Monica Lewinsky

And so...

I think there was a big unlocking for me.

I have a lot of sadness around not having had kids.

And so this, I think like the connecting of, okay, this same creative force that you use to, you know, grow a child is the same creative force that you use to

birth an article or a show or something.

And so I think in that way, I hadn't thought about that as connected to survival.

And until I heard you say that in the documentary.

Yeah.

Well, you have your book, The Book of Alchemy.

And so is that how you define alchemy or is there a way you define it?

Yeah.

Did you have sort of artistic training?

Well, teacher, I mean, that's an incredible metaphor for life.

It is.

I mean, that is a really...

Well, and also I think that relationship, too, between—

our expectations of ourselves, our expectations of excellence.

And I know you have a journal that goes with your book and your, you know, I did that journaling class with you and John at the weekend thing, whatever.

And

It's really interesting to me what your mom was saying because I think so many of us get held up by the voice in our head, right?