EPISODE 011 | Gabrielle St. George: No F*cks Left To Give

What does it look like to age out loud, to speak truth without apology, and to refuse invisibility as a woman in midlife? In this electric episode of Crone Rising, author and screenwriter Gabrielle St. George brings fire, ferocity, and deep moral clarity to the mic. With her signature wit and fierce honesty, Gabrielle shares why she has no f*cks left to give — and why that might just be the most powerful place a woman can stand.

From her 50th birthday awakening to her refusal to stay silent on political and human rights issues, Gabrielle challenges the cultural scripts written for women over 50 and invites us to burn the old rulebook. She speaks boldly about platform loss, social media cowardice, the weaponization of anti-aging culture, and the illusion of “neutrality” in times of moral crisis.

This is a conversation about staying relevant by staying awake — through lifelong learning, critical thinking, and courageous community-building. It’s about knowing who you are, what you stand for, and how you show up when it matters most. Whether you’re gray-haired or Botoxed, married or wildly single, outspoken or just finding your voice — Gabrielle’s call to take up space will resonate.

No filter. No appeasement. All power. Tune in.

Key Topics Covered

• Relevance and visibility after 50
• Political activism and moral courage
• Social media backlash and resilience
• Consumerism, capitalism, and climate impact
• Scandinavian models of community support
• Critical thinking and education
• Moral opinions vs. political opinions
• Aging, autonomy, and personal choice

After you listen to the podcast, answer this: What’s one truth you’ve kept quiet about—out of fear of offending, losing someone, or rocking the boat?
Now ask yourself: if you had no f*cks left to give, what would you say out loud? What would you stand up for? What would you no longer tolerate?

This week, Gabrielle St. George reminds us that our silence can cost more than our comfort. So here’s your invitation to get honest — with yourself and with the world.

Come tell me: What would you say if you weren’t afraid to be judged? Head over to Instagram and share your truth in the comments or DMs @crone.rising.official.

Crone Rising is for every woman who’s done being quiet and done being small. We’re not here to fade. We’re here to rise — unapologetic, unmuted, and unmissable.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:15

Thank you for coming on. Uh, welcome to Crone Rising.

SPEAKER_01 0:18

And nice to be here. Happy to be here.

SPEAKER_00 0:21

So uh the question I ask all of my guests is how do you maintain your relevance in a world that wants you to be invisible?

SPEAKER_01 0:29

I mean, I personally do not feel invisible. I don't feel invisible as I've aged. Um I don't I don't feel like I'm trying to figure out ever how to maintain my relevance. I do I feel very relevant. I know that in general, obviously, um women are being made more and more invisible globally all the time. Uh, not everywhere. I mean, look at a place like Iceland, women are leading in virtually every area, every arena. Um, but you know, obviously in the the US, it's getting worse and worse all the time. Um so there's a lot of work to be done. There's a lot of support needed, but for me personally, uh it's a non-issue for me. But I'm there for everyone else who is feeling that for sure. I just love that saying it's so true for me. I just have no fucks left to give. Sorry, bags empty, not gonna offer up in that way. So you have very little to lose, and it's so empowering. It's really, really empowering. I remember on the day when I woke up when I turned 50, and I'd been wondering, coming out of my 40s, I'm wondering, what is 50 gonna feel like? 50 was a long time ago now, but I have such a like like photographic images of that morning when I woke up. And I put my eyes, and actually that black cat who was a lot younger, walked past me, and I looked out my window and the sky was really blue, and I just thought, oh wow, I'm so surprised. Everything is even more beautiful. The cat was shinier and the sky was bluer, and um, I was really, really happy about that. And you know, you think about thank god I didn't know what was to come. The 50s are actually turned out to be hard personally, but um also, you know, super empowering. I mean, I think it's all about stepping into our power, you know, taking up space. I mean, I feel like the first half of my life, especially for our generation, you know, but our moms, when they were kids, they were worried about getting enough food, right? And, you know, there's a depression and things like that. For us, the first half of the our lives were diet culture forced upon us, forced upon us. And now the second half of our lives is this anti-aging culture forced upon us. And I truly believe it's just to to um keep us off balance, to make keep us from taping it, taking up space, to keep us distracted and so focused on that that we really just can't to our power and be who we're who we're meant to be, and really, you know, uplift others. Also, you know, cut others off at the knees, the ones who are just not not on the right side of history, not doing it right. I'm very political, it's super important to me. Um, you know, I don't have a huge platform, but the platform I have I use. And um I've for sure lost a thousand followers or more um since the uh you know the ethnic cleansing and genocide started on Palestine, and I will not shut up about it. And and what a small price to pay a thousand followers, you know, to do the right thing, to say the right thing. I don't I don't argue with people online anymore. I'll tell them what I think in exit. You you converting is not, you know, if that's not where it's at, but it's empowering and supporting people who are like aligned with you, but don't have the courage to step up. And even there's a young woman, about 32, she's in LA, and um she hasn't spoken out. She has not spoken out, but now this week she has with the ruts. And and it's she's come to me for comfort and advice over the last two years. And finally, she feels empowered enough to to speak up, to post, you know, and it's so important because she'll talk to her friends and family, and then they could feel brave enough or empowered enough to do it. And there's a lot of influence, you know, they're afraid to, you know, lose one brand collab or whatever. So they just keep posting about their, you know, get ready with me and all this. And it's just to me, it's just so cringe worthy. I I can barely handle it, but uh just important to be there for people to help them step into the power, you know, their power to set the example, to speak out, mostly to take care of each other, to keep each other safe. Whatever you're doing now, that's what you would have done then. If you're speaking out, if you're taking risks, whether you're protesting or you're losing followers, you know, you're doing these things, that's how you know. You're on the right side of history.

SPEAKER_00 5:28

Yes. Well, it was, I can't remember. I just saw it a couple weeks ago. Oh, I wish I could remember. But it was so good. It was an interview. And um the question was, would you hide me? You know, and that's that's how this particular person is able to support or not support that person. Like if somebody came for me, would you hide me? And that's their their kind of you know litmus test? Yeah, sure, I guess. Friends.

SPEAKER_01 6:10

I think I stay my definition of relevant for me by uh continuing to learn, continuing to grow, uh, to admit a mistake, to to be flexible in my point of view, you know, to to learn. It's like the people, the anti-science crowd who are like, well, you know, 10 years ago you said this, now you said that. Yeah, that's the nature of science. You keep researching, you learn more stuff, you change things change, they evolve. And it's the same thing for us in our brains and our mental state. So I think that's how you stay relevant. You keep yourself in the know and you keep learning and growing and willing to change.

SPEAKER_00 6:56

There are two things that drive me personally crazy: a rigid mindset where you're I I've learned everything. Or the oh, yeah, I just don't watch the news. Yeah, that's so dangerous. What how how would he how how do you get through life not knowing what's happening?

SPEAKER_01 7:15

It's it's just so freaking creepy for someone to be so self-involved that they stick their head in the sand and and ignore, again, at the very least, don't buy from those companies that are supporting war and genocide or the you know the retracting of women's rights in America. Don't go to Home Depot, don't go to Hobby Lobby, don't you know, don't go to Walmart. Like, do it differently. So it was like when we were, you know, the big surge of buy Canadian, which I'm all for.

SPEAKER_00 7:46

Um, and people didn't have a problem doing that. Oh, I know. Well, I've been boycotting um Nestle since grade eight. Right, the water. Sure, of course. Because, you know, they killed babies. Yeah, like what? So I've just never, and they're a terrible company. And I was in the food industry for my entire career, so I'm fully aware of just how terrible they are. So I have no information. Yes, exactly. And I can't like in the US, I can't vote. So I cannot buy. You know, I can that's my only vote. My vote is my dollar.

SPEAKER_01 8:26

For me, one of the big frustrating things online is that how few people, and getting back to the the mega voters, um are incapable, have not learned how to think critically, which we're not born with that skill. You you learn it, you usually through higher education, you know, wish you would teach it in lower education because not everyone's gonna go to college university, but they don't have critical thinking skills. So they can't, they're not capable of discernment, and that's how you get radicalized online.

SPEAKER_00 8:56

And I think very easy to do. I think that that's why like the Baltic states, like Finland and you know, they have such high scores and they teach things in school that we don't teach in school. Like, I mean, I think it's Finland, maybe it's Denmark, but they teach empathy as a course to kids, to little people. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:16

Why don't we have that? I know. I'm so crazy in love with Scandinavia. I guess Finland does seem, I haven't been to Finland, but Finland does seem like the ultimate place to live in the world. But I've been to Iceland a few times, and um, you know, even when you walk, there there's no homelessness, like they've they've fixed all these issues, right? There's no homelessness. People pay taxes, but they're happy to. Everyone's fed, everyone makes like it's a living wage world there. Everyone makes enough money regardless of the work they do. And in, I don't know if you've been there, but I was amazed because in Iceland, they I was up there at uh both times winter actually, but there's babies sleeping in carriages without any adults around everywhere, in front of houses on little lawns and right next to the sidewalk. And there's oh no, the cat's mealing. There's there's babies everywhere, and they're having like a three-hour nap, and they don't have to worry about anything happening to them. Every the community is so uh supportive and supported, and it's all about community and for us now too, and I tell you, I'm probably the biggest internet I know uh introvert I know. Um and I have to I have to work at um being in the world in that way, but I certainly am, and I'm certainly you know committed to doing that because the crap that's going on now, even last night with Iran and everything, um, there's it's never been more important community, you know. Or maybe it is, yeah, do you really need it? I mean, that's what it is. There's a difference between um it's it's the weighty thing is our consumerism, yeah. You know, even capitalism aside, which we can't really put it aside, but if we just don't even take that into account, just saving the planet, climate change, you know. So we have to stop buying shit we don't need, is what it, you know, what it comes down to. Stop buying shit we don't need, just stop and fast fashion, you know, just like don't don't buy the beautiful French cashmere sweater that you'll keep for 30 years for the same money of you know 20 throwaway tops from uh Zara, you know, have zero uh zero interest or attachment to judging women as far as their personal choices. If they want to let their hair go gray, if they just want to age naturally, if they want to do botox and plastic surgeries, like you go, girl, more power to you. You want to divorce, you want to stay single, you want to be, you know, have 20 lovers, whatever it is, it's like go do your thing. I am here for you. But now, aside from that, now I judge everyone all the time. I judge so harshly. I am just here to judge, that's it. Because I'm like, if it's like whole like everyone's titled to their opinion, no, they are fucking not. Not if their opinion impinges or obliterates the rights of other people. So if your opinion means that um you're not in favor of people of the LGBTQ community, of people being, you know, being allowed to love who they love, or of women being able to uh miscarriage without being charged with murder or have an abortion, you know, all of these things. If if that's your opinion, I cannot be your friend. I have no bandwidth for you, I don't want to have a conversation with you. Um, and I will move on to to everything else, but not that. So so now I'm just like uh full confession, judging everyone all the time.

SPEAKER_00 13:22

That's not I uh yeah, my philosophy is very, very similar. Like what you choose to do with your person is you know, go for it. It it has no impact on me whatsoever. But the second it has impact, I'm with you. It's like yeah, no, that's you know, and and I love it when people say, Well, it's just a political opinion. And you're like, no, that's actually a moral opinion. I really, really appreciated, you know, um a real like a more political take. I've done a couple dozen of these, and it's kind of like and some of them surprise me. I this didn't necessarily surprise me, it was just how candid you are about how you feel.

SPEAKER_01 14:15

And I love as I said early in the beginning, I have no fucks left to give. That's that that's the motto here for this conversation.

SPEAKER_00 14:25

And I think that that's what the title's gonna be. So it might be my only it might be my only explicit warning on um on Buzzthroat.

SPEAKER_01 14:35

A little asterisk for the vowels, yeah.