This episode introduces the next of 12 letters from their collaborative visual arts project “Letters to Our Unborn Children: An Exploration of a Woman’s Decision to Remain Child-Free by Choice.” Hosts Sarah Saturday and Tarri Driver discuss the “Healer” archetype behind the Letter, and share their research and insights around the themes in the letter. They also interview Marcia Drut-Davis, one of the original contemporary childfree by choice advocates. Marcia has used her experience, strength, and wisdom to encourage, mentor, and advocate for women all over the world.

Marcia Drut-Davis is a woman who believes that life is about taking risks. On her website, Childfree Reflections, she writes that “choosing paths for ourselves is often frightening, but without risking, you stay where you are.” She’s the author of the 2013 memoir “Confessions of a Childfree Woman: A Life Spent Swimming Against the Mainstream,” and the book “What?! You Don’t Want Children?” that was published in 2020. She’s famous (or infamous) for her 1974 “60 Minutes” interview about her decision to not have children, after which she received death threats and lost the teaching job she had been in for fifteen years. She’s been interviewed on numerous childfree podcasts, has been the keynote speaker at The NotMom summit, and has been featured on two documentaries (To Kid Or Not To Kid and My So-Called Selfish Life). For over 5 decades, Marcia has helped pave the way for women who are childfree by choice. She is a living legend!

Recorded on Jan 2, 2025

Additional Links:
Marcia Drut-Davis on Instagram: @childfree_guru
Marcia’s Official Website: childfreereflections.com

Find more about the Letters project at letterstoourunbornchildren.com

This episode introduces the next of 12 letters from their collaborative visual arts project “Letters to Our Unborn Children: An Exploration of a Woman’s Decision to Remain Child-Free by Choice.” Hosts Sarah and Tarri discuss the “Jester” archetype behind the Letter, and share their research and insights around the themes in the letter. They also interview Maryjane Fahey, founder of Glorious Broads: Sages Not Saints, an online epicenter of confident, unconventional Broads over 50.

Maryjane Fahey is on her fifth reinvention as founder of Glorious Broads, the epicenter of confident, unconventional Broads over 50. She cut her teeth in print, art directing, rebranding and launching magazines from Fast Company and Women’s Health to The Boston Globe, then rode the internet tsunami as launching editor of AARP’s Disrupt Aging, writer for Bustle, TZR, Huffington Post and co-author of a book called Dumped. Glorious Broads is now her focus and love child – “I want to inspire women to say ‘I WANNA BE THAT BROAD’ and see fear mongering about age become a thing of the past in my lifetime. Let roaring into age prevail.”

Recorded on Jan 9, 2025

Additional Links:
Glorious Broads Website: gloriousbroads.com
Glorious Broads on Instagram: @gloriousbroads

Find more about the Letters project at letterstoourunbornchildren.com

This episode introduces the next of 12 letters from their collaborative visual arts project “Letters to Our Unborn Children: An Exploration of a Woman’s Decision to Remain Child-Free by Choice.” They discuss the “Protector” archetype behind the Letter, and share their research and insights around the themes in the letter. They also interview Emma Duval, creator of the online “Childfree History Museum.”

Emma Duval is a writer who’s passionate about history, especially women’s history. She created the Online Childfree History Museum as a way to share her research on the history of women without children. She’s working on a non-fiction book about childless and childfree women, and she has a book coming out in Fall of 2025 called “Unwed and Unbothered.”

Recorded on Nov 19, 2024

Additional Links:
Emma’s Website: www.childfreehistory.com
Emma on Instagram: @millennialemma
Childfree History Museum: https://childfreehistory.com/

Find more about the Letters project at letterstoourunbornchildren.com