Woman Uncaged

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Welcome to Episode 12, Season 2 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! Today we return to a favorite topic of ours: work and money-making and how they have taken on an outlandish importance in our modern lives.

In the episode, we dive into:

- An example of how regular work can support what matters in our lives without taking over our lives
- How things might look different if we treated money like firewood
- How the industrial revolution shifted how we approach work
- The way an 8-hour workday makes very little sense in most cases
- Making our jobs work for us rather than us simply working for them
- Examples of different ways of living and working that we don't typically hear about
- Resisting the pressure to make work the organizing principle of our lives
- Why Laura doesn't like money goals even though she's a money coach!
- Why both Laura and Linda fully support a liberal arts education
- How easy the cages are to jump into even when we don't consciously want to
- What we might get to reclaim as human beings, and what could we do with our time, if we were less consumed with work
- How difficult it is to know when we've done "enough" work, especially when we work for ourselves
- Building in and embracing seasonality in our production, work, and businesses
- Not only the external cages, but how we have internalized these societal voices

Resources:
Michael Neill
How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto by Tom Hodgkinson
Women Rowing North: Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing as We Age by Mary Pipher
Redefining Rich: Achieving True Wealth with Small Business by Shannon Hayes

Life Reinvention Sessions:
If you'd like to nab one, visit:
https://lauragatesluptonmswcpc.as.me/lifereinvention

~Linda's website: https://singingbirdcoaching.com/ ~Laura's Monday Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/