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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May 30, 2026
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Episodes
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...
From Stuffed Closets to Starved Souls: Why Consumption Can’t Fill the Void 01.06.2025 49:18
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to the Woman Uncaged Podcast Season 3, Episode 15! We’ve all reached for something shiny—on a shelf, in a cart, online—hoping it might soothe a deeper ache. In this episode of Woman Uncaged, we explore the emotional undercurrents of consumer culture: the difference between needs and wants, the myth of retail therapy, and why we keep trying...
The Delicious Pull of an Erotic Life 25.05.2025 43:04
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 14 of season 3 of the Woman Uncaged Podcast! Today's episode was inspired by Tamara of Museguided's recent substack on erotic decisions (found here: https://museguided.substack.com/p/erotic-decisions). In this episode, we explore: - How we define the erotic - How choosing desire over duty is an erotic decision - The rol...
Revved Up & Rattled: Nervous System Wisdom for Uncaged Women 18.05.2025 37:06
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to the Woman Uncaged Podcast Season 3, Episode 13! How does nervous system regulation relate to being uncaged? That's what we're talking about today. We discuss: the badge of honor busyness can be how a revved up nervous system has come to seem "normal" how our push to maximize contributes antidotes to stress how we each...
Collaboration: The Key to Dismantling Patriarchy? 11.05.2025 47:43
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 12 of season 3 of the Woman Uncaged podcast. In this week's episode, we chat about: - The NBC article about how female bonobo monkeys fend off male aggression that inspired this episode - How patriarchy persists by keeping women separated from one another - Why patriarchy has been so darn successful at staying around even thou...
What Now? Figuring It Out Without Freaking Out 06.05.2025 25:45
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to this Season 3 bonus mini-episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast! We've all heard this advice often given to women who are moving into new phases of life: "Before you make any major decisions or start dating or take on new obligations, develop a deeper relationship with yourself first. Spend some time focusing on you and pouring in...
Savor the slow: A rebellion against the rush 27.04.2025 53:32
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Woman Uncaged Season 3, Episode 11. We discuss: What we're missing by not having spaciousness and slowness in our lives. Our fear of boredom and feelings. How rushing around impacts our relationships with other humans. How connection happens in the slowness. How we introduce slowness in our own lives. What we stand to gain by introduc...
Our Phallic-Centric Culture Exposed! 21.04.2025 48:00
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 10 of season 3 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! Today we are exploring the costs of our phallic-centric culture, what it means for women, and how we can imagine something different. We explore: - How erectile dysfunction meds are being marketed to younger men and why that's an issue - A european company that is offering a course...
Permission, Purse Strings and Power 13.04.2025 49:53
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Woman Uncaged Season 3, Episode 9. We discuss: - The Good Girl and the wish for permission (especially when it comes to money) - When one person in a couple is the primary earner, how that impacts access to money and agency in the relationship - The systems that condition us to seek permission to meet even our basic needs - The cost of hie...
Creating Belonging Wherever We Are 05.04.2025 53:16
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 8 of season 3 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this week's episode, we dive into belonging, why it can be tricky in our modern times, and how to use it as a verb in our lives. We explore: - How do we feel a sense of belonging if we don't see what we value mirrored back to us in the places we are - Instead of continually...
Intuition or Anxiety? 31.03.2025 46:34
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Woman Uncaged Season 3, Episode 7. We discuss: - our definitions of intuition -how to discern between intuition and anxiety -what happens when we don't pay attention to our intuition -times when we've listened to our intuition, even in the face of tremendous pressure not to -the link between self-trust and intuition -fear of our...
Staying Uncaged in Troubling Times 16.03.2025 48:59
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Woman Uncaged Season 3, Episode 6. We are talking today about how the Trump Regime wants and expects us to exist within their fascist imagination. They have a cage they would love to put us in! How does the Uncaged Woman navigate this time? By doubling down on being true to herself. We discuss: Why being ourselves is both a threat and bene...
Breaking free from diets, budgets and joyless living 09.03.2025 48:44
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 5 of season 3 of the Woman Uncaged podcast. Today we are exploring breaking free of budgets, diets, and joyless living! We talk about: - Women and budget culture and how it relates to diet culture and restriction generally - Laura's thoughts on budget culture as a money coach and where she starts with her clients - How women&...
Embodying The Unstoppable Woman 02.03.2025 48:54
Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 4 of season 3 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this week's episode we talk about the reality of the unstoppable woman! What does it mean to be unstoppable and how can we unearth and channel this energy in ourselves? We explore: - The sentence that Laura heard from her coach that inspired this conversation: "Being the kind...
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