Woman Uncaged

Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz
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In these unfiltered, unedited conversations, Linda Katz and Laura Gates-Lupton get real about what it means to live full, joyous, and meaningful lives in a culture that continues to silence, shrink, and sideline women.Laura and Linda call out the ways patriarchy disguises systemic problems as personal failings, and they refuse to let women carry that lie alone. They question, illuminate, and lay bare the forces that shape women’s lives, while lifting up the possibility of something different.With candor, humor, and plenty of personal stories, they invite women to stop hating themselves, reclaim their power, and opt out of the narratives that were never theirs to begin with.

  1. 6D AGO

    What if indecision is actually something else?

    Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Woman Uncaged Episode 13 of Season 5!  Indecision gets treated like a flaw, but what if it’s actually something else? In this conversation, we pull on that thread and it opens up a surprisingly tender truth about decision making: every real choice includes a small death, a door closing, a version of you that won’t happen. When we don’t make space for grief, longing, and the unknown, we spin. We overthink. We call ourselves “bad at decisions” when we’re really trying to protect something that matters.  We talk through how loss avoidance shows up in the biggest crossroads. We also name the modern pressure to optimize everything, and how chasing the “perfect” option can keep your mind split in two. Along the way, we unpack why the unlived life always looks perfect, how perfectionism feeds the fantasy of a spotless choice, and why “no regrets” can be a strange goal if you’re actually living bravely.  Subscribe, share this with a friend who’s at a crossroads, and leave a review with the decision you’re wrestling with right now. Resources: Muse Guided on Substack The book: The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler Support the show ~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: womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com. We love hearing from you!

    49 min

  2. APR 5

    The Cyclical Phenomenon of the Shrinking Woman

    Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 12, season 5 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! Heroin chic did not come back by accident, and neither did the sudden cultural obsession with getting smaller. In this week's episode, we follow that thread until it reveals something darker: diet culture and body image pressure can work like a leash, keeping women hungry, insecure, and busy policing themselves while real power moves in the background. We talk candidly about how restrictive beauty standards spread, from celebrity culture to influencer feeds, and why that speed matters for girls who are still forming their sense of self. Linda brings in art history that shows how “good women” were once idealized as physically weak and slumped, while strength was treated as a threat, and we connect that legacy to today’s mix of weight loss drugs, cosmetic procedures, anti-aging demands, and the nonstop commentary on what women eat and how they look. We also get personal. We share how eating disorders can be tangled up with control in chaotic times, why fatphobia keeps rising even when people have more exposure to different bodies, and how “I’m just worried about your health” often masks prejudice rather than care. Then we offer a grounded way forward that doesn’t rely on more rules or more restriction: start by naming this as a cultural problem, build from what’s already working, and ask what is nourishing, pleasurable, and true in your body. If you’ve felt trapped by diet culture, exhausted by body comparison, or angry about the way women’s rights and women’s bodies get policed at the same time, this one is for you. Subscribe, share this with a friend, leave a review, and tell us: what helps you ask “How does this feel to me?” more often than “How does this look?” Resources: Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia by Kate Manne Life Coach & Writer Susan Hyatt  Support the show ~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: womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com. We love hearing from you!

    39 min

  3. MAR 29

    What if exhaustion is a design problem?

    Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Woman Uncaged! This is Episode 11 of Season 5.  Your back tightens, your jaw clenches, your brain won’t stop spinning and you reach for the fastest fix. We get it. Today, we're taking a hard look at where our energy really comes from and why so many “self-care” routines are actually more like self-recovery from a life that’s designed to drain us. We start with a deceptively simple question sparked by regular massages: how would we need to live so we don’t need so much recovery just to function? From there we unpack the difference between sustainable self-care and the commercial solutions we’re trained to buy, including the subtle way hustle culture and rigid schedules teach women to feel guilty for rest. We also talk about digital overload and share one of our favorite signals that contraction is taking over. If you want more energy without more hacks, press play. Then subscribe, share this with a friend who’s running on empty, and leave a review so more women can find these conversations. What’s one change that would help you stop buying back your own time? Resources: Book: Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard Support the show ~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: womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com. We love hearing from you!

    48 min

  4. MAR 21

    How to Create a Life That Feels Like Your Own

    Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 10, season 5 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! A lot of us say we want freedom, but our calendars and choices tell a different story. In this week's episode, we dig into the uncomfortable, liberating question at the heart of midlife growth: how do you create and live your own life instead of acting out someone else’s expectations? We start with what it looks like when life is prescripted, whether that comes from religion, family roles, culture, or the quieter fundamentalism of “good/bad” thinking that leaves no room to experiment.  From there, we explore identity, people pleasing, the Good Girl pattern, and the reflex to deliver long explanations so nobody thinks we’re doing life “wrong.” We also share a grounded approach to life design: try things in small ways, allow detours, and stop treating every new interest like it has to become your calling.  We close with a big theme that threads through everything: fear-based decision making. There are always costs and consequences to bold choices, but there are costs and consequences to staying small, too. We unpack how self-trust is built through real experience, why discomfort is often the price of freedom, and how the right community can help you grow without shame. If you’re ready for more authenticity, stronger boundaries, and a life that fits, listen now, then subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a review. What’s one experiment you want to try next? Support the show ~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: womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com. We love hearing from you!

    46 min

  5. MAR 14

    AI Is Not Neutral and Women Need a Plan

    Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Artificial intelligence and political power are colliding in ways that could push women out of economic security and back into narrower roles. AI is getting sold as “the future of work,” but what if it’s also being used as a future of control? We follow a thread that starts with a chilling public claim from a major tech CEO about shifting economic power and ends with a bigger, more personal question: who do we need to be to create a different future than the one these powerful patriarchal people would have us inhabit? We move from the scary headlines to practical resistance, then land on the hope found in community care and women building systems that can’t be easily taken away. Resources:  Book: Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler GoFundMe started by Isaiah Garza of Miracles for Humanity: https://gofund.me/8e2107a33 Support the show ~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: womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com. We love hearing from you!

    46 min

  6. MAR 7

    A Third Of Young Men Want Wives To Obey—We Ask WTF And What To Do Next

    Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to season 5, episode 8 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! A recent global survey found that nearly a third of Gen Z men believe a wife should obey her husband. Not only that, but young men are more than twice as likely as baby boomers to hold this belief. Which led us to ask, WTF? So in this week's episode, we take a hard look at how power myths, algorithm-fed “alpha” role models, and a culture of performance over depth are shaping boys—and starving relationships.  We share why depth is hotter than dominance and why having a rich interior life—emotions, reflection, repair—isn’t a threat to manhood but the gateway to actual closeness. Along the way we question whether the masculine/feminine binary still serves anyone, or if it has become nothing more than a prescriptive costume that excludes, flattens, and distracts from what matters: two humans meeting as whole people.  This conversation moves from survey stats to everyday longing: male friendships that go beyond sports and beer, partnerships with shared power, and family structures that distribute care. If you’re ready to trade scripts for substance and hierarchy for reciprocity, pull up a chair and imagine a world where relationships are equal, human, and alive. If this resonates, subscribe, share with a friend who needs it, and leave a review with one insight you’re taking into your relationships. Resources Mentioned: Guardian article by Jessica Murray: Gen z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands The Atlantic article by Faith Hill: Young men aren't the only ones struggling Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith: Or you can just do it fat  Inciting Joy: Essays by Ross Gay  Support the show ~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: womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com. We love hearing from you!

    38 min

  7. FEB 27

    She Quit at 16 and Came Back for Joy

    Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! What if the bravest way to win is to skate for joy instead of judgment? We sat down with hearts still buzzing after watching Alysa Liu light up the ice, and we followed that thread into a bigger conversation about self-worth, presence, and success without self-betrayal. Her story of leaving at 16, returning for the love of the feeling, and then radiating ease on the world’s biggest stage cracked something open for us.  We trace a cultural pivot away from grind-and-ache ambition toward autonomy and aliveness. From Simone Biles’ boundary-setting to memories of Kerri Strug pushing through a broken ankle, we ask what we celebrate and why. Liu’s calm in the kiss-and-cry, her choice to train and live on her terms, and the way her joy moved a crowd highlight a powerful truth: technique impresses, but presence transmits. That transmission is available to all of us, whether we’re building a business, raising kids, making art, or healing our relationship with money. If you’re ready to trade perfection for presence and make your life your own, press play. Then tell us: what’s one thing you’ll do this week for the sheer joy of how it feels? Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs a spark, and leave a review to help more listeners find the show. Support the show ~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: womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com. We love hearing from you!

    45 min

  8. FEB 22

    Becoming Self-Governed: Resist Coercion and Control to Claim Your Authority

    Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to episode 6, season 5 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this latest episode, we dive into self-governance as a daily practice that blends inner sovereignty with community power, and we track how that intersects with money, autonomy, and the right to be heard. From miscarriage criminalization becoming more common to the slow creep of voting barriers, we name where control is showing up and how not to “obey in advance” when systems attempt to usurp our agency. We also pull apart narratives designed to send women back into dependence, from tradwife aesthetics to head-of-household voting fantasies. Together we map small, consistent actions to claim our own authority. Along the way, we contrast extractive systems with regenerative ones—because a culture that honors biodiversity, reciprocity, and awe doesn’t just protect rights, it makes life worth living. If you’re craving clarity, courage, and concrete steps to reclaim your time, body, voice, and money, we hope this conversation is a spark. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs it, and leave a review with one way you’re choosing self-governance this week. Resources Mentioned: They're Coming for Our Daughters by Jessica Valenti: https://jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-coming-for-our-daughters How to Survive the Broligarchy by Carole Cadwalladr: https://broligarchy.substack.com/ Vandana Shiva on Earth Democracy: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6M3eCwfjRi2tXDvgVtqUni?si=95b5a1861bdc4acc Support the show ~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: womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com. We love hearing from you!

    45 min
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In these unfiltered, unedited conversations, Linda Katz and Laura Gates-Lupton get real about what it means to live full, joyous, and meaningful lives in a culture that continues to silence, shrink, and sideline women.Laura and Linda call out the ways patriarchy disguises systemic problems as personal failings, and they refuse to let women carry that lie alone. They question, illuminate, and lay bare the forces that shape women’s lives, while lifting up the possibility of something different.With candor, humor, and plenty of personal stories, they invite women to stop hating themselves, reclaim their power, and opt out of the narratives that were never theirs to begin with.

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  • Creator
    Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    88
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Woman Uncaged
  • Show Website
    Woman Uncaged