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Woman UncagedMatriarchy: The Ultimate Uncaging?Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to the Woman Uncaged Podcast Season 3, Episode 17!In this episode, we ask a bold and rarely explored question: What would life be like if we lived in a matriarchy? We dive into what that word really means, beyond the idea of simply putting women in charge, and explore the deeper values it might center: interdependence, collaboration, reciprocity, and community.We imagine what could be possible if we stepped away from the extractive, isolating norms of patriarchy and moved...2025-06-1839 minWoman UncagedAre you mothering your man?Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to the Woman Uncaged Podcast Season 3, Episode 16!For those of us in heterosexual relationships, it can be very easy to get into the habit of mothering our men. It's not only socially acceptable, it's applauded! In this episode of Woman Uncaged, we explore how the mothering energy can be misplaced in our romantic relationships, what distinguishes mothering from simply caring, and what we lose out on as women as a result. We dive into over-functioning, how outdated gender roles can still play...2025-06-1146 minWoman UncagedFrom Stuffed Closets to Starved Souls: Why Consumption Can’t Fill the VoidSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!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 misu...2025-06-0149 minWoman UncagedThe Delicious Pull of an Erotic LifeSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!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...2025-05-2543 minWoman UncagedRevved Up & Rattled: Nervous System Wisdom for Uncaged WomenSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!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 behow a revved up nervous system has come to seem "normal"how our push to maximize contributesantidotes to stresshow we each work with our clients who are experiencing stressthe impact of our severance from nature on our livesthe importance of grounding and centeringwhat we each turn to for ourselves w...2025-05-1837 minWoman UncagedCollaboration: The Key to Dismantling Patriarchy?Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you!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...2025-05-1147 minWoman UncagedWhat Now? Figuring It Out Without Freaking OutSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!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:...2025-05-0625 minWoman UncagedSavor the slow: A rebellion against the rushSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!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.T...2025-04-2753 minWoman UncagedOur Phallic-Centric Culture Exposed!Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you!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 a...2025-04-2148 minWoman UncagedPermission, Purse Strings and PowerSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!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...2025-04-1349 minWoman UncagedCreating Belonging Wherever We AreSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!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 t...2025-04-0553 minWoman UncagedIntuition or Anxiety?Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you!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...2025-03-3146 minWoman UncagedStaying Uncaged in Troubling TimesSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!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 "...2025-03-1648 minWoman UncagedBreaking free from diets, budgets and joyless livingSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!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...2025-03-0948 minWoman UncagedEmbodying The Unstoppable WomanSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!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...2025-03-0248 minWoman UncagedNavigating Constraints As We Follow Our Heart's CallSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome back to season 3 of the Woman Uncaged Podcast! In this week's episode, we dive into the very real constraints that we may encounter as we claim our power to choose and design our lives. We talk about: - How to hold onto our visions, and take steps to make those visions real without falling into fantasy - Not be willing to bring things into reality because they won't match the dream and what this costs us- H...2025-02-2349 minWoman UncagedReclaiming the Power of AttentionSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to season 3 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this week's episode, we dive into consciously reclaiming the power of our attention in this modern world that is constantly vying for it. We discuss:- How attention is a non-renewable resource and the power of consciously choosing where we are placing our attention- Linda's exploration of setting up timers for certain apps on her phone- Laura's experience with the dating app and how it takes her attention2025-02-1644 minWoman UncagedThe Myth of the Unstable WomanSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to the Woman Uncaged Podcast Season 3. We talk about:-who is better, generally speaking, at managing emotions (men or women) & why?-the cost of not recognizing ourselves as whole human beings at work-the fear of being labeled as unstable -having emotions and still being in control-the "inconvenience" of having and expressing emotions-grief as a natural part of life-the gift of sensitivity -how emotions do...2025-02-0944 minWoman UncagedThe Uncaged Woman and Sexual FreedomSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to the final episode of season 2 of the Woman Uncaged podcast. Today, let's talk about sex, baby!In this episode, we dive into:- The different expectations and messages that we receive about sex as women vs. men- The split many women experience of being either a virgin or a whore- Blooming in midlife and beyond - How it felt for Laura to experience her sexuality again - Reclaiming the young maiden energy - The imp...2024-12-2247 minWoman UncagedWomen, You Need to Stop Doing This (eye roll)Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to episode 18 of season 2 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! This week's episode was inspired by something Laura heard on a religious radio station while driving through rural Pennsylvania (it was the only kind of radio she could get!). We explore:- A pastor's biggest advice for women- Why are women always the ones who have to change and accommodate?- How this harms both women AND men- The demonization of women's curiosity- Our "advice" for t...2024-12-0446 minWoman UncagedBeyond the fire: embracing joy, love, and the full spectrum of experience in these challenging timesSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to the Woman Uncaged Podcast, Episode 17 of Season 2! In this episode we explore how to maintain our softness in the face of difficult times, and a reclaiming of our emotional range no matter what is happening. We talk about:-how suffering doesn't equate caring-how we can feel more than one emotion at a time-how we can't tell what a person is feeling based on their behavior-how we need the rebel energy and that fire, but...2024-11-2349 minWoman UncagedWhy do we have to be so nice all the time?Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you!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...2024-11-1746 minWoman UncagedPost-election aftermath and preparing for what comes nextSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!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, o...2024-11-1144 minWoman UncagedRanting and Raving and Leaning On One Another: How We're Getting Through This ElectionSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!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...2024-11-0240 minWoman UncagedExploring the costs of convenience in an online worldSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!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...2024-10-2744 minWoman UncagedPutting Work In Its Place!Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you!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 work2024-10-1947 minWoman UncagedNighttime whispers: exploring the magic of our dreamsSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!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...2024-10-1345 minWoman UncagedLaura's Midlife Reinvention: A Personal StorySend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!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...2024-10-0645 minWoman UncagedWhat if perfectionism isn't a problem?Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you!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?...2024-09-2942 minWoman UncagedCan you choose your own oppression? #tradwifeSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to Episode 8 of Season 2 of the Woman Uncaged Podcast.We talk about the lifestyle and aesthetic of #tradwife. Why has it become so popular? Why is this a choice that women are making? What aspects are appealing? What is the role of the patriarchy here?We reference: Trevor Noah's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-trad-wife-paradox-with-anne-helen-petersen/id1710609544?i=1000666979786Anne Helen Peterson's substack Culture Study: https://annehelen.substack.com/2024-09-2243 minWoman UncagedGrowing an Uncaged Business with Suzanne CulbergSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to Episode 7 of season 2 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this week's episode we have a very special guest joining us: The Nope Coach herself, Suzanne Culberg, speaking about how to create a truly uncaged business. We dive into:- When Suzanne felt like she lost the fun in her business and how she reclaimed it- Why we leave the 9-5 only to work 24/7- How getting busy with clients can lead us to us forgetting to m...2024-09-1746 minWoman UncagedMeaning, Vitality, and Feeling Astonishingly AliveSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to the Woman Uncaged Podcast Season 2, Episode 6! Today we're talking about what makes for a well-lived life, which was inspired by the article "The Mondays We've Got Left" on We're all Getting Older, a substack Laura reads regularly, by Lou Blaser. You can read that article here: https://open.substack.com/pub/loublaser/p/how-many-mondays-left?r=blsi2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web (Laura mistakenly referred to the source as "Oldster" which is another Substack she reads regularly.)We refer to...2024-09-0840 minWoman UncagedWhen Perpetual Healing Prevents Us From LivingSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to episode 5, season 2 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! This week's episode was inspired by a song called Healing is Not My Purpose by Toni Jones (available via Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/track/3YjTY55wEzj5PJXexonZPj?si=7b28501a392c49a3 ) "The healing should be in service to living." - LauraIn this episode, we explore:- How our addiction to self-improvement leaves so much joy and life on the table- Why so many o...2024-09-0244 minWoman UncagedEmbracing your multipassionate selfSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to episode 4 of season 2! The pressure to choose one area of focus, or one passion, can have a paralyzing effect, and therefore, become part of the patriarchal cage. In this episode we talk about what it means to be multipassionate, and why it's important to embrace your multipassionate self. We explore: -Why is purpose almost always tied up with what we do for work?-Why is "what do you do?" the predominate question we ask others when we...2024-08-2547 minWoman UncagedWhy Creativity Matters with Karen LightSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to Episode 3, Season 2 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this episode, Linda speaks with artist and coach Karen Light about Why Creativity Matters (beloved co-host Laura was on vacay while this episode was recorded!). "Relaxation is the best friend of creativity." - Karen LightKaren and Linda dive into:- Creativity and how it often overlaps with being multi passionate - How Karen defines creativity (hint: it includes, but goes beyond, art)- Why Ka...2024-08-1844 minWoman UncagedFostering Joyous RelationshipsSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to Episode 2, Season 2 of the Woman Uncaged Podcast! In today's episode we dive into the topic of relationships and are they as much work as we are led to believe?!Topics and questions we discuss include...- What if relationships are not meant to be work, but rather the antidote to it?- Laura's perspective as a former therapist (where many come to work on their relationships)- Replacing "working" on our relationships with "cultivating" more...2024-08-1142 minWoman UncagedHow do we cultivate self-belief in the face of unrelenting misogyny?Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you!in the midst of being bombarded by patriarchal messages like "women shouldn't be allowed to get an education until they've had two babies" and if you're a single woman, you have "no direct stake in the future" of the US, how do we cultivate and maintain our own unwavering self-belief and self-worth? That's what we dive into in Season 2, Episode 1. We talk about: The two types of goals and how we can use one of them to cultivate and strengthen our sel...2024-08-0444 minWoman Uncaged(Uncaged) Women just wanna have fun!Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to the 23rd episode of Woman Uncaged with Linda Katz and Laura Gates-Lupton For kids, fun is a priority and their main motivator. So where does that go? Why, as adults, does fun have be slotted into "left over" time? Where did the freedom, that our younger selves thought we'd have as adults, go?What is worth doing just for you? With no need for a particular outcome?How does striving for a specific end goal strip our lives of fu...2024-06-1648 minWoman UncagedWe are over the invisibility of womenSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to episode 22 of the Woman Uncaged Podcast!We discuss:- Recent examples of the invisibility of women- How women's invisibility impacts our physical wellness- How patriarchy attempts to control women in myriad ways, including the how a bill was blocked that would protect access to contraception- How certain people's opinions DO matter more depending on the issue- Women and the medical system (the mystery of menopause, the success...2024-06-0840 minWoman UncagedMust we work at EVERYTHING?Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to episode 21 of the Woman Uncaged Podcast!We discuss:- Linda shares how she has started bringing the energy of work into so many areas of her life (working on ourselves, our bodies, our pets, our kids, our relationships...so much work!)- How a desired end state that we are trying to engineer our way towards can infuse life with that work energy- How work can be addictive even when it leads to burnout and exhaustion2024-05-3148 minWoman UncagedIs it really a midlife crisis?Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to episode 20 of the Woman Uncaged Podcast! We discuss:-Is it a midlife crisis or a midlife questioning?-How failing to listen to the deeper questions and the deeper yearnings, may move us into crisis mode or physical symptoms.-How does the male version differ from the female version?-What are the opportunities of this stage? -And what are the questions?-How stuff doesn't make up a life.-The difference of grief as an emotion...2024-05-2637 minWoman Uncaged"Get back in the trap!"Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to episode 19 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this week's episode, we use a topic that has been popping up in several of Laura's coaching sessions recently as a jumping off point to talk about money, relationships, reenvisioning work, and more. We cover: - Women in heterosexual marriages where the husband works a full-time job that he feels trapped in and the response is to want his wife to get a job and jump in the trap too- Different wo...2024-05-1748 minWoman UncagedWork: Conundrums and Confessions- featuring guest co-host, author Julie FalatkoSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!In our 18th episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast, Laura welcomes a special guest to the Woman Uncaged Podcast. Julie Falatko is an award-winning, prolific children's author, who also teaches online classes, and writes a fabulous newsletter on Substack called Do The Work.Julie and I discuss:-what counts as "work"-does work have to be hard and unenjoyable?-why do we feel guilty when we enjoy work?-why do we value the misery of work over the joy?2024-05-1133 minWoman UncagedThe Ouchiness of Unsubscribes for Women in BusinessSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to episode 17 of the Woman Uncaged Podcast. This conversation was prompted by newsletter that Laura wrote, of which the subject line was very similar to this episode! (You can read that Monday Missive here, if you wish: https://us17.campaign-archive.com/?u=ed5e7ea6928f28b2d95ef8fb3&id=d77933f7a0.)We talk about: -the struggles we've had as women in business when it comes to promoting ourselves, and why it is that every single time we do, pe...2024-04-2837 minWoman UncagedYou do SO Much!Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to the 16th episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz! Today we are diving into women DOING. SO. MUCH. In this episode, Linda shares why she fell apart when Ursa's dog food order was late (as her husband said, "I don't think this is just about the dog food...") and Laura speaks about feeling proud of herself for cancelling brunch.Other topics we explore include:- When you're you doing so much and yet it still n...2024-04-2252 minWoman UncagedFear and the Uncaged WomanSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to the 15th episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz! This episode was inspired by this quote: "Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them." Margaret Atwood, 1982We dive into:Why the fears you feel, as a woman, aren't irrational. Why it's so hard to be brave and be seen.Why this isn't an individual issue. What the root of the fear i...2024-04-1451 minWoman UncagedCultivating Radical Self-TrustSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to the 14th episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz! In this episode we talk about how to cultivate radical self-trust and why that is such a pivotal part of living an uncaged life. We explore and discuss:- The role that self-trust plays in claiming our own freedom- How patriarchy breeds distrust in ourselves that has us outsourcing our knowing- Being sold someone else's formula for life- H...2024-04-0542 minWoman UncagedThe Uncaged Woman and Romantic Relationships with MenSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to the 13th episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz! In this episode we talk about how necessary it is to center our own happiness and success, in order to be uncaged, and how difficult that can be in heterosexual relationships."What I’m asking women to do is to center their own happiness and center their success in a way that is radical. And probably going to be deeply destabilizing for their relationships.” Lyz Lenz2024-03-3150 minWoman UncagedWho Are You Beyond the Roles You Play for Others?Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to the 12th episode of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this week's episode, Laura and Linda dive into the feminine archetypes that are missing in our patriarchal culture and how that plays into defining ourselves beyond the roles we play for others. We explore and discuss:- The feminine archetypes that have gone missing, using Toni Wolff's structural forms of the feminine psyche (Mother, Amazon, Companion, Wise Woman) as a jumping off point- Aspects of womanhood are celebrated and...2024-03-2344 minWoman UncagedThe Other F word: Freedom and the Uncaged LifeSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to the 11th episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz! In this episode we talk about freedom and its role in the uncaged life.We explore and discuss:-Inner cages vs. Outer cages-Why rebellious energy feels like freedom, but isn't-Why its so hard to simply enjoy ourselves-The many forms of freedom, including defining our own schedules-The role of justifiable excuses vs. permission-The big hurdle o...2024-03-1737 minWoman UncagedEnlivening Maturity with Irreverence and EmotionSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to the 10th episode of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this week's conversation, Laura and Linda redefine maturity. Too often, being mature often evokes an image of boring "adulting" and overall fuddy-duddy-ness (yep, we made that word up!). What if maturity was enlivened with emotion and irreverence? In this episode, we explore:- What is maturity and why is it ripe for redefinition?- What is emotional maturity? What does it look like and not look like?- Why dogs...2024-03-0842 minWoman UncagedThe Joy ThermometerSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to the 9th episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz! In this episode we talk about Joy. We explore and discuss:Why is joy scary and vulnerable? Why do we expect the other shoe to drop?What does it mean to steal joy from the present and give it to the future?If... when... then...thinking.What is the joy thermostat?Upper limit problems.How does our propensity to...2024-03-0243 minWoman UncagedThe Web: Weaving Connection on the Path to UncagingSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to the 8th episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz! In this episode we dive into a topic that we have touched upon briefly in previous episodes: THE WEB. In this episode, we explore...- What is the web and why is it so important in the journey towards becoming an uncaged woman?- Why is interdependence necessary and how does that differ from codependence?- Needing other people to validate t...2024-02-2245 minWoman UncagedWomen and VisibilitySend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to the 7th episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz! This episode was recorded in February 2023.The world suffers when women who have these amazing ideas and thoughts and opinions and expertise shrink, and don't share them, because there is this whole additional pressure on when are we worthy enough to be visible. ~Linda KatzThings we explore in this episode:Visibility can be hard and normalizing what it's like to put yourself in t...2024-02-1740 minWoman UncagedReclaiming the Power of Positive ImaginationSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to the sixth episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz! In this episode we delve into where our power to dream and positively imagine has gone. Some of the questions and topics we explore include:- How our imaginations have atrophied except in cases of planning for the worst possible outcome?- Is a pessimist the same thing as a realist?- Why are we great in crises, but anxious when things are good?- Where...2024-02-0939 minWoman UncagedMagical SynchronicitiesSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to the fifth episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz! This episode was recorded in February 2023.In this episode Laura shares a story of a difficult travel experience that also had some magic.We also explore:-instinct injury and trusting our intuition-making meaning. Are we making it up?-coincidence vs. synchronicity-remembering our own capacityLinda shares her story of overriding her head for her heart.W...2024-02-0638 minWoman UncagedWhy does everything have to be monetized?Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Thank you for tuning into the 4th episode of Woman Uncaged with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz! Today we are talking about the death of hobbies. Where have hobbies gone and why do we only seem to have side hustles these days?In this episode, a few of the questions and themes we explore include: - What exactly IS a hobby? And how might 5th grade Laura actually be Nostradamus...- Where have hobbies gone? And how does the pressure to...2024-01-1247 minWoman UncagedWhat Does an Uncaged Life Look Like?Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to the second episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz! This episode was recorded in October 2023. "The uncaged woman is a questioning woman." ~Linda KatzQuestions we explore in this episode: What are the differences between external cages and internal cages?What is the inner cage?Where did we learn these "shoulds" for women? How do we know when we have dismantled the cage? What does it f...2024-01-1250 minWoman UncagedWomen and PowerSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to the first episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz!"We can't be in power if we're not growing and changing; and so therefore, the things around us also need to move with us, consciously. That has to be chosen and decided." ~ Laura Gates-LuptonIn this inaugural episode, Laura and Linda take a deep dive into women and the P-word...POWER. Below we have highlighted a few of the key questions and themes that we...2024-01-1144 minWoman UncagedWhose Life Are You Living?Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to the third episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Linda Katz and Laura Gates-Lupton! This episode was recorded in December 2023. Questions and themes we explore: What is true for me? What do I desire to create?Who is the authority in our lives?When we abdicate the subjecthood of our own lives, whose life are we living?Where do the "shoulds" come from? Billy Joel song "My Life." (Dig the hair!)What...2024-01-1147 min