Monica Lewinsky Reveals All: Life-Changing Lessons on Reclaiming Your Story, Your Power & Your Life! It’s Never Too Late!

About this episode

Monica Lewinsky discusses the importance of reclaiming one's narrative and personal power in overcoming past challenges.

You have the power to reclaim your story, to reclaim the narrative of who you truly are and to reclaim your life! And today we’re talking about RECLAIMING with my guest and friend, Monica Lewinsky. If you’ve ever felt like your past, maybe a past mistake, a bad decision, an embarrassing failure or something painful that’s happened to you in your past is holding you back, or defining who you are…maybe that past version of yourself that others knew you for has been lingering over you and keeping you stuck from stepping into the next most beautiful, powerful version of yourself, today’s episode is for you, and I am SO excited for this! We can learn so much from each others stories, and when we share powerful conversations like the one we’re having today, together, it can help us feel less alone and more enough, in this one miraculous life! Monica Lewinsky is the host of the wildly successful podcast called RECLAIMING, make sure you check that out right away, it’s SO good! She’s also a producer, social and anti-bullying activist, global public speaker, and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. Her focus is on storytelling that moves the conversation forward – around shame, reclaiming…

People in this episode

Host: Jamie Kern Lima

Guest: Monica Lewinsky

Topics covered

• reclaiming your story
• personal empowerment
• overcoming past mistakes
• storytelling
• shame and identity
• anti-bullying activism

Keywords

• reclaiming
• personal growth
• empowerment
• storytelling
• shame
• identity
• activism
• self-improvement

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Vanity Fair, Hulu

Books & works: Shame and Survival, The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox

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