Podcasts by Monocycle with Leandra Medine
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Dispatch from Quarantine #9 from 2020-05-24T09:00
Leandra presents her weekly dispatch from quarantine, in which she shares short form streams of consciousness from her time in self-isolation. Dispatch #9 celebrates a communal ...
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Dispatch from Quarantine #8 from 2020-05-23T21:54:07
Leandra presents her weekly dispatch from quarantine, in which she shares short form streams of consciousness from her time in self-isolation. Dispatch #8 examines approaching an equilibrium in ...
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Dispatch from Quarantine #7 from 2020-05-23T21:53:15
Leandra presents her weekly dispatch from quarantine, in which she shares short form streams of consciousness from her time in self-isolation. Dispatch #7 follows an incident with Laura that sum...
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Dispatch from Quarantine #6 from 2020-05-23T21:52:21
Leandra presents her weekly dispatch from quarantine, in which she shares short form streams of consciousness from her time in self-isolation. Dispatch #6 ponders spring’s bestowal of new blooms...
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Dispatch from Quarantine #5 from 2020-05-23T21:51:40
Leandra presents her weekly dispatch from quarantine, in which she shares short form streams of consciousness from her time in self-isolation. Dispatch #5 navigates internal feelings of stress a...
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Dispatch from Quarantine #4 from 2020-05-23T21:51:01
Leandra presents her weekly dispatch from quarantine, in which she shares short form streams of consciousness from her time in self-isolation. Dispatch #4 explores getting yours...
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Dispatch from Quarantine #3 from 2020-05-23T21:50:07
Leandra presents her weekly dispatch from quarantine, in which she shares short form streams of consciousness from her time in self-isolation. Dispatch #3 welcomes wholly embracing whatever feel...
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Dispatch from Quarantine #2 from 2020-05-23T21:49:46
Leandra presents her weekly dispatch from quarantine, in which she shares short form streams of consciousness from her time in self-isolation. Dispatch #2 enters a new quarantin...
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Dispatch from Quarantine #1 from 2020-05-23T21:41:39
Leandra presents her weekly dispatch from quarantine, in which she shares short form streams of consciousness from her time in self-isolation. Dispatch #1 grapples with finding balance while adj...
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Episode 65: I Am What My Mind Tells Me I Am from 2018-08-17T13:00:38
This episode starts starts with an encounter that has me sitting outside a coffee shop on the Upper East Side, age 21, when a purported mystic who can see the future approaches. "You're going to be...
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Ep 64: Monocycle Is Back! And It Smells So Gucci from 2018-05-24T14:30:02
Gucci commissioned 15 artists to create a series of pieces with images and copy that tell a story about the fragrance. Leandra chatted with three of them — Emma Allegretti, Joy Miessi and Amber Vit...
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Ep 63: Self-Esteem from 2017-12-16T14:04:02
When I was nine years old, my dad told me that everyone has an interesting story if you are willing to listen to it. Over the past month, I have really enjoyed treating Monocycle like a bicycle, li...
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Ep 62: A Conversation With Bozoma Saint John from 2017-12-08T15:02
Bozoma Saint John wears her flair on her sleeve: beads, rhinestones, gold accents; you name it, she's got it. As for the clothes, there is no color too bold, print too loud or silhouette too challe...
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Ep 61: An Interview With Karla Welch from 2017-12-02T14:02:19
In this week’s episode of Monocycle, unofficially called Bicycle every time I have an interview subject, Karla Welch — celebrity stylist to the likes of Ruth Negga, Karlie Kloss, Justin Bieber, Oli...
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Ep 60: A Conversation With Lena Dunham from 2017-11-17T16:07:50
This week's episode of Monocycle is more like an episode of Bicycle because there are two stakeholders (wheels?) present in the conversation: myself and Lena Dunham. When I set out to interview her...
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Ep 59: Cut Your Mom Some Slack! from 2017-11-10T14:07:18
This month's theme on Man Repeller is family, which is so all-encompassing it can seem overwhelming. Where do you start with a family dynamic? Where do you begin with the complicated relationships ...
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Ep 58: Finding Your Purpose from 2017-10-27T17:00:16
Welcome back to Fridays with Monocycle. Today's episode is about purpose. I've talked about purpose before, but this time it's different. This time it's about how to identify it, why it's important...
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Ep 57: Do We Ever Really Change? from 2017-09-08T18:03:50
INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW! Are we capable of change, or what? Is it terrible if we don't -- can't -- change? What if the expectations were to learn how to better manage the qualities we dislike ...
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Ep 56: Back With a Vengeance from 2017-08-25T17:01:05
Helloooooooooo ladies and gentlemen of the jury! How are you doing? How has your week been? Your month? Your quarter? Your whole damn year? Mine has been weird, which doesn't say much because I hav...
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Ep 55: What It's Like to Work With Your BFF from 2017-06-16T14:19:59
You're probably wondering about what my ideal outfit is, right? But you would only know why I'm asking this question if you have started listening to the episode already. Before I continue forward ...
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Ep 54: The End of the Personal Essay from 2017-06-09T19:12:05
There was an article that ran in The New Yorker a couple of weeks ago called "The Personal Essay Boom is Over." In it, writer Jia Tolentino reflected on the writing genre's heyday -- citing sites t...
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Ep 53: Outgrowing Your Identity from 2017-06-05T00:53:25
Have you started listening to this week’s episode of Monocycle yet? I’m listening to it now as I write this intro and want to ask that you disregard the way I’m inflecting in the first 20 or so sec...
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Ep 52: An Extra-Special Monocycle with Drew Barrymore from 2017-05-05T18:16:01
Ask and ye shall receive! Following a special episode of The Chatroom with Drew Barrymore, which went live a few weeks ago after months and months of toiling with the expansive range of topics that...
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Ep 51: Feeling Stuck from 2017-04-14T15:27:22
It sounds scary as hell because when nothing is new, nothing is changing either, and when nothing is changing, you're stuck. And being stuck is painful. But I see the metaphor like this: I've been ...
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Ep 50: Be Delicate with Yourself from 2017-03-10T17:15:55
Holy candied nut! Can you believe we've approached the 50th episode of Monocycle? Some of them have been so stupid! Others have been regurgitations of articles that have gone up on Man Repeller (th...
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Ep 49: Shopping Can Trap You from 2017-02-17T17:51:18
This week's episode of Monocycle reflects upon a cleanse I endured over January wherein I did not buy a single thing, save for a jar of Castelvetrano olives and apple cider vinegar. That's dramatic...
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Ep 48: Commit to Not Committing from 2017-02-03T15:52:58
WEH-HEL-COME BACK! TO! MONOCYCLE! This week's episode reinforces the inauguration of Commitment Month on Man Repeller, a theme we take neither lightly nor literally. What you'll find once you tune...
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Ep 47: The Pursuit of More Than Cool from 2017-01-27T16:58:12
You might remember a dramatic meditation that I wrote, which essentially made the case to abandon the pursuit of becoming cool in exchange for simply accepting who I am. I read it back to myself af...
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Ep 46: Change from 2017-01-20T21:09:54
This week's episode of Monocycle is a real doozy. It's the first time in a long time that I stuck my head into that sound booth without a clear idea of what I would say once I was in there. Then wo...
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Ep 45: Resolutions from 2017-01-01T22:38:52
Hi ppl! We're back together. Again. And because tomorrow is the last day of this year (am I alone in asserting that even though we're all here and alive as evidenced by my writing this and your rea...
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Ep 43: Love Your Mom from 2016-12-19T04:32:01
We're heading into Thanksgiving!!!! Kind of, at the end of next week, and I've never needed some fucking time off more. But I'm also getting kind of anxious about the family time that awaits -- not...
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Ep 44: Hi Again from 2016-12-16T19:01:26
Hi ppl. I'm either sorry or really happy to acknowledge the lack of consistency with Monocycle lately (the apology or gratuity depends on entirely on how you feel about this podcast), but given the...
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Ep 42: Consumption from 2016-11-04T15:41:36
In this week's episode of Monocycle, Malcolm Gladwell tackles the notion of consumption in 2016 -- how we eat, how we engage with our Internet tendencies and whether or not, in spite of statistics ...
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Ep 41: Surviving Cancer in Your Twenties from 2016-10-28T15:52:20
Before Breast Cancer Awareness month ends, here is one more point of awareness in the form of a Monocycle podcast interview with Fashionista.com's executive editor, who was diagnosed with stage 2 b...
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Ep 40: Am I Comfortable or Complacent? from 2016-10-21T17:07:44
In case you have missed tuning into the monologues that occur inside the (membrane) walls that define my head, welcome back! Here we are! With a fresh new episode of Monocycle that outlines a recen...
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Ep 39: Doldrums at Paris Fashion Week from 2016-10-07T15:45:17
Paris Fashion Week ended on Wednesday. I'm not entirely sure if the season felt quieter or less exciting than usual because I wasn't there, but watching it unfold on social media and through the le...
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Ep 38: Cultural Appropriation from 2016-09-23T14:29:55
Not to beat a horse that has been killed multiple times already but in this week's episode of Monocycle, we reopen the conversation around the dreadlocks at the Marc Jacobs Spring 2017 runway show....
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Ep 37: Uterus Envy from 2016-09-16T15:01:18
Have you ever felt that terrible, nauseating pit in your stomach? It makes doing anything other than focusing on the pit feel impossible. I used to get it every time I found out my ex-boyfriend was...
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Ep 36: Back to School from 2016-09-09T15:31:15
Sometimes I feel like my brain is a variety show and your cable network is out of whack, which is to say that you only catch slivers of each section. The fact of the matter is, I'm only delivering ...
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Ep 35: Learning to be Content As Your Own Boss from 2016-08-26T14:38:53
In this week's episode of Monocycle, Leandra discusses how to be content as one's own boss and the importance of leaving home life at home and work life at work. This podcast is sponsored by Squa...
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Ep 34: Endless Summer from 2016-08-19T15:06:16
On this week's episode of Monocycle, Leandra talks about Endless Summer and how it can be tarnished by planning ahead. Do chronic planners wish away their ability to be present by simple virtue of ...
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Ep 33: Body Image from 2016-08-05T15:33:47
In this week's episode of Monocycle, Leandra discusses body image, accepting ourselves the way we are and re-training ourselves in the way to speak about our bodies. Related Stories: MR Round Tab...
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Ep 32: The Editorial Process from 2016-07-29T16:02:41
If you have ever wondered how the editorial process at Man Repeller works, this week you’re invited to learn first hand how a story is created from incipient idea to final product, a sometimes half...
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Ep 31: Let Loose, Dispatch 3 from 2016-07-22T15:21:32
This week's episode of Monocycle is one last plea in the direction of letting loose, only this time -- to conclude the last leg of a three-part series of episodes -- Leandra simplifies the whole co...
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Ep 30: Let Loose, Dispatch 2 from 2016-07-15T13:54:09
In this week's episode of Monocycle, Leandra touches upon many of the same points as last week's episode: letting loose. After briefly touching about her mission to get pregnant, the majority of th...
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Ep 29: Let Loose from 2016-07-08T15:36:05
In this week's episode, Leandra discusses Man Repeller's monthly theme: Let Loose and Relax. In the process of letting loose, Leandra will assign herself a Let Loose task each week and report back ...
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Ep 28: Relationships from 2016-06-24T14:19:27
This week's episode of Monocycle features a very special guest: Leandra's husband, Abie. The two cover a range of topics inspired by their four years of marriage, like learning how to live with a p...
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Ep 27: One Week Later from 2016-06-17T16:16:28
This week on Monocycle, after a sharing a personal story about a failed IVF implant in the moment, Leandra reflects back one week after. She makes the point in the difference between sharing though...
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Ep 26: Not Pregnant from 2016-06-10T16:08:56
This week's episode of Monocycle is about sharing what one is going through while going through it as opposed to the aftermath, after, as Leandra said, "the experience has been put in a box and wra...
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Ep 25: Does a Good Week Ruin Our Weekend? from 2016-06-03T16:01:57
In this week's episode of Monocycle, I get way too deep into my own head and contemplate the question, how important is the line that demarcates work from our social lives? I think I've always felt...
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Ep 24: Addicted to the Comfort Zone from 2016-05-27T03:35:21
In this week's episode of Monocycle, Leandra talks about her addiction to the comfort zone -- that area that prohibits us from tackling the hard or uncomfortable tasks in our day. What happens when...
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Ep 23: The Definition of Man Repeller from 2016-05-19T21:28:34
Man Repeller is officially six years old. Did you know that through it all, the website's written description of what it means to be a man repeller has never been updated? Not once. It's time to ex...
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Ep 22: Getting Dressed for the *Weekend* from 2016-05-13T16:25:42
This week’s episode of Monocycle is practically like having an audio stylist who may or may not be a serial killer given the information she feeds you and the way in which she suggests you should d...
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Ep 21: Talking Yourself Out of an Anxiety Attack from 2016-05-06T16:16:21
This week's episode of Monocycle tackles our theme of the month, mental health, by talking through how we determined this would-be the theme that followed last month (and stood as preface for next ...
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Ep 20: The Process of Monocycle from 2016-04-29T16:00:37
After taking a week off, today's episode of Monocycle kicks off a case study called: Do You Care? It's all about the process of building these episodes -- coming up with the concepts, the actual re...
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Ep 19: Hormones from 2016-04-15T11:11:07
The hormones are back. On this week's episode of Monocycle, Leandra confronts her narcissism, yells at herself and tries to turn negatives into positives. All anecdotes are shared with the intentio...
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Ep 18: Productivity from 2016-04-10T18:36:52
This week's episode of Monocycle is about productivity. Leandra procrastinated for two hours until she finally recorded this episode, so lucky for listeners it also features the most efficient huma...
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Ep 17: Saturday State of Mind from 2016-04-08T14:31:57
In this week’s episode of Monocycle, Leandra talks about the "Saturday State of Mind." Could there be a way to turn the excited feeling of an imminent Saturday into a state of mind as opposed to me...
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Ep 16: Careers from 2016-03-25T16:56:49
This week's episode of Monocycle tackles some of the questions that you asked in our Love Your Career Month post, questions like: How do people find jobs? Is it a bad thing to feel like you're lear...
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Ep 15: Excess from 2016-03-18T16:43:45
Welcome back to Monocycle. This week's episode tackles precisely the reason we didn't post last week: Paris. As in, fashion week. But beyond that and beyond the clothes, we explore the feeling of b...
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Ep 14: Getting Dressed from 2016-03-02T22:32:13
In honor of fashion week, an episode of Monocycle on how to get dressed! Or the psychology of it, at least. When you are in a clothing funk, the only way out beyond attempting “manifestation” pract...
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Ep 13: Purpose from 2016-02-26T17:09:52
Welcome back to Monocycle! This episode covers fashion week from a peripheral point of view -- most saliently because the theme, purpose, is one that was on our minds a lot last week as industry de...
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Ep 12: Fashion Week Is Funny from 2016-02-12T17:30:16
This week Leandra revisits her own industry transition from sneaking into her first fashion show, to being seated front and center at the next, to finally feeling that she’s earned her seat. Topics...
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Ep 11: Fake It 'Til You Make It from 2016-02-05T16:21:51
This week's episode of Monocycle reflects on last week's show (hint: there were a few tears) then opens up the dance floor for a conversation about faking it until you make it. The "it" in question...
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Ep 10: Going Through It from 2016-01-29T16:49:04
All hail Friday afternoon, the best time of the entire week. This week's topics of discussion on Monocycle range from the stuff you tell yourself when you look into the mirror, letting yourself fee...
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Ep 9: Vulnerability from 2016-01-22T17:47:52
In this week's episode of Monocycle, Leandra tackles vulnerability as she works through it herself. Often when you're given advice, that wisdom is provided reflectively: I've been through a journey...
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Ep 8: Confidence from 2016-01-15T17:10:09
Welcome back to Monocycle after a week-long break, inaugurating this episode as the first of the new year. This week, we're talking about confidence -- that elusive quality that we're taught from a...
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Ep 7: New Year's Eve from 2015-12-31T14:33:44
Welcome to a special New Years episode of Monocycle. This week, Leandra thinks about New Year's Eve as an institution and what one should wear to commemorate the occasion. At one point, you may won...
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Ep 6: Choice from 2015-12-18T19:39:43
In this week's episode of Monocycle, Leandra talks about a relatively recent decision to take her husband's last name. Is it really the name that matters? Or is it more about the motivation that pr...
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Ep 5: Boredom from 2015-12-11T19:25:14
In this week's episode of Monocycle, Leandra posits a theory that boredom may no longer exist -- at least not in the way we used to think of it. Furthermore, she talks about the value of boredom in...
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Ep 4: Self-Sabotage from 2015-12-04T17:34:32
In this week's episode of Monocycle, Leandra diagnoses herself a self-sabotager after a particularly eye opening conversation with her thinking partner (which is a fancy way to say therapist). What...
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Ep 3: Thankful from 2015-11-25T19:31:55
Before the holiday party that is December swings in, Thanksgiving seems like a great time to begin the reflection process. We talk about gratitude a lot this time of year and it's easy to get caugh...
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