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Sep 29, 2022 • 53min

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. Abby and Glennon’s brilliant compromise boundaries for future extended family gatherings. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Sep 27, 2022 • 1h 6min

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.   To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Sep 22, 2022 • 1h 7min

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 activists, they work on issues like immigration reform, LGBTQ advocacy, education, and death penalty reform. They are co-founders of Honor the Earth, a non-profit dedicated to the survival of sustainable Native communities, Indigenous environmental justice, and green energy solutions.Their latest record, Look Long is a stirring and eclectic collection of songs that finds Indigo Girls reunited in the studio with their strongest backing band to date.IG: @indigogirlsmusic, @emilysaliers & @amyraymusicTW: @Indigo_Girls, @EmilySaliers & @AmyRay To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Sep 20, 2022 • 1h 11min

132. Christen Press: How to Get Your Bliss Back

1. The moment Abby – as Christen’s USWNT roommate – walked into their hotel room and knew Christen was very different than any soccer player she’d ever known. 2. The boundary that helps Christen love her people while protecting herself.3. Christen’s take on death and how to keep the people we’ve lost alive in our lives.4. How to show our people (including our little athletes) that we love them for who they are, not what they achieve.5. The day Christen knew she was ready to fight for – and win – pay equity for the US Women’s National Team. About Christen:Christen Press is a two-time World Cup Champion and Olympian, as well as a leading forward at Los Angeles Angel City FC. An entrepreneur and advocate for inclusivity, Christen, along with US Women’s National teammates – Megan Rapinoe, Tobin Heath, and Meghan Klingenberg – launched their company re—inc, a purpose-driven, global lifestyle brand. Christen was one of the key players leading the charge for the “Equal Play, Equal Pay” campaign to highlight the pay discrepancy between the women’s and men’s national teams, which led to the new CBA agreement – and to her role as Player Representative for the US Women's National Team Players Association.IG: @christenpress To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Sep 15, 2022 • 1h 2min

131. How to Raise Untamed Kids with Dr. Becky Kennedy

1. How to embody your authority while also validating your kid’s experience.2. The #1 strategy for building resilience.3. Why consequences and punishments backfire and don’t work.4. How to sit with your child on the “benches” of their emotions. 5. One thing you can say to your kids to build connection in any circumstance. About Dr. Becky:Dr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist and mom of three, named “The Millennial Parenting Whisperer” by TIME Magazine. She’s rethinking the way we raise our children – empowering parents to feel sturdier and more equipped to manage the challenges of parenting. Dr. Becky is founder of the Good Inside Membership platform, a hub with Dr. Becky’s complete parenting content collection all in one place; author of Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be, which is out this month. And her podcast “Good Inside with Dr. Becky” – was one of Apple Podcasts “Best Shows of 2021.”TW: @goodinsideIG: @drbeckyatgoodinside To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Sep 13, 2022 • 1h 11min

130. Breaking Cycles & Reparenting Yourself with Dr. Becky Kennedy

1. The 3 most important things to say to your kids and partners every day.2. Why our kids trigger us – and a fail-proof strategy to use when you’re triggered.3. Why “poorly-behaved kids” can be a sign of good parenting.4. How to break family cycles by rewiring the way we were raised.5. How to use Internal Family Systems to heal ourselves.About Dr. Becky:Dr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist and mom of three, named “The Millennial Parenting Whisperer” by TIME Magazine. She’s rethinking the way we raise our children – empowering parents to feel sturdier and more equipped to manage the challenges of parenting. Dr. Becky is founder of the Good Inside Membership platform, a hub with Dr. Becky’s complete parenting content collection all in one place; author of Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be, which is out this month. And her podcast “Good Inside with Dr. Becky” – was one of Apple Podcasts “Best Shows of 2021.”TW: @goodinsideIG: @drbeckyatgoodinside To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Sep 8, 2022 • 1h 1min

129. What Your Sign Says About How You Love: Chani Nicholas

1. How to recognize when you’re dysregulated – so you can slow down and help yourself.2. The beauty and wisdom in being judgmental, and how that saved Chani’s life. 3. The liberating idea that “The things that happened to me weren’t about me.”4. How to set and trust boundaries in order to finally rest.About Chani:Chani Nicholas is a Los Angeles-based New York Times bestselling author of You Were Born For This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance.She has been a counseling astrologer for more than 20 years, guiding her community of over 1 million monthly readers to discover and live out their life’s purpose through understanding their birth chart.Chani runs her company with her wife and business partner, Sonya Passi. Together they launched the CHANI app, which offers a personalized, daily understanding of their birth chart.TW: @chaninicholasIG: @chaninicholas To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Sep 6, 2022 • 59min

128. HOW GLENNON LOST HER MIND

1. “Weird Glennon” comes back to the pod and shares her #1 sanity strategy.2. The rule Glennon and Abby set for their wedding week that made everything OK.3. How Amanda stopped accepting assignments from strangers.4. How Glennon discovered she couldn’t trust her thoughts – and found the part of herself she could trust.5. How to know if your thinking is disordered, and how to reorient it to be more effective in your life, relationships, and world. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Sep 1, 2022 • 54min

127. Are you a Feeler or a Thinker? Either Way, Genius!

1. An Advocate, Commander, and Entertainer walk into a podcast – and each share how they feel about their labels.2. Do personality types make you feel boxed in, or give you permission to be you? 3. How to decide when it’s important to work first and play later, or jump on a moment of joy and work later.4. How Glennon as a strong F (Feeler) and Amanda as a strong T (Thinker) make business decisions together.5. Can a personality be changed? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Aug 30, 2022 • 51min

126. WHAT’S YOUR TYPE? How Personality Shapes Your Life

1. Our desperate desire to figure out: Why are we the way we are?2. Why Abby once believed she was 100% extroverted, and the fear she uncovered that makes her think she’s not. 3. How what you think about when you see a cactus tells you a lot about your personality.4. Why some of the best-known personality binaries are just silly – and corporately manufactured. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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