Woman Uncaged

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 10, season 2 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this week's episode, Laura shares a major personal shift that she is undergoing. Seventeen weeks ago, Laura separated from her husband of 29 years and moved to a new city and state. This is a deep, honest, soulful, and beautiful conversation on reinvention and becoming more fully o...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 9, season 2 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! This week's episode was inspired by the book The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler. This episode is especially for you uncaged women out there who have ever been called "perfectionists" (and not in a positive way) or who have struggled...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Episode 8 of Season 2 of the Woman Uncaged Podcast. We talk about the lifestyle and aesthetic of #tradwife. Why has it become so popular? Why is this a choice that women are making? What aspects are appealing? What is the role of the patriarchy here? We reference: Trevor Noah's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-trad-w...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Episode 7 of season 2 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this week's episode we have a very special guest joining us: The Nope Coach herself, Suzanne Culberg, speaking about how to create a truly uncaged business.  We dive into: - When Suzanne felt like she lost the fun in her business and how she reclaimed it - Why we leave the 9-5 onl...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to the Woman Uncaged Podcast Season 2, Episode 6! Today we're talking about what makes for a well-lived life, which was inspired by the article "The Mondays We've Got Left" on We're all Getting Older, a substack Laura reads regularly, by Lou Blaser. You can read that article here:  https://open.substack.com/pub/loubla...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 5, season 2 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! This week's episode was inspired by a song called Healing is Not My Purpose by Toni Jones (available via Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/track/3YjTY55wEzj5PJXexonZPj?si=7b28501a392c49a3 )  "The healing should be in service to living." - Laura In this episode, we explor...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 4 of season 2! The pressure to choose one area of focus, or one passion, can have a paralyzing effect, and therefore, become part of the patriarchal cage. In this episode we talk about what it means to be multipassionate, and why it's important to embrace your multipassionate self. We explore: -Why is purpose almost always tie...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Episode 3, Season 2 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this episode, Linda speaks with artist and coach Karen Light about Why Creativity Matters (beloved co-host Laura was on vacay while this episode was recorded!).  "Relaxation is the best friend of creativity." - Karen Light Karen and Linda dive into: - Creativity and how it ofte...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Episode 2, Season 2 of the Woman Uncaged Podcast! In today's episode we dive into the topic of relationships and are they as much work as we are led to believe?! Topics and questions we discuss include... - What if relationships are not meant to be work, but rather the antidote to it? - Laura's perspective as a former therapist (...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! in the midst of being bombarded by patriarchal messages like "women shouldn't be allowed to get an education until they've had two babies" and if you're a single woman, you have "no direct stake in the future" of the US, how do we cultivate and maintain our own unwavering self-belief and self-worth?  That's wha...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to the 23rd episode of Woman Uncaged with Linda Katz and Laura Gates-Lupton For kids, fun is a priority and their main motivator. So where does that go?  Why, as adults,  does fun have be slotted into "left over" time? Where did the freedom, that our younger selves thought we'd have as adults, go? What is worth doing just for y...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 22 of the Woman Uncaged Podcast! We discuss: - Recent examples of the invisibility of women - How women's invisibility impacts our physical wellness - How patriarchy attempts to control women in myriad ways, including the how a bill was blocked that would protect access to contraception - How certain people's opinions DO...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 21 of the Woman Uncaged Podcast! We discuss: - Linda shares how she has started bringing the energy of work into so many areas of her life (working on ourselves, our bodies, our pets, our kids, our relationships...so much work!) - How a desired end state that we are trying to engineer our way towards can infuse life with that work...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 20 of the Woman Uncaged Podcast! We discuss: -Is it a midlife crisis or a midlife questioning? -How failing to listen to the deeper questions and the deeper yearnings, may move us into crisis mode or physical symptoms. -How does the male version differ from the female version? -What are the opportunities of this stage? -And what ar...