Hi everyone, today we are doing something a little different and sharing an episode of my friend Scott Campbell's podcast Stupid Things for Love. I was on his show and the conversation that we have been having on this show about shame and sex. If you don't already listen to Scott's show, it's incredible and you should subscribe! We will be back next week with more regularly scheduled programming. 

This week I am finishing my conversation with Laura Hoenack.  Laura writes a substack called Lulubeans about her complicated grief as a widow of suicide. She also writes about sex and dating and her work as a camgirl on OnlyFans. And recently she wrote a guest post from my substack titled I Am a Beautiful Thing, or How I Learned to Love My 40 Something Body by Posting Nudes on the Internet. And fuck yes, she's a beautiful thing and every single sense of the word.

Subscribe to Laura's substack and read her piece on my substack! 

This show is hosted by Rebecca Woolf

This is a Western Sound Podcast produced by Sarah Dealy

Executive Producer is Ben Adair 

This week I am thrilled to introduce you to my friend, writer, widow mother and camgirl, Laura Hoenack. I met Laura early last year when she was a participant in a grief writing workshop that I teach.  Laura writes a substack called Lulubeans about her complicated grief as a widow of suicide. She also writes about sex and dating and her work as a camgirl on OnlyFans. And recently she wrote a guest post from my substack titled I Am a Beautiful Thing, or How I Learned to Love My 40 Something Body by Posting Nudes on the Internet. And fuck yes, she's a beautiful thing and every single sense of the word.

Subscribe to Laura's substack and read her piece on my substack! 

This show is hosted by Rebecca Woolf

This is a Western Sound Podcast produced by Sarah Dealy

Executive Producer is Ben Adair 

In today’s episode I am chatting with Melissa Petro author of the book Shame on You: How to be A Woman in the Age of Mortification which is essentially what this podcast is all about. I have spent the entirety of my life battling and overcoming my own shame, weighing the so called morals of the societal masses against my own truth and need to tell it and in her book, Melissa not only shares her story of public humiliation but gives women insight on how to combat their own shame.

Buy Melissa's book and follow her on instagram. 

This show is hosted by Rebecca Woolf

This is a Western Sound Podcast produced by Sarah Dealy

Executive Producer is Ben Adair 

This week I’m talking to Bassey Ikpi. Bassey is a writer, a speaker, an emotional wellness advocate and the NYT bestselling author of the book I'm Telling the Truth But I'm Lying which is one of the most beautifully written memoirs I’ve read in recent years. In her book, she writes about emotional memory, distinguishing it from actual memory and she asks us to get curious when it comes to our remembrance of things and how we metabolize those memories. I'm so excited to have her here today. 

Buy Bassey's book and follow her on instagram here. 

This show is hosted by Rebecca Woolf

This is a Western Sound Podcast produced by Sarah Dealy

Executive Producer is Ben Adair 

Mixing by Alex MacInnis

 This week I'm thrilled to be speaking to author, academic and friend Amanda Montei. Amanda is the author of the book, Touched Out: Misogyny, Consent and Control, and the substack, Mad Woman.  This episode is a little different than other episodes in that it's a sort of response episode to the election, specifically how shame shaped it and what we can do to reverse its effects. I feel so fortunate to have friends like Amanda, with whom I can talk honestly and openly without judgment or shame, but also be challenged, enlightened, and provoked to recognize truths beyond my own. So today on the show we talk about shame, white women, the 4B movement and how we have all been doing since the election. 

Buy Amanda's book and check out her substack!

This show is hosted by Rebecca Woolf

This is a Western Sound Podcast produced by Sarah Dealy

Executive Producer is Ben Adair 

Mixing by Alex MacInnis

This week I’m very excited to host someone I have had the great honor of knowing and loving my whole life – my great Aunt Dot Fisher-Smith. Since I was a little girl, I gravitated toward Dot. I always felt a kind of solidarity with her that defies age.   She is a sister to me. She is a friend. A mentor. A confidante. And I think, specifically with death, a subject most people are not comfortable talking about, let alone planning for, she has been a touchstone for me. Beyond my relationship with Dot, she is an activist and agitator who led anti-war protests during Vietnam, chained herself to Redwood trees as an environmentalist with Greenpeace and has lived a loud and proud life of civil disobedience. 

Google Dot Fisher-Smith!! Here is the incredible YouTube documentary about her. 

This show is hosted by Rebecca Woolf

This is a Western Sound Podcast produced by Sarah Dealy

Executive Producer is Ben Adair 

Mixing by Alex MacInnis

My guest this week is Kim Ye. Kim Ye is a visual artist, a performance artist, a pro domme and a mother of two whose work exists within the intersection of sex work, domestic labor, motherhood and the relationship between dominance, and submission, caretaking and autonomy, rebellion and acquiescence. 

Buy PROMOMME here!

You can follow Kim Ye on instagram @kimyekimyekimye, her website is kimye.com. 

This show is hosted by Rebecca Woolf

This is a Western Sound Podcast produced by Sarah Dealy

Executive Producer is Ben Adair 

Mixing by Alex MacInnis

Before this podcast found its voice and I decided I wanted specifically to feature women who have been stigmatized or shamed for being quote unquote bad girls (my favorite kind) I had the idea to feature people who were in transition. So. I put a call out on Instagram for stories. Hundreds responded. It was so overwhelming it took me weeks to go through every email. I ultimately decided to go in a slightly different direction but Shannon, who responded to my original call for stories of transition was ALSO VERY ALIGNED with what I wanted to explore here on NO SHAME and I am THRILLED that she agreed to talk to me today because she is one of the bravest women I have ever met and when you hear her tell her story today you are going to absolutely understand why. 

If you have a story of No Shame, I want to hear it. Please email me at [email protected]

This show is hosted by Rebecca Woolf

This is a Western Sound Podcast produced by Sarah Dealy

Executive Producer is Ben Adair 

Editing help by Savannah Wright 

Mixing by Alex MacInnis

My guest today is Suzanne Scanlon. She's the author of the book Committed: Of Meaning and Mad Women, a book that details Suzanne's experience being institutionalized in New York City in the nineties. Her book explores the nature of madness with such elegance and precise insight, and it made me want to know her and love her. Today on the show we talk about mental health, the hysterical woman archetype, and what it's been like to be called crazy.

Buy Suzanne's book! It's incredible. 

This show is hosted by Rebecca Woolf

This is a Western Sound Podcast produced by Sarah Dealy

Executive Producer is Ben Adair 

Editing help by Savannah Wright 

Mixing by Alex MacInnis