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The Femme Cast | Your Unbecoming Begins Here

The Femme Cast | Your Unbecoming Begins Here

By: Maria Rei
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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.

© 2026 The Femme Cast | Your Unbecoming Begins Here
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Episodes
  • 3 Signs You Have a Self-Worth Wound (Why It's Affecting Your Money, Career & Relationships)
    Jul 9 2026

    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 that stopped me in my tracks: a shipwreck, a current of money rushing toward the surface, and the overwhelming feeling of not being able to breathe. What I discovered wasn't a lesson about manifesting more. It was a profound reminder that healing self-worth begins long before our external circumstances change.

    Together, we'll explore how childhood comparison, financial shame, scarcity, and external validation can disconnect us from our innate worth, leaving us believing that our value depends on our income, job title, success, appearance, or relationships.

    In this episode you'll discover:

    🎤 The 3 signs you're dealing with a self-worth wound
    🎤 Why self-worth issues show up in multiple areas of your life
    🎤 How financial trauma and scarcity shape your money mindset
    🎤 Why receiving love, money, opportunities, or success can feel uncomfortable
    🎤 The grounding practice I use to calm anxiety when fear and panic take over
    🎤 A simple daily exercise to rebuild self-worth from the inside out

    If you've been feeling stuck, constantly comparing yourself to others, struggling with money, career rejection, or wondering why nothing ever feels like enough, this episode will help you understand what's really happening beneath the surface.

    Because your worth was never meant to be measured by your paycheck, your accomplishments, your body, or anyone else's approval.

    Your soul worth will always be greater than your net worth.

    Done abandoning yourself for everyone else?
    It's time to come home. Download The Unbecoming Ritual free. Your unbecoming begins here: https://thefemmecast.kit.com/ritual

    Want to go deeper?
    Come find me on Substack at The Femme Cast Diaries. I'm sharing my own unbecoming in real time -- the mess, the magic, and the chapters of my memoir Girl, Unbecoming. For the woman who is ready to stop pretending and start coming home to herself. Come unbecome with me: https://thefemmecast.substack.com/

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    36 mins
  • The Hidden Gift Behind Job Loss, Friendship Breakups & Unexpected Life Changes
    Jul 6 2026

    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 growth, alignment, and transformation.

    We explore why we cling to people, places, and situations long after they've stopped serving us, how self-worth becomes tangled up in jobs, friendships, titles, and external validation, and the subtle signs life sends before it forces us to let go.

    From friendships that turn catty and unsupportive, to workplaces that slowly pull you away from your strengths, to the burnout, anxiety, and exhaustion that come from abandoning yourself just to keep something alive, we're diving into what happens when life starts asking you to move and you refuse.

    In this episode, you'll learn:

    🎤 Why life sometimes ejects us from situations we're desperately trying to hold onto
    🎤 The hidden cost of self-abandonment and resisting change
    🎤 How externally sourced self-worth keeps us stuck
    🎤 Common signs it's time to release a friendship, job, or chapter of your life
    🎤 Why burnout, stress, and exhaustion are often important messengers
    🎤 How to heal the wounds these losses trigger
    🎤 The process of rebuilding your confidence and identity after a major setback
    🎤 Why the next opportunity often requires you to become yourself again first
    🎤 How to trust that something more aligned may be waiting on the other side

    If you're navigating job loss, friendship breakups, burnout, a life transition, or simply feeling like everything is falling apart, this conversation will remind you that sometimes what feels like rejection is actually redirection.

    The chapter ending may not be punishment.

    It may be preparation.

    Done abandoning yourself for everyone else?
    It's time to come home. Download The Unbecoming Ritual free. Your unbecoming begins here: https://thefemmecast.kit.com/ritual

    Want to go deeper?
    Come find me on Substack at The Femme Cast Diaries. I'm sharing my own unbecoming in real time -- the mess, the magic, and the chapters of my memoir Girl, Unbecoming. For the woman who is ready to stop pretending and start coming home to herself. Come unbecome with me: https://thefemmecast.substack.com/

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    30 mins
  • I Thought I'd Healed This. Turns Out I Was Just Getting Started.
    Jul 2 2026

    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 when my income, career, and ability to provide for myself became uncertain, I discovered a much deeper wound hiding underneath it all: the belief that my worth is tied to what I earn, achieve, or can prove.

    I'm sharing what happened when I finally outed my money shame, stopped hiding my financial reality, and chose to believe that being broke, unemployed, or struggling does not make me unworthy of love, success, abundance, or belonging.

    Inside this episode, we explore:

    🎤 The hidden self-worth wound that impacts relationships, visibility, business, career, and money
    🎤 Why financial stress activates survival mode differently than other healing journeys
    🎤 The connection between money shame, self-abandonment, and seeking external validation
    🎤 Navigating job search rejection, interview anxiety, and the challenges of today's tech job market
    🎤 How worthiness wounds show up when discussing salary expectations, selling your services, or asking for what you're worth
    🎤 The difference between strategy and nervous system regulation
    🎤 Practical tools for overcoming scarcity mindset, rebuilding self-trust, and finding safety during uncertainty
    🎤 Why recurring patterns aren't proof you're failing, but invitations to heal at a deeper level

    If you've ever felt like your bank account determines your value, struggled with money anxiety, career setbacks, job loss, self-worth, confidence, imposter syndrome, or the fear of not being enough, this conversation is for you.

    Because your circumstances may change.

    Your worth does not.

    Done abandoning yourself for everyone else?
    It's time to come home. Download The Unbecoming Ritual free. Your unbecoming begins here: https://thefemmecast.kit.com/ritual

    Want to go deeper?
    Come find me on Substack at The Femme Cast Diaries. I'm sharing my own unbecoming in real time -- the mess, the magic, and the chapters of my memoir Girl, Unbecoming. For the woman who is ready to stop pretending and start coming home to herself. Come unbecome with me: https://thefemmecast.substack.com/

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    31 mins
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