A Year of Reclaiming
Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky
Prufrock LLC
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | When I first dreamed up this show, I wanted to have conversations that demonstrated just how elastic the idea of reclaiming can be. |
| 0:12.3 | In every episode, I've asked the same question. What is something that you're working on reclaiming right now? |
| 0:18.6 | Across our first 48 guests, the answers have taken us everywhere, |
| 0:22.3 | and the episode you're about to hear includes reclaimings from all of them. Sidebar, one of our |
| 0:27.5 | guests even reclaimed her misaligned zodiac sign. Here's Savannah Guthrie, Malala, and Miley Cyrus |
| 0:33.3 | to start. And if you're not driving, consider watching this episode and the full conversations |
| 0:38.0 | on YouTube. The last question that I like to ask everybody is, what's something that you're |
| 0:47.8 | working on reclaiming? It could be a part of your identity thing, a place, whatever. Is there something? I loved that this question was |
| 0:57.3 | going to be asked because it really made me think, but there is something that I am not currently |
| 1:03.1 | reclaiming, but I intend to reclaim. And you were going to laugh. Okay. But I used to love to sing. |
| 1:09.8 | And in my 20s and 30s, I sang a lot and played the guitar. |
| 1:14.3 | And I'm not saying I was Taylor Swift or Kelly Clarkson, but I had a decent singing voice. |
| 1:19.7 | And a lot of friends asked me to sing at their weddings, which I did. |
| 1:23.3 | And I really loved writing music and singing and playing my guitar. And it's something that I lost |
| 1:29.7 | along the way with working so much and then having kids and being busy. And then also the |
| 1:35.6 | fact that I am 53 and my voice is so scratchy now. I don't know what to do about it. So if I do |
| 1:41.5 | start singing again, I'll sound like Stevie Nix if I'm lucky, you know. |
| 1:46.0 | But I think having kind of the courage to pick up my guitar and try to figure it out and sing a |
| 1:51.4 | little bit is something I'd very much like to reclaim. I love that. It would only be for me. |
| 1:56.6 | I'm not going on a coffee house tour, but something that I could do on my couch alone, like I did so many, many years in my 20s and 30s. That's amazing. I did not play the guitar, but I used to sing too. So maybe we'll find one of those like local choir, you know, they do the group. Or just come over. I'll get the guitar. We'll sit on the porch and we'll just have |
| 2:18.0 | our own little concert. I love it. I want to reclaim more of my own autonomy and agency in how |
| 2:26.9 | I want to live my life and less so the expectations. Less so the noise out there. And it's |
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