How to reclaim your cringe

Monica Lewinsky is an anti-bullying activist and host of Reclaiming with Monica, a podcast that shines her guests’ unguarded conversations about how they make sense of the world. In this episode filmed in front of a live audience at TED 2026, Chris interviews Monica on how she fi ...  عرض المزيد

“We have tried to create a system devoid of beauty, and it has failed. We have never tried to create a system that is replete with beauty and ask us what it might do.” Reginald Dwayne Betts is a poet, a lawyer, and a prison reform advocate. In this episode, he joins Chris to disc ...  عرض المزيد

Cringing at the time you gave a speech with spinach in your teeth, or accidentally liked an ex's picture on social media? Still reliving that incident in the fourth grade when you called your teacher "mommy"? Awkward moments have a tendency to haunt us – even ones from decades ag ...  عرض المزيد

You can think of Dave Nadelberg's vast Mortified project as The Hilarious World of Embarrassment, Awkwardness, and Redemption. Through stage presentations, film, TV, and books, Dave invites people to share their most mortifying writing. It's very funny, sure, but it's more than t ...  عرض المزيد

Ahh embarrassing memories; those gorgeous little bastards who pop up riiight before we go to sleep. Why oh WHY does embarrassment ghosts of the past come back to haunt us!? Well, we don’t have an answer to THAT question BUT there is a bit of good news. We’re going to teach you ho ...  عرض المزيد

In this episode, I start by teaching some phrases related to "cringe". (Full vocabulary list on Level Up English)I then read some Reddit posts looking at other people's cringe moments, as well as sharing some of my own that keep me awake at night. I finish with some advice on how ...  عرض المزيد