learn more about Katie Pavlich: https://www.katiepavlich.com/ Check Out Luxury Hunting Lodge of America: https://nation.foxnews.com/luxury-hunting-lodges-of-america-nation/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    27 mins
  • Episode 9 - From The Wild East To The Mountain West With Fish Untamed Host Katie Kusold

    Episode 9 - From The Wild East To The Mountain West With Fish Untamed Host Katie Kusold
    Jun 20 2024
    Gabby Hoffman is joined by Katie Kusold, the host of the wildly popular Fish Untamed podcast. The two discuss Katie’s entry into fly fishing while guiding in Colorado during her college years, including her several summers guiding fishing, the differences between fishing the warm waters of the east with the mountain streams of the west, growing up in the back woods of Pennsylvania, and so much more! Get to know your host: https://gabriellahoffman.com Learn more about Trout Stream Studios: https://www.troutstreamstudios.com Subscribe to the substack here: https://gabriellahoffman.substack.com/ Learn more about Katie Kusold: https://www.instagram.com/fishuntamed/ Listen to the Fish Untamed Podcast: https://www.fishuntamed.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    36 mins
  • Episode 8 - “We Can Do It All” - Catching Up With Self-Taught Carbon TV CEO Julie MCQueen

    Episode 8 - “We Can Do It All” - Catching Up With Self-Taught Carbon TV CEO Julie MCQueen
    May 31 2024
    Gabby Hoffman is joined by Julie McQueen, a true titan of the outdoor industry space, who shares her self-started journey of getting into the great outdoors later in life after a state-sponsored outreach class caught her eye, and the journey it has led her on since to be one of the biggest executives in the outdoor media space. The two discuss hunting, fishing, the ‘tom boy’ perception women in the industry face, some of Julie’s ‘Jules to her friends’ favorite memories afield, and so much more! Get to know your host: https://gabriellahoffman.com Learn more about Trout Stream Studios: https://www.troutstreamstudios.com Subscribe to the substack here: https://gabriellahoffman.substack.com/ Check out Carbon TV: https://www.carbontv.com Learn more about Julie McQueen: https://www.instagram.com/julesmcqueen/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    37 mins