We Can Do Hard Things
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, Glennon Doyle, author of UNTAMED; her wife Abby Wambach; and her sister Amanda Doyle do the only thing they’ve found that has ever made life easier: Drop the fake and talk honestly about the hard things including sex, gender, parenting, blended families, bodies, anxiety, addiction, justice, boundaries, fun, quitting, overwhelm . . . all of it. We laugh and cry and help each other carry the hard so we can all live a little bit lighter and braver, free-er, less alone.
Episodes
May 1, 2024 • 60 mins
305. How to Self-Regulate, Heal Your Relationships & Accept That You’ll Never Be Finished
As we continue the discussion on Busyness, Amanda, Glennon & Abby share more of their thoughts about the cult of Busyness – how buying into it shows up in you and your relationships, and how it leads to dysregulation and dissatisfaction in all areas of life. We go through the signs that might indicate you’re too busy and burnt out, how to kn...
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April 30, 2024 • 50 mins
304. Break Up with Busyness & Let Go of Your To-Do List
Amanda delves into her relationship with Busyness and how she’s working through it. We’ll touch on topics such as the pervasive culture of busyness, productivity as a measure of self-worth, and the struggle to define personal boundaries and prioritize genuine happiness (after some hilarious banter between Glennon and Abby about how to deal with “disgusting” things in a relati...
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April 25, 2024 • 65 mins
303. Laziness Does Not Exist with Devon Price
Why are we so scared of laziness? How have we been convinced to tie our worthiness to busy-ness and how do we STOP and create lives we are excited to live?
Social psychologist and author, Devon Price, teaches us how we got bamboozled and sets us free from the Laziness Lie.
Discover:
-How to rest, reorient priorities, and say “No” to reclaim our time and energy and avoid burnout.
-G...
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April 24, 2024 • 67 mins
Glennon shares an encore conversation that she and Abby had with their favorite person and co-host: Amanda Doyle!
This episode, originally titled, How to Face Your Biggest Fear with Amanda Doyle, examines the relationships, decisions, and travels that led Amanda to today – from hitchhiking across Ireland, to prosecuting child sex offenders in Rwanda, to making the biggest decision of her life in an Ethiopian airport – they dive in...
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April 23, 2024 • 59 mins
302. Chelsea Handler on Happiness, Groundedness & the Upcoming Election
Chelsea Handler is back to join Glennon, Amanda, and Abby for a heartfelt and hilarious conversation about life. She tells us how she found her happiness, how to take accountability in your own life, and why – if she has to confront someone doing something WILD or offensive – she’s going to have a little fun!
Discover:
-Why being selfish is the ultimate gif...
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April 18, 2024 • 51 mins
301. What You Need To Know to Have More Fun TODAY with Catherine Price
We’re back with Fun Expert and author of, Fun: How to Feel Alive Again, Catherine Price, to talk more about fun: what it is and how to have more of it. Today, we’ll discuss whether fun and productivity can coexist, thoughts about women and fun, and why the right to fun might just be innately connected to the human experience AND activism.
Discover:
-The defi...
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April 16, 2024 • 65 mins
300. FUN: We’re Finally Figuring It Out with Catherine Price
Pod Squad! Do you remember back in the very first days of the pod when we talked about FUN? It was episode 4. Now, hundreds of episodes later, we’re finally ready to give fun the long, deep dive and consideration it deserves. Abby is excited, Glennon is interested, and Amanda is skeptical, but we’re all here, ready to learn and maybe even to have a little fun. Thankfull...
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April 12, 2024 • 64 mins
299. Parenting: How to Nurture Yourself and Others
In this episode we’re going deep into parenting. Glennon, Abby, and Amanda (along with the help of Tracee Ellis Ross, Michelle Obama and Dr. Becky Kennedy) discuss the brutiful journey of parenting, reparenting ourselves, and learning how to love and be loved.
Discover:
-Tracee Ellis Ross rejects the lie that a woman’s purpose is to be “chosen” – and what “mothering” means to ...
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April 11, 2024 • 48 mins
298. How to Survive Your 20s, Abby On Bonus Parenting & IS Anyone TRULY Toxic?
Amanda, Glennon and Abby give an update about things they’re thinking about including: Glennon’s favorite memes, Amanda’s realization about leadership in her family, and Abby’s exhaustion turned to joy. Plus, we answer questions from the Pod Squad on surviving your 20s, and how to navigate bonus parenthood.
Discover:
-The simple, three-step process th...
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April 9, 2024 • 66 mins
297. REAL Self-Care: Burnout Is Not Your Fault & the Way Out with Dr. Pooja Lakshmin
Psychiatrist Dr. Pooja Lakshmin shows us how to tell the difference between the Faux Self-Care we’ve been sold versus the Real Self-Care we desperately need.
Discover:
How to incorporate boundaries through the power of the pause and how to navigate the post-boundary ick with ease;
A simple tool to know whether you are being driven by your goa...
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296. Abby & Amanda’s IFS Therapy Sessions with Richard Schwartz: Why We Do What We Don’t Want to Do
In Part 2 of our Internal Family Systems (IFS) discussion with IFS founder Richard C. Schwartz, we dive into how to recognize and hear from your own parts, how to know when you are being led by your parts instead of your true self, and Abby and Amanda each have a transformative on-air IFS therapy sessions!
Discover:
-The KEY to un...
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April 2, 2024 • 60 mins
295. Inside an Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy Session with Glennon & Richard C. Schwartz
You don’t want to miss this riveting deep dive into Internal Family Systems (IFS) – the revolutionary therapy model that Glennon has been using in her recovery – with IFS founder Dr. Richard C. Schwartz. Dr. Schwartz even does an on-air IFS session with Glennon!
Discover:
-Finally, the answer to the question “Why do I do what I don’...
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March 28, 2024 • 74 mins
294. What ADHD Feels Like with Jaklin Levine-Pritzker
ADHD coach and mental health advocate, Jaklin Levine-Pritzker, shares about her late-in-life ADHD diagnosis and what ADHD feels like day to day. Jak reveals the unique challenges faced by those – especially women and non-binary people – who don’t fit the stereotypical ADHD mold. We discuss the emotional impacts of ADHD, its benefits, and how people with ADHD can design a life t...
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March 26, 2024 • 70 mins
293. The One Question to Finally Let Go of Control with ALOK
Alok Vaid-Menon is back exploring belonging, beauty, community, and the freedom in letting go of the need to control. Buckle up, podquad, this episode will change your life!
Discover:
How we can embrace the absurd chaos of life instead of struggling against it;
The way to find energy to keep going through stress of life and politics;
Why ALOK responds to hate with ...
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Episode 292. What These Palestinian & Israeli Activists Need Us to Know: Standing Together’s Sally Abed & Alon-Lee Green
Sally Abed, an elected leader at Standing Together and Alon-Lee Green, the National co-Director and a founder of Standing Together, talk us through what is happening in Palestine and Israel right now, their own stories of growing up and living through it, and how we can help in their mission to bring liberation...
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March 20, 2024 • 47 mins
Episode 291. Dr. Ford Debrief: Glennon & Amanda Are Fired Up
Glennon, Abby and Amanda dive into their questions, struggles, and reactions to yesterday’s powerful interview with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford – including asking Why Are We Asked to Do the “Right” Thing for a System that Refuses to do Right by Us?
How Amanda opened the dialogue with her kids about consent, sexual violence, and what happens when our leaders do the wrong ...
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March 19, 2024 • 61 mins
Episode 290. Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Speaks Out
We all remember the moment we held our breath as Dr. Christine Blasey Ford courageously raised her right hand and spoke her truth in the Kavanaugh hearings.
She takes us back to that moment – what led to it, and what followed:
Why we should stop saying, “trust women” & “I believe you” – and what to do instead;
Why we should shift our faith to the “other them;”
How Professor ...
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March 14, 2024 • 51 mins
Today we are talking about THE SPORTS. Podsquader Naomi calls in – confused, and slightly embarrassed – about how distraught she is over the loss of her new favorite sports team, asking how to handle it and what, exactly, is going on with her?
Glennon, Abby and Amanda attempt to answer: What IS it about The Sports that makes it so damn emotional?
We go into:
The psychology of why our bodies are taken over when our favorite t...
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March 13, 2024 • 54 mins
In this follow up to our previous episode on Being Left Out – Episode 241 Being Left Out: Navigating that Lifelong Ache – Abby, Amanda and Glennon dive into a listener question about being left out and having to leave people out: Why it hurts so much; advice for listeners on a kinder, more honest way to leave someone else out; and some of the times Glennon has felt wildly left out at big, scary, fancy events.
To learn more about ...
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March 12, 2024 • 61 mins
Music legend Alanis Morissette (!) is here to discuss her life as a Highly Sensitive Person and why HSPs so often turn to addiction. Alanis shares strategies for managing the flood of emotions and information that she experiences as a life-long empath.
The normalization of under communication and the impact of being a child of the "white knuckle generation”;
Addiction as a means of self regulating – and how to recognize dysregula...
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