We Can Do Hard Things

1. Abby shares with Sara the great personal impact Sara’s music has made on her life.2. Sara and Glennon bond over the joy of solitude, the underrated gifts of being heavy-hearted, and the fact that “there are too many things to be worried about at all times” to be lighthearted.3. When you are in deep stress, do you try to sabotage your job, relationship, etc.? (Before this conversation, Amanda thought it was just her.)4. How playfulness and joy – connecting to the little kid who grew up into you – are vital to loving yourself. 5. Sara’s beautiful journey with medication for depression and anxiety – and how she learned her anxiety often arises from an unexpressed need. About Sara:Sara Bareilles is a Tony Award and Emmy Award nominated actor, and Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter.On Broadway, Sara composed music and lyrics for Waitress, in which she was also the lead. Sara also produced original music and executive produced the musical drama series Little Voice. She plays Dawn Solano on the Emmy-nominated musical comedy series Girls5eva, and stars as The Baker’s Wife in the Broadway revival Into the Woods.TW: @SaraBareillesIG: @sarabareilles

1. How the Abby+Alex sisterhood began, how hard it was for Alex to watch Abby suffer at the end of her career, and how friends can build each other up.2. How to get back on the field – in life and in sport – after crushing defeat.3. The way Alex’s mom helped Alex fulfill her dream, and what Alex is teaching her own daughter, Charlie.4. How Alex finally stopped comparing herself to others and started resting in her own confidence.5. Alex’s relationship with soccer – and does she still love it?About AlexAlex Morgan is a two-time FIFA Women’s World Cup Champion, Olympic Gold Medalist, UEFA Women’s Champions League Champion, and NWSL Champion. An entrepreneur, author, social media phenom, and marketing icon – Alex’s ability to inspire and excite fans stretches far beyond the pitch. She is the leading founder of TOGETHXR, a lifestyle and media company with a focus on youth and equality storytelling. As mom to Charlie, Alex is tackling motherhood while continuing to be a force on the pitch. In fact, I am not sure i’ve ever seen her as on fire right now, scoring goals at a wild rate for her NWSL team the San Diego Wave. TW: @alexmorgan13IG: @alexmorgan13

1. The Nap Ministry’s Nap Bishop shares small, concrete ways to bring rest into our own lives – especially when rest seems impossible. 2. Why so many of us feel like machines instead of humans – and the power of imagination as a spiritual practice to reconnect with our humanity and divinity.3. Why grind culture – a collaboration of capitalism and white supremacy – wants to keep us exhausted, and how we can resist a culture of overwhelming busy-ness.  4. Why everything changes when we embrace ease as our birthright. 5. Creative ways to reimagine rest within our hectic daily lives. About TriciaTricia Hersey is a Chicago native who has called Georgia home for the last 12 years. She has over 20 years of experience as a multidisciplinary artist, writer, theologian and community organizer. She is the founder of The Nap Ministry, an organization that examines rest as a form of resistance and reparations by curating spaces for the community to rest via community rest activations, immersive workshops, performance art installations, and social media. Her research interests include Black liberation theology, womanism, somatics, and cultural trauma. She is the author of the upcoming book Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto which will be published in October 2022. You can learn more about her work and the book at thenapministry.com.TW: @TheNapMinistryIG: @thenapministry

1. What Melissa’s parents said when she told them about her dream – and how those magic words set the course of Melissa’s life.2. The green and red flags Melissa tells her kids to look for in a relationship.3. Why Melissa is a shark, and her brilliant strategy to “Run Around the Block” in almost any difficult situation. 4. Melissa’s and Abby’s experiences with ghosts.5. How Melissa learned about sex – and the way she talks to her kids about it.About Melissa:Melissa McCarthy is an award-winning writer, producer, and actor. Her work includes Bridesmaids, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Ghostbusters,The Heat; Identity Thief; This is 40, The Hangover Part III, The Starling, “Gilmore Girls”, and “Samantha Who?”. She won an Emmy Award and People’s Choice Award for her role in “Mike & Molly” as well as an Emmy for “Saturday Night Live”. Melissa and her husband Ben Falcone founded On the Day Productions and have produced Tammy, The Boss, Life of the Party, “Nobodies,” “Little Big Shots,” Superintelligence , Thunder Force, “God’s Favorite Idiot,” and Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed.TW: @melissamccarthyIG: @melissamccarthy

1. What to do when you’ve done everything you were supposed to do and ended up in a place you don’t want to be. 2. Why the question “What do you want?” is terrifying – and how to start answering it authentically for yourself.3. The power of imagining what does not yet exist in order to make space for new possibilities. 4. The gift of a “midlife crisis”5. What a mother’s job really is.About Celeste:Celeste Ng is the number one New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere. Her third novel, Our Missing Hearts, is available now. Ng is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and her work has been published in over thirty languages.TW: @pronounced_ingIG: @pronounced_ing

1. What happens inside us when we receive criticism–and how our brains ensure we’re always in the right (even when we’re not).2. The three-ingredient recipe for a positive, productive “care-frontation” exchange.3. The single biggest relationship killer (it’s not conflict) – and how conflict can bring you closer.4. Amanda navigates a “care-frontation” with her son’s friend’s family – and Abby reevaluates her past relationship with criticism.

It Was Said, the 2021 Webby Award winner for Best Podcast Series, returns with a new season to look back on some of the most powerful, impactful, and timeless speeches in history. Written and narrated by Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author-historian Jon Meacham, this documentary podcast series takes you through another season of ten generation-defining speeches. Meacham, along with top historians, authors and journalists, offers expert insight and analysis into the origins, the orator, and the context of the times each speech was given, and they reflect on why it’s important to never forget them. It Was Said is a creation and production of Peabody-nominated C13Originals, in association with The HISTORY® Channel.

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.

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.  

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