NDA: No D*cks Allowed

Send us Fan Mail What happens when being yourself starts to feel like another performance? In this episode, we're unpacking the tension between hiding and oversharing, and why neither one is actually authenticity. Some women carefully edit themselves, keeping their opinions, needs, and emotions tucked safely away.  Others share everything, hoping that vulnerability will create connection. But...

Send us Fan Mail For decades, women have been told they can have it all. A successful career. A thriving family. A clean house. A full social life. Time for self care. Time for everyone else. And when it all feels impossible, the advice is almost always the same: get organized, manage your time better, set better boundaries, become more resilient. But what if the problem isn't your planner? I...

Send us Fan Mail You know your attachment style. Your Enneagram number. Your communication tendencies. Your childhood wounds. Your triggers. Your patterns. So why are you still stuck? In this episode, we're unpacking a modern trap that many women fall into: confusing self-awareness with actual change. Somewhere along the way, reflection became a substitute for action. We learned to analyze ou...

Send us Fan Mail TW: This episode includes discussion of burnout, serious medical events, and brief references to suicidal thoughts. Listener discretion is advised. We’re taught that perfectionism is a sign of ambition. That it means we care. That it’s what separates high performers from everyone else. But what if perfectionism isn’t really about excellence at all? In this episode, we unpack the h...

Send us Fan Mail TW: This episode includes discussion of body image, weight, eating disorder recovery, sexual abuse, medical procedures, and women's experiences with body-based judgment and objectification. Listener discretion is advised. Women are taught early that our bodies are projects. Something to improve. Something to shrink. Something to manage. Something to earn approval through. In...

Send us Fan Mail We love to talk about generations. Boomers don't like change. Millennials are entitled. Gen Z doesn't want to work. At least that's what we're told. In this episode, we're unpacking why generational stereotypes have become one of the most socially accepted forms of bias and what gets lost when we reduce complex human beings (especially women) to labels. Th...

Send us Fan Mail Women are often taught that humility is a virtue. And it is, until it becomes self-erasure. In this episode, we unpack the way many women instinctively minimize their accomplishments, deflect praise, over-credit others, and move past their wins without ever fully allowing themselves to feel proud of what they achieved. We explore how women are socially conditioned to prioritize hu...

Send us Fan Mail We say it constantly. To our partners, our kids, our coworkers, our friends. "I'm fine." But what are we actually saying? We're saying: my feelings are too much. My needs are inconvenient. It's easier if I just disappear a little. In this episode, we get into one of the quietest and most costly shrinking behaviors women do, swallowing their real emotions t...

Send us Fan Mail Mean girls don’t appear out of nowhere. They’re created inside systems that teach women there is limited space, limited approval, limited success, and limited safety available to them. In this episode, we unpack the scarcity mindset that quietly turns women against each other and explore why competition between women is often less about cruelty and more about survival, conditionin...

Send us Fan Mail Content Note: This episode contains a brief mention of suicidal thoughts. Listener discretion is advised.  Rachel Artise didn’t wait to feel ready, chosen, or validated. She walked into a location of The UPS Store as a part-time employee. Then she became the manager. Then the owner. In this first-ever NDA guest episode, Rachel gets honest about what it actually took to stop waitin...

Send us Fan Mail You may not get billed for it upfront, but you pay for it constantly. In this episode, we’re breaking down The Good Girl Tax : the hidden cost women carry when boundaries are weak, unclear, or nonexistent. It shows up as burnout you can’t shake, a version of success that doesn’t feel like yours, simmering resentment you don’t say out loud, and a life that feels overcommitted but u...

Send us Fan Mail You're doing all the things you're supposed to do. The things that are supposed to make you feel fulfilled. And yet — something's still missing, and you can't quite put your finger on it. In this episode, Amanda gets real about her own experience with exactly that feeling: checking all the boxes, staying busy, keeping up with it all, and still coming up empty....

Send us Fan Mail Most women don’t notice when it starts. You step into a role at work, at home, in relationships. You get good at it. You’re relied upon. You’re rewarded for it. You feel...useful. Over time, it stops being something you do and starts becoming who you are. This episode isn’t just about your job. This is about the roles we are constantly expected to carry—mom, partner, caregiver, le...

Send us Fan Mail You know the voice. The one that questions you right as you’re about to speak up. The one that rewrites your confidence into doubt, your clarity into hesitation, your instinct into overthinking. You've got a scam running in your head, by a voice that's masquerading as your protector. In this episode, we go straight at the internal critic—the one that’s been quietly (and...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to NDA (No D* cks Allowed) — the podcast for women who are done shrinking and ready to rise. This first episode sets the foundation for everything that follows. We’re not starting with surface-level empowerment or recycled advice. We’re starting with the behavior itself — the subtle, normalized ways women learn to shrink, accommodate, and override themselves in order to be...

Send us Fan Mail NDA: No D* cks Allowed is a podcast for women who are ready to look at the behaviors that have kept them small—and change them. This isn’t about blaming men. It’s about calling out the patterns—people-pleasing, over-accommodating, over-performing, staying silent—that we’ve learned, reinforced, and lived inside of. Each episode breaks down the “shrink traps” that show up in real li...