The Feminine Rebellion

Join the Community: www.thefemininerebellion.com/community For nearly a decade, there was a punching bag in my basement. It was my son's kickboxing bag, and at some point I married it with a baseball bat. Guns N' Roses on, bat in hand, the most amazing rage sessions of my life. Here's what I know now that I didn't know then: I was doing the thing women have been told for centuries...

Four days, loves. This episode is the pre-game: me, Dr. Nan Wise (sex therapist, neuroscientist, and the woman who taught me the phrase healthy hedonism), and Natasha, the former legal aid attorney behind @votingshoes , one of the most joyful voting accounts on Instagram. Nan reached out to Natasha and Natty and the Women Take Charge Collective was born. This conversation is what happened when the...

Bootstraps. Power through. Chin up. Show no weakness. Nobody ever sat me down at the kitchen table and read me the rules of my house. Nobody had to. I knew them in my bones, and so did you. This week's solo episode is about those rules: the ones you absorbed from your mom's face when the doorbell rang, the ones you're still obeying at 45, at 50, at 62, and the ones I was still obeying...

This episode contains frank discussion of porn culture, sexual assault, and child sexual abuse, approached with care and for educational purposes. Listener discretion advised. If you or someone you love needs support, please reach out to a licensed mental-health professional or a crisis resource in your area. If you're talking about the Cornell 7 in terms of consent training, you are missing t...

This episode discusses psychedelics for educational and storytelling purposes only. Nothing here is medical advice, and nothing is a recommendation to use any substance. Psychedelics remain illegal in most jurisdictions and are not safe or appropriate for everyone. The experiences described took place in legal, clinically guided settings. Please consult a licensed medical or mental-health professi...

There’s a reason trees drop their leaves before the frost. They’re not failing. They’re f*cking wise. They refuse to carry dead weight into winter. But you? You’ve been trained to do the opposite. Pile on obligations. Say yes when your whole body says hell no. Wear roles like costumes you never auditioned for. And by midlife, you’re exhausted. This episode is your invitation to a radical seasonal...

At midlife, rupture is inevitable. A child leaves home. A marriage shifts. A career stops fitting. An identity starts cracking. And here’s the rebellion: rupture isn’t just pain. It’s your body’s way of saying, “This container is too small for who I am now.” In this fierce and truth-soaked episode, Natty reframes rupture as a holy signal—an embodied invitation to expansion. What feels like breakin...

You ever catch yourself hustling… even when no one’s watching? That was me—alone on a trail, chasing a meaningless “record” on my hiking app like I had something to prove. To whom??? No one was there. That moment cracked me wide open to just how deep hustle culture runs in our bones—and how sneaky it can be. Even in pleasure. Even in nature. Even when we’re alone. This episode is an unapologetic p...

There’s a moment in midlife that changes everything. Not because time is running out—But because something inside you finally says: "No more autopilot. It’s time to become who I’m here to be." In this powerful episode, Natty dives deep into the sacred pivot of turning 50—and the radical permission it gives you to burn the old rules and rise in your truth. Inside, we explore: 🔥Why midlif...

Take the trip. In a few days, I get on a plane to Spain for the rest of the month, with a group of women who have invited me on this trip every single year, for years. And every year, I said no. This episode is the story of all my no's, the question that finally broke them, and the principle that changed how I navigate my entire life: pleasure begets pleasure. What you'll hear: 🔥 My very...

There's a life you dream about when nobody's watching. The one you float off to sleep inside of, so vivid some nights you can smell the coffee in that other kitchen. This week I'm telling you what I know from the marrow of my bones: that life is real, and the version of you who lives it already exists. Then we get honest about what it costs to reach her. What you'll hear: 🔥 Why th...

It's 2AM and you're wide awake next to a man who's fast asleep, typing a question into your phone with the brightness turned all the way down. Then you delete the search history. This week, we're asking that question in daylight. What you'll hear: 🔥 The article Oprah just pulled back into every group chat, and the question hiding underneath "are women giving up on marriag...

I'm recording this one from a sweltering hotel room in New York City, and I can't stop thinking about a 26-year-old named Karen I ate dumplings with last night — because Karen is standing at the front door of a path most of us walked all the way to the end. I call it The Patriarchal Path: the list you were handed so early you thought it was your own idea. The education, the career, the par...

The tables turn this week. My friend — and my go-to sex therapist — Dr. Emma Smith puts me in the guest chair, and I tell the story I've never told this completely: the Wednesday morning I sat in couples therapy and said "I want a divorce, and I have a lawyer." I wasn't bluffing. And then my therapist asked me a question so strange I almost laughed at him — and it shot straight i...

If you'd asked me a few years ago whether I needed anyone's permission to live my life, I would have laughed in your face. I was independent. Capable. I made my own calls, thank you very much. And other people's approval was still quietly running the whole show — setting the ceiling on what I believed was even possible for me. Today we make that invisible thing visible. I'm naming...

You love your partner. Your life looks solid from the outside. And somewhere along the way, you stopped wanting sex — and started telling yourself that's just what happens to busy, high-achieving women in midlife. I believed that too. Then my favorite sex therapist sat down across from me and said the sentence that reframes everything: you're not broken — you're empty. And those are co...

A listener named Maura wrote in with a question so many of us are white-knuckling in silence. After a demanding career and years of holding her family through crisis, she has finally, quote, retired, and she cannot shake the voice that asks, "are you doing enough, do I even deserve to rest?" This week, in the very first Ask Natty , I coach her, and you, all the way through it. What you’l...

There is a voice in your head that has been narrating your life like a critic in the back row, telling you that you are behind, you are too much, you should have it figured out by now. And you have never really questioned it, because it sounds exactly like you. This episode is going to show you that most of what that voice says was never yours to begin with. Somebody installed it. And I am handing...

Opening At 61, Jane Stewar t is living proof that reinvention has no expiration date. After 20+ years in corporate sales and marketing nearly hollowed her out, Jane walked away, rebuilt herself through grief and therapy, and turned bold, full-color Western fashion into a platform watched by tens of thousands of women. This episode is for every woman who's ever filed a dream under "maybe i...

If you have made the lists, polled the group chat, done all the research, and you are still stuck in exactly the same place — this episode is going to name why. We are talking about the real reason brilliant women overthink every decision that actually matters, the neuroscience behind why your body already has the answer, and a simple tool called the body vote that will change the way you make dec...

If you are a midlife woman who has spent years performing sex, faking enthusiasm, or genuinely not knowing what you want in bed, this episode is your permission slip. Cindy Gallop is the founder and CEO of Make Love Not Porn , one of the most fearless humans alive at 66, and she came on The Feminine Rebellion to talk about sexual agency, aging with zero apology, real world sex, and why your pleasu...

There is a reason grown women are crying on dance floors across America — and it is not because the DJ played a sad song. It is because they have finally, finally, let themselves feel free. Laura Baginski is the co-founder of Early Birds Club : a dance party phenomenon for midlife women and gender-expansive folks that started at a Chicago dive bar in 2024 and has since expanded to 45 cities nation...

If you've done the books, the therapy, the courses, the journaling — and you're still circling — this episode is going to name something nobody in the personal development world wants to say clearly. We're talking about the midlife plateau that hits the most self-aware, genuinely committed women: the specific kind of stuck that isn't a discipline problem or a motivation problem. It's a neuroscienc...

The cultural story about midlife women and sexuality is one of loss. Declining hormones, declining libido, declining desirability. Carly Mountain, somatic therapist with twenty years of experience working with women’s bodies, voices, and desires, is telling a completely different story. In this episode, we go deep into what a tamed woman actually looks like in the everyday details of her life. We...

Most women hit midlife with decades of diagnoses, symptoms they can't explain, and a libido that seems to have packed up and left — and nobody ever taught them how their own bodies actually work. In this episode, Natty sits down with midwife Morgan Miller and sex therapist Laura Federico , co-authors of The Cycle Book , to talk about cycle literacy, hormones, perimenopause, desire, and what it rea...