Welcome to No Shame. A podcast that features the experiences of women who refuse to bend to the whims of cultural expectations.
I'm your host, Rebecca Woolf. And as well as being an author, I am also a single mother of four teenagers, a widow, a friend, a lover, who has spent the last two decades writing about my very human -- and also very often messy -- experiences. On No Shame, I will feature the stories, experiences, and wisdom of those who inspire me most: the women who have been shunned, shamed, and stigmatized for being unapologetically human in their work, relationships and lives.
Each week we'll be interviewing different women who has been told that she should be ashamed of something, but chooses not to be. New episodes every Tuesday.
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Welcome to No Shame. A podcast that features the experiences of women who refuse to bend to the whims of cultural expectations.
I'm your host, Rebecca Woolf. And as well as being an author, I am also a single mother of four teenagers, a widow, a friend, a lover, who has spent the last two decades writing about my very human -- and also very often messy -- experiences. On No Shame, I will feature the stories, experiences, and wisdom of those who inspire me most: the women who have been shunned, shamed, and stigmatized for being unapologetically human in their work, relationships and lives.
Each week we'll be interviewing different women who has been told that she should be ashamed of something, but chooses not to be. New episodes every Tuesday.
I have a very, very special episode this week. I am sitting down to interview my 16-year-old daughter, Fable who I've known Fable. I've known Fable since she was born. She's a powerhouse, a hand raiser, a leader in the classic sense, the opposite of invisible, the antithesis of afraid standing tall with flags in her hands. I am so proud of her and she has taught me so much.
Hi everyone! Today I'm sitting down with my friend Sophie Strauss, a stylist for regular people, and we are going to talk about abortion. We're going to talk about her abortions. We're going to talk about your abortions. We're going to talk about ways for you to have access to an abortion, even in a state where they are making it harder and harder to get one.
This week, it is my honor to host the incredible, Amy Pence Brown. Amy is a body image activist. She's a writer, an artist, a public speaker, an educator, and a radical Idahoan. I've been following her for years. She's been a body image activist for 15 years and became internationally known for her radical stand for self love at the capital city public market in Boise, Idaho in 2015, which you might remember because it was viral. What excites me most about her is that if you tell her to stop, she goes harder. So excited for you to hear my conversation with her today which is very timely for this week.
We are replaying one of our favorites this week. If you're new here, this ep is a great place to start!
We love Los Angeles.
There are a handful of writers whose voices I believe are so central to where we are culturally, whose voices truly define a moment by validating not only what is happening politically but also what is happening within the interior lives of women. And Lyz Lenz is one of them. She is the author of the book This American Ex Wife and the substack Men Yell At Me.
Hi everyone, today we are doing something a little different and sharing an episode of my friend Scott Campbell's podcast Stupid Things for Love. I was on his show and the conversation that we have been having on this show about shame and sex. If you don't already listen to Scott's show, it's incredible and you should subscribe! We will be back next week with more regularly scheduled programming.
This week I am finishing my conversation with Laura Hoenack. Laura writes a substack called Lulubeans about her complicated grief as a widow of suicide. She also writes about sex and dating and her work as a camgirl on OnlyFans. And recently she wrote a guest post from my substack titled I Am a Beautiful Thing, or How I Learned to Love My 40 Something Body by Posting Nudes on the Internet. And fuck yes, she's a beautiful thing and every single sense of the word.
This week I am thrilled to introduce you to my friend, writer, widow mother and camgirl, Laura Hoenack. I met Laura early last year when she was a participant in a grief writing workshop that I teach. Laura writes a substack called Lulubeans about her complicated grief as a widow of suicide. She also writes about sex and dating and her work as a camgirl on OnlyFans. And recently she wrote a guest post from my substack titled I Am a Beautiful Thing, or How I Learned to Love My 40 Something Body by Posting Nudes on the Internet. And fuck yes, she's a beautiful thing and every single sense of the word.
In today’s episode I am chatting with Melissa Petro author of the book Shame on You: How to be A Woman in the Age of Mortification which is essentially what this podcast is all about. I have spent the entirety of my life battling and overcoming my own shame, weighing the so called morals of the societal masses against my own truth and need to tell it and in her book, Melissa not only shares her story of public humiliation but gives women insight on how to combat their own shame
This week I’m talking to Bassey Ikpi. Bassey is a writer, a speaker, an emotional wellness advocate and the NYT bestselling author of the book I'm Telling the Truth But I'm Lying which is one of the most beautifully written memoirs I’ve read in recent years. In her book, she writes about emotional memory, distinguishing it from actual memory and she asks us to get curious when it comes to our remembrance of things and how we metabolize those memories. I'm so excited to have her here today.
This week I'm thrilled to be speaking to author, academic and friend Amanda Montei. Amanda is the author of the book, Touched Out: Misogyny, Consent and Control, and the substack, Mad Woman. This episode is a little different than other episodes in that it's a sort of response episode to the election, specifically how shame shaped it and what we can do to reverse its effects. I feel so fortunate to have friends like Amanda, with whom I can talk honestly and openly without judgment or shame, but also be challenged, enlightened, and provoked to recognize truths beyond my own. So today on the show we talk about shame, white women, the 4B movement and how we have all been doing since the election.
This week I’m very excited to host someone I have had the great honor of knowing and loving my whole life – my great Aunt Dot Fisher-Smith. Since I was a little girl, I gravitated toward Dot. I always felt a kind of solidarity with her that defies age. She is a sister to me. She is a friend. A mentor. A confidante. And I think, specifically with death, a subject most people are not comfortable talking about, let alone planning for, she has been a touchstone for me. Beyond my relationship with Dot, she is an activist and agitator who led anti-war protests during Vietnam, chained herself to Redwood trees as an environmentalist with Greenpeace and has lived a loud and proud life of civil disobedience.
My guest this week is Kim Ye. Kim Ye is a visual artist, a performance artist, a pro domme and a mother of two whose work exists within the intersection of sex work, domestic labor, motherhood and the relationship between dominance, and submission, caretaking and autonomy, rebellion and acquiescence.
Before this podcast found its voice and I decided I wanted specifically to feature women who have been stigmatized or shamed for being quote unquote bad girls (my favorite kind) I had the idea to feature people who were in transition. So. I put a call out on Instagram for stories. Hundreds responded. It was so overwhelming it took me weeks to go through every email. I ultimately decided to go in a slightly different direction but Shannon, who responded to my original call for stories of transition was ALSO VERY ALIGNED with what I wanted to explore here on NO SHAME and I am THRILLED that she agreed to talk to me today because she is one of the bravest women I have ever met and when you hear her tell her story today you are going to absolutely understand why.
My guest today is Suzanne Scanlon. She's the author of the book Committed: Of Meaning and Mad Women, a book that details Suzanne's experience being institutionalized in New York City in the nineties. Her book explores the nature of madness with such elegance and precise insight, and it made me want to know her and love her. Today on the show we talk about mental health, the hysterical woman archetype, and what it's been like to be called crazy.
I am thrilled to be hosting the one and only Accidental Icon. Lyn Slater, author of the book, How to Be Old. She's an artist, a designer, a writer, a model, a former professor, a mother and grandmother. She is queen of the rebels and an influencer in the truest sense of the word. And I'm honored to talk to her today about beauty and age and rebellion and how they intersect today on the podcast.
There are a handful of writers whose voices I believe are so central to where we are culturally, whose voices truly define a moment by validating not only what is happening politically but also what is happening within the interior lives of women. And Lyz Lenz is one of them. She is the author of the book This American Ex Wife and the substack Men Yell At Me.
Diablo Cody is a stripper, an Oscar winner and a woman who influences all of America. Today, on the show I talk to my friend Diablo Cody about working the pole, getting online hate, refusing to be domestic and living her goddamn life on her own terms.
My first guest is one of my best friends. She's also the most unabashedly, unapologetically, fearlessly herself, person I know. She's a poet, she's a teacher, a mother, a genius, and her name is Chelsie Diane. Chelsie Diane is the founder of Poems and Peonies, where she travels all over the world and teaches about famous maligned from their homes. On our first episode of No Shame we talk about divorce, sexual and spiritual awakenings, and trusting your inner knowing.
Hi, I'm Rebecca Woolf and this is No Shame. I’m an author, a mother, a widow, a sex columnist and a lover of complicated women and their human stories. For more than two decades, I’ve devoted my work to exploring nuanced themes that include death, sex, aging, autonomy and single motherhood without shame. And that's what I will continue to do on No Shame. Each week on this show I will interview a different woman who has been told she should be ashamed of something but chooses not to be.
Welcome to No Shame. A podcast that features the experiences of women who refuse to bend to the whims of cultural expectations.
I'm your host, Rebecca Woolf. And as well as being an author, I am also a single mother of four teenagers, a widow, a friend, a lover, who has spent the last two decades writing about my very human -- and also very often messy -- experiences. On No Shame, I will feature the stories, experiences, and wisdom of those who inspire me most: the women who have been shunned, shamed, and stigmatized for being unapologetically human in their work, relationships and lives.
Each week we'll be interviewing different women who has been told that she should be ashamed of something, but chooses not to be. New episodes every Tuesday.
