Monica Lewinsky Reveals All: Life-Changing Lessons on Reclaiming Your Story, Your Power & Your Life! It’s Never Too Late!
3/10/20261 hr 16 min
You have the power to reclaim your story, to reclaim the narrative of who you truly are and to reclaim your life! And today we’re talking about RECLAIMING with my guest and friend, Monica Lewinsky. If you’ve ever felt like your past, maybe a past mistake, a bad decision, an embarrassing failure or something painful that’s happened to you in your past is holding you back, or defining who you are…maybe that past version of yourself that others knew you for has been lingering over you and keeping you stuck from stepping into the next most bea...
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First 90 secondsJamie Kern Lima· Host0:00
You fell in love with your boss. Yours just happened to be the President of the United States and the most powerful man in the world.
Monica Lewinsky· Guest0:07
And married.
Jamie Kern Lima· Host0:07
And married. Um- They need to own that. That became one of the most public vilifications and collective public shamings of just about any woman in our history.
Monica Lewinsky· Guest0:17
Yeah.
Jamie Kern Lima· Host0:17
I mean, the scale, the scale of the press, you instantly became a household name.
Monica Lewinsky· Guest0:23
I remember waking up, and I lived in the Watergate apartment complex, newspapers down the entire hallway, and seeing my name there for something that was awful and destructive to, to so many people personally. Watching myself be torn apart, and I already had self-esteem issues. Like, I wouldn't have been in this situation if I didn't have self-esteem issues. I think that it was also reflective of, um, women- Mm-hmm ... how we feel about women.
Jamie Kern Lima· Host0:58
Mm-hmm.
Monica Lewinsky· Guest0:58
You know, the same way that there were women tied to a post and burned at a stake and called- Yes ... a witch.
Jamie Kern Lima· Host1:03
Yes.
Monica Lewinsky· Guest1:04
And so those things have always been in our collective history.
Jamie Kern Lima· Host1:09
Mm-hmm.
Monica Lewinsky· Guest1:10
You know, it was not a physical burning, but a public burning, but a- an emotional burning.
Jamie Kern Lima· Host1:14
It wasn't called the Clinton scandal.
Monica Lewinsky· Guest1:16
Yeah.
Jamie Kern Lima· Host1:17
It was called the Lewinsky scandal.
Monica Lewinsky· Guest1:19
Yeah.
Jamie Kern Lima· Host1:19
It's your name everywhere. It's your- And my family's name. Your family's name.
Monica Lewinsky· Guest1:22
You know, it's not even just, just me, but everybody who had my last name suffered.
Jamie Kern Lima· Host1:27
When someone has gone through