We Can Do Hard Things

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 discover, you may find the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) hotline a helpful resource: https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/help-support/contac...

At the end of our first full year together, Glennon, Abby, and Amanda reflect on We Can Do Hard Things, this community, some of their favorite episodes, and they reshare the very first show: 1. The original idea for the podcast and how it’s evolved. 2. Glennon describes how an anxiety attack feels – and the 3 strategies that help her find calm. 3. Amanda shares some special “thank you” messages to...

1. Why we should stop expecting people to forgive. 2. Rabbi Danya’s five step-by-step process for repairing a relationship.  3. What makes a good – and a terrible – apology. 4. What to do (and to not say) if you want to make amends and change. 5. Why repentance is a process that has nothing to do with the one who was hurt. About Rabbi Ruttenberg: Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg is an award-winning author o...

Glennon, Abby, Amanda and the Pod Squad share their most brutiful and hilarious holiday stories.

Holiday Expectations are the joy robbers. Here’s how to leave room for yourself, and be sturdy this holiday season (and always). 1. How in our preparation for making things perfect, we leave no room for the peace and joy that is actually in front of us. 2. The opposite revolutions that Glennon and Amanda are having right now – and why they’re at the core the same. 3. The final frontier: How to be...

1. Fortune’s life as a debutante without a couch and her first coming out party.  2. Fortune’s 21st birthday, and her family’s complicated relationship with Hooters.  3. The joys and perils of growing up as an 80s kid, and the shock of moving to LA from a small Southern town.  4. What Fortune was watching when she finally realized she was queer, and how she built community when she realized she wa...

Featuring Luvvie, Reese, Ash+Ali, Sam & Cam.

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 forgivenes...

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 Sa...

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 i...

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...

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 reima...

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 carr...

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.

No digging deep. No paradigm shifts to be found. It’s Easy Fridays.

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.

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...

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 rece...

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, Pe...

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...

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.

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...

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 sex...

No digging deep. No paradigm shifts to be found. Welcome to Easy Fridays. P.S. Thanks to @ohnochels & @dmc1138 for the haunted house laughs.

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...