Welcome to the 23rd episode of Woman Uncaged with Linda Katz and Laura Gates-Lupton

For kids, fun is a priority and their main motivator. So where does that go? Why, as adults, does fun have be slotted into "left over" time? Where did the freedom, that our younger selves thought we'd have as adults, go?

What is worth doing just for you? With no need for a particular outcome?

How does striving for a specific end goal strip our lives of fun?

How do we create fun in our adult lives? What are the conditions that allow for fun and spontaneity?

How do we re-envision adulthood?

Linda mentions Bill Plotkin's book Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche.

While we take a break between this season and the next, we invite you to join us in being flowful! Let's all make more space for fun and please let us know what you did with that space. We would truly love to hear. Email us at womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com.

Thanks for being with us for Season One. We'll be back in a few weeks with Season Two!

~Linda's website: https://singingbirdcoaching.com/ ~Laura's Monday Money Missives: http://eepurl.com/dcJpRL

Welcome to episode 22 of the Woman Uncaged Podcast!

We discuss:

- Recent examples of the invisibility of women

- How women's invisibility impacts our physical wellness

- How patriarchy attempts to control women in myriad ways, including the how a bill was blocked that would protect access to contraception

- How certain people's opinions DO matter more depending on the issue

- Women and the medical system (the mystery of menopause, the success of female surgeons, and more!)

- The invisible and unconscious bias against women

- A hidden perk of being invisible to the patriarchal gaze

- The invitation to step into greater assertiveness as we age and why this can be so difficult

- How we are taught to be disempowered

- The stripping away of choice is a stripping away of power

Resources Mentioned:
Article by Lyz Lenz: https://lyz.substack.com/p/axis-of-snivel
And some actual info on the representation of women's issues in health research funding: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/underfunding-research-female-health-leaves-huge-money-mesk%C3%B3-md-phd/

As always, we'd love it if you would share your thoughts about this episode with us. You can email us at womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com.

We love hearing from you!

~Linda's website: https://singingbirdcoaching.com/ ~Laura's Monday Money Missives: http://eepurl.com/dcJpRL

Welcome to episode 21 of the Woman Uncaged Podcast!

We discuss:

- Linda shares how she has started bringing the energy of work into so many areas of her life (working on ourselves, our bodies, our pets, our kids, our relationships...so much work!)
- How a desired end state that we are trying to engineer our way towards can infuse life with that work energy
- How work can be addictive even when it leads to burnout and exhaustion
- Allowing play to spontaneously emerge from boredom
- How the drive to treat everything like work is both an inner cage and outer cage
- Wanting others to see us as hard workers
- Feeling like our time and money don't belong to us and how that restricts our sense of agency
- Our implicit expectations of life when we've been doing everything "right"
- Laura shares the Comfy Chair Exercise by Michael Neill and how she used it in her own life
- How the energy of work blocks not only play, but also intuition, connection, magic, and synchronicity

Resources Mentioned:
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life by James Hollis

As always, we'd love it if you would share your thoughts about this episode with us. You can email us at womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com.

We love hearing from you!

~Linda's website: https://singingbirdcoaching.com/ ~Laura's Monday Money Missives: http://eepurl.com/dcJpRL