This conversation is about those stories … and why they are so powerful – and so dangerous to power – that they were almost erased forever.

If you’ve ever felt like something is missing from the stories you were given about God, the Bible, or your own worth—you’re right. 

The stories of women’s lives, hearts, and desires have been stolen from us. Now, the brilliant feminist theologian Meggan Watterson is here to help us reclaim them – and it changes everything we know about connecting to ourselves, to faith, and to our own power. 

Join us now. 

About Meggan: 

Meggan Watterson is a Harvard-trained feminist theologian and the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Mary Magdalene Revealed. Meggan’s most recent book, The Girl Who Baptized Herself, is about the first century saint Thecla, and how the scripture that contains her story reads like a manual for defying the patriarchy, and following the voice of our own soul.

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Katie Gavin joins us to talk about: 

• How to identify that kernel of desire inside—and then have the courage to follow it; 

• Why love addiction can feel like being stuck on a “treadmill in the cosmos”; and

• the moment Katie called Glennon a Femme/Dom—and how it changed Glennon’s life forever. 

Katie Gavin’s album: What A Relief

About Katie: 

Katie Gavin is a musician and member of the pop band MUNA, and released her debut solo album What A Relief this past October 2024—an album about a deep desire for connection and the obstacles standing in the way of achieving that. Gavin’s explorations of desire and intimacy feel time-worn and necessary – songs that might teach a generation if not how to live, exactly, then at least how to look within oneself for guidance about how to move forward. Katie is currently in the studio with MUNA working on their forthcoming album.

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About Indigo Girls: 

Across four decades, 16 studio albums, and over 15 million records sold, the Grammy-winning Indigo Girls – Emily Saliers and Amy Ray – continue to blaze the trail for generations of Queer artists in the mainstream. 

Committed and uncompromising activists, Saliers and Ray work on issues like racial justice and reproductive rights, immigration reform, LGBTQ advocacy, education, death penalty reform, and Native American rights.

Indigo Girls was the first of six consecutive Gold and/or Platinum-certified albums.Their latest record, Look Long, is a stirring and eclectic collection of songs that finds the duo reunited in the studio with their strongest backing band to date. 

About Melissa: 

Melissa Etheridge stormed onto the American rock scene in 1988 with the release of her critically acclaimed self-titled debut album. Etheridge hit her commercial and artistic stride with her fourth album, Yes I Am. The collection featured the massive hits, "I'm the Only One" and "Come to My Window," a searing song of longing that brought Etheridge her second Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Performance. 

Known for her confessional lyrics and raspy, smoky vocals, Etheridge has remained one of America’s favorite female singers for more than two decades. 

In June of 2020, Etheridge launched The Etheridge Foundation to support groundbreaking scientific research into effective new treatments for opioid use disorder. 

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If you, too, are in the middle of this landslide—learning how to hold on and let go as your kids grow up—this conversation is for you. 

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During this magical hour, we discuss:

- The paradox of being an introvert who loves people;

- How Natasha finds God in theater, laughter, and even pain;

- How understanding her neurodivergence set Natasha free; and

- How we can resist fascism by leaning into delight, sexuality, creativity, and nature.

This conversation will wake you up. Don’t miss it. 

About Natasha:

Natasha Rothwell is the creator, executive producer, and star of the critically acclaimed Hulu series How to Die Alone, which is currently streaming. She recently earned her second Emmy nomination for her standout performance as Belinda Lindsey in Season 3 of HBO’s The White Lotus, reprising the role that first made her a fan favorite in Season 1. Natasha is also known for work on HBO’s Insecure. In 2020, she founded her production company Big Hattie Productions to create, produce, and develop genre-bending projects that champion marginalized voices in subversive ways.

For more conversations about neurodivergence, check out:

82. Hannah Gadsby: How to Communicate Better

220. Why So Many Women Don’t Know They are Autistic with Katherine May

294. What ADHD Feels Like with Jaklin Levine-Pritzker

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Join us for a raw conversation with Jen Hatmaker on: 

• the cost of ignoring the trouble in her 25-year marriage;
• the night she heard her husband on the phone with his girlfriend; and 
• the freedom she found when she finally embraced the truth.

About Jen:

Jen Hatmaker is a bestselling author, award-winning podcaster, and fierce advocate for women living in freedom and agency. With 14 books—including four New York Times bestsellers—she reaches millions with her signature mix of humor, vulnerability, and wisdom. Her newest book, AWAKE: A Memoir, is out now, and chronicles her raw, real-time journey through the shocking end of her 26-year marriage and surprising reinvention. She lives in a creaky old farmhouse, loves 90s country, and drinks Almond Joy creamer like it’s a personality trait.

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In this FIRST EVER VIDEO EPISODE OF WE CAN DO HARD THINGS—Glennon, Abby and Amanda get extra honest about how they’re holding on to joy, rage, and hope during this American moment. They discuss their breakdowns and breakthroughs, their nationwide tour, and they share their vision of the Freedom Fleet— a united movement that not only organizes and strategizes—but dances and laughs and loves its way toward freedom. 

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Glennon and Liz Gilbert go deeper into Liz’s relationship with Rayya, into the tender, messy, miraculous place where caring for someone else pushes hard against caring for yourself. They talk about the quiet traps of codependency, the heartbreak of giving away your power, and the transformative freedom that comes when you turn to a higher voice for guidance.

Listen to the first part of our conversation here.

About Elizabeth:

Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of nine previous works of fiction and nonfiction, which collectively have sold more than 25 million copies worldwide, spent more than 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and been translated into more than fifty languages.  She has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/Hemingway Award. With more than 20 million views of her TED Talk and 2.7 million followers on her social media accounts, she continues to be one of the most beloved and influential writers of our age..

Her new memoir: ALL THE WAY TO THE RIVER: Love, Loss, and Liberation is available now.

Elizabeth Gilbert comes to Glennon’s home to talk about her love with Rayya Elias—the joy, the devastation, and the truth-telling that came after. Liz opens up about the brutal reality of addiction—Rayya’s drug addiction and her own love addiction—and how their secret lives collided. This is a conversation about intimacy, betrayal, codependency, survival, and recovery. And it’s about how even the hardest truths, once spoken, can set us free.

About Elizabeth:

Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of nine previous works of fiction and nonfiction, which collectively have sold more than 25 million copies worldwide, spent more than 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and been translated into more than fifty languages.  She has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/Hemingway Award. With more than 20 million views of her TED Talk and 2.7 million followers on her social media accounts, she continues to be one of the most beloved and influential writers of our age..

Her new memoir: ALL THE WAY TO THE RIVER: Love, Loss, and Liberation is available now.

• Why birthdays have become a set up for disappointment;
• Glennon, Abby, and Amanda share their best and worst birthday stories; and
• Strategies for making birthdays better and celebrating each other outside of that one day.

2. Why our resentment toward others is our Secret Self-Care Signal.

3. Why refusing to be selfless is the best way to care for others and the world.

4. How to stop passing down the brutal legacy of martyrdom to our children.

5. Glennon’s life-changing spiritual practice: Habitual Quitting.

2. How to navigate the tightrope of corporate expectations for women: to be both self-assured and humble; both hard and soft. 

3. The revolutionary realization that you don’t have to be the savior of others – you can save yourself, too. 

4. How to know when to dig deep, and stay and fight for change – and when to stop digging and go – and the moment Bozoma knew it was time to leave Netflix.

5. Why our inability to forgive ourselves for wrong decisions keep us in bad situations – and how Boz’s “it’s not you, it’s me” philosophy can guide us out. 

About Bozoma: 

Bozoma Saint John is a Hall of Fame inducted Marketing Executive, author, entrepreneur, and general badass. Boz has led Global Consumer Marketing at Apple Music & iTunes; she was Chief Brand Officer at Uber; and Global Chief Marketing Officer at Netflix. Boz is currently named #1 Most Influential CMO in the world by Forbes, and has been named one of Billboard’s Most Powerful Women in Music for 10 consecutive years.

In 2021, Harvard Business School published a multi-media case study on her career, titled “Leading with Authenticity and Urgency”; through which she developed and taught a program at the University aptly named “The Anatomy of a Badass.” Boz was named as an Ambassador for the African Diaspora and Special Envoy to the President of Ghana. In the Spring of 2023, Penguin Books will publish her memoir, “The Urgent Life.” Boz counts her highest achievement as being a mother to her 12 year old daughter, Lael.

TW: @badassboz

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She reminds us why there’s nothing more radical than telling the truth of our lives, and listening to the truth of others’ lives. 

She reminds us that leaving our lives unlived is no badge of honor. 

She reminds us of the thirst-quenching, life-giving, revolutionary power of laughter.   

She reminds us of the three different kinds of laughter, and that we can do hard things – like laugh our way to liberation. 

About Gloria: 

Gloria Steinem is a writer, lecturer, political activist, and feminist organizer. She has spent decades traveling in this and other countries as an organizer and lecturer and is a frequent media spokeswoman on issues of equality. She is particularly interested in the shared origins of sex and race caste systems, gender roles and child abuse as roots of violence, non-violent conflict resolution, the cultures of Indigenous Peoples, and organizing across boundaries for peace and justice. She lives in New York City. 

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2. The daily practice that helps Melody stop controlling others and “Let Life Happen.”

3. Why no one is able to gaslight you more than you. 

4. The one area of life where Codependence is necessary.

5. All four of us surrender to the truth that we will never be Codependent No More.

About Melody:

A pioneering voice in self-help literature, Melody Beattie is the author of many bestselling books, including Codependent No More – a #1 New York Times bestseller, which has sold over 7 million copies – as well as The Language of Letting Go, Playing It by Heart, The Grief Club, and Beyond Codependency. An updated edition of the bestselling, modern classic, Codependent No More, is available now. Melody lives in Southern California.

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Today we have a treat for you. Abby’s excited, Glennon is nervous and Amanda’s skeptical because we are finally talking about…MANIFESTATION. What is it, is it BS, or could magic actually be real? We also discuss the deeper stories that the current interest in manifestation tells us about the culture and world we live in. 

-Is manifestation real and empowering or is it just another way to feel bad about ourselves? 

-If there’s a connection between neuroscience and manifestation

-Whether some of the disdain for or mistrust of manifestation *could* be rooted in sexism

-What individual manifestation misses and how we can use it for collective good

1. Cameron’s brutiful relationship with her body–and how it feels playing a sexy TV role.

2. The way Cameron grew up using humor as self-defense and to become socially “valuable”–and the moment she wondered if comedy was no longer working for her. 

3. Why Cameron says she’s able to cry for the first time in 35 years. 

4. How as a gender-nonconforming queer kid, Cameron felt “overnoticed”–and how being a comedian allows her to “hide in plain sight."

5. The rule Cameron and Glennon made to help them become better at friendship.

CW: eating disorders

About Cameron:

Cameron Esposito is a queer, gender non-conforming standup comic, actor, writer and host.

As a standup, Cameron has headlined tours and festivals nationwide and internationally. As an actor and host, Cameron has been seen across television and film, appearing in big budget films and beloved Sundance indies, and on Netflix, HBO, NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, Starz, Comedy Central, Logo, TBS, IFC, E! and Cartoon Network. Cameron's podcast, Queery, features hour long conversations with some of the brightest luminaries in the LGBTQ+ community, including Emmy and Grammy winning performers, Olympians, politicians, even an astronaut. Cameron's writing has been published by The New York Times, Vulture/New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit, Refinery29 and more. Cameron's first book, Save Yourself, was an instant bestseller and is available in paperback March of 2022. Next up, Cameron is set to recur on the ABC series A Million Little Things and appear in HBOMax's Moonshot. Cameron lives in Los Angeles and likes to swim.

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A big treat for you! In our first-ever live podcast recording from the Girls Just Wanna Weekend, Glennon and Abby welcome very special guests, Brandi Carlile and Catherine Carlile, to talk about courage, community, and how to approach all of life’s hard things. Plus, a special live performance of the We Can Do Hard Things theme song!

-How Brandi and Catherine think about building and joining communities 

-What the Girls Just Wanna Weekend is and why it’s so special

-Glennon, Abby, Brandi, and Catherine’s advice on self-forgiveness and growth

2. How neurodiversity affects Hannah’s relationships–and how she connects to the world through what’s “interesting” instead of what’s “important.”

3. Hannah’s revolutionary commitment to stop using self-deprecating humor about her body, sexuality, and gender–and why we might all consider the same commitment.

4. Why it’s easier for Hannah to share her personal stories “in bulk” on stage instead of one-on-one.

5. What it takes for Hannah to prepare for conversations–like ours on We Can Do Hard Things.

About Hannah:

Tasmania’s own Hannah Gadsby stopped stand-up comedy in its tracks with her multi-award-winning show, Nanette. When it premiered on Netflix in 2018, it left audiences captivated by her blistering honesty and her singular ability to take them from rolling laughter to devastated silence. Its release and subsequent Emmy and Peabody wins took Nanette (and Hannah) to the world. Hannah’s difficult second album (which was also her eleventh solo show) was named Douglas after her dog. Hannah walked Douglas around the world, selling out the Royal Festival Hall in London, the Opera House in Sydney and the Kennedy Center in DC, a sit-down run in New York and shows across the US, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Douglas covered Hannah’s autism diagnosis, moving beyond the trauma at the centre of Nanette and instead letting the world see the view from Hannah’s brain – one that sees the world differently but with breathtaking clarity. The show was an Emmy-nominated smash hit and is available throughout the world on Netflix, recorded in Los Angeles. 

Hannah Gadsby’s “overnight” success was more than ten years in the making, with her award-winning stand-up shows having been a fixture in festivals across Australia and the UK since 2009. She played a character called “Hannah” on the TV series Please Like Me and has hosted multiple art documentaries, inspired by her comedy art lectures. In 2022, Hannah’s first book Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation was published by Ballantine, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in the United States, Atlantic in the UK, and Allen & Unwin in Australia.

Hannah has done plenty of other things over the course of more than a decade in comedy, but that will do for now.

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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.

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Glennon, Abby and Amanda delve into the nuances of salvaging a relationship’s spark or excitement and discuss the role of “date nights” in healthy relationships. 

Discover: 

-Why “date night” is NOT a panacea; 

-Jealousy’s role in our relationships; 

-Why many people have affairs; and

-How to “unknow” your partner and what that means.

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 Glennon, Abby, and the Pod Squad.

Glennon, Abby and Amanda sit down with poet and friend, Megan Falley, to discuss the magic that is their Sundance Award-Winning documentary film, Come See Me in The Good Light. The documentary follows Meg and her partner, Andrea Gibson, as they navigate a year of life, love, and living through an incurable cancer diagnosis. 

-How to make a gift of your suffering

-Why seeing yourself through the loving eyes of another can be life-changing

-Why frat guys are finally relating to queer poets

-What this movie has to do with body image and loving yourself

On Megan Falley: Megan is a nationally-ranked slam poet and the author of three full-length collections of poetry – most recently her book “Drive Here and Devastate Me”. Since transitioning to writing prose, excerpts from her memoir-in-progress have won several first- and second-place national prizes. She runs an online writing workshop called “Poems That Don’t Suck” which has been heralded as “a degree’s worth of education in 5 short weeks.”

On Andrea Gibson: Andrea is one of the most celebrated and influential spoken word artists of our time. Best known for their live performances, Andrea has changed the landscape of what it means to attend a “poetry show”. Andrea’s poems center around LGBTQ issues, spirituality, feminism, mental health, and social justice. Andrea is the author of seven books, most recently “You Better Be Lightning”. 

Previous appearances on the pod: 

215. The Bravest Conversation We’ve Had: Andrea Gibson

245. An Unforgettable Double Date with Andrea Gibson & Megan Falley

265. Megan Falley Knows What Love Is

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.

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IG: @hooraymae

Abby, Amanda, and Glennon get to forget their problems for a while as they answer your questions on relationships and anxiety. 

-How to know if your words are a hit or a hug

-What malicious joking reveals in a relationship

-Whether anxiety fuels art

-How Amanda and John have identified and dealt with off-limit topics in their marriage

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2. How we use humor to hide the lava of rage churning beneath our surface.

3. Sam’s friendship theory and why she doesn’t need a deep soul connection with every “lowercase f friend.”

4. Sam’s embrace of JOMO (Joy of Missing Out)–and why she genuinely believes no one else is having a better time (except maybe Abby).

5. The behind-the-scenes story of the “Fat Babe Pool Party” Shrill show–and why that episode was one of the most important things she’s ever written.

About Samantha:

Samantha Irby writes the "Bitches Gotta Eat" blog, and is the author of WOW, NO THANK YOU; WE ARE NEVER MEETING IN REAL LIFE; and MEATY. She has been a writer and/or co-producer for TV shows including And Just Like That, Work in Progress, Shrill, and Tuca & Bertie.

IG: @bitchesgottaeat

In the midst of the LA Fires, Glennon, Abby, and Amanda take a moment to pause and reflect on a cozier time. In part two of this holiday discussion Glennon shares the life-changing lesson she got about love, control and parenthood and how that culminated in her gift from Abby. Amanda shares the unexpected way she learned more about her children this holiday season. 

-Why there is a safety net for your kids—and why (Spoiler Alert) it’s not you

-Why your kids may need a reminder of who you truly are—and that you’re okay

-The vibe Glennon is bringing into 2025—and how you can embrace it, too

-The surprising reason a road trip could be exactly what your family needs right now

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 relationships

About 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.

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IG: @lilyjcollins

In the midst of the LA Fires, Glennon, Abby, and Amanda take a moment to pause and reflect on a cozier time. They discuss the holiday gift that Abby received that changed her life and shifted her story. 

-The powerful gift that helped Abby release her fear of hell and reconnect with her brother

-The importance of naming and rewriting the stories we tell ourselves in order to change our lives

-The role of religious trauma in shaping our worldview—and how to choose a more liberating path.

-How to rethink the “either/or” mindset and open up to bigger possibilities.

CW: Discussion of suicidal ideation

About Andrea: 

Andrea Gibson is one of the most celebrated and influential spoken word artists of our time. Best known for their live performances, Gibson has changed the landscape of what it means to attend a “poetry show”. Gibson’s poems center around LGBTQ issues, spirituality, feminism, mental health and the dismantling of oppressive social systems. Andrea is the author of seven books, most recently “You Better Be Lightning”. 

TW: @andreagibson

IG: @andreagibson

Activists, writers, and organizers – Brittney Cooper and Rebecca Traister – join us to talk about the inauguration and what’s next. They share their thoughts, feelings, and advice on how to survive the next four years. 

-The historical playbook for what’s happening now and how we can utilize the wisdom of the past 

-Why you may need to have an adult temper tantrum right now (and how to safely do that) 

-The surprising reason it’s important to not resist the victory and accept defeat

On Brittney and Rebecca: 

Brittney Cooper is Professor of Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University and author of the New York Times bestseller Eloquent Rage. 

Rebecca Traister is writer at large for New York Magazine and the author of New York Times bestsellers All the Single Ladies and Good and Mad, as well as the award winning Big Girls Don't Cry, about gender race and class in the 2008 elections.

2. Stephanie’s experience figuring out her sexuality (years after she married Tig)–and how Tig knew Stephanie was the one.

3. Why Tig’s deep in “Towanda-ing” right now–and how that affects their marriage.

4. The power of knowing what you DON’T want in your life.

5. Tig, Stephanie, Abby, and Glennon each share something they’ve discovered they don’t want.

About Stephanie: 

Stephanie Allynne is a writer, actor, producer, and director. Her acting credits include THE L WORD: GENERATION Q, ONE MISSISSIPPI, ROOM 104, DREAM CORP LLC, LOVE, and TWIN PEAKS. Stephanie also starred in the Sundance hits PEOPLE PLACES THINGS and Lake Bell’s IN A WORLD. Stephanie wrote on the critically acclaimed Amazon series ONE MISSISSIPPI, and co-directed the 2022 Sundance film AM I OK? starring Dakota Johnson and Sonoya Mizuno. Stephanie is currently set to write and direct the feature film TIME AND SPACE that will star Tig Notaro. She will produce alongside Notaro and Judd Apatow. 

IG: @stephanieallynne

About Tig: 

Tig Notaro is an Emmy and Grammy nominated stand-up comedian, writer, and actor. Rolling Stone named her one of the "50 best stand-up comics of all time." Notaro appears in "Army of the Dead" and “Star Trek: Discovery”; wrote and starred in the groundbreaking TV show “One Mississippi”. and recently released her second HBO stand-up special, "Tig Notaro: Drawn." In 2021, Tig co-directed, with wife Stephanie Allynne, the feature film 'Am I OK?', available later this year. She hosts the advice podcast "Don't Ask Tig", and cohosts the documentary film podcast "Tig and Cheryl: True Story."

IG: @therealfluffnotaro

Glennon, Abby and Amanda are talking with you, Pod Squad, about questions around women and aging and wtf “processing emotions” really means in action. 

-How becoming useless to the culture will set you free 

-The truth about how to stop people pleasing once and for all

-Personal tips for moving through an emotional wave. 

AND! If you would like some solicited advice, please reach out: 

If you have a problem you want to write about, email us at wcdhtpod@gmail.com with a subject line, SOLICITED ADVICE. 

If you want to share how a guest or an idea from the podcast has changed your life, email us at wcdhtpod@gmail.com with the subject line, MADE ME DO IT.

If you want to call in, give us a call and use the word, “ADVICE” at the top of your voice mail at 747-200-5307.

We can’t wait to hear from you!

2. The advice Reese passes down to her kids about the three types of people you meet in life. 

3. Reese’s Hollywood experience as a young woman – and the solidarity she found in the Time’s Up movement.

4. How Elle Woods – in all her iconic glory – hilariously showed up while Reese was on real-life jury duty. 

5. Where Reese, Abby, and Glennon come down on Glennon’s take that most women feel they are either too much or not enough. 

About Reese

Reese Witherspoon, is an award-winning actress, entrepreneur, producer, and New York Times bestselling author. She won an Academy Award® for her portrayal of June Carter Cash in Walk the Line and was later nominated in that same category for Wild in 2014, which she also produced. Witherspoon also starred in beloved films Sweet Home Alabama, Legally Blonde, and Election, as well as award-winning television series’ “Big Little Lies,” “Little Fires Everywhere,” and “The Morning Show.” Other film credits include Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time, Universal Pictures’ animated musical comedy Sing and Sing 2. In addition to her acting and producer roles, Witherspoon is an author and entrepreneur. In 2016, she established Hello Sunshine, a media brand and content company dedicated to female authorship and storytelling across all platforms. Hello Sunshine is also home to Reese’s Book Club and Reese’s YA Book Club, which focuses on storytelling with women at the center. Witherspoon recently sold Hello Sunshine to Blackstone in September 2021. Now Hello Sunshine is the cornerstone of a larger media company called Candle Media. Witherspoon is an advocate and activist for women’s issues across the globe.

TW: @ReeseW

IG: @reesewitherspoon

1. The delightfully awkward moment Megan and Sue first met;

2. What’s hard for each of them right now;

3. The boundaries they’re working on together;

4. How they communicate and deal with jealousy; and 

5. How they help each other show up in the world as champions for change.  

About Sue: 

Regarded as the world’s premier point guard, Sue Bird is the WNBA’s All-Time Leader in Assists and known for being selfless, driven, encouraging, funny and smart. Bird is a seasoned veteran and a born leader who has dominated at every level. She is one of only seven women to win an Olympic Gold Medal (she’s won five), a World Championship Gold Medal (she’s won four) an NCAA Championship (she’s won two), and a WNBA Championship (she’s won four – the last just weeks before her 40th birthday). Sue is also a five-time Euroleague Champion, a twelve- time WNBA All-Star, was voted by the fans as one of the WNBA’s Top 15 Players of All Time. Off the court, Sue spends time as a basketball analyst for ESPN and as an outspoken and visible activist advocating for Black Lives, equality, health and wellness and expanding opportunities for girls and all marginalized people.

TW: @S10Bird

IG: @suebird10

About Megan: 

Two-time World Cup Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist, Megan Rapinoe is a fan favorite and one of the team’s most technical and craftiest players. A vocal leader on and off the pitch, Megan helped lead the USWNT to the 2019 Women’s World Cup Championship scoring some of the biggest goals of the tournament. Megan took home the tournament’s two top honors – the Golden Boot for top scorer, and the Golden Ball for the best player in the tournament. Megan is an advocate for equality for all and has been able to intersect her passion for humanity and authenticity. 

TW: @mPinoe

IG: @mrapinoe

Jessica Yellin was forced to evacuate the LA Fires, and is sheltering at Glennon and Abby’s home. She sits down with Glennon and Amanda to report what is really going on with the wildfires raging across Los Angeles.  

-Why there wasn’t enough water to fight the Palisades Fire 

-How to decide what to put in your “go bag” and how Jessica packed up her house to evacuate 

-Misinformation and lapses of leadership and what LA needs right now from its leaders

-The connection between the fire and climate change

-Reputable places you can put your resources to help the people of Los Angeles

Also, please email us to let us know whether you’d like us to do a recurring News Not Noise segment on the pod with Jessica. Write to us at WCDHTPod@gmail.com. 

Ways to Help: 

LA Fire Foundation: https://supportlafd.org/

Help Altadena Families: spreadsheet curated by @mspackyetti: HERE

Jessica Yellin is the founder of News Not Noise, a pioneering Webby award-winning independent news brand. Over 1M+ subscribers and followers across Instagram and other digital media rely on Jessica and News Not Noise to understand what matters, which experts to trust, and to manage their “information overload.” She is the former chief White House correspondent for CNN and an Emmy and Gracie Award-winning political correspondent for ABC, MSNBC and CNN. Follow her on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @JessicaYellin. You can also find the News Not Noise Newsletter on Substack HERE.

1. What we learned from Cole’s insight that, “If you’re not in your body, someone else is.” 

2. A mind-blowing revelation about all of our own faces that we will never stop thinking about. 

3. Why the phrase “If you don’t believe you’re beautiful, no one else will” is horseshit.  

4. Why dignity is the bedrock to being alive–and how to find it when we haven’t been loved well. 

5. The connection between fear and awe–and how to practice wonder as a cure for despair. 

About Cole: 

Cole Arthur Riley is a writer and poet. She is the author of the NYT bestseller, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us. Her writing has been featured in The Atlantic, Guernica, and The Washington Post. Cole is also the creator and writer of Black Liturgies, a project that integrates spiritual practice with Black emotion, Black literature, and the Black body. 

TW: @blackliturgist

IG: @colearthurriley @blackliturgies

Listen to learn: How to know what is true guilt and what is just the uncomfortable ickiness of defying expectations; how to hold boundaries in order to live shamelessly within our own values; and how to maintain empathy by staying with our own emotions instead of internalizing the emotions of others. 

Also, we need your help inventing a word for the “not guilt” feeling! 

Get Dr. Becky Kennedy's "Good Inside Guilt Guide," to find out if what you're feeling is truly "guilt" or something else, here: https://forms.gle/Aad1g5LSBNFZoXaN6.

Check out our past conversations with Dr. Becky Kennedy, and the Dr. Brené Brown episodes we talk about today: 

Ep 170 The Most Radical Way to Heal: Internal Family Systems with Dr. Becky Kennedy;

Ep 169 Why We Love the Way We Love: Attachment Styles with Dr. Becky Kennedy; 

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

Ep 130 Breaking Cycles and Reparenting Yourself with Dr. Becky Kennedy;

Ep 88 Brené Brown & Barrett Guillen: Sisters Double Date;

Ep 83 Brené Brown: What to Say to Get What You Need;

Ep 49 Dr. Brené Brown: On Holding Boundaries & Facing Our Fears; and 

Ep 48 Dr. Brené Brown: How to Know Ourselves & Be Known By Our People.

2. Why each of us should stop pretending we’re not a needy person.

3. How to stop arguing like a lawyer – and start communicating like a kindergartener – to get what you need. 

4. How to know when to end an argument, how to exit a friendship, and how to respond to passive aggressiveness. 

About Nedra:

Nedra Glover Tawwab, MSW, LCSW, is a New York Times best-selling author, licensed therapist, and sought-after relationship expert. She has practiced relationship therapy for 15 years and is the founder and owner of the group therapy practice, Kaleidoscope Counseling. Every day she helps people create healthy relationships by teaching them how to implement boundaries. Her philosophy is that a lack of boundaries and assertiveness underlie most relationship issues, and her gift is helping people create healthy relationships with themselves and others.

Nedra earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. She has additional certifications in working with families and couples and in perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, plus advanced training for counseling adults who've experienced childhood emotional neglect.

Nedra has appeared as an expert on Red Table Talk, The Breakfast Club, Good Morning America, and CBS Morning Show to name a few. Her work has been highlighted in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Vice and has appeared on numerous podcasts, including Good Life Project, Sofia with an F, and Therapy For Black Girls. She runs a popular Instagram account where she shares practices, tools, and reflections for mental health and hosts weekly Q&As.

TW: @NedraTawwab

IG: @nedratawwab

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

• What Abby felt when she heard “We don’t want you here” – and its long-lasting impact; 
• Why it is so painful, and how to process feelings of rejection and isolation;
• How dissociation helped Glennon cope with rejection in the cafeteria; 
• What parents should and *should not* do when helping kids navigate exclusion; and 
• The real difference between “fitting in” and “belonging.” 

Also check out Episode 179: How to Fix Our Loneliness with Dr. Marisa G. Franco

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: @SaraBareilles

IG: @sarabareilles

2. Why healing might actually just be permission to go. 

3. Chanel’s definition of success: refusing to succumb to perfection or exhaustion–and showing up as herself in every moment.

4. The healing moment when Chanel returned to Stanford and was held in sound–which set her free.

About Chanel: 

Chanel Miller is a writer and artist who received her BA in Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her critically acclaimed memoir, KNOW MY NAME, was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book, and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner, as well as a best book of 2019 in Time, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, NPR, and People, among others. She is a 2019 Time Next 100 honoree and a 2016 Glamour Woman of the Year honoree under her pseudonym, “Emily Doe.”

IG: chanel_miller

Plus, how to know if you’re in a relationship with a gaslighter, the three types of gaslighters, and how to break free from a gaslighter and reclaim yourself. 

About Dr. Stern: 

Robin Stern, Ph.D., is the co-founder and associate director for the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and an associate research scientist at the Child Study Center at Yale. She is a licensed psychoanalyst with 30 years of experience treating individuals, couples, and families. She is the author of The Gaslight Effect Recovery Guide: Your Personal Journey Toward Healing from Emotional Abuse. 

TW: @RobinSStern

IG: @dr.robinstern

Patric Gagne – writer, former therapist, diagnosed sociopath, and advocate for people with sociopathic, psychopathic, and antisocial personality disorders – shares 

-What sociopathy is and how it shows up in her life;

-The shocking statistic of how many people are sociopathic;

-How her diagnosis affects her experience as a wife and mother; and

-The ways in which sociopathy is actually a superpower.

About Patric: 

PATRIC GAGNE is a writer, former therapist, and advocate for people with sociopathic, psychopathic, and anti-social personality disorders. Her New York Times best-selling memoir, Sociopath, shares her struggle to understand her own sociopathy and shed light on this often-maligned and misunderstood mental disorder. 

Glennon, Amanda, and Abby welcome back Tia Levings for part two of this amazing conversation on her experience leaving a high control Christian Fundamentalist cult. Tia shares her experience leaving the church and her husband and offers advice for others in a similar situation. 

Discover: 

-The life-saving power of women sharing their stories—and why it threatens patriarchy

-How she finally heard her own voice—and how you can find yours, too

-Why people crave fundamentalism—and a solution they’re searching for

-Tia’s life-saving advice for women escaping abuse or high-control groups

More on Tia: Tia Levings is the New York Times Bestselling author of A Well-Trained Wife, her memoir of escape from Christian Patriarchy. She writes about the realities of Christian fundamentalism, evangelical patriarchy, and religious trauma. She also appeared in the hit Amazon docu-series, Shiny Happy People. Based in North Carolina, she is mom to four incredible adults and likes to travel, hike, paint, and daydream. Find her on social media @TiaLevingsWriter.

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 receive the apology and closure you deserve.

About Alex:

Alex Elle is an author, certified breathwork coach, podcast host, and Restorative Writing teacher. Alex’s writing came into her life by way of therapy and the exploration of healing through journaling and mindfulness. Her most recent book, HOW WE HEAL, is available now.

TW: @alex_elle

IG: @alex

Glennon, Amanda, and Abby sit down with Tia Levings, NYT bestselling author, to discuss her experience in a high control Christian Fundamentalist cult: her journey from indoctrination to freedom to healing from religious trauma.

Discover: 

-Why strong women are often drawn into Christian extremism—and how they can break free

-Why parents are taught to hit infants, and husbands are taught to spank their wives

-The hidden agenda behind why Christian Fundamentalists encourage large families

-The moment Glennon busted her kids out of Christian school

-The eerie crossover of wellness culture and Christian extremism

More on Tia: Tia Levings is the New York Times Bestselling author of A Well-Trained Wife, her memoir of escape from Christian Patriarchy. She writes about the realities of Christian fundamentalism, evangelical patriarchy, and religious trauma. She also appeared in the hit Amazon docu-series, Shiny Happy People. Based in North Carolina, she is mom to four incredible adults and likes to travel, hike, paint, and daydream. Find her on social media @TiaLevingsWriter.

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

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: @melissamccarthy

IG: @melissamccarthy

Today, we’re finally doing it: talking about leaving social media. On the episode you’ll hear Glennon, Abby and Amanda chat with their guest, Amelia Hruby about the challenges and impacts of social media on mental health, personal relationships, community building, and self-worth. Glennon shares her experience of stepping away from social media and possible next steps. 

Discover: 

-How social media is linked to codependency and anxious attachment 

-The two must-do practices to evaluate your current relationship to social media 

-How to navigate the fear of missing out (FOMO) and stay connected without social media

-Glennon’s journey to leaving socials and what she is thinking of doing next 

More on Amelia: Amelia Hruby is a writer, educator and podcaster with a PhD in philosophy. She is the founder of Softer Sounds, a feminist podcast studio for entrepreneurs and creatives. And she’s the host of Off the Grid, a podcast about leaving social media without losing all your clients.

2. Why Amanda suggests that we can be free to be our full selves at the Thanksgiving table, if we also each bring our own damn casserole.

3. Why the best predictor of how a family member is going to act is how a family member has always acted.

4. We’re taking holiday-themed questions from our beloved Pod Squad about in-laws, when to break tradition, and how to navigate different family of origin patterns.

This episode was inspired by our conversation with Ross Gay – if you missed it, check out: Episode 216 How to Find DELIGHT Today (and Every Day) with Ross Gay. 

Abby, Glennon, and Amanda discuss the concept of setting goals and whether having rigid expectations for our future can be detrimental. 

Discover: 

• The psychological undercurrent of setting goals 
• Glennon envisions her 70-year old self 
• Should we live for the future? 
• The ways in which we seek control over our lives

About Ross: 

Ross Gay is an American poet, essayist, and professor committed to healing the world through observing and articulating joy, delight and gratitude. He won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his 2014 book, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, which was also a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. A devoted community gardener, Ross is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. A college football player, he is a founding editor of the online sports magazine Some Call it Ballin'. 

Glennon discusses an existential and emotional revelation with Abby and Amanda.

Discover: 

• Diving into the abyss; what is the abyss and what does it mean? 
• The time a child’s soccer triumph left Glennon in tears
• Growing out of coping mechanisms
• Metabolizing the “muchness” of being alive and big feelings

- The daily practice that helps Melody stop controlling others and “Let Life Happen.”

- Why no one is able to gaslight you more than you. 

- The one area of life where Codependence is necessary.

- All four of us surrender to the truth that we will never be Codependent No More.

About Melody

A pioneering voice in self-help literature, Melody Beattie is the author of many bestselling books, including Codependent No More – a #1 New York Times bestseller, which has sold over 7 million copies – as well as The Language of Letting Go, Playing It by Heart, The Grief Club, and Beyond Codependency. An updated edition of the bestselling, modern classic, Codependent No More, is available now. Melody lives in Southern California.

TW: @MelodyBeattie

IG: @authormelodybeattie

Glennon, Abby, and Amanda speak from the heart the morning after the results of the 2024 election. They share how they’re thinking and feeling, what this means, what comes next, and how we can better show up for each other. We love you, Pod Squad. Thank you for being our community.

On this important Election day, we’re honored to welcome Senator Elizabeth Warren. She explains why, if you’re voting with your wallet—thinking about your grocery bills, medical bills, childcare costs, rent or mortgage, elder care, or student loans—your vote should go to Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

Discover:

• The real reason egg prices are so high (it’s not just inflation) + Harris’s plan to lower the cost of food 
• The top three ways Kamala Harris will address the housing crisis
• VP Harris’s approach to investing in childcare, paid family leave, and eldercare
• Why healthcare alone is a reason to vote: what’s at stake if Kamala wins—or loses

More on Senator Warren: Elizabeth Warren, the senior Senator from Massachusetts, is a fearless consumer advocate and one of the nation’s leading progressive voices, fighting for big structural change that would transform our economy and rebuild the middle class. Before becoming the first woman ever elected to the Senate from Massachusetts in 2012, Elizabeth led the fight to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency established in the aftermath of the financial crisis to protect consumers from predatory financial practices. Elizabeth lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband Bruce and their golden retriever, Bailey.

Discover:

-The powerful antidote to the political tribalism dividing families and communities

-How to make love your guiding force in the crucial days ahead

-The surprising truth about why even Pete is exhausted by constant political talk—and how to finally move past it

-Why politics are personal, and how they impact every part of our lives

More on Pete: The first openly gay person confirmed to serve in a president’s Cabinet, Buttigieg previously served two terms as mayor of his hometown, South Bend, Indiana, where he worked across the aisle to transform the city’s future. Household income grew, poverty fell, and unemployment was cut in half.He also served for seven years as an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve, taking a leave of absence from the mayor’s office for a deployment to Afghanistan in 2014.The son of Joseph Buttigieg, who immigrated to the United States from Malta, and Jennifer Anne Montgomery, a fifth-generation Hoosier, Buttigieg is a graduate of Harvard University and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar and completed a degree in philosophy, politics, and economics. He lives with his husband Chasten, their two children, Gus and Penelope, and their dog.

Glennon, Abby and Amanda discuss the nuances and complexities of being parents to older children. 

Discover: 

• Glennon’s experience losing herself in parenting 
• Amanda recalls the moment she saw her Dad as a human being 
• How to support your kid’s individuation
• Finding belonging outside of the parental role

- How to honor your needs and become the ultimate expert of you; 

- Why we all need a friend who believes in our greatness;

- How to encourage your kids to live open-hearted; and

- Why Glennon’s truest thing is that she doesn’t know anything. 

Plus, we hear from two pod treasures – Sara Bareilles and Glennon’s 7th grade government teacher, Mrs. Yalen – on their best advice.

Icon Gillian Anderson joins Glennon, Abby, and Amanda to talk about everything from sexual fantasies to why she says “F you” to wellness culture. With wit, honesty, and an intoxicating spirit of rebellion, Gillian inspires us to ask for what we want—both in the bedroom and in life. This is a conversation that will make you feel bolder and more connected to your own desires.

-How our fantasies reflect the culture we live in;

-Why rebelling against societal norms can be so freeing; and 

-The emotional moments that left Gillian in tears. 

About Gillian: 

Gillian Anderson is an award-winning film, television and theater actor, producer and director. Among other honors, she has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and an Evening Standard Theatre Award. In addition to her acting work, Gillian is also globally recognized as a respected activist and charity campaigner, previously co-authored the Sunday Times bestseller We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere with Jennifer Nadel, and in 2023 founded the wellness drinks brand G-Spot which encourages women to embrace their unique power. In 2016 Anderson was appointed an honorary OBE (Order of the British Empire) for her services to drama. She lives in London with her three children.

Glennon, Amanda, and Abby are back with practical tips and tools to help you shift your Yeses and Maybes into Nos, while still being kind and even increasing connections. 

Discover: 

-The game-changing shift from "I can’t" to "I don’t";

-How to say No and avoid both current and future FOMO;

-Practical examples and phrases you can implement to make saying No easier; and

-The shocking statistic on the difference explaining your ‘No’ makes.

To listen to part one of the conversation, check out episode 356, How to Say No

To listen to the first part of this conversation with Amanda, go to: Episode 309 Amanda’s Diagnosis & What’s Next (Pt. 1).

And for more episodes on Breast Cancer Awareness, please also check out: 

Episode 316 Amanda Returns Post Surgery: Here’s What She Wants You To Know

Episode 317 What Amanda’s Learned About Life, Love & Community (Post Surgery Pt 2) 

Episode 320 Early Detection, Mammograms & Breast Cancer Care with Dr. Rachel Brem

Episode 321 Expert Advice on Genetic Testing, Cancer Prevention & Care Disparities with Dr. Rachel Brem

Glennon, Amanda, and Abby tackle an essential life skill: Learning how – and when – to say No. 

Discover: 

-The concept of false urgency and why it’s a red flag;

-How your values can help you find your Yes’s and No’s;

-What you’re really saying when you say, “I should”; and

-How to know if you’re being generous in an authentic way or just out of guilt.

Governor Tim Walz joins Glennon, Abby, and Amanda – with 19 days remaining until the election – to tell us: 

- WHO should be making decisions about women's bodies;

- HOW the Harris-Walz administration plans to protect queer kids and feed all kids; and

- WHAT they'll do to make our schools safe from gun violence.

If this episode resonates, go back and listen to OVERWHELM: Is our exhaustion a sign that we’re CareTicking time bombs? 

adrienne marie brown returns to discuss how to make loving corrections with the people in your life. 

Discover: 

-The three essential human needs—and what happens when we don’t get them

-How to break free from the need to be “good” and find something better

-What defines a loving correction (and what doesn’t)

-Why acting as a protector for others reveals deep truths about your own healing journey

On the guest: adrienne maree brown grows healing ideas in public through writing, music, and podcasts, nurturing Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Transformative Justice. adrienne’s work is informed by 25 years of social and environmental justice facilitation primarily supporting Black liberation. adrienne is the author/editor of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds; Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good; Grievers; and Maroons.

adrienne’s latest book Loving Corrections is available now.

Amanda, Glennon and Abby sit down with award-winning writer and activist Jessica Valenti to discuss the state of abortion rights in the United States. 

Discover: 

-The staggering statistic revealing overwhelming public support for abortion in America

-Why the anti-choice movement is desperate to keep abortion off the ballot

-Why abortion is a litmus test for the future of democracy in America

-The exodus of doctors from anti-choice states and the rise in maternal mortality rates. 

More on Jessica:  Jessica Valenti is an award-winning author and activist. She’s the author of seven books, including the New York Times bestseller Sex Object: A Memoir. Her groundbreaking anthology, Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape, paved the way for legislation of the same name, setting what’s now considered the gold standard for sexual consent. Jessica has also been credited with sparking feminism’s online wave by founding the trailblazing blog Feministing. She’s been a columnist for The Guardian and The Nation, and her writing has been published everywhere from The New York Times and The Atlantic to Bitch magazine and The Toast. After the demise of Roe, Jessica founded Abortion, Every Day, an urgent synthesis of anything and everything happening with abortion rights in the United States. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.

More about Jessica’s Work: 

-https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/772254/abortion-by-jessica-valenti/

-https://jessica.substack.com/

2. How, looking back, Jen sees that she knew something was wrong in her relationship well before she “knew” something was wrong – and the moment she reached out to Glennon to share it for the first time.  

3. Why Jen’s friends told her she was a “human spotlight” and “cleanup crew” in her marriage – and the pain of realizing she was powerful in every role other than wife.  

4. How Jen convinced herself that her marriage was enough when in reality she felt like a pot of water slowly building to a boil. 

5. The common hell of being lonely inside of marriage – and why we won’t be fully honest with ourselves, our partners, or our friends about what we are most afraid of.  

About Jen: 

Jen Hatmaker is the New York Times bestselling author of For the Love and Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire, along with twelve other books. She hosts the award-winning For the Love podcast, is the delighted curator of the Jen Hatmaker Book Club, and leader of a tightly knit online community where she reaches millions of people each week. Jen is a co-founder of Legacy Collective, a giving organization that grants millions of dollars toward sustainable projects around the world. She is a mom to five kids and lives happily just outside Austin, Texas.

To learn more about Jen, visit www.jenhatmaker.com.

TW: @JenHatmaker

IG: @jenhatmaker

Abby, Glennon and Amanda discuss what day of the week they each are, why we do things we don’t want to do, and how to stop giving unsolicited advice.

Discover:

-Why we should celebrate divorce and endings more;

-Unsolicited advice and what to do if you find yourself giving it;

-Why you might be engaging in trauma reenactment; and 

-What’s happening when you feel the Sunday Scaries.

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 disagree while still holding someone else’s perspective; and

-Why it’s important to know your shame responses in order to have better conflicts.

For the first part of our conversation, check out Episode 330 Handling Conflict Right with Amanda Ripley.

About Amanda: 

Amanda Ripley is an investigative journalist and author. Her most recent book is High Conflict, which chronicles how people get trapped by conflicts of all kinds—and how they get out. Her previous books include The Unthinkable, and The Smartest Kids in the World, a New York Times bestseller which was also turned into a documentary film.

IG: @ripleywriter @thegoodconflict

Discover:

-How do we tap back into living by our inner compass after living by consensus and following outer voices for so long?

-What Martha said to Glennon and Abby when they told her they were in love but scared to move forward—and how that advice changed their lives.

-How to make a plan to cultivate joy when it feels like you are army-crawling through life. 

About Martha:

Dr. Martha Beck is a New York Times bestselling author, life coach, and speaker. She holds three Harvard degrees in social science, and Oprah Winfrey has called her “one of the smartest women I know.” Martha is a passionate and engaging teacher, known for her unique combination of science, humor, and spirituality. Her most recent book, The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self, was an instant New York Times Best Seller.

IG: @themarthabeck

Ina Garten – the iconic Barefoot Contessa – shares her best life and business advice and her tips for how to host a successful dinner party. Plus, the details behind an unforgettable night with Abby, Ina, Taylor Swift, and beer pong; 

Discover:

-Ina’s surefire way to silence the inner-critic; 

-Why satisfaction has everything to do with not settling; and 

-What the key to having a fun dinner party can teach us about life. 

About Ina: Ina Garten has hosted her Emmy and James Beard Award winning show, Barefoot Contessa, on the Food Network since 2002 and recently launched a new interview focused series, Be My Guest, with Food Network and discovery+. She has published thirteen cookbooks, including eleven #1 New York Times bestsellers. In 2015 Ina Garten was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People.

She lives in East Hampton, New York with her husband, Jeffrey.

Her new memoir Be Ready When the Luck Happens is available now.

Amanda and Glennon answer your questions about friendship, mental health, people pleasing and the difference between boundaries and control. 

Discover: 

-Why if you’re a person who “goes with the flow” you might want to reconsider;

-What to do when you feel the loss of a friend getting into a new relationship;

-The truth about married men who refuse to socialize with women who are not their wife; and 

-The healing power of getting a mental health diagnosis later in life.

On September 27, 2018, as Dr. Christine Blasey Ford raised her right hand and testified in the hearings of Brett Kavanaugh—who would go on to be confirmed to a lifetime appointment on the highest court in the nation. 

This week marks six years since we were eyewitnesses to her historic, courageous patriotism. In honor of her bravery and resolve, today we reshare our powerful conversation with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford—about the heartbreak, and hope, of being an American woman.

About Dr. Ford: 

Dr. Christine Blasey Ford is a professor of psychology at Palo Alto University and a clinical professor and consulting biostatistician at the Stanford University School of Medicine. On September 27, 2018, Dr. Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding her sexual assault in connection with the Committee’s consideration of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s lifetime confirmation to the United States Supreme Court. Following her testimony, Ford and her family endured constant intimidation, harassment, and death threats forcing them to move out of their home, living in various secure locales with guards. In 2019, she was named one of the 100 most influential people in Time 100. Dr. Ford’s memoir, ONE WAY BACK, is available now.

Dr. Kristin Neff shares the secret to self-compassion and how to lessen our inner critic’s voice in order to build self-worth.

Discover:

-The 20-second daily practice you need to increase your self-compassion;

-How to use your compassion for others as a template for how to treat yourself;

-How to give your inner-critic a software update; and

-The “fierce” self-compassion and what it has to do with drawing boundaries.

On The Guest: Dr. Kristin Neff is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, and co-founder of the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion. She is a pioneer in the field of self-compassion research, conducting the first empirical studies on self-compassion more than twenty years ago. Kristin runs the Self-Compassion Community, an online learning platform where people can learn the skill of self-compassion with the help of others. She is author of the bestselling books Self-Compassion and Fierce Self-Compassion. She also co-wrote The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook and has a new book called Mindful Self-Compassion for Burnout coming out in Fall 2024.

Order her latest book here: https://self-compassion.org/

Abby, Glennon, and Amanda discuss Tuesday’s conversation with Dr. Mariel Buqué about intergenerational trauma. Each share examples of how they’re working on healing it in their lives and families. 

Discover:

-Abby’s hilarious and heartbreaking breakdown that revealed how deeply she’s into her healing work.

-Why Glennon no longer believes that she has a debilitating mental illness; and

-The shocking study that made Amanda feel a kinship with mice (literally).

Check out Episode 346. How to Break Family Cycles: Dr. Mariel Buqué here.

Discover:

- Why Cheryl says every problem she’s ever had has been solved by a list.

- The question Cheryl gets asked over and over again–and how she just helps advice seekers understand what they’re really asking.

- How to know a truth thing–and to live by that.

Psychologist, Dr. Mariel Buqué, joins us to discuss intergenerational trauma – and how understanding the generations that came before us can lead to profound healing. 

Discover:

-The symptoms that signal that you might have inherited trauma;

-The most powerful sentence to say to your child to provide them healing;

-How to reframe family loyalty – and why it’s never too late to do this work. 

About Dr. Buqué: 

Dr. Mariel Buqué is a first-generation, Black Dominican psychologist, a world-renowned trauma expert, and the author of the bestselling book Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma. Her mission is to help reduce the recurrence of Intergenerational ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences).

Glennon shares more about going off of antidepressants including a rock bottom moment, what this time of discovery has revealed about where she still needs to heal and the latest tool she has found that’s helping her through. 

Please note this episode does not contain medical advice and only serves to share Glennon’s personal experience. 

To hear part one of this conversation, Ep 344 Glennon: Her New Life Off Meds, click here!

Discover: 

1. Examining the way we talk to our bodies – and how to change negative self-dialogue.

2. How to shift from a relationship with our body based on dominance and control to a relationship based on trust.

3. The pitfalls of “body positivity.”

4. The full life that is possible only if we stop believing our body is our enemy, and start seeing our body as a teammate.

About Sonya:

Sonya Renee Taylor is a world-renowned activist, award-winning artist, transformational thought leader, author of six books including The New York Times best selling The Body is Not an Apology, and founder of the international movement and digital media and education company of the same name whose work has reached millions of people by exploring the intersections of identity, healing, and social justice using a radical self-love framework. She continues to speak, teach,write, create, and transform lives globally.

Glennon shares her experience of going off medication after decades on…the highly personal reason she did it, what it’s been like so far, and what’s next. 

Please note this episode does not contain medical advice and only serves to share Glennon’s personal experience. 

343. Are You A Cool or Warm Person + What Does That Mean?

Glennon, Abby and Amanda *attempt* to do a ‘fun’ rapid fire but find themselves in deep discussion about setting boundaries, self regulation, and how to find your unique marrow of life. 

Discover: 

-How to know if you are a warm person, cool person or a combo of both. 

-Which type of person Glennon, Abby, and Amanda each see themselves as; and

-What you might need to do if you identify as a people pleaser.

Discover: 

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.

Today is a big day! Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joins Glennon and Amanda to share her deeply personal journey to becoming the first Black woman Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.  

Discover:

• How four misspelled words changed her entire world view;  
• How the angel she encountered for 5 seconds at Harvard kept her striving;
• What her Autistic daughter taught her about living well;
• Her grandmother’s advice that keeps her undistracted by the unfairness she faces; and
• How the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling affects democracy.

Justice Jackson’s beautiful new memoir, Lovely One, is out today!

On the Guest: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson received her undergraduate and law degrees, both with honors, from Harvard University, then served as a law clerk for three federal judges, practiced law in the private sector, worked as Commissioner of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, and served as an assistant federal public defender. President Obama nominated Justice Jackson to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Elevated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2021, Justice Jackson made history in 2022 when President Biden nominated her as an Associate Justice. One of only 115 people in history to have the job – and the Black woman ever to have the job – she was confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States, and took her seat on June 30, 2022.

In part two of Abby’s sharing about the loss of her eldest brother, Peter – she opens up more about the revelations that her journey with grief has taught her about life.

To hear the first part of our conversation on grief, check out Episode 340. How Abby Survived Her Biggest Loss

Discover: 

-Why Abby now looks at grief like a friend;

-The beautiful story of how Peter saved Abby’s life and how that hits her now; and

-What was truly underneath Abby’s outsized fear of death this whole time.

-The gifts and struggles each Enneagram type faces;

-Why the worst part of you is also the BEST part of you;

-The core desire / fear that explains your behavior; and 

-Why, if Suzanne ever needs brain surgery, she’s finding a doctor who’s an Enneagram 1

And we FINALLY answer the question: Is Amanda a 3 or a 1?  

To continue with follow up episode to this one, check out:

Fix Your Most Important Relationships with the Enneagram: Suzanne Stabile.

About Suzanne:

Suzanne Stabile is an internationally-recognized Enneagram teacher. She is the co-author of The Road Back to You, and the author of The Path Between Us and The Journey Toward Wholeness.

With backgrounds in sociology and theology, Suzanne has served as a high school professor; the first women’s basketball coach at SMU after Title IX; and as the founding Director of Shared Housing, a social service agency in Dallas.

Suzanne lives in Dallas with her husband Rev. Joseph Stabile. She is the mother of four children and grandmother of nine.

TW: @SuzanneStabile

IG: @suzannestabile

Abby shares an intimate account of the loss of her eldest brother, Peter, at the end of 2023. She describes the emotional turmoil she’s experienced and how she’s coping with her family's grief, the planning of the service, and the overwhelming mix of emotions she continues to feel surrounding grief and death.

Glennon, Abby and Amanda are joined by Michigan Governor, Gretchen Whitmer during this historic Democratic National Convention to discuss the plot to kill her; her best leadership lessons, why she’s “wompergasted” (and what that means); and the hope she holds for our country. 

Discover: 

-Why Governor Whitmer believes the American people are ready for a two women on the presidential ticket; 

-Her top leadership tools and how you can use them in your own life;

-How to be an activist as a sensitive person; and

-How to stay positive and win.

2. The family of origin roles that Brené (the Protector) and Barrett (the Peacekeeper) had to adjust in order to work together – and the two keys to working well with family.  

3. The ways in which a child who grows up living on eggshells becomes an adult who is fearful – and how that fear shows up differently for Brené, Barrett, Glennon, and Amanda.   

4. The hilarious moment when each sister confesses a secret that they fear the other believes about them–and we find out whether or not it’s true. 

5. How Brené and Barrett are walking through the grief of their mother’s sudden decline, and how they circle back when the stress of that grief makes them shitty to each other.  

About Brené: 

Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston where she holds the Huffington Foundation Endowed Chair at The Graduate College of Social Work.She has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy, is the author of six #1 New York Times bestsellers, and is the host of the weekly podcasts Unlocking Us and Dare to Lead. 

Brené’s books have been translated into more than 30 languages and titles include:  Dare to Lead, Braving the Wilderness, Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection. Most recently Brené collaborated with Tarana Burke to co-edit You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience. 

In her latest #1 New York Times bestseller, ATLAS OF THE HEART, which has been adapted for television and now streaming on HBO Max, she takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. 

Brené lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband, Steve. They have two children, Ellen and Charlie.

TW: @BreneBrown

IG: @BreneBrown

About Barrett: 

Barrett Guillen is Chief of Staff for Brené Brown Education and Research Group. With her team, Barrett supports both Brené and the organization by helping to prioritize competing demands, managing relationships, and building connective tissue and strategy across all business initiatives. Barrett holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Kinesiology from the University of Houston. After more than a decade in education in the Texas Panhandle, Barrett and her family moved back to the Houston area to join Brene’s team in making the world a braver place. Having the opportunity to work with her sisters every day has been one of the great joys of her life. Outside the office, you can find Barrett spending time with her family (immediate and extended), enjoying her daughter’s games, eating her husband’s famous burgers, floating in the water (any water!), or on the pickle ball court.

Discover: 

-The delicate trapeze of parenting teens and how to create openness so your teens come to you when they’re in trouble; 

-Why Glennon believes we should ditch the ‘story’ of our kids; and

-Abby’s take on why the saying, “I’m proud of you,” can be harmful.

Glennon and Abby are talking about relationships, including the relationship to self, marriage, and how to start dating again post-divorce. 

Discover: 

-The three vital steps to heal an unhealthy pattern in your life;

-How Glennon truly feels about taking your spouse’s last name; and

-Advice on where queer people can go in real life to meet each other!

1. Glennon, Abby, and Amanda share the most mortifying moments of their lives.

2. Pod Squaders’ hilarious voicemail confessions, which had Glennon, Abby, and Amanda cry-laughing in solidarity.

3. Our new go-to strategy when humiliated (it involves prosthetic penises).

4. We test our hypothesis that sharing our most embarrassing experiences makes us feel less alone.

Activist, producer, and on-air political analyst, Brittany Packnett Cunningham joins us to talk about community, sisterhood, and progress in the upcoming election – and in life.

Discover:

-How we can jump off the invisible “people mover” and into community;

-The five different ways to deal with bigotry and the one that works; 

-Why individualism is the enemy of progress; and

-How white women can embrace the power of sisterhood to create change.

On Brittany: Brittany Packnett Cunningham is a leader at the intersection of culture and justice. Brittany is Founder of the social impact agency Love & Power Works, Host and Executive Producer of the news and justice podcast UNDISTRACTED, and an on-air political analyst. She has been an elementary teacher, policy advisor, Presidential appointee, and will forever be an activist. You can find her @MsPackyetti on all social media, and subscribe to her podcast wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

Activists, writers, and organizers – Brittney Cooper and Rebecca Traister – join us to talk about the political landscape, the Kamala Harris campaign, and the state of Democracy. 

Discover: 

-The danger of looking for certainty – and what we should cultivate instead;

-Why we need to acknowledge our identity and bring joy back in politics;

-The types of attacks to anticipate for VP Harris as a Black woman and for other Black women in this country; and

-The way patriarchy responds to progress: what we’ve seen and what to look out for.

On Brittney and Rebecca: 

Brittney Cooper is Professor of Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University and author of the New York Times bestseller Eloquent Rage. 

Rebecca Traister is writer at large for New York Magazine and the author of New York Times bestsellers All the Single Ladies and Good and Mad, as well as the award winning Big Girls Don't Cry, about gender race and class in the 2008 elections. 

Glennon, Abby and Amanda welcome back writer, embodiment facilitator, political organizer, and therapist, Prentis Hemphill. They will be sharing with you on how to take care of yourself while being informed and doing your part to help the world and your community in the midst of the 2024 election and the crises our world is facing. 

Discover:

-A third way of existing in the current political landscape that isn’t disregulation or escapism;

-How to get out of your head and into your body;

-Why the most helpful way of being with your kids is not to protect them, and what is; and 

-Why chaos is necessary for creativity and change and how to use it.

On Prentis: Prentis Hemphill is a writer, embodiment facilitator, political organizer, and therapist. They are the founder and director of the Embodiment Institute and the Black Embodiment Initiative, and the host of the acclaimed podcast Finding Our Way. Their work and writing have appeared in The New York Times, HuffPost, You Are Your Best Thing (edited by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown), and Holding Change (by adrienne maree brown). And their new book is called, What it takes to heal.

One of the world's most talented and influential goalkeepers and Olympians, Briana Scurry, joins us for an inspiring conversation. Brianna reflects on her historic career as the starting goalkeeper for the United States Women's National Team, sharing her experiences from winning two Olympic gold medals to making the iconic save in the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup final. 

About Briana: 

Named starting goalkeeper for the United States Women’s National Team in 1994, Scurry led the team on an illustrious run that included two Olympic gold medals. In the 1999 FIFA World Cup Championship – Briana made the iconic penalty kick save that carried the United States to victory. Briana was selected to the United States Women’s National Team’s All-Time Best XI and was selected as the permanent Title IX Exhibit in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. 

In 2022, Scurry released her best-selling memoir, My Greatest Save, and was also the subject of The Only, a CBS feature-length documentary chronicling her life.

On Kara: Kara Swisher is host of On with Kara Swisher and co-host of the Pivot podcast. She’s editor-at-large at New York Magazine and a CNN contributor. Considered the top reporter in the tech game and called “Silicon Valley's most feared but revered journalist,” Swisher has established herself as the oracle of the tech world with unrivaled access to the industry's most significant leaders. She’s the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir, Burn Book: A Tech Love Story.

Abby, Glennon and Amanda are talking ALL about The Olympics and US Women’s Soccer with Olympians and soccer legends, Christen Press and Tobin Heath. 

Discover:

-Their take on the impact of not having Alex Morgan on the team;

-The Canada cheating scandal and Christen’s solution for it;

-What Tobin would have done differently, if anything, in the Germany game; and

-How Tobin, Christen, and Abby feel about our chances of winning the games.

On the guests:

Christen Press is a two-time World Cup Champion, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and an equal pay pioneer. She is one of the all-time top 10 goalscorers on the U.S. Women’s National Team and currently plays for Angel City FC. Christen led the USWNT's historic achievement of Equal Pay and served as the leader of the USWNT Players Association for 2 years. Christen is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of RE—INC, a values-led brand that exists to reimagine the way women are seen and experienced in sports. 

Tobin Heath is a two-time World Cup Champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist, known as one of the most skillful and entertaining players in the game. Throughout her club career, Heath has played for PSG, the Portland Thorns, Manchester United, and Arsenal. Tobin has taken her vision, leadership, and creativity off the pitch and into her roles as Co-Founder and Co-CEO of RE—INC, and host of the critically-acclaimed The RE—CAP Show. Tobin will be going live directly following each US Women’s Soccer Olympic game to Debrief with the community.

Discover:

-The front runners for the Vice Presidential selection: and the benefits and drawbacks of each;

-The attacks Republicans are planning to wield against VP Harris;

-Why it looks like Trump may be scared to debate VP Kamala Harris; and

-How you can get involved in electing VP Harris as our first woman President. HINT: We meet tonight!

Link to the meeting to Support Kamala Harris: https://www.answerthecall2024.com/

On Jessica: Jessica Yellin is the founder of News Not Noise, a pioneering Webby award-winning independent news brand. Over 1M+ subscribers and followers across Instagram and other digital media rely on Jessica and News Not Noise to understand what matters, which experts to trust, and to manage their “information overload.” She is the former chief White House correspondent for CNN and an Emmy and Gracie Award-winning political correspondent for ABC, MSNBC and CNN. Follow her on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @JessicaYellin. You can also find the News Not Noise Newsletter on Substack. 

Get her newsletter here: https://newsnotnoise.com/newsletter

Discover: 

1. What we can learn from Simone’s revolutionary decision at the Tokyo Olympics to choose her physical and mental health over the world’s expectations of her.

2. The tiny decisions that helped Laurie practice trusting herself again after surviving a toxic coach.

3. Why Simone, Laurie, and Abby believe their talent is both a blessing and a curse.

4. The places and times Simone and Laurie create where they have nothing to prove—to remind themselves they are human beings, not performance machines.

5. How Simone and Laurie are a big part of one of Abby and Glennon’s favorite family stories.

About Simone:

Simone Biles, one of the greatest gymnasts of all-time, is the first woman to capture five All-Around World Championship titles. She is the most decorated gymnast in World Championships history—male or female—with 25 medals overall (19 gold), and is a seven-time Olympic medalist (4 gold). A three-time Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year, she earned the rare distinction of having four skills named in her honor—called The Biles.

Simone’s autobiography Courage to Soar is a New York Times bestseller.

Simone advocates for change and supports initiatives that provide education and assistance for children and young adults associated with adoption and childcare.

Instagram: @simonebiles

Twitter: @Simone_Biles

Conflict expert and investigative journalist, Amanda Ripley, delves into the complex nature of conflict and how it shapes our lives. The discussion challenges the conventional negative view of conflict and explores how 'good conflict' can lead to growth and progress.

Discover: 

-The difference between ‘high conflict’ and ‘good conflict’; 

-How to avoid the trip wires that lead to high conflict; 

-The best tool to connect with someone you disagree with; and 

-The four main stories behind every conflict.

About Amanda: 

Amanda Ripley is an investigative journalist and author. Her most recent book is High Conflict, which chronicles how people get trapped by conflicts of all kinds—and how they get out. Her previous books include The Unthinkable, and The Smartest Kids in the World, a New York Times bestseller which was also turned into a documentary film.

IG: @ripleywriter @thegoodconflict

The Vice President shared her gratitude and expressed that it is her intention to earn and win the Democratic nomination. 

As we look ahead with new energy and excitement toward the grave magnitude and historic hope of the next 107 days, we are looking back to a conversation we had with Kamala Harris last year on what would have been the 50th Anniversary of Roe v Wade.

Gender expert Kate Mangino discusses the depths of carrying the mental load in a family–even when you have a partner who wants to be supportive.

Listen to this conversation with your partner(s):

-The stages of mental load – and why “helping out” or completing a task doesn’t reduce it;

-The cost to partners who miss out on fully participating in the mental load of the household; and 

-The shocking statistics about the difference between childcare in the 70s and now.

Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home is available in paperback wherever books are sold on August 20th.

About Kate: 

Kate Mangino is a gender expert who works with international organizations to promote social change. She has written and delivered curricula in over 20 countries about issues such as: gender equality, women’s empowerment, healthy masculinity, HIV prevention, and early and forced childhood marriage. Kate is the author of Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home.

Other episodes to check out:

6. OVERWHELM: Is our exhaustion a sign that we’re CareTicking time bombs? 

246. The Answer to Caregiving Burnout with Ai-jen Poo

Discover: 

-What happened with the Trump assassination attempt and how it’s affecting the election;

-The divide in the Democratic party over Biden’s candidacy and what the options are at this point; 

-What to know about Trump’s Vice President selection, JD Vance – and what picking him signifies; and 

-Glennon’s “say what you see and feel” message to the Democratic party and thoughts on where we go next. 

On Jessica: Jessica Yellin is the founder of News Not Noise, a pioneering Webby award-winning independent news brand. Over 1M+ subscribers and followers across Instagram and other digital media rely on Jessica and News Not Noise to understand what matters, which experts to trust, and to manage their “information overload.” She is the former chief White House correspondent for CNN and an Emmy and Gracie Award-winning political correspondent for ABC, MSNBC and CNN. Follow her on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @JessicaYellin. You can also find the News Not Noise Newsletter on Substack. 

Get her newsletter here: https://newsnotnoise.com/newsletter

Glennon, Abby, and Amanda discuss how to move through loneliness, longing and jealousy. Glennon and Abby also share their experience at The Gracie Awards and recap their heartfelt speech about breast health and dense breasts dedicated to Amanda. 

Discover: 

-What loneliness might be trying to teach us; 

-How Glennon really feels about jealousy and women supporting women; 

-Why it’s so hard to remove all the obstacles we create to connection and love; and

-How to let go of the picture of how it’s “supposed” to be.

Glennon, Amanda, and Abby discuss Pixar’s new film, 'Inside Out 2,' exploring its depiction of emotions, particularly focusing on anxiety and its role in our lives. Per Pod Squad request, they also share what they’ve each been reading and watching, so you can add to your list! 

Discover: 

-Which emotion from Inside Out 2 they each related to the most; 

-Glennon’s new morning practice to help ease her anxiety; 

-Why Glennon rarely shares what she’s reading publicly; and

-Abby’s TV show rec to help you take a break from yourself.

Amanda, Glennon, and Abby revisit a powerful conversation about why so many women in heterosexual relationships are missing from family photos and what it signifies about their relationships and humanity. Join us for an encore episode originally titled, "125. WHY ARE THERE NO PICTURES OF US?!?"

In this episode, discover: 

1. How it feels to not be in any of your family photos, why it happens, and how to change it.

2. A call-in question from a husband that made Amanda cry.

3. Reimagining “acts of service” and how to know whether actions belong in the “Adulting Bucket” or the “Love Bucket.”

4. How getting the kids to read over the summer went terribly, thanks for asking.

Psychologist and sleep expert, Dr. Shelby Harris, takes us on a deep dive into our most important pillar of health: SLEEP. From insomnia to night anxiety to revenge procrastination to snoring partners, Dr. Shelby Harris has realistic, concrete advice to help us understand why we struggle – and how to get the sleep we need.    

• How much sleep should we really get – and the signs we’re not getting enough.

• Realistic sleep wellness for women – and how to share the mental load that’s keeping us up.