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The Feminine Rebellion: Pleasure, Power + Unapologetic Living for Midlife Women

The Feminine Rebellion: Pleasure, Power + Unapologetic Living for Midlife Women

Natty Frasca 114 Episodes Jul 3, 2026

The Feminine Rebellion is a podcast for women in their 40s and 50s who are ready to reclaim their feminine power, pleasure, and purpose. Hosted by transformational coach Natty Frasca, it explores themes of pleasure activism, embodiment, and unapologetic living. The show encourages midlife women to break free from societal expectations and live boldly on their own terms.

Episodes

76. Reinvention After 50: Jane Stewart on Quitting Corporate, Surviving the Crack-Up, and Becoming Unmissable at 61 Jul 3, 2026 00:58:38 Opening At 61, Jane Stewart is living proof that reinvention has no expiration date. After 20+ years in corporate sales and marketing nearly hollowed her out, Jane walked away, rebuilt herself through grief and therapy, and turned bold, full-color Western fashion into a platform watched by tens of thousands of women. This episode is for every woman who's ever filed a dream under "maybe in
75. The Body Vote: Why the Pros and Cons List Will Never Give You the Answer Jun 26, 2026 00:18:58 If you have made the lists, polled the group chat, done all the research, and you are still stuck in exactly the same place — this episode is going to name why. We are talking about the real reason brilliant women overthink every decision that actually matters, the neuroscience behind why your body already has the answer, and a simple tool called the body vote that will change the way you make dec
74. Sexual Agency, Real Sex, and Aging Like a Force of Nature: Cindy Gallop on Why Your Pleasure Will Change the World Jun 19, 2026 00:41:23 If you are a midlife woman who has spent years performing sex, faking enthusiasm, or genuinely not knowing what you want in bed, this episode is your permission slip. Cindy Gallop is the founder and CEO of Make Love Not Porn, one of the most fearless humans alive at 66, and she came on The Feminine Rebellion to talk about sexual agency, aging with zero apology, real world sex, and why your pleasur
73. Reclaiming Joy and Aliveness in Midlife: Laura Baginski on the Dance Party Revolution That's Bringing Women Home to Themselves Jun 12, 2026 00:30:10 There is a reason grown women are crying on dance floors across America — and it is not because the DJ played a sad song. It is because they have finally, finally, let themselves feel free. Laura Baginski is the co-founder of Early Birds Club: a dance party phenomenon for midlife women and gender-expansive folks that started at a Chicago dive bar in 2024 and has since expanded to 45 cities nationw
72. The Midlife Plateau Nobody Names: You’ve Done All the Work + You Are Still Circling — Here's Why Jun 5, 2026 00:13:22 If you've done the books, the therapy, the courses, the journaling — and you're still circling — this episode is going to name something nobody in the personal development world wants to say clearly. We're talking about the midlife plateau that hits the most self-aware, genuinely committed women: the specific kind of stuck that isn't a discipline problem or a motivation problem. It's a neuroscienc
71. Reclaiming Erotic Aliveness in Midlife: Carly Mountain on Untamed Pleasure May 29, 2026 00:49:59 The cultural story about midlife women and sexuality is one of loss. Declining hormones, declining libido, declining desirability. Carly Mountain, somatic therapist with twenty years of experience working with women’s bodies, voices, and desires, is telling a completely different story.In this episode, we go deep into what a tamed woman actually looks like in the everyday details of her life. We t
70. Female Hormones and Midlife Libido: Morgan Miller & Laura Federico on the Cycle Education Women Were Denied May 22, 2026 00:50:10 Most women hit midlife with decades of diagnoses, symptoms they can't explain, and a libido that seems to have packed up and left — and nobody ever taught them how their own bodies actually work. In this episode, Natty sits down with midwife Morgan Miller and sex therapist Laura Federico, co-authors of The Cycle Book, to talk about cycle literacy, hormones, perimenopause, desire, and what it reall
69. The Pain Gap: Anushay Hossain on Medical Misogyny, the Healthcare Crisis Killing Women, and Why Midlife Women Need to Stop Being Polite May 15, 2026 00:55:15 If you have ever been told your pain is in your head — that you are being dramatic, anxious, or just aging naturally — this episode is for you. Writer, activist, and host of The Pain Gap podcast Anushay Hossain joins The Feminine Rebellion to talk about why women, especially midlife women and women over 40, are being systematically dismissed, disbelieved, and in too many cases dying — because the
68. Wanting More in Midlife: Molly Roden Winter on Desire, Open Marriage, and Refusing to Disappear May 8, 2026 00:54:38 What happens when a midlife woman stops editing herself? Molly Roden Winter — author of the New York Times bestselling memoir More: A Memoir of Open Marriage — joins The Feminine Rebellion to talk about the hunger that lives underneath a picture-perfect life. This episode is for every woman over 40 who has ever whispered “is this all there is?” and immediately felt guilty for wanting more.What you
67. Your Body Is Not Broken, It’s Talking to You: The Nervous System, Hormones, and Pleasure Science Every Woman Over 40 Needs (with Dr. Erika Siegel) May 1, 2026 00:56:32 I found her on Instagram, scrolling at night like we all do. She opened her pantry and started pulling out mason jars of black lentils and seeds and I thought: I want my kitchen to look like that. I want to know what’s actually nourishing me. I want to stop guessing.So I had her on the podcast. And the conversation went places I did not expect.Dr. Erika Siegel is a functional medicine physician, a
66. Desire After 40: Why Your Nervous System Shut Down Your Wanting and How to Bring It Back Apr 24, 2026 00:25:59 There was a period in my life where I genuinely believed I had become someone who just didn’t want things anymore. Not food. Not sex. Not adventure. Not even a full night’s sleep without guilt about what I wasn’t doing.I thought it was hormones. I thought it was age. I thought maybe desire was something that belonged to a younger version of me and I had just outgrown it.I was wrong. I wasn’t broke
65. Standing on the Edge: Why Midlife Women Don’t Need a Plan — They Need Permission to Not Know Apr 17, 2026 00:19:23 You’re standing on the edge of something you can’t name yet. Things are shifting. Things are falling away. And the old playbook — the one that told you to always have a plan, always have your next move ready — isn’t working anymore.In this raw solo episode, I’m talking about what it really means to be a midlife woman standing in the not-knowing. Why the uncertainty you’re feeling isn’t a crisis —

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