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We Can Do Hard Things
Come do life with Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, and Amanda Doyle.
With more than half a billion plays, We Can Do Hard Things is a hilarious, raw, comforting “support system for braving the everyday.” The Pod Squad goes hard ($56 Million raised in global aid) and stays soft: meet here on Tuesdays to laugh, talk, and cry our way through the pain and magic of being human.
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Episodes
159. Family Estrangement: Should You Repair or Run? with Dr. Galit Atlas
1. Cutting off contact with family is on a dramatic rise – how to know if there’s hope of repair, or if self-preservation requires distance. 2. How to have present, productive conversations with our parents about the past. 3. Why we grieve the loss of a family member even if we know it’s healthiest to cut them out. 4. Attachment styles, emotional honesty, and the difference between forgiveness and repair. 5. What to do and say – and what NOT to say – when attempting to reconnect with an estrange...
Dec 13, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 159
158. CULTS Part 2: How Intuition Can Save Us with Sarah Edmondson
Glennon, Abby, Amanda, and Sarah Edmondson continue their conversation: 1. “Love bombing” and other red flag strategies used by cults to reel people in. 2. The jarring similarities between cults and abusive relationships – and how in both your best qualities are used against you. 3. What to do if someone you love is pulled into QAnon, 4chan, or another conspiratorial culture. 4. The moment Sarah realized she had been initiated into a sex pyramid, and how she escaped. 5. The responsibility she fe...
Dec 08, 2022•54 min•Season 1Ep. 158
157. CULTS: How NXIVM Controlled Women & How Sarah Edmondson Helped Take It Down
1. How attending a personal development training at a Holiday Inn led to Sarah being branded in a sex "secret sisterhood" initiation ceremony. 2. Her path from top recruiter to the whistleblower who helped take down the cult and its leader Keith Ranieri. 3. Why we’re all susceptible to cult culture – the need for belonging, the temptation of simplification, and how we’re trained to deny our gut instincts. CW: Discussion of cult culture and sexual coercion About Sarah: Sarah Edmondson is an actor...
Dec 06, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 157
156. JANE F-ING FONDA
1. 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 envi...
Dec 01, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 156
155. When Should We Quit? with Abbi Jacobson
1. 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. 2. The life lessons of improv comedy: How to get out of your head, trust your choices, and make something together. 3. Abbi and Abby share similar but opposite stories about relationships that changed their lives (and whether to tuck or untuck shirts). 4. Why reimagining A League of Their Own was the Next Right project for Abbi – and how its label as a “queer show”...
Nov 29, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 155
154. HAPPYISH HOLIDAYS: Our Top 3 Hacks for Hard Holidays
1. How to eliminate walking on eggshells around family, and avoid feeling badly about ourselves or our people. 2. Amanda shares the first time she broke her family’s biggest holiday tradition—and how it’s now one of her most precious memories. 3. Abby remembers watching her mom stress out by “perfecting” every holiday detail—and the change she made to minimize her own holiday stress. 4. How carrying around a cup of hot tea serves as Glennon’s super shield.
Nov 24, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 154
153. More Embarrassing Stories!
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.
Nov 22, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 153
152. EASY FRIDAYS: How (NOT) to Party
No digging deep. No paradigm shifts to be found. It’s Easy Fridays.
Nov 18, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 152
151. WTF with The Five Love Languages?
1. The good, the bad, and the ugly of Gary Chapman’s The Five Love Languages. 2. How expressing the way we give and receive love can identify misalignments with our partners, friends, and family. 3. How to explore – beyond our “love language” – our deep fears and needs underlying them. 4. Glennon, Abby, Amanda, and Pod Squaders share the specific, hilarious things that make them feel most loved.
Nov 17, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 151
150. Couples Therapy: The Tools You Need with Dr. Orna Guralnik
1. What we are really fighting about when we’re fighting about the dishwasher. 2. We can stop asking whether what’s missing is a “want” or a “need” – and the question to ask instead. 3. How to use what most frustrates you about your partner to bring you closer. 4. How to start thinking of our partnerships as our own mini political systems. 5. 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 psychoanaly...
Nov 15, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 150
149. How to Heal with Alex Elle
1. Alex’s four most effective healing techniques that you can start today. 2. How it affects us to grow up never seeing our mothers have joy. 3. Why – if you think you don’t have any self-soothing strategies – you actually just have unhealthy self-soothing strategies. 4. Childhood wounds that surface in adulthood, and the path to intergenerational healing. 5. Where to begin when you never receive the apology and closure you deserve. About Alex: Alex Elle is an author, certified breathwork coach,...
Nov 10, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 149
15-MIN MIDTERM REVIEW: WTH Happened!? with Jessica Yellin
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...
Nov 09, 2022•19 min
148. WHAT’S AT STAKE TODAY: Election Takeaways with Jessica Yellin
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 Nois...
Nov 08, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 148
147. The Episode That Wasn’t
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.
Nov 03, 2022•46 min•Season 1Ep. 147
146. Esther Perel: Love in War
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. (Ukrainia...
Nov 02, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 146
145. Geena Davis: How to Thelma & Louise Your Life
1. The politeness curse – and how it almost killed Geena. 2. Geena’s brilliant “Oops…” strategy to get folks to act decent. 3. Abby thanks Geena for the monumental impact of A League of Their Own on her life. 4. The story behind the iconic ending of Thelma and Louise. 5. 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 t...
Nov 01, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 145
144. EASY FRIDAYS: Trick or Treat
No digging deep. No paradigm shifts to be found. Welcome to Easy Fridays. P.S. Thanks to @ohnochels & @dmc1138 for the haunted house laughs.
Oct 28, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 144
143. How to Set & Hold Boundaries with Melissa Urban
1. The top (surprising) signs that tell you it’s time to set a boundary. 2. Paying attention to “energy leakage” – when you’re giving out more than you’re getting back. 3. How to set the specific boundaries you need with in-laws, friends, and romantic partners. 4. Scripts for Melissa’s green, yellow, and red system of clear, kind communication in boundary setting. 5. Rethinking boundaries – not as not a response to someone else’s behavior – but as giving voice to your worth and health. CW: brief...
Oct 27, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 143
142. Codependence: How to Stop Controlling Others with Melody Beattie
1. The Mother of Codependence shares the difference between healthy and unhealthy helping. 2. The daily practice that helps Melody stop controlling others and “Let Life Happen.” 3. Why no one is able to gaslight you more than you. 4. The one area of life where Codependence is necessary. 5. 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 Code...
Oct 25, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 142
141. Sara Bareilles: How to Remember Yourself
1. Abby shares with Sara the great personal impact Sara’s music has made on her life. 2. 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. 3. When you are in deep stress, do you try to sabotage your job, relationship, etc.? (Before this conversation, Amanda thought it was just her.) 4. How playfulness and joy – connecting to the little kid who grew up into...
Oct 20, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 141
140. Alex Morgan: Believe in Your Own Greatness
1. 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. 2. How to get back on the field – in life and in sport – after crushing defeat. 3. The way Alex’s mom helped Alex fulfill her dream, and what Alex is teaching her own daughter, Charlie. 4. How Alex finally stopped comparing herself to others and started resting in her own confidence. 5. Alex’s relationship with soccer – and does she still love it...
Oct 18, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 140
139. No More Grind: How to Finally Rest with Tricia Hersey
1. The Nap Ministry’s Nap Bishop shares small, concrete ways to bring rest into our own lives – especially when rest seems impossible. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. Why everything changes when we embrace eas...
Oct 13, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 139
138. Melissa McCarthy: Sex, Nuns & Ghosts
1. What Melissa’s parents said when she told them about her dream – and how those magic words set the course of Melissa’s life. 2. The green and red flags Melissa tells her kids to look for in a relationship. 3. Why Melissa is a shark, and her brilliant strategy to “Run Around the Block” in almost any difficult situation. 4. Melissa’s and Abby’s experiences with ghosts. 5. How Melissa learned about sex – and the way she talks to her kids about it. About Melissa: Melissa McCarthy is an award-winn...
Oct 11, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 138
137. Celeste Ng: Why You Feel Stuck
1. 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. 2. Why the question “What do you want?” is terrifying – and how to start answering it authentically for yourself. 3. The power of imagining what does not yet exist in order to make space for new possibilities. 4. The gift of a “midlife crisis” 5. 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 a...
Oct 06, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 137
136. CARE-FRONTATIONS: Three Keys for Giving & Receiving Criticism
1. What happens inside us when we receive criticism–and how our brains ensure we’re always in the right (even when we’re not). 2. The three-ingredient recipe for a positive, productive “care-frontation” exchange. 3. The single biggest relationship killer (it’s not conflict) – and how conflict can bring you closer. 4. Amanda navigates a “care-frontation” with her son’s friend’s family – and Abby reevaluates her past relationship with criticism.
Oct 04, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 136
Introducing: It Was Said Season 2
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, ...
Oct 03, 2022•4 min
135. Letting Go of How It’s “Supposed to Be”
1. The twinge of loneliness that comes with searching for what it *seems* like everyone else has. 2. A Varsity-level question from Christie that challenges everything we said about Help on Tuesday’s episode. 3. How to make “your thing” more of an “our thing” in relationships–and how Abby got Glennon into the sports. 4. 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. 5. Ab...
Sep 29, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 135
134. HELP: How to Ask for the Help You Need
1. Why sharing your messy middle with someone is a gift and connection builder, not a burden. 2. The reasons why we don’t ask for the help we desperately need. 3. “Vague favs” and why are they a hard No for Amanda. 4. Abby, Glennon, and Amanda each share something they need help with right now. 5. The science behind Help as one of the most effective relationship-enhancing tools, and the best ways to finally ask for it.
Sep 27, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 134
133. Indigo Girls: Sexuality, Sobriety, Faith & Freedom
1. Why Emily couldn’t stop crying (and it wasn’t because she was emotional). 2. The intervention that got Emily sober – and why Amy wasn’t there. 3. Glennon admits something that she’s never told anyone before. 4. 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 ac...
Sep 22, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 133
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