The Femme Cast | Saying the Quiet Parts Out Loud
Maria Rei
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The Femme Cast is a podcast hosted by Maria Rei that explores women's safety, voice, and worth. It aims to dismantle the conditioning, systems, and internalized narratives that hold women back from reaching their full potential. The show brings visibility to the lived experiences women are often taught to ignore or minimize, encouraging them to step up and lead with greater awareness and agency.
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What If This Season Isn't Meant to Move You Forward... But to Deepen Your Faith? 28.07.2026 20minSome seasons aren't meant to give you answers. They're meant to change you. If you've been doing everything "right," chasing every opportunity, hustling harder, holding everyone together, and still feel like life isn't moving, this episode is for you. In this deeply personal episode of The Femme Cast, I'm sharing the season I've been living through: my dad's heart attack, the emotional weight of caregiving, nearly a year of unemployment, and the uncomfortable reality of realizing that not e... -
3 Signs You Have a Self-Worth Wound (Why It's Affecting Your Money, Career & Relationships) 09.07.2026 34minHow do you know if you're struggling with a self-worth wound... and what do you actually do about it? In this deeply personal episode of The Femme Cast, I share the three biggest signs you have a self-worth issue that's quietly influencing every area of your life, from your finances and career to your relationships, confidence, body image, and ability to receive abundance. The conversation begins with a powerful dream that stopped me in my tracks: a shipwreck, a current of money rushing tow... -
The Hidden Gift Behind Job Loss, Friendship Breakups & Unexpected Life Changes 06.07.2026 29minWhat if losing the job, friendship, relationship, or opportunity you desperately wanted to keep wasn't a failure at all? What if it was life doing for you what you couldn't do for yourself? In this deeply personal episode of The Femme Cast, I'm unpacking the uncomfortable truth about why the rug sometimes gets pulled out from under us and why those painful "ejection" moments are often the catalyst for our biggest growth, alignment, and transformation. We explore why we cling to people, pla... -
I Thought I'd Healed This. Turns Out I Was Just Getting Started. 02.07.2026 29minI thought I had healed my worthiness wound. Turns out, I had only met the first layers. In this raw and deeply personal episode of The Femme Cast, I'm pulling back the curtain on the self-worth struggle I never expected to face again, this time through money, career uncertainty, financial stress, and survival fears. When relationships fell apart, I healed the betrayal. When visibility triggered me, I learned to be seen. But when my income, career, and ability to provide for myself became unc... -
TFC Live | When You Know Deep Down It's Time to Leave (Girl, Unbecoming Chapter 1) 29.06.2026 31minWhat happens when you finally stop trying to make something work that deep down you know isn't meant for you? In this raw, unfiltered episode of The Femme Cast that was recorded LIVE on my Substack page, we hit record with zero preparation and dive into the powerful theme behind chapter one of my memoir: Girl Unbecoming After divorce, dating in downtown Toronto, and years of moulding myself to other people's expectations, I found myself facing a truth many of us avoid: life will keep showin... -
The Double Shame of Money: Money Shame, Scarcity Mindset, and Why You Feel Wrong With It and Without It 25.06.2026 28minMoney can feel like a paradox. Not enough of it can feel like proof you are unworthy. Having it can feel like something you need to hide. In this deeply personal episode of The Femme Cast, I unpack the double bind of financial shame and how it quietly shapes self-worth, ambition, and identity. I trace the early money beliefs that shaped my inner world for years: that money is hard for me to make, easy for others, and that “nice things” were never meant for people like me. Growing up around c... -
You Are Not Your Job, Your Income, or Your Breakup: A Raw Conversation on Self-Worth & Identity Loss 23.06.2026 24minIf you've ever lost a job, watched your savings disappear, gone through a painful breakup, faced debt, or felt like life pulled the rug out from under you, this episode is for you. In this deeply personal conversation, I'm sharing one of the most profound lessons from my own rebuilding journey: how to find self-love, radical acceptance, and self-worth when everything around you seems to be trying to convince you otherwise. After years of tying my value to my career, income, relationsh... -
Leading With Impact: Why Vulnerability and Fear Are the Gateway to Your Real Influence 18.06.2026 35minThe fastest way to shrink your life is to hide the very thing that could set someone else free. This episode of The Femme Cast goes deep into vulnerability as a practical skill for impact, not a personality trait. We explore why the parts of yourself you most want to hide are often the exact places your purpose is trying to break through. If you have ever frozen before posting, held back in conversation, or felt your body spike with fear at the thought of being seen, this episode will feel u... -
Rebuilding After Everything Falls Apart: Trusting the Breadcrumbs Back to Yourself 16.06.2026 37minIf you're in the middle of rebuilding your life, not because you chose to but because life chose it for you, and you're wondering whether you're doing it "right," this episode is for you. I've rebuilt my life more than once. But there's a profound difference between choosing to blow your life up on purpose and having life pull the plug for you. One feels exciting and empowering. The other can leave you questioning everything you thought you knew, testing your faith, and forcing you to let g... -
The Money Shame Nobody Talks About | My Cycle of Wealth, Loss, and Rebuilding From Scratch 09.06.2026 43minIn this deeply vulnerable episode of The Femme Cast, I share what I have kept private for years. My financial life has not been a straight line of growth, but a repeated swing between abundance and rock bottom. Times of earning and expansion followed by sudden collapse, maxed out credit, living on overdraft, and the quiet fear of not being able to pay rent or even buy gas without panic. This is not just about money. It is about shame, secrecy, childhood money trauma, and the emotional weight ... -
The Dark Side of Personal Development | The Billion-Dollar Industry Keeping Women Feeling “Not Enough” 12.05.2026 42minI’ve been quietly breaking up with the personal development machine, and this time, I think it’s for good. In this deeply personal episode of The Femme Cast, I unpack the darker side of the self-help and spiritual industry: the high-vibe performance culture, emotional bypassing, and the billion-dollar cycle that keeps people chasing the next “healed” version of themselves while quietly reinforcing the belief that they’re still not enough. We talk about: 🎤 The hidden conditioning inside coachi... -
What If God Is a Woman | The Truth Patriarchy Doesn’t Want You to Hear 05.05.2026 19minWhat if the reason women have been controlled throughout history is because their power has always been patriarchy’s greatest threat. In this episode of The Femme Cast, we ask a question that challenges spirituality, culture, and power at the root: what if God is a woman. Not as shock value, but as a radical reframing of creation, intuition, and what it means to be human. If God is the creator of life, and women literally create life, what does that say about where feminine power truly sits ... -
Side B | Breaking All The Rules And Saying The Quiet Parts Out Loud, A New Era Of The Femme Cast 28.04.2026 22minSide B of The Femme Cast is where the polished world of personal development ends and the raw, unfiltered truth begins. This episode marks a turning point. After a season of loss and grief, and a growing resistance to the pressure to reframe everything into positivity, I am stepping away from the rules of personal development culture and the marketing boxes we are told to fit into. We explore why women are exhausted by constant positivity, why “health, wealth, love” is not the only language... -
Not All Men… But Which Ones? | Rape Culture, Misogyny & Women’s Safety 21.04.2026 28minSixty-two million visits to an “online rape academy”… and the loudest response online is debating the numbers. This episode of The Femme Cast goes where most conversations won’t. It names the deeper truth: when violence against women gets reduced to stats, we expose how normalized misogyny, exploitation, and assault have become, both online and in real life. I share the emotional weight this story carries and a personal experience of being followed home just days before the headlines broke.... -
Lauren of Love on Why the Coaching Industry Needs a Full Reset | Consent, Truth, and Trauma-Informed Leadership 16.04.2026 46minThe coaching industry doesn’t need more scripts. It needs truth. In this powerful conversation on The Femme Cast, I sit down with transformational mentor Lauren Eliz Love from Lauren of Love to unpack what’s really broken in online coaching, and what it takes to rebuild a business rooted in consent-based selling, emotional safety, and unapologetic authenticity. We go straight into it: toxic sales tactics, algorithm anxiety, performative content, and the pressure to “do it right.” And w... -
How Breaking Up With Religion Healed My Relationship With Myself And God 09.04.2026 29minWhat if the very thing you were taught would bring you closer to God… actually kept you disconnected from yourself? This episode of The Femme Cast is raw, unfiltered, and completely off-script. We’re talking about the quiet rebellion so many women feel—but are afraid to admit: outgrowing organized religion, questioning what you were taught, and reclaiming your relationship with the divine on your own terms. Not from rebellion… but from truth. Because for me? Breaking up with religion didn’... -
Fear You're Not Enough and Imposter Syndrome | Visibility Glow Up Series Part 5 31.03.2026 32minIf “Who am I to do this?” has been quietly running your life… this is where we burn that story down. We’re closing out Visibility Glow Up Month with the most insidious visibility block I see in high-capacity, soul-led women: the belief that you’re not enough. Not ready enough. Not qualified enough. Not polished enough. And here’s the truth no one wants to say out loud: that story isn’t protecting you. It’s costing you. In this episode of The Femme Cast, I pull back the curtain on my own jo... -
Fear of Speaking Your Truth | Visibility Glow Up Series Part 4 26.03.2026 33minYour content can be honest and still feel wrong coming out of your mouth. That tension? That’s where transformation begins. In this episode of The Femme Cast, we dig into one of the deepest visibility blocks holding ambitious, soul-led women back: the fear of speaking your unfiltered truth. The version that might spark pushback, ruffle feathers, or even get you canceled. We unpack how this fear quietly shows up: biting your tongue at the table, hiding behind “neutral” takes on social media, ... -
The Fear of Judgement or Rejection | Visibility Glow Up Series Part 3 23.03.2026 37minThe fastest way to lose your voice? Asking, “What will everyone think?” And if you've been asking yourself that question, then this episode of The Femme Cast, is your wake-up call. If you’ve been showing up online, in your career, or in your life feeling like you’re performing instead of expressing, overthinking every word, reading into every reaction, shaping yourself to be accepted…This isn’t strategy. It’s self-abandonment. And it’s quietly killing your visibility, your confidence, and ... -
Fear of Lack & Scarcity | Visibility Glow Up Series Part 2 12.03.2026 36minDo you filter what you say, create, or share through the lens of “what will keep me safe, financially secure”? Do you find yourself over-performing, shrinking your voice, or chasing recognition instead of your soul-aligned purpose? If so, this episode of The Femme Cast is your unapologetic wake-up call. In Part 2 of my Visibility Glow Up Series, we unpack the fear of lack and how scarcity quietly hijacks your voice, choices, and visibility. From childhood financial trauma to the invisible sc...
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