Unmuted: Speak the Truth you were Trained to Hide
Unmuted: Speak the Truth you were Trained to Hide
Podcast Description
A podcast for soul-led creators, poets, and truth-tellers reclaiming voice and visibility. Host Gillian Wray — poet and voice guide known as The Sovereign Poet — invites artists, coaches, and rebels to share what it means to unmute in a world that taught them to stay quiet.
Raw, reflective, and radically honest, these weekly 40-minute conversations light a fire under silence — and make space for the truth beneath the story.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes of reclaiming voice, personal transformation, and the power of spoken word. Notable episode topics include reclaiming self-expression in the face of societal expectations, as discussed in episodes featuring guests like Dianne Casey, who shares insights on the courage it takes to speak before feeling ready, and exploring the struggles of women who feel the need to suppress their emotions while also unpacking societal labels in solo episodes.
A podcast for soul-led creators, poets, and truth-tellers reclaiming voice and visibility. Host Gillian Wray — poet and voice guide known as The Sovereign Poet — invites artists, coaches, and rebels to share what it means to unmute in a world that taught them to stay quiet.
Raw, reflective, and radically honest, these weekly 40-minute conversations light a fire under silence — and make space for the truth beneath the story.
Body Sovereignty: Why Women’s Bodies Are Political, Personal, and Powerful
In this episode of Unmuted, I’m joined by Kat Shaw, an activist artist whose work makes one thing very clear: women’s bodies are not decorative, neutral, or up for debate.
Kat shares how her own struggles with body image led her to paint thousands of women as they actually are. Not idealised. Not apologetic. Not edited for comfort. Her art sits at the intersection of play, provocation, and protest, challenging the way women are taught to shrink, soften, and behave.
We talk about body sovereignty, the politics of the female body, and why reclaiming your body is never just a personal journey. It’s cultural. It’s confrontational. It’s necessary.
This conversation explores art as activism, the impact of patriarchy on how women inhabit their bodies, and what happens when women stop trying to be palatable. Kat also shares the stories behind her most provocative projects, including the Pussy Power Oracle deck and live events like Unapologetic and Uprising, where women are invited to take up space without apology.
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