Beyond grateful to have found this community and these podcasts. When being outside of the norm can seem so taboo, a safe, open, space like this brings a deep sense of belonging and acceptance. I hope other child free people find this space to be the same for them. Much love.

Thank you for providing content that helps those of us who are navigating the world as a childfree person.

As a 40 year old childfree woman I feel this podcast is absolutely necessary for modern times. Finding this podcast has helped me feel less alone in my decision when everyone else around me is pro child. We need to teach others that having a child is a choice not a necessity in life!

Guest Eva zu Beck’s reputation was built in no small part by visiting Assad’s Syria in 2019 in a ‘non-political’ visit to promote tourism in Syria with a regime minder in tow. Who cares about mass murder, torture, rape, and other war crimes…when you have a YouTube channel to promote. Zu Beck’s shameful behavior has been duly noted by well respected papers such as the Frankfurt Allgemeine, the Guardian, France24, the Daily Beast and Syrian Human Rights organizations.

Thank you for making this podcast. As a married woman in my mid 30s who has always known I wouldn’t have children but feels a lot of pushback from relatives and society, it’s nice to hear so many voices and stories like mine. It can be lonely out there! Keep up the good work :)

New to the podcast and thoroughly enjoyed the discussion .. such important work - can’t wait to listen to more !!

This is the best podcast out there about the childfree lifestyle, offering the widest variety of stories and guests. I’m so glad to have discovered it and have been listening nonstop since. Thank you Zoe for putting this together!

I am a Christian soon to be married and child free by choice with my partner and this podcast has been helpful to hear stories of other women’s journey.

I think this podcast is awesome but I wish the host was more inclusive with her language. As a non-binary person who has a uterus it’s kind of annoying hearing “women are under pressure to have kids”, “women are brought up being told this is what they should do”. Not all people with uteruses identity as women.

Zoe is a skilled interviewer who features a wide variety of people being very candid and generous with their stories. It’s been a breath of fresh air and a life line for me, and I can’t wait to see what’s next for the We Are Childfree community! I particularly loved the episode with Caitlyn Durante of the Bechdel Cast. Best podcast crossover ever 💕

Zoe Noble interviews women with an amazing variety of backgrounds with at least one major commonality: they consciously decided not to have children. We hear from women who faced enormous pressure from family, friends, society, and spouses to change their minds but were able to hold true to themselves and remain childfree. Women who are experiencing ambivalence toward motherhood. Women who knew from a very young age they’d never want children and have supportive family and friends. The message? Motherhood isn’t womanhood or personhood. Biology is not destiny. We are thinking, autonomous beings who deserve and demand bodily autonomy. Join us. Tell your friends (maybe especially the ones pressuring you to have kids!).

I’ve never had conversations like this with other women and I have to say I love it! I’ve never felt attracted to the concept of having children but had no idea I wasn’t alone in that inclination. Thank you so much for the outlet for these stories to be told. They’re important and inspiring!

I haven’t decided 100% to be child free. However, I know I do not subscribe to the society’s standardized pathways for women. I find this podcast helpful in clarifying what that means, knowing that there are others like me out there and it also gives me the vocabulary to explain myself where necessary. The episode with Doreen has been my best so far, because I am also a Nigerian and I could relate with everything she said.

I really appreciate that there’s a podcast dedicated to being child free. It’s important to de-stigmatize and normalize not having kids, because it really is OK. Having that acknowledged is how we can evolve as a society. Everyone has a right to make their decisions, and we should respect it. Thanks for all your doing to pave a brighter light for women (and men) who decided to follow their hearts and be child-free!

Thank you for hearing us, and spreading the word about the different people who are choosing to be childless and how they’re life looks like.

Finally! A well edited, thoughtful, and insightful resource for everyone! A source of community and validation for childfree by choice people, an excellent source of “food for thought” for those considering having children, and a introduction to often overlooked or taboo topics for all others. Everyone has something to gain from these stories. I am so grateful for this podcast and the work it does to empower women to make their own choices about their bodies. This frontier of women’s rights is often unexplored. Thank you for shining the light on it.

Wow! After one episode (03 May 21 with Mohita Solanki), this podcast will be at the top of my queue for every episode! This is a very affirming, empowering discussion about having children. It’s not about bashing those who do; it’s about helping society understand that first, having kids should be an active decision, not just done automatically because everyone else does or because of pressure. Second, some people choose not to or don’t want to, and it’s about understanding why. Important questions are discussed, such as why women get pressure to be mothers but men usually don’t get equal pressure. If you’re unsure about being a parent or already know you don’t want to, add this podcast to your list! And if you are a parent or want to be, give it a listen to help understand someone else’s viewpoint :)

Someone who talks about what has needed open discussion for a long time! Keep up the work!

Well done! What a great subject just to give perspective of a more “unusual” choice in today’s society. Interesting guests. Love this.

A podcast getting to hear from the type of women I have always admired. Once you start on this journey, every other intentional choice becomes easier, and your energies are added back into this planet of existing humans (rather than elevating ones own status by creating more).

I love this podcast. I am 42 and new to listening to podcast radio. I wish I could have listened to her podcast years ago when I was trying to still figure out how I felt about this subject and had no other women feeling the same way I did. So glad to be listening to it now! Really confirms a lot of how I knew I already felt. Thank you Zoe!

I’ve never wanted children ever and while I haven’t struggled as much as many of these women it is empowering and wonderful to hear about their lives. I feel zero regrets, am over 40 and love that more women like me are coming together. I cannot imagine why we are not more celebrated! I’ve very much enjoyed being let in to others’ stories here. Thank you for doing this work.

An amazing, validating podcast for the many women choosing to be childfree!

What a breath of fresh air to find a community who gets it. I have felt so isolated as more and more of my friends have children and change. This podcast has validated my ideas around being child free. Thank you SO MUCH!!!!!

Thank you so much for bringing a much needed platform to the child free voices out there. As a 33 year old woman I look around at my peers and it seems I am the only one interested in intentionally not having children. Thank you for validating this perspective with your podcast. Through this work, you help make people like myself feel deserving of a community, too. Every time I look at my peer group and family I feel doubt and insecurity about my decisions not to have kids. Hearing these voices has been so reaffirming, uplifting, and inspiring. Such important work, thank you!! I am so incredibly grateful.

My friends are all starting to have kids and I’m feeling more like a minority with my child free choice. I appreciate this podcast and following you on IG because it puts into words how I’m feeling. I feel less self doubt knowing there are plenty of other women out there like me. I don’t feel I’m as much as an outcast. Thank you for your voice and bringing on other amazing women to share their stories on your show!

What a breath of fresh air. I’m a 31 year old woman working in natural resources. I’ve never wanted to have kids. Childfree means getting to follow my dreams - traveling and spending my time enjoying and protecting the natural world. I absolutely can’t stand people telling me “you’ll change your mind.” No. I watched my mom give birth when I was 10, and I’m fully aware of how awful pregnancy is and what a crushing commitment children are. I 100% believe having one would ruin my life and my finances, and I refuse to bring a child into this world who I will resent every day because it has robbed me of everything I loved and ruined my body. Furthermore, I’m not proud of the state of the planet that we as a society are passing on to the next generation. To paraphrase Jane Goodall said, “We have not inherited this planet from our parents, we’ve stolen it from our children, and we continue stealing it.” At this stage when my friends tell me they are having kids, I smile and then find new friends because they’ve all become too busy and overburdened to hang out, go climbing, or grab a beer. I will pass on the kids, and keep the fun thanks! So thanks to everyone involved in this podcast. I will share with all my friends!

I’m a married 37 year childfree woman living in a rural part of the Midwest USA. I’ve scoured the Internet for decent podcasts and content geared towards childfree living. I’m excited to have found this podcast—it is by far the best out there— great host, content and production value. My hope is for much more content!!

Kudos to Marie Fisher in being articulate and forthright about her choice from a young age to be childfree. She really nails it about the label “selfish” - that we are all selfish on some level or another. People who choose to have children generally say “I wanted to...” - so selfish isn’t something to be denied or disdained. I had different reasons and family background than Marie but having kids was never part of my personal scenario either. Like her I have always participated in the community and am a seasoned volunteer. Not a small number of my efforts have focused on women’s rights and children’s causes. There are so many reasons women and children do not have an equal playing field or healthy environments or viable options - one does not have to have a child in order to have a positive impact on these issues. Bringing one more person into the world - for all the reasons Marie mentions from economics to the environment - doesn’t really solve much in the big picture. Still as she says the operative principle is that women should have the choice to bear a child or not - and all choices should be honored equally. Finally as Marie states, being a role model is important. When I started to get older I felt the same - that women should have the same range of choices as men. I frequently tell younger women it is fine to be married or have a family or both but if they are doing all the sacrificing, there’s something wrong with that picture. Great interview on an important topic.

I love child free podcasts and this one is my new fav. Wonderfully hosted and produced, I was caught by just the preview and each episode has left me with some kind of new perspective or gem. Thank you!

Only two episodes in and I’ve never felt like I’ve heard more people speak so accurately to the way I feel than the women who have been featured on this show. Being a Childfree teacher myself, I especially identified with episode 2. I’ve never written a review for any podcast before and felt I absolutely needed to leave one here. I hope anyone who has ever questioned becoming a parent or has never desired to do so, discovers this show!

Between the trailer and first episode, I can already tell “We are Childfree” will become one of the podcasts I most enjoy. I feel heard. Validated. Valued. I can’t wait to keep listening!