Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz
Woman Uncaged
In these unfiltered, unedited conversations, Linda Katz and Laura Gates-Lupton get real about what it means to live full, joyous, and meaningful lives in a culture that continues to silence, shrink, and sideline women. Laura and Linda call out the ways patriarchy disguises systemic problems as personal failings, and they refuse to let women carry that lie alone. They question, illuminate, and lay bare the forces that shape women’s lives, while lifting up the possibility of something different. With candor, humor, and plenty of personal stories, they invite women to stop hating themselves, recl...
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Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz
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Latest episode
Nov 8, 2026
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Episodes
She Quit at 16 and Came Back for Joy 27.02.2026 44:47
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! What if the bravest way to win is to skate for joy instead of judgment? We sat down with hearts still buzzing after watching Alysa Liu light up the ice, and we followed that thread into a bigger conversation about self-worth, presence, and success without self-betrayal. Her story of leaving at 16, returning for the love of the feeling, and then radia...
Becoming Self-Governed: Resist Coercion and Control to Claim Your Authority 22.02.2026 44:34
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 6, season 5 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this latest episode, we dive into self-governance as a daily practice that blends inner sovereignty with community power, and we track how that intersects with money, autonomy, and the right to be heard. From miscarriage criminalization becoming more common to the slow creep of voting ba...
Why Is It So Hard To Say No? 14.02.2026 49:47
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! What if the most loving thing you say this week is no? Welcome to Season 5 Episode 5! We unpack why so many women default to appeasement: early grooming to be pleasing, the fawn response as a learned safety strategy, and the sales culture that pressures quick yeses. Then we rebuild choice from the body up. Learn how to slow urgency, map your persona...
Embracing a Pleasure-Led Life Without Apology 07.02.2026 32:17
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! What if pleasure wasn’t a guilty whisper but a wise guide? We dive into a frank, tender conversation about how women can reclaim pleasure from the grip of productivity culture, sin narratives, and the “tiny treat” marketing trap. From basking in the sunlight on a winter day to long, meandering talks that light up the mind, we explore how genuine deli...
Choosing Mutuality Over Metrics: Rethinking Wealth 03.02.2026 48:00
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Want to know why a bigger bank balance can calm your nervous system yet still leave you restless? We dig into the messy, honest truth: money absolutely fixes spreadsheet problems, while falling short on the deeper needs that make life feel rich. Together we unpack how women are taught to restrict instead of invest, to overgive instead of receive, and...
Is Patriarchy's Real Target...MEN? 24.01.2026 50:31
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 2, season 5 of the woman Uncaged Podcast! In this week's episode, Laura and Linda explore the patriarchal system from a new angle, wondering aloud what might reveal itself if we look at men as the main objects of subjugation rather than women. Inspired by a recent podcast episode of The Tea with Jameela Jamil, we investigate...
Backlash and Bravery: The Attack on Feminism 20.01.2026 47:20
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to the 5th season of Woman Uncaged! In episode one, we dive into the erasure of older women and why that loss matters for everyone. When women who know their minds disappear from view, men lose models for growth, relationships flatten, and a market built on insecurity thrives. We challenge the claim that women are naturally more conformist an...
Staying Radically Human in this AI/Automated World 23.12.2025 50:10
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to the 75th episode of Woman Uncaged, which is also our season four finale. In this episode we’re naming something a lot of us can feel in our bones: the world is speeding up, getting more convenient, more automated and somehow less human. We're interrogating culture, power, convenience, efficiency, and what gets lost when humans outsou...
Has Self-Care Become the New Impossible Beauty Standard? 14.12.2025 47:51
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 15, season 4 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this week's episode we discuss self-care...but maybe not in the way that you would think. Self-care has become an unquestioned mandate for women. In some ways, of course it is an improvement over the impossible beauty standards of yesteryear (which were solely externally focused),...
The Power of One Word to Shape a Year 09.12.2025 35:21
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 14, season 4 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast, we dive into one of our favorite end-of-year rituals: choosing a Word of the Year. As we record in December, we’re both deep in reflection mode, looking back at the words that have guided us in past seasons and feeling into what might want to...
The Cost of Denying Our Own Power 29.11.2025 46:47
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 13, season 4 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! When we deny our own power, we project it outward...onto our spouses, other people, and even institutions. In this episode, we share how we see this phenomenon in ourselves, our clients, and the world at large, providing real world examples to illuminate a dynamic that often goes unseen a...
Slow Uncaging for Long-Lasting Change 19.11.2025 48:28
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Episode 12 of Season 4! In this episode, we unpack a truth we’ve both lived over and over again: real, lasting change is rarely quick, and the pressure to deliver (or receive) instant transformation can actually get in the way of the deeper work. We talk about the myth of the “insight machine,” the belief that coaches must produce rapid br...
Singular Focus: Necessary or Vestige of the Patriarchy? 12.11.2025 47:42
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Episode 11 of Season 4! In this week's episode, we explore the sought-after idea of "singular focus" and how that applies in our lives, our work, and our activism in support of the causes that matter to us. Singular focus is often hailed as being valuable and necessary to doing deep work that has impact, but both of us have...
When You Don’t Know What’s Next 03.11.2025 48:15
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Episode 10 of Season 4! In this Halloween episode of The Woman Uncaged Podcast , we explore the concept of liminal space: those in-between times when something has ended but the next chapter hasn’t yet revealed itself. Recording on Samhain, a time when the veil between worlds is said to be thin, feels especially fitting as we explore the e...
Unbranding Ourselves: Uncaging from Commodity Culture 08.10.2025 48:25
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 9, season 4 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! Today, Laura and Linda explore the modern phenomenon of treating ourselves like a brand. What do we gain from it, and what do we stand to lose? In the age of online businesses and social media influencers, there is pressure to approach ourselves (especially if we are solopreneurs) as a bran...
Instinct, Power, and Embracing Your Inner Wild 02.10.2025 49:11
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 8, season 4! In this episode of Woman Uncaged , we ask: what does it really mean to be wild? We bust the myth that wildness is about chaos or running barefoot through the woods—it’s actually something intrinsic, already alive inside us. With Linda, we explore how reclaiming our wildness connects us to power, boundaries, instinct,...
Our Quest for the Fresh in a World Gone Stale 24.09.2025 51:28
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 7, season 4 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! Today, Laura and Linda dive into their quest for what feels new and fresh, with a healthy side of ranting about what has started to taste very stale. In this world that is constantly trying to sell us on a five-step program we don't need, vying for our attention (without offering any...
Uncaging the Creature Within 14.09.2025 46:34
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 6, season 4 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this episode, we dive into the juicy, messy, and deeply human truth of what it means to remember our creatureliness. We’ve noticed how often our culture talks about bodies like they’re machines—systems that should function the same every day, optimized, predictable, “high vibe” on deman...
No More Codependence: Uncaged Relationships 08.09.2025 50:18
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to the Woman Uncaged Podcast, Season 4, Episode 5! In this episode, we dive into a question that so many of us wrestle with but rarely have clear models for: what does a healthy relationship actually look like? We talk about why so many of the examples we’ve grown up with, including songs, movies, even our own families, often normalize codep...
Moving Beyond the Carrot and the Stick 31.08.2025 50:15
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 4, season 4 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In today's episode we dive into how to move beyond the carrot and the stick in our relationships with ourselves, with how we raise children, how we train dogs, and how we relate to one another. We live in a paradigm that is dependent upon, and celebrates, punishment and reward as heat...
The Stranger in the Mirror: Uncaging Your True Self 24.08.2025 46:02
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Season 4, Episode 3 of the Woman Uncaged Podcast! What happens when you realize that the life you’ve built—and even the relationships you’ve nurtured—don’t actually reflect who you are? In this conversation, we dive into how so many women begin silencing their true voices in adolescence just to belong, and how that survival strategy often...
Uncaging Cronehood: Redefining Aging for Ourselves 17.08.2025 47:26
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 2 of season 4 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this episode Laura and Linda dive into uncaged cronehood, that developmental stage in a woman's life that occurs between midlife and elderhood. Often misunderstood, pathologized, or entirely ignored societally, we explore another possibility for this phase of life. What if it is a...
Unworking the Dream: Freedom in a Post-Job World 08.08.2025 49:04
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! In this episode of Woman Uncaged , we explore the radical idea of a post-job world. Inspired by the rise of AI and automation, we unpack what it could mean—socially, economically, emotionally—to live in a world where traditional jobs are no longer the default. Rather than succumbing to fear or dystopian visions, we wonder aloud: what if this shift op...
Matriarchy: The Ultimate Uncaging? 18.06.2025 39:49
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to the Woman Uncaged Podcast Season 3, Episode 17! In this episode, we ask a bold and rarely explored question: What would life be like if we lived in a matriarchy? We dive into what that word really means, beyond the idea of simply putting women in charge, and explore the deeper values it might center: interdependence, collaboration, recipro...
Are you mothering your man? 11.06.2025 46:15
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to the Woman Uncaged Podcast Season 3, Episode 16! For those of us in heterosexual relationships, it can be very easy to get into the habit of mothering our men. It's not only socially acceptable, it's applauded! In this episode of Woman Uncaged, we explore how the mothering energy can be misplaced in our romantic relationships, wha...
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