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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...
Bonus Podcast: Ask WAC - 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 episode of...
Bonus Podcast: Ask WAC - Will I regret being childfree?
Do 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 chi...
Childfree was chosen for me, with Sari Botton
Author 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 mo...
Getting vulnerable, with Xander Marin
The 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 X...
Bonus Podcast: Introducing The Childfree Tea!
Here'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 ...
Life just gets better and better, with Cindy Gallop
Cindy 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 fo...
Classic We are Childfree! Navigating ambivalence, with clarity coach Keltie Maguire
Revisiting a classic episode! How to feel confident in your childfree choice, and still leave the door open to possibility.
Dreaming of utopia, with Laura Zalenga
One artist's inspiring vision of a future full of choice and community.
Create a life together, with Melanie Hunter
How does a couple make the childfree choice together?
Life on your own terms, with Eva zu Beck
The world travel icon inspires us to bring our dreams to life.
We're just humans with hormones, with Emma Hollen
What's more responsible than getting a tubal ligation because you know you don't have what it takes to be a good mother?
Unfertilized eggs, with Jerra Latrice Mitchell
Meet a campaigner making space for childfree and childless women of colour.
Finding Acceptance, with Anna Brooke
A high school teacher's journey from circumstance to choice proves there are so many ways to be childfree.
Go for your dreams, with Jenny Castano
For this first-generation trailblazer, being childfree meant creating the life she’d always dreamed about.
Totally Tubular with Caitlin Durante
One comedian's path to permanent birth control.
Best of the pod! Navigating ambivalence, with clarity coach Keltie Maguire (repost)
How to feel confident in your childfree choice, and still leave the door open to possibility.
Best of the pod! Taking the road less-travelled, with 65-year-old clinical psychologist Shelley (repost)
This second-wave feminist has been lighting our way since the 70s!
Best of the pod! What if...? with novelist Donna Freitas (repost)
What would you do if you always knew you didn't want children, married someone who felt the same, and then *they* changed their mind?
Best of the pod! Spread your wings, with feminist wellness advocate Doreen Caven (repost)
A Nigerian-born “hopeful dreamer” shares how to shake off strict gender roles and soar to self-made success.
Best of the pod! Escaping cultural expectations, with Mohita Solanki, an Indian in Australia (repost)
Patriarchy, pronatalism, the pressure to have children - this badass has left it all behind.
Best of the pod! No regrets, with 78 year-old childfree trailblazer Marcia Drut-Davis (repost)
After publicly "coming out" as childfree in 1974, she lost her cherished teaching job, received death threats, and, 46 years later, is still judged for her choice. Yet...
Best of the pod! You are enough, with Dr Kate Tomas (repost)
The women’s spiritual empowerment mentor on finding value outside of motherhood.
Best of Season 1!
Highlights of the first season of We are Childfree, and some big news about what’s coming next!
Navigating ambivalence, with clarity coach Keltie Maguire
How to feel confident in your childfree choice, and still leave the door open to possibility.
Taking the road less-travelled, with 65-year-old clinical psychologist Shelley
This second-wave feminist has been lighting our way since the 70s!
Being our full, true selves, with actor and doula Elizabeth Ho
All Hollywood sees is a mom. We see a childfree icon!
What if...? with novelist Donna Freitas
What would you do if you always knew you didn't want children, married someone who felt the same, and then *they* changed their mind?
Overcoming childhood trauma, with Dana (part 2)
She never needed biological children of her own to be a guardian, a role model.