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Welcome to the Woman Uncaged Podcast Season 3, Episode 15!

We’ve all reached for something shiny—on a shelf, in a cart, online—hoping it might soothe a deeper ache. In this episode of Woman Uncaged, we explore the emotional undercurrents of consumer culture: the difference between needs and wants, the myth of retail therapy, and why we keep trying to fill inner emptiness with outer stuff. We talk about the culture of discard, the fear of feeling, and how longing—when misunderstood—can lead us to cluttered homes and hungry hearts. Tune in for a conversation that invites reflection, discernment, and a more satisfying way to meet your true needs.

Mentioned Resources:
"Buy Now" documentary on Netflix

The Desire Map book by Danielle LaPorte

~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/

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Welcome to episode 14 of season 3 of the Woman Uncaged Podcast! Today's episode was inspired by Tamara of Museguided's recent substack on erotic decisions (found here: https://museguided.substack.com/p/erotic-decisions).

In this episode, we explore:

- How we define the erotic

- How choosing desire over duty is an erotic decision

- The role of feeling in the erotic

- Laura's recent year of following her intuitive, felt sense of knowing

- The role of the unknown in our lives

- The juicy side effects of following our life force energy

- The relationship of the erotic to autonomy and freedom

- Being okay with other people's reactions to following our desire

- The inherent risks involved in following our hearts

- Trusting ourselves, trusting life, and trusting our ability to meet the moments of our lives

- How our perceived identity can become another cage

- Setting our desire free in small and large ways

Resources:

Museguided Substack on Erotic Decisions: https://museguided.substack.com/p/erotic-decisions

Jeanette Winterson Quote from Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal: "I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it,"

~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/

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Welcome to the Woman Uncaged Podcast Season 3, Episode 13!

How does nervous system regulation relate to being uncaged? That's what we're talking about today.

We discuss:

• the badge of honor busyness can be
• how a revved up nervous system has come to seem "normal"
• how our push to maximize contributes
• antidotes to stress
• how we each work with our clients who are experiencing stress
• the impact of our severance from nature on our lives
• the importance of grounding and centering
• what we each turn to for ourselves when we're experiencing stress

What about you? How do you de-stress and regulate? We'd love to hear!

~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/

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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

~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/

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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

~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/

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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

~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/

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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)

~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/

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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

~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/