The Monarc Tapes

We all say we want community but do we want the work that comes with it?In this episode, we unpack the uncomfortable truth about community: it’s inconvenient. It demands your time, your vulnerability, and your presence even when it’s not easy or cute. Drawing on insights from bell hooks’ All About Love and Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering, we explore how capitalism, hyperindividualism, and the pursuit of ease have distorted our understanding of what it means to belongThis episode is your invitation to rethink how you show up and what you’re willing to give up to build something real.

This one’s personal. We're talking about that phone. The one you’re probably holding right now. The one that’s rewired our brains, murdered our attention spans, and low-key made boredom extinct.In this episode, I unpack how social media addiction has reshaped the way we think, feel, and relate to ourselves. We get into dopamine culture, the lost art of boredom, and how our need to constantly feel stimulated might just be a soft, velvet-gloved symptom of something deeper like economic anxiety, the Gen Z identity crisis, and even the rise of the soft girl aesthetic as a quiet form of conservatism.This isn’t a digital detox sermon. It's more of a mirror. Maybe even a soft call to take your time and your mind back one scroll at a time.Listen in, laugh with me, and maybe... just maybe, put your phone down after.

I decided to journal about this after I saw a substack on “the weight of wanting love” the writer captured how the desire for love regardless of how you choose to navigate life will still creep up on you so beautifully . I have so much platonic love in my life and I’m extremely grateful but sometimes I feel so empty. When I look at my life, academically? I’m thriving. Physically? My body is tea, I’m healthy, financially I’m doing good, my friendships are going so well every single aspect of my life is going well expect the one that doesn’t exist, my romantic life. Just at a crossroads with whether or not I’m ready to go back to dating someone and allowing my self to fall in love again.

Welcome to your weekly dose of emotional fraud. In this episode, we’re romanticizing delusion, not because it’s healthy, but because reality is ghetto and I simply refuse to live there full-time.We’re talking curated chaos, spiritual gaslighting (the self-inflicted kind), and the art of lying to yourself just enough to keep functioning. From Franz Kafka’s existential dread to Rhonda Byrne’s manifestation Olympics, I’m unpacking why being a little bit delusional is actually a survival skill in this economy.Is it avoidance? Is it self-care? Is it unhinged? Yes. But it’s also cheaper than therapy.So grab your rose-colored glasses, sprinkle some Law of Assumption on your coffee, and join me as I explain why being the main character in your own hallucination might just be the healthiest thing you do all week.

Growing up in a house full of boys felt like a crash course in survival feelings got benched, softness was suspect, and being "girly" was basically a liability. From navigating old family dynamics to unlearning toxic ideas about emotion and strength, I’m taking you through the beautiful, messy journey of coming home to myself. If you’ve ever felt like you had to choose between being strong or being soft… this one's for you my angel <3