Category: Show Notes

#71 – Dismantling Diet Culture with Dr. Hortencia Jimenez

Dive into the insidious nature of diet culture with Dra. Hortencia Jimenez, a sociologist, professor, author, and health coach. She highlights the interconnectedness of diet culture with systemic oppression (calling it a spider web) and the importance of dismantling toxic cultural norms. Listen here: Or choose your favorite podcast player: …

#70 – What is Human Design with Ydaiber Orozco

Dive into Human Design with childfree Latina, actor, and coach Ydaiber Orozco, as we explore some burning questions like:  Listen here: Or choose your favorite podcast player: Whether you’re a skeptic or a fan of personality frameworks like Myers-Briggs and the Enneagram, this will probably spark your curiosity. Plus, can …

#69 – Childless Cat Ladies vs Project 2025

Misogyny: that’s what Project 2025 is advocating for and this Childless Cat Lady isn’t having it. Listen here: Or choose your favorite podcast player: For every social media warrior who proudly declares #IUnderstandTheAssignment, there’s a counterpart ready to gleefully embrace a wave of Christofascist extremism that threatens to strip women …

#68 – Hilarious Fails of Childfree Wedding Invitations

What’s the fastest way to offend your potential wedding guests? Commenters on Threads and Instagram posted a million different options for telling people to leave their “trophies” at home. In Part 5 of the childfree wedding series, childfree couple Paulette and Ryan are once again reading through the crudest yet humorous …

#67 – Saying “I Do” Without the Diapers: 5 Rules for a Childfree Wedding

What’s the “proper” way to tell your guests you want a childfree wedding? From the etiquette of hosting an adult-only affair to the most tactful ways to convey this message to your guests, we’re all over this sometimes-taboo topic. Listen here: Or choose your favorite podcast player: Childfree couple Paulette …

#66 – Ditch the Flower Girl with Childfree Housewife Vivian Manganello

Part 3 in the childfree wedding series comes to us in the form of an email from Vivian, a now “retired” childfree housewife.  Listen here: Or choose your favorite podcast player: Vivian’s wedding planning started off as a wild ride navigating family expectations, Catholicism, and even some social shaming, all …

65 – Just Say No to Burnout with Karenna Soto

Burnout isn’t a gold medal earned at the Exhaustion Olympics. It’s totally avoidable,  but in our hustle culture, we often wear exhaustion like a badge of honor. Trust that there’s nothing honorable about sacrificing your health. Take it from someone who has suffered the consequences! Listen here: Or choose your …

63 – Where Do I Belong? Childfree Life on the Margins with Amanda B.

“Where are you from?” is a question asked all too often of people who are visibly “not white.” So what does it mean to be American in a melting pot of immigrants?   Listen here: Or choose your favorite podcast player: Picking up where we left off last time, guest …

62 – Cultural Reflections: Adopted & Childfree with Amanda B.

Continuing to explore the parallels in various cultures, we’re celebrating AAPI month by exploring the world of childfree adulthood with Amanda from Six Degrees of Cats podcast in Part 1 of this two-part episode. Listen here: Or choose your favorite podcast player: Where do Latinidad and East Asian/Midwestern cultures overlap? …