The Jamie Kern Lima Show - First Lady Michelle Obama Reveals All! (Pt 2) Life-Changing Lessons on Fear, Faith, Purpose & Hope!

Episode Date: November 18, 2025

I am so excited for PART 2 of our conversation with First Lady Michelle Obama! She’s here with you and me, in person on the Jamie Kern Lima Show! And I have to say, it’s one of the most inspiring ...conversations we’ve ever had on the show! She’s truly revealing all, and shares stories, insights and life-changing lessons she’s never shared before! Get ready to cry (she does in this episode too!), to laugh and gain soul-filling inspiration! And when I say we talk about all the things, we truly talk about all the things! Including the questions you submitted…I asked them, and she answered! All of them! From leadership, to fear, to using your voice and trusting it! To God, and Faith, and our Calling! From learning to hear your intuition, to the relationship we have with loved ones who’ve passed, to how to Ignite Your Inner Light & Celebrate Who You Are with Confidence! In her new book The Look, Michelle reveals for the first time ever how she and her team transformed the scrutiny of her public image into a celebration of self-expression, inclusion, and impact. She also has a brand new IMO podcast series on The Look as well! You can find both here: https://michelleobamabooks.com/ And be sure to tune into her award winning podcast IMO, wherever you listen to or watch your podcasts! I am so happy you’re here and thank you for being part of the JKL Show podcast family. The intention of this show is to be a force for good and a force for love. I have guests on that might vote differently, love differently or pray differently from you and me because I believe: To heal humanity through love, we must first understand the humans who make it up! I am SO happy you are here…no matter how you vote, you love or you pray, you belong here! Full Video Available on YouTube ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@JamieKernLimaOfficial⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Are You Ready to believe in YOU?🙌⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ jamiekernlima.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 👈 Sign up for my FREE Inspirational Newsletter here and you’ll ALSO get special prompt questions to help you grow in your self-worth-building that pair with each episode!🩷  Make sure to click the “Follow” button for the show on your favorite podcast app, so you’ll be the first to get each episode!  Get your copy of ⁠The Look⁠ Watch or listen to Michelle’s inspiring new ⁠IMO:The Look⁠ special podcast series Subscribe to Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson’s ⁠IMO Podcast⁠ Episode Reflection Questions for YOU: Jamie writes prompt questions each episode to spark revelations in your self-worth journey and help you apply the tools and lessons from each episode into your real life right now. Please make sure you’re signed up for Jamie’s free inspirational newsletter ⁠⁠⁠⁠ jamiekernlima.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ 👈 Get my new book WORTHY plus FREE Bonus gifts including a 95+ page Worthy Workbook and more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠WorthyBook.com⁠⁠⁠⁠  For more resources related to today’s episode, click here ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://jamiekernlima.com/show/⁠⁠⁠⁠ for the podcast episode page. Chapters: 0:00 Welcome to The Jamie Kern Lima Show  7:15 Continuing Relationships With Parents Who’ve Passed 24:20 On Knowing God Exists 26:35 God Would Do That 31:20 Truly Living Your Beliefs It’s such an honor to share this podcast together with you. And please note: I am not a licensed therapist, and this podcast is NOT intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional. Click⁠⁠⁠⁠ Here⁠⁠⁠⁠ to Subscribe to the YouTube Channel Follow me here:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠ —  Sign up for my inspirational newsletter for YOU at:⁠⁠⁠⁠ jamiekernlima.com⁠⁠⁠⁠  —  Looking for my books on Amazon? Here they are!  ⁠⁠⁠⁠WORTHY⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Believe IT

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Coming up in this incredible part two conversation with Monica Lewinsky. I was trying to get small again because that feels safe to me. And the universe is like, uh-uh, you got to do more. Having been through so much public humiliation and shame and carted it around for a long time, all I can say is that I know it's possible for it to get better. I had Bell's Palsy a few years ago and it was so surprising to me how not freaked out I was
Starting point is 00:00:34 those are the kinds of when you're expansive What role, if any, did faith play? What can be hard with trauma is sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between your trauma-protective reaction, a hypervigilance, and your intuition. There are still times,
Starting point is 00:00:57 today that I feel the shame. You know, I can feel it in my body. It's sort of, it's on my shoulders or it's in my stomach or, you know, it's just a kind of wanting to protect myself feeling. Yes. And they happen less. You're going to be out there wanting to shine as brightly as you can. Yeah. And that's a different kind of beauty. Yes. Lucy reclaiming is taking back what was yours. Was there a moment where you're like, I am taking my power back, I'm taking my story back. wrote the Vanity Fair essay in 2014. That essay led to me giving the Forbes 30 under 30 talk with, you know, which led to me being able to start doing anti-bullying work and my TED talk. And even from
Starting point is 00:01:41 there, but there were, you know, there were women who had gone to TED for a long time who didn't feel I belonged on that stage who skipped my session as a form of protest, which they're of course allowed to. The healing and the reclaiming comes from it not hitting you as hard, it not keeping you as down for as long. But I think one of the ways social media has been positive for me is people have connected to my humor. Monica Lewinsky is the host of the wildly successful podcast called Reclaiming. So make sure you check that out right away.
Starting point is 00:02:17 It's so good. She's also a producer, social and anti-bullying activist, global public speaker, and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. Her focus is on storytelling that moves the conversation forward around shame, reclaiming identities and justice for women. She's also the executive producer of The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox out now on Hulu. Monica's TED talk on The Price of Shame has been viewed by over 22 million people. Monica holds a master's degree from the London School of Economics.
Starting point is 00:02:52 She's also smart, incredibly witty, maybe the best curator. of Instagram content that will make you literally laugh out loud daily. And whether today you're listening for yourself or because someone that you love shared this episode with you. I want to welcome you to the Jamie Kern-Lemma Show podcast family. And if you're here right now, can you do me a favor? If you like the show and you love the guests that I bring you, can you please hit the subscribe or follow button on the app that you're listening or watching on?
Starting point is 00:03:23 It truly means the world to me. Thank you. So I want to remind you, this episode is not just for you and me. Please share this with every single person that you know, because what you're about to hear will change your life and theirs. Welcome to the Jamie Kern-Lima Show. Oprah, how have you defied the odd? Her show is unlike any I've ever done.
Starting point is 00:03:48 A revelation. When you listen, it feels like a hug, but your brain and your spirit and your heart is like, wow. Melinda French Gates. When I look into Jamie's eyes, I feel like I am on some other cosmic level with her. I could see the light around her. She's infused with light. Imagine overcoming self-doubt, learning to believe in yourself and trust yourself and know you are enough.
Starting point is 00:04:18 Welcome to the Jamie Kern-Lima show. Jamie Kern-Lima is her name. Everybody needs Jamie Kron Lema and their wife. Jamie Kern, Lima. Jamie, you're so inspiring. Jamie Kern, Lima. You say at 39 that you maybe wondered if you'd make it out of 39. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:42 It was an avalanche of disappointments that happened. And all of those disappointments. became blessings so you know everything that fell apart um it was it it really was for my own good and it is so hard to see that when you're in it when you're in it it is so hard but i think that um i always feel one of the most important parts of sharing our stories as we do in in in whatever medium, right, whether it's a podcast or a book or a conversation one-on-one, what is so important about it is the wisdom and the hopeful bits. They get stored somewhere in us, even if we didn't choose to, and they're there.
Starting point is 00:05:38 And they may just come peek out and whisper, you know, in some of the darkest moments. And I feel like that's the benefit. that's the beauty of doing these kinds of stories. And so for me, I'm sure that I had some of those lodged in there for me, but it's also why I enjoy talking about this period, like even though it was so difficult and so painful is because actually 10 years later, I found myself in some similar situations, which could have led to the same kind of falling apart. Yeah. But, because I had gone through that experience before, I took a totally different tactic. I had different emotional reactions to it. I didn't fall apart. And instead, I just, I recognize,
Starting point is 00:06:30 okay, I see what happened here. I was trying to get small again because that feels safe to me. And the universe is like, uh-uh, you got to do more. So it is, and being able to lean into that and recognize, okay, if I'm going to do that, well, I need more help. So how am I going to get more help to do that? And it was a very different experience for me, you know, so I mean, a lot of people, I'm grateful, a lot of people in my life who've been with me for a long time, you know, would say, wow, I was really surprised. I had Bell's palsy a few years ago, and it was so surprising to me how not freaked out I was.
Starting point is 00:07:14 You know, once I went to the neurologist and she was like, well, worst case scenario, you just get a lot of Botox and filler and this and that. And I think once I was like, okay, I can look worst case scenario, I look semi-normal. All right. Let's just see what happens. And I think those are the kinds of when you're expansive. Yes. So many people, even right now, like feel so alone in their shame. What are some insights in how you've navigated? your whole journey through experiencing shame and where you're at with it today. Yeah. I still experience shame around some of the same things as before, but definitely not as deeply.
Starting point is 00:08:05 I don't have shame around as many things as I did back then. But I think in a way, what's really impacted me, And I think what helped me were the things people gave me. So the different ways that my friends might send me something funny or someone who would encourage me of like, I know you feel like you can't pick up the phone and even just make an appointment to have a session, you know, can I call and do that for you? Someone, this will sound so stupid and material, somebody giving me a really nice birthday gift of like a fancy thing that I wanted that I couldn't afford, it meant the world to me.
Starting point is 00:08:53 Like, you know, it just, because I think it's the little ways that we, that we sort of plug the holes and that helps, it helps hold someone. I don't know that that, does that make sense? It does make sense. Okay. I think that's so valuable because a lot of us know we have a friend right now that's going through it. And it's like just hearing also what matter to you and how people showed up.
Starting point is 00:09:15 Right. And I think that that's equally important. We can never know what someone else is like actually experiencing and going through. We can imagine it, right? You know, especially if we've gone through it and having been through so much public humiliation and shame and carted it around for a long time, all I can say is that I know it's possible for it to get better. I don't know when that will happen for someone.
Starting point is 00:09:43 what role, if any, did faith play in it and in your life right now? Yeah, I am spiritual and not religious. So it depends on how you want to define faith, right? I think that there is, and it can be hard for people with trauma, but there is a knowingness in us and the ability to hear the whispers. What can be hard with trauma is sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between your trauma protective reaction, a hypervigilance, and your intuition. So it's, you know, trying to work on those things, trying to notice when things are different,
Starting point is 00:10:32 trying to notice a small shift that I made and just going, okay, that's a little different. It's 10% different than, I mean, that's one of the people I've worked with, like she's always talking about the 10% rule, you know, she's like, okay, how can you clear 10% of the clutter from the drawer? How can you clear 10% of the clutter from your mind right now? And those other things of just making small, you know, small steps. Do you believe God exists? Oh, I believe there is a universal force and power and energy. And I think there is a part of me that believes a God exists. But there's a part of me that just sees it as something bigger and to me more magical because I know for many people there could be nothing more magical than God. And I totally
Starting point is 00:11:26 respect that. I think for me, sometimes what I struggle with a little bit with the idea of God is that it's, it feels personified and idolized. And therefore, because it feels like it is put into almost a human form, it's always this idea of, we're less than, we're always less than. And so I think that's sometimes what I struggle with. And I struggle with the question I think a lot of people do, whether it's God or a universal force of, then why is there so much suffering, you know? And some people would say, like, I believe in a lot of different dimensions and, you know, that we exist in different dimensions and, you know, the multiverse. I'm very, you know, it's very exciting to me that for this, with these younger generations that we had, you know,
Starting point is 00:12:23 everything everywhere all at once and some of the Marvel movies that they're talking about the multiverse. And I'm like, these are in mainstream media. It's amazing to me. So a lot of people will talk about the third dimension. We're in the body. And that's part of part of our experience here, what we sign up for to come to this fucking crazy school. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. I know you, I know you have very deep faith. I do all the questions you have that you just posed. I just had the most, oh, Monica, the most incredible conversation with Pastor Irwin McManus, who believes so strongly in science. And I ask all the questions.
Starting point is 00:13:10 It is so good. It's going to come out after our episode, but we'll send it to you. It's exactly what you shared is how so many people feel, right? Because I think from our human perspective, too, there's so much we can't see or prove or that even makes sense, when you get your intuition and those whispers, do you feel it comes from that energy, that's collective energy or greater than something greater than yourself? I think it's, I think it is, it is a channeling, you know. I think it is being open to source.
Starting point is 00:13:43 I think ideas come through us. Creativity comes through us. Yeah. And it's really about trying to, I think, be as open. and clear as possible with identity and with shame and there's so many parts of your journey and I love that you're sharing at age 39 and going into 40 would you say that year was because you've been you've been open about you know when you're 24 and going do I want to wake up the next day and being in so much pain would you say age 39 40?
Starting point is 00:14:25 was harder or more dark of a time? I think that there were, I don't know that it was one specific year per se, but I think there were times, you know, that's the year I sort of ended up coming out of the dark decade, but there were a lot of times in the latter half of the dark decade, dark decade in particular that were hard. That were really hard. I think everyone can relate to this, that whether it's in school, in their job, in their in-laws family, we've all experienced hurtful things people say about us. And how did it impact
Starting point is 00:15:05 you when you would hear somebody, maybe in the media or maybe in a comment somewhere, maybe they're trying to be funny on a show or whatever it is and they actually use your, use you and who you are as in a comment that maybe is hurtful or implies that you're maybe unworthy of love or being somebody's partner or being whatever it might be. I think for me, I experienced it as if you almost think about those buckets of like as a bag or a backpack, right? And I have many. There's, you know, marriage or how I look.
Starting point is 00:15:50 or a career, you know, my sexuality or how my physicality. I was just all of those things. Yes. Every time somebody would do that, they were handing me a brick that had to go in that bag that I had to carry around. And so that is where there's the damage that we do to our, it's like a symbiotic relationship, right? Because if we have feelings of a lack of self-worth, then we engage with that
Starting point is 00:16:20 negativity and it's it's almost like there was a receptor that was sort of waiting for it to happen of like this could be happy i worry that this is what's wrong with me and someone else says it and gives it to you you sort of end up um it just weighs you down even more it makes whatever's been there worse yeah um and i think that it's there are still times today that i feel the shame you know I can feel it in my body. It's sort of, it's on my shoulders or it's in my stomach or, you know, it's just a kind of wanting to protect myself feeling. Yes.
Starting point is 00:16:59 And they happen less. And also because I think I've had many more positive experiences or even there have been more photos that I don't cringe when I see them of myself out there. It just, it sort of ameliorates any of the negativity. I might have felt when that was all that was out there, you know, negative headlines or unattractive photos that it just, it balances it. And so, I don't know a single woman that has ever been in any type of public role whose appearance wasn't criticized. Right? It doesn't even matter if she's running for president or she's, you know, I don't know a single one. I remember
Starting point is 00:17:45 when I became a news anchor for the first time. So I'm public in the time. The time. I'm public in the tiniest market in the tiniest town. And I'll never forget the first time someone rode in and talked about my weight or how my chin is so big or how this or how that. And I just remember starting to process that for the first time. And hearing that you say things like that can feel like a brick and another brick, another break. I so get that. And I feel like everyone can relate to that right now. We're in a world now where the person who wanted to be private and do a private job as a lawyer. They now have a public profile and their faces online and their Yelp review and you just get these bricks. But I've never known a woman in particular who hasn't gotten
Starting point is 00:18:29 feedback negative criticism of her appearance if she's public. Did that happen to you? Oh yeah. Yeah. I mean, I was, you know, really torn apart for every aspect of my physicality, you know. So how did that impact to you and does it at all today? Sure. I mean, I'm human and a woman. I'm like, of course, impacted by how people receive me, you know, today and publicly. It leads to a lot of extra anxiety or waste of time of things of just how much you put into thinking about that. I think there's so many things that all kind of work in concert in terms of the more healing work you're doing, the lighter you are, the lighter you are. you feel and that there's more light that can shine out of you. Yes. It's about more than just the makeup we slap on and the great outfit we put on and whether or not our jeans fit perfectly that day or too tight or too loose or whatever that is.
Starting point is 00:19:37 Yeah. I did Kundalini yoga for a little while. How was that? I was so hard. Was it hard? I've never tried it. I watch it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:45 It was really hard. But I was fascinated. by the glow of so many of the women that I saw who were, you know, quite diligent in their practice and in their lifestyle, you know. So, so not, but not just being about what they're eating, you know, it was also around their resonance, their vibration. Yeah. What, what they're connecting with, how they're moving their bodies. And that was attractive to me, you know, was sort of a, you know, this, an idea of just, if you're going to be out there, wanting to shine as brightly as you can.
Starting point is 00:20:28 Yeah. And that's a different kind of beauty than what we're used to commenting on. Right. You know. Do you feel beautiful? We need to pause for a super brief break. And while we do, take a moment to share this episode with every single person that you know who this could inspire.
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Starting point is 00:24:42 to stop overthinking and learn to trust yourself at jamikernlema.com slash resources or click the link in the show notes below. And now more of this incredible conversation together. Do you feel beautiful. Sometimes. Yeah. Sometimes, you know, it's probably not as much as I wish I did, you know, so. Yeah. It's always, I think it's easy for friends to look at another friend and be like, do they see themselves, you know? So I'm curious. I think I, I, you know, when I was younger, I remember my grandma used to say to me like, oh, you have a classic beauty. Older, people see your beauty like i wasn't conventionally pretty for for my age in my grade or when i was younger and um and i think and then you know from things that happened i was like in 98 of being
Starting point is 00:25:42 called the portly pepper pot in the new york post of the cartoons the you know all the late night shows the the Halloween costumes i mean all of those things um you know whatever insecurities i had going into that year, that all exacerbated it, you know, and put it on steroids. So reclaiming that, connecting to myself, all of those things, we often hear about these kinds of stories and change as if there was a moment where we arrived and it's like you crossed a finish line and you're like, you reclaimed, you survived, you're healed. And it's not like that at all. You know, it's, it is, it's really, it's a, it's looking at things almost in the way of averages, you know, of like, okay, are things better?
Starting point is 00:26:38 Yeah. You see reclaiming is taking back what was yours, something that you possesses lost or stolen and ultimately you triumph in finding it again. I'm so excited to talk about your show and also about just. so many different areas of life and how we were to clean them. Was there a moment where you're like, okay, I am taking my power back, I'm taking my story back, I'm taking my narrative back. Was it a gradual thing? It was gradual. Gradual. It was gradual because when I wrote the Vanity Fair essay in 2014, which was really this sort of first, you know, public statement or anything really public that I'd done in 10 years, it was, none of us knew how it was going to land. It was, none of us knew how it was going to
Starting point is 00:27:24 Yeah. And so I had been trying to plan these other things. And I was like, okay, well, I'm going to be strategic and I'm going to do this. And after this happens, then that. That essay, when that came out, women everywhere were cheering, we're screaming, we're screaming, hell yes. We're also having aha moments. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:47 It's, but there were, there were a lot of people and women who were still in, on the old narrative train and didn't see that. And even, you know, it was that essay led to me giving the Forbes 30 under 30 talk with, you know, which led to me being able to start doing anti-bullying work and my TED talk and even from there. But there were, you know, there were women who had gone to TED for a long time who didn't feel I belonged on that stage who skipped my session as a form of protest, which they're of course allowed to. Yeah. But it's, um, it's so, It wasn't, there was never, nor does it feel to me right now, as if there are these gates that are wide open that I have crossed into a land where those other things won't happen
Starting point is 00:28:38 or can't happen again. And they sometimes happen in smaller ways, but I think the healing and the reclaiming comes from it not hitting you as hard, it not keeping you as down for as long. And so, you know, I'll talk about, I consider, I have road rage and I consider when I'm in the car and I've like called someone a fuck face, but I haven't flick them off yet. And I stop myself from also flicking them off. Yeah. That's a reclaiming. Like I have, I have, I lost my control and I have taken it back.
Starting point is 00:29:15 Yes. And so these small things that happen all the time. Yeah. You know, they're, we have those kinds of moments. And I just, I don't, I don't think it's ever binary of like, it's now done. You're now healed. It's now, you know, I still, I mean, my publicist and I, I think so much of sometimes what she has to do now is hold my hand through the trauma that resurfaces of old things.
Starting point is 00:29:46 Of like, oh, no, it's going to be okay. It's not too much. It's not, you know, those headlines aren't going to happen again. Do you think, you know, you mentioned earlier this idea of like, oh, people will just get to know me, then it's going to be okay. Do you feel like when that Vanity Fair article came out and especially younger generations, but also a lot of women, all generations, do you feel like, oh, they're starting to get to know me, what I've gone through who I am, who I'm becoming, that kind of thing? Yes. And I think, you know, this is, we see all the real. perils of social media um but i think one of the ways social media has been positive for me is people have connected to my humor or yes you know my my my sense of um how i observe things you know
Starting point is 00:30:42 and i'll go from something you know funny and stupid to funny and smart to heartfelt to heartbreaking and they're all reflections of me you know But also me and how I see the world, too, that I know there are other people or imagine there are other people out there who will laugh at the same thing or for whom they needed that little extra message of a push, you know, today too. Yes. I have to say, I know I said it in the beginning, if you are not on Monica's Instagram, I'm telling you right now, your life's about to get better.
Starting point is 00:31:21 your life's about to get better you're about to laugh more in your day you're about to feel more seen more seen more you're i always and and i think this is a proven fact you have to be so smart to be funny right you have to be so smart i will it's funny when people are saying well what are you looking for in a guy and i'm like well definitely you know funny witty because if you're funny or witty like you you are smart so yes but it's i had a really nice thing happen i gave a talk. I think it was last year. It's so hard to remember the years post-COVID. It's like, yeah, you know, was it last year or three years ago? I don't know. But I was, I gave a talk. There was a, you know, sort of meet and greet kind of thing after. And this young woman came up
Starting point is 00:32:11 and she was telling me how she was working, she worked nights to put herself through school and that her, she loved my stories and that she always found that they kind of made her laugh when she needed to laugh and, you know, cry when she needed to cry. And that was really the first moment I had of like, oh, okay, you know, you don't always know on social media with things of, you know, if something's connecting. I mean, I have a few of my friends that don't know each other that I'm constantly going, okay, you guys really need to be friends because you all send me the same thing that you found funny. People send you stuff. They post this because it's like so funny. Not so much that but the but people who will sort of you know put the laughing emoji is as a comment to
Starting point is 00:32:54 the story yes and so the it's often the handful of same people who find the same things funny yeah you know or and actually amy griffin that i know you had on you know she and i think our friendship really deepened because it was like oh i feel that deep you know and she'd post things and it's it's a language right it's a language right it's a language of finding similarity with people. And I think that's part of, part of what we're so thirsty for today, right? Is that connectivity. Yes.
Starting point is 00:33:28 And the feeling, you know, we feel alone in so many different ways. And it's, the world is heavy right now. Yes. It's just heavy for those of us who are sensitive. I love that. Exactly what you said is how I feel when I'm on your stories. It's like, I'll get something that's so. thought provoking or so just smart or so compassionate and then it'll be laugh out loud and then it will
Starting point is 00:33:55 be like self-deprecating and then it'll be but that in a way we all can connect with or it'll be like oh yeah I had those scratch and stiff stickers in the 80s oh my gosh I miss those and you're like all are good but the popcorn one I'm like that's right yeah and like it's just this kind of um I saw someone this morning that was so funny it was talking about okay remember those little sundays we'd get at the cafeteria that vanilla with the chocolate and they were like but the wooden spoon you have to have the wooden spoon because that's part of the taste of the ice cream yes okay i saw that in your stories this morning i was laughing out loud the little swirl dish in ice cream with the wooden spoon i'm like yeah you're right i do remember the taste of the wooden spoon and half the taste it is
Starting point is 00:34:37 it is and also who knows what real ingredients were in that ice cream but it was good exactly it was good um know the stuff that you find and that you post I mean, it's the algorithm. Like, I don't post everything, but I get served great, you know. Yeah. Well, you curate it so well. You curate it so well. So anyone not on Monica's Instagram, you're pretty much missing out.
Starting point is 00:35:03 Come to the party. Yes, come to the party. This conversation is so powerful and so inspiring. We made it into more than one part. And coming up in this incredible and final part three of our conversation. on reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky, if you've ever felt like your past, maybe a past mistake, a bad decision, an embarrassing failure,
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