Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz

Woman Uncaged

Society EN ↓ 108 episodes

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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Society

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womanuncaged.buzzsprout.com

Latest episode

Nov 13, 2026

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Episodes

Are you mothering your man? 11.06.2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Navigating Constraints As We Follow Our Heart's Call 23.02.2025

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome back to season 3 of the Woman Uncaged Podcast! In this week's episode, we dive into the very real constraints that we may encounter as we claim our power to choose and design our lives.  We talk about:  - How to hold onto our visions, and take steps to make those visions real without falling into fantasy  - Not be willing to bring things...

Reclaiming the Power of Attention 16.02.2025

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to season 3 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this week's episode, we dive into consciously reclaiming the power of our attention in this modern world that is constantly vying for it. We discuss: -  How attention is a non-renewable resource and the power of consciously choosing where we are placing our attention - Linda's exploration...

The Myth of the Unstable Woman 09.02.2025

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to the Woman Uncaged Podcast Season 3. We talk about: -who is better, generally speaking, at managing emotions (men or women) & why? -the cost of not recognizing ourselves as whole human beings at work -the fear of being labeled as unstable  -having emotions and still being in control -the "inconvenience" of having and expressin...

Women, You Need to Stop Doing This (eye roll) 04.12.2024

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 18 of season 2 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! This week's episode was inspired by something Laura heard on a religious radio station while driving through rural Pennsylvania (it was the only kind of radio she could get!).  We explore: - A pastor's biggest advice for women - Why are women always the ones who have to change...

Beyond the fire: embracing joy, love, and the full spectrum of experience in these challenging times 23.11.2024

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to the Woman Uncaged Podcast, Episode 17 of Season 2! In this episode we explore how to maintain our softness in the face of difficult times, and a reclaiming of our emotional range no matter what is happening. We talk about: -how suffering doesn't equate caring -how we can feel more than one emotion at a time -how we can't tell wha...

Why do we have to be so nice all the time? 17.11.2024

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 16 of season 2 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! This week's episode was inspired by Linda's little "outburst" last week during a group gathering. At this point, some of us have simply had it and we are sick of having to be nice, caring, and compassionate about everything all the time! We dive into: - Why Linda and...

Post-election aftermath and preparing for what comes next 11.11.2024

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 15, Season 2 of the Woman Uncaged Podcast. We weren't sure we were up to recording an episode this week after the devastating news that we're facing another 4 years (more if he has his way) of Trump's attempt at tyranny.  But we decided to go ahead and talk about how this is impacting us, and how angry we are at the...

Ranting and Raving and Leaning On One Another: How We're Getting Through This Election 02.11.2024

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Episode 14 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this week's episode, we address the elephant in the room: the election happening in the U.S. on Tuesday. While we intended to focus on ways to care for ourselves and one another during challenging times, we also needed a space to rant and rave about how the cages appear to be strengthening a...

Exploring the costs of convenience in an online world 27.10.2024

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to the 13th episode of Season 2 of Woman Uncaged. Today, we're talking about the struggle many of us (especially those of us with internet-based businesses or remote work) are having with balancing our online existence with our offline lives. We dive into: -how our lives moved online when the pandemic hit -wondering whether being online...

Putting Work In Its Place! 19.10.2024

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Episode 12, Season 2 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! Today we return to a favorite topic of ours: work and money-making and how they have taken on an outlandish importance in our modern lives. In the episode, we dive into: - An example of how regular work can support what matters in our lives without taking over our lives - How things might...

Nighttime whispers: exploring the magic of our dreams 13.10.2024

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Woman Uncaged, Episode 11 of Season 2! Today we're talking about dreams, of the nocturnal variety. We talk about cultivating a relationship with our dreams, our recurring dreams, and what our dreams mean in our waking lives. Linda (aka the dream whisperer) shares how a dream and a Tarot card lead her to make a big life shift. We share...

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