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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 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/