The Feminine Rebellion: Pleasure, Power + Unapologetic Living for Midlife Women

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  87. The Radical Act of Slowing The F*ck Down 17.09.2026 11mnt

  You ever catch yourself hustling… even when no one’s watching?That was me—alone on a trail, chasing a meaningless “record” on my hiking app like I had something to prove.To whom??? No one was there.That moment cracked me wide open to just how deep hustle culture runs in our bones—and how sneaky it can be.Even in pleasure. Even in nature. Even when we’re alone.This episode is an unapologetic permission slip to stop racing through life, drop the performance, and choose pleasure over proving. We’re talking:🔥 How patriarchal conditioning keeps midlife women in an endless push-mode (even on a damn hike}🔥 Why slowing down is a rebellious, nervous-system-healing act🔥 The neuroscience behind rest and pleasure (and why your creativity + vitality depend on it)🔥 How to shift from “achiever” to “savor-er” in your daily life🔥 Real-life rebellion stories from the trail that might just inspire your ownBecause slowing down isn’t lazy. It’s revolutionary.It’s how we reclaim our bodies, our time, and our lives—one pleasure-fueled, rebellious moment at a time.Mentioned in the Episode: ⭐ Join the Rebel List and get first access to our FREE COMMUNITY → [Get on the Rebel List] ⭐ Apply for Private Coaching → [The Feminine Rebellion - Private Coaching] ⭐ DM Natty on Instagram → [@thefemininerebellion]If this episode hit home… → Share it with a sister who needs this reminder → Leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review on Apple or Spotify Let’s spread the rebellion—one powerful, slow, pleasure-drenched woman at a time.
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  86. The Midlife Pivot: Becoming, Unbecoming, and the Sacred Power of 50 10.09.2026 15mnt

  There’s a moment in midlife that changes everything.Not because time is running out—But because something inside you finally says: "No more autopilot. It’s time to become who I’m here to be."In this powerful episode, Natty dives deep into the sacred pivot of turning 50—and the radical permission it gives you to burn the old rules and rise in your truth.Inside, we explore:🔥Why midlife isn’t a crisis—it’s a cosmic initiation🔥What the Chiron Return teaches us about wounds, wisdom, and wild becoming🔥How change is inevitable—but transformation is a choice🔥The power of The Desire Ritual to unlock your next act with purpose, pleasure, and full-body clarity🔥What it means to lead yourself (before anyone else claps for it)This one is honest. Unfiltered. Fierce. And filled with tools to help you stop drifting and start creating the life your soul’s been begging for.Because 50 isn’t the end. It’s the edge of your most liberated chapter yet.Mentioned in the Episode:⭐ Download The Desire Ritual → The Feminine Rebellion Desire Ritual⭐ Apply for Private Coaching →The Feminine Rebellion - Private Coaching⭐ DM Natty on Instagram → @thefemininerebellionIf this episode hit home… → Share it with a sister who’s standing at her edge → Leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ star review on Apple or SpotifyLet’s spread the rebellion—one powerful, pleasure-fueled, midlife woman at a time.
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  85. Pleasure Begets Pleasure: Why One YES Changes Everything 03.09.2026 17mnt

  Take the trip.In a few days, I get on a plane to Spain for the rest of the month, with a group of women who have invited me on this trip every single year, for years. And every year, I said no. This episode is the story of all my no's, the question that finally broke them, and the principle that changed how I navigate my entire life: pleasure begets pleasure.What you'll hear:🔥 My very responsible reasons for saying no, year after year, and the word hiding underneath all of them ("extra")🔥 "I never saw my mom do anything like this": the permission we were never handed🔥 The question that broke my no's for good: why the f*ck not?🔥 The nerdy part: what happens in your nervous system when you say yes and nothing bad happens ("I said yes... and I didn't die")🔥 Pleasure as your GPS, and the one question to ask yourself every morning🔥 How four women became NINE, and why one woman's yes gives every woman watching permissionThe move this week: answer the invitation you keep declining. Or be the one who sends it.Want a room full of women who hold the door open for each other? Rebels Rising rolls in OCTOBER: https://thefemininerebellion.com/rebels-risingCome talk about this one in our free community: https://thefemininerebellion.com/communityAnd if this show has ever named something you couldn't say out loud, follow the show and leave a 5-star rating. Ten seconds, and it puts this in front of more women. Love you madly. LFG, Natty.
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  84. How to Claim the Life You Keep Dreaming About (She Already Exists) 27.08.2026 23mnt

  There's a life you dream about when nobody's watching. The one you float off to sleep inside of, so vivid some nights you can smell the coffee in that other kitchen. This week I'm telling you what I know from the marrow of my bones: that life is real, and the version of you who lives it already exists. Then we get honest about what it costs to reach her.What you'll hear:🔥 Why the dream that keeps finding you is finding YOU, on purpose, and why it wants you as much as you want it🔥 The morning, a decade ago, when I rolled over in bed and became HER (this one changed my marriage)🔥 You don't become her by adding. You become her by shedding: the habits, the sentences on loop, and yes, some of the people🔥 "You've changed," said like an accusation, when it was the whole point🔥 The Shed List and Move As If: how she gets pulled out of the dream and into your actual Tuesday🔥 The truth about the work: visioning is the easy part, and why becoming her is so hard to do aloneReady to claim it with support? Two ways to work with me:✨ Private coaching (you and me, six months, quantum leaps): https://calendly.com/thefemininrebellion/connection-call✨ Rebels Rising, my group container: https://thefemininerebellion.com/rebels-risingCome talk about this one in our FREE community: https://thefemininerebellion.com/communityAnd if this show has ever named something you couldn't say out loud, follow the show and leave a 5-star rating. Ten seconds, and it puts this in front of more women. Love you madly. LFG, Natty.
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  83. Should I Quit My Marriage? 21.08.2026 21mnt

  It's 2AM and you're wide awake next to a man who's fast asleep, typing a question into your phone with the brightness turned all the way down. Then you delete the search history. This week, we're asking that question in daylight.What you'll hear:🔥 The article Oprah just pulled back into every group chat, and the question hiding underneath "are women giving up on marriage"🔥 The fairy tale of The One, and the moment you realize no human being can survive being someone's everything🔥 The history nobody handed us: marriage was an economic contract for centuries, and the love-marriage is barely 200 years old🔥 What decentering men actually means (hint: hating them is just another way of centering them)🔥 A word for the woman who was never quiet, who asked for years and got a wall🔥 My own 25-year marriage, which has honestly been about seven different marriages, and The Marriage Rewrite: three steps, and the first two have nothing to do with himThis episode is part of The Unbinding, the first stage of the work we do here.There's a woman in your world who needs this one. Send it to her. And if this show has ever named something you couldn't say out loud, follow the show and leave a 5-star rating. Ten seconds, and it puts this in front of more women. Love you madly. LFG, Natty.Come talk about this one in our free community: https://thefemininerebellion.com/community
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  82. You've Forgotten What You Want: The Patriarchal Path (and the Way Back) 14.08.2026 17mnt

  I'm recording this one from a sweltering hotel room in New York City, and I can't stop thinking about a 26-year-old named Karen I ate dumplings with last night — because Karen is standing at the front door of a path most of us walked all the way to the end. I call it The Patriarchal Path: the list you were handed so early you thought it was your own idea. The education, the career, the partnership, the kids, the house — and happiness waiting at the end like a prize at the bottom of the cereal box. We didn't fail that path, love. We crushed it. And then we arrived, boxes checked, whispering the question every woman thinks she's the only one asking: is this it?What you'll hear:🔥 The Patriarchal Path, named — and why the most accomplished women are the ones standing at the end of it asking "is this it?"🔥 The data that will make you feel less crazy: the documented paradox of declining female happiness, and why women our age carry the highest depression rate in the country — the problem is the path, not you🔥 Why the guilt of wanting arrives faster than the want itself — and whose job that guilt is doing🔥 All Fours, Dying for Sex, and what it means that every story our culture can't stop consuming is about a woman needing an escape hatch before she's allowed to want🔥 The turn: stop asking WHAT you want (that's the advanced class) — and the story of the day I climbed a tree at forty-two and found my life's work up thereThe framework: This episode lives in The Unbinding — unbinding from the path that never had your wanting on the list.🌿 The Desire Ritual: if this episode is stirring something, I built a self-paced mini-experience for exactly this — a ritual for you and your wanting getting reacquainted, inside our community, on your own time. It might be the most important thing you give yourself this year.With love to Vella BioScience and founder Carolyn Wheeler — doing incredible work in women's sexual wellness (and Carolyn, that podcast invitation is real).One more thing: subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and share this with 5 women in your life. Those three things tell the platforms to put this in front of more women — and the more women who hear this, the better the world gets for all of us. I will die on that hill.
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  81. How Do You Want to Feel? The Question That Stopped My Divorce (The Tables Turn with Dr. Emma Smith) 07.08.2026 43mnt

  The tables turn this week. My friend — and my go-to sex therapist — Dr. Emma Smith puts me in the guest chair, and I tell the story I've never told this completely: the Wednesday morning I sat in couples therapy and said "I want a divorce, and I have a lawyer." I wasn't bluffing. And then my therapist asked me a question so strange I almost laughed at him — and it shot straight into the middle of my soul, ended the divorce, and started everything you now know as The Feminine Rebellion.What you'll hear:🔥 The full origin story: the bomb I dropped in therapy, the question that undid me, and the vision — my grandmother's ragù, Jerry Garcia, my husband's beard on my neck — that told me what I actually wanted🔥 Why softening is the hardest part for capable women: "we can do it all, so we do it all" — and what it costs when your body never gets to receive🔥 The day a yoga teacher handed me a book on the feminine and I wanted to punch her in the throat — and the 88 keys I've learned to play since🔥 The magic of midlife: why we are the wisest humans on the planet, and what a woman fueled by pleasure pushes into the world🔥 Pleasure is a spectrum — orgasm is 1% of it — and the five-pound-weight way back to wanting anything at all.The framework: This episode lives in The Reclamation — my own. Desire, softness, and the right to feel, taken back one drop at a time.About Dr. Emma Smith: Dr. Emma Smith is a sex therapist and researcher, creator of Desire Recalibration, and the woman I trust most with this conversation. Instagram: @emmasmithphd🎟 The Desire Recalibration Masterclass — Thursday, August 14, FREE, on Zoom: Dr. Emma, Alex West (former SEAL Team Six operator turned somatic clinical counselor), and me — for couples who still love each other but lost the erotic thread, and for every woman ready to unearth her desire. Partners genuinely welcome. Save your seat: soliloquie.myflodesk.com/rebellionCome get a taste of me first: my FREE community — where I've been leaving morning audio love notes from the forest, and where we do our Q&A.Loved this episode? Rebels Rising is where we do this work together in real time — And a 5-star review is how another midlife woman finds this show — 30 seconds, and it matters.
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  80. The Good Girl Operating System: Why Approval Still Runs Your Life After 40 31.07.2026 19mnt

  If you'd asked me a few years ago whether I needed anyone's permission to live my life, I would have laughed in your face. I was independent. Capable. I made my own calls, thank you very much. And other people's approval was still quietly running the whole show — setting the ceiling on what I believed was even possible for me. Today we make that invisible thing visible. I'm naming the Good Girl Operating System — the lifelong training that hooked your worth to everyone else's nod — and we're starting to take it apart, one permission slip at a time.What you'll hear:🔥 The lie at the center of it: why "being good" was never the same thing as being worthy — and how you ended up auditioning for an approval that never quite arrives🔥 The two layers that keep it running: the conditioning that taught you to read the room before your own heart, and the nervous-system alarm that makes "just stop caring what people think" impossible🔥 The gift shop vs. the art: why the bath-and-candle version of self-love was never going to fix this — and what real self-approval actually asks of you🔥 The MBA I almost got: how I nearly put The Feminine Rebellion on hold for years waiting for somebody official to stamp me approved🔥 The Permission Slip Audit — the 5-sentence exercise that shows you, in black and white, exactly whose approval has been running you (and the one move that starts the rewiring)The framework: This episode lives in The Unbinding — our second unbinding, from the approval that was setting the ceiling on your life.Standing on their shoulders (start here): the ideas in this episode — pleasure, reclamation, self-love as something radical — began with Black women, long before the culture was ready for them. Everything we do on this show stands on their work. If this episode moved something in you, go to the source:Bell hooks — Communion: The Female Search for Love: the book I quote in this episode, on what happens when a woman never learns to meet her own need for acceptance — and where real self-love begins.Audre Lorde — Sister Outsider and "Uses of the Erotic": the erotic as a source of real power, and caring for yourself as self-preservation — even political warfare.adrienne maree brown — Pleasure Activism: the lineage carried forward — pleasure as a measure of freedom.Loved this episode? If you're ready to stop asking permission and start living, that's exactly what we do inside Rebels Rising — together, in real time: unbinding, reclaiming, and rising, one woman at a time. And if this show cracks something open for you, a 5-star review is how another midlife woman finds it — 30 seconds, and it matters.
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  79. You're Not Broken, You're Empty: The Real Reason You Don't Want Sex (with Dr. Emma Smith) 24.07.2026 51mnt

  You love your partner. Your life looks solid from the outside. And somewhere along the way, you stopped wanting sex — and started telling yourself that's just what happens to busy, high-achieving women in midlife. I believed that too. Then my favorite sex therapist sat down across from me and said the sentence that reframes everything: you're not broken — you're empty. And those are completely different problems.What you'll hear:🔥 Why the exact qualities that built your career and your family are the ones flatlining your desire — and the wall every woman eventually hits🔥 The scheduled-sex lie: why "put it on the calendar" is corporate maintenance work, and what actually reawakens wanting🔥 Dr. Emma's Want-It-Back ladder — the 5-second coffee-and-shower practice that rebuilds arousal before desire (yes, it starts that small)🔥 The one question that changes everything about initiation: "How do you want to feel at the end of this encounter?"🔥 Inside Desire Recalibration — the arrive → attune → reignite → anchor roadmap for couples who still love each other but lost the erotic threadThe framework: This episode lives in The Reclamation — taking back your desire, your pleasure, and your right to want, for yourself first.About Dr. Emma Smith: Dr. Emma Smith is a sex therapist and researcher, and the creator of Desire Recalibration, a roadmap for couples rebuilding their erotic connection inside real life — dirty dishes, soccer practice, and all. She's also co-leading our free Better Sex masterclass with Alex West and I on August 14. 🎟 Free masterclass — August 14: Join Dr. Emma, Alex West, and I for a free workshop on everything in this episode — and bring your partner. Save your seat: https://soliloquie.myflodesk.com/rebellionLoved this episode? Rebels Rising is open — live coaching, expert access, every course, and a sisterhood of women reclaiming exactly this. And if this show cracks something open for you, a 5-star review is how another woman finds it — it takes 30 seconds and it matters.
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  78. Ask Natty: Do You Actually Deserve to Rest? 17.07.2026 20mnt

  A listener named Maura wrote in with a question so many of us are white-knuckling in silence. After a demanding career and years of holding her family through crisis, she has finally, quote, retired, and she cannot shake the voice that asks, "are you doing enough, do I even deserve to rest?"This week, in the very first Ask Natty, I coach her, and you, all the way through it.What you’ll hear🔥 What Ask Natty is, and how to send me the question you want coached on a future episode🔥 Why “do I deserve to rest” is a rigged question, and the question to ask instead🔥 The two layers under the guilt: worth-as-productivity conditioning, and a nervous system stuck in go-mode🔥 The Unearned Rest: a ten-minute daily practice you take before you have earned it🔥 A second question, on why healing is a labyrinth not a straight line, and why getting triggered doesn’t mean you failedThe framework. This is still the Unbinding, unbinding from the lie that your worth is your output.Got a question about pleasure, power, or why your insides don't match your outsides? Ask it → https://thefemininerebellion.com/ask-natty. Natty answers on the show — raw, unfiltered, no topic off limits. Anonymous if you want.Loved it? Rebels Rising is where we do this work together in real time. And leave a 5-star review on Apple or Spotify, it is how more midlife women find the show.
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  77. The Installed Voice: 3 Questions That Tell You If a Cruel Thought Is Even Yours 10.07.2026 17mnt

  There is a voice in your head that has been narrating your life like a critic in the back row, telling you that you are behind, you are too much, you should have it figured out by now. And you have never really questioned it, because it sounds exactly like you. This episode is going to show you that most of what that voice says was never yours to begin with. Somebody installed it. And I am handing you a simple, three-question tool to tell the difference between the voice that got planted in you and the voice that is actually you.WHAT YOU’LL HEAR🔥 Why your inner critic is not your intelligence or your intuition, but conditioning wearing your voice like a costume🔥 The two layers under the critic: who actually benefits from your self-doubt, and the body-based reason shame feels so true🔥 What the inner critic quietly costs you (the promotions, the projects, the rooms you never walked into)🔥 The Whose-Voice-Is-It Test: the three questions that tell you whether a cruel thought is even yours🔥 How to tell accountability from cruelty, so you can grow without gutting yourselfTHE FRAMEWORKThis is the first Unbinding. Everything on this show moves through three stages, The Unbinding, The Reclamation, and The Rise, and it all starts here, with unbinding from the voice in your own head.If this cracked something open and you want to go deeper, Rebels Rising is where these tools stop being a podcast you nod along to and start being the way you actually live. thefemininerebellion.com/rebels-rising. And if this episode landed, leave a 5-star review on Apple or Spotify. It is how more midlife women find this show, and right now, more women need to find it.
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  76. Reinvention After 50: Jane Stewart on Quitting Corporate, Surviving the Crack-Up, and Becoming Unmissable at 61 03.07.2026 58mnt

  Opening At 61, Jane Stewart is living proof that reinvention has no expiration date. After 20+ years in corporate sales and marketing nearly hollowed her out, Jane walked away, rebuilt herself through grief and therapy, and turned bold, full-color Western fashion into a platform watched by tens of thousands of women. This episode is for every woman who's ever filed a dream under "maybe in another life", and needs someone to tell her the window is still wide open.What you'll hear🔥 The phone call that ended Jane's 20-year corporate career, and the three-hour commute that broke her first🔥 The boardroom moment a male exec asked why she wasn't smiling, and exactly what she'd say back today🔥 How losing both parents at 57 triggered the depression that led her to therapy, and the childhood trauma she didn't know she carried🔥 The vintage outfit and hand-painted gas can that turned getting dressed into a declaration🔥 Why she's throwing her first-ever event at 61, what Unbroken means, and how a stranger's DM became a live art auction for a causeGuest Bio Jane Stewart spent more than two decades in corporate sales and marketing before walking away to rebuild her life from the ground up. Married to a farmer and rancher, mother to one adult son, she's built a platform watched by tens of thousands of women around bold, full-color Western style. This September, at 61, Jane hosts her first-ever event, Unbroken, an evening of art, story, and strength co-created with artist Marion Evamy, with a live painting auction benefiting the nonprofit Little Warriors.Links Mentioned✨ Unbroken, Saturday, September 26, Calgary, [Register and Bid from Anywhere]✨ Follow Jane Stewart on Instagram, [@inspiredwithjane]Loved it? If this episode cracked something open in you, share it with a woman who needs it, and leave a 5-star review on Apple or Spotify. It's how more midlife women find the show, and right now, more women need to.
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  75. The Body Vote: Why the Pros and Cons List Will Never Give You the Answer 26.06.2026 18mnt

  If you have made the lists, polled the group chat, done all the research, and you are still stuck in exactly the same place — this episode is going to name why. We are talking about the real reason brilliant women overthink every decision that actually matters, the neuroscience behind why your body already has the answer, and a simple tool called the body vote that will change the way you make decisions for good.WHAT YOU'LL HEAR🔥 Why careful deliberation is often just fear in a really good outfit — and the loop that keeps you gathering information instead of deciding🔥 How conditioning trained women to distrust their own judgment before age seven — and what that costs you now🔥 The neuroscience of somatic markers: why your body casts its vote in under a second (Antonio Damasio's research)🔥 The body vote tool — exactly how to read the ballot your body already cast🔥 How to tell the difference between fear and a true no — and why getting this right changes everythingIf this landed and you want to go deeper — Rebels Rising is where these tools stop being a podcast you nod along to and start being the actual way you live.And if you loved this episode, leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.It's how more midlife women find this show — and right now, more women need to find it.
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  74. Sexual Agency, Real Sex, and Aging Like a Force of Nature: Cindy Gallop on Why Your Pleasure Will Change the World 19.06.2026 41mnt

  If you are a midlife woman who has spent years performing sex, faking enthusiasm, or genuinely not knowing what you want in bed, this episode is your permission slip. Cindy Gallop is the founder and CEO of Make Love Not Porn, one of the most fearless humans alive at 66, and she came on The Feminine Rebellion to talk about sexual agency, aging with zero apology, real world sex, and why your pleasure might be the most radical political act of your life. Buckle up.What you'll hear in this episode:🔥 Why your age is your greatest asset, not just a number, and why Cindy shouts hers from the rooftops every chance she gets🔥 The real origin story of Make Love Not Porn: what Cindy noticed when she started dating younger men 24 years ago that sparked a global conversation about sex🔥 What shifts for women when they stop performing sex and start discovering what they actually want in their bodies🔥 How Make Love Not Porn gives men something they cannot find anywhere else on the internet: a safe space to be emotionally open about sex, and why that matters for you🔥 Why sexual agency unlocks creativity, confidence, and your full human power, including the neuroscience behind why this is true🔥 The real reason investors won't fund Make Love Not Porn, and why Cindy says it is genuinely criminalAbout Cindy Gallop:Cindy Gallop is an Oxford-educated advertising executive who ran one of the most powerful agencies in the world before walking away to do something far more interesting. She is the founder and CEO of Make Love Not Porn, the world's first human-curated social sex video sharing platform, launched in a 2009 TED talk with over 2.8 million views. The first speaker in TED history to say "come on my face" on stage. She got a standing ovation. At 66, she is a force of nature on a mission to end rape culture globally through the power of real, consensual, joyful sex.Links mentioned in this episode:✨ Make Love Not Porn → https://makelovenotporn.tv/✨ Make Love Not Porn Academy (sex education extension, launching soon) →  https://makelovenotporn.academy/✨ Invest in or fund Make Love Not Porn: → [[email protected]]✨ Follow Cindy on Instagram and Twitter/X → @CindyGallop✨ Make Love Not Porn on Instagram → @MLNP_videos✨ Dear Cindy on Substack → https://dearcindy.substack.com/If this episode cracked something open in you, your next step is Rebels Rising.This is where midlife women stop circling and start actually living. Twice-monthly live group coaching, a private community, every course, and full support. Founding spots are limited. Join us → https://thefemininerebellion.com/rebels-risingAnd if you loved this episode, leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It's how more midlife women find this show, and right now, more women need to find it.
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  73. Reclaiming Joy and Aliveness in Midlife: Laura Baginski on the Dance Party Revolution That's Bringing Women Home to Themselves 12.06.2026 30mnt

  There is a reason grown women are crying on dance floors across America — and it is not because the DJ played a sad song. It is because they have finally, finally, let themselves feel free. Laura Baginski is the co-founder of Early Birds Club: a dance party phenomenon for midlife women and gender-expansive folks that started at a Chicago dive bar in 2024 and has since expanded to 45 cities nationwide. It starts at 6pm, ends at 10pm, plays four hours of straight-up bangers from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s, and has been covered by the New York Times, NPR, The Guardian, ABC Nightline, and AARP Magazine. The idea was born at a 30th high school reunion — co-founded by a woman fighting stage four cancer who absolutely refused to slow down.WHAT YOU WILL HEAR IN THIS EPISODE🔥 The full origin story of Early Birds Club — born at a 30th high school reunion, built by two women who refused to wait for the right time🔥 The story of Susie: co-founder, force of nature, and the reason thousands of women per night are dancing their way back to themselves🔥 Why a four-hour dance party does what years of wellness culture, therapy, and self-help couldn't touch🔥 What it means to leave all your fucks at the door and meet the rawest, most alive version of yourself again🔥 How 700 women in a room together create a kind of magic that makes you believe you could move mountains🔥 The honest confession about seeing other women as competition — and what midlife taught her insteadGUEST BIOLaura Baginski is the co-founder of Early Birds Club, the women's dance party movement that went from a dive bar back room in Chicago to 45 cities across the country in under two years. Before Early Birds Club, Laura spent twelve years as a magazine editor, then pivoted into nonprofit marketing before COVID cracked her open and she gave herself permission to just figure out who she was and what she actually wanted. The answer turned out to be: more music, more joy, more women dancing together until 10pm. She lives in Chicago and is still coming home sweaty.LINKS MENTIONED✨ Early Birds Club: [https://early-birds.club/]✨ Follow Early Birds Club on Instagram: [@earlybirds_club]If this episode lit something up in you — that pull, that hunger for a life that actually feels like something — that is not an accident. That is your next chapter knocking. We have a room for you. Rebels Rising is The Feminine Rebellion's flagship membership — a one-year container for midlife women who are done circling and ready to actually move. Twice-monthly live group coaching, expert access, all of Natty's courses, and a private community of women who get it. Founding spots are filling. Come in before the price rises:thefemininerebellion.com/rebels-rising And if you loved this episode — leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It is how more midlife women find this show, and right now, more women need to find it.
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  72. The Midlife Plateau Nobody Names: You’ve Done All the Work + You Are Still Circling — Here's Why 05.06.2026 13mnt

  If you've done the books, the therapy, the courses, the journaling — and you're still circling — this episode is going to name something nobody in the personal development world wants to say clearly. We're talking about the midlife plateau that hits the most self-aware, genuinely committed women: the specific kind of stuck that isn't a discipline problem or a motivation problem. It's a neuroscience problem. And there's a fix.What You'll Hear:🔥 Why awareness is not activation — and what the difference means for how change actually happens🔥 The neuroscience of limbic resonance and why your brain cannot fully transform in isolation🔥What 'pleasure is your GPS' actually means — and how your body knows before your brain catches up🔥 The real reason brilliant women stay in the same patterns for years despite doing everything right🔥 Why 'alchemy happens in a coven' — and what that means for the environment you need to actually changeIf this episode cracked something open in you — that feeling is your nervous system already knowing the answer.There are founding spots left inside Rebels Rising, Join now.And if you loved this episode, leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.It's how more midlife women find this show — and right now, more women need to find it.
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  71. Reclaiming Erotic Aliveness in Midlife: Carly Mountain on Untamed Pleasure 29.05.2026 49mnt

  The cultural story about midlife women and sexuality is one of loss. Declining hormones, declining libido, declining desirability. Carly Mountain, somatic therapist with twenty years of experience working with women’s bodies, voices, and desires, is telling a completely different story.In this episode, we go deep into what a tamed woman actually looks like in the everyday details of her life. We talk about the Inanna myth and the heroine’s descent into the underworld, what “untaming” really means beyond the idea of wild rebellion, the concept of penetrative energy in women and why reclaiming it matters, and what actually becomes available erotically in your 40s and 50s that was simply not there before.Carly has spent two decades sitting with women in their descents and witnessing their risings. When a woman reclaims her erotic aliveness, her voice changes. Her relationship with her own body changes. Her female friendships deepen. Her creativity returns.What you’ll hear in this episode:🔥 What a tamed woman actually looks like in the everyday details of her life🔥 The Inanna myth and how it maps the heroine’s journey through descent and rising🔥 What “untaming” really means, beyond wild rebellion🔥 Why penetrative energy belongs to all of us and what it feels like to reclaim it🔥 The erotic upsurge women are reporting in their 40s and 50s, and why midlife might be the first time you truly meet your erotic self🔥 Why you cannot untame at the pace you are currently movingAbout Carly Mountain:Carly Mountain is a somatic therapist and author whose work goes straight to what women have been trained to forget: that the erotic is sacred, that rebellion is natural, and that untaming is not a one-time act but a way of life. Over twenty years in private practice, she has sat with women in the depths of their descents and witnessed the extraordinary things that become possible on the other side. Her first book, Descent and Rise, mapped the heroine’s journey through the ancient Inanna myth. Her new book, Untamed Pleasure: Unleash Your True Erotic Nature (launching June 2026), goes deeper into penetrative energy, erotic aliveness, and the specific gifts midlife brings to a woman’s sexuality. This summer she is running the Untamed Pleasure Sanctuary, a course starting July 7th with four guest teachers including Sherry Winston.Links mentioned:•  Pre-order Untamed Pleasure: Unleash Your True Erotic Nature → [Grab A Copy]•  The Untamed Pleasure Sanctuary Course → [Visit Carly’s Website]•  Find Carly on Instagram → [@carly_mountain]If this episode cracked something open in you, your next step is joining 1,500+ women inside The Feminine Rebellion community. It’s free, it’s alive, and it’s waiting for you.And if you loved this episode, leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It’s how more midlife women find this show, and right now, more women need to find it.
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  70. Female Hormones and Midlife Libido: Morgan Miller & Laura Federico on the Cycle Education Women Were Denied 22.05.2026 50mnt

  Most women hit midlife with decades of diagnoses, symptoms they can't explain, and a libido that seems to have packed up and left — and nobody ever taught them how their own bodies actually work. In this episode, Natty sits down with midwife Morgan Miller and sex therapist Laura Federico, co-authors of The Cycle Book, to talk about cycle literacy, hormones, perimenopause, desire, and what it really means to reclaim your body when the medical system has kept you in the dark. What You'll Hear in This Episode🔥 Why ovulation changes everything — not just for fertility, but for your cognition, mood, sexuality, and sense of self🔥 What perimenopause actually looks like (brain fog and anxiety in your late 30s can be early signs — years before anything irregular)🔥 The real reason libido drops in midlife — and why it's almost never "just hormones"🔥 Why your cycle tracking app is only 21% accurate and what to use instead🔥 The question Laura asks every client whose libido has gone quiet — and how the answer changes everything Guest BiosMorgan Miller is a certified nurse-midwife with a deep clinical specialty in hormones, cycle health, and women's bodies across every phase of life — not just fertility. She is the co-author of The Cycle Book, a practical guide to understanding your hormonal landscape that includes a year's worth of tracking charts designed for real women who want real answers. Laura Federico, LCSW, is a sex therapist whose practice centres on desire, libido, relationships, and the ways hormonal shifts — including PMDD and perimenopause — intersect with a woman's sense of self. She is the co-author of The Cycle Book and has spent years bridging the gap between the clinical world and women who are trying to understand what's happening inside their own bodies. Links Mentioned ✨ The Cycle Book by Morgan Miller and Laura Federico — [Grab Your Copy] ✨ Follow Morgan and Laura on Instagram — [@itslauraandmorgan]If this episode cracked something open in you — your next step is joining 1,500+ women inside The Feminine Rebellion community. It's free, it's alive, and it's waiting for you at thefemininerebellion.com/community And if you loved this episode, leave a 5-star review. It's how more midlife women find this show — and right now, more women need to find it.
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  69. The Pain Gap: Anushay Hossain on Medical Misogyny, the Healthcare Crisis Killing Women, and Why Midlife Women Need to Stop Being Polite 15.05.2026 55mnt

  If you have ever been told your pain is in your head — that you are being dramatic, anxious, or just aging naturally — this episode is for you. Writer, activist, and host of The Pain Gap podcast Anushay Hossain joins The Feminine Rebellion to talk about why women, especially midlife women and women over 40, are being systematically dismissed, disbelieved, and in too many cases dying — because the medical system was never built to believe us.What you’ll hear in this episode:🔥 What the pain gap actually is — and the documented, devastating gap between how doctors treat women’s pain versus men’s🔥 Anushay’s near-death birth experience at a top Washington DC hospital — and why she kept it to herself for years🔥 The legacy of hysteria and how it still lives in every medical dismissal of women in their 40s and 50s🔥 Why Black women with college degrees are dying in childbirth at higher rates than white women without one🔥 What women in midlife can actually do — with their anger, their money, and their community — right nowAbout Anushay Hossain:Anushay Hossain is a Bangladeshi-American writer, feminist activist, and host of The Pain Gap podcast — currently ranked in the top 10% of podcasts worldwide. She grew up in Bangladesh watching women die from preventable causes, came to America expecting the best healthcare in the world, and nearly died giving birth in Washington DC while actively lobbying for global women’s health legislation. That experience cracked open her book, The Pain Gap, which exposes the documented, systemic gap in how the medical system diagnoses, treats, and believes women. Links mentioned:⁠The Pain Gap podcast ⁠— available everywhere you stream podcasts⁠Anushay’s Point ⁠ — Substack about women’s health, power, and the politics of who gets believed.Buy her book ⁠“The Pain Gap”⁠ —  Explore real women’s tales of healthcare trauma and medical misogyny.If this episode cracked something open in you — your next step is joining 1,100+ women inside ⁠The Feminine Rebellion community⁠. It’s free, it’s alive, and it’s waiting for you.And if you loved this episode, leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It’s how more midlife women find this show — and right now, more women need to find it.
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  68. Wanting More in Midlife: Molly Roden Winter on Desire, Open Marriage, and Refusing to Disappear 08.05.2026 54mnt

  What happens when a midlife woman stops editing herself? Molly Roden Winter — author of the New York Times bestselling memoir More: A Memoir of Open Marriage — joins The Feminine Rebellion to talk about the hunger that lives underneath a picture-perfect life. This episode is for every woman over 40 who has ever whispered “is this all there is?” and immediately felt guilty for wanting more.What you’ll hear in this episode:Why the suffocation so many women in midlife feel is not a character flaw — it’s a symptom of a life built for everyone elseWhat Molly’s open marriage taught her about desire, jealousy, and the one rule that has kept her and Stuart together for 26 yearsWhy “I’ve never seen pretty growth” — and what that means for any woman trying to change her life without burning it downThe unexpected insight inside Molly’s story for women who have zero interest in non-monogamyWhat it means to be an embodied, sovereign woman in your 50s — and why no 30-year-old has what you’ve gotAbout Molly Roden Winter:Molly Roden Winter is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir More: A Memoir of Open Marriage, the story of a Brooklyn mom who decided she was done disappearing. A former English teacher and mother of two, Molly writes and speaks about desire, authenticity, and what it looks like to become the main character of your own life. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband Stuart — and has been in an open marriage for 18 years.Links mentioned:More: A Memoir of Open Marriage by Molly Roden Winter — [Get your copy here!]Listen on Spotify audiobook (no nightstand required!) — [Listen Here]Follow Molly on Instagram — [@mollyrwinter]PS. If this episode cracked something open in you — your next step is joining 1,100+ women inside The Feminine Rebellion community. It’s free, it’s alive, and it’s waiting for you.And if you loved this episode, leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It’s how more midlife women find this show — and right now, more women need to find it.