The Femme Cast | Your Reinvention Begins Now
You're listening to The Femme Cast podcast.
The podcast for women over 40 who are ready for a midlife reinvention and want to come back to themselves after losing the woman they thought they were.
I'm Maria Rei, storyteller, teacher, and advocate. I help women transform the identities they built for survival into the identities they consciously choose.
Like so many women, I spent years building a life around who I thought I was supposed to be. The achiever. The people pleaser. The strong one. The woman who held it all together.
Until life had other plans.
The Femme Cast is where we explore the conversations women are often having quietly in their own minds, that too afraid to say out loud:
Who am I now?
How do I find myself again?
Is it too late to start over?
How do I rebuild my confidence and trust myself again?
We talk about identity, confidence, relationships, career, purpose, money, and what it really means to begin again after life changes everything.
Some episodes are deeply personal. Some are practical. Some explore the expectations, conditioning, and experiences that shape women's lives.
Because reinvention isn't about becoming someone else.
It's about coming home to yourself.
If you're ready to stop living by default and start creating a life that feels like yours, you're in the right place.
Welcome to The Femme Cast.
Your reinvention begins now.
Episodes
199 episodes
What If This Season Isn't Meant to Move You Forward... But to Deepen Your Faith?
Some seasons aren't meant to give you answers. They're meant to change you.If you've been doing everything "right," chasing every opportunity, hustling harder, holding everyone together, and still feel like life isn't moving, this episo...
3 Signs You Have a Self-Worth Wound (Why It's Affecting Your Money, Career & Relationships)
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 s...
The Hidden Gift Behind Job Loss, Friendship Breakups & Unexpected Life Changes
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
I Thought I'd Healed This. Turns Out I Was Just Getting Started.
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 str...
TFC Live | When You Know Deep Down It's Time to Leave (Girl, Unbecoming Chapter 1)
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 Sub...
The Double Shame of Money: Money Shame, Scarcity Mindset, and Why You Feel Wrong With It and Without It
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 do...
You Are Not Your Job, Your Income, or Your Breakup: A Raw Conversation on Self-Worth & Identity Loss
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...
Leading With Impact: Why Vulnerability and Fear Are the Gateway to Your Real Influence
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 pe...
Rebuilding After Everything Falls Apart: Trusting the Breadcrumbs Back to Yourself
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...
The Money Shame Nobody Talks About | My Cycle of Wealth, Loss, and Rebuilding From Scratch
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 ro...
The Dark Side of Personal Development | The Billion-Dollar Industry Keeping Women Feeling “Not Enough”
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...
What If God Is a Woman | The Truth Patriarchy Doesn’t Want You to Hear
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 c...
Side B | Breaking All The Rules And Saying The Quiet Parts Out Loud, A New Era Of The Femme Cast
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...
Not All Men… But Which Ones? | Rape Culture, Misogyny & Women’s Safety
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 d...
Lauren of Love on Why the Coaching Industry Needs a Full Reset | Consent, Truth, and Trauma-Informed Leadership
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
How Breaking Up With Religion Healed My Relationship With Myself And God
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-...
Fear You're Not Enough and Imposter Syndrome | Visibility Glow Up Series Part 5
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 t...
Fear of Speaking Your Truth | Visibility Glow Up Series Part 4
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 vis...
The Fear of Judgement or Rejection | Visibility Glow Up Series Part 3
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.
Fear of Lack & Scarcity | Visibility Glow Up Series Part 2
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 ...
International Women’s Day | Feminism, Visibility & The Fall of the Patriarchy
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 pau...
Fear of Success and Failure | Visibility Glow Up Series Part 1
If you’re a woman terrified that being successful comes with a hefty price, or that trying and failing will humiliate you, this episode of The Femme Cast is for you. Welcome to Part...
Stop Shrinking | The Truth About Visibility No Coach Will Tell You
If you’ve tried every strategy, template, and swipe file, and still hear crickets…it’s not because you’re broken. The real problem isn’t strategy; it’s safety. Your body equates visibility with danger, and until you honor that, no tactic will w...
REAL Confidence with Simone Knego | From Self-Doubt to Unshakable Self-Trust
Confidence doesn’t show up on command. It grows where you plant it. In this unapologetically real conversation on The Femme Cast, I sit down with keynote speaker, author, and podcast host
The Good Girl Lie | Why Being Palatable Is Killing Your Visibility, Impact, and Income
This episode is a no-BS dismantling of the “good girl” routine, and how it quietly keeps powerful, intuitive women stuck, unseen, and underpaid. I’m sharing the lived truth of how people-pleasing flattened my voice, drained the energy from my c...