Latest Kidfree Podcast Episodes
How do you create your childfree future?
We are Childfree - June 25, 2024 05:19 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 143 ratings“How do you pave the way for your childfree future?” We help out a childfree woman who’s facing down 40 and wondering what it means for her future that she didn’t have kids? There’s tons of great advice from the childfree community here, about finding role models who inspire you, defin...
We both wanted kids but I’ve changed my mind!
We are Childfree - June 11, 2024 04:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 143 ratings“We both wanted kids but I’ve changed my mind - how do we talk about this?” The childfree community shares their advice and experiences with someone who’s found herself on the other side of the “kids fence” as her husband. Find out what men think about fatherhood, how to help your part...
How do you steer the conversation away from kids?
We are Childfree - May 28, 2024 04:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 143 ratings“How do you steer the conversation away from kids?” Listen in as the childfree community rallies around someone whose friends have kids going off to college, and can’t talk about anything else! Find out how to support the mothers in your life and foster reciprocal relationships, even i...
Help! My coworkers keep asking if I have kids!
We are Childfree - May 14, 2024 04:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 143 ratings“My new coworkers keep asking me if I have kids. What should I do?” That’s the burning question we answer with the help of the childfree community, for someone who’s started a new job where the watercooler conversations are… not cool. If you have a problem you'd like the community's h...
Putting my life first, with Natasha den Dekker
We are Childfree - October 17, 2023 04:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsNatasha is a British-Asian woman who was born with a bicornate uterus, who found out at 21 that carrying a child to term would be very difficult and dangerous. This helped Natasha make a careful, considered choice about being childfree, but it was the final disappointment for her tradi...
Life done differently, with Lisa Jansen
We are Childfree - September 13, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsWe are Childfree community member Lisa Jansen is really living up to her idea of a “life done differently”. Based in New Zealand, Lisa left her cosy corporate life behind to live in a van for a summer - which turned into 5 years on the road! She’s just published a memoir called Life Do...
Bonus Podcast: Ask WAC - How do you decide to be childfree?
We are Childfree - August 28, 2023 04:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsHow do you decide whether to have kids or not? That's the question from a self-proclaimed fencesitter that we put to the We are Childfree community for this episode of Ask WAC! How can you even imagine life as a parent? How do you separate external pressures from your own inner feeling...
Bonus Podcast: Ask WAC - Will I regret being childfree?
We are Childfree - June 15, 2023 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsDo childfree people ever regret their decision? That's the burning question we put to the We are Childfree community for the very first episode of Ask WAC! How many childfree people experience regret? Where does that regret come from? What does it feel like? Listen to find out! Source...
Childfree was chosen for me, with Sari Botton
We are Childfree - May 23, 2023 04:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsAuthor Sari Botton calls her hysterectomy the best thing that ever happened to her, a true blessing. An older Gen Xer, she never felt entitled to choose not to be a mother, and at 40, found herself in a fertility clinic getting a diagnosis that gave her “permission” to live a happily ch...
Getting vulnerable, with Xander Marin
We are Childfree - May 09, 2023 04:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsThe first man we’ve ever had on the pod! We’ve had a lot of requests to hear from couples about how they navigate the childfree choice together, so we reached out to Xander, husband and business partner of sex therapist Vanessa Marin. The couple opened up on their Pillow Talks podcast a...
Bonus Podcast: Introducing The Childfree Tea!
We are Childfree - May 02, 2023 12:56 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsHere's your first sip of Childfree Tea, the brand new bonus podcast from We are Childfree! Join founders Zoë and James for an emotional update on the ups and downs of running a global childfree community. Get the latest on our beautiful fur baby Olive, our wonderful coverage in The Gu...
Life just gets better and better, with Cindy Gallop
We are Childfree - April 25, 2023 03:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsCindy Gallop is the older childfree role model we all need! She calls herself the “Michael Bay of business” because she likes to blow shit up - most famously as the founder of the revolutionary social sex platform MakeLoveNotPorn. Cindy never wanted children, adores being single, dates...
Classic We are Childfree! Navigating ambivalence, with clarity coach Keltie Maguire
We are Childfree - November 08, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsEnjoy some classic We are Childfree! My conversation with clarity coach Keltie Maguire is one of our all-time most popular episodes - we still hear from people who say this conversation has helped them either work out whether they want kids or not, or to accept their ambivalence and mov...
Dreaming of utopia, with Laura Zalenga
We are Childfree - October 11, 2022 03:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsLike a lot of artists, portrait photographer Laura Zalenga is a dreamer. She imagines a future when generations live together, so the older people she met during her "Beauty of Age" project feel useful, and younger folks can benefit from their experience and wisdom. In this utopia, chil...
Create a life together, with Melanie Hunter
We are Childfree - September 27, 2022 03:17 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsIt can be hard trying to decide if you want children or not, and it can be doubly difficult when there are two people involved in the decision. That’s why I wanted to speak to today’s guest, Melanie Hunter, who went with her husband to couple’s therapy, specifically to unpack the questi...
Life on your own terms, with Eva zu Beck
We are Childfree - September 13, 2022 03:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsEva zu Beck knows more than most about finding the courage to put yourself out there as a strong, childfree woman. She’s a solo adventure traveller with millions of YouTube subscribers who - like the rest of us -struggles with being real, instead of trying to be perfect. In this super c...
We're just humans with hormones, with Emma Hollen
We are Childfree - August 30, 2022 03:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsI invited Emma Hollen onto the pod because of a super-entertaining Twitter thread about her struggle to get a tubal ligation, and her eventual success, at age 30. As a pansexual, non-binary person, Emma doesn't feel that she fits the narrow definition of "woman" that society would force...
Unfertilized eggs, with Jerra Latrice Mitchell
We are Childfree - August 16, 2022 03:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsJerra Latrice Mitchell is such an inspiration! She knew she was a teenager that she didn’t want kids, but later when she was diagnosed with fibroids and learned she couldn’t get pregnant, that brought up some big emotions that she needed to work through. Recognising that black women fac...
Finding Acceptance, with Anna Brooke
We are Childfree - August 02, 2022 03:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsAnna Brooke was born with a health issue which means that pregnancy and childbirth could be very dangerous for both herself and the child. Over time, she came to accept that she wouldn’t be able to have biological kids of her own. So instead of becoming a mother to the teen daughter she...
Go for your dreams, with Jenny Castano
We are Childfree - July 19, 2022 03:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsFor Jenny Castano, being childfree is so much more than a lifestyle choice - it’s meant having the freedom to create the life she’d always dreamed about. When she moved from Colombia to Queens, New York, as a teenager, Jenny already knew that she wanted to learn English, go to college, ...
Totally Tubular with Caitlin Durante
We are Childfree - July 05, 2022 03:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsWe are Childfree is back for season 2 with one of my dream guests! Caitlin Durante is an LA-based comedian and co-host of the Bechdel Cast, which takes a look at movies through an intersectional feminist lens. I spoke to Caitlin a year after her tubal ligation, in the run up to what she...
The reverence of motherhood [re-release]
LIVE kidfree - April 07, 2022 04:00 - 18 minutesMotherhood is revered to a degree that is impossible to ignore. At a basic level, reverence is recognition for moms, similar to recognition at a job or in any other role that a woman plays in society. At the extreme, reverence is a creepy exaltation and glorification of the role of Motherhood...
Why living kidfree is a privilege, not a right [re-release]
LIVE kidfree - March 07, 2022 05:00 - 18 minutesIn some societies, and increasingly in the US, women don’t have the right to control their bodies, they don’t have reproductive choices, they have no agency over the role they play in society, and their safety and security and status depend on their fertility. Privilege is something that we oft...
Best of the pod! Navigating ambivalence, with clarity coach Keltie Maguire (repost)
We are Childfree - February 15, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsKeltie Maguire is a clarity coach who's originally from Canada and now lives in Germany. It's only in the last six months, as she nears her 40th birthday, that Keltie's reached a 95% confidence in her choice to embrace a life without children. That last 5% is super important, because Ke...
Childfree love is love too
LIVE kidfree - February 14, 2022 05:00 - 4 minutesLove is love. This slogan has become synonymous with LGBTQ acceptance and equality. It means that all forms of love are equal and valid and beautiful, no matter who you are and who you love. Despite your personal beliefs, this slogan is, at its core, a rather obvious and indisputable statement...
Best of the pod! Taking the road less-travelled, with 65-year-old clinical psychologist Shelley (repost)
We are Childfree - February 01, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsShelley is a clinical psychologist and second-wave feminist who's been fighting for our rights since the 70s. She was an early beneficiary of Roe vs Wade, which legalised abortion in the US, and chose to be sterilised at 21. Now that she's 65, it was a pleasure to look back with her ove...
5 reasons I think the US birth rate is declining
LIVE kidfree - January 24, 2022 05:00 - 19 minutesAccording to the CDC, the US birth rate hit a record low in 2020 to a level that the Brookings Institution calls “considerably below replacement levels for the foreseeable future.” While the US population is still increasing, the rate of growth has slowed dramatically: it dropped 4% from 2019-20...
Best of the pod! What if...? with novelist Donna Freitas (repost)
We are Childfree - January 18, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsIn Donna Freitas' new novel, The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano, the eponymous heroine faces a dilemma. Before she got married, her husband promised her he didn't want children - but now he's changed his mind. Could happily childfree Rose will herself to become a mother in order to save ...
Best of the pod! Spread your wings, with feminist wellness advocate Doreen Caven (repost)
We are Childfree - January 04, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsDoreen Caven was raised in a Catholic household in Nigeria, and she was a baby feminist even before she knew what the F-word meant. At an early age, she saw the role she was expected to fill, as a wife, a mother, submissive to men, and she wasn’t having any of it. Doreen and her younger...
3 ways to create a boss kidfree life
LIVE kidfree - January 01, 2022 05:00 - 16 minutesAt the beginning of 2021, when I was setting my intentions, I told myself that I would build such a boss kidfree life that no one, not even me, would ever question me again. For far too long I have struggled with inner conflict about my choice to live kidfree, but the pandemic really validated...