We Can Do Hard Things

1. How your attachment style determines how you make – or don’t make – friends and becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.2. How Dr. Franco’s work helped Glennon make healthy adult friendships over the past year.3. Why we’re lonelier than ever – and how that loneliness can make us sick.4. Why platonic friendships are beneficial to the health of our romantic partnerships. 5. Learning to “trust the spark” when you meet a potential friend – and concrete steps to foster new friendship. About Dr. Franco:Dr. Marisa G Franco is psychologist, international speaker, and New York Times bestselling author known for digesting and communicating science in ways tha change their lives. She works as a professor at The University of Maryland and authored the New York Times bestseller Platonic: How The Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends.TW: @DrMarisaGFrancoIG: @drmarisagfranco

In this bonus episode, Glennon shares her “Sort Your Mail” rules for dealing with the inevitable criticisms you will receive from daring to say anything, do anything, or be anything. Learn to sort your mail so you can keep showing up!

Glennon and Abby interview their favorite person and co-host: Amanda Doyle! Examining the relationships, decisions, and travels that led her 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 into Amanda’s lifelong fear of the ordinary.About Amanda:Amanda Doyle is Glennon Doyle’s Business Manager and co-host of the We Can Do Hard Things podcast with her sister Glennon Doyle and sister-in-law Abby Wambach. She is Vice President, General Counsel, and a member of the Together Rising Board of Directors. In these roles, Amanda is responsible for overseeing and advising on legal matters, including risk management, policy development, and programmatic affairs, as well as cultivating new initiatives and relationships to strengthen the organization’s impact. A former attorney at the law firm of Hogan Lovells and Legal Fellow with International Justice Mission, Amanda lives in Falls Church, Virginia with her husband and two children.

Today we’re talking about how to build healthy relationships — with ourselves and others — after enduring toxic relationships with both.1. Signs of emotional toxicity in romantic relationships – and what finally made Lily get out of her unhealthy relationship.2. How to begin reprogramming your brain after leaving a toxic relationship in order to trust yourself and other people again.3. The process that caused Lily to become the smallest, quietest version of herself – and how she recovered into her biggest, brightest self.4. What healthy conflict looks and feels like – and Lily’s new script for communicating when her old triggers arise.CW: eating disorders, emotionally toxic relationshipsAbout Lily: Lily Collins is a Golden Globe nominated actress, author of the international bestselling book “Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets Just Me”, and a philanthropist. Collins can currently be seen in the Netflix series “Emily in Paris,” for which she received her second Golden Globe nomination.Lily launched Case Study Films alongside her husband Charlie McDowell. Lily's philanthropic endeavors extend to participating in various “We Day” events and the GO Campaign. Born in West Sussex, England Collins moved to the United States at age six and currently resides in Los Angeles.TW: @lilycollinsIG: @lilyjcollins

We can do hard things, and yet, sometimes we can try easier. Glennon, Abby, Amanda – and the Pod Squad! — share the strategies they’ve used to suffer less – giving us simple Life Hacks for relationships, home, tech, travel, and saving time.

1. Big and small ideas for what to let go of — so that we can all live freer this year.2. The thinking trap that prevents us from creating new habits. 3. The heaven of resigning from the role of everybody’s problem solver. 4. What to say when folks say something offensive – so you don’t have “walk-away regret.”5. How to know if you are an “overfunctioner” in a relationship – and how to change that destructive dynamic.

1. Mae, Glennon, Abby, and Amanda each explore their sexuality by delving into what sexually attracts each of them. 2. The sex-positive way Mae’s parents taught them about sex – and orgasm(!) – and how they never made assumptions about Mae's sexuality. 3. Gender as creative expression and a way to have fun.4. Simple ways to switch up the monotony of routine; to transform boredom into exploration; and dopamine-infused alternatives for addictive personality types.5. How fear of abandonment / fear of dependence can take over our lives. About Mae:Mae Martin is an award-winning comedian, actor, writer, and producer who can be seen starring in Feel Good, which they also created and co-wrote. Mae is currently in development with their upcoming scripted project Programmed for Netflix and stars in season 2 of The Flight Attendant on HBO Max.Mae Martin's Guide To… series about sexuality and addiction are available to listen to on BBC Sounds. Mae is also the author of Can Everyone Please Calm Down?: A Guide to 21st Century Sexuality.TW: @TheMaeMartinIG: @hooraymae

Glennon shares more from the messy middle about how she knew she needed help and what we can all learn from her early recovery.If talk about eating disorders and mental illness helps: Listen today.  If it triggers: Skip today.  CW // eating disordersIf you have an eating discover, you may find the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) hotline a helpful resource: https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/help-support/contact-helpline 

Before delivering her speech to mark today’s 50th anniversary of Roe, Vice President Kamala Harris decided to sit down with one community—The We Can Do Hard Things Pod Squad—to get real about:1. Her first call, and how she really felt when she heard Roe was repealed;2. Why she says the repeal is rooted in shaming women’s sexuality;3. What’s at risk for birth control and fertility treatments;4. Why she thinks we must “take the flag back” and show up with our “Shoulders Back, Chin Up;"5. Why she believes – if Democrats are in power in 2024 – they will write bodily autonomy into law once and for all. 

1. How to make peace inside your own head by getting to know your “parts.”2. Why our “manager,” “firefighter,” and “exile” parts are running our lives – and how to get them to step back.3. How Glennon is using Internal Family Systems in her eating disorder recovery process.4. Understanding that the parts of you that you might struggle with most right now were originally developed by you to protect you.5. How to tap into your wisest, most trustworthy self.About Dr. Becky:Dr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist, bestselling author, and mom of three, named “The Millennial Parenting Whisperer” by TIME Magazine.Dr. Becky is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be and founder of the Good Inside Membership platform, a hub with Dr. Becky’s complete parenting content collection all in one place. Her podcast “Good Inside with Dr. Becky” – was one of Apple Podcasts “Best Shows of 2021.”TW: @goodinsideIG: @drbeckyatgoodinside