Woman Uncaged
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.
Episodes
94 episodes
Embracing Risk Even When It Scares You
Welcome to the final episode of season 5 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this episode, we start with a quote we can’t shake: “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” From there, we dig into the gender gap ...
What Does it Mean to Prioritize Relationships as a Woman in 2026?
Welcome to episode 18, season 5 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! This week, we explore Laura and Linda's shared epiphanies that relationships are what matter most to them, and why that sparked fears of looking dependent, unfeminist, or stereotypic...
What Would a Woman-Centered Definition of Success Look Like?
Welcome to the Woman Uncaged Podcast, Season 5, Episode 17!Today, we’re pulling apart the mainstream definition of success and asking: What does that definition look like when you’re living a full life with caregiving, emotional labor, ...
Make Summer Feel Like a Vacation Again
Welcome to episode 16, season 5 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! Summer is marketed like a built-in reset, but many women experience it as more planning, more coordinating, and more pressure to “make it magical” for everyone else. We dig into why ...
The Inner Cages That Stop Us From Living Vibrant Lives
Welcome to Woman Uncaged, Season 5, Episode 15! Something wild happens when we stop looking to the world outside us as the source for what's holding us back and start naming what’s happening inside. In this episode, we get person...
Cultivating Joy Even in Life's Hardest Moments
Life rarely arrives in clean chapters. Sometimes you’re walking through heartbreak while also feeling more in love, more free, or more alive than you have in years and then you’re left wondering if you’re doing it “wrong.” We sit down to talk a...
What if indecision is actually something else?
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 ...
The Cyclical Phenomenon of the Shrinking Woman
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 somethin...
What if exhaustion is a design problem?
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 reall...
How to Create a Life That Feels Like Your Own
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 midl...
AI Is Not Neutral and Women Need a Plan
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? ...
A Third Of Young Men Want Wives To Obey—We Ask WTF And What To Do Next
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
She Quit at 16 and Came Back for Joy
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 succ...
Becoming Self-Governed: Resist Coercion and Control to Claim Your Authority
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...
Why Is It So Hard To Say No?
What if the most loving thing you say this week is no? Welcome to Season 5 Episode 5!We unpack why so many women default to appeasement: early grooming to be pleasing, the fawn response as a learned safety strategy, and the ...
Embracing a Pleasure-Led Life Without Apology
What if pleasure wasn’t a guilty whisper but a wise guide? We dive into a frank, tender conversation about how women can reclaim pleasure from the grip of productivity culture, sin narratives, and the “tiny treat” marketing trap. From basking i...
Choosing Mutuality Over Metrics: Rethinking Wealth
Want to know why a bigger bank balance can calm your nervous system yet still leave you restless? We dig into the messy, honest truth: money absolutely fixes spreadsheet problems, while falling short on the deeper needs that make life feel rich...
Is Patriarchy's Real Target...MEN?
Welcome to episode 2, season 5 of the woman Uncaged Podcast! In this week's episode, Laura and Linda explore the patriarchal system from a new angle, wondering aloud what might reveal itself if we look at men as the main objects of sub...
Backlash and Bravery: The Attack on Feminism
Welcome to the 5th season of Woman Uncaged! In episode one, we dive into the erasure of older women and why that loss matters for everyone. When women who know their minds disappear from view, men lose models for growth, relationships flatten, ...
Staying Radically Human in this AI/Automated World
Welcome to the 75th episode of Woman Uncaged, which is also our season four finale. In this episode we’re naming something a lot of us can feel in our bones: the world is speeding up, getting more convenient, more automated and some...
Has Self-Care Become the New Impossible Beauty Standard?
Welcome to episode 15, season 4 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this week's episode we discuss self-care...but maybe not in the way that you would think.Self-care has become an unquestioned mandate for women. In some ways, of course it ...
The Power of One Word to Shape a Year
Welcome to episode 14, season 4 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast, we dive into one of our favorite end-of-year rituals: choosing a Word of the Year. As we record in December, we’re both deep...
The Cost of Denying Our Own Power
Welcome to episode 13, season 4 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! When we deny our own power, we project it outward...onto our spouses, other people, and even institutions. In this episode, we share how we see this phenomenon in ourselv...
Slow Uncaging for Long-Lasting Change
Welcome to Episode 12 of Season 4!In this episode, we unpack a truth we’ve both lived over and over again: real, lasting change is rarely quick, and the pressure to deliver (or receive) instant transformation can actually get in the way ...
Singular Focus: Necessary or Vestige of the Patriarchy?
Welcome to Episode 11 of Season 4!In this week's episode, we explore the sought-after idea of "singular focus" and how that applies in our lives, our work, and our activism in support of the causes that matter to us. Singular focus is of...