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Monocycle with Leandra Medine

Episode 65: I Am What My Mind Tells Me I Am

Monocycle with Leandra Medine

Monocycle

Arts

4.9779 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This episode starts starts with an encounter that has me sitting outside a coffee shop on the Upper East Side, age 21, when a purported mystic who can see the future approaches. "You're going to be a big star," she extolls. I smile kindly, rolling my eyes so as to play it cool, deep down wondering if she is right -- and kind of believing she is. Fast forward seven years and I am met with a question: Would I have developed the courage, gumption, fervor to chase my dreams had she not given me that unwitting push?

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.7

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0:10.4

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0:17.5

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0:21.9

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0:27.7

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0:31.9

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0:34.7

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0:42.7

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0:49.0

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1:04.5

Hi and welcome back to Monocicle, a podcast by man repeller hosted by me, Leandra Medine, Anne Cohen.

1:11.6

Or should I say Leandra, me, Dean, and Cohen.

1:15.6

This episode of Monocycle is actually about a topic that I wanted to cover during Duality Month,

1:21.6

which was May 2018 on Manrepeller, because it opens with an anecdote about this interesting occurrence that

1:29.4

happened to me about six years ago that I never placed much emphasis on but that

1:33.8

has been impacting me but that I've been thinking about a little bit lately so

1:37.9

I'm just going to go into the story and the reason it was for duality month is

1:42.5

because we were talking about different roads that you could have taken.

1:46.4

Either the road less traveled or your sliding doors moment.

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