Monocycle with Leandra Medine
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Monocycle with Leandra Medine
A ten minute digest from author, humorist and creator of Man Repeller (now Repeller), Leandra Medine. New shows published weekly.
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69 эпизодовDispatch from Quarantine #9
Leandra presents her weekly dispatch from quarantine, in which she shares short form streams of consciousness from her time in self-isolation. Dispatc...
Dispatch from Quarantine #8
Leandra presents her weekly dispatch from quarantine, in which she shares short form streams of consciousness from her time in self-isolation. Dispatc...
Dispatch from Quarantine #7
Leandra presents her weekly dispatch from quarantine, in which she shares short form streams of consciousness from her time in self-isolation. Dispatc...
Dispatch from Quarantine #6
Leandra presents her weekly dispatch from quarantine, in which she shares short form streams of consciousness from her time in self-isolation. Dispatc...
Dispatch from Quarantine #5
Leandra presents her weekly dispatch from quarantine, in which she shares short form streams of consciousness from her time in self-isolation. Dispatc...
Dispatch from Quarantine #4
Leandra presents her weekly dispatch from quarantine, in which she shares short form streams of consciousness from her time in self-isolation. Dispatc...
Dispatch from Quarantine #3
Leandra presents her weekly dispatch from quarantine, in which she shares short form streams of consciousness from her time in self-isolation. Dispatc...
Dispatch from Quarantine #2
Leandra presents her weekly dispatch from quarantine, in which she shares short form streams of consciousness from her time in self-isolation. Dispatc...
Dispatch from Quarantine #1
Leandra presents her weekly dispatch from quarantine, in which she shares short form streams of consciousness from her time in self-isolation. Dispatc...
Episode 65: I Am What My Mind Tells Me I Am
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...
Ep 64: Monocycle Is Back! And It Smells So Gucci
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 t...
Ep 63: Self-Esteem
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 reall...
Ep 62: A Conversation With Bozoma Saint John
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 to...
Ep 61: An Interview With Karla Welch
In this week’s episode of Monocycle, unofficially called Bicycle every time I have an interview subject, Karla Welch — celebrity stylist to the likes...
Ep 60: A Conversation With Lena Dunham
This week's episode of Monocycle is more like an episode of Bicycle because there are two stakeholders (wheels?) present in the conversation: myself a...
Ep 58: Finding Your Purpose
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...
Ep 56: Back With a Vengeance
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 b...
Ep 55: What It's Like to Work With Your BFF
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...
Ep 54: The End of the Personal Essay
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...
Ep 53: Outgrowing Your Identity
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 t...
Ep 52: An Extra-Special Monocycle with Drew Barrymore
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...
Ep 51: Feeling Stuck
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 painfu...
Ep 50: Be Delicate with Yourself
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...
Ep 49: Shopping Can Trap You
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...
Ep 48: Commit to Not Committing
WEH-HEL-COME BACK! TO! MONOCYCLE!
This week's episode reinforces the inauguration of Commitment Month on Man Repeller, a theme we take ne...
Ep 47: The Pursuit of More Than Cool
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...
Ep 46: Change
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 o...
Ep 45: Resolutions
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 ali...
Ep 43: Love Your Mom
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 a...
Ep 44: Hi Again
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...
Ep 42: Consumption
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 tendenc...
Ep 41: Surviving Cancer in Your Twenties
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 exe...
Ep 40: Am I Comfortable or Complacent?
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...
Ep 39: Doldrums at Paris Fashion Week
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 watchi...
Ep 38: Cultural Appropriation
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 dreadlo...
Ep 37: Uterus Envy
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 ge...
Ep 36: Back to School
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....
Ep 35: Learning to be Content As Your Own Boss
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 li...
Ep 34: Endless Summer
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 t...
Ep 33: Body Image
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 ab...