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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 attention
- How apps feed us what will keep us on there as long as possible
- The collapse of the public and private spheres with social media, and how it commercializes our personal lives
- The difference in our relationships with social media depending upon our age
- What do we wish to be doing with our time rather than spending it on these apps
- Looking at what is also working with where we are placing our attention
- The loss of connection that comes from always being on our phones
- The perils of paying attention in Laura's dating life!
- How our attention is atrophying and what the cost of that might be
- The active question of how much attention we want to give to the current political landscape and how we are navigating it

Resources:
- Anne Helen Petersen's Culture Study Substack, in particular this piece: https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-social-media-sea-change
- Charlie White's TEDx After Photography: The Linguistics of Online Image Exchange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6YcB1o2GDI
- Ultraviolet: https://weareultraviolet.org/
- Erin in the Morning: https://www.erininthemorning.com/

~Linda's book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling Her Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul ~Laura's Monday Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/

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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 not define us, nor do they create our identities

Linda shares her insights and wisdom regarding the role of feelings in our lives.

We reference:
Gordon Neufeld

The book The Managed Heart by Arlie Hochschild

Marion Woodman

~Linda's book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling Her Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul ~Laura's Monday Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/

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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 the woman whose husband won't answer her questions or simply shuts down
- Sitting side by side vs. facing one another
- Should women lower our standards?
- How women are usually responsible for checking the pulse of relationship
- Why we wait for men to diagnose the state of the relationship
- If men are more prone to getting stuck in the comfort zone
- The mommy/son dynamic
- How "twinning" in relationships does not offer deep relationships
- How we are taught that it's off-putting to want to get to really know a person
- Why women asking questions is disruptive to patriarchy
- Laura's main filter when online dating

~Linda's book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling Her Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul ~Laura's Monday Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/

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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 we don't want to stay there
-how important it is to have people who will see and hold the whole range of who we are
-how important it is not to belittle joy and pleasure
-how joy and love can remind us what we're standing for
-accepting things in other people that we will never understand
-conditional belonging
-how if we define ourselves by what we're against, when we take that thing away, we no longer know who we are

We reference:
The book Artemis: The Indomitable Spirit in Everywoman by Jean Shinoda Bolen
The book in which Linda's poem appears: Weaving Our Way Beyond Patriarchy at Womancraft Publishing.

~Linda's book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling Her Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul ~Laura's Monday Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/

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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 book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling Her Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul ~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 book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling Her Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul ~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 book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling Her Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul ~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 book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling Her Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul ~Laura's Monday Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/