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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 though women actually outnumber men

- Internalized misogyny and how that affects our communities

- How we've been set up to compete as women and how that isn't typically mirrored in the animal kingdom

- How our society was set up to ensure women are completely dependent upon men financially

- Why it is important to seek out the work of women

- How to cultivate female connection

- The changes that occur in cultural messaging for girls after we hit puberty

- How we can start to bring forth greater collaboration between women and activating the power of the web

- Questioning the framing of the very article that inspired this episode!

Resources: 

- NBC Article: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/bonobos-form-girl-groups-fend-male-aggression-study-says-rcna202803

- Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice and The Blade and Sacred Pleasure (as well as several other books)

- The Web episode of Woman Uncaged: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5bDIcom0TMnRaGvFI6uTEl?si=5d9c77a993aa44f0

- How to Decenter Men in Your Life by Zawn Villines on the Liberating Motherhood Substack: https://zawn.substack.com/p/how-to-decenter-men-in-your-life

- Carol Gilligan's book The Birth of Pleasure 

- Why Does Patriarchy Persist? by Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider

- The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Laura's Mastermind: https://www.carriebradley.com/mastermind

~Linda's book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling Her Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul   

~Laura's Monday Money Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/
~Linda's Wild Woman in the Burbs: https://lindasewalliuskatz.substack.com/

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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 into your own life." 

But, how does one do that? That's what we're talking about today.

We explore:

- How to get to know ourselves again in this new season of life, including some of our favorite practices to do so

-Why it's important to sit with the emptiness, as least for awhile

-Questions to ask oneself when considering what to do next

-How to experiment with new things

-The risks of not taking this on

-The benefits of getting support

Support the show

Laura's Mastermind: https://www.carriebradley.com/mastermind

~Linda's book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling Her Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul   

~Laura's Monday Money Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/
~Linda's Wild Woman in the Burbs: https://lindasewalliuskatz.substack.com/

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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 introducing more slowness and spaciousness into our lives. 

Time scarcity.

The myth of balance that is peddle to women.

How to introduce a slower rhythm.

More savoring; less rushing.

Linda quotes Marion Woodman: "If we could allow the pace of our meetings to slow down to the pace of our hearts, we might find genuine understanding."

Resources:
War of Art by Steven Pressfield

The Slow TV movement, including Moose Migration cameras in Sweden

Support the show

Laura's Mastermind: https://www.carriebradley.com/mastermind

~Linda's book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling Her Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul   

~Laura's Monday Money Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/
~Linda's Wild Woman in the Burbs: https://lindasewalliuskatz.substack.com/

Support the Show: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2281161/supporters/new

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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 on menopause and how vastly that differs from American corporations

- How a phallic-centric culture ignores women's needs and experiences

- The impact of the administration's attacks on DEI, including decreased funding for studying women's bodies

- How the psychological map of human development looked ONLY at the development of boys into men, never considering how development into maturity might be different for girls and women

- The importance of women-centered spaces

- Listening to and holding space for differing experiences, and not perpetuating patriarchy by assuming our experience is everyone's experience

- How do we meet this moment where it feels like we are going backwards 

- Imagining a sensual, earthy feminine culture and what that brings up for us

Resources Mentioned:

Book: Passionista: The Empowered Woman's Guide to Pleasuring a Man by Ian Kerner (also author of She Comes First)

Support the show

Laura's Mastermind: https://www.carriebradley.com/mastermind

~Linda's book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling Her Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul   

~Laura's Monday Money Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/
~Linda's Wild Woman in the Burbs: https://lindasewalliuskatz.substack.com/

Support the Show: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2281161/supporters/new

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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 hierarchies in our relationships

- The cost of our extreme privacy around money

- How our compassion can be exploited without clear boundaries and the permission to say no

- Scarcity mindset and taking ownership

- Cashflow, using our money, and having faith in our ability to create more

- Our comfort with restriction vs. expansion and the impact of perceived control

- The role of self-sacrifice

Resources mentioned:

-Caliban and The Witch (book) by Silvia Federici

Support the show

Laura's Mastermind: https://www.carriebradley.com/mastermind

~Linda's book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling Her Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul   

~Laura's Monday Money Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/
~Linda's Wild Woman in the Burbs: https://lindasewalliuskatz.substack.com/

Support the Show: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2281161/supporters/new

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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 searching for where we belong, how do we belong ourselves to where we live?

- Belonging isn't something that just happens, it's something you can actively participate in

- What happens when we feel like wherever we live is temporary

- How volunteering can help you belong where you are and looking for folks in your area who DO care about what you care about

- What does it mean to ACTUALLY live somewhere 

- The dance of freedom vs belonging 

- How some places just don't suit us and how do we know

- The eroding sense of individual place

- The importance of third places or outside places, especially when we work from home

- Belonging in terms of interpersonal relationships

- The art of saying yes

- Acting like somehow who loves where you live

- Embracing seasonality even in terms of belonging

Resources Mentioned:

Culture Study Substack by Anne Helen Petersen

This Is Where You Belong: Finding Home Wherever You Are by Melody Warnick

Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home by Toko-Pa Turner

Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes 

Support the show

Laura's Mastermind: https://www.carriebradley.com/mastermind

~Linda's book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling Her Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul   

~Laura's Monday Money Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/
~Linda's Wild Woman in the Burbs: https://lindasewalliuskatz.substack.com/

Support the Show: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2281161/supporters/new

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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 own power

-how to cultivate your relationship with your intuition

-Laura's favorite exercise for tapping into inspiration/intuition and a story of what happened once when she used it for herself.

Resources mentioned:

-This is Where you Belong (book) by Melody Warnick
-The Babushkas of Chernobyl (documentary) https://thebabushkasofchernobyl.com/

Support the show

Laura's Mastermind: https://www.carriebradley.com/mastermind

~Linda's book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling Her Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul   

~Laura's Monday Money Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/
~Linda's Wild Woman in the Burbs: https://lindasewalliuskatz.substack.com/

Support the Show: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2281161/supporters/new

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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 beneficial to ourselves and the greater good.

What it looks like to be "true to yourself."

The benefits of looking for what is life-giving in our lives, especially in the midst of the difficulties we're dealing with in the US.

Linda's definition of life-giving.

Getting in touch with what we want and need and giving it to ourselves.

The facetious difference between a boyfriend and a husband.

The challenge of receiving.

How to create and nourish reciprocal relationships.

Reclaiming our wildness and our vibrancy.

How worrying doesn't equate to caring.

How to take care of ourselves in the face of so much outrage.

Resources:
The Gentle Tarot Deck: https://thegentletarot.com/

Lucy Welch's snow report: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/style/lucy-welch-sugarbush-snow-report-jd-vance.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4U4.LQcW.ypSiccLJslji&smid=url-share

Support the show

Laura's Mastermind: https://www.carriebradley.com/mastermind

~Linda's book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling Her Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul   

~Laura's Monday Money Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/
~Linda's Wild Woman in the Burbs: https://lindasewalliuskatz.substack.com/

Support the Show: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2281161/supporters/new

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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's spending is often referred to as "frivolous" 

- Why spending on our joy is seen as irresponsible

- The separation of money and meaning

- Restriction as symbolic of women's goodness and what we miss out on

- The joy in life not being efficient or convenient and allowing ourselves to be extravagant in our lives

- Stories of being "too much" as women

- Not being a "woman appliance", a term coined by Zawn Villines

- How Linda works with good girl restriction in her coaching practice

- Why it's really hard to make more money as the good girl

- How good girls keep one another trapped

- Why envy is a great invitation for greater curiosity 

- Why being connected to our true selves is imperative for ourselves AND for the greater world 

Resources mentioned

Culture Study Podcast Episode with Dana Miranda:  https://open.spotify.com/episode/2URBlUVMK4MLNA4XxoS9wQ?si=4bc004acd29a407c

Dana Miranda writes Healthy Rich on Substack: https://www.healthyrich.co/

David Graeber Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

Lyz Lenz- author of the memoir This American Ex-Wife and Men Yell At Me on Substack: https://lyz.substack.com/

Zawn Villines writes at Liberating Motherhood on Substack: https://zawn.substack.com/

Support the show

Laura's Mastermind: https://www.carriebradley.com/mastermind

~Linda's book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling Her Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul   

~Laura's Monday Money Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/
~Linda's Wild Woman in the Burbs: https://lindasewalliuskatz.substack.com/

Support the Show: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2281161/supporters/new

Email us: [email protected]. We love hearing from you! 

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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 of woman who doesn't allow anyone or anything to hold her back is what dismantles patriarchy" - Carrie Bradley

- Where in her life Laura has recently had to choose between doing the "right" thing and doing the thing that she really wants to do

- How being "good" as a woman is always flavored with self-sacrifice

- Being okay with the consequences of our choices

- How we tap into the unstoppable energy within ourselves

- Reframing selfish into self-responsibility

- The relationship between control and being unstoppable

- Trusting the life force energy and how expansion can feel frightening

- Outgrowing what holds us back and even the things that are good in our lives

- The importance of having people in our lives who mirror back the changes we have made

Resources mentioned:

- Carrie Bradley coaching and her book Dare to Desire: https://www.carriebradley.com/

Support the show

Laura's Mastermind: https://www.carriebradley.com/mastermind

~Linda's book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling Her Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul   

~Laura's Monday Money Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/
~Linda's Wild Woman in the Burbs: https://lindasewalliuskatz.substack.com/

Support the Show: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2281161/supporters/new

Email us: [email protected]. We love hearing from you!