NDA: No D*cks Allowed
Most NDAs keep people quiet. Ours does the opposite.
On this podcast, NDA stands for No D*cks Allowed — not men, but the behaviors that keep women small. Each episode explores the patterns women experience in work and life, and the moments when they decide they’re done shrinking and ready to rise.
Episodes
26 episodes
When Friendship Turns Toxic
We talk a lot about toxic romantic relationships, but toxic friendships can be harder to recognize, especially when there’s history, loyalty, and genuinely good memories mixed in.In this episode, we’re talking about the friendships that ...
Permission to Want
Women are taught to care about other people. But somewhere along the way, many of us also learned that our own wants and preferences are not enough. We feel pressure to justify why we want something, and just as often, why we don’t.
The Noise in Your Body
TW: This episode includes discussion of eating disorders, disordered eating, body image, weight, dieting, and exercise-related behaviors. Listener discretion is advised. We spend an enormous amount of time thinking a...
Honesty as a Weapon
There’s a difference between being honest and using honesty as cover for cruelty.In this episode, we unpack the kind of “honesty” that shows up as unsolicited criticism, backhanded comments, judgment disguised as concern, and the familia...
Prepared for Everything, Safe from Nothing
We like to think being prepared means being safe.If we anticipate every possibility, make the backup plans for the backup plans, manage the details, read the room, stay useful, and keep everything moving, maybe nothing can catch us off g...
Not Wrong, Just Different
Type A is treated as the standard for what responsible, prepared, and successful should look like. When someone operates differently, their process is frequently mistaken for disorganization, procrastination, or a lack of commitment.In t...
When Feelings Become Facts
Content note: This episode includes a detailed account involving a firearm and a perceived threat of gun violence. Listener discretion is advised.Self-doubt is not always proof that we are unqualified. Sometimes it points to a rea...
The Competence Curse
You're the one everyone depends on. The one who always steps up, solves the problem, picks up the slack, remembers the details, and gets things done.Those qualities make you incredibly valuable. But they can also become the very things t...
Love on an Allowance
Financial abuse is one of the most common forms of abuse, but it's one that can often be tougher to recognize when you're in it.Many women don't realize it's happening because it rarely starts with dramatic financial betrayal (secret cre...
The "No" You Made Up
How many opportunities have we missed because we assumed the answer would be no?Assuming a no before asking for a raise. Before applying for the job. Before speaking up in a meeting. Before asking for help. Before ordering our meal the w...
The Performance of Authenticity
What happens when being yourself starts to feel like another performance?In this episode, we're unpacking the tension between hiding and oversharing, and why neither one is actually authenticity.Some women carefully edit themselve...
Impossible by Design
For decades, women have been told they can have it all.A successful career. A thriving family. A clean house. A full social life. Time for self care. Time for everyone else.And when it all feels impossible, the advice is almost al...
When Awareness Becomes Avoidance
You know your attachment style. Your Enneagram number. Your communication tendencies. Your childhood wounds. Your triggers. Your patterns.So why are you still stuck?In this episode, we're unpacking a modern trap that many women fa...
Chasing Gold Stars
TW: This episode includes discussion of burnout, serious medical events, and brief references to suicidal thoughts. Listener discretion is advised.We’re taught that perfectionism is a sign of ambition. That it means we care. That ...
Body Image: Appreciation Sold Separately
TW: This episode includes discussion of body image, weight, eating disorder recovery, sexual abuse, medical procedures, and women's experiences with body-based judgment and objectification. Listener discretion is advised.Women are...
Inconveniently Complex
We love to talk about generations.Boomers don't like change. Millennials are entitled. Gen Z doesn't want to work.At least that's what we're told.In this episode, we're unpacking why generational stereotypes have become one...
Too Humble to Be Seen
Women are often taught that humility is a virtue. And it is, until it becomes self-erasure.In this episode, we unpack the way many women instinctively minimize their accomplishments, deflect praise, over-credit others, and move past thei...
"I'm Fine": The Lies We Tell to Keep the Peace
We say it constantly. To our partners, our kids, our coworkers, our friends. "I'm fine." But what are we actually saying? We're saying: my feelings are too much. My needs are inconvenient. It's easier if I just disappear a little.In this...
The Making of a Mean Girl
Mean girls don’t appear out of nowhere. They’re created inside systems that teach women there is limited space, limited approval, limited success, and limited safety available to them.In this episode, we unpack the scarcity mindset that ...
The Waitlist for Worth
Content Note: This episode contains a brief mention of suicidal thoughts. Listener discretion is advised. Rachel Artise didn’t wait to feel ready, chosen, or validated.She walked into a location of The UPS Store as a part-tim...
The Good Girl Tax
You may not get billed for it upfront, but you pay for it constantly.In this episode, we’re breaking down The Good Girl Tax: the hidden cost women carry when boundaries are weak, unclear, or nonexistent. It shows up as burnout y...
Running On Empty and Calling It Drive
You're doing all the things you're supposed to do. The things that are supposed to make you feel fulfilled. And yet — something's still missing, and you can't quite put your finger on it. In this episode, Amanda gets real abou...
All Roles. No You.
Most women don’t notice when it starts.You step into a role at work, at home, in relationships.You get good at it. You’re relied upon. You’re rewarded for it. You feel...useful.Over time, it stops being something you do and st...