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

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 pleasure might be the most radical political act of your life. Buckle up.

What you'll hear in this episode:
🔥 Why your age is your greatest asset, not just a number, and why Cindy shouts hers from the rooftops every chance she gets
🔥 The real origin story of Make Love Not Porn: what Cindy noticed when she started dating younger men 24 years ago that sparked a global conversation about sex
🔥 What shifts for women when they stop performing sex and start discovering what they actually want in their bodies
🔥 How Make Love Not Porn gives men something they cannot find anywhere else on the internet: a safe space to be emotionally open about sex, and why that matters for you
🔥 Why sexual agency unlocks creativity, confidence, and your full human power, including the neuroscience behind why this is true
🔥 The real reason investors won't fund Make Love Not Porn, and why Cindy says it is genuinely criminal

About Cindy Gallop:
Cindy Gallop is an Oxford-educated advertising executive who ran one of the most powerful agencies in the world before walking away to do something far more interesting. She is the founder and CEO of Make Love Not Porn, the world's first human-curated social sex video sharing platform, launched in a 2009 TED talk with over 2.8 million views. The first speaker in TED history to say "come on my face" on stage. She got a standing ovation. At 66, she is a force of nature on a mission to end rape culture globally through the power of real, consensual, joyful sex.

Links mentioned in this episode:
✨ Make Love Not Porn → https://makelovenotporn.tv/
✨ Make Love Not Porn Academy (sex education extension, launching soon) →  https://makelovenotporn.academy/
✨ Invest in or fund Make Love Not Porn: → [cindy@makelovenotporn.com]
✨ Follow Cindy on Instagram and Twitter/X → @CindyGallop
✨ Make Love Not Porn on Instagram → @MLNP_videos
✨ Dear Cindy on Substack → https://dearcindy.substack.com/

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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 nationwide. It starts at 6pm, ends at 10pm, plays four hours of straight-up bangers from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s, and has been covered by the New York Times, NPR, The Guardian, ABC Nightline, and AARP Magazine. The idea was born at a 30th high school reunion — co-founded by a woman fighting stage four cancer who absolutely refused to slow down.

WHAT YOU WILL HEAR IN THIS EPISODE
🔥 The full origin story of Early Birds Club — born at a 30th high school reunion, built by two women who refused to wait for the right time
🔥 The story of Susie: co-founder, force of nature, and the reason thousands of women per night are dancing their way back to themselves
🔥 Why a four-hour dance party does what years of wellness culture, therapy, and self-help couldn't touch
🔥 What it means to leave all your fucks at the door and meet the rawest, most alive version of yourself again
🔥 How 700 women in a room together create a kind of magic that makes you believe you could move mountains
🔥 The honest confession about seeing other women as competition — and what midlife taught her instead

GUEST BIO
Laura Baginski is the co-founder of Early Birds Club, the women's dance party movement that went from a dive bar back room in Chicago to 45 cities across the country in under two years. Before Early Birds Club, Laura spent twelve years as a magazine editor, then pivoted into nonprofit marketing before COVID cracked her open and she gave herself permission to just figure out who she was and what she actually wanted. The answer turned out to be: more music, more joy, more women dancing together until 10pm. She lives in Chicago and is still coming home sweaty.

LINKS MENTIONED
✨ Early Birds Club: [https://early-birds.club/]
✨ Follow Early Birds Club on Instagram: [@earlybirds_club]

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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 neuroscience problem. And there's a fix.What You'll Hear:
🔥 Why awareness is not activation — and what the difference means for how change actually happens
🔥 The neuroscience of limbic resonance and why your brain cannot fully transform in isolation
🔥What 'pleasure is your GPS' actually means — and how your body knows before your brain catches up
🔥 The real reason brilliant women stay in the same patterns for years despite doing everything right
🔥 Why 'alchemy happens in a coven' — and what that means for the environment you need to actually change

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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 talk about the Inanna myth and the heroine’s descent into the underworld, what “untaming” really means beyond the idea of wild rebellion, the concept of penetrative energy in women and why reclaiming it matters, and what actually becomes available erotically in your 40s and 50s that was simply not there before.

Carly has spent two decades sitting with women in their descents and witnessing their risings. When a woman reclaims her erotic aliveness, her voice changes. Her relationship with her own body changes. Her female friendships deepen. Her creativity returns.

What you’ll hear in this episode:
🔥 What a tamed woman actually looks like in the everyday details of her life🔥 The Inanna myth and how it maps the heroine’s journey through descent and rising🔥 What “untaming” really means, beyond wild rebellion
🔥 Why penetrative energy belongs to all of us and what it feels like to reclaim it🔥 The erotic upsurge women are reporting in their 40s and 50s, and why midlife might be the first time you truly meet your erotic self🔥 Why you cannot untame at the pace you are currently moving

About Carly Mountain:
Carly Mountain is a somatic therapist and author whose work goes straight to what women have been trained to forget: that the erotic is sacred, that rebellion is natural, and that untaming is not a one-time act but a way of life. Over twenty years in private practice, she has sat with women in the depths of their descents and witnessed the extraordinary things that become possible on the other side. Her first book, Descent and Rise, mapped the heroine’s journey through the ancient Inanna myth. Her new book, Untamed Pleasure: Unleash Your True Erotic Nature (launching June 2026), goes deeper into penetrative energy, erotic aliveness, and the specific gifts midlife brings to a woman’s sexuality. This summer she is running the Untamed Pleasure Sanctuary, a course starting July 7th with four guest teachers including Sherry Winston.

Links mentioned:
•  Pre-order Untamed Pleasure: Unleash Your True Erotic Nature → [Grab A Copy]
•  The Untamed Pleasure Sanctuary Course → [Visit Carly’s Website]
•  Find Carly on Instagram → [@carly_mountain]

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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 really means to reclaim your body when the medical system has kept you in the dark.
 
What You'll Hear in This Episode
🔥 Why ovulation changes everything — not just for fertility, but for your cognition, mood, sexuality, and sense of self
🔥 What perimenopause actually looks like (brain fog and anxiety in your late 30s can be early signs — years before anything irregular)
🔥 The real reason libido drops in midlife — and why it's almost never "just hormones"
🔥 Why your cycle tracking app is only 21% accurate and what to use instead
🔥 The question Laura asks every client whose libido has gone quiet — and how the answer changes everything
 
Guest Bios
Morgan Miller is a certified nurse-midwife with a deep clinical specialty in hormones, cycle health, and women's bodies across every phase of life — not just fertility. She is the co-author of The Cycle Book, a practical guide to understanding your hormonal landscape that includes a year's worth of tracking charts designed for real women who want real answers.
 
Laura Federico, LCSW, is a sex therapist whose practice centres on desire, libido, relationships, and the ways hormonal shifts — including PMDD and perimenopause — intersect with a woman's sense of self. She is the co-author of The Cycle Book and has spent years bridging the gap between the clinical world and women who are trying to understand what's happening inside their own bodies.
 
Links Mentioned
 ✨ The Cycle Book by Morgan Miller and Laura Federico — [Grab Your Copy]
 ✨ Follow Morgan and Laura on Instagram — [@itslauraandmorgan]

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