ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Hell Cats is a veteran-led podcast hosted by Marine Corps veteran Maura Sullivan and Navy veteran Rebecca Bennett.
Each week, Maura and Rebecca sit down with women who have served their country—in uniform and beyond—to explore leadership, military service, family, public service, and the challenges facing America today. Through candid conversations with veterans, military leaders, journalists, historians, and changemakers, Hell Cats shines a light on voices too often overlooked in conversations about national security and civic leadership.
The show’s name honors the “Lady Hell Cats,” some of the first women to serve in the United States Marine Corps more than a century ago. At a time when women were told they couldn’t serve, they stepped forward anyway, helping open doors for generations who followed.
Now, at a moment when the contributions of women in uniform are once again being questioned, Hell Cats creates space for those women to tell their own stories—in their own words.
Produced by Lauren Hust at Public Square Media and VALOR Media Network in partnership with Meidas Defense. Hell Cats is available wherever you get your podcasts.
Editorial Note
Hell Cats is an independent production of VALOR Media Network created for journalistic, educational, and public-interest purposes.
VALOR Media Network exercises sole editorial control over the program’s content, production, and distribution. While some hosts and guests may be candidates for public office, Hell Cats is not produced by, authorized by, requested by, or coordinated with any political campaign or candidate committee. Participation in the program does not constitute an endorsement by VALOR Media Network.
Each week, Maura and Rebecca sit down with women who have served their country—in uniform and beyond—to explore leadership, military service, family, public service, and the challenges facing America today. Through candid conversations with veterans, military leaders, journalists, historians, and changemakers, Hell Cats shines a light on voices too often overlooked in conversations about national security and civic leadership.
The show’s name honors the “Lady Hell Cats,” some of the first women to serve in the United States Marine Corps more than a century ago. At a time when women were told they couldn’t serve, they stepped forward anyway, helping open doors for generations who followed.
Now, at a moment when the contributions of women in uniform are once again being questioned, Hell Cats creates space for those women to tell their own stories—in their own words.
Produced by Lauren Hust at Public Square Media and VALOR Media Network in partnership with Meidas Defense. Hell Cats is available wherever you get your podcasts.
Editorial Note
Hell Cats is an independent production of VALOR Media Network created for journalistic, educational, and public-interest purposes.
VALOR Media Network exercises sole editorial control over the program’s content, production, and distribution. While some hosts and guests may be candidates for public office, Hell Cats is not produced by, authorized by, requested by, or coordinated with any political campaign or candidate committee. Participation in the program does not constitute an endorsement by VALOR Media Network.
Update frequency:
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Average audio length:
52 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
English
United States
6 episodes
since June 30, 2026
episodic
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Welcome back to Hell Cats.
In the finale of the series, Maura Sullivan and Rebecca Bennett ask the question that should sit under every fight we're having: what are we actually fighting for? They open on a war Congress won't own, eighteen service members killed with no defined mission or vote, a…
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Welcome back to Hell Cats.
This week, Maura Sullivan and Rebecca Bennett ask what a country owes the people it asks to sacrifice. They hold that question up against the news, a costly war with Iran that Congress won't vote on, a Defense Secretary blocking some of the Navy's most qualified women wh…
Welcome back to Hell Cats.
This week, Maura Sullivan and Rebecca Bennett take on leadership as the thing it really is — responsibility for human lives — and hold that standard up against the news: the U.S. back at war with Iran with Congress still refusing to vote on it, a Defense Secretary lectur…
Welcome back to Hell Cats.
This week, right after the Fourth of July, Maura Sullivan and Rebecca Bennett turn from their own stories to a bigger question: what does it actually mean to be patriotic in America right now? From Trump's approach to NATO and Ukraine to the Supreme Court's latest ruli…
Welcome back to Hell Cats.
This week, the roles reverse. Maura sits down with her co-host, Rebecca Bennett, to trace her journey — from growing up in small-town Texas, to choosing Navy ROTC and the hardest engineering program she could find, to flying helicopters through the Strait of Hormuz, to…
Most Americans don't picture women like Maura Sullivan and Rebecca Bennett when they picture a military veteran. Hell Cats exists to change that. In this premiere, two women veterans whose lives have run on strikingly parallel tracks — a Marine and a Navy helicopter pilot, both ROTC, both deployed,…
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