We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle: Recent Episodes
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I’m Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed – the book that was released at the very start of the pandemic and became a lifeline for millions. I watched in awe from my home while this simple phrase from Untamed – WE CAN DO HARD THINGS – the mantra that saved my life twenty years ago, became a worldwide rally cry. Because we experienced the hardship of the pandemic collectively, many of us finally acknowledged what was true before COVID and will be true after: That life is freaking HARD. We are all doing hard things every single day – things like loving and losing caring for children and parents; forging and ending friendships; battling addiction, illness, and loneliness; struggling in our jobs, our marriages, and our divorces; setting boundaries; and fighting for equality, purpose, freedom, joy, and peace. On We Can Do Hard Things, my sister Amanda and I will do the only thing I’ve found that has ever made life easier: We will drop the fake and talk honestly about the hard. Each week we will bring our hard to you and we will ask you to bring your hard to us and we will do what we were all meant to do down here: Help each other carry the hard so we can all live a little bit lighter and braver, more free and less alone.
Dr. Hillary McBride is back to continue our thrilling conversation about PSYCHEDELICS — and how folks are using them to enhance their relationships and lives. She helps us understand:
The importance of seeing our partners – and letting ourselves be seen – without any defenses;
How combining therapy with psychedelics is helping people stay close to their feelings;
Why the first step toward healing is feeling safe in your body; and
An important question for us all: Why is being here so hard?
For Part One of our conversation on Psychedelics, check our Ep 240 Are Psychedelics an Answer? with Dr. Hillary McBride.
And for our Embodiment conversation with Dr. McBride, check out: Ep 206: How to Follow the Wisdom of Your Body with Dr. Hillary McBride.
About Dr. McBride: Dr. Hillary McBride is a Registered Psychologist, researcher, podcaster, author, and speaker, but she identifies most with being a mother. She has lived experience and clinical expertise in the areas of trauma, embodiment, eating disorders, and the intersection of spirituality and mental health. Her research has focused on women's relationships with their bodies across the lifespan, and her books include: Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image; Embodiment and Eating Disorders, and the bestseller The Wisdom of Your Body. Her next book – Practices for Embodied Living – will be released in 2024. Her podcast, Other People's Problems, was listed in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal as essential listening.
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Why is everyone talking about psychedelics?!?!
Today, Dr. Hillary McBride joins us to answer all of our questions about therapeutic psychedelics, and:
Her personal, step-by-step journey with therapeutic psychedelics;
The science behind how psychedelics help break old patterns and create new ones;
How she uncovered the root of her eating disorder; and
How psychedelics can reveal your innate goodness.
For our Embodiment conversation with Dr. McBride, check out: Ep 206: How to Follow the Wisdom of Your Body with Dr. Hillary McBride.
About Dr. McBride: Dr. Hillary McBride is a Registered Psychologist, researcher, podcaster, author, and speaker, but she identifies most with being a mother. She has lived experience and clinical expertise in the areas of trauma, embodiment, eating disorders, and the intersection of spirituality and mental health. Her research has focused on women's relationships with their bodies across the lifespan, and her books include: Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image; Embodiment and Eating Disorders, and the bestseller The Wisdom of Your Body. Her next book – Practices for Embodied Living – will be released in 2024. Her podcast, Other People's Problems, was listed in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal as essential listening.
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Glennon and Amanda share why they love this wildly popular conversation with Dr. Becky Kennedy and how it radically changed their approaches to parenting their kids (and reparenting themselves).
Dr. Becky Kennedy guides us through Attachment Styles, how our past comes alive in our present – and how to free ourselves and raise freer kids.
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Why attachment styles are at the heart of our most intense conflicts (in ourselves and with others).
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How to rewire our original mental coding (75% of which is complete by age 3), so we can have more peace.
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How our physical and emotional attractions in adulthood are dictated by childhood attachments.
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Why it’s never too late to initiate relationship repair, and the warning signs that we’re starved for connection.
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How we can help our kids trust their instincts, use parenting as a path to grow in the ways we’ve always wanted to grow, and build empathy for our own imperfect parents.
For our other conversations with Dr. Becky Kennedy, check out: 130. Breaking Cycles and Reparenting Yourself with Dr. Becky Kennedy 131. How to Raise Untamed Kids with Dr. Becky Kennedy 170. The Most Radical Way to Heal: Internal Family Systems with Dr. Becky Kennedy
About Dr. Becky: Dr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist, bestselling author, and mom of three, named “The Millennial Parenting Whisperer” by TIME Magazine.Dr. Becky is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be and founder of the Good Inside Membership platform, a hub with Dr. Becky’s complete parenting content collection all in one place. Her podcast “Good Inside with Dr. Becky” – was one of Apple Podcasts “Best Shows of 2021.”
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Today, we celebrate the one-and-only Abby – and her rare gift of vulnerability and storytelling.
Our favorite person on the planet – Abby Wambach – is going deep, answering the questions that we all have, but that only Glennon and Amanda can ask.
Abby shares, in an intensely new and courageous way, about her lifelong pursuit of love – including her complicated relationships with her mom, soccer, her first marriage, queerness, and her “shadow self” – and why she has questioned her own lovability for so much of her life.
For the other Abby episodes in this series, check out: 189. Abby for the 1st Time On Divorce & Her Unrequited Love 190. Abby’s Christmas Miracle: When All the Heartbreak Made Sense
About Abby: Olympian, Activist, Author, and Co-host of the We Can Do Hard Things Podcast Abby Wambach is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, FIFA World Cup Champion, and six-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award. She was the United States’ leading scorer in the 2007 and 2011 Women’s World Cup tournaments and the 2004 and 2012 Olympics. Abby is the host of ABBY’S PLACES on ESPN+, in which she showcases what makes her beloved sport of soccer a worldwide sensation. An activist for equality and inclusion, she is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller WOLFPACK as well as the adaptation of WOLFPACK for the next generation, an instant New York Times bestseller. She is a founder and part owner of Angel City FC, the first majority-female-owned soccer team in history, and is a member of the Board of Directors for the non-profit organization Together Rising. Abby lives in California with her wife and their three children.
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Abby shares one of her all-time most impactful conversations – delving inside the “wonderful, dangerous” mind of Tracee Ellis Ross covers:
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Tracee’s go-to strategies to stop questioning herself, to pick herself up when she feels unlovable, and to tether herself to her truest self.
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How she made peace with the fact that she’s “not everyone’s cup of tea” – and stopped trying to change the things about her that others don’t like (but she does).
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Inside Tracee’s 50th birthday party – the honor of being “Fifty and Free,” and what moved her to sing her mother’s song in her mother’s dress.
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Tracee’s recent personal journal entry rejecting the lie that a woman’s purpose is to be “chosen” – and how she creates a beautiful, full life outside the roles of mother and partner.
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Tracee’s incredible view of friendship: How to be brave enough to become a barnacle in your friends’ lives, and to find your Cauldron people
About Tracee: Tracee Ellis Ross is an award-winning actress and producer best known for her roles in ABC’s award-winning comedy series BLACK-ISH and GIRLFRIENDS. For her role as “Rainbow Johnson” in BLACK-ISH, as a comedic leading actress, Ross won the Golden Globe Award in 2017 as well as nine NAACP Image Awards. She was nominated for five Emmys and two Critics Choice Awards.
Ross is the CEO and Founder of Pattern, a haircare brand for the curly, coily and tight textured masses.
Ross recently executive produced and narrates Hulu’s THE HAIR TALES, a docuseries about Black women, beauty and identity through the distinctive lens of Black hair. Upcoming, Ross will be producing a ten-episode podcast “I Am America,” which aims to break through the noise during this divided time in our country in an effort to create space and to heal.
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Glennon reflects on the episode that has been the biggest marker of change in her life in the last five years.
Glennon shares from the messy middle about her new diagnosis and what’s next for her recovery.
If talk about eating disorders and mental illness helps: Listen today. If it triggers: Skip today.
CW // eating disorders
If you have an eating disorder, you may find the National Alliance for Eating Disorders a helpful resource: https://www.allianceforeatingdisorders.com/.
For other recovery episodes in this series, check out: 172. How Glennon Knew She Needed Help: Recovery Update 182. Glennon Update: Lessons from Therapy 194. Glennon Finds Her Healing Partner 199. Why Glennon Says We Should All Be In Recovery 200. Don’t Tell Glennon to Love Her Body
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Join Glennon, Abby, and Amanda in celebrating, and closing out, the first season of the pod – and help them write the next chapter:
What it felt like for Glennon to listen – for the first time – to her anorexia diagnosis episode;
How their parents’ 50th Wedding Anniversary party showed Glennon how to stop performing and just BE;
The crucial distinction Amanda is exploring between tension and conflict;
Abby’s recent decision to explore her relationship with anger; and
How to join in shaping the future of the pod.
For the other conversations mentioned in this episode, check out: 165. Glennon’s Diagnosis & What’s Next 167. Tracee Ellis Ross: How to Make Peace in Your Own Head 168. Sonya Renee Taylor: What If You Loved Your Body? 216. How to Find DELIGHT Today (and Every Day) with Ross Gay 226. Enneagram: Why You Are the Way You Are with Suzanne Stabile
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We all want tools to navigate (and minimize!) family drama.
Today, Nedra Glover Tawwab teaches us how we can create drama free families:
How to speak up for yourself when it feels like going against the group;
Why confrontation is often the kindest thing;
When, exactly, we should bring up conflict & when to let it go;
The most loving way a parent can respond to a child in pain.
For more with Nedra Glover Tawwab, check out: Episode 124 How to Say No: Boundaries with Nedra Glover Tawwab.
About Nedra: Nedra Glover Tawwab is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Drama Free and Set Boundaries, Find Peace. A licensed therapist and sought-after relationship expert, she has practiced relationship therapy for more than fifteen years. Tawwab has appeared as an expert on Red Table Talk, The Breakfast Club, Good Morning America, and CBS Morning Show to name a few. Her work has been highlighted in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Vice. Tawwab runs a popular Instagram account where she shares practices, tools, and reflections for mental health and relationships. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her family.
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Today, Glennon, Abby, and Amanda dive into the Pod Squad’s words of wisdom:
How to identify bad advice;
How to stop “walking on eggshells”;
When to not tell your kids you’re proud of them (and what to say instead);
The advice about masturbating that Glennon can live by.
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The Best Advice We’ve Ever Received
Today, Glennon, Abby, and Amanda remember – and share! – the best advice they’ve ever received:
How to honor your needs and become the ultimate expert of you;
Why we all need a friend who believes in our greatness;
How to encourage your kids to live open-hearted;
And why Glennon’s truest thing is that she doesn’t know anything.
Plus, we hear from two pod treasures – Sara Bareilles and Glennon’s 7th grade government teacher, Mrs. Yalen – on their best advice.
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Time to HUDDLE UP, Pod Squad!
Our most beloved The Soccer expert – Abby Wambach – prepares us for the World Cup, bringing us inside her personal rollercoaster journey through four World Cups:
The real scoop behind her impossible, iconic goal against Brazil in 2011;
The moments she will never forget from the brutal loss against Germany;
How she really reacted when learning she would not be starting for the 2015 US Team;
How we can ALL learn to lead from the bench; and
What to expect in this year’s tournament.
Plus, Abby delivers the pep talk we all need for this year’s World Cup.
LFG, USA!
About Abby: Abby Wambach is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, FIFA World Cup Champion, and six-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award. She was the United States’ leading scorer in the 2007 and 2011 Women’s World Cup tournaments and the 2004 and 2012 Olympics. She is a part owner of Angel City FC, the first majority-female-owned soccer team in history. Abby lives in California with her wife and their three children.
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Today, Glennon, Abby, and Amanda delight in “Beige Flags” – the hilarious internet sensation that invites us all to share our people’s weirdest and most baffling traits. You’ll learn why Glennon changes her clothes 5 times a day, Abby sounds like she’s from yonder yore, and Amanda has a drawer full of washed out Ziploc bags.
Plus, we read YOUR Beige Flags and debate: Is that actually a red flag or a green flag?
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Introducing Classy with Jonathan Menjivar, a new podcast from Pineapple Street Studios. Classy is a collection of surprising stories, juicy and uncomfortable interviews, and engaging segments that explore the ways that class infiltrates our day-to-day lives. In the host seat is Jonathan Menjivar – a working-class Latino kid who joined the media elite and became someone who likes oysters, wears cashmere socks, and is very conflicted about all of it.
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Laser-focused on her final World Cup, MEGAN RAPINOE chooses our podcast to go deep on her bittersweet decision to retire from her iconic soccer career:
Why she is excited – and ready – to say goodbye to soccer;
Why representing America is so important to her in this moment;
Why she doesn’t believe in sacrificing herself for the team;
How dissociation helped her on the field – and hurt her in life – and how she’s working to give it up.
Plus, Megan explores the question: Does greatness have to cost you your humanity?
About Megan: Two-time World Cup Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist, Megan Rapinoe is a fan favorite and one of the team’s most technical and craftiest players. A vocal leader on and off the pitch, Megan helped lead the USWNT to the 2019 Women’s World Cup Championship scoring some of the biggest goals of the tournament. Megan took home the tournament’s two top honors – the Golden Boot for top scorer, and the Golden Ball for the best player in the tournament. A New York Times’ Best-Selling author, Time100’s Most Influential People and recent Presidential Medal of Freedom award recipient, Megan is an advocate for equality for all and has been able to intersect her passion for humanity and authenticity. At the end of 2022, Megan and fiancé Sue Bird launched “A Touch More”, a new production company focused on promoting narratives around revolutionaries who move culture forward. The company will amplify stories focused on identity, activism, and underrepresented groups.
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We all have that one relationship that needs fixing… Today, Suzanne Stabile is back to tell us how we can use the Enneagram to improve our relationships and love our people better.
She guides us through:
How to stop misjudging and misunderstanding people;
How to start respecting your own innate gifts;
How to get rid of codependency; and
How to get what you are missing – more thinking, feeling, or doing – in your life.
If you missed our first episode with Suzanne, check out Episode 226 Enneagram: Why You Are the Way You Are.
About Suzanne: Suzanne Stabile is an internationally-recognized Enneagram teacher. She is the co-author of The Road Back to You, and the author of The Path Between Us and The Journey Toward Wholeness. With backgrounds in sociology and theology, Suzanne has served as a high school professor; the first women’s basketball coach at SMU after Title IX; and as the founding Director of Shared Housing, a social service agency in Dallas. Suzanne lives in Dallas with her husband Rev. Joseph Stabile. She is the mother of four children and grandmother of nine. TW: @SuzanneStabile IG: @suzannestabile
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Enneagram Godmother Suzanne Stabile guides us through: What the hell is the Enneagram and why does it matter?
The gifts and struggles each Enneagram type faces;
Why the worst part of you is also the BEST part of you;
The core desire / fear that explains your behavior; and
Why, if Suzanne ever needs brain surgery, she’s finding a doctor who’s an Enneagram 1.
And we FINALLY answer the question: Is Amanda a 3 or a 1?
(Also meet back here tomorrow for a bonus episode where Suzanne uses the Enneagram to fix our relationships.)
About Suzanne: Suzanne Stabile is an internationally-recognized Enneagram teacher. She is the co-author of The Road Back to You, and the author of The Path Between Us and The Journey Toward Wholeness. With backgrounds in sociology and theology, Suzanne has served as a high school professor; the first women’s basketball coach at SMU after Title IX; and as the founding Director of Shared Housing, a social service agency in Dallas. Suzanne lives in Dallas with her husband Rev. Joseph Stabile. She is the mother of four children and grandmother of nine. TW: @SuzanneStabile IG: @suzannestabile
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Morgan Harper Nichols is here today to help us – finally! – breathe deep and pay attention:
What the hell is this elusive “peace” anyway?
How to create your own peace practice
How she has found a truer way to communicate than words
How her adult autism diagnosis helped her finally set boundaries
Concrete strategies to find peace even in chaos
Plus, she helps us understand why we don’t need to add “Presence” to our to-do list: It’s already right here.
About Morgan: Morgan Harper Nichols is an artist, poet, musician, and best-selling author of Peace is a Practice and All Along You Were Blooming. Morgan has also performed as a vocalist on several GRAMMY-nominated projects and written for various artists. She is passionate about art making as a way to connect with others. Her latest book, You Are Only Just Beginning is available now. Morgan currently resides in Atlanta with her family.
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Sex Therapist Vanessa Marin is back on the pod to discuss how we can all make sex more ENJOYABLE. She shares with us:
How we can stop faking our orgasms and experiment with real pleasure;
How to communicate honestly with our partners about what we want in bed; and
Why masturbation can be an opportunity for self-exploration and reclamation.
She also offers empowering advice for individuals recovering from sexual trauma.
Plus, Glennon contemplates writing erotica.
CW: Discussion of sex after sexual trauma
For our previous conversations with Vanessa, check out: Episode 195 Sex Talk & That Night in Miami: Sex Therapy with Vanessa Marin, Episode 196 How Glennon & Abby Learned to Talk Dirty with Vanessa Marin, and Episode 213 Sex Fantasies: What Do They Say About Us? with Vanessa Marin.
About Vanessa: Vanessa Marin is a sex therapist and instant New York Times Best Selling author of Sex Talks: The Five Conversations That Will Transform Your Love Life, co-written with her husband and partner-in-crime, Xander Marin. Vanessa is here to help you kick shame out of the bedroom so you can start feeling the connection, pleasure, and joy you deserve! TW: @VMTherapy IG: @vanessaandxander
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If the word “negotiation” makes you feel tense and sweaty and like the last thing you want to do is listen to this conversation . . . then what you absolutely need to do is listen to this conversation. Because it turns out we've been thinking about negotiation all wrong, and today we empower ourselves to think about it differently. Mori Taheripour guides us through the top things we all get wrong in negotiation; the most effective tool in asking for a raise; the ways the vast majority of women undercut our own value; how we can best advocate for ourselves; and how to hold non-negotiable boundaries. About Mori: Mori Taheripour is a faculty member at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches Negotiations and Dispute Resolution. She also co-founded the Wharton Sports Business Initiative (WSBI), a partnership among top business leaders, faculty, and students that generates and disseminates knowledge about the sports industry through educational programs, high-level student consulting assignments, global forums, and research. Taheripour earned her MBA from the Wharton School and her BA in psychology and pre-medical studies from Barnard College/Columbia University. She is also the author of Bring Yourself: How to Harness the Power of Connection to Negotiate Fearlessly.
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Jia Tolentino joins us to discuss how to finally accept all sides of you:
Why your un-productivity matters most;
When your shame is good;
How to make your real life bigger than your internet life;
How to let motherhood energize you instead of drain you; and
How to stop scrolling in the middle of the night.
Plus, we talk acid trips, the sorority rush that Jia and Amanda shared, why Glennon’s friends track Jia’s words – and whether Glennon’s mug shot will inspire Jia’s next show.
About Jia: Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker, a screenwriter, and the author of the New York Times bestseller Trick Mirror. In 2020, she received a Whiting Award as well as the Jeannette Haien Ballard Prize, and has most recently won a National Magazine Award for three pieces about the repeal of Roe v. Wade. Trick Mirror was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize and the PEN Award and was named one of the best books of the year by the New York Public Library, the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, NPR, the Chicago Tribune, GQ, and the Paris Review. Jia lives in Brooklyn. TW: @jiatolentino IG: @jiatortellini
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Glennon, Abby, and Amanda help us shed guilt through a freeing reframe inspired by a conversation with Dr. Becky Kennedy.
Listen to learn: How to know what is true guilt and what is just the uncomfortable ickiness of defying expectations; how to hold boundaries in order to live shamelessly within our own values; and how to maintain empathy by staying with our own emotions instead of internalizing the emotions of others.
Also, we need your help inventing a word for the “not guilt” feeling!
Get Dr. Becky Kennedy's "Good Inside Guilt Guide," to find out if what you're feeling is truly "guilt" or something else, here: https://forms.gle/Aad1g5LSBNFZoXaN6.
Check out our past conversations with Dr. Becky Kennedy, and the Dr. Brené Brown episodes we talk about today: Ep 170 The Most Radical Way to Heal: Internal Family Systems with Dr. Becky Kennedy; Ep 169 Why We Love the Way We Love: Attachment Styles with Dr. Becky Kennedy; Ep 131 How to Raise Untamed Kids with Dr. Becky Kennedy; Ep 130 Breaking Cycles and Reparenting Yourself with Dr. Becky Kennedy; Ep 88 Brené Brown & Barrett Guillen: Sisters Double Date; Ep 83 Brené Brown: What to Say to Get What You Need; Ep 49 Dr. Brené Brown: On Holding Boundaries & Facing Our Fears; and Ep 48 Dr. Brené Brown: How to Know Ourselves & Be Known By Our People.
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Author Katherine May recounts the moment she – at age 37 – discovered she is autistic and recognized herself for the first time.
Living as an autistic person in a world that often misunderstands her, Katherine shares:
How the prevailing understandings of autism erase the lived experiences of autistic women and girls;
The way autism looks and feels for adult women; and
How she navigates social interactions and sensory overload.
Katherine also reveals what she hears most often from people who think they might be autistic, which has Glennon asking: “Katherine, am I one of those people?”
For more information about how autism may show up in the lives of adult women, listen to the end of this podcast, and visit Katherine May’s Autism Resource Page at https://katherine-may.co.uk/autism-resource-page.
Don’t miss our We Can Do Hard Things conversation with Hannah Gadsby, who was also diagnosed with autism in adulthood: Episode 82 Hannah Gadsby: How to Communicate Better.
About Katherine: Katherine May is the New York Times–bestselling author of Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age and Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times, which has been translated into twenty-five languages around the world. Her journalism and essays have appeared in a range of publications including The New York Times and The Times of London. She lives by the sea in Whitstable, England.
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Logan Ury helps Glennon’s former husband and co-parent, Craig Melton, navigate the wild world of dating as a grown up: How to identify your patterns that aren’t working for you; how to know if something’s really a deal breaker; why dating in your twenties is like “start-up” while dating later in life is a “merger”; an honest audit of Craig’s online dating profile; how to ensure you’re meeting who you want to meet; and how Craig factors whether or not Glennon and Abby will like who he’s dating.
About Logan: Logan Ury is a behavioral scientist turned dating coach and the author of the bestselling dating book How to Not Die Alone: The Surprising Science That Will Help You Find Love. She works as Hinge’s Director of Relationship Science, conducting research on modern dating. She runs an online community through her weekly newsletter — Logan's Love Letter. She studied psychology at Harvard and ran Google’s behavioral science team, the Irrational Lab. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband Scott. TW: @loganury IG: @loganury IG: @craigmelton14
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How the hell do grown ups date and make friends? Behavioral scientist turned dating coach, Logan Ury is here to help us make dating and meeting new friends easier: how to identify what you really want; why we should stop searching for “the spark”; why we keep going after the same people that are wrong for us; how to talk to our kids about their first love experiences; why we need to have “other significant others”; and the eight questions you should ask yourself after meeting anyone new.
About Logan: Logan Ury is a behavioral scientist turned dating coach and the author of the bestselling dating book How to Not Die Alone: The Surprising Science That Will Help You Find Love. She works as Hinge’s Director of Relationship Science, conducting research on modern dating. She runs an online community through her weekly newsletter — Logan's Love Letter. She studied psychology at Harvard and ran Google’s behavioral science team, the Irrational Lab. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband Scott. TW: @loganury IG: @loganury
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In this deeply personal conversation, Kelly Clarkson – beloved artist, truth teller, and goddamn cheetah – joins us to discuss:
How Untamed gave her the clarity and courage to divorce;
Why she stayed for as long as she did;
The lowest point of her life;
What broke her heart the most in her marriage;
How to recover yourself after slowly disappearing in a relationship;
Her incredible new album chemistry;
Embracing singleness; and
Why she’s a stronger parent today.
About Kelly: Kelly Clarkson is one of the most popular artists of this era with total worldwide sales of more than 25 million albums and 40 million singles. Her multi-Emmy Award-winning daytime talk show, “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” has been picked up for its 5th and 6th seasons. Additionally, she was the winning coach on seasons 14, 15, 17, and 21 of “The Voice” and returned as a coach for Season 23.
Kelly is the recipient of three consecutive Daytime Emmy Awards for “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” three Grammy Awards, four American Music Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, one MTV Movie & TV Award, two Academy of Country Music Awards, two American Country Awards and one Country Music Association Award.
Kelly will release her highly anticipated tenth studio album, Chemistry on June 23rd.
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We need more JOY. In today’s bonus episode, internet sensations corook and Olivia Barton delight us with their performance of “If I Were a Fish.” Plus, Glennon and Abby coach them on how to not let criticism keep you from sharing yourself with the world.
For our other conversations about delight, check out: Episode 216 How to Find DELIGHT Today (and Every Day) with Ross Gay and Episode 217 Start a Daily Delight Practice with Abby, Glennon & Amanda.
corook TikTok: @hicorook IG: @hicorook
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Glennon’s hilarious misunderstanding with a TSA agent she’ll remember 'til she dies; Amma’s delightful response when Abby rushed onto the soccer field; and the delight Amanda experienced the day she switched it all up by not freaking out.
Today’s episode was inspired by our conversation with Ross Gay – if you missed it, check out: Episode 216 How to Find DELIGHT Today (and Every Day) with Ross Gay.
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- Why she left her body as a child and how she finally reintegrated 50 years later. 2. How, even as a public warrior for the highest ideals of democracy, she’s never had a democratic marriage – and when she knew she had to leave each one. 3. Her deepest fear, why she became happiest at 62, and a peek behind the scenes of her 85th birthday party.4. How, despite coordinated FBI and White House campaigns to vilify her, she’s kept showing up.5. Ways to get involved in her fight to defend the environment – and an invitation to march with her. Tomorrow in D.C.! CW: References to existence of past sexual abuse and ongoing eating disorder recoveryFire Drill Fridays: https://firedrillfridays.org/About Jane: Jane Fonda is a two-time Academy Award-winning actor (Best Actress in 1971 for Klute and in 1978 for Coming Home), producer, author, activist, and fitness guru. Her career has spanned over 50 years, accumulating a body of film work that includes over 45 films and crucial work on behalf of political causes such as women’s rights, Native Americans, and the environment. She is a seven-time Golden Globe® winner and was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2021, Stanley Kubrick Excellence in Film Award as part of BAFTA’s Britannia Awards in 2019, AFI Life Achievement Award winner in 2014, and Honorary Palme d’Or honoree in 2007. TW: @JaneFondaIG: @janefonda To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- How to know when it’s time to get out or stick it out – and the quit that set Abbi on course to meet Ilana and create Broad City.
- The life lessons of improv comedy: How to get out of your head, trust your choices, and make something together.
- Abbi and Abby share similar but opposite stories about relationships that changed their lives (and whether to tuck or untuck shirts).
- Why reimagining A League of Their Own was the Next Right project for Abbi – and how its label as a “queer show” frustrates her.
About Abbi: Abbi Jacobson is a co-creator, co-showrunner, executive producer and star of the critically acclaimed show A League of Their Own. Prior to this, Abbi co-created, wrote, directed, executive produced and starred for five seasons in Broad City. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller I Might Regret This, and is currently adapting “Go Like This,” a short story by Lorrie Moore.
IG: @abbijacobson
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- How to eliminate walking on eggshells around family, and avoid feeling badly about ourselves or our people.
- Amanda shares the first time she broke her family’s biggest holiday tradition—and how it’s now one of her most precious memories.
- Abby remembers watching her mom stress out by “perfecting” every holiday detail—and the change she made to minimize her own holiday stress.
- How carrying around a cup of hot tea serves as Glennon’s super shield.
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Back by popular demand, it’s more mortifying stories! Glennon, Abby, and Amanda share more of their most embarrassing moments – and cry-laugh in solidarity with Pod Squaders’ new and hilarious voicemail confessions.
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No digging deep. No paradigm shifts to be found. It’s Easy Fridays.
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- The good, the bad, and the ugly of Gary Chapman’s The Five Love Languages.
- How expressing the way we give and receive love can identify misalignments with our partners, friends, and family.
- How to explore – beyond our “love language” – our deep fears and needs underlying them.
- Glennon, Abby, Amanda, and Pod Squaders share the specific, hilarious things that make them feel most loved.
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- What we are really fighting about when we’re fighting about the dishwasher.
- We can stop asking whether what’s missing is a “want” or a “need” – and the question to ask instead.
- How to use what most frustrates you about your partner to bring you closer.
- How to start thinking of our partnerships as our own mini political systems.
- What to do if your partner won’t go to therapy, or if you’re feeling invisible in your relationship.
About Dr. Guralnik: Dr. Orna Guralnik is a psychoanalyst and writer, who serves on the faculty of NYU PostDoc, National Institute for the Psychotherapies, the Stephen Mitchel Center, and the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Studies in Gender & Sexuality. Her writing centers on the intersection of psychoanalysis, dissociation, and cultural studies. She has completed the filming of four seasons of the Docu-series Couples Therapy, airing on Showtime.
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- Alex’s four most effective healing techniques that you can start today.
- How it affects us to grow up never seeing our mothers have joy.
- Why – if you think you don’t have any self-soothing strategies – you actually just have unhealthy self-soothing strategies.
- Childhood wounds that surface in adulthood, and the path to intergenerational healing.
- Where to begin when you never receive the apology and closure you deserve.
About Alex: Alex Elle is an author, certified breathwork coach, podcast host, and Restorative Writing teacher. Alex’s writing came into her life by way of therapy and the exploration of healing through journaling and mindfulness. Her most recent book, HOW WE HEAL, is available now.
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By popular demand, Jessica Yellin, founder of News Not Noise, returns to update us on the top takeaways from the midterm election yesterday.
About Jessica: Jessica Yellin is the founder of News Not Noise, a Webby Award winning independent digital media brand dedicated to giving the audience information, not a panic attack. She is the former chief White House correspondent for CNN and an Emmy, Peabody and Gracie Award winning political correspondent for ABC, MSNBC and CNN. Her first novel, SAVAGE NEWS is available from HarperCollins. You can find the News Not Noise Letter on Bulletin and the News Not Noise podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
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Make this podcast part of your VOTING PLAN TODAY!
A clear, digestible explanation of what this Election means for you – and why your vote matters: 1. What is most likely to happen today; 2. Who will control Congress, and what they’ll do with that control; 3. What will happen with abortion and reproductive justice; 4. Why the polls could be all wrong; and 5. A reason to be hopeful.
Referenced resources: Ballotpedia USAFacts Midterm Map
About Jessica: Jessica Yellin is the founder of News Not Noise, a Webby Award winning independent digital media brand dedicated to giving the audience information, not a panic attack. She is the former chief White House correspondent for CNN and an Emmy, Peabody and Gracie Award winning political correspondent for ABC, MSNBC and CNN. Her first novel, SAVAGE NEWS is available from HarperCollins. Follow her on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @JessicaYellin. You can find the News Not Noise Letter on Bulletin and the News Not Noise podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
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In this behind-the-scenes episode, Glennon, Abby, and Amanda react immediately after dramatically ending an interview because the guest was disrespectful to a member of their team.
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In this deeply intimate collaboration with beloved therapist Esther Perel, she dives deep in a couples therapy session with a Ukrainian couple torn apart by the war.
The wife is compelled to leave the country for the sake of her youngest son; the husband and older son are compelled to stay in the warzone for the sake of their country.
Miraculously, even amid unthinkable loss – and maybe especially amid unthinkable loss – love and connection are unrelenting.
Love does impossible things.
(Ukrainian and English language transcripts available at http://wecandohardthingspodcast.com)
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The politeness curse – and how it almost killed Geena.
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Geena’s brilliant “Oops…” strategy to get folks to act decent.
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Abby thanks Geena for the monumental impact of A League of Their Own on her life.
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The story behind the iconic ending of Thelma and Louise.
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The hilarious story of why Geena’s mom chose her name – setting her on an unlikely feminist path.
CW: Brief mention of sexual assault
About Geena: Geena Davis is a two-time Academy Award winning actor and has appeared in roles that became cultural landmarks including Muriel Pritchett in The Accidental Tourist, Thelma in Thelma & Louise, and Dottie Hinson in A League of Their Own. She is also a world-class athlete, a member of the genius society Mensa, and is now recognized for her advocacy for women and girls as Founder and Chair of the Emmy-winning non-profit Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, which engages film and television creators to dramatically increase the percentage of female characters, and reduce gender stereotyping, in media made for children. Her memoir, DYING OF POLITENESS, is available now.
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No digging deep. No paradigm shifts to be found. Welcome to Easy Fridays.
P.S. Thanks to @ohnochels & @dmc1138 for the haunted house laughs.
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- The top (surprising) signs that tell you it’s time to set a boundary.
- Paying attention to “energy leakage” – when you’re giving out more than you’re getting back.
- How to set the specific boundaries you need with in-laws, friends, and romantic partners.
- Scripts for Melissa’s green, yellow, and red system of clear, kind communication in boundary setting.
- Rethinking boundaries – not as not a response to someone else’s behavior – but as giving voice to your worth and health.
CW: brief mention of sexual abuse
About Melissa: Melissa Urban is a six-time New York Times bestselling author, and her highly anticipated book, The Book of Boundaries, is available now. She is the host of the Do the Thing podcast – building community, health, and entrepreneurship, and the co-founder and CEO of Whole30. She lives in Salt Lake City, UT.
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- The Mother of Codependence shares the difference between healthy and unhealthy helping.
- The daily practice that helps Melody stop controlling others and “Let Life Happen.”
- Why no one is able to gaslight you more than you.
- The one area of life where Codependence is necessary.
- All four of us surrender to the truth that we will never be Codependent No More.
About Melody: A pioneering voice in self-help literature, Melody Beattie is the author of many bestselling books, including Codependent No More – a #1 New York Times bestseller, which has sold over 7 million copies – as well as The Language of Letting Go, Playing It by Heart, The Grief Club, and Beyond Codependency. An updated edition of the bestselling, modern classic, Codependent No More, is available now. Melody lives in Southern California.
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- Abby shares with Sara the great personal impact Sara’s music has made on her life.
- Sara and Glennon bond over the joy of solitude, the underrated gifts of being heavy-hearted, and the fact that “there are too many things to be worried about at all times” to be lighthearted.
- When you are in deep stress, do you try to sabotage your job, relationship, etc.? (Before this conversation, Amanda thought it was just her.)
- How playfulness and joy – connecting to the little kid who grew up into you – are vital to loving yourself.
- Sara’s beautiful journey with medication for depression and anxiety – and how she learned her anxiety often arises from an unexpressed need.
About Sara: Sara Bareilles is a Tony Award and Emmy Award nominated actor, and Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter.
On Broadway, Sara composed music and lyrics for Waitress, in which she was also the lead. Sara also produced original music and executive produced the musical drama series Little Voice. She plays Dawn Solano on the Emmy-nominated musical comedy series Girls5eva, and stars as The Baker’s Wife in the Broadway revival Into the Woods.
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- How the Abby+Alex sisterhood began, how hard it was for Alex to watch Abby suffer at the end of her career, and how friends can build each other up.
- How to get back on the field – in life and in sport – after crushing defeat.
- The way Alex’s mom helped Alex fulfill her dream, and what Alex is teaching her own daughter, Charlie.
- How Alex finally stopped comparing herself to others and started resting in her own confidence.
- Alex’s relationship with soccer – and does she still love it?
About Alex Alex Morgan is a two-time FIFA Women’s World Cup Champion, Olympic Gold Medalist, UEFA Women’s Champions League Champion, and NWSL Champion. An entrepreneur, author, social media phenom, and marketing icon – Alex’s ability to inspire and excite fans stretches far beyond the pitch. She is the leading founder of TOGETHXR, a lifestyle and media company with a focus on youth and equality storytelling. As mom to Charlie, Alex is tackling motherhood while continuing to be a force on the pitch. In fact, I am not sure i’ve ever seen her as on fire right now, scoring goals at a wild rate for her NWSL team the San Diego Wave.
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- The Nap Ministry’s Nap Bishop shares small, concrete ways to bring rest into our own lives – especially when rest seems impossible.
- Why so many of us feel like machines instead of humans – and the power of imagination as a spiritual practice to reconnect with our humanity and divinity.
- Why grind culture – a collaboration of capitalism and white supremacy – wants to keep us exhausted, and how we can resist a culture of overwhelming busy-ness.
- Why everything changes when we embrace ease as our birthright.
- Creative ways to reimagine rest within our hectic daily lives.
About Tricia Tricia Hersey is a Chicago native who has called Georgia home for the last 12 years. She has over 20 years of experience as a multidisciplinary artist, writer, theologian and community organizer. She is the founder of The Nap Ministry, an organization that examines rest as a form of resistance and reparations by curating spaces for the community to rest via community rest activations, immersive workshops, performance art installations, and social media. Her research interests include Black liberation theology, womanism, somatics, and cultural trauma. She is the author of the upcoming book Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto which will be published in October 2022. You can learn more about her work and the book at thenapministry.com.
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- What Melissa’s parents said when she told them about her dream – and how those magic words set the course of Melissa’s life.
- The green and red flags Melissa tells her kids to look for in a relationship.
- Why Melissa is a shark, and her brilliant strategy to “Run Around the Block” in almost any difficult situation.
- Melissa’s and Abby’s experiences with ghosts.
- How Melissa learned about sex – and the way she talks to her kids about it.
About Melissa: Melissa McCarthy is an award-winning writer, producer, and actor. Her work includes Bridesmaids, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Ghostbusters,The Heat; Identity Thief; This is 40, The Hangover Part III, The Starling, “Gilmore Girls”, and “Samantha Who?”. She won an Emmy Award and People’s Choice Award for her role in “Mike & Molly” as well as an Emmy for “Saturday Night Live”.
Melissa and her husband Ben Falcone founded On the Day Productions and have produced Tammy, The Boss, Life of the Party, “Nobodies,” “Little Big Shots,” Superintelligence , Thunder Force, “God’s Favorite Idiot,” and Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed.
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- What to do when you’ve done everything you were supposed to do and ended up in a place you don’t want to be.
- Why the question “What do you want?” is terrifying – and how to start answering it authentically for yourself.
- The power of imagining what does not yet exist in order to make space for new possibilities.
- The gift of a “midlife crisis”
- What a mother’s job really is.
About Celeste: Celeste Ng is the number one New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere. Her third novel, Our Missing Hearts, is available now. Ng is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and her work has been published in over thirty languages.
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- What happens inside us when we receive criticism–and how our brains ensure we’re always in the right (even when we’re not).
- The three-ingredient recipe for a positive, productive “care-frontation” exchange.
- The single biggest relationship killer (it’s not conflict) – and how conflict can bring you closer.
- Amanda navigates a “care-frontation” with her son’s friend’s family – and Abby reevaluates her past relationship with criticism.
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It Was Said, the 2021 Webby Award winner for Best Podcast Series, returns with a new season to look back on some of the most powerful, impactful, and timeless speeches in history. Written and narrated by Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author-historian Jon Meacham, this documentary podcast series takes you through another season of ten generation-defining speeches. Meacham, along with top historians, authors and journalists, offers expert insight and analysis into the origins, the orator, and the context of the times each speech was given, and they reflect on why it’s important to never forget them.
It Was Said is a creation and production of Peabody-nominated C13Originals, in association with The HISTORY® Channel.
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- The twinge of loneliness that comes with searching for what it seems like everyone else has.
- A Varsity-level question from Christie that challenges everything we said about Help on Tuesday’s episode.
- How to make “your thing” more of an “our thing” in relationships–and how Abby got Glennon into the sports.
- If there is anything worse than vacationing with your own kids, it’s vacationing with other people’s kids–and the time Glennon staged a sketchy early exit from a group trip.
- Abby and Glennon’s brilliant compromise boundaries for future extended family gatherings.
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- Why sharing your messy middle with someone is a gift and connection builder, not a burden.
- The reasons why we don’t ask for the help we desperately need.
- “Vague favs” and why are they a hard No for Amanda.
- Abby, Glennon, and Amanda each share something they need help with right now.
- The science behind Help as one of the most effective relationship-enhancing tools, and the best ways to finally ask for it.
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- Why Emily couldn’t stop crying (and it wasn’t because she was emotional).
- The intervention that got Emily sober – and why Amy wasn’t there.
- Glennon admits something that she’s never told anyone before.
- Amy and Abby agree on the shared cost of internalized homophobia and misogyny.
About Indigo Girls: One of the most successful folk duos in history – Amy Ray and Emily Sailers aka THE INDIGO GIRLS – has recorded 16 albums and sold over 15 million records. Committed and uncompromising activists, they work on issues like immigration reform, LGBTQ advocacy, education, and death penalty reform. They are co-founders of Honor the Earth, a non-profit dedicated to the survival of sustainable Native communities, Indigenous environmental justice, and green energy solutions. Their latest record, Look Long is a stirring and eclectic collection of songs that finds Indigo Girls reunited in the studio with their strongest backing band to date.
IG: @indigogirlsmusic, @emilysaliers & @amyraymusic TW: @Indigo_Girls, @EmilySaliers & @AmyRay
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- The moment Abby – as Christen’s USWNT roommate – walked into their hotel room and knew Christen was very different than any soccer player she’d ever known.
- The boundary that helps Christen love her people while protecting herself.
- Christen’s take on death and how to keep the people we’ve lost alive in our lives.
- How to show our people (including our little athletes) that we love them for who they are, not what they achieve.
- The day Christen knew she was ready to fight for – and win – pay equity for the US Women’s National Team.
About Christen: Christen Press is a two-time World Cup Champion and Olympian, as well as a leading forward at Los Angeles Angel City FC. An entrepreneur and advocate for inclusivity, Christen, along with US Women’s National teammates – Megan Rapinoe, Tobin Heath, and Meghan Klingenberg – launched their company re—inc, a purpose-driven, global lifestyle brand. Christen was one of the key players leading the charge for the “Equal Play, Equal Pay” campaign to highlight the pay discrepancy between the women’s and men’s national teams, which led to the new CBA agreement – and to her role as Player Representative for the US Women's National Team Players Association.
IG: @christenpress
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- How to embody your authority while also validating your kid’s experience.
- The #1 strategy for building resilience.
- Why consequences and punishments backfire and don’t work.
- How to sit with your child on the “benches” of their emotions.
- One thing you can say to your kids to build connection in any circumstance.
About Dr. Becky: Dr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist and mom of three, named “The Millennial Parenting Whisperer” by TIME Magazine. She’s rethinking the way we raise our children – empowering parents to feel sturdier and more equipped to manage the challenges of parenting. Dr. Becky is founder of the Good Inside Membership platform, a hub with Dr. Becky’s complete parenting content collection all in one place; author of Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be, which is out this month. And her podcast “Good Inside with Dr. Becky” – was one of Apple Podcasts “Best Shows of 2021.”
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- The 3 most important things to say to your kids and partners every day.
- Why our kids trigger us – and a fail-proof strategy to use when you’re triggered.
- Why “poorly-behaved kids” can be a sign of good parenting.
- How to break family cycles by rewiring the way we were raised.
- How to use Internal Family Systems to heal ourselves.
About Dr. Becky: Dr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist and mom of three, named “The Millennial Parenting Whisperer” by TIME Magazine. She’s rethinking the way we raise our children – empowering parents to feel sturdier and more equipped to manage the challenges of parenting. Dr. Becky is founder of the Good Inside Membership platform, a hub with Dr. Becky’s complete parenting content collection all in one place; author of Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be, which is out this month. And her podcast “Good Inside with Dr. Becky” – was one of Apple Podcasts “Best Shows of 2021.”
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- How to recognize when you’re dysregulated – so you can slow down and help yourself.
- The beauty and wisdom in being judgmental, and how that saved Chani’s life.
- The liberating idea that “The things that happened to me weren’t about me.”
- How to set and trust boundaries in order to finally rest.
About Chani: Chani Nicholas is a Los Angeles-based New York Times bestselling author of You Were Born For This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance. She has been a counseling astrologer for more than 20 years, guiding her community of over 1 million monthly readers to discover and live out their life’s purpose through understanding their birth chart. Chani runs her company with her wife and business partner, Sonya Passi. Together they launched the CHANI app, which offers a personalized, daily understanding of their birth chart.
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- “Weird Glennon” comes back to the pod and shares her #1 sanity strategy.
- The rule Glennon and Abby set for their wedding week that made everything OK.
- How Amanda stopped accepting assignments from strangers.
- How Glennon discovered she couldn’t trust her thoughts – and found the part of herself she could trust.
- How to know if your thinking is disordered, and how to reorient it to be more effective in your life, relationships, and world.
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- An Advocate, Commander, and Entertainer walk into a podcast – and each share how they feel about their labels.
- Do personality types make you feel boxed in, or give you permission to be you?
- How to decide when it’s important to work first and play later, or jump on a moment of joy and work later.
- How Glennon as a strong F (Feeler) and Amanda as a strong T (Thinker) make business decisions together.
- Can a personality be changed?
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- Our desperate desire to figure out: Why are we the way we are?
- Why Abby once believed she was 100% extroverted, and the fear she uncovered that makes her think she’s not.
- How what you think about when you see a cactus tells you a lot about your personality.
- Why some of the best-known personality binaries are just silly – and corporately manufactured.
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- Deep dive into how it feels to not be in any of your family photos, why it happens, and how to change it.
- A call-in question from a husband that made Amanda cry.
- Reimagining “acts of service” and how to know whether actions belong in the “Adulting Bucket” or the “Love Bucket.”
- Getting the kids to read over the summer went terribly, thanks for asking.
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- Five signs that you might have a boundary problem.
- Why each of us should stop pretending we’re not a needy person.
- How to stop arguing like a lawyer – and start communicating like a kindergartener – to get what you need.
- How to know when to end an argument, how to exit a friendship, and how to respond to passive aggressiveness.
About Nedra: Nedra Glover Tawwab, MSW, LCSW, is a New York Times best-selling author, licensed therapist, and sought-after relationship expert. She has practiced relationship therapy for 15 years and is the founder and owner of the group therapy practice, Kaleidoscope Counseling. Every day she helps people create healthy relationships by teaching them how to implement boundaries. Her philosophy is that a lack of boundaries and assertiveness underlie most relationship issues, and her gift is helping people create healthy relationships with themselves and others.
Nedra earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. She has additional certifications in working with families and couples and in perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, plus advanced training for counseling adults who've experienced childhood emotional neglect.
Nedra has appeared as an expert on Red Table Talk, The Breakfast Club, Good Morning America, and CBS Morning Show to name a few. Her work has been highlighted in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Vice and has appeared on numerous podcasts, including Good Life Project, Sofia with an F, and Therapy For Black Girls. She runs a popular Instagram account where she shares practices, tools, and reflections for mental health and hosts weekly Q&As. TW: @NedraTawwab IG: @nedratawwab
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- Tig and Stephanie’s highly effective and hilarious ways to diffuse their marital feuds.
- Stephanie’s experience figuring out her sexuality (years after she married Tig)–and how Tig knew Stephanie was the one.
- Why Tig’s deep in “Towanda-ing” right now–and how that affects their marriage.
- The power of knowing what you DON’T want in your life.
- Tig, Stephanie, Abby, and Glennon each share something they’ve discovered they don’t want.
About Stephanie: Stephanie Allynne is a writer, actor, producer, and director. Her acting credits include THE L WORD: GENERATION Q, ONE MISSISSIPPI, ROOM 104, DREAM CORP LLC, LOVE, and TWIN PEAKS. Stephanie also starred in the Sundance hits PEOPLE PLACES THINGS and Lake Bell’s IN A WORLD. Stephanie wrote on the critically acclaimed Amazon series ONE MISSISSIPPI, and co-directed the 2022 Sundance film AM I OK? starring Dakota Johnson and Sonoya Mizuno. Stephanie is currently set to write and direct the feature film TIME AND SPACE that will star Tig Notaro. She will produce alongside Notaro and Judd Apatow.
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About Tig: Tig Notaro is an Emmy and Grammy nominated stand-up comedian, writer, and actor. Rolling Stone named her one of the "50 best stand-up comics of all time." Notaro appears in "Army of the Dead" and “Star Trek: Discovery”; wrote and starred in the groundbreaking TV show “One Mississippi”. and recently released her second HBO stand-up special, "Tig Notaro: Drawn." In 2021, Tig co-directed, with wife Stephanie Allynne, the feature film 'Am I OK?', available later this year. She hosts the advice podcast "Don't Ask Tig", and cohosts the documentary film podcast "Tig and Cheryl: True Story."
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- Abby’s new nightly ritual of 80’s parties and Amanda’s wild adventure at a crawfish boil.
- Glennon’s transition out of depression, and how she’s moving off “The Landing.”
- Why our parents are so triggering – and how we can see them differently.
- Glennon, Abby, and Amanda answer pressing Pod Squad questions.
- Amanda pays tribute to a particular Pod Squader, Lexi – and to all women of her generation.
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C13Originals and Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author Jon Meacham, co-creators of the Webby Award-winning Best Podcast Series It Was Said and the acclaimed podcast Hope,Through History, join together again on a daily series that guides listeners through critical moments in our history. Every Monday through Friday, Meacham travels back to impactful events that occurred on that date in history—the birth of a visionary filmmaker, the debut of an iconic athlete, the discovery of a lifesaving cure, a triumphant legal victory. You’ll learn how that event shaped politics, art, culture, sports and science, and why it’s still relevant today.
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- What is Polyamory – and how Martha, Rowan, and Karen make their relationship work.
- How Martha felt – after years of marriage to Karen – when Karen told her she was in love with Rowan, too.
- The hilarious moment Martha, Karen, and Rowan told their friends they were now a throuple.
- A huge lesson for couples based on the revolutionary ways they deal with conflict, jealousy, and daily rituals to stay close.
About Martha: Dr. Martha Beck is a New York Times bestselling author, life coach, and speaker. She holds three Harvard degrees in social science, and Oprah Winfrey has called her “one of the smartest women I know.” Her newest book, The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self, was an instant New York Times Best Seller.
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About Rowan: Rowan Mangan is a writer, podcaster and mom to a vivacious toddler. Salty, klutzy and Aussie, Ro co-hosts the Bewildered podcast with her wife, Martha Beck. She also runs the Wild Inventures newsletter and community on Substack. Ro is currently pursuing publication for her first novel, a magical realist thriller set on the west coast of Ireland.
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- Why Jen believes none of us is safe from betrayal – but how she knows with certainty it will never happen to her again.
- The useful part of unforgiveness, the worst thing about forgiveness, and how to know when it’s time to forgive.
- Brené Brown’s advice to Jen for how to begin rebuilding brick by brick after the life you built implodes.
- The steps Jen took to learn to trust her body for the first time – and what she calls her body now.
- What Jen would go back and tell her kids about marriage and divorce if she could do it differently.
About Jen: Jen Hatmaker is the New York Times bestselling author of For the Love and Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire, along with twelve other books. She hosts the award-winning For the Love podcast, is the delighted curator of the Jen Hatmaker Book Club, and leader of a tightly knit online community where she reaches millions of people each week. Jen is a co-founder of Legacy Collective, a giving organization that grants millions of dollars toward sustainable projects around the world. She is a mom to five kids and lives just outside Austin, Texas.
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- Pod Squad Qs about co-parenting after infidelity, setting boundaries with friends, and reconciling an estranged parent relationship.
- How to know when it’s time to leave, and whether your partner deserves to be free of you.
- Why every problem Cheryl’s ever had has been solved by a list–and how to use her strategy.
- Ways to be a better advice-giver, and how to keep “floating in the direction of your own life.”
- How to gather the courage to know a truth thing–and to live by it.
About Cheryl Cheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Wild, as well as the bestsellers Tiny Beautiful Things, Brave Enough, and Torch.
Wild was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film starring Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern.
Tiny Beautiful Things is currently being adapted for a TV show for Hulu and will star Kathryn Hahn.
In addition to writing her widely acclaimed essays, stories and scripts, Strayed has hosted two hit podcasts for the New York Times — Sugar Calling and Dear Sugars, which she co-hosted with Steve Almond.
She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband Brian Lindstrom and their two teenagers.
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- Why Cheryl chose Strayed as her last name – the only one not given to her by a man.
- How she ruined her life when her mom died, and how we can bear the unbearable.
- Cheryl’s greatest lesson from her 3-month hike of the PCT, and her mom’s advice she uses everyday.
- How to make peace with our ITS – “inner terrible someone” – who lives in each of us.
- Why and how Cheryl is now exploring: “Can I be happy if my kids aren’t?”
About Cheryl: Cheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Wild, as well as the bestsellers Tiny Beautiful Things, Brave Enough, and Torch.
Wild was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film starring Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern.
Tiny Beautiful Things is currently being adapted for a TV show for Hulu and will star Kathryn Hahn.
In addition to writing her widely acclaimed essays, stories and scripts, Strayed has hosted two hit podcasts for the New York Times — Sugar Calling and Dear Sugars, which she co-hosted with Steve Almond.
She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband Brian Lindstrom and their two teenagers.
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- The question Carson’s sister asked that made him radically reimagine his life.
- Why Carson is having the best sex of his life.
- How Carson received sign-off from his Mormon Bishop for his first queer date.
- The accident that left Carson paralyzed from the chest down at 23.
- How ableism hurts us all.
About Carson: Carson Tueller is a coach, speaker and activist whose work provides people with the tools they need to live authentic, fulfilling, and powerful lives. He identifies as queer and disabled. Carson grew up as a Mormon in a military family moving around a lot before settling in Utah. His own journey into powerful living began in 2013 when, in the same year, he came out, and was then injured in an accident that paralyzed him from the chest down. Since then, Carson has brought his work to international nonprofits and presidential campaigns – and when he isn’t coaching or speaking, Carson can be found at the gym, reading non-fiction, or playing Pokemon with his niece and nephews.
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- Glennon, Abby, and Amanda share the most mortifying moments of their lives.
- Pod Squaders’ hilarious voicemail confessions, which had Glennon, Abby, and Amanda cry-laughing in solidarity.
- Our new go-to strategy when humiliated (it involves prosthetic penises).
- We test our hypothesis that sharing our most embarrassing experiences makes us feel less alone.
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Chelsea Handler comes to We Can Do Hard Things to talk for the first time about her breakup with Jo Koy, her definition of real love, and her commitment to never abandon herself.
About Chelsea: Chelsea Handler is a comedian, television host, best-selling author and advocate whose humor and candor have established her as one of the most celebrated voices in entertainment and pop culture. She was the host of E!’s top-rated “Chelsea Lately”, a tenure in which Handler was the only female late-night talk show host on-air. Her documentary series “Chelsea Does” was followed by her talk show “Chelsea” on Netflix in 2016.
She has penned six best-selling books, five of which have reached #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list, including 2019’s Life Will Be the Death of Me. In 2020, she released her first stand-up special in over 6 years, the critically acclaimed “Chelsea Handler: Evolution” on HBO Max, which earned her a Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album.
Most recently, she launched her iHeart Radio advice podcast “Dear Chelsea” and embarked on the “Vaccinated and Horny” Tour, bringing her sensational stand-up set to 40+ cities across the nation and winning “The Comedy Act of 2021” at the People’s Choice Awards.
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- How to make the first friendship move – and how to move on from a friendship with kindness and clarity.
- The advice Reese passes down to her kids about the three types of people you meet in life.
- Reese’s Hollywood experience as a young woman – and the solidarity she found in the Time’s Up movement.
- How Elle Woods – in all her iconic glory – hilariously showed up while Reese was on real-life jury duty.
- Where Reese, Abby, and Glennon come down on Glennon’s take that most women feel they are either too much or not enough.
About Reese Reese Witherspoon, is an award-winning actress, entrepreneur, producer, and New York Times bestselling author. She won an Academy Award® for her portrayal of June Carter Cash in Walk the Line and was later nominated in that same category for Wild in 2014, which she also produced. Witherspoon also starred in beloved films Sweet Home Alabama, Legally Blonde, and Election, as well as award-winning television series’ “Big Little Lies,” “Little Fires Everywhere,” and “The Morning Show.” Other film credits include Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time, Universal Pictures’ animated musical comedy Sing and Sing 2. In addition to her acting and producer roles, Witherspoon is an author and entrepreneur. In 2016, she established Hello Sunshine, a media brand and content company dedicated to female authorship and storytelling across all platforms. Hello Sunshine is also home to Reese’s Book Club and Reese’s YA Book Club, which focuses on storytelling with women at the center. Witherspoon recently sold Hello Sunshine to Blackstone in September 2021. Now Hello Sunshine is the cornerstone of a larger media company called Candle Media. Witherspoon is an advocate and activist for women’s issues across the globe.
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- How horrifying advice from a therapist led Glennon to end things with Abby–and how they reconnected.
- The moments from past episodes that changed us–including Amanda’s new strategy to prevent her anxiety from creating relationship problems.
- How we decide what to share publicly and what not to–and why we think the dichotomy of “sacred things” versus “private things” is dangerous.
- Simple guidance to a man who asks how to stand in the fight for women’s rights, a question from 68-year-old Donna that we can’t stop thinking about, and the story of Tish’s We Can Do Hard Things song. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Over 15,000 Pod Squaders joined live to celebrate One Year of the Pod and discuss: 1. Why Amanda started taking meds, Glennon keeps taking meds–and why Abby might consider taking meds :) 2. The brilliant preemptive post mortem strategy to help you emotionally recover from any gathering. 3. Your frequently asked question of Abby: How she tracked down her first love connection at the Macaroni Grill. 4. The pie chart of showing up–and why it’s rarely ever 100%. 5. Glennon shares her first steps up from the “landing” of her eating disorder relapse.
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- The moment Natalie called Abby to invite her to be part of Angel City FC–the first majority, women-owned soccer franchise.
- How to stop people-pleasing and learn to recognize a full body YES from inside of you.
- Why and how Natalie shows up for big projects before she’s ready or qualified. (Dude Moves).
- The best advice Natalie’s ever received–and why women should “Gossip Well.”
- How Natalie counters gender expectations by over practicing empathy with her son and decisiveness with her daughter.
- What Natalie says when a man suggests a woman is “crazy” or “difficult.”
About Natalie: Natalie Portman is an Academy award-winning actress (BLACK SWAN), director, author, and activist. In Summer 2022, Portman will be hitting the big screen, returning to the Marvel universe as ‘Jane Foster’ in THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER.
Previously Natalie appeared in Pablo Larraín’s film, JACKIE, in which she starred as First Lady Jacqueline F. Kennedy. For the role, Portman was nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BAFTA Award, and won the Critics’ Choice Award. She wrote, directed, produced, and starred in A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS, which made its world premiere at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and its North American premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Other past film credits include Noah Hawley’s LUCY IN THE SKY, Brady Corbet’s VOX LUX, and Alex Garland’s highly anticipated second feature, ANNIHILATION.
Natalie and her producing partner Sophie Mas recently inked a first-look TV deal with Apple TV+ for their production company MounatainA. Through this deal, they are producing the Apple Original limited series LADY IN THE LAKE, which will be Natalie’s TV acting debut. Natalie’s other past production credits include the documentary EATING ANIMALS, which she executive produced and narrated. The film examines mankind’s dietary choices and is based on Jonathan Safran Foer’s memoir.
In addition to her film work, Portman devotes her time to several humanitarian causes, with an emphasis on supporting women and girls. She is also a founder of National Women’s Soccer League team Angel City Football Club.
In Fall 2020, Portman released her debut picture book, NATALIE PORTMAN’S FABLES, which is a New York Times’ Bestseller.
Portman is a Harvard graduate with a degree in psychology and studied at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
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- Practical tips for guiding friends and family through your grief–and the permission slips to give yourself. 2. Why there is no such thing as grief etiquette–and how it’s less about what you say and more about what you do.
- What it finally took for Marisa to surrender to the fact that she was not in control of her love or her grief.
- How to integrate love and grief in order to find joy again after loss–and how, 12 years after her mother’s death, Marisa includes her mom in her son’s life.
- The life-changing perspective shift that Marisa gained from a conversation with Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton.
About Marisa: Marisa Renee Lee is a called upon grief advocate, entrepreneur, and author of the upcoming book “Grief is Love.”
Deemed “the friend we all wish we had in times of need,” by Elaine Welteroth, Marisa is able to utilize research-based advice and wisdom to help others navigate the complicated and challenging emotions we face when experiencing loss, offering unique insights for women and Black communities.
She is no stranger to grief herself. In 2008, after a lengthy battle, she lost her mother to cancer. Shortly after, she lost her fertility, a pregnancy, and most recently, a cousin to the COVID-19 pandemic. These losses transformed her life and led her to question what healing truly requires outside the limited roadmap often handed to us by societal expectations. In the end, Marisa found that if we can own and honor what we've lost, we can have a beautiful and joyful life amid grief.
In addition to her work in the grief space, Lee is a former appointee in the Obama White House and CEO of Beacon Advisors, a mission-driven consulting firm primarily focused on racial equity. She is a rabble-rouser of social healing: former managing director of My Brother's Keeper Alliance; co-founder of the digital platform Supportal; and founder of The Pink Agenda, a national organization dedicated to raising money for breast cancer care, research, and awareness.
Lee also regularly contributes to Glamour, Vogue, MSNBC, and CNN and serves as an expert for Ritual's wellbeing app. She is a Harvard graduate and an avid home cook. Marisa lives in the Washington DC area with her husband Matt, their newborn son Bennett, and their dog, Sadie.
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- Sam’s life-changing strategies for (reluctantly) interacting with humans.
- How we use humor to hide the lava of rage churning beneath our surface.
- Sam’s friendship theory and why she doesn’t need a deep soul connection with every “lowercase f friend.”
- Sam’s embrace of JOMO (Joy of Missing Out)–and why she genuinely believes no one else is having a better time (except maybe Abby).
- The behind-the-scenes story of the “Fat Babe Pool Party” Shrill show–and why that episode was one of the most important things she’s ever written.
About Samantha: Samantha Irby writes the "Bitches Gotta Eat" blog, and is the author of WOW, NO THANK YOU; WE ARE NEVER MEETING IN REAL LIFE; and MEATY. She has been a writer and/or co-producer for TV shows including And Just Like That, Work in Progress, Shrill, and Tuca & Bertie.
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Pod Squad Family Meeting! To see each other’s rage and grief, talk about how we got here, renew our resolve to fight forward and to take tender care of each other as we do, and to share four concrete steps we can all take to join the fight for reproductive justice. Because what got us here is not going to get us out of here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- How Billie Jean could not live as her full authentic self until age 51.
- The moment Billie Jean knew that Abby was not okay after her USWNT retirement.
- How to visualize a reality that doesn’t yet exist – so you can be it, even when you don’t see it.
- How Billie Jean numbed herself through an eating disorder and how she recovered by not being a “good girl.”
- Why Billie Jean does not regret her pre-Roe abortion, and the degrading process she endured to access it.
CW // eating disorders discussion About Billie Jean: Named one of the “100 Most Important Americans of the 20th Century” by Life magazine and a 2009 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Billie Jean King is the founder of the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative, founder of the Women’s Tennis Association and the Women’s Sports Foundation and part of the ownership group of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Angel City FC and the Philadelphia Freedoms. King also serves on the board of the Women’s Sports Foundation.
In her legendary tennis career, King captured 39 Grand Slam singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles, including a record 20 Wimbledon championships. Her historic win over Bobby Riggs in the 1973 Battle of the Sexes, is one of the greatest moments in sports history. In 2017, Fox Searchlight released the critically acclaimed film, Battle of the Sexes, which depicts the cultural and social impact of the groundbreaking match.
In September 2020, King became the first woman to have an annual global team sports event named in her honor when Fed Cup – the women’s world cup of tennis – was rebranded as the Billie Jean King Cup. Her memoir, ALL IN: An Autobiography, is available now.
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Written and narrated by award-winning author and Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, Dr. Eddie S. Glaude, “History is US” is a 6-part audio documentary produced and developed by C13Originals that asks questions about who we are as a nation, and what race might reveal about our current crisis. Through the voices of distinguished historians and scholars, this limited series gives listeners the background and education to understand how we got here and how we can all use history to clarify the choices before us. There will always be something distinct about our present day, yet history haunts. “History is US” is a presentation of Shining City Audio, a C13Originals and Jon Meacham Studio.
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- How Heidi ruined Glennon’s life with a jarring new identity–and why it’s a powerful moment for G to embrace her newfound sign.
- How we each have a Sun, Moon, and Rising sign–and what each tells us about ourselves.
- Heidi breaks down the 12 astrological signs–and astrology as a tool for self revelation.
- Why we keep saying “Mercury’s in retrograde” and what the hell it means.
About Heidi: Heidi Rose Robbins has been a professional astrologer for 25 years, helping thousands of clients all over the globe live with more authenticity and clarity. She hosts two podcasts, THE RADIANCE PROJECT, featuring poetry, astrology, and good company, and CHART YOUR CAREER, with co-host Ellen Fondiler. Twice a year, she leads Radiant Life Retreats, for people wishing to take a deeper dive into her work.
Heidi has written two books of poetry, This Beckoning Ceaseless Beauty and Wild Compassion, and has been a featured poet at two TedX events. Last year, her 12-book series The Zodiac Love Letters, was published by One Idea Press, and this upcoming fall, her new book, Everyday Radiance--based on her daily Instagram offerings--will be published by Chronicle.
Heidi grew up in Fargo, North Dakota, learning the zodiac with her A, B, C’s, and calls herself “a poet with a map of the heavens in her pocket.”
She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two kids, Kate and Dylan.
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- Answers to fascinating sex questions from Pod Squaders–including how to get real in the bedroom after regularly faking orgasm.
- Concrete mindfulness strategies to get out of your head and into your body, which have been proven to increase arousal and satisfaction.
- Busting the myth about how long it should take to orgasm.
- Why talking about sex (including fantasies!) before having sex leads to more satisfying intimacy–and why that feels fun for Abby and impossible to Glennon and Amanda.
- Where to start if you’ve never discussed pleasure with a partner–and Dr. Brotto’s advice to Glennon for retiring her reign as Silent Sex Queen. About Dr. Brotto Dr. Lori Brotto is a Professor in the UBC Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Women’s Sexual Health. She is also the Executive Director for the Women’s Health Research Institute—one of only three institutes in Canada devoted to advancing research in women’s health, and maintains an active practice as a Registered Psychologist. Dr. Brotto was recently featured in the Netflix series The Principles of Pleasure, and is the author of Better Sex through Mindfulness: How Women Can Cultivate Desire and forthcoming The Better Sex through Mindfulness Workbook: A Guide to Cultivating Desire.
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- The shocking revelation that many women experience physical arousal but can’t reach orgasm because we are so “stuck” in our heads that we don’t even register it.
- Glennon and Abby share about their periodic sexual droughts – and Dr. Brotto gives them (us) advice.
- The biggest predictors of sexual problems for women – including stress/compulsive multitasking – and how to address them.
- How to know if you are disconnecting from your body during sex, and how to reintegrate to increase your pleasure.
About Dr. Brotto Dr. Lori Brotto is a Professor in the UBC Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Women’s Sexual Health. She is also the Executive Director for the Women’s Health Research Institute—one of only three institutes in Canada devoted to advancing research in women’s health, and maintains an active practice as a Registered Psychologist. Dr. Brotto was recently featured in the Netflix series The Principles of Pleasure, and is the author of Better Sex through Mindfulness: How Women Can Cultivate Desire and forthcoming The Better Sex through Mindfulness Workbook: A Guide to Cultivating Desire.
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In this beautiful conversation–in which Glennon names Cole’s book “This Here Flesh” the Next Right Book–we discuss: 1. What we learned from Cole’s insight that, “If you’re not in your body, someone else is.” 2. A mind-blowing revelation about all of our own faces that we will never stop thinking about. 3. Why the phrase “If you don’t believe you’re beautiful, no one else will” is horseshit. 4. Why dignity is the bedrock to being alive–and how to find it when we haven’t been loved well. 5. The connection between fear and awe–and how to practice wonder as a cure for despair.
About Cole: Cole Arthur Riley is a writer and poet. She is the author of the NYT bestseller, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us. Her writing has been featured in The Atlantic, Guernica, and The Washington Post. Cole is also the creator and writer of Black Liturgies, a project that integrates spiritual practice with Black emotion, Black literature, and the Black body.
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Abby’s former USWNT teammates–and dear friends–Ashlyn Harris and Ali Krieger are here for a double date discussing:
- Ashlyn and Ali’s wedding, their vision for queer marriage visibility, and Glennon’s top moments of their magical day.
- Ashlyn and Abby’s friendship–why Ashlyn pulled Abby’s final game captain’s band out of the trash and what she plans to do with it.
- Who made the first move, which one “knew” first, and how Ashlyn and Ali’s love story started with friendship and mixtapes.
- Their hardest night with their newborn, how Ali neutralizes mom guilt, and what they want most for Sloane as she grows up.
About Ashlyn: Ashlyn Harris is a two-time World Cup Champion, two-time CONCACAF Champion, and three-time SheBelieves Cup Champion. She currently plays for Gotham FC of the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) and leads the NWSL with most saves as a goalkeeper.
A champion of self-expression and self-love, Ashlyn is known for her style and her extensive tattoo artwork.
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About Ali: Ali Krieger is an Olympian, two-time World Cup Champion, and two-time SheBelives Cup Champion. She was a key part of the defense that held opponents scoreless for 539 consecutive minutes during the 2015 World Cup.
Recently, Ali was named #7 Most Marketable Athletes in the World and currently plays for the NWSL’s Gotham FC.
In 2019 Ashlyn and Ali married and in February 2021, they welcomed their new baby Sloane. They are also parents to two puppies – Logan and Storm.
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- The inspiring pep talk Bozoma gives herself in the mirror – and why we might all want to start using it to rally ourselves.
- How to navigate the tightrope of corporate expectations for women: to be both self-assured and humble; both hard and soft.
- The revolutionary realization that you don’t have to be the savior of others – you can save yourself, too.
- How to know when to dig deep, and stay and fight for change – and when to stop digging and go – and the moment Bozoma knew it was time to leave Netflix.
- Why our inability to forgive ourselves for wrong decisions keep us in bad situations – and how Boz’s “it’s not you, it’s me” philosophy can guide us out.
About Bozoma: Bozoma Saint John is a Hall of Fame inducted Marketing Executive, author, entrepreneur, and general badass. Boz has led Global Consumer Marketing at Apple Music & iTunes; she was Chief Brand Officer at Uber; and Global Chief Marketing Officer at Netflix. Boz is currently named #1 Most Influential CMO in the world by Forbes, and has been named one of Billboard’s Most Powerful Women in Music for 10 consecutive years.
In 2021, Harvard Business School published a multi-media case study on her career, titled “Leading with Authenticity and Urgency”; through which she developed and taught a program at the University aptly named “The Anatomy of a Badass.” Boz was named as an Ambassador for the African Diaspora and Special Envoy to the President of Ghana. In the Spring of 2023, Penguin Books will publish her memoir, “The Urgent Life.” Boz counts her highest achievement as being a mother to her 12 year old daughter, Lael.
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- Content warning: Discussion of suicide.
- Jenny puts words to her experience of ADD – "being a kitten on cocaine" – and her anxiety – seeing "rainbow fire.”
- How Jenny felt guilty for years about a way her mental illness impacted her mothering – only to later learn it was her child’s favorite memory.
- The moment she decided to be honest about her struggles – and how sharing our awkwardness can save the world and cure our loneliness.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-8255
About Jenny: Jenny Lawson is an award-winning humorist known for her great candor in sharing her struggle with mental illness. She's written four NYT bestsellers, including Let's Pretend This Never Happened (a mostly true memoir), Furiously Happy (A funny book about terrible things), You Are Here (An owner's manual for dangerous minds) and Broken (in the best possible way), which recently won the Goodreads Choice award for Best Humor of 2021. One of those books is a coloring book but she insists it still counts. She lives in Texas with her husband and child and would like to be your friend unless you're a real asshole.
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- Why guns are now the leading cause of death for American children and teens, and who is profiting from America’s suffering.
- What to say today when your child leaves the house to help protect them from gun violence.
- The lie our leaders are selling us about why they won’t pass the reforms that 90% of Americans want, and how one mom became the NRA’s biggest nightmare.
- How to safeguard our kids from the negative impact of for-profit active shooter drills in schools.
About Shannon: Shannon Watts was a stay at home mother of five when she founded Moms Demand Action, the nation’s first and largest grassroots movement fighting against gun violence – and the most powerful counter-movement the gun lobby has ever faced. Moms Demand Action now has a chapter in every state and, with over 8 million supporters, is now larger than the National Rifle Association. For almost ten years, Moms Demand Action volunteers have stopped the NRA’s priority legislation in statehouses roughly 90 percent of the time, helped pass hundreds of gun safety laws across the country, changed corporate policies and educated Americans about secure gun storage. Shannon’s book, Fight Like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World, is now available in paperback.
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- What Alua has learned about living well from the many people she’s helped walk home as a death doula.
- The “deathbed test” that guides her toward what is important and helps her stay present.
- Alua eases Abby’s immense fear of death by sharing her glitter-wave vision.
- The most surprising thing she wants us to know about death.
- Concrete steps we can take now to help prepare ourselves–and our loved ones–for the inevitable.
About Alua: Alua Arthur is a death doula, recovering attorney, and the founder of Going with Grace, a death doula training and end-of-life planning organization that exists to support people as they answer the question, “What must I do to be at peace with myself so that I may live presently and die gracefully?” Going with Grace works to improve and redefine the end-of-life experience for people rooted in every community using the individual lived experience as the foundation. Alua was a keynote speaker at EndWell 2019, and has been featured in the LA Times, Vogue, Refinery29, The Doctors, and InStyle. She is inspired by the gift of LIFE itself and is always on the quest for the best donuts and fried plantains!
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- How we are each haunted by our family’s secrets and trauma–whether we know them or not–and how to break the cycle for future generations.
- The astounding new research on generational trauma showing that our personal trauma is passed down genetically to our children and grandchildren.
- Our unconscious need to heal what our parents could not–and how to mourn what we cannot control.
- Why our bodies carry what our mind won’t remember–and how to release that burden.
- Dr. Galit’s new book Emotional Inheritance and the incredible new way to understand ourselves.
About Dr. Atlas: Dr. Galit Atlas is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in New York City. She is on the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Dr. Atlas has published three books for clinicians and numerous articles and book chapters. A leader in the field of relational psychoanalysis, Dr. Atlas is a recipient of the André François Award and the NADTA Research Award. She teaches and lectures throughout the United States and internationally. Her new book Emotional Inheritance was published in January 2022 and is being translated into 17 languages.
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Glennon and Abby welcome their dear friend Cameron Esposito to discuss: 1. Cameron’s brutiful relationship with her body–and how it feels playing a sexy TV role. 2. The way Cameron grew up using humor as self-defense and to become socially “valuable”–and the moment she wondered if comedy was no longer working for her. 3. Why Cameron says she’s able to cry for the first time in 35 years. 4. How as a gender-nonconforming queer kid, Cameron felt “overnoticed”–and how being a comedian allows her to “hide in plain sight." 5. The rule Cameron and Glennon made to help them become better at friendship.
CW: eating disorders
About Cameron: Cameron Esposito is a queer, gender non-conforming standup comic, actor, writer and host. As a standup, Cameron has headlined tours and festivals nationwide and internationally. As an actor and host, Cameron has been seen across television and film, appearing in big budget films and beloved Sundance indies, and on Netflix, HBO, NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, Starz, Comedy Central, Logo, TBS, IFC, E! and Cartoon Network. Cameron's podcast, Queery, features hour long conversations with some of the brightest luminaries in the LGBTQ+ community, including Emmy and Grammy winning performers, Olympians, politicians, even an astronaut. Cameron's writing has been published by The New York Times, Vulture/New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit, Refinery29 and more. Cameron's first book, Save Yourself, was an instant bestseller and is available in paperback March of 2022. Next up, Cameron is set to recur on the ABC series A Million Little Things and appear in HBOMax's Moonshot. Cameron lives in Los Angeles and likes to swim.
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Part Two of our gorgeous conversation with Elizabeth Gilbert: 1. Liz describes Rayya’s death as “a fist fight”–and how Rayya went out swinging. 2. In the wake of Rayya’s death, how Liz grieved, and what helped. 3. Liz’s spiritual practices: communing with a higher power, her recovery community, and starting over.
About Elizabeth: Elizabeth Gilbert is author of the international bestseller, EAT PRAY LOVE, which has been translated into over thirty languages, and sold over 12 million copies worldwide. The book became so popular that Time Magazine named Elizabeth as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2010, Elizabeth published a follow-up to EAT PRAY LOVE called COMMITTED—an instant a #1 New York Times Bestseller, as well as BIG MAGIC: CREATIVE LIVING BEYOND FEAR. She is author of two novels: THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS, and CITY OF GIRLS. And she is the creator of the Onward Book Club, which takes place on her Instagram via a live chat, as a way of spotlighting, studying, and celebrating the work of Black women authors.
Elizabeth divides her time between New York City, rural New Jersey, and everywhere else.
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Part One of our intimate conversation with Elizabeth Gilbert: 1. When Glennon called Liz about Abby–and Liz then told Glennon about Rayya. 2. The moment Liz imploded her life as she knew it. 3. How, after a decade of friendship, Liz finally told Rayya that she was in love with her. 4. The brutal chaos of Rayya’s addiction at the end of her life–and what Liz had to do and say to protect herself.
About Liz: Elizabeth Gilbert is author of the international bestseller, EAT PRAY LOVE, which has been translated into over thirty languages, and sold over 12 million copies worldwide. The book became so popular that Time Magazine named Elizabeth as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2010, Elizabeth published a follow-up to EAT PRAY LOVE called COMMITTED—an instant a #1 New York Times Bestseller, as well as BIG MAGIC: CREATIVE LIVING BEYOND FEAR. She is author of two novels: THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS, and CITY OF GIRLS. And she is the creator of the Onward Book Club, which takes place on her Instagram via a live chat, as a way of spotlighting, studying, and celebrating the work of Black women authors.
Elizabeth divides her time between New York City, rural New Jersey, and everywhere else.
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- With everything going on in the world, and in our lives, is “Burnout” the reason we all feel like zombies?
- Why stress is like trash: You have to get rid of it often or your life starts to stink.
- Emily and Amelia Nagoski – the authors of Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle – answer our Pod Squad’s burning questions about how to bounce back from burnout.
About Emily: EMILY NAGOSKI is the award-winning author of the New York Times bestselling Come As You Are and The Come As You Are Workbook. She earned an M.S. in counseling and a Ph.D. in health behavior, both from Indiana University, with clinical and research training at the Kinsey Institute. Now she combines sex education and stress education to teach women to live with confidence and joy inside their bodies. Emily’s new podcast, Come As You Are, is launching this Summer and her forthcoming book, Come Together, will be released in 2023. She lives in Massachusetts with two dogs, a cat, and a cartoonist.
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About Amelia: AMELIA NAGOSKI, Amelia is the co-author with Emily, of the New York Times bestseller Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle. A Doctorate of Musical Arts, her job as she describes it is to run around waving her arms and making funny noises and generally doing whatever it takes to help singers get in touch with their internal experience. She lives in New England with her husband, one cat, and two rescue dogs.
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- Thinking of depression as a way of seeing the world … through toilet paper roll binoculars.
- Why healing might actually just be permission to go.
- Chanel’s definition of success: refusing to succumb to perfection or exhaustion–and showing up as herself in every moment.
- The healing moment when Chanel returned to Stanford and was held in sound–which set her free. About Chanel: Chanel Miller is a writer and artist who received her BA in Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her critically acclaimed memoir, KNOW MY NAME, was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book, and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner, as well as a best book of 2019 in Time, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, NPR, and People, among others. She is a 2019 Time Next 100 honoree and a 2016 Glamour Woman of the Year honoree under her pseudonym, “Emily Doe.”
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- How to get your orgasm back.
- Dr. Jen Gunter’s advice–and personal mantra–for surviving hot flushes.
- How to differentiate between mental health challenges and menopause.
- The one easy thing you can do at the doctor’s office to ensure better care.
- Is menopause a reboot of the brain and an opportunity to reallocate mental resources?
Resource: North American Menopause Society (NAMS) About Jen: Dr. Jen Gunter is an OB/GYN and pain medicine physician and the author of The Menopause Manifesto, The Vagina Bible, and The Preemie Primer. She is the host of the podcast Body Stuff (TED Audio Collective) and of the streaming docuseries Jensplaining (CBC Gem). She blogs at TheVajenda.com and her writing can also be found in the New York Times, Glamour, DAME, and other publications. Her mission is to build a better medical Internet. She has been called Twitter’s gynecologist, the Internet’s OB/GYN, and a fierce advocate for women’s health.
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- Hot flushes, night sweats, sleep disturbances, vaginal dryness, and the less common, frequently-missed symptoms of menopause.
- A strategy and script for how to talk to your doctor without being dismissed.
- The lies and truth about menopause hormone therapy.
- Why our culture is fixated on investing to ensure men never lose their erection, but is fine with women losing their quality of life.
- What we need to know about our bodies and lives during menopause, which will impact up to 20 years of our lives. Resource: North American Menopause Society (NAMS) About Jen: Dr. Jen Gunter is an OB/GYN and pain medicine physician and the author of The Menopause Manifesto, The Vagina Bible, and The Preemie Primer. She is the host of the podcast Body Stuff (TED Audio Collective) and of the streaming docuseries Jensplaining (CBC Gem). She blogs at TheVajenda.com and her writing can also be found in the New York Times, Glamour, DAME, and other publications. Her mission is to build a better medical Internet. She has been called Twitter’s gynecologist, the Internet’s OB/GYN, and a fierce advocate for women’s health.
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- What is your Enneagram number–and how does this ancient wisdom explain WHY you do what you do?
- Why Glennon really didn’t want to accept her Enneagram number, and how she finally saw herself clearly in it.
- How the Enneagram helps Amanda have much more compassion for herself–and how she uses it to understand common patterns in her marriage.
- Glennon and Amanda use the Enneagram to dissect what is actually going on in their conflicts, and how to make each other feel seen and understood.
About Ashton: Ashton Whitmoyer-Ober is an author, public speaker, Community Psychologist, and certified Enneagram educator. With a desire to see relationships strengthened and people empowered, she created Enneagram Ashton in early 2019. She is the author of Enneagram for Relationships, The Two of Us: A Three Year Couples Journal, and The Enneagram Made Simple.
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- Brené and Barrett share their parenting strategy that Brené calls “the opposite of raising a child that’s full of shame.”
- The family of origin roles that Brené (the Protector) and Barrett (the Peacekeeper) had to adjust in order to work together–and the two keys to working well with family.
- The ways in which a child who grows up living on eggshells becomes an adult who is fearful–and how that fear shows up differently for Brené, Barrett, Glennon, and Amanda.
- The hilarious moment when each sister confesses a secret that they fear the other believes about them–and we find out whether or not it’s true.
- How Brené and Barrett are walking through the grief of their mother’s sudden decline, and how they circle back when the stress of that grief makes them shitty to each other.
About Brené: Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston where she holds the Huffington Foundation Endowed Chair at The Graduate College of Social Work.She has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy, is the author of six #1 New York Times bestsellers, and is the host of the weekly podcasts Unlocking Us and Dare to Lead. Brené’s books have been translated into more than 30 languages and titles include: Dare to Lead, Braving the Wilderness, Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection. Most recently Brené collaborated with Tarana Burke to co-edit You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience. In her latest #1 New York Times bestseller, ATLAS OF THE HEART, which has been adapted for television and now streaming on HBO Max, she takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. Brené lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband, Steve. They have two children, Ellen and Charlie. TW: @BreneBrown IG: @BreneBrown
About Barrett: Barrett Guillen is Chief of Staff for Brené Brown Education and Research Group. With her team, Barrett supports both Brené and the organization by helping to prioritize competing demands, managing relationships, and building connective tissue and strategy across all business initiatives. Barrett holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Kinesiology from the University of Houston. After more than a decade in education in the Texas Panhandle, Barrett and her family moved back to the Houston area to join Brene’s team in making the world a braver place. Having the opportunity to work with her sisters every day has been one of the great joys of her life. Outside the office, you can find Barrett spending time with her family (immediate and extended), enjoying her daughter’s games, eating her husband’s famous burgers, floating in the water (any water!), or on the pickle ball court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jen Hatmaker is back with the new man in her life–actor, author, and activist Tyler Merritt–for a double date with Glennon and Abby discussing:
- How Jen and Tyler met, what first attracted Jen and Tyler to each other–and who made the first move.
- How not knowing any “dating rules” led Jen to jumpstart the “define the relationship” step.
- The triggers for Jen that led to an early relationship “wobble” and how Jen is navigating issues of trust and safety after her divorce.
- The joys and challenges of dating as two fully formed grown up adults.
- Jen, Tyler, Abby, and Glennon each share the one thing they love most about their partners.
About Jen: Jen Hatmaker is the New York Times bestselling author of For the Love and Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire, along with twelve other books. She hosts the award-winning For the Love podcast, is the delighted curator of the Jen Hatmaker Book Club, and leader of a tightly knit online community where she reaches millions of people each week. Jen is a co-founder of Legacy Collective, a giving organization that grants millions of dollars toward sustainable projects around the world. She is a mom to five kids and lives happily just outside Austin, Texas. To learn more about Jen, visit www.jenhatmaker.com.
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About Tyler: Tyler Merritt is a Nashville-based actor, activist, cancer survivor, founder of The Tyler Merritt Project, and author of "I TAKE MY COFFEE BLACK: REFLECTIONS ON TUPAC, MUSICAL THEATER, FAITH AND BEING BLACK IN AMERICA." Over the course of his career, Tyler has gained recognition through notable acting projects including "Kevin Probably Saves The World," "Outer Banks," and "The Outsider," as well as serving as the face of the worldwide teaching curriculum for The Gospel Project for Kids. Tyler Merritt made headlines with his 2018 viral video "Before You Call The Cops," which has been viewed by over 60 million people worldwide and appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live. As a 6’2'' dreadlocked Black man living inAmerica, where racial injustices continue to plague our society, Tyler has emerged as a steadfast activist in the face of racism.
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- Jen describes the shock of losing her 26-year marriage overnight.
- How, looking back, Jen sees that she knew something was wrong in her relationship well before she “knew” something was wrong–and the moment she reached out to Glennon to share it for the first time. 3. Why Jen’s friends told her she was a “human spotlight” and “cleanup crew” in her marriage–and the pain of realizing she was powerful in every role other than wife. 4. How Jen convinced herself that her marriage was enough when in reality she felt like a pot of water slowly building to a boil.
- The common hell of being lonely inside of marriage–and why we won’t be fully honest with ourselves, our partners, or our friends about what we are most afraid of.
About Jen: Jen Hatmaker is the New York Times bestselling author of For the Love and Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire, along with twelve other books. She hosts the award-winning For the Love podcast, is the delighted curator of the Jen Hatmaker Book Club, and leader of a tightly knit online community where she reaches millions of people each week. Jen is a co-founder of Legacy Collective, a giving organization that grants millions of dollars toward sustainable projects around the world. She is a mom to five kids and lives happily just outside Austin, Texas. To learn more about Jen, visit www.jenhatmaker.com.
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- How to know if you are a “Bittersweet” type.
- On “stabs of joy”—and why our joy is often accompanied by dread.
- How to complete the cycle of sadness, in order to live with more joy.
- Susan and Sister’s best relationship advice: That our longing for the perfect partner is not really about our partner.
- Why Glennon thinks those who feel the ache are often those who fall into addiction.
About Susan: Susan Cain is the author of the bestsellers Quiet Journal, Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts, and Quiet: The Power of Introverts in A World That Can’t Stop Talking, which has been translated into 40 languages, spent seven years on the New York Times best seller list, and was named the #1 best book of the year by Fast Company magazine, which also named Cain one of its Most Creative People in Business. Her new masterpiece, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole, was published by Crown on April 5, 2022.
LinkedIn named Susan the 6th Top Influencer in the world. Susan partners with Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant and Dan Pink to curate the Next Big Idea Book Club. They donate all their proceeds to children’s literacy programs.
Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. Her record-smashing TED talk has been viewed over 40 million times, and was named by Bill Gates one of his all-time favorite talks.
Cain has also spoken at Google, PIXAR, the U.S. Treasury, P&G, Harvard, and West Point. She received Harvard Law School’s Celebration Award for Thought Leadership, the Toastmasters International Golden Gavel Award for Communication and Leadership, and was named one of the world’s top 50 Leadership and Management Experts by Inc. Magazine. She is an honors graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School. Visit Susan at susancain.net.
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Glennon’s son, Chase, joins Glennon for a special conversation with his hero, author Ocean Vuong, to discuss:
- Chase shares with Ocean the impact his work has had in his life–and Glennon thanks Ocean for helping mother her son.
- What Ocean learned from his mother about how to navigate being an Asian boy in America–and Glennon’s recognition that she did not prepare Chase for the same realities.
- Ocean’s new book, Time is a Mother, and why watching his own mother die gave Ocean a deep empathy and connection to every person.
- His relationship to maleness–and why Ocean is interested in “staying and complicating” masculinity.
About Ocean: Ocean Vuong, author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds, and the New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a recipient of the 2019 MacArthur "Genius Grant" and the winner of the Whiting Award and the T. S. Eliot Prize. In Time Is a Mother, Ocean's newest poetry collection available now, he reckons with his mother’s death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. His writings have been featured in The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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- How to know when to dig deep–and when to quit digging.
- The greatest blocker of connection–and how to remove it.
- How to handle our fear (without obsessively controlling our people and our environment).
- Why we all deserve a standing ovation for navigating relationships over the past two years.
About Brené: Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston where she holds the Huffington Foundation Endowed Chair at The Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy, is the author of six #1 New York Times bestsellers, and is the host of the weekly podcasts Unlocking Us and Dare to Lead.
In her latest #1 New York Times bestseller, ATLAS OF THE HEART, which has been adapted for television and now streaming on HBO Max, she takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human.
Brené’s books have been translated into more than 30 languages and titles include: Dare to Lead, Braving the Wilderness, Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection. Most recently Brené collaborated with Tarana Burke to co-edit You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience.
Brené lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband, Steve. They have two children, Ellen and Charlie.
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- Why Hannah describes her later-in-life Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis as “an exfoliation of shame.”
- How neurodiversity affects Hannah’s relationships–and how she connects to the world through what’s “interesting” instead of what’s “important.”
- Hannah’s revolutionary commitment to stop using self-deprecating humor about her body, sexuality, and gender–and why we might all consider the same commitment.
- Why it’s easier for Hannah to share her personal stories “in bulk” on stage instead of one-on-one.
- What it takes for Hannah to prepare for conversations–like ours on We Can Do Hard Things.
About Hannah: Tasmania’s own Hannah Gadsby stopped stand-up comedy in its tracks with her multi-award-winning show, Nanette. When it premiered on Netflix in 2018, it left audiences captivated by her blistering honesty and her singular ability to take them from rolling laughter to devastated silence. Its release and subsequent Emmy and Peabody wins took Nanette (and Hannah) to the world. Hannah’s difficult second album (which was also her eleventh solo show) was named Douglas after her dog. Hannah walked Douglas around the world, selling out the Royal Festival Hall in London, the Opera House in Sydney and the Kennedy Center in DC, a sit-down run in New York and shows across the US, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Douglas covered Hannah’s autism diagnosis, moving beyond the trauma at the centre of Nanette and instead letting the world see the view from Hannah’s brain – one that sees the world differently but with breathtaking clarity. The show was an Emmy-nominated smash hit and is available throughout the world on Netflix, recorded in Los Angeles.
Hannah Gadsby’s “overnight” success was more than ten years in the making, with her award-winning stand-up shows having been a fixture in festivals across Australia and the UK since 2009. She played a character called “Hannah” on the TV series Please Like Me and has hosted multiple art documentaries, inspired by her comedy art lectures. In 2022, Hannah’s first book Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation was published by Ballantine, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in the United States, Atlantic in the UK, and Allen & Unwin in Australia.
Hannah has done plenty of other things over the course of more than a decade in comedy, but that will do for now.
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- Why we’ve been sold a lie–and the truth that we actually get happier the older we get!
- The two most important–and shocking–predictors of aging well.
- Busting the most prevalent misconceptions and about getting older.
- How believing the myths about aging literally harms our health and makes us more vulnerable to the fears we hold about aging.
- Glennon paints a mental picture of her older self–and encourages the Pod Squad to do the same.
About Ashton: The author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism, Ashton Applewhite is a leading spokesperson for the emerging movement to raise awareness of ageism and to dismantle it. A co-founder of the Old School Anti-Ageism Clearinghouse, she has been recognized by the New York Times, the New Yorker, National Public Radio, and the American Society on Aging as an expert on ageism. Ashton has written for Harper’s, the Guardian, and the New York Times, blogs at This Chair Rocks, and is the voice of Yo, Is This Ageist? She speaks widely at venues that have ranged from colleges and symposia to the TED mainstage and the United Nations. In 2022 she appeared on HelpAgeUSA’s inaugural 60 Over 60 List and on Fe:maleOneZero’s first international edition of 40 over 40 – The World’s Most Inspiring Women.
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- How Glennon is using her 46th birthday as an intermission–to slow down and decide what to bring with her into Act 2.
- The counterculture power of knowing what is enough, and letting ourselves go.
- The way to transition from Role Living to Soul Living–and why Glennon has Joni Mitchell on repeat.
- The real meaning of “crisis”–and the idea that living well now means reimagining everything we learned in the first half of life.
- Amanda’ s good news that if you don’t feel like Glennon does at this moment in life, it is very, very normal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Why the construct of beauty is oppressive, but the essence of beauty is freedom.
- What living with integrity looks like.
- Why Dr. Blay doesn’t need any more allies—and what she really wants from an accomplice.
- How “Karens” have been around for centuries—and the direct line from “Miss Anne to Karen.”
- Dr. Blay’s greatest hope for her granddaughters—even if she doesn’t like it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Amanda shares the biggest regret of her life: the one that still wakes her up in the middle of the night.
- The five biggest regrets of the dying—and how to make the necessary changes to avoid them.
- Why we should reframe regret as proof of a life well-lived. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this hilarious and heartwarming in-person double date with Abby and Glennon—and their dear friends and brilliant artists Brandi and Catherine Carlile—we learn:
- Why Brandi was completely dismayed the first time she met Catherine;
- Who made the first move—and why it made Catherine sweat;
- All about the Carlile family compound—where they are raising their girls surrounded by family, band members, and exes;
- How they communicate and deal with jealousy; and
- Why Brandi believes this conversation—two queer couples sitting on a couch publicly discussing marriage, family, and domesticity—is revolutionary.
About Brandi: Brandi Carlile is a six-time GRAMMY Award-winning singer, songwriter, performer, producer, #1 New York Times Bestselling author and activist, who is known as one of music's most respected voices.
Her new album, In These Silent Days, recently debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Americana/Folk Albums chart, Top Rock Albums chart and Tastemaker Albums chart and continues to receive overwhelming acclaim. The New York Times praises, “Larger than life and achingly human…she empathizes, apologizes and lays out accusations. She’s righteous and she’s self-doubting. She proffers fond lullabies and she unleashes full-throated screams," while NPR Music declares, “absolutely breathtaking, across the whole album Brandi Carlile pulls out all the stops. It’s just extraordinary…she’s just claiming rock god status." Carlile recently received five nominations at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards including Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance for the album's lead single, "Right On Time."
Following a breakthrough debut on "Saturday Night Live," Carlile and her band will embark on a series of landmark concerts next year including stops at Washington’s Gorge Amphitheatre, Los Angeles’ The Greek Theatre and New York’s Madison Square Garden among many others. In addition to her 6 GRAMMY Awards, Carlile has been recognized with Billboard’s Women In Music “Trailblazer Award,” CMT’s Next Women of Country “Impact Award" and received multiple recognitions from the Americana Music Association Honors & Awards including Artist of the Year for the past two years.
TW: @brandicarlile IG: @brandicarlile
About Catherine: Catherine Carlile has devoted her life to the intersection of music and activism with over 20 years of experience. Since 2012, she has served as the Executive Director of the Looking Out Foundation, which has raised over $3 million for a variety of grassroots causes including close work with Children In Conflict/War Child. She also serves as creative director for Phantom 309 Productions. Prior to her current work, Catherine worked with Sir Paul McCartney in coordinating his charitable interests and endeavors. Originally from London, Catherine now lives outside of Seattle, WA with her wife, Brandi Carlile, and their two daughters, Evangeline and Elijah. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- The two disagreements between Brandi and Glennon that started, and cemented, their friendship.
- Brandi’s lifelong quest to continuously “calibrate” herself so that her outsides are in tune with her insides.
- The trait Brandi loves most about Catherine—and the sticky note on Glennon’s desk with the same message.
About Brandi: Brandi Carlile is a six-time GRAMMY Award-winning singer, songwriter, performer, producer, #1 New York Times Bestselling author and activist, who is known as one of music's most respected voices.
Her new album, In These Silent Days, recently debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Americana/Folk Albums chart, Top Rock Albums chart and Tastemaker Albums chart and continues to receive overwhelming acclaim. The New York Times praises, “Larger than life and achingly human…she empathizes, apologizes and lays out accusations. She’s righteous and she’s self-doubting. She proffers fond lullabies and she unleashes full-throated screams," while NPR Music declares, “absolutely breathtaking, across the whole album Brandi Carlile pulls out all the stops. It’s just extraordinary…she’s just claiming rock god status." Carlile recently received five nominations at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards including Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance for the album's lead single, "Right On Time."
Following a breakthrough debut on "Saturday Night Live," Carlile and her band will embark on a series of landmark concerts including stops at Washington’s Gorge Amphitheatre, Los Angeles’ The Greek Theatre and New York’s Madison Square Garden among many others. In addition to her 6 GRAMMY Awards, Carlile has been recognized with Billboard’s Women In Music “Trailblazer Award,” CMT’s Next Women of Country “Impact Award" and received multiple recognitions from the Americana Music Association Honors & Awards including Artist of the Year for the past two years.
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- How do we make a new thing with our life?
- What is your fingerprint on the world?
- Who does history try to erase and why?
- What does pain do to our bodies? 5 .What is our capacity for transformation?
About ALOK: ALOK (they/them) is an internationally acclaimed writer, performer, and public speaker. As a mixed-media artist their work explores themes of trauma, belonging, and the human condition. They are the author of Femme in Public (2017), Beyond the Gender Binary (2020), and Your Wound/My Garden (2021). They are the creator of #DeGenderFashion: a movement to degender fashion and beauty industries and have been honored as one of HuffPo’s Culture Shifters, NBC’s Pride 50, and Business Insider’s Doers.
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“The days that I feel most beautiful are the days that I am most afraid.” “What feminine part of yourself did you have to destroy in order to survive in this world?” “Why have we been taught to fear the very things that can set us free?”
About ALOK: ALOK (they/them) is an internationally acclaimed writer, performer, and public speaker. As a mixed-media artist their work explores themes of trauma, belonging, and the human condition. They are the author of Femme in Public (2017), Beyond the Gender Binary (2020), and Your Wound/My Garden (2021). They are the creator of #DeGenderFashion: a movement to degender fashion and beauty industries and have been honored as one of HuffPo’s Culture Shifters, NBC’s Pride 50, and Business Insider’s Doers.
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- Amanda shares the story of Séamus, the newest addition to her family–and how he has ruined her “religion” of the spreadsheet.
- Why Glennon says that Honey and Hattie are the only “people” who truly understand her–and what each of them teach her about love.
- The ways we hilariously project emotions onto our pets–and how Abby has fallen for Tish’s pet hamster, Biscuit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
For their first (of hopefully many) podcast double dates, Abby and Glennon sit down with the icons, activists, and Olympians Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird. In this honest and hilarious conversation, we find out:
- The delightfully awkward moment Megan and Sue first met;
- What’s hard for each of them right now;
- The boundaries they’re working on together;
- How they communicate and deal with jealousy; and
- How they help each other show up in the world as champions for change.
About Sue: Regarded as the world’s premier point guard, Sue Bird is the WNBA’s All-Time Leader in Assists and known for being selfless, driven, encouraging, funny and smart. Bird is a seasoned veteran and a born leader who has dominated at every level. She is one of only seven women to win an Olympic Gold Medal (she’s won five), a World Championship Gold Medal (she’s won four) an NCAA Championship (she’s won two), and a WNBA Championship (she’s won four – the last just weeks before her 40th birthday). Sue is also a five-time Euroleague Champion, a twelve- time WNBA All-Star, was voted by the fans as one of the WNBA’s Top 15 Players of All Time. Off the court, Sue spends time as a basketball analyst for ESPN and as an outspoken and visible activist advocating for Black Lives, equality, health and wellness and expanding opportunities for girls and all marginalized people. TW: @S10Bird IG: @suebird10
About Megan: Two-time World Cup Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist, Megan Rapinoe is a fan favorite and one of the team’s most technical and craftiest players. A vocal leader on and off the pitch, Megan helped lead the USWNT to the 2019 Women’s World Cup Championship scoring some of the biggest goals of the tournament. Megan took home the tournament’s two top honors – the Golden Boot for top scorer, and the Golden Ball for the best player in the tournament. Megan is an advocate for equality for all and has been able to intersect her passion for humanity and authenticity. TW: @mPinoe IG: @mrapinoe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Today, Glennon, Abby, and Amanda continue their conversation about Glennon’s eating disorder relapse and the Next Right Thing for their family. CW // eating disorders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
With new host Jenny Yang, Going Through It returns for its third season featuring 15 notable guests reflecting on what they learned from the elders who influenced them at just the right time. New episodes releasing every Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Today, Glennon shares about her recent eating disorder relapse. If talk about eating disorders and mental illness helps: Listen today. If it triggers: Skip today. CW // eating disorders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Glennon explains her “soundaries”—and why a lack of audiorial yield in public places is her biggest peeve.
- Abby’s struggle, as a bonus parent, adjusting to a kid-filled life with zero personal space and personal property boundaries.
- Why Amanda is allergic to the word “fine”—and why she’s stopped saying “I didn’t have time.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Glennon reenacts her first emotional and hilarious email exchange with Sarah Paulson about the Untamed TV show.
- Sarah contemplates how she will prepare for the role of Glennon–and why she’s “never been more excited about anything truly ever. ”
- Glennon, Sarah and Abby discuss who will play Abby–and how they will recreate the “There She Is” moment.
About Sarah:
Sarah Paulson’s acting work includes lead roles in FX’s anthology series "American Horror Story,” and playing Marcia Clark in "The People v. O. J. Simpson,” for which she won an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Critics’ Choice Award, and a Television Critics Association Award.
Her film credits include the Academy Award-winning "12 Years a Slave,” as well as “Carol,” "Ocean’s 8,” and many others.
She can be seen in the FX miniseries "Mrs. America,” Lionsgate’s "Run,” in the title role in the Netflix series "Ratched,” which she executive produces, and most recently in the third installment of American Crime Story: Impeachment as Linda Tripp.
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- Why it’s important to prioritize our own needs, wants, and feelings–and how that creates freedom and peace for those we love.
- What Glennon says was the hardest thing about telling her kids that Craig and she were getting a divorce–and how truth telling frees us all.
- Martha’s helpful strategy for how to choose freedom over fear when we’re faced with a tough decision.
About Martha:
Dr. Martha Beck is a New York Times bestselling author, life coach, and speaker. She holds three Harvard degrees in social science, and Oprah Winfrey has called her “one of the smartest women I know.” Martha is a passionate and engaging teacher, known for her unique combination of science, humor, and spirituality. Her newest book, The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self, was an instant New York Times Best Seller.
Book: The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self Instagram: @themarthabeck Twitter: @marthabeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- How do we tap back into living by our inner compass after living by consensus and following outer voices for so long?
- What Martha said to Glennon and Abby when they told her they were in love but scared to move forward—and how that advice changed their lives.
- How to make a plan to cultivate joy when it feels like you are army-crawling through life.
About Martha: Dr. Martha Beck is a New York Times bestselling author, life coach, and speaker. She holds three Harvard degrees in social science, and Oprah Winfrey has called her “one of the smartest women I know.” Martha is a passionate and engaging teacher, known for her unique combination of science, humor, and spirituality. Her newest book, The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self, was an instant New York Times Best Seller.
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- How chronic social isolation throughout the pandemic has impacted our friendships–and why that’s affecting our mental health and cravings for connection.
- Glennon, Amanda, and Abby each make a Next Right Thing plan for prioritizing friendship in their lives.
- How we grieve a friendship ending when there’s no cultural template or ritual to acknowledge that deep loss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Why the connection of friendship is emerging as the single best thing for your wellness—and three things that define a healthy friendship.
- How friendship has changed for Abby since retiring from soccer—and why Glennon fears commitment in friendships more than other relationships.
- How to recognize ambivalent relationships—and why they can be just as bad for us as toxic ones.
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- The simple exercises Laurie conducts with her students at Yale to help them reset their brains and restructure their days in order to access happiness.
- Why being “time famished” is one of the most common obstacles to happiness, the signals our bodies give us that we are starved of unstructured time, and what we can do to build more of it.
- How understanding that our brains are wired as “comparison machines” incompatible with happiness can lead to improved wellbeing.
About Laurie:
Dr. Laurie Santos is Professor of Psychology and Head of Silliman College at Yale University. Dr. Santos is an expert on human cognition and the cognitive biases that impede better choices. Her course, “Psychology and the Good Life,” teaches students what the science of psychology says about how to make wiser choices and live a life that’s happier and more fulfilling. The class is Yale’s most popular course in over 300 years and has been adapted into a free Coursera program that has been taken by over 3.3 million people to date. Dr. Santos has been featured in numerous news outlets including the New York Times, NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, NPR, GQ Magazine, Slate, CNN and O, The Oprah Magazine. Dr. Santos is a winner of numerous awards both for her science and teaching from institutions such as Yale and the American Psychological Association. She has been featured as one of Popular Science’s “Brilliant 10” young minds and was named TIME's “Leading Campus Celebrity.” Her podcast, The Happiness Lab, launched in 2019 has over 48 million downloads.
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- One easy thing we can do to increase our happiness by 1% when we’re feeling tired and overwhelmed.
- Our misconception that happiness is about our circumstances–the next promotion, the new relationship–and the reality that often people with fantastic circumstances are miserable.
- Why our emotions flow directly from our thoughts–and how we can improve our wellbeing by changing our mind’s interpretation of events.
About Laurie: Dr. Laurie Santos is Professor of Psychology and Head of Silliman College at Yale University. Dr. Santos is an expert on human cognition and the cognitive biases that impede better choices. Her course, “Psychology and the Good Life,” teaches students what the science of psychology says about how to make wiser choices and live a life that’s happier and more fulfilling. The class is Yale’s most popular course in over 300 years and has been adapted into a free Coursera program that has been taken by over 3.3 million people to date. Dr. Santos has been featured in numerous news outlets including the New York Times, NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, NPR, GQ Magazine, Slate, CNN and O, The Oprah Magazine. Dr. Santos is a winner of numerous awards both for her science and teaching from institutions such as Yale and the American Psychological Association. She has been featured as one of Popular Science’s “Brilliant 10” young minds and was named TIME's “Leading Campus Celebrity.” Her podcast, The Happiness Lab, launched in 2019 has over 48 million downloads.
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- How do we build a squad of friends–people we can trust our truth and imperfection with, and who take responsibility for one another’s care?
- How to know when it’s time to let a friendship go–and how we release one another without the hard feelings.
- Why when we have a problem trusting others, it sometimes has to do with a lack of trust in ourselves.
- Why Luvvie says her friends have rewired her brain, and answers the question: Can Black and white women really be friends?
About Luvvie: Luvvie Ajayi Jones is a two-time New York Times bestselling author, podcast host, and sought-after speaker who thrives at the intersection of humor, media, and justice. Her critically acclaimed books Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual and I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual were instant bestsellers and established her as a literary force with a powerful pen. Professional Troublemaker was just released in paperback.
She’s an internationally recognized speaker who takes on dozens of stages every year around the globe and has spoken at some of the world's most innovative companies and conferences, including Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Twitter. She is also co-creator of the #SharetheMicNow global movement and hosts her podcast, Professional Troublemaker.
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- A hilarious, profound take on judging people, and why Luvvie’s telling the world–and has often told Glennon–to: “Fix your face.”
- How to prepare for hard conversations with those we love–including the lists Luvvie brings to those talks that help keep her calm and vulnerable.
- The importance of sitting with the fear behind the questions: “Who am I when I am not giving something to somebody?” and “What is my worth when I have nothing to offer?”
- How we can affirm our teen Troublemakers to keep being different–that their power is in remaining as odd and amazing as they already are–and the complications that led to in Glennon and Abby’s home.
About Luvvie: Luvvie Ajayi Jones is a two-time New York Times bestselling author, podcast host, and sought-after speaker who thrives at the intersection of humor, media, and justice. Her critically acclaimed books Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual and I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual were instant bestsellers and established her as a literary force with a powerful pen. Professional Troublemaker was just released in paperback.
She’s an internationally recognized speaker who takes on dozens of stages every year around the globe and has spoken at some of the world's most innovative companies and conferences, including Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Twitter. She is also co-creator of the #SharetheMicNow global movement and hosts her podcast, Professional Troublemaker.
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- What if we stop trying to figure out whether our feelings and intuition are “right” or “wrong”– and instead, just acknowledge them as real–and move toward them?
- How Glennon is experiencing a little shift in peace, joy, and non-reactivity through her newfound relationship with meditation.
- Why a lot of our suffering exists in the space between the Knowing and the Doing–and how life is at its best and most exciting when we shorten that gap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Why do we spend our lives trying to become what our culture ascribes as “good” only to burn ourselves out, wake up, and realize: I thought it would all be more beautiful than this?
- Why Glennon says that stillness has been her greatest teacher–and how she was able to find it in her most rock bottom moments.
- How listening for and committing to the next right thing then leads us to the next thing–and why we should rush towards whatever looks and feels like freedom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- What we should STOP saying to people who are struggling—and what to say, or do, instead.
- How Kate received the support she needed because people were willing to embarrass themselves in their attempts to show up—and why we shouldn’t be scared of doing it wrong.
- Kate offers some words to a Pod Squader feeling anticipatory grief—and how to accept that we can’t always make it okay for the people we love.
About Kate: Kate Bowler, PhD is a New York Times bestselling author, podcast host, and a professor at Duke University. She studies the cultural stories we tell ourselves about success, suffering, and whether (or not) we’re capable of change. She is the author of Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel and The Preacher’s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities. After being unexpectedly diagnosed with Stage IV cancer at age 35, she penned the New York Times bestselling memoir, Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I’ve Loved) and her latest, No Cure For Being Human (and Other Truths I Need to Hear). Kate hosts the Everything Happens podcast where, in warm, insightful, often funny conversations, she talks with people like Malcolm Gladwell and Anne Lamott about what they’ve learned in difficult times. She lives in Durham, North Carolina with her family and continues to teach do-gooders at Duke Divinity School.
Book: No Cure for Being Human: (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) Instagram: @katecbowler Twitter: @KatecBowler Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Kate describes the overwhelming feeling of love—not anger—that she felt when she was sure she was near death.
- Why it’s time we throw out expressions like “Everything is possible” and “What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger,” and rewrite our cultural cliches.
- Why Kate delights in celebrating the holidays—and how to survive the holiday season when there’s grief and loss and fear in all of us.
- Kate and Glennon bond over their love for swear words—and how using them is a reflection of what’s going on inside of them.
About Kate: Kate Bowler, PhD is a New York Times bestselling author, podcast host, and a professor at Duke University. She studies the cultural stories we tell ourselves about success, suffering, and whether (or not) we’re capable of change. She is the author of Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel and The Preacher’s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities. After being unexpectedly diagnosed with Stage IV cancer at age 35, she penned the New York Times bestselling memoir, Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I’ve Loved) and her latest, No Cure For Being Human (and Other Truths I Need to Hear). Kate hosts the Everything Happens podcast where, in warm, insightful, often funny conversations, she talks with people like Malcolm Gladwell and Anne Lamott about what they’ve learned in difficult times. She lives in Durham, North Carolina with her family and continues to teach do-gooders at Duke Divinity School.
Book: No Cure for Being Human: (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) Instagram: @katecbowler Twitter: @KatecBowler Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- What if we deleted the picture in our head of how it’s “supposed to be,” and looked at “what is” right now, as enough?
- What makes a good apology–and why we shouldn't pretend that it is possible to reorder what we did to people.
- Glennon describes “the ache”–and how it’s really love, coming and going, and making life more beautiful. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Glennon, Abby, and Amanda share how opening up and being vulnerable on the podcast has changed their lives.
- What your preparation style says about your personality—and how some people bring their “magic” while others bring index cards.
- Abby recalls “the biggest bomb of her life”—and why she was nervous to join Glennon and Amanda on We Can Do Hard Things. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Why Ashley says we have to talk about what hurts if we’re ever going to heal.
- Glennon asks Ashley about the power of apologizing—and why Ashley says we must begin apologizing to the people we love.
- How many of us are really good at loving other people, but often struggle to let ourselves be loved.
- Why Ashley says that nothing has ever given her more peace and power than knowing that she doesn’t really need others to believe in her—because she believes so deeply in herself.
About Ashley: Ashley C. Ford’s New York Times best-selling memoir, Somebody’s Daughter, was published by Flatiron Books in June 2021. Ford is the former host of The Chronicles of Now podcast, co-host of The HBO companion podcast Lovecraft Country Radio. She currently lives in Indianapolis, Indiana with her husband, poet and fiction writer Kelly Stacy, and their chocolate lab Astro Renegade Ford-Stacy.
Ford has written or guest-edited for ELLE Magazine, Slate, Teen Vogue, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Domino, Cup of Jo, and various other web and print publications.
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- How to find a way to live in peace: to actually love complicated parents without compromising our love for ourselves.
- How we can’t change our past—and why Ashley says that forgiveness is accepting the fact that the past is never going to be different.
- The importance of being able to hold two truths at the same time: that, for some of us, our parents did the best they could—and it wasn’t close to good enough.
- Why Ashley says she struggles, even in adulthood, to accept love and care from people who are not obligated to love and care for her.
- Why anger often reveals our passion points—and for Ashley, why that leads her to show up for children. About Ashley: Ashley C. Ford’s New York Times best-selling memoir, Somebody’s Daughter, was published by Flatiron Books in June 2021. Ford is the former host of The Chronicles of Now podcast, co-host of The HBO companion podcast Lovecraft Country Radio. She currently lives in Indianapolis, Indiana with her husband, poet and fiction writer Kelly Stacy, and their chocolate lab Astro Renegade Ford-Stacy.
Ford has written or guest-edited for ELLE Magazine, Slate, Teen Vogue, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Domino, Cup of Jo, and various other web and print publications.
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- Why embracing that it’s not possible to do everything brings freedom.
- One change that Amanda made to get back into her body and reclaim her fire.
- How to navigate our anxieties about the impending “return to normal” and how to hold onto the rhythm many of us have found comforting during the pandemic.
- How Glennon’s been rethinking her popular Untamed quote “The braver I am, the luckier I get.”
- How inviting more life into your life gives your people permission to live more fully. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- What Tish said when asked, “Who has taught you the most about love?”— why it was the best day of Abby’s life, and led her to redefine what it means to be a mother.
- Glennon declares herself a great adventurer, without movement: an inner travel guide—and how the new journal will help steer us toward our next right thing.
- How the pandemic brought Amanda’s anxieties, traumas, and relational cracks, previously on a slow burn, to center stage—and what she’s learning from “Be Still and Know.”
- Why Glennon says whatever we’re envious of is what we need to go for—and how that led to the creation of this podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
1. Brené and Glennon role play through a scenario on how to put boundaries in practice with family members this holiday season. 2. Why Brené insists that starting “a love affair with the thing you’re most afraid of” will change your life. 3. Glennon asks Brené the question she’s been dying to ask about how a woman’s work is defined and received in the world compared to her male counterparts. 4. How understanding that grief and loss are an inevitable part of change helps us navigate toward the decisions that serve us. 5. Brené answers questions from the Pod Squad and our rapid fire session on: tough emotions, tattoos, and her favorite place on Earth.
About Brené:
Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston where she holds the Huffington Foundation Endowed Chair at The Graduate College of Social Work. Brené is also a visiting professor in management at The University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business. She has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy, is the author of five #1 New York Times bestsellers, and is the host of the weekly Spotify Original podcasts Unlocking Us and Dare to Lead. Brené’s books have been translated into more than 30 languages and titles include: Dare to Lead, Braving the Wilderness, Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection. Most recently Brené collaborated with Tarana Burke to co-edit You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience. Her TED talk – The Power of Vulnerability – is one of the top five most viewed TED talks in the world with over 50 million views. She is also the first researcher to have a filmed lecture on Netflix. The Call to Courage special debuted on the streaming service in April 2019. Brené lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband, Steve. They have two children, Ellen and Charlie.
Book: Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience Instagram: @brenebrown Twitter: @BreneBrown Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Why Brené’s new book ATLAS OF THE HEART is a game changer for communicating hard emotions more easily.
- Brené breaks down the difference between stressed and overwhelmed—and gives us tools to navigate both.
- How our survival strategies from our families of origin can become both our superpowers and our stumbling blocks in our relationships and wellness.
- How we can make sure our kids experience deep, steady belonging—even if they don’t feel like they “belong” out in the world.
- The one question that Brené now asks herself whenever she’s considering a decision—and how it’s changed everything.
About Brené:
Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston where she holds the Huffington Foundation Endowed Chair at The Graduate College of Social Work. Brené is also a visiting professor in management at The University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business. She has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy, is the author of five #1 New York Times bestsellers, and is the host of the weekly Spotify Original podcasts Unlocking Us and Dare to Lead. Brené’s books have been translated into more than 30 languages and titles include: Dare to Lead, Braving the Wilderness, Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection. Most recently Brené collaborated with Tarana Burke to co-edit You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience. Her TED talk – The Power of Vulnerability – is one of the top five most viewed TED talks in the world with over 50 million views. She is also the first researcher to have a filmed lecture on Netflix. The Call to Courage special debuted on the streaming service in April 2019. Brené lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband, Steve. They have two children, Ellen and Charlie.
Book: Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience Instagram: @brenebrown Twitter: @BreneBrown Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Glennon gives you a beautiful Thanksgiving pep talk that has Amanda and Abby nodding along and rolling with laughter.
- Why Amanda suggests that we can be free to be our full selves at the Thanksgiving table, if we also each bring our own damn casserole.
- Why the best predictor of how a family member is going to act is how a family member has always acted.
- We’re taking holiday-themed questions from our beloved Pod Squad about in-laws, when to break tradition, and how to navigate different family of origin patterns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- How our second holiday hack—“Be unsurprised”—eliminates walking on eggshells around family, and leaving holiday gatherings feeling badly about ourselves or our people.
- Amanda shares the first time she broke her family’s biggest holiday tradition—and how it’s now one of her most precious memories.
- Abby remembers watching her mom stress out by preparing and perfecting every holiday detail—and the change she made to minimize her own holiday stress.
- How carrying around a cup of hot tea serves as Glennon’s super shield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- How a marathon is an analogy for life: the danger of comparison, the ride of emotions and self-doubt, that love is fuel, and that the world needs both runners and cheerers.
- The question Abby kept asking herself throughout the race—and why she’s still wearing her marathon medal while doing the dishes and running errands.
- Why race day was so profound to Glennon— even though she is strongly committed to NOT running—and how she experienced her first sports injury while cheering.
- A special visit by the kids’ middle school cross-country coach, Coach Loux, who became Abby’s marathon coach—and what she said at the 24-mile mark that shifted everything for Abby.
- A conversation with marathon champion Shalane Flanagan about the bond and joy of running—and how she played a magical part of Abby’s marathon day.
About Shalane Flanagan: Dedicated to giving back to the sport she loves, Shalane Flanagan is now an elite coach to the Bowerman Track Club, global spokesperson, and a mom, after retiring as one of America’s most decorated distance runners. Flanagan’s accolades include four-time Olympian, Olympic silver medalist, 2017 TCS New York City Marathon champion, World Cross Country Bronze medalist, and multiple American record holder. She is the third fastest American marathoner in history, with a time of 2:21.14. Shalane is the fastest American woman to run the Boston Marathon, 2:22.02. Along with her coauthor, Elyse Kopecky, she is the 3-time New York Times bestselling author of Run Fast. Eat Slow. and Run Fast. Cook Fast. Eat Slow. and Rise & Run, which became an instant bestseller. Shalane attributes her long career and incredible success to her nutrient-dense diet. Shalane has left the track behind, but you’ll still find her logging high mileage on trail run adventures with friends! Recipes from all three of her cookbooks fuel these strenuous miles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Gabrielle shares—as rawly and honestly as we’ve ever heard—about the “emotional chaos” of her years experiencing miscarriage, infertility, and surrogacy.
- Gabrielle and Abby discuss the label and perception of “stepmom”—Gabrielle shares what she avoids at all costs in that role, and the most vital part of the role for her: consistency.
- How Gabrielle coached her NBA husband Dwyane before Zaya shared with him that she is gay, and how his reaction encouraged Zaya to tell the people on her “never-ever” list.
- Gabrielle’s insistence that home is a sanctuary where all are embraced with love, understanding, and joy—and how, if you can’t get behind all of her family members, you’re not welcome.
About Gabrielle: Gabrielle Union is an actress, executive producer, activist, best-selling author, and Time100 cover honoree. Union will next be seen in Disney’s remake of CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN developed by Kenya Barris for Disney+. She was last seen in “L.A.’s Finest,” the highly anticipated TV spinoff of the BAD BOYS movie franchise. She reprised her starring role as Syd Burnett opposite Jessica Alba in the series and served as an executive producer through her production shingle “I’ll Have Another.” Union formed “I’ll Have Another” in 2018 with the goal of telling stories that center marginalized communities with their specific point of views in an authentic manner. In May of 2021, Gabrielle released – in partnership with her husband Dwyane Wade – her second children’s book, “Shady Baby,” which became a New York Times best seller the first week of release. Her first book, We’re Going To Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated and True, was released in 2017 and instantly became a New York Times best seller. The highly anticipated follow up “You Got Anything Stronger?” was released in September of this year and was a New York Times best seller as well. Union has always had an eye for forward-thinking businesses centered around inclusion, accessibility, and affordability. In August of 2020, she relaunched her haircare brand “Flawless by Gabrielle Union” for women with textured hair. Prior to relaunching Flawless, Union co-founded Bitsy's with the goal of making healthy, allergen- friendly, school-safe snacks that are accessible and affordable for all families regardless of their socioeconomic or geographical status. Union serves as a leader and advocate for inclusion in the entertainment industry. She is also a champion of breast health and combating sexual violence.
Instagram: @gabunion Twitter: @itsgabrielleu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Why Esther often recommends letter writing if you don’t know quite how to start—or have—hard conversations.
- What to say—and when to say it—to show up for a friend who is in a bad relationship.
- The importance of rituals in transitioning through breakups—what we should do when it’s time to say goodbye; and what we can do if we’ve never gotten the closure we need. About Esther Perel: Psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author Esther Perel is recognized as one of today’s most insightful and original voices on modern relationships. Fluent in nine languages, she helms a therapy practice in New York City and serves as an organizational consultant for Fortune 500 companies around the world. Her celebrated TED Talks have garnered more than 30 million views and her bestselling books, Mating in Captivity and The State of Affairs, are global phenomena translated into nearly 30 languages. Esther is also an executive producer and host of the popular podcasts Where Should We Begin? and How’s Work? Her latest project is Where Should We Begin - A Game of Stories with Esther Perel. Learn more at EstherPerel.com or by following @EstherPerelOfficial on Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- How, if you have been struggling in your romantic, parental, family, or work relationships through the lingering uncertainty of the last two years, you are not alone.
- The revolutionary understanding that, in relationships, “behind every criticism is a longing; behind every anger is a hurt.”
- What to do when your relationship is a bond of co-parenting / life management instead of a partnership of ongoing discovery.
- The link between trauma recovery and the process of enlivening “dead” relationships.
- Esther’s everyday conflict resolution practices. About Esther Perel: Psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author Esther Perel is recognized as one of today’s most insightful and original voices on modern relationships. Fluent in nine languages, she helms a therapy practice in New York City and serves as an organizational consultant for Fortune 500 companies around the world. Her celebrated TED Talks have garnered more than 30 million views and her bestselling books, Mating in Captivity and The State of Affairs, are global phenomena translated into nearly 30 languages. Esther is also an executive producer and host of the popular podcasts Where Should We Begin? and How’s Work? Her latest project is Where Should We Begin - A Game of Stories with Esther Perel.
Learn more at EstherPerel.com or by following @EstherPerelOfficial on Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- How Glennon and Abby transitioned from the “falling in love” phase to “landing in love” at different times—and how Glennon felt “bamboozled” by it.
- How the self-inflicted guilt of pursuing joy ruins everything.
- Why a precious gift from Abby made Glennon feel like she’d finally landed in the right galaxy.
- How the things about our partners that drive us nuts are the same things that attracted us to them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Why “falling in love” feels like you’re losing your mind—and Amanda’s experience when Glennon fell hard for Abby.
- Why Abby thinks the idea of “the one” is the most romantic way to live, and why Amanda thinks “the one” is unromantic and uninteresting.
- Glennon’s belief that loves are like plants: some loves are perennials that continue to bloom, others are annuals, full for a season and then back to earth to nourish soil—but that no love is ever, ever wasted.
- Why so many of us either think we can be fixed by love, or that we can fix others with our love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Glennon makes a “pod-pology”—and why we should stop saying, “I can’t imagine.”
- Amanda makes the case for no longer praising people as “superheroes”—and why we should stop giving them lip service and bring them a sandwich instead.
- How we abandon things we love because the environments surrounding them are unbearable—and how to recreate the environment and reclaim what we love.
- Amanda’s reaction to her new role opening up on the podcast—and how she feels like the very intimate stories she shares are “not personal at all.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
HOW TO SAY NO with Simone Biles and Laurie Hernandez
In this very special conversation, three GOATs and Glennon discuss: 1. What we can learn from Simone’s revolutionary decision at the Tokyo Olympics to choose her physical and mental health over the world’s expectations of her. 2. The tiny decisions that helped Laurie practice trusting herself again after surviving a toxic coach. 3. Why Simone, Laurie, and Abby believe their talent is both a blessing and a curse. 4. The places and times Simone and Laurie create where they have nothing to prove—to remind themselves they are human beings, not performance machines. 5. How Simone and Laurie are a big part of one of Abby and Glennon’s favorite family stories.
About Simone: Simone Biles, one of the greatest gymnasts of all-time, is the first woman to capture five All-Around World Championship titles. She is the most decorated gymnast in World Championships history—male or female—with 25 medals overall (19 gold), and is a seven-time Olympic medalist (4 gold). A three-time Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year, she earned the rare distinction of having four skills named in her honor—called The Biles.
Simone’s autobiography Courage to Soar is a New York Times bestseller.
Simone advocates for change and supports initiatives that provide education and assistance for children and young adults associated with adoption and childcare.
Instagram: @simonebiles Twitter: @Simone_Biles
About Laurie: Laurie Hernandez is a second generation American, as her grandparents are from Puerto Rico, making her the first U.S. born Latina to make the U.S. team since 1984. Laurie is an Olympic medalist, winning both Gold and Silver medals at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Her book I Got This: To Gold and Beyond and her children’s book She’s Got This are both New York Times bestsellers. Laurie is a fierce advocate for the importance of mental health, and travels the country speaking to the next generation about following their dreams.
Instagram: @lauriehernandez Twitter: @LaurieHernandez
About The GOLD OVER AMERICA TOUR (GOAT): Simone and Laurie—and an all-star team of gymnasts—are on the road this Fall for the 35-city Gold Over America Tour, showcasing their fierce talent and athletic brilliance in ways we’ve never seen before… their way! The show emerges from their personal values of empowerment, friendship, positive body image, mental health awareness, and self-confidence. Together, they are a united force proudly representing the sport of women’s gymnastics and inspiring audiences across the nation.
More information: https://www.goldoveramericatour.com/goat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- How Amanda’s breaking point—when her life felt like all “shoulds” and no “wants”—led to simple, concrete changes.
- Why the labels put upon us early—the sporty one, the smart one, the artsy one—can shut us off from exploring other parts of ourselves.
- How Glennon feels like Ben Affleck in Good Will Hunting—and why she wants Amanda to “go see about a girl.”
- What the chemistry of fire has to teach us about how we can resurrect our Fun selves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- How writing is a lifeline for Glennon because it’s the one place her real self can tell the truth.
- Why Abby feels that her time on the soccer field was art.
- The unorthodox way Glennon’s writing evolved from hourly 5AM sessions to survive sobriety with three young kids to three New York Times Best Sellers.
- Why it’s horseshit that books by women authors are indiscriminately labeled “self-help.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
We’re continuing our conversation with activist, founder of the me too movement, and our personal friend and hero,Tarana Burke. We talk about:
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What Tarana would say to her twelve-year-old self that might have changed the trajectory of her life.
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Tarana’s life-shifting realization that her relationship struggles with her mother were not due to her mother’s lack of desire to love her well, but her lack of capacity—and how Tarana built more capacity for her own child.
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The one thing Tarana said to her child that changed everything—and why Amanda now says the same thing to her children.
CW: We reference sexual abuse and trauma.
About Tarana: For more than 25 years, activist and advocate Tarana J. Burke has worked at the intersection of sexual violence and racial justice. Fueled by commitments to interrupt sexual violence and other systemic inequalities disproportionately impacting marginalized people, particularly Black women and girls, Tarana has created and led various campaigns focused on increasing access to resources and support for impacted communities, including the ‘me too.’ movement, which to date has galvanized millions of survivors and allies around the world.
Book: Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement Instagram: @taranajaneen Twitter: @TaranaBurke Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Please join us in the first part of our joyful, energizing, and hopeful conversation with activist, advocate, and our personal hero,Tarana Burke. We talk about: 1. How the spoken and unspoken rules for girls led Tarana to constantly perform the role of “good girl” so that “her secret” would never be revealed. 2. The impossible double bind so many survivors live through: that the protection of our community is what saves us, but the need to protect our community is what silences us. 3. Why Maya Angelou’s work changed everything for Tarana—and how, in her early twenties, she began documenting everything joyful in her life. 4. How dancing with Rob was the one place Tarana could safely explore her sexuality with no demands on her body—and how meaningful that was for her. CW: We reference sexual abuse and trauma. About Tarana: For more than 25 years, activist and advocate Tarana J. Burke has worked at the intersection of sexual violence and racial justice. Fueled by commitments to interrupt sexual violence and other systemic inequalities disproportionately impacting marginalized people, particularly Black women and girls, Tarana has created and led various campaigns focused on increasing access to resources and support for impacted communities, including the ‘me too.’ movement, which to date has galvanized millions of survivors and allies around the world.
Book: Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement Instagram: @taranajaneen Twitter: @TaranaBurke Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Why Glennon believes the bravest thing she’s ever done was marching into her counselor’s office in high school—and what made her finally say, “I’m not leaving until I get some help.”
- How we can identify the difference between our Knowing versus our anxiety and conditioning.
- Why Glennon describes herself as Dory from Nemo, and how she returned to meditation when her mind became unmanageable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- The story that led to Abby’s iconic haircut—how that decision terrified her, changed how she played the game, and changed how she lives her life.
- How Abby and Glennon view “brave” differently—and why Amanda believes their perspectives may be more similar than they think.
- Why for Amanda the bravest decisions feel like “lonely certainty” that can never be explained or defended to others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
We’re back with author and sex educator, Emily Nagoski, taking our Pod Squad’s questions about sex.
- How to navigate a relationship when one partner has a lower sex drive and the other has a higher sex drive.
- The “sleepy hedgehog” practice Emily suggests to help partners find their way back to each other after months (or years) of not having sex.
- How to raise our kids in a more sex-positive family culture.
- Emily advises Glennon on an exercise to help unbind her bedroom silence.
EMILY NAGOSKI is the award-winning author of the New York Times bestselling COME AS YOU ARE and THE COME AS YOU ARE WORKBOOK, and coauthor, with her sister, Amelia, of New York Times bestseller BURNOUT: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle. She earned an M.S. in counseling and a Ph.D. in health behavior, both from Indiana University, with clinical and research training at the Kinsey Institute. Now she combines sex education and stress education to teach women to live with confidence and joy inside their bodies. She lives in Massachusetts with two dogs, a cat, and a cartoonist. The book recommendations Emily made during this episode: Magnificent Sex: Lessons from Extraordinary Lovers by Peggy Kleinplatz What Fresh Hell Is This? by Heather Corinna Girl Sex 101 by Allison Moon Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (Ages 15+ years) The Times I Knew I Was Gay by Eleanor Crewes (Ages 15+ years) Let’s Talk About It by Erica Moen and Matt Nolan (Ages 14+ years) Queer: The Ultimate LQBTQ Guide for Teens (Ages 11+ years) Wait, What? by Heather Corinna and Isabella Rotman (Ages 9+ years) Sex Is a Funny Word by Cory Silverberg (Ages 8 - 11 years) What Makes a Baby by Cory Silverberg (Ages 2 - 5 years) Podcast: https://www.feministsurvivalproject.com Instagram: @enagoski Twitter: @emilynagoski Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
We welcome our very first guest, author and sex educator Emily Nagoski, who talks with us about how to finally build true, joyful, confident sex lives:
- How our sex issues are totally normal—we’re all worrying about the same things.
- Why more than 75% of women do not orgasm from penetration alone—and why Glennon thinks the world doesn’t want us to know that.
- The single factor that is most predictive of strong sustained sexual connection over time. 4. How Abby’s still healing after a lifetime in locker rooms spent comparing her body to other women’s bodies.
CW: We reference sexual trauma, including what to say when someone discloses sexual trauma to you.
About Emily: EMILY NAGOSKI is the award-winning author of the New York Times bestselling COME AS YOU ARE and THE COME AS YOU ARE WORKBOOK, and coauthor, with her sister, Amelia, of New York Times bestseller BURNOUT: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle. She earned an M.S. in counseling and a Ph.D. in health behavior, both from Indiana University, with clinical and research training at the Kinsey Institute. Now she combines sex education and stress education to teach women to live with confidence and joy inside their bodies. She lives in Massachusetts with two dogs, a cat, and a cartoonist.
Podcast: https://www.feministsurvivalproject.com Instagram: @enagoski Twitter: @emilynagoski Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Why Abby says that people pleasing is both her superpower and her Achilles heel.
- Why Glennon says playing with kids is just the worst—and insists it’s okay for adults to sit it out. (This is why she’s not a parenting expert.)
- Why Glennon and Abby decided to say goodbye to Florida and hello to California.
- Glennon, Abby, and Amanda answer rapid fire questions about: their astrological signs, first kisses, and their morning routines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- The one question to ask ourselves if we want to know if our love is really reaching our people.
- How Glennon’s dearest friend Liz Gilbert taught her that a relaxed woman is the new revolution.
- Abby offers tips for bonus parents—and why she says earning her kids’ love has been the most rewarding part in her entire life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- The amazing life hack that has Glennon and Abby replying “Yes” to social invitations.
- Glennon acknowledges her sexual fantasies … and TRIES (but fails) to share them.
- Glennon talks about how she “knew what to do” the first time she and Abby were together.
- The best and worst parts of Glennon and Abby’s big California move. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- How Abby discovered she was gay while out to dinner with her parents at a Macaroni Grill.
- The moment Glennon knew for sure she was queer (in an Amish Boogie Nights bathroom)—and the song that sealed the deal.
- How, as a straight, cis woman, Amanda never had to wrestle with her sexuality, why she thinks that stunted her exploration.
- How Glennon’s failed Van Gogh visit inspired Amanda’s next sex steps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- The viral note Glennon wrote to herself in her car this week—and how the world’s response confirmed that we’re all struggling right now.
- How we tend to either Avoid the world’s pain or Be Consumed by it—and how to survive the overwhelm by embracing the Third Way.
- What Glennon fears most as her oldest child leaves for college.
- Why we can’t let the fact that we can’t fix everything keep us from doing something—and how Together Rising began. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Glennon describes how she’s feeling as her oldest leaves for college—and the survival strategy that’s getting her through.
- The life secret someone told Glennon in early sobriety that changed her life.
- Amanda discusses the only two strategies that are proven to help us cope with our emotions and become more resilient.
- How hard feelings always reveal something to you about you.
- How the life hack Glennon calls “Save as Drafts” has saved her relationships. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Amanda presents a case for “summer rain” love—and rejects “lightning love” as the highest form of romantic love.
- Glennon’s theory for when to speak up and when to shut up.
- How Abby’s experience in a mostly male meeting showed her that “silent solidarity” is a cowardly lie.
- The trick Glennon uses to communicate with highly sensitive kiddos. (Abby swears it works every time.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Five communication ideas that might help us connect more deeply with people.
- How Glennon feels that “everyone is talking but nobody is listening to each other ever” and why that’s one of the reasons most of us feel lonely.
- The conversation strategy that Glennon and Abby use at the dinner table with their kids and friends.
- Why we love talking about ourselves—and when it helps (and when it hurts) our relationships. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Glennon lets f-ing loose about the misogyny in our cursing lexicon—and how it reveals our hidden conditioning. (Note: Don’t listen with the kiddos.)
- The connection between how little girls are taught to avoid conflict with each other and how adult women are called “catty.”
- What Glennon really means when she says she’s a feminist—and why she’s baffled when a group fighting for their own equality turns on another group fighting for theirs.
- Why Glennon says that the teenage years may be her favorite parenting era yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- How, in the business world, Amanda is labeled as aggressive and dominant—and why that’s a gender trap.
- Abby’s experiences of being publicly misgendered—and how that makes her feel.
- Why is gender the last place we’re agreed it’s acceptable to make identity assumptions?
- Why do we tell people who they are before they’re even born—and a thousand different ways every day after?
- Why Glennon says two women in a marriage, handling their own business, rocks the patriarchal boat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- The Pod Squad is peeved that Glennon refers to Amanda as “Sister”—so what should we call her?
- How Glennon and Amanda both spent their college weekends in jail—but for very different reasons.
- Getting to know Amanda and her innate obsession with the link between our personal experience and our location within systems of power.
- What’s making life a little easier for the Doyle sisters this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Why are we conditioned to spend so much of our precious time and energy on our appearance?
- Why is it that when men put work into the world, the world asks if his work is worthy—but when women put work into the world, the world asks if she’s worthy?
- Why is half the population’s face allowed to exist as is, while the rest of our faces “need” to be covered in concealers, colors, botox, etc., etc....?
- How is it that the ultimate way to insult a woman is to say that she’s “let herself go”?
- The better “beauty” standard for women that is liberating Glennon right now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Glennon’s radical acceptance that she’s always going to be a midnight person in a sunshine world.
- Our favorite movies and music—and what they reveal about our personalities.
- Why Abby is objectively hot, but please don’t say that to Glennon at parties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- The one question to ask yourself when deciding whether it’s time to quit something.
- Why Glennon actually believes that quitting each day is necessary for her survival.
- The big quits that led Abby to Glennon.
- Amanda’s unexpected great relief—and hope for your relief—in learning about how we’re all just as happy as we’re ever going to be. (And how, as expected, Glennon disagrees.)
- Rethinking the ending of a marriage as a positive quit and how to talk to friends going through it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- If you’re like 75% of women, Amanda’s hot tips for setting yourself up for success in the bedroom.
- Detoxing from religious purity / sex shame culture, and raising kids with a healthier relationship to sex.
- The one sex subject that’s a hard no for Abby and Glennon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Glennon, Amanda, and Abby discuss their sex origin stories and how that shapes their current sex fears.
- Glennon’s high-pressure situation of sex with Abby for the first time—and how it didn’t go quite as you’d expect.
- The biggest sex challenges in Glennon, Abby, and Amanda’s marriages now.
- What Amanda regrets about her past sex life—and how she’s already worried about what she’s going to regret when she’s eighty.
- How Pod Squaders taught Glennon and Abby about “lesbian deathbed.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Glennon and Amanda decided to add a second episode each week after Glennon’s big move to California—in the first Thursday episode, they discuss: 1. Glennon’s experiment of Saying Yes to anything the universe invites her to. 2. How much screen time is too much screen time? 3. Are we all just Pendulum Parenting (over-correcting parents’ mistakes and screwing our kids up in the equal and opposite way our parents screwed us up)? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- The 5 things Glennon wishes she’d known during those early days with young kids.
- Why it’s important to let our kids see us mess up, cry, and lose it every once in a while.
- How to let go of Expectation Parenting and embrace Treasure Hunt Parenting.
- On teaching kids the most important lesson: How to disappoint everyone else (including you) before they disappoint themselves.
- Why if you’re listening to this podcast worried about how you’re parenting, things are likely already okay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Craig’s first two thoughts the moment Glennon sent him “the text.”
- How Glennon and Craig told the kids they were divorcing.
- The big mistake Glennon and Craig agree they made in the early days of blending their family.
- What Craig says is the most annoying thing about co-parenting with Glennon, and the best thing about co-parenting with Abby.
- How Craig really feels about Glennon writing their stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TW // eating disorders 1. Glennon’s “final frontier”—her attempt to stop controlling her body. 2. The opportunity costs of a lifetime spent obsessing about our size and shape. 3. How we’ve been taught to fixate over every hair, wrinkle, and pound—but have never been taught how our bodies actually work. 4. How to quit conditioning girls to stay small in body, hunger, ambition, and desire. 5. The tyranny of the weigh-in at the doctor’s office—and why BMI is horseshit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- How Abby learned from church as a child to hate herself—and the healing moment she realized that God and religion are not the same.
- The miraculous letter Glennon received from a reader the day after she came out.
- Glennon’s response to the statement “I disagree with your lifestyle, but I love you anyway.”
- When it’s time to either raise hell inside of—or leave—the institutions that require us to deny who we are or what we know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- How to create lives that we don’t need to escape from.
- Why our resentment toward others is our Secret Self-Care Signal.
- Why refusing to be selfless is the best way to care for others and the world.
- How to stop passing down the brutal legacy of martyrdom to our children.
- Glennon’s life-changing spiritual practice: Habitual Quitting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this episode, in which Abby joins Glennon and Amanda, discover: 1. How Glennon and Abby realized that each of their recurring Five Fights (about money, food, etc.) are all actually about the exact same thing—and how it all goes back to their childhoods. 2. The guardrails Abby and Glennon built to protect each other when they fight. 3. How to handle a relationship in which one partner runs from conflict (Team Abby), and the other rushes toward conflict (Team Glennon). 4. The one red flag that Amanda insists is a relationship-ender. TW // eating disorders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In the episode discover: 1. How the constant to-do list ticker looping in Amanda's brain makes her feel like a dormant volcano. 2. The job description we've somehow accepted for motherhood—and whether self-abandonment is a job requirement. 3. The way gender expectations even creep into Glennon and Abby's marriage. 4. How to know whether your partner is a co-builder or an assistant. 5. How to make the invisible load of caretaking visible—and potentially bearable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TW // abortion, bulimia, addiction In this episode discover: 1. How Amanda protected their sisterhood from Glennon’s addiction. 2. Which of the 12 steps Glennon refused to take. 3. What it took for Amanda to finally quit the wine. 4. The answer to the Pod Squad’s question about quarantine drinking and how much is too much. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this episode—in which Abby confronts my sister and me about our inability to have fun—discover: 1. The one “fun” post that caused more people to unfollow me on social media than any other. 2. Why girls may disassociate early from their ability to access fun. 3. Science’s insistence that when we’re gloomy, rest won’t fix us. We gotta play the blues away. 4. A playlist I created for YOU—if you, like me, need daily help awakening your dormant Fun Self:https://open.spotify.com/user/f50axmsbwkhwq81ttiwovo1yf?si=707cb22232aa4cdf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this episode, discover:
- The messed up way my sister Amanda learned her marriage was over -- and how that sabotaged her healing process. 2. How we often cling to unforgiveness because it’s the last connection we have left. 3. The one question not to ask someone who is recovering from infidelity and what you can say instead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this Episode, discover:
My quirkiest boundary and how I finally fired Texts as the Boss of Me.
Our response to a Pod Squad listener’s question about creating and holding boundaries with her in-laws.
How my aversion to moderation has led me from too few boundaries to way too many.
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In this episode discover: 1. Glennon’s description of an anxiety attack. 2. The 3 strategies that help her find calm. 3. The original We Can Do Hard Things anthem, written and performed by Glennon's daughter Tish Melton and produced by Brandi Carlile. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Introducing We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle! I’m Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed – the book that was released at the very start of the pandemic and became a lifeline for millions. I watched in awe from my home while this simple phrase from Untamed - WE CAN DO HARD THINGS – the mantra that saved my life twenty years ago, became a worldwide rally cry. Here, on WE CAN DO HARD THINGS, my sister, Amanda - my best friend and the person I go to all my hard things -- and I will do the only thing I’ve ever found that has ever made life easier: We will drop the fake and talk honestly about the hard. Life is hard. Let’s do it together. Meet us here, every week, on We Can Do Hard Things. The first episode drops on Tuesday, May 11th. Before you forget, follow We Can Do Hard Things so you’ll get every show as soon as it’s released. Listen to and follow this presentation of Cadence13 Studios for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audacy and wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices