The Riot Grrrl movement didn't ask for a seat at the table. It built its own and that's the point.

This episode we digging into feminist punk, its origins, and what it actually tells us about how change gets made, both in a scene and in a life. Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney, Amyl and the Sniffers, Cheap Perfume. These aren't just bands. They're case studies in what happens when we use our voices to create the change we seek in the world.

We get into the politics of reclaiming your own sexuality, the male gaze in music, and why "whore and housewife" as a framing isn't an insult, it's a mirror held up to everyone who put it there.

The bigger question underneath all of it: what does it take to build something new from the inside out, and why does that process require the pain of the old thing first?

Listen to our playlist for this episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7BkaEaEQrySRypc13jzahh?si=wGI-3-YtQgSSiixqzcl0dw

Want to keep the conversation going beyond the podcast? Olivia is an Internationally Certified Professional Leadership and Life Coach working with punkers who are ready to grow on their own terms, at their own pace. No pressure, just possibility.

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Credits

Cover art by Joe T.

IG: instagram.com/moonlightspeed

Theme song by Cheap Perfume

FB: facebook.com/cheapperfume719

CP: cheapperfume.bandcamp.com

IG: instagram.com/cheapperfumeband

Post-Production:

IG: instagram.com/brijettesanjose

Olivia and Matt dig into two bands that have to be in any honest conversation about punk - The Clash and Rancid. We explore what their wildly different trajectories can teach us about staying true to yourself when the world wants something else from you.

From the streets of 1976 London to the blue-collar swamps of Berkeley, these bands share DNA, but their stories diverge in ways that matter. One band fractures under the pressure of chasing something outside itself. The other finds a way through addiction, loss, and decades of adversity by doubling down on loyalty, community, and each other.

Matt brings the history, Olivia brings the framework. Together they get into Carl Jung's ego, Maslow's hierarchy, the difference between "I give no fucks" and "fuck off," and why authenticity is always an inside job.

Want to keep the conversation going beyond the podcast? Olivia is an Internationally Certified Professional Leadership and Life Coach working with punkers who are ready to grow on their own terms, at their own pace. No pressure, just possibility.

🌐 oliviarosecoach.com

📩 olivia@oliviarosecoach.com

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Cover art by Joe T.

IG: instagram.com/moonlightspeed

Theme song by Cheap Perfume

FB: facebook.com/cheapperfume719

CP: cheapperfume.bandcamp.com

IG: instagram.com/cheapperfumeband

What happens when a city is burning and nobody's coming to save you? You build something from the wreckage. In this episode, Olivia and Matt dig into the New York hardcore scene - its raw origins in the economic decay of late 70s/early 80s NYC - and what it has to teach us about growth, grit, and becoming.

They explore how bands like Agnostic Front, the Cro-Mags, and Bad Brains didn't just make noise - they made meaning. From the ethos of PMA (positive mental attitude) to the DIY spirit that built a scene out of nothing, this episode unpacks what it looks like to move with your story instead of running from it. Because growth doesn't happen in comfort. It happens in the squat, the pit, the rebuild. 🎵

Check out the companion Spotify playlist featuring some of our favorite NY hardcore artists and songs: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1aCujiFkswt0REjLixxJUB?si=7w3M4vIZTn67JbAo6GTw1g

Want to keep the conversation going beyond the podcast? Olivia is an Internationally Certified Professional Leadership and Life Coach working with punkers who are ready to grow on their own terms, at their own pace. No pressure, just possibility.

🌐 oliviarosecoach.com 📩 olivia@oliviarosecoach.com

IG · FB · LI: @oliviarosecoach

Credits:

Cover art by Joe T. IG: instagram.com/moonlightspeed

Theme song by Cheap Perfume

FB: facebook.com/cheapperfume719

CP: cheapperfume.bandcamp.com

IG: instagram.com/cheapperfumeband

Post-Production:

IG: instagram.com/brijettesanjose

Welcome to the first episode of Rogue Frequencies!

Rogue Frequencies is a podcast where we mash up punk music with human growth and development.

Hosts Olivia and Matt kick things off in this our very first episode by sharing how this adventure came to life, their personal backgrounds, and what punk means to them. This episode sets the stage for Season 1, where we'll dig into punk music, sub-genres, bands, and culture through the lens of personal growth and becoming more fully yourself.

🎵 Check out the companion Spotify playlist featuring some of our favorite artists and songs:

open.spotify.com/playlist/6c556z6LWSIO5nHBIRPoGA

Want to keep the conversation going beyond the podcast? Olivia is an Internationally Certified Professional Leadership and Life Coach working with punkers who are ready to grow on their own terms, at their own pace. No pressure, just possibility.

🌐 oliviarosecoach.com

📩 olivia@oliviarosecoach.com

IG · FB · LI: @oliviarosecoach

Cover art by Joe T.

IG: instagram.com/moonlightspeed

Theme song by Cheap Perfume

FB: facebook.com/cheapperfume719

CP: cheapperfume.bandcamp.com

IG: instagram.com/cheapperfumeband

We are calling this genre we explore today as “Crackcore.” We admit, Crackcore is genuinely fun to listen to. They're also a mess of contradictions. We look at the complex human that is Scott Sturgeon aka. Stza Crack.

We use this artist, these bands, and genre to pull on a real tension: what happens when transgression becomes the whole identity? When the asshole stops being a tool and starts being the person? There's a line between destruction that clears the way for something and destruction that just leaves rubble. Crackcore bumps up against that line constantly, and sometimes blows right past it. Can you separate the art from the artist? We don't fully answer that. But we do ask whether you even should.

Listen to our playlist for this episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4wm9LU06ccgK43e9a3KMGq?si=b3e5dbeb7dd34c0d

Want to keep the conversation going beyond the podcast?

Olivia is an Internationally Certified Professional Leadership and Life Coach working with punkers who are ready to grow on their own terms, at their own pace. No pressure, just possibility.

🌐 oliviarosecoach.com

📩 olivia@oliviarosecoach.com

IG · FB · LI: @oliviarosecoach

Credits

Cover art by Joe T.

IG: instagram.com/moonlightspeed

Theme song by Cheap Perfume

FB: facebook.com/cheapperfume719

CP: cheapperfume.bandcamp.com

IG: instagram.com/cheapperfumeband

The Ramones and the Misfits both came out of the same collapsed, scrappy New York moment. One became a blueprint. One fell apart.

This episode we use these two foundational bands to dig into what actually drives growth when the conditions are hard and the path isn't clear. How do you build something real when you don't yet know what you're building? And what does it mean to succeed at something you never actually set out to do?

We get into the difference between grit that connects and grit that just grinds, why your goals need to grow with you, and how the Ramones pulled off something the Misfits couldn't: searving the thing they were making more than their own egos. The arc only makes sense in hindsight. But you still have to run it.

Want to keep the conversation going beyond the podcast? Olivia is an Internationally Certified Professional Leadership and Life Coach working with punkers who are ready to grow on their own terms, at their own pace. No pressure, just possibility.

🌐 oliviarosecoach.com

📩 olivia@oliviarosecoach.com

IG · FB · LI: @oliviarosecoach

Credits:

Cover art by Joe T.

IG: instagram.com/moonlightspeed

Theme song by Cheap Perfume

FB: facebook.com/cheapperfume719

CP: cheapperfume.bandcamp.com

IG: instagram.com/cheapperfumeband

Post-Production:

IG: instagram.com/brijettesanjose

Punk is not just noise. It’s a response, a diagnosis, a dare. In this episode, we use a few bands that intentionally embody “the personal is political” to live and model what it actually means to be authentic, not as a brand, but as a living, evolving person.

Matt traces the lineage that gets us to how these two bands Crass and the Dropkick Murphys put their politics on the stage and meant it. And we talk about what happens when the room shows up, the audience grows, and when the lure of growth conflicts with ethos.

We dig into generative transgression, the difference between confrontation-first and consumable-first, and why authenticity has nothing to do with how you look and everything to do with what you're willing to hold onto when it costs you something. We also get into the push and pull between the individual and the collective, which is basically the oldest human tension there is. Punk didn't solve it. But it named it louder than most. Want to keep the conversation going beyond the podcast?

Olivia is an Internationally Certified Professional Leadership and Life Coach working with punkers who are ready to grow on their own terms, at their own pace. No pressure, just possibility.

🌐 oliviarosecoach.com

📩 olivia@oliviarosecoach.com

IG · FB · LI: @oliviarosecoach

Credits Cover art by Joe T.

IG: instagram.com/moonlightspeed

Theme song by Cheap Perfume

FB: facebook.com/cheapperfume719

CP: cheapperfume.bandcamp.com

IG: instagram.com/cheapperfumeband