Woman Uncaged

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...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 19 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this week's episode, we use a topic that has been popping up in several of Laura's coaching sessions recently as a jumping off point to talk about money, relationships, reenvisioning work, and more.  We cover:  - Women in heterosexual marriages where the husband works a full-time job th...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! In our 18th episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast, Laura welcomes a special guest to the Woman Uncaged Podcast. Julie Falatko is an award-winning, prolific children's author, who also teaches online classes, and writes a fabulous newsletter on Substack called Do The Work. Julie and I discuss: -what counts as "work" -does work have to be...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 17 of the Woman Uncaged Podcast. This conversation was prompted by newsletter that Laura wrote, of which the subject line was very similar to this episode!  (You can read that Monday Missive here, if you wish:  https://us17.campaign-archive.com/?u=ed5e7ea6928f28b2d95ef8fb3&id=d77933f7a0 .) We talk about: -the struggles we'...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to the 16th episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz!  Today we are diving into women DOING. SO. MUCH. In this episode, Linda shares why she fell apart when Ursa's dog food order was late (as her husband said, "I don't think this is just about the dog food...") and Laura speaks about feel...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to the 15th episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz!   This episode was inspired by this quote: "Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them." Margaret Atwood, 1982 We dive into: Why the fears you feel, as a woman, aren't irrational. Why it's so...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to the 14th episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz!   In this episode we talk about how to cultivate radical self-trust and why that is such a pivotal part of living an uncaged life. We explore and discuss: - The role that self-trust plays in claiming our own freedom - How patriarchy breeds distrust in our...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to the 13th episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz!   In this episode we talk about how necessary it is to center our own happiness and success, in order to be uncaged, and how difficult that can be in heterosexual relationships. "What I’m asking women to do is to center their own happiness and center...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to the 12th episode of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this week's episode, Laura and Linda dive into the feminine archetypes that are missing in our patriarchal culture and how that plays into defining ourselves beyond the roles we play for others. We explore and discuss: - The feminine archetypes that have gone missing, using Toni Wolff&...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to the 11th episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz!   In this episode we talk about freedom and its role in the uncaged life. We explore and discuss: -Inner cages vs. Outer cages -Why rebellious energy feels like freedom, but isn't -Why its so hard to simply enjoy ourselves -The many forms of freedom,...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to the 10th episode of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this week's conversation, Laura and Linda redefine maturity. Too often, being mature often evokes an image of boring "adulting" and overall fuddy-duddy-ness (yep, we made that word up!). What if maturity was enlivened with emotion and irreverence? In this episode, we explore:...

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to the 9th episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz!   In this episode we talk about Joy. We explore and discuss: Why is joy scary and vulnerable?  Why do we expect the other shoe to drop? What does it mean to steal joy from the present and give it to the future? If... when... then...thinking. What is the jo...