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
August 28, 2025 • 57 mins
441. WELCOME TO THE PARTY! Abby’s Big Secret Reveal with Julie Foudy!
Attention Party People! Abby has BIG news—she’s launching Welcome to the Party, a video-first women’s sports podcast with legends Julie Foudy & Billie Jean King!!!!
The very first episode of Welcome to the Party drops September 4th. Go follow & subscribe NOW so you don’t miss it. Today, you’re going to hear all about how this party started.
Abby and Julie sha...
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August 26, 2025 • 55 mins
440. Becoming Full of Yourself | Austin Channing Brown
Author, speaker, and racial justice leader Austin Channing Brown joins us to share why centering the lives and voices of Black women isn’t just powerful—it’s transformative for everyone. In this conversation about truth-telling, liberation, and reimagining the future, we discuss:
-The cost of cultural “belonging” and the radical freedom in refusing it;-Why the difference bet...
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August 24, 2025 • 51 mins
368. The Closure Myth: How Do We Really Move On?
Abby, Glennon and Amanda delve into your voicemails and discuss matters of the broken heart, closure, self-sabotage, moving toward or away from family, and more.
Discover:
Glennon’s “magical pessimism”
Why creative people do not seek out closure
The geographical solution or finding the “right” place to live
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August 21, 2025 • 53 mins
439. Get Free from Perfectionism | Live on Tour
For anyone ready to break free from perfectionism and finally choose themselves – join us today, live from our We Can Do Hard Thing tour. Glennon, Abby, and Amanda talk about why we cling to perfectionism, how growth can strain relationships, and what it means to stay true to yourself. Plus, in an unforgettable moment, Abby surprises Glennon on their anniversary in front of thousand...
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August 19, 2025 • 58 mins
438. How to Protect Kids from ICE
Right now in America, children are standing alone in immigration court—no lawyer, no advocate, no protection—forced to represent themselves against government attorneys from Homeland Security.
Glennon joins immigration justice leaders Lillian Aponte Miranda of the Florence Project and Shaina Aber of the Acacia Center for Justice to reveal what’s happening to immigrant families—and how we can meet...
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August 17, 2025 • 60 mins
351. How to Have *Healthy* Conflict with Amanda Ripley
Conflict expert and investigative journalist, Amanda Ripley, is back to give us a conflict resolution 101 guide and delve into some real-life examples from Abby and Glennon’s relationship.
Discover:
-The best way to diffuse a high-conflict person from going further;
-The binary thinking that makes fighting with a spouse feel so painful–plus, the antidote;
-How to di...
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August 14, 2025 • 99 mins
437. LISTEN TO SAVE PALESTINIAN LIVES w/ Our Friend Dr. Thaer Ahmad
This is one of the most important conversations we’ve ever had. Please listen to today’s episode and donate here: https://bit.ly/HealthcareinGaza
Our friend Dr. Ahmad is a Palestinian-American emergency medical physician and voice for Palestinian dignity who has provided medical relief in the world’s most devastated conflict zones, including in Gaza during the bo...
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August 12, 2025 • 53 mins
436. Are You a Dopamine Addict? | Dr. Anna Lembke
Dr. Anna Lembke, the Medical Director of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Program, join us to discuss why common fixes for feeling better are actually making us feel worse. Dr. Lembke explains the science behind the brain's pleasure and pain processing and the dopamine balance.
-The four C’s of dopamine addiction and whether you have one
-How to begin to detox from dopamine addi...
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August 10, 2025 • 61 mins
In today’s beautiful, vulnerable, and funny conversation, Glennon, Abby, and Amanda reveal what each feels most insecure about. Plus, Amanda connects with a member of the Pod Squad on raising a kid with ADHD and her shift that changed everything; Glennon talks about anger as a guard dog and her discovery while rock climbing on “vacation”; and Abby explains why retirement from soccer was one of the hardest times of her life and how ...
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August 7, 2025 • 47 mins
435. Testing Abby: How Well Does She Really Know Glennon?
Amanda puts Abby in the hot seat to find out how well she knows Glennon. Find out who WINS and how you can start to use these questions to get to know your people better.
Listen to Part 1 here: 434. The Not-So-Newlywed Game with Glennon & Abby: Who Wins?
List of Date Qs:
1. What’s your favorite room in your house?
2. Which one of you is most likely to initiate a hom...
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August 5, 2025 • 51 mins
434. The Not-So-Newlywed Game with Glennon & Abby: Who Wins?
Amanda gets to live out her life-long dream of being a game show host and Glennon and Abby are put to the test! How well DO these two lovebirds really know each other? Listen to part one and find out! This time Glennon’s in the hot seat. Come back for part two to see how Abby does!
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August 3, 2025 • 55 mins
Singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Allison Russell, shares her incredible life story and teaches us how she healed from abuse through music, sisterhood, and returning to her body. This hour is a soul-stirring reminder of the life-saving, cycle-breaking power of truth telling, art, and love.
About Allison:
Allison Russell has spent her career in multiple bands, including Po’ Girl, Our Native Daughters and Birds of Chicago...
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July 31, 2025 • 53 mins
433. How to Parent While You Heal: Live on Tour
In today’s episode, we share more from our first-ever live tour where we gathered with thousands of you to celebrate our Indie and New York Times Bestselling book, We Can Do Hard Things. We talk about internalized sexism, what to do when you don’t have a village, how to parent while you’re still healing, how to stay rooted in love in the face of fear–and why friendship might be the m...
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July 29, 2025 • 60 mins
432. Bad with Money? Get Better with Tori Dunlap
Glennon, Abby, and Amanda are doing something they've never done—talk about money. It's one of the most vulnerable topics, especially for women, where silence and shame still dominate.
Joining them is Tori Dunlap—New York Times bestselling author and feminist finance expert—to help break the stigma, spark the conversation, and guide us toward financial freedom.
-How shame—not num...
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July 26, 2025 • 63 mins
1. Why the construct of beauty is oppressive, but the essence of beauty is freedom.
2. What living with integrity looks like.
3. Why Dr. Blay doesn’t need any more allies—and what she really wants from an accomplice.
4. How “Karens” have been around for centuries—and the direct line from “Miss Anne to Karen.”
5. Dr. Blay’s greatest hope for her granddaughters—even if she doesn’t like it.
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July 24, 2025 • 59 mins
431. How to Let Go of “Not Enough” with Melissa Arnot Reid
Melissa Arnot Reid—the first American woman to summit Everest without supplemental oxygen—opens up about her journey from a difficult childhood to discovering true self-worth, revealing how even the highest peaks can’t quiet the voice of unworthiness within.
-Why Everest became Melissa’s classroom, not her accomplishment-How imagining her own funeral saved Melissa’s life
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July 22, 2025 • 57 mins
430. The Trick to Finally Becoming an Adult
Glennon, Abby, and Amanda revisit the six family roles, uncover which ones they've each lived out, and share how they're working to heal and grow beyond them.
-How shifting some of their family roles is shifting Glennon and Amanda’s personal dynamic;
-The schism rejecting a family role can create;
-Why apologies you get from your family of origin might not be resonating; and
-How ...
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July 20, 2025 • 61 mins
1. The question Carson’s sister asked that made him radically reimagine his life.
2. Why Carson is having the best sex of his life.
3. How Carson received sign-off from his Mormon Bishop for his first queer date.
4. The accident that left Carson paralyzed from the chest down at 23.
5. How ableism hurts us all.
About Carson:
Carson Tueller is a coach, speaker and activist whose work provides people with the tools they...
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July 18, 2025 • 3 mins
We're excited to bring you a beautiful story from The Moth, as told by storyteller and activist, Tiq Milan. In this story, Tiq explores themes of love and transition, all while keeping a very important secret from his mom.
You can hear the extended version of this story and more heartwarming, funny, true stories on Tuesdays and Fridays on The Moth podcast. Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of true stories,...
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July 17, 2025 • 52 mins
429. On Not Being Chosen, Re-Parenting Yourself & Getting Started | Live on Tour!
In this special episode, we share moments from an unforgettable night in Portland on our first-ever live tour. We gathered with thousands of you to celebrate our Indie and New York Times Bestselling book, We Can Do Hard Things. We talk about the ache of not being chosen, the grief of lost teams and families, the power of self-parenting, the fear of ...
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