The Femme Cast | Your Unbecoming Begins Here

The Femme Cast | Your Unbecoming Begins Here

You're listening to The Femme Cast. The podcast where the quiet parts finally get said out loud. Where we undo, unbecome, and unlearn everything the world told us we should be. I'm Maria Rei. Leader, Speaker, & Advocate. I'm an advocate for women's worth, wealth, voice, and empowerment, and a catalyst committed to breaking the cultural patterns that silence and diminish women, and keep them from their potential. I bring visibility to the lived experiences women are taught to ignore, minimize, or survive quietly, so women can step up, step out, and move through the world with greater confidence, agency and awareness. This is the space where we get honest about what is actually shaping women's lives, including what it looks like when women lead, speak up, and show up fully in their communities and careers, and what gets in the way of them doing it. Sometimes that looks like unpacking gender conditioning and the systems of modern womanhood. Sometimes it looks like two people saying the thing nobody at the table was willing to say first. We cover power, identity, relationships, work, religion, politics, bodies, and culture, and we do not tiptoe around any of it. Because the patterns are real. The conditioning is real. And most of us were never given the language to name it. That's what this show is for. Some episodes are reflective. Some are sharp. Some are deeply personal. Some will crack open something you have been carrying your whole life. Some are the lessons I learned the hard way, mistakes I made, and what I wish someone had told me sooner. And some are just the conversation you wish you could have had at the table. The one where nobody is performing, nobody is softening the truth, and someone finally just says it. This is not another self-help show. This is for women ready to dismantle everything standing between them and their full potential, step into their power, and unbecome everything that was never theirs to begin with.

Episodes

July 9, 2026 35 mins

How do you know if you're struggling with a self-worth wound... and what do you actually do about it?

In this deeply personal episode of The Femme Cast, I share the three biggest signs you have a self-worth issue that's quietly influencing every area of your life, from your finances and career to your relationships, confidence, body image, and ability to receive abundance.

The conversation begins with a powerful dream...

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What if losing the job, friendship, relationship, or opportunity you desperately wanted to keep wasn't a failure at all?

What if it was life doing for you what you couldn't do for yourself?

In this deeply personal episode of The Femme Cast, I'm unpacking the uncomfortable truth about why the rug sometimes gets pulled out from under us and why those painful "ejection" moments are often the catalyst for our biggest grow...

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I thought I had healed my worthiness wound. Turns out, I had only met the first layers.

In this raw and deeply personal episode of The Femme Cast, I'm pulling back the curtain on the self-worth struggle I never expected to face again, this time through money, career uncertainty, financial stress, and survival fears.

When relationships fell apart, I healed the betrayal. When visibility triggered me, I learned to be seen. But w...

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What happens when you finally stop trying to make something work that deep down you know isn't meant for you?

In this raw, unfiltered episode of The Femme Cast that was recorded LIVE on my Substack page, we hit record with zero preparation and dive into the powerful theme behind chapter one of my memoir: Girl Unbecoming

After divorce, dating in downtown Toronto, and years of moulding myself to other people's expectati...

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Money can feel like a paradox. Not enough of it can feel like proof you are unworthy. Having it can feel like something you need to hide. In this deeply personal episode of The Femme Cast, I unpack the double bind of financial shame and how it quietly shapes self-worth, ambition, and identity.

I trace the early money beliefs that shaped my inner world for years: that money is hard for me to make, easy for others, and that &l...

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If you've ever lost a job, watched your savings disappear, gone through a painful breakup, faced debt, or felt like life pulled the rug out from under you, this episode is for you.

In this deeply personal conversation, I'm sharing one of the most profound lessons from my own rebuilding journey: how to find self-love, radical acceptance, and self-worth when everything around you seems to be trying to convince you otherwise.&n...

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The fastest way to shrink your life is to hide the very thing that could set someone else free.

This episode of The Femme Cast goes deep into vulnerability as a practical skill for impact, not a personality trait. We explore why the parts of yourself you most want to hide are often the exact places your purpose is trying to break through. If you have ever frozen before posting, held back in conversation, or felt your body sp...

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If you're in the middle of rebuilding your life, not because you chose to but because life chose it for you, and you're wondering whether you're doing it "right," this episode is for you.

I've rebuilt my life more than once. But there's a profound difference between choosing to blow your life up on purpose and having life pull the plug for you. One feels exciting and empowering. The other can leave you questioning everythin...

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In this deeply vulnerable episode of The Femme Cast, I share what I have kept private for years. My financial life has not been a straight line of growth, but a repeated swing between abundance and rock bottom. Times of earning and expansion followed by sudden collapse, maxed out credit, living on overdraft, and the quiet fear of not being able to pay rent or even buy gas without panic.

This is not just about money. It is about sham...

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I’ve been quietly breaking up with the personal development machine, and this time, I think it’s for good.

In this deeply personal episode of The Femme Cast, I unpack the darker side of the self-help and spiritual industry: the high-vibe performance culture, emotional bypassing, and the billion-dollar cycle that keeps people chasing the next “healed” version of themselves while quietly reinforcing the belief ...

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What if the reason women have been controlled throughout history is because their power has always been patriarchy’s greatest threat.

In this episode of The Femme Cast, we ask a question that challenges spirituality, culture, and power at the root: what if God is a woman. Not as shock value, but as a radical reframing of creation, intuition, and what it means to be human. If God is the creator of life, and women litera...

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Side B of The Femme Cast is where the polished world of personal development ends and the raw, unfiltered truth begins.

This episode marks a turning point. After a season of loss and grief, and a growing resistance to the pressure to reframe everything into positivity, I am stepping away from the rules of personal development culture and the marketing boxes we are told to fit into.

We explore why women are exhausted b...

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Sixty-two million visits to an “online rape academy”… and the loudest response online is debating the numbers.

This episode of The Femme Cast goes where most conversations won’t. It names the deeper truth: when violence against women gets reduced to stats, we expose how normalized misogyny, exploitation, and assault have become, both online and in real life.

I share the emotional weight this s...

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The coaching industry doesn’t need more scripts. It needs truth.

In this powerful conversation on The Femme Cast, I sit down with transformational mentor Lauren Eliz Love from Lauren of Love to unpack what’s really broken in online coaching, and what it takes to rebuild a business rooted in consent-based selling, emotional safety, and unapologetic authenticity.

We go straight into it: toxic sales tact...

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What if the very thing you were taught would bring you closer to God… actually kept you disconnected from yourself?

This episode of The Femme Cast is raw, unfiltered, and completely off-script. We’re talking about the quiet rebellion so many women feel—but are afraid to admit: outgrowing organized religion, questioning what you were taught, and reclaiming your relationship with the divine on your own terms...

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If “Who am I to do this?” has been quietly running your life… this is where we burn that story down.

We’re closing out Visibility Glow Up Month with the most insidious visibility block I see in high-capacity, soul-led women: the belief that you’re not enough. Not ready enough. Not qualified enough. Not polished enough.

And here’s the truth no one wants to say out loud: that story i...

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Your content can be honest and still feel wrong coming out of your mouth. That tension? That’s where transformation begins. In this episode of The Femme Cast, we dig into one of the deepest visibility blocks holding ambitious, soul-led women back: the fear of speaking your unfiltered truth. The version that might spark pushback, ruffle feathers, or even get you canceled.

We unpack how this fear quietly shows up: biting...

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The fastest way to lose your voice? Asking, “What will everyone think?”

And if you've been asking yourself that question, then this episode of The Femme Cast, is your wake-up call.

If you’ve been showing up online, in your career, or in your life feeling like you’re performing instead of expressing, overthinking every word, reading into every reaction, shaping yourself to be accepted…Thi...

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Do you filter what you say, create, or share through the lens of “what will keep me safe, financially secure”? Do you find yourself over-performing, shrinking your voice, or chasing recognition instead of your soul-aligned purpose? If so, this episode of The Femme Cast is your unapologetic wake-up call.

In Part 2 of my Visibility Glow Up Series, we unpack the fear of lack and how scarcity quietly hijacks your voi...

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International Women’s Day was never meant to be polite.

It was born from protest. From disruption. From women refusing to stay silent inside systems that depend on their invisibility.

In this raw, unfiltered episode, I pressed pause on our planned programming to talk about what’s really happening beneath the surface. The backlash, the discomfort, and the truth that equality is still fragile. And why your v...

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