Holiday Expectations are the joy robbers. Here’s how to leave room for yourself, and be sturdy this holiday season (and always).

1. How in our preparation for making things perfect, we leave no room for the peace and joy that is actually in front of us.
2. The opposite revolutions that Glennon and Amanda are having right now – and why they’re at the core the same.
3. The final frontier: How to be who we are wherever we are – and let our people be who they are wherever we are, too.
4. What it felt like for Glennon, Abby, and Amanda to watch Tish’s first live performance on stage.
 
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161. How to Let Go of Perfection this Holiday

Life is freaking hard. We are all doing hard things every single day – things like loving and losing; caring for children and parents; forging and ending friendships; battling addiction, illness, and loneliness; struggling in our jobs, our marriages, and our divorces; setting boundaries; and fighting for equality, purpose, freedom, joy, and peace.
On We Can Do Hard Things, Glennon Doyle, author of UNTAMED; her wife Abby Wambach; and her sister Amanda Doyle do the only thing they’ve found that has ever made life easier: Drop the fake and talk honestly about the hard things including sex, gender, parenting, blended families, bodies, anxiety, addiction, justice, boundaries, fun, quitting, overwhelm . . . all of it.
We laugh and cry and help each other carry the hard so we can all live a little bit lighter and braver, free-er, less alone.

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301. What You Need To Know to Have More Fun TODAY with Catherine Price 

We’re back with Fun Expert and author of, Fun: How to Feel Alive Again, Catherine Price, to talk more about fun: what it is and how to have more of it. Today, we’ll discuss whether fun and productivity can coexist, thoughts about women and fun, and why the right to fun might just be innately connected to the human experience AND activism.

Discover: 
-The definitive reason why Abby has the MOST fun and how you, too, can use her fun strategy; 
-Why fun actually increases creativity and productivity; 
-Why people view women having fun as offensive and why we must do it anyway; and 
-Actionable tools you can use to invite more fun into your life!

Check out the last episode we did with Catherine and these others about fun, too:
301. FUN: We’re Finally Figuring It Out with Catherine Price 
4. FUN: What the hell is it and why do we need it?
62. The Big Lies & the Truth About Happiness with Dr. Laurie Santos
63. How to Live a Little Happier with Dr. Laurie Santos
216. How to Find DELIGHT Today (and Every Day) with Ross Gay

On Catherine: 
Catherine Price is the author of The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again.  She is also an award-winning health and science journalist, founder of Screen/Life Balance, and author of How to Break Up With Your Phone. She runs a substack newsletter called “How to Feel Alive” and her TED Talk, Why having fun is the secret to a healthier life, has been viewed close to five million times. 

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300. FUN: We’re Finally Figuring It Out with Catherine Price 

Pod Squad! Do you remember back in the very first days of the pod when we talked about FUN? It was episode 4. Now, hundreds of episodes later, we’re finally ready to give fun the long, deep dive and consideration it deserves. Abby is excited, Glennon is interested, and Amanda is skeptical, but we’re all here, ready to learn and maybe even to have a little fun. Thankfully, Fun Expert (how cool is that title?) and author of, The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again, Catherine Price is here to be our fun ambassador and to teach us all how to draw more fun and fun opportunities into day-to-day life!

Discover: 

-The difference between real fun and fake fun;
-The mental load’s impact on fun;
-The three necessary ingredients for fun and how find your “Fun Magnets;” plus
-Abby, Glennon, and Amanda’s stand out fun moments and how they plan to create more of that in their lives.
 
Check out these other episodes, too: 
4. FUN: What the hell is it and why do we need it?
62. The Big Lies & the Truth About Happiness with Dr. Laurie Santos
63. How to Live a Little Happier with Dr. Laurie Santos
216. How to Find DELIGHT Today (and Every Day) with Ross Gay

On Catherine: 
Catherine Price is the author of The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again.  She is also an award-winning health and science journalist, founder of Screen/Life Balance, and author of How to Break Up With Your Phone. She runs a substack newsletter called “How to Feel Alive” and her TED Talk, Why having fun is the secret to a healthier life, has been viewed close to five million times. 

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299. Parenting: How to Nurture Yourself and Others

In this episode we’re going deep into parenting. Glennon, Abby, and Amanda (along with the help of Tracee Ellis Ross, Michelle Obama and Dr. Becky Kennedy) discuss the brutiful journey of parenting, reparenting ourselves, and learning how to love and be loved. 

Discover: 

-Tracee Ellis Ross rejects the lie that a woman’s purpose is to be “chosen” – and what “mothering” means to her
-Michelle Obama tells us how to finally live in our own enoughness; 
-How to know if you are engaging in “pendulum parenting;”
-The #1 strategy for all relationships: REPAIR, with Dr. Becky Kennedy; and 
-The moment Abby finally felt lovable. 

Check out the full episodes:
12. PARENTING: How do we make this thrilling, terrifying roller coaster ride a little bit easier?
167. Tracee Ellis Ross: How to Make Peace in Your Own Head
13. Brave Parenting Qs & the Power of Saying YES!
193. MICHELLE OBAMA!
267. The #1 Relationship Strategy with Dr. Becky Kennedy
189. Abby for the 1st Time On Divorce & Her Unrequited Love
 
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298. How to Survive Your 20s, Abby On Bonus Parenting & IS Anyone TRULY Toxic?

Amanda, Glennon and Abby give an update about things they’re thinking about including: Glennon’s favorite memes, Amanda’s realization about leadership in her family, and Abby’s exhaustion turned to joy. Plus, we answer questions from the Pod Squad on surviving your 20s, and how to navigate bonus parenthood.

Discover: 
-The simple, three-step process that revolutionized the way Amanda thinks about leadership and parenting; 
-Abby’s heartfelt advice to a Pod Squader on how to navigate her 20s & why need ALL need it, no matter our age;
-Insight into Abby’s journey as a mother & why being in your kid’s memories is everything; 
-Glennon’s surprising take on labeling people as “toxic” and what to do instead. 
 
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297. REAL Self-Care: Burnout Is Not Your Fault & the Way Out with Dr. Pooja Lakshmin

Psychiatrist Dr. Pooja Lakshmin shows us how to tell the difference between the Faux Self-Care we’ve been sold versus the Real Self-Care we desperately need.

Discover: 


How to incorporate boundaries through the power of the pause and how to navigate the post-boundary ick with ease;

A simple tool to know whether you are being driven by your goals or driven by your values (and how to find and start living by your values today); and

Whether you might be in ‘martyr mode,’ and the key to getting out of it. 



About Pooja: Dr. Pooja Lakshmin is a board-certified psychiatrist, author, keynote speaker, and a contributor to The New York Times. Her debut book, REAL SELF-CARE: Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble-Baths Not Included, is an NPR Best Book of 2023 and a national best-seller. Pooja serves as a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at George Washington University School of Medicine, and maintains an active private practice where she treats women struggling with burnout, perfectionism, and disillusionment, as well as clinical conditions like depression, anxiety and ADHD. She frequently speaks, advises and consults for organizations on mental health and well-being. Pooja writes the weekly Substack newsletter, Real Self-Care. 

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161. How to Let Go of Perfection this Holiday

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