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
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 leave you second-guessing yourself, editing your joy, explaining away behavior that doesn’t sit right, and feeling guilty for setting boundaries. We dig into the re...
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.
Saying yes feels easier when we can explain how it benefits someone else. Saying no feels more acceptable when we can prove how we've earned it, how we're needed somewhere els...
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 about our bodies: how they look, what we eat, whether we have exercised enough, what other people might be noticing, and what we should be doing differently.
In this episode, we’re joined by eat...
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 familiar excuse: I’m just being honest.
We talk about why this behavior shows up so often between women, how insecurity, competition, resentment, and personal history...
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 guard.
But control is often less about the outcome and more about the feelings we are trying to avoid.
In this episode, we unpack the different ways control shows up, from over-preparin...
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 this episode, Elizabeth talks honestly about what it feels like to be a Type B person in a world that does not always understand or appreciate her way of working. We explore time opti...
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 real opportunity to learn, prepare, or grow. Other times, it's old criticism, conditioning, and fear that we view through a self-created filter as objective truth.
In this episode, we challenge...
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 that keep you stuck.
In this episode, we unpack what Amanda calls the competence curse: the pattern where women become known for their reliability and execution, only to find themselve...
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 credit cards, draining a bank account). Instead, it often looks like one person taking over the finances, discouraging questions, controlling access to money, requiring purchases to be ...
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 way we actually wanted it.
In this episode, we're talking about one of the most common ways women hold themselves back: negotiating against themselves before anyone else has the chance...
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 themselves, keeping their opinions, needs, and emotions tucked safely away.
Others share everything, hoping that vulnerability will create connection. But both behaviors often come from the sam...
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 always the same: get organized, manage your time better, set better boundaries, become more resilient.
But what if the problem isn't your planner?
In this episode, we sit down with Amanda Dunca...
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 fall into: confusing self-awareness with actual change.
Somewhere along the way, reflection became a substitute for action. We learned to analyze ourselves, understand ourselves, and explain o...
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 it’s what separates high performers from everyone else.
But what if perfectionism isn’t really about excellence at all?
In this episode, we unpack the hidden fear beneath pe...
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 taught early that our bodies are projects.
Something to improve.
Something to shrink.
Something to manage.
Something to earn approval through.
In this deeply personal episode, we un...
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 of the most socially accepted forms of bias and what gets lost when we reduce complex human beings (especially women) to labels.
The moment we start using those labels to explain someone's entire ...
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 their wins without ever fully allowing themselves to feel proud of what they achieved.
We explore how women are socially conditioned to prioritize humility, likability, and belonging, whi...
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 episode, we get into one of the quietest and most costly shrinking behaviors women do, swallowing their real emotions to preserve relationships, keep the peace, and avoid being labe...
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 quietly turns women against each other and explore why competition between women is often less about cruelty and more about survival, conditioning, fear, and learned self...
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-time employee. Then she became the manager. Then the owner.
In this first-ever NDA guest episode, Rachel gets honest about what it actually took to stop waiting for someone else to recogn...
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