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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 Laura were both proud of Linda for having the outburst in the first place!
- The gift and the peril of seeing underneath bad behavior
- How being nice is often baked into the job functions that women hold in society and the cost to their own wellbeing, as articulated by Arlie Russell Hochschild
- How people who take advantage will test you to see if you're willing to step up for yourself
- Laura's date where she was completely comfortable with her boundaries
- Our societal expectations that women are just going to "take it"
- The beneficial role of anger
- Laura's story of chasing a man down the street while barefoot!
- Linda's obsession with the goddess Artemis
- What happens when curiosity and compassion are not reciprocal in relationships
- A trend of women getting texts from men about wanting "post-election distraction"

Resources Mentioned:
- The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling by Arlie Russell Hochschild
- Goddesses in Everywoman and Artemis: The Indomitable Spirit in Everwoman by Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD

~Linda's website: https://singingbirdcoaching.com/ ~Laura's Monday Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/

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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 idiotic misogynists who are gloating that "there will never be a woman president" and saying "your body, my choice."

Be warned, our language reflects our outrage. Listen with headphones if you have little ones around.

We mention this horrible, infuriating video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCDgEizuFmH/?igsh=Yjl1Mzllam04d2Jq

And this Jimmy Kimmel video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JxELubSgJg&t=26s (the monologue Laura referenced starts at 1 min. 39 secs)

Resources we talk about for good sources of information:
Heather Cox Richardson's fabulous, informative newsletter: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/
Robert Reich's newsletter (he often puts out informative videos, as well: https://robertreich.substack.com/
Ultraviolet: https://weareultraviolet.org/

Please text us and let us know how you're doing, and if you have resources to share. We're in this together!

~Linda's website: https://singingbirdcoaching.com/ ~Laura's Monday Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/

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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 and multiplying rather than dismantling.

We dive into...
- How many of us are struggling during this time and how the heck are we supposed to get through the next few days
- Why obsessively following the news isn't helping
- How we are seeing stress and anxiety with our clients
- How the United States can be an indicator of where tides are turning world wide
- Odessa, Texas' transgender bathroom bounty law
- Why this election is deeply personal
- The importance of figuring out ways to move forward and how that requires us to stay resourced
- How having a safe space to cry or rage is vital, as is claiming our joy
- The importance of sisterhood and relationship
- How misogyny is the undercurrent of many of our conversations on reproductive rights
- How the reality of abortion differs from the stories that are told
- Why the standard idea of caring for ourselves isn't enough; we need to care for and with one another
- The importance of getting in touch with your anger

Correction:
Linda misspoke. The party in Sweden she was referring to is actually called the Sweden Democrats.

Resources:
Erin in the Morning: https://www.erininthemorning.com/
ProPublica Article: https://www.propublica.org/article/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban

~Linda's website: https://singingbirdcoaching.com/ ~Laura's Monday Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/

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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 so much truly serves us
-the balance of relationships online and offline
-not always choosing the convenient option
-asking what convenience costs us
-how knowing what we value helps us make our choices, which may not always be convenient
-how being in good girl patterns influences our ability to choose
-our opinions about how our online existence has influenced our abilities to be in deep relationship
-the freedoms online life affords us
-how to create bridges between the online and offline world

Life Reinvention Sessions with Linda and Laura:
If you'd like to nab one, visit:
https://lauragatesluptonmswcpc.as.me/lifereinvention (if there are no slots available, they've all been taken)

~Linda's website: https://singingbirdcoaching.com/ ~Laura's Monday Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/

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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 look different if we treated money like firewood
- How the industrial revolution shifted how we approach work
- The way an 8-hour workday makes very little sense in most cases
- Making our jobs work for us rather than us simply working for them
- Examples of different ways of living and working that we don't typically hear about
- Resisting the pressure to make work the organizing principle of our lives
- Why Laura doesn't like money goals even though she's a money coach!
- Why both Laura and Linda fully support a liberal arts education
- How easy the cages are to jump into even when we don't consciously want to
- What we might get to reclaim as human beings, and what could we do with our time, if we were less consumed with work
- How difficult it is to know when we've done "enough" work, especially when we work for ourselves
- Building in and embracing seasonality in our production, work, and businesses
- Not only the external cages, but how we have internalized these societal voices

Resources:
Michael Neill
How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto by Tom Hodgkinson
Women Rowing North: Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing as We Age by Mary Pipher
Redefining Rich: Achieving True Wealth with Small Business by Shannon Hayes

Life Reinvention Sessions:
If you'd like to nab one, visit:
https://lauragatesluptonmswcpc.as.me/lifereinvention

~Linda's website: https://singingbirdcoaching.com/ ~Laura's Monday Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/

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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 how our dreams shift over time, and why we find it important to write them down, while staying open to the magic and mystery they breathe into our lives as they help us to grow.

Linda describes how she proves to others in her dream that she is, in fact, dreaming.

This was a fun conversation. We hope you enjoy it, and we'd love to know: Do you dream regularly? Do you have a way of working with your dreams? Text us or email us and let us know your thoughts: womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com.

If you'd like to hire Linda for a session to explore a dream, you can reach out to her at singingbirdhealth@gmail.com. Tell her Laura sent you! ;-)

We have 1 session left! Book in today! We are offering THREE Life Reinvention Sessions! If you'd like to nab one, visit:
https://lauragatesluptonmswcpc.as.me/lifereinvention

~Linda's website: https://singingbirdcoaching.com/ ~Laura's Monday Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/

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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 ourselves; you don't want to miss it.

We dive into...

- What it means to reinvent your life at midlife
- How Laura oriented after waking up to a totally new and different life
- What it's like to claim your life at midlife
- The importance of the transitional phase to hear your own voice
- One of the best decisions Laura made when landing in her new life
- The value of experimentation to find out what truly belongs to you
- The difference between UPHOLDING something and CLAIMING something
- The gift of Laura not having a car for the last many weeks
- What Laura would share with a woman on the cusp of a major life reinvention
- The choice between claiming one's own life or supporting someone else's and how freaking difficult that choice really is
- The ring ceremony that Laura and Linda did while Laura was visiting

We are offering THREE Life Reinvention Sessions! If you'd like to nab one, visit:
https://lauragatesluptonmswcpc.as.me/lifereinvention

And if you'd like to do a Dog Day Session with Linda, you can read more about it here: https://singingbirdcoaching.com/calling-all-dog-mamas/

~Linda's website: https://singingbirdcoaching.com/ ~Laura's Monday Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/

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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 with letting go of this aspect of yourself. What if you didn't have to?

We dive into:
- What if perfectionism isn't an obstacle that we need to overcome?
- How men are rarely, if ever, called perfectionists in a derogatory way
- How perfectionism relates to exceptionalism and how our society tells women it's better to embrace being mediocre
- Maladaptive vs. adaptive perfectionism
- How perfectionism can be a strength, if we work with it
- What is needed for those who have experienced or seen their perfectionism as an obstacle to transform it into an ally?
- Setting intentions vs. goals and why we need both
- How society benefits from maintaining our focus on end goals and ignoring the pleasure of the process
- The 5 different types of perfectionism as identified by Ms. Schafler
- The importance of creating nourishing structures in our lives
- The problem of seeing maladaptive perfectionism as a immutable identity
- Why both Laura and I hate the idea of "how you do one thing is how you do everything"
- How Laura's new offering of Stop Hitting Snooze with Laura and Suze is perfect for perfectionists who struggle with starting or finishing new projects

Resources:
The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler: https://www.amazon.com/Perfectionists-Guide-Losing-Control-Peace/dp/059332952X

Ira Glass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91FQKciKfHI

Laura's New Offering:
Finisher: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uF_cdWN_nrV2Crtk3ry6TOFaoyHQaeIXw6Etg0FWCoc/edit?usp=sharing

~Linda's website: https://singingbirdcoaching.com/ ~Laura's Monday Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/