No Shame with Rebecca Woolf

I have a very, very special episode this week. I am sitting down to interview my 16-year-old daughter, Fable who I've known Fable. I've known Fable since she was born. She's a powerhouse, a hand raiser, a leader in the classic sense, the opposite of invisible, the antithesis of afraid standing tall with flags in her hands. I am so proud of her and she has taught me so much. 

This show is hosted by Rebecca Woolf

This is a Western Sound Podcast produced by Sarah Dealy

Executive Producer is Ben Adair 

Hi everyone! Today I'm sitting down with my friend Sophie Strauss, a stylist for regular people, and we are going to talk about abortion.  We're going to talk about her abortions. We're going to talk about your abortions. We're going to talk about ways for you to have access to an abortion, even in a state where they are making it harder and harder to get one.  

Abortion resources:

Shout Your Abortion

Plan C Pills

Abortion Care Network

Follow Sophie Strauss on instagram @sophiestraussstyling or check out her website www.sophiestraussstyling.com.

This show is hosted by Rebecca Woolf

This is a Western Sound Podcast produced by Sarah Dealy

Executive Producer is Ben Adair 

This week, it is my honor to host the incredible, Amy Pence Brown. Amy is a body image activist. She's a writer, an artist, a public speaker, an educator, and a radical Idahoan. I've been following her for years. She's been a body image activist for 15 years and became internationally known for her radical stand for self love at the capital city public market in Boise, Idaho in 2015, which you might remember because it was viral.  What excites me most about her is that if you tell her to stop, she goes harder. So excited for you to hear my conversation with her today which is very timely for this week.

Follow Amy on instagram @idaho_amy and see what she is going at her website. 

This show is hosted by Rebecca Woolf

This is a Western Sound Podcast produced by Sarah Dealy

Executive Producer is Ben Adair 

There are a handful of writers whose voices I believe are so central to where we are culturally, whose voices truly define a moment by validating not only what is happening politically but also what is happening within the interior lives of women. And Lyz Lenz is one of them. She is the author of the book This American Ex Wife and the substack Men Yell At Me.

Check out Lyz's book and her substack.

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

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