Breaking free from diets, budgets and joyless living

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 irresponsible

- The separation of money and meaning

- Restriction as symbolic of women's goodness and what we miss out on

- The joy in life not being efficient or convenient and allowing ourselves to be extravagant in our lives

- Stories of being "too much" as women

- Not being a "woman appliance", a term coined by Zawn Villines

- How Linda works with good girl restriction in her coaching practice

- Why it's really hard to make more money as the good girl

- How good girls keep one another trapped

- Why envy is a great invitation for greater curiosity 

- Why being connected to our true selves is imperative for ourselves AND for the greater world 

Resources mentioned

Culture Study Podcast Episode with Dana Miranda:  https://open.spotify.com/episode/2URBlUVMK4MLNA4XxoS9wQ?si=4bc004acd29a407c

Dana Miranda writes Healthy Rich on Substack: https://www.healthyrich.co/

David Graeber Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

Lyz Lenz- author of the memoir This American Ex-Wife and Men Yell At Me on Substack: https://lyz.substack.com/

Zawn Villines writes at Liberating Motherhood on Substack: https://zawn.substack.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/