What I Realized While Doing a Manifestation Program (Monthly Solo)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen

Lemonada Media

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In my one episode sans guest this month, I’m reflecting on: how we might enjoy solitude more (and fear loneliness less), the manifestation program I just finished (called the Money Challenge), how I’m feeling about attention and power these days, and a couple of other micro and macro realizations that are surfacing right now. For the show notes, head over 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.
0:05.8	Hi, it's Elise Lunan, host of Pulling the Thread.
0:09.9	And today's episode is Just Me.
0:15.0	Hey there, it's Julia Louis Dreyfuss.
0:17.9	I'm back with a new season of Wiser Than Me,
0:20.8	the show where I sit down
0:22.2	with remarkable older women and soak up their stories, their humor, and their hard-earned
0:28.9	wisdom.
0:30.3	Every conversation leaves me a little smarter and definitely more inspired, and yes, I'm still
0:36.1	calling my 91-year-old mom, Judy, to get her take on it all.
0:41.7	Wiser than me from Lemonade Media premieres November 12th, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:53.1	What is poetry's role when the world is burning, or so asked Christian Wyman once?
0:58.4	These days that question is no metaphor.
1:01.1	In a culture marked by unrest and anxiety, beauty can feel like a luxury or even a distraction.
1:07.1	But what if art and poetry are exactly what we need?
1:10.8	This fall on no small endeavor, I'm inviting
1:12.4	you to consider poetry as survival, as protest, as prayer, and as hope. Our new series, Poetry
1:18.8	Against the Dark, premieres on October 20. You'll hear from Joy Harjo, Holly Liza Gafori,
1:23.7	and Padra Gautuma, each showing how poetry can guide us through grief, nurture community, and spark imagination.
1:31.1	Because if we are to make it through the fires of our time, perhaps beauty is not optional.
1:36.6	It's essential.
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