Ep. 93 Playing the Internet like a Church Organ with Caroline Calloway

Recovering From Reality

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🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, I am joined by Caroline Calloway Caroline is a 27-year-old Instagram influencer known for her lengthy captions and unique posts. She came into the public eye during her time at Cambridge University and again when the I Was Caroline Calloway article was released in The Cut by her former friend Natalie Beach.

In this episode we dive into topics like:

- Dealing with online shaming and hate on the internet

- Caroline’s childhood trauma and her experiences growing up with a mentally ill parent, verbal abuse, and the recent suicide of her father

- Caroline’s struggle with her Adderall addiction and the enabling lifestyle she was living

- The impact of privilege (racial, economic, etc) on addiction

- The complexity of Caroline’s relationship with Natalie and their writing careers

- Pop-culture scandals in Caroline and Alexis’ lives

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:07.5	Hey, this is Alexis Haines and welcome to Recovering from Reality,
0:11.6	where I illuminate the messy and magical path of coming home to yourself.
0:16.1	Whether you're on the road to recovery, seeking self-care techniques for surviving the
0:20.5	capitalist machine, or just need a moment to remember that you're not alone in your loneliness,
0:26.2	we're serving up the ultimate truth. Your challenges don't define you, how you deal with them does.
0:33.0	So are you ready to recover from reality?
0:39.5	Although I lean into it, it still really hurts me. Does it still hurt you?
0:43.0	Like I do it because I feel like I have no choice because people will make fun of me whether I
0:47.0	join in or not. And so I feel backed into a corner. And I, I called my book Scammer because my Google
0:54.8	search history will always have Scam attached to my name. So I might as well fucking own it,
1:00.8	but it doesn't mean I like it. And it doesn't mean it's okay when people compare me to
1:06.8	Billy McFarlane or Anna Delvie.
1:11.1	That was a quick clip from this week's episode with Caroline Callaway, listen guys, I'm going to
1:16.0	keep this short. You guys have been begging for Caroline to come on the podcast. Four months,
1:22.0	I literally got three DMs this week being like Wednesday Caroline episode coming out.
1:27.8	You guys had plenty of questions for her which we got to and we covered, I feel like everything,
1:35.8	everything from both being on Z-Way's talk show to life in the spotlight, to addiction, to suicide,
1:45.0	to mental health issues. We really covered it all. So you know, I will keep it short like I said,
1:55.3	and I hope you enjoy this episode with Caroline as much as I enjoyed sitting down with her.
2:01.4	And so with that, here's this week's episode with Caroline Callaway. I hope you enjoy it.
2:06.8	I'm really excited about this. This is going to be good. I'm so excited about this too. I literally
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