Not Operating by the Checklist (Stacey Lindsay)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen

Lemonada Media

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

I met Stacey Lindsay about a decade ago and worked with her for a few years—she’s a curious, compassionate journalist and writer—but I didn’t know much of her own incredible personal story until I read her new book Being 40 and had this conversation with her. We talked about the meaning of this decade of our lives, but more broadly, we talked about the scripts and checklists that women are often handed throughout our lives—and how we go about setting these down, centering ourselves, and self-authoring. We talked about being disappointed by the people we love, about forgiveness, about breaking cycles, and about the people we want to become next. For the show notes, head to my Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Lemonado.
0:05.9	Hi, it's Elise Loonen, host of Pulling the Thread.
0:09.0	Today I'm talking to a former colleague and one of the sweetest people I know,
0:12.8	journalist Stacey Lindsay.
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1:39.6	Hi, it's Elise Lunan, host of pulling the thread. On this show, we pull apart the web in which we all live to understand who we are and why we're here.
1:49.5	My hope is that these conversations spark moments of resonance and plant tiny seeds of awareness so that we might all collectively learn and grow.
2:00.0	Here is today's guest, journalist Stacey Lindsay, on a pivotal moment in her 40s.
2:06.0	There's something beautiful about this age, this time that actually did propel me to want to
2:15.5	really start looking at this and really, really start doing the work
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