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Monocycle with Leandra Medine

Ep 35: Learning to be Content As Your Own Boss

Monocycle with Leandra Medine

Monocycle

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4.9779 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

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 Squarespace, the easiest way to create a blog or website. Use the offer code MONOCYCLE at check out for 10% off your first purchase. Related Stories: 5 Things Running Man Repeller Taught Me Monocycle: Episode 4, Self-Sabotage Are You Happy? Logo by Kelly Shami - legsny.com/ Edited by Nicholas Quazzy Alexander

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which you know we are all about here at Man Repeller,

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if you want to start a site and call it Woman Repeller or Leandra Repeller, or All the Freaks at Man repeller. If you want to start a site and call it woman repeller or Leandro

0:21.5

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0:28.3

monocicle at checkout for 10% off your very first purchase. Thanks for listening. Stay tuned,

0:36.1

hang out, have a glass of whiskey or milk or both.

0:41.3

Start a blog about whiskey and milk. Let's chat.

0:50.0

Uh-huh.

1:03.0

Contrary to most other size, you may have heard, on Monocycle, the one that I just executed was actually a sigh of relief.

1:31.3

Yesterday, I found myself leaving my office, and our digital director was downstairs, and she asked me how I was doing, and I looked her and I smiled and I was like my workload is so manageable right now and she said to me I don't think I've ever heard you say that and I thought about it for a minute afterward and it's true I don't think I've ever actually said something positive about work but, here's where it gets a little bit masochistic. So I'm thinking through how comfortable and pleasant I feel right now.

1:35.3

I had a good doctor's appointment last weekend.

1:38.3

I have another one today.

1:40.3

All signs point to one day you will get pregnant, so no sweat.

1:45.1

And that feels good.

1:46.7

And as I'm going through this and I'm thinking that everything seems to be falling into place,

1:52.7

I'm realizing that it doesn't feel natural to me.

1:56.1

I'm looking back at some of the bouts of severe, severe manic anxiety turned into depression

2:03.5

that I experienced in July and before that in June and before that in April and really

2:09.0

terribly in February.

2:11.3

And I'm looking back almost nostalgically when I first started getting really, really bad anxiety attacks about work, I'm talking like,

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