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Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen

Writer Elise Loehnen explores life’s big questions with today’s leading thinkers, experts, and luminaries: Why do we do what we do? How can we understand and love ourselves better? What would it look like to come together and build a more meaningful world? Sales and Distribution by Lemonada Media https://lemonadamedia.com/

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62:37

Who Am I If I’m Not Pleasing Anyone? (Meggan Watterson)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen ·

2025/07/24

Today, I’m talking to Meggan Watterson—theologian and author of The Girl Who Baptized Herself—about the importance of being embodied, the search for self, where we derive power, and the way that culture is edited and passed down to us. Watterson tells the incredible stories behind the Gospel of Mary (and what happened to Mary Magdalene), and the Acts of Paul and Thecla (and what happened to Thecla). We also explore where my work meets hers, and the birth of the seven powers, which become the seven

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61:20

How to Be an Effective Idealist (Rutger Bregman)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen ·

2025/07/17

Rutger Bregman is the New York Times–bestselling author of Moral Ambition. Today, he shares his model for living a more meaningful life. It’s not about being an idealist, or following your “passions.” It is, in many ways, about effectively solving the problems in our lives using the talents we already have.For Rutger Bregman’s work (including that amazing viral Davos clip, in case you missed it), head over to my Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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57:30

What Would Happen If We Related to Money Differently?...

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen ·

2025/07/10

“What matters is: Are you free?” asks Elizabeth Ralph. “Do you feel free?” Ralph is a former finance trader, and the founder of the Spiritual Investor, where she now helps people reach financial freedom in less traditional ways. Together, we explore some of my own (self-limiting) stories around money, and how our ego and identity gets wrapped up in our relationship to money. Ralph coaches us through moving toward a place of money neutrality, where it feels like money doesn’t have such a tight grip

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38:23

The Gold of Midlife (Chip Conley)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen ·

2025/07/03

“The midlife crisis is not a dark night of the soul,” says Chip Conley, founder of the Modern Elder Academy. “It’s a dark night of the ego.” Conley, who is also the author of Learning to Love Midlife, outlines the main myths that we’re led to believe about midlife—and some optimistic data about what actually happens during this chapter of our lives. He shares different frameworks for navigating the transitions that come in midlife. We talk about how in the early parts of our lives, we’re often

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57:02

Is This Our Push Up the Spiral? (Monthly Solo)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen ·

2025/06/30

In this month’s solo episode, I’m sharing: The tools and people helping me to manage my fear right now. Thoughts on growing up versus waking up. The most important things I’ve learned from the Spiral Dynamics theory of human development, and Ken Wilbur’s concept of holarchies. What makes me believe there is a way for many of us to expand our worldviews and push up the spiral now. And more.For the show notes (and so many links if you want to go deeper), head over to my Substack. Learn more about

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61:47

Why Does the Genius Myth Have a Hold Over Us? (Helen...

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen ·

2025/06/26

In her new book, The Genius Myth, journalist Helen Lewis explores how and why we label certain people geniuses; and the impact this has on said geniuses, us, and culture at large. Today, we talk about our perception of the exceptional, and some of our more pernicious and dark misperceptions.For the show notes, head over to my Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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63:03

A Formula for Coming Alive (Shannon Watts)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen ·

2025/06/19

“Living on fire is really a metaphor for figuring out two things,” says Shannon Watts. “What is limiting you. And what is calling you.” Watts spent 11 years as the full-time volunteer lead of Moms Demand Action, which she founded. Now, as she puts it, Watts continues to summon the audacity of other women. Today, she shares so many useful life nuggets from her new book, Fired Up: How to Turn Your Spark Into a Flame and Come Alive at Any Age.For the show notes, head over to my Substack. Learn more

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55:59

Orienting Around What’s Life-Giving (Krista Tippett)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen ·

2025/06/12

“You're going to find a lot of people doing their best, revealing how beautiful and strange we are, and how remarkable we can be,” says Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and founder of On Being Krista Tippett. In this conversation, Tippett shares where we might turn for more hope and pleasure, and how she thinks about what shapes our presence in the world.For the show notes, head over to my Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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59:29

Should Romantic Love Be at the Center of Our Lives?...

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen ·

2025/06/05

In her new memoir, The Dry Season, Melissa Febos (award-winning author of Girlhood) examines her (and our culture’s) relationship to love, to falling in love with someone, to being in love with someone. Today, we talk about why she decided to spend a year celibate after a particularly rough breakup, and what more she wanted from a relationship, from herself, and for her life. We talk about being conditioned to be codependent, the lovely things that have happened in our own long-term relationships

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44:17

Moving Away from Hierarchy (Danielle Gibbons)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen ·

2025/05/29

Okay, this is a wild one. Danielle Gibbons is not a psychic, but she is a channel—she channels messages from Mother Mary. Today, she’s sharing her origin story, and a message from Mother: about how to create something sustainable and meaningful, adapt to these ever-evolving times, and find a little bit of beauty right now. For the show notes, head over to my Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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54:18

How Do We Get Efficient with Our Energy? (Monthly Solo)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen ·

2025/05/27

In May’s monthly solo episode, I’m reflecting on: motherhood, my mom, the Performance of Parenthood, and what provokes my anger around Mother’s Day. How badly the world needs us all to hold a balance of the masculine and feminine—and how badly we need the feminine to rise in men. What it might look like if we didn’t operate out of fear. Applying my writing process and system to other areas of life. What keeps us from saying no, and what keeps us from saying yes—based on our Enneagram types. And,

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38:59

Is It Time to Stop Optimizing? (Coco Krumme)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen ·

2025/05/22

“I think both of those things are problematic—both that we’ve optimized too many things and that it’s our sole worldview,” says Coco Krumme, applied mathematician and author of Optimal Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization. Today, we talk about what we lose by prioritizing optimization above all else—and what we could gain by choosing something else. We also talk about why Krumme thinks the threat of surveillance capitalism is overblown, and why she’s more optimistic about what humans can do

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42:36

An Episode from Other People’s Problems: On Psychedelics

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen ·

2025/05/19

Here, I'm sharing another podcast series with you, called Other People’s Problems. In her new season, host and therapist Hillary McBride explores the potential power of psychedelics in a therapeutic setting. She leads clients through drug-assisted therapy—and we'll experience these real, unscripted sessions as they unfold, and get a more honest look at therapy using psychedelics. Which I hope helps to further demystify this often misunderstood practice and tool in trauma recovery.In this

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62:14

What the Next Big Astrological Shifts Mean for Us...

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen ·

2025/05/15

Psychological astrologer Jennifer Freed, PhD, shares: What’s happening, astrologically speaking, that can inform the choices we make now, in the present. And she gives us a preview of what’s coming, and what opportunities the next astrological shifts will bring us. “Coming this summer, we will have a full transformation of planets and their signs,” says Freed.For the show notes and links to Freed’s latest projects, head over to my Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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64:38

Trusting in the Synchronicity of the Universe (Satya...

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen ·

2025/05/08

Satya Doyle Byock is a psychotherapist, author of Quarter-Life, and a great teacher of Carl Jung’s work. She uses the I Ching, an ancient Taoist divination system, as a tool to help guide her life. (Not dissimilar to how others might consult tarot, astrology, Human Design, etc.) Today, we talk about the beauty of the I Ching, and much more. Including: How we’re seeking some combination of meaning and stability in our lives, a balance of the inner and outer world, and more harmony between rationalism

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62:04

But What If the Bible Doesn’t Say That? (Dan...

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen ·

2025/05/01

“It’s a shame that we lose so much of that history and we silence so many of those voices when we just try to flatten the whole Bible,” says scholar, TikTok hero, and author Dan McClellan. Today we talk about why McClellan has chosen to attend to questions about the Bible, and challenge people who want to translate it, or negotiate with it, to the benefit of their own dogma. We also talk about how he squares this with his own faith (McClellan became a Mormon at the age of 20). And we explore past

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54:15

Another Way of Seeing Betrayal (Monthly Solo)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen ·

2025/04/28

For April’s guest-less episode, I’m looking back on the wild ride that was this month, and trying to make sense of this period of contemplation in my life. I share a few realizations I’ve had about: uncertainty (involving Phil Stutz’s “evil wedding cake” theory); betrayal (involving a special tarot reading with Mark Horn); whether or not I have faith that the universe will support me (involving a group workshop on what women want); and what we’re meant to be doing here (involving a gondola ride with

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61:13

A System for Getting What’s Missing in Your Life...

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen ·

2025/04/24

“ Here are my real tools—because fantasy tools give you fantasy results,” says Laura Day, New York Times–bestselling author and renowned psychic. Today we get into her new book, The Prism, and her simple, effective approach to the kind of change that is often tiny, and incremental, and yet can reconstruct your whole life.For the show notes, head over to my Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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56:15

Understanding How Someone Else Is Wired (Kurt Gray, PhD)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen ·

2025/04/17

What actually motivates us? When we disagree with someone else—how can we do it better? Social psychologist and author of Outraged, Kurt Gray, PhD, shares what he’s learned from studying the behaviors of people with different experiences. He corrects a few funny things we got wrong about human evolution. And he explains what “concept creep” and “the creep of harm” mean—and why we’re generally much safer than we think. We talk about what tends to give birth to polarization, why we behave the way we

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49:12

When Does Manifestation Work? (Anne Emerson)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen ·

2025/04/10

“ My work is about getting the logjams out of your personal river so things can flow again,” says one-of-a-kind, intuitive coach Anne Emerson. Today, she outlines her process (holographic repatterning) for helping people to work through limiting beliefs—to recognize the false stories that we tell ourselves on repeat, and to break free from them. It’s perhaps surprisingly fun.For the show notes, head over to my Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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