Krista Vernoff

Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky

Prufrock LLC

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

What does it take to walk away from one of the most powerful jobs in television? Monica sits down with legendary showrunner Krista Vernoff, a creative force behind Grey's Anatomy,Station 19, and Shameless, for a profoundly honest conversation about the real price of female success and the wakeup moment that demanded she start to reclaim her life from burnout. Krista pulls back the curtain on the makings of her remarkable career, from her unconventional "hippie artist" upbringing that taught her to break the rules, to the intense pressures of "having it all." She shares how shaping the behaviors and dialogue of the characters in her TV shows can impact social change and how she's used writing as a powerful healing modality to process her own grief and life experiences. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I go in for the results and the doctor says, you have the lungs of a 30-year-old swimmer.
0:12.8	Are you an athlete?
0:14.5	And I go, what?
0:16.4	Like, I haven't stopped coughing in four months.
0:18.5	And he goes, you do not have asthma.
0:20.4	You do not have any condition that I four months. And he goes, you do not have asthma. You do not have any
0:22.1	condition that I can diagnose. And I said, what do I do? And he goes, I swear to God, I just think
0:29.7	you need to take some long walks and look for the hummingbirds. Oh, wow. You are not walking.
0:36.3	You're not breathing. You're not, you're not in awe. You're not looking at nature. You are not walking. You're not breathing. You're not in awe.
0:39.0	You're not looking at nature.
0:40.3	You're not present.
0:41.3	You're not present.
0:42.6	Yeah, yeah.
0:42.9	You have to do something different than what you're doing.
0:49.0	You're doing. Krista, welcome to reclaiming.
1:01.9	Oh, this is it.
1:03.1	We're rolling.
1:03.6	Yeah.
1:04.6	We're just, it's super, like.
1:06.0	It's super, okay.
1:07.6	It's super chill here.
1:08.7	We're super chill.
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