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.
28 Jan 2025
We Are Not Going Back with Sophie Strauss
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.
21 Jan 2025
Radically Living in a Red State with Amy Pence Brown
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.
14 Jan 2025
REPLAY: Lyz Lenz Was Kicked Out of Eden
Rebecca Woolf sits down with author Lyz Lenz to explore the intersection of politics and personal identity, offering a nuanced understanding of the complexities of womanhood.
7 Jan 2025
BONUS: Stupid Things for Love
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.
31 Dec 2024
Laura Hoenack is a Beautiful Thing part 2
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.
24 Dec 2024
Laura Hoenack is a Beautiful Thing
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.
17 Dec 2024
After Shame with Melissa Petro
Rebecca Woolf chats with author Melissa Petro about overcoming shame and finding empowerment, offering women a path to break free from societal expectations and live authentically.
10 Dec 2024
Bassey Ikpi Tells the Truth
Bassey Ikpi, NYT bestselling author, shares her insights on emotional memory and invites listeners to explore the complexities of remembrance and memory metabolism.
3 Dec 2024
The Revolution Will Not be Shame-Based with Amanda Montei
Author and academic Amanda Montei discusses how shame shaped the election and offers insights on reversing its effects with host Rebecca Woolf.
26 Nov 2024
Dot Fisher-Smith is going to die. And so are you.
Rebecca Woolf sits down with her great Aunt Dot Fisher-Smith, a lifelong activist and agitator, to explore the often taboo topic of death and dying with courage and solidarity.
19 Nov 2024
Kim Ye is Promomme
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.
12 Nov 2024
Shannon Will Not Be Silenced
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.
5 Nov 2024
Madness is a Story We Are Told with Suzanne Scanlon
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.
29 Oct 2024
The Rebellion of Lyn Slater
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.
22 Oct 2024
Lyz Lenz was Kicked Out of Eden
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.
15 Oct 2024
Welcome to Diablo Cody's America!!
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.
8 Oct 2024
"My Heart Won't Burn" with Chelsie Diane
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.
27 Sept 2024
Introducing...No Shame with Rebecca Woolf
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.
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