E108 - Alexis Ren: Shed Your Outdated Identity & Embrace Your Multi-Dimensional Self
Know Thyself
André Duqum
4.8 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Model and actress Alexis Ren shares her powerful journey of reclaiming her multi-dimensional identity after rising to fame at a young age. Alexis openly discusses the challenges of navigating the opinions of others and societal expectations, and how she ultimately found the courage to shed her outdated identity and embrace the full complexity of who she is.
Through her own personal growth work, Alexis discovered the transformative power of acting as a spiritual practice, allowing her to connect more deeply with her emotions and access hidden parts of herself. She also speaks candidly about facing limiting beliefs, and the crucial process of rebuilding her self-worth and authentic beauty in our superficial world.
She also shares her journey towards a holistic, healthy state of being - and her insights on using one's "triggers" as opportunities for growth and transformation. She also shares valuable wisdom on the importance of building supportive friendships and community, and her decision to start a podcast as a means of empowering others on their own journeys of self-discovery.
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0:00 Intro
1:24 Our Dinner Party with Bryan Johnson
3:15 The Reality of Becoming a Podcaster
11:29 Breaking Out of Boxes & Reclaiming Her Multi-Dimensional Self
16:05 Navigating Fame at a Young Age
25:33 Acting as a Spiritual Practice
33:09 Embodying the Fullness of Who We Are
39:42 "Has My Time Already Passed?" Facing Limiting Beliefs
43:49 Self Worth in a Superficial Industry
51:11 Where Appearance & Inner Beauty Merge
52:59 Burning Out, Letting Go, and Learning to Listen
55:40 How to Use Your Triggers to Transform
59:25 Unlocking a Holistic, Healthy State of Being
1:08:35 What Most People Don't Know About Her
1:15:51 Building Friendships & Community that Uplifts Us
1:23:07 Giving People the Grace to Change
1:24:54 Conclusion
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Alexis Ren is an American model, entrepreneur, actress, and internet celebrity. She is one of the most recognizable influencers in the world, and an advocate for mental health, self-love, and empowerment. She was Maxim's US and Mexico cover girl for August 2017, She was voted Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Rookie of 2018, and has 13.1 million followers on Instagram. Alexis Ren was born on November 23, 1996, in Santa Monica, California. Alexis Ren is the founder of a management company in Japan, Meissa Inc. She's worked with Brands like DVF, Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Express, Colourpop, and has starred in videos such as The Chainsmokers- Paris (2017), Love Advent by Love Magazine, Kygo Ft. Chelsea Cutler - Not Ok, Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire, and she was also a contestant on the ABC show Dancing with the Stars season 27, landing in 3rd place.
Most recently she has launched a new podcast, Easy A Podcast.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexisren/
"Easy A Podcast": https://www.youtube.com/@EasyAPodcast
We Are Warriors Wellness Community: https://wearewarriors.co
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| 0:00.0 | It's exhausting trying to monitor yourself to keep into a certain archetype that you think you should be. |
| 0:04.4 | I really want to know what it is to be fully human. |
| 0:08.2 | It's been exactly 10 years since the launch pad of my journey. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm seeing the story and all of the dots connect. |
| 0:15.6 | That's the beautiful thing of being an actress or being in the public eye. |
| 0:18.7 | It's like you have these moments of like up and down, up and down and it's learning how to ride those waves. And now I'm fully ready to like ride a wave. As I got older, you're kind of finding my roots again, essentially. Acting started to come back in because it demands so much more from you. It's all psychological and it's also very spiritual. So the better actor I become, |
| 0:38.9 | the better person I become. What's one thing that you think people would be really surprised |
| 0:42.2 | to know about you? I... |
| 0:49.3 | Hey everyone. Welcome back to know thyself. Today we are sitting down with an actress, entrepreneur, model, ballerina, so many different things, |
| 1:00.5 | multi-dimensional human being. |
| 1:02.0 | She co-founded that we are Warriors woman community. |
| 1:05.7 | And it's been such a pleasure to get to know her. |
| 1:08.1 | And I'm just excited for this conversation. |
| 1:09.7 | It's going to be super playful and insightful. And she's an amazing human. So Alexis, thanks for being here. Thanks, Andre. Yeah. Did you like my intro? Was it a little bit better than the one you gave me a few days ago? Oh, no. We're going straight into that. Oh, gosh. So last week, let's just go there. Yeah. Last week, me and you, we attended a don't die dinner of Brian Johnson. |
| 1:31.7 | Yeah. I don't know if everyone is familiar with Brian Johnson, but he's a very fascinating individual. The discussion, honestly, was super, I didn't realize how deep he was on his mission for like the future of humanity and AI and all this stuff. So yeah. It was very interesting. Yeah. I'm I didn't know what to expect either. I was also late getting there. And it's like a very intimate dinner. It was more like a debate, I would say. He got us around. He gave us that pudding. It was his nutty pudding. Basically he's got like all these meals and he gave us that pudding. He gave us his nutty pudding. |
| 2:01.6 | Basically, he's got like all these meals and he gave us his like... |
| 2:04.4 | Oh, he showed us the medical room upstairs. |
| 2:06.8 | That was really interesting. |
| 2:08.3 | There was a few devices where I was like, can I use that? |
| 2:12.8 | Oh, that's nice. |
| 2:14.7 | Nice laser. |
| 2:15.9 | Yeah. |
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