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What to expect when your friends are expecting
We spill the childfree tea on the complicated feelings that come up when we find out our friends are pregnant. It’s something almost all of us will face at some point ...
Life is a risk, with 73-year-old world traveller Maria Coffey
Maria Coffey has lived A LIFE. She started travelling in her teens, desparate to escape safe, settled life in the UK and see the world. From Morocco to Malawi to the r...
Ask WAC: How do you tell kids you’re childfree?
A listener asks: what do you say when a child asks, do you have kids?This one goes out to all the cool aunts, childcare professionals, and our wonderful childfree comm...
Ask WAC: External pressures or authentic desires?
OK this one’s a doozy! Even if you’re sure you want kids, society’s going to try and pressure you to doubt yourself and change your mind. And when that happens, how do...
Ask WAC: Help! I’m losing my friends to parenthood
We rally round a childfree couple whose friend groups are now full of parents, with little time for anything but their kids. This is such a tricky problem that we’ve a...
Ask WAC: He doesn't want me to get a tubal ligation
“Now I wish I'd never brought it up but mostly I'm sad and feel quite alone.”We help out a childfree woman whose partner is pushing back against her decision to get pe...
Living with Less: Getting Intentional and Essential
Ever wondered how van life or any kind of long term travel really works? Like, practically speaking? In this episode we answer a great question from a day one supporte...
AWA (Ask WAC Anything) Part 2: How To Live Your Best Childfree Life
Welcome to a very special episode, part 2 of our AWA - Ask WAC Anything 🙌We welcome your questions about how to live your best childfree life and this vital project. L...
AWA (Ask WAC Anything) Part 1: A Childfree Love Story
Welcome to a very special episode, part 1 of our AWA - Ask WAC Anything 🙌We welcome your questions about us, our relationship, our childfree choices! Listen in to hear...
Don’t fear regret, with Orna Donath
This is a very special episode of the podcast! I interviewed Orna Donath, the author of Regretting Motherhood, for an exclusive We are Childfree member event, and our ...
Finding fulfilment, with 53-year-old childfree trailblazer Lydia
Meet Lydia, a 53-year-old childfree trailblazer who welcomed us into her wonderful home in Athens, Greece, and opened up about her two decade journey to fulfilment. He...
How do you decide to be childfree?
How 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 classic ep...
How do I tell my partner I'm childfree? (Re-release)
How 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 classic ep...
Will I regret being childfree? (Re-release)
Do childfree people ever regret their decision? That's the burning question we put to the We are Childfree community for this classic episode of Ask WAC! (Originally r...
How do you create your childfree future?
“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 ...
We both wanted kids but I’ve changed my mind!
“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...
How do you steer the conversation away from kids?
“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 ...
Help! My coworkers keep asking if I have kids!
“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 st...
Putting my life first, with Natasha den Dekker
Natasha 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 hel...
Life done differently, with Lisa Jansen
We 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 behi...