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 (we meet Tuesdays and Thursdays to laugh, talk, and cry our way through the pain and magic of being human). Join us and WATCH now on the @WeCanDoHardThingsShow Youtube Channel. We’ve got you! Watch, Subscribe, and Follow us here: https://linktr.ee/wecandohardthingsshow
Episodes
December 11, 2025 • 82 mins
Ashley C. Ford returns to the pod today for a deeply personal, raw, and revelatory conversation about how we can love the world, our people, and ourselves through this trying moment. We explore:
- Why we’re no longer certain that “to be loved is to be known”;
- Why we resent our people when they don’t understand us—and how to find more love, peace, and acceptance in our relationships;
- Abby’s realization that she doesn’t nee...
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December 9, 2025 • 71 mins
The legendary, hilarious, and ferociously tender Rosie O’Donnell is here for an unfiltered conversation about how to survive the world while feeling it all.
We discuss:
- Why she left the U.S.—and how her new life in Ireland is healing her for the very first time;
- How to be a mother when you’ve lost your mother; and
- The letter Rosie wrote right after Abby’s DUI—and how it helped her heal.
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December 4, 2025 • 74 mins
How do we ever know what is enough – or feel like enough – in a world that pushes us to incessantly perform, perfect, collect, and earn?
The extraordinary duo Suleika Jaouad and Jon Batiste are here for one of the richest conversations we’ve had about art, love, ambition, spirituality, and what it takes to remain ourselves.
Together, we explore:
- The “beast” we all carry: fear, perfectionism, control, or ambition—and how fac...
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December 2, 2025 • 66 mins
Who is your Inner Child, and what are they (still) saying?
It’s amazing how strongly our little selves show up in our adult lives.
Buckle Up – in this hilarious, profound conversation, Glennon, Abby, and Amanda invite their inner children to come forward and share their delights, blessings, and curses with the Pod Squad.
Together, we spiral around:
- Why some of us become the family “feeler” and others the “fixer,” ...
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November 25, 2025 • 96 mins
Did you know that gospels of women leaders were in the Bible — and then in the Fourth Century, they were literally torn out of all Bibles and destroyed??? Except a few of them were buried and discovered a thousand years later.
This conversation is about those stories … and why they are so powerful – and so dangerous to power – that they were almost erased forever.
If you’ve ever felt like something is missing from the stories y...
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November 20, 2025 • 52 mins
Pod Squad: It’s just us this episode. Glennon, Abby, and Amanda are snuggling up on the metaphorical couch to answer your questions and spiral together about:
– Is writing about yourself self-indulgent?
– Is camping a vacation or a trip? (and why lesbians can’t seem to figure that out); and
– How Amanda is finally setting down the plates she’s been spinning for decades.
Snuggle up—you won’t want to miss this one.
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November 18, 2025 • 59 mins
At last, the brilliant force of nature, Cynthia Erivo, joins us for a deeply personal, mind-blowing, and heart-swelling conversation about dignity and belonging. We discuss:
- How to survive betrayal and learn to fully trust again;
- How to build a circle of people who will always get on the broom with you;
- How Cynthia chooses and prepares for roles like Elphaba—and why she doesn’t believe in method acting; and
- How to fi...
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November 13, 2025 • 84 mins
We made a movie. You can watch it now.
Our first film – COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT– is now available for you to watch on Apple TV starting this Friday, November 14.
Winner of the Sundance Festival Favorite Award, and hailed by critics as “unforgettable,” “luminous” and “revelatory” – COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT – about our beloved friends Andrea Gibson and Meg Falley, and their love story with each other and with life,...
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November 11, 2025 • 92 mins
Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom – MacArthur Genius award winner and brilliant chronicler of our times – unmasks the American stories that got us to this place—and explains, with amazing precision and clarity, how we can imagine our way out.
We discuss:
- How the MAGA story broke through and became the winning story;
- How money hijacked democracy;
- The little-known history of the Black Panther party of the American South;
-...
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November 6, 2025 • 71 mins
In this delightful, hilarious, and deeply honest conversation, our friends (and neighbors!) Jimmy Kimmel and Molly McNearney tell us:
- What really happened the night the Jimmy Kimmel Live show was suspended,
- How they told their kids,
- How they loved each other through the crisis;
- How we can stay brave, be steady, love each other, and love our country—even during the worst of times; and
- Of course, Jimmy’s favorite re...
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November 4, 2025 • 69 mins
Glennon, Abby, and Amanda are getting cozy and diving deep into what it means to actually feel your feelings. They discuss:
- How they’re getting through the awkward, messy “middle school of middle age”;
- Why feelings are 90-second-waves—and why thinking about them keeps you stuck in anxiety;
- How to stop using other people to regulate your nervous system; and
- The radical truth that your body already knows what to do—y...
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October 30, 2025 • 96 mins
We’re coming together today to support Gaza’s wounded children with no surviving parents — Donate whatever you can now: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/pcrf-laocie-orphan-sponsorship-2025
There is no such thing as other people’s children.
We must care for the children of Gaza like they’re our own—because they are.
Our friend Akram Ibrahim is a Palestinian American volunteer with the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund...
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October 28, 2025 • 58 mins
Dearly Beloved Pod Squad: We are gathered here today to rage about menopause.
Glennon details how perimenopause is wrecking havoc on her body, mind, and relationships—and how maddening it is that our medical professionals give us no real information about what’s going on. We discuss night sweats, beehive brain, fire-ant itching, and Ms. Frizzle hair.
Plus, Glennon is joined by Melani Sanders (@justbeingmelani)—the founder of th...
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October 23, 2025 • 68 mins
Brandi Carlile joins Glennon for her rawest and most vulnerable conversation yet, sharing the story behind her deeply personal new album Returning to Myself—the songs that broke her open, the love that holds her steady, and what it means to truly come home. In this family meeting, Brandi bares her heart and reminds us we’re only here for the blink of an eye—so we must stay relentlessly joyful, soft, and human—and we must, together,...
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October 21, 2025 • 107 mins
This life-saving conversation is for anyone who has—or loves someone who has—breasts. It’s what to look for, what to ask, what screenings you *actually need* (not just what is offered), and every decision point you have (even if it’s not offered to you) if you are facing surgery.
This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Glennon, Abby, and Amanda empower us with the most vital tool we have: information. Amanda reflects on how self-adv...
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October 16, 2025 • 80 mins
Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody join us for a heartfelt, soulful, and delightfully chaotic conversation about:
- How to make a marriage last;
- The importance of quiet; and
- how we can hold tight to our own humanity while demanding a more humanitarian world.
This conversation is an urgent reminder of how we can all use our voices to make the world more beautiful. Join us now.
About Mandy:
Mandy Patinkin is a Tony Awar...
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October 14, 2025 • 73 mins
Join us for the hilarious, unfiltered, and vulnerable story of the time Glennon tried therapeutic psychedelics. At last, Glennon reveals to the Pod Squad:
- The mishap that turned a “micro-dose” macro;
- What Glennon encountered on her guided psychedelic journey; and
- How Sinéad O’Connor, a basement vision, and the magic words “I don’t know” helped Glennon heal.
Disclaimer: We are sharing lived experience, not medica...
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October 9, 2025 • 94 mins
We all have something inside us that knows exactly what we want.
Katie Gavin joins us to talk about:
How to identify that kernel of desire inside—and then have the courage to follow it;
Why love addiction can feel like being stuck on a “treadmill in the cosmos”; and
the moment Katie called Glennon a Femme/Dom—and how it changed Glennon’s life forever.
Katie Gavin’s album: What A Relief
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October 7, 2025 • 74 mins
Glennon shares the new way she’s making peace with her body—not through individual “wellness,” but through community care and collective action. Together, we explore why it’s more important than ever that we show up—even if we’re scared or heartbroken—because the world needs our broken hearts. And we unearth a small miracle: by listening to our bodies, we can participate in life without abandoning ourselves.
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October 2, 2025 • 83 mins
Music icons, queer trailblazers, and our heroes—Indigo Girls and Melissa Etheridge—share the wisdom, humor, and heart that have carried them through decades of music and community. We talk about faith, the power of music to heal and connect, their advice for queer kids, and the lessons they’re learning from young activists.
About Indigo Girls:
Across four decades, 16 studio albums, and over 15 million records sold, the Grammy-wi...
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