Ep 53: Outgrowing Your Identity

Monocycle with Leandra Medine

Monocycle

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4.9 • 779 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2017

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

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 the way I’m inflecting in the first 20 or so seconds of the episode. I don’t know why my voice is doing that thing! I sound so phony. Baloney. But maybe that is exactly apropos given this week’s topic: ~identity~ (I know, when is it ever not about identity, right?). But the thing I keep coming back to as I listen and remember how I was feeling and what I was thinking when I recorded this fucker earlier in the week is the below scene from a movie that truly and devastatingly slipped under the Academy Award’s radar. I don’t know either! A lot of what I argue in the episode pertaining to the question of whether you can outgrow your identity has to do with clothes because I imbue so much of who I am into what I wear (I wrote a piece last week that dealt with some of this). I have insofar not come to any eye-opening conclusions; the best I have done is suggest that I just hang in. Don’t make any crazy changes — cut my hair, cancel people from my life, completely eliminate the contents of my closet from my wardrobe, etc. If you’re in an emotional flux that is similar, maybe we can not do anything together. This episode of Monocycle is edited by Nicholas “Quazzy” Herd. Logo illustration by Kelly Shami.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to Monocicle, a 10-minute podcast by man repeller hosted by Leandro Medine.
0:11.0	I know it's been a long time since the last time I recorded, probably about three or four weeks.
0:16.0	And the last time we spoke, the sentiment that I was sharing was essentially that I wasn't really sure what to talk about on Monocycle anymore.
0:22.6	Almost like I had over-indexed on sharing my feelings, and because the feelings that I was experiencing felt so one-note,
0:29.6	I wasn't quite sure why I was sharing anymore.
0:32.6	How many more times I could talk about fertility challenges and uterus envy and the discomfort that comes with
0:40.8	being around people who have something that you so terribly and desperately want.
0:46.1	And overall, generally speaking, I think I'm doing much better, not necessarily because
0:50.5	I'm putting in work to heal, even though I do think I am, but mostly because
0:55.0	time really is the most incredible medicator and agent of healing.
1:00.0	It's been really, really busy at Man Repeller, partially because we launched a redesign this week.
1:06.0	If you haven't seen it, I recommend that you take a look and please provide feedback. If I'm being
1:11.5	really honest, I'm not 100% sure that it's there yet, but like anything that's new, it's
1:17.4	going to require some iterations before it's perfect. This thing that I've been kicking
1:22.2	around, not necessarily on purpose, but just because it keeps coming up emotionally for me,
1:26.9	is that I think I'm outgrowing
1:28.8	my identity. I know that sounds strange and probably kind of platitudinous, but hear me out.
1:37.5	So I have really used fashion and my style as a litmus test to help navigate my identity.
1:43.3	And what I've been finding lately around this time of year,
1:46.5	which is almost always so exciting for me
1:48.8	from a fashion perspective,
1:50.7	but lately I'm talking about for the last like two or three weeks
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