How to Grow Your Soul (Michael Meade)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen

Lemonada Media

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Michael Meade is a groundbreaking storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology. He blew my mind with a historical gem that he shared in this conversation. I was also moved by his perspective on our “crisis of masculinity” and the manosphere, what might be the antidote to monoculture, and why the hero’s journey is a bit of a fallacy. And, even more so, his case and how-to for each of us, individually, to grow our own soul. For the show notes, head to my Substack. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Lemonada.
0:05.7	Hi, it's Elise Loonen, host of Pulling the Thread, and I am so excited about today's guest,
0:12.0	the great scholar and thinker, Michael Mead.
0:17.2	Hey there, it's Julia Louis Dreyfus.
0:20.1	I'm back with a new season of Wiser Than Me, the show where I sit down with remarkable older women and soak up their stories, their humor, and their hard-earned wisdom.
0:32.2	Every conversation leaves me a little smarter and definitely more inspired.
0:37.1	And yes, I'm still calling my 91-year-old
0:40.0	mom, Judy, to get her take on it all. Wiser than me from Lemonade Media premieres November 12th,
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0:57.7	It's morning in New York. Oh, God.
1:01.3	Hey, everybody.
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1:03.8	And I'm Catherine Grady.
1:05.0	And we have a new podcast.
1:06.9	It's called Don't Listen to Us.
1:09.2	Many of you've asked for our advice. Tell me, what is wrong with you people? Don't Listen to Us. Many of you've asked for our advice.
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1:23.1	Thank you. Hi, it's Elise Loonan, host of Pulling the Thread.
1:39.0	On this show, we pull apart the web in which we all live to understand who we are and why we're here. My hope is that
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