Woman Uncaged

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Hope can feel dangerous when you haven’t felt it in a long time. After weeks of travel and a relentless news cycle, we finally sit down to pause and actually absorb what this historic US election can mean, especially for women, marginalized communities, and anyone who’s felt politically unrepresented for years. We celebrate the “firsts” that tell the...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Episode 12 of Season 6 of the Woman Uncaged Podcast! Freedom gets talked about like cruising down a long stretch of highway without a care in the world: no obligations, no attachments, no one asking anything of you. But when we slow down and feel into the truth, a lot of us do not actually feel free in isolation. We dig into what freedom r...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Woman Uncaged, Episode 11 of Season 6! The guru era has sold us a comforting story: someone else has figured life out, and if we follow their method we can finally escape the mess. But what happens when the pedestal cracks and the person we idealized turns out to be human, complicated, and sometimes unethical? We go there, starting with re...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 10, season 6 of the Woman Uncaged podcast. This week's episode is partially fueled by the Cornell 7 and even more by the powerful article Men Are Not Predators, Women Are Not Prey by Jessica Rose Greenwood on her Rebel in the Wild substack.  TW: Note that this episode does speak of sexual assault; please take care of yourself...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Your body changes, your hormones shift, your reflection surprises you, and suddenly the habits that “used to work” feel like they come with a cost. We’re talking honestly about what it means to live in a changing body, especially for midlife women navigating perimenopause, menopause, and the emotional and physical recalibration that can come with it....

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 8, season 6 of the Woman Uncaged podcast where we are exploring triggers through a new lens: what if a trigger is a signal showing where you’re not free inside yourself yet? When we start treating triggers as teachers instead of life sentences, everything changes, from how we handle conflict to how we recover from shame, anger, and...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Woman Uncaged, episode 7 of Season 6! Sensitivity can feel like a superpower and a liability in the same hour. If you’ve ever been told you’re “too sensitive,” felt exhausted by loud environments, or carried other people’s emotions like they were your job, this conversation is for you. We dig into what “highly sensitive person” actually me...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to season 6, episode 6 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this week's episode, we dig into why your calendar can look “fine” and still feel like it belongs to someone else. We’re naming the pattern that many women inadvertently live inside: a part-time job that somehow takes over, a home that constantly calls for attention, and a life wher...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Woman Uncaged, Season 6, Episode 5! Risk is usually framed as a binary: stay safe and unseen, or step into visibility and take the hits. We don’t buy that.  As a follow up to our previous episode about embracing risk , we sit down with our friend and devoted listener Lana Price, writer and creator of Pragmagical , to offer a smarter and ki...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! In this latest episode, Laura and Linda dig into what it looks like when women outsource their wisdom, from the old “father knows best” conditioning to the new habit of letting AI chatbots tell us what to think, feel, and do. We get honest about why this is happening now. People are lonelier, therapy can be expensive and hard to access, and AI is des...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Episode 3 of Season 6!  Surrender sounds like a four-letter word when you’ve spent a lifetime being told to be “good,” accommodating, and smaller than you are. We sit down as best friends and coaches-in-real-life to unpack why surrender gives so many women the ick, and how to reclaim it as something powerful instead of something that costs...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Wecome to episode 2, season 6 of the Woman Uncaged Podcast! Agency is not a personality trait you either have or don’t. It’s a practice, and it starts the moment you notice that you’re “shoulding” all over yourself. Laura inspires this discussion with a quote she can’t stop thinking about from Cate Hall’s You Can Just Do Things. In this episode, we t...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! We're back for Season Six, and we're taking aim at the hero’s journey, and the way it teaches men to chase a “mission” while women keep the whole world running at home. We make the case for richer stories built on connection, community, and the inner life, not conquest and applause. A man gets a call about a big opportunity right after his...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to the final episode of season 5 of the Woman Uncaged podcast!  In this episode, we start with a quote we can’t shake: “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” From there, we dig into the gender gap around risk taking. Men are often encouraged to try, fail, and try again. Women are more likely to be trained to be...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 18, season 5 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! This week, we explore Laura and Linda's shared epiphanies that relationships are what matter most to them, and why that sparked fears of looking dependent, unfeminist, or stereotypical.  Laura shares the surprising tenderness of getting into a new romantic relationship relatively quic...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to the Woman Uncaged Podcast, Season 5, Episode 17! Today, we’re pulling apart the mainstream definition of success and asking: What does that definition look like when you’re living a full life with caregiving, emotional labor, relationships, and changing seasons all happening at once? We talk about why so many “success principles” don’t tra...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 16, season 5 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! Summer is marketed like a built-in reset, but many women experience it as more planning, more coordinating, and more pressure to “make it magical” for everyone else. We dig into why summer can quietly increase the mental load for women and how that erodes the very thing we want most: freed...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Woman Uncaged, Season 5, Episode 15! Something wild happens when we stop looking to the world outside us as the source for what's holding us back and start naming what’s happening inside. In this episode, we get personal about the “inner cages” that keep so many of us from living a vibrant life, even when we’re doing all the right thi...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Life rarely arrives in clean chapters. Sometimes you’re walking through heartbreak while also feeling more in love, more free, or more alive than you have in years and then you’re left wondering if you’re doing it “wrong.” We sit down to talk about holding polarities: the ability to hold grief and joy at the same time, without letting one erase the o...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Woman Uncaged Episode 13 of Season 5!  Indecision gets treated like a flaw, but what if it’s actually something else? In this conversation, we pull on that thread and it opens up a surprisingly tender truth about decision making: every real choice includes a small death, a door closing, a version of you that won’t happen. When we don’t mak...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 12, season 5 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! Heroin chic did not come back by accident, and neither did the sudden cultural obsession with getting smaller. In this week's episode, we follow that thread until it reveals something darker: diet culture and body image pressure can work like a leash, keeping women hungry, insecure, a...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Woman Uncaged! This is Episode 11 of Season 5.  Your back tightens, your jaw clenches, your brain won’t stop spinning and you reach for the fastest fix. We get it. Today, we're taking a hard look at where our energy really comes from and why so many “self-care” routines are actually more like self-recovery from a life that’s designed...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 10, season 5 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! A lot of us say we want freedom, but our calendars and choices tell a different story. In this week's episode, we dig into the uncomfortable, liberating question at the heart of midlife growth: how do you create and live your own life instead of acting out someone else’s expectations?...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Artificial intelligence and political power are colliding in ways that could push women out of economic security and back into narrower roles. AI is getting sold as “the future of work,” but what if it’s also being used as a future of control? We follow a thread that starts with a chilling public claim from a major tech CEO about shifting economic po...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to season 5, episode 8 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! A recent global survey found that nearly a third of Gen Z men believe a wife should obey her husband. Not only that, but young men are more than twice as likely as baby boomers to hold this belief. Which led us to ask, WTF? So in this week's episode, we take a hard look at how power my...