We Can Do Hard Things

In today’s beautiful, vulnerable, and funny conversation, Glennon, Abby, and Amanda reveal what each feels most insecure about. Plus, Amanda connects with a member of the Pod Squad on raising a kid with ADHD and her shift that changed everything; Glennon talks about anger as a guard dog and her discovery while rock climbing on “vacation”; and Abby explains why retirement from soccer was one of the hardest times of her life and how she navigated that massive life transition. 

435. Testing Abby: How Well Does She Really Know Glennon?

Amanda puts Abby in the hot seat to find out how well she knows Glennon. Find out who WINS and how you can start to use these questions to get to know your people better. 

Listen to Part 1 here: 434. The Not-So-Newlywed Game with Glennon & Abby: Who Wins?

List of Date Qs: 

1.  What’s your favorite room in your house?

2.  Which one of you is most likely to initiate a home improvement project?

3.  What is your favorite family tradition?

4.  Other than anything related to the kids, what is your proudest achievement?

5.  What’s a challenge you’ve overcome as a couple?

6.  Who is more likely to burst out laughing at inappropriate times?

7. Who is more likely to forget important dates?

8.  What is something you are always right about?

9.  What is something you are seldom right about?

10. Who is the better budget keeper?

11. What is a funny habit about your partner that makes you smile?

12 When you’re in the car, who controls the radio?

13. If your partner could have a superpower what would it be?

14. If your partner were an animal, what would she be?

15. What is your partner’s hidden talent?

16. Who said I love you first?

17. How do you decide what to have for dinner?

18. What phrase does your partner use too often?

19. What would your partner say are her best personality characteristics?

20. Who is your partner’s hero?

21. Which one of you is better at self-care?

22. What story does your partner tell over and over?

434. The Not-So-Newlywed Game with Glennon & Abby: Who Wins? 

Amanda gets to live out her life-long dream of being a game show host and Glennon and Abby are put to the test! How well DO these two lovebirds really know each other? Listen to part one and find out! This time Glennon’s in the hot seat. Come back for part two to see how Abby does!

Singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Allison Russell, shares her incredible life story and teaches us how she healed from abuse through music, sisterhood, and returning to her body. This hour is a soul-stirring reminder of the life-saving, cycle-breaking power of truth telling, art, and love. 

About Allison:

Allison Russell has spent her career in multiple bands, including Po’ Girl, Our Native Daughters and Birds of Chicago. After a career spent as a gifted multi-instrumentalist, backing numerous other artists, she finally dared to release her solo project in 2021. She made her Opry debut and appeared at the Country Music Hall of Fame and performed at the 2022 GRAMMY’s Premiere Ceremony.

In addition to her four GRAMMY nominations, she has earned three 2022 Americana Award nominations and a win for Album of the Year, two International Folk Music Award wins, a 2022 Juno nomination for ‘Songwriter of the Year,’ and her first-ever Juno Award win for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year. Russell received two 2021 Americana Awards nominations, won three Canadian Folk Music Awards, two UK Americana Music Awards, and more. She was recently nominated for Song of the Year and Artist of the Year for the 2023 Americana Awards. 

TW: ⁠@outsidechild13⁠

IG: ⁠@allisonrussellmusic

433. How to Parent While You Heal: Live on Tour

In today’s episode, we share more from our first-ever live tour where we gathered with thousands of you to celebrate our Indie and New York Times Bestselling book, We Can Do Hard Things. We talk about internalized sexism, what to do when you don’t have a village, how to parent while you’re still healing, how to stay rooted in love in the face of fear–and why friendship might be the most important survival tool we have.

432. Bad with Money? Get Better with Tori Dunlap 

Glennon, Abby, and Amanda are doing something they've never done—talk about money. It's one of the most vulnerable topics, especially for women, where silence and shame still dominate.

Joining them is Tori Dunlap—New York Times bestselling author and feminist finance expert—to help break the stigma, spark the conversation, and guide us toward financial freedom.

-How shame—not numbers—is often the biggest barrier to financial well-being-Why women are conditioned to shrink around money and how to reclaim power-Using money as a tool for safety, agency, and freedom-Practical steps to begin healing your relationship with money, starting today

Tori Dunlap is the Author of the instant New York Times bestselling book “Financial Feminist”; host of the #1 Business Podcast, Financial Feminist; and co-creator of Treasury, an investing education platform that has over $82M invested. After saving $100,000 at age 25, Tori quit her corporate job in marketing and founded Her First $100K to fight financial inequality by giving women actionable resources to better their money. She has helped over five million women negotiate salary, pay off debt, build savings, and invest.

432. Bad with Money? Get Better with Tori Dunlap 

Glennon, Abby, and Amanda are doing something they've never done—talk about money. It's one of the most vulnerable topics, especially for women, where silence and shame still dominate.

Joining them is Tori Dunlap—New York Times bestselling author and feminist finance expert—to help break the stigma, spark the conversation, and guide us toward financial freedom.

-How shame—not numbers—is often the biggest barrier to financial well-being-Why women are conditioned to shrink around money and how to reclaim power-Using money as a tool for safety, agency, and freedom-Practical steps to begin healing your relationship with money, starting today

Tori Dunlap is the Author of the instant New York Times bestselling book “Financial Feminist”; host of the #1 Business Podcast, Financial Feminist; and co-creator of Treasury, an investing education platform that has over $82M invested. After saving $100,000 at age 25, Tori quit her corporate job in marketing and founded Her First $100K to fight financial inequality by giving women actionable resources to better their money. She has helped over five million women negotiate salary, pay off debt, build savings, and invest.

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1. Why the construct of beauty is oppressive, but the essence of beauty is freedom. 

2. What living with integrity looks like.

3. Why Dr. Blay doesn’t need any more allies—and what she really wants from an accomplice.

4. How “Karens” have been around for centuries—and the direct line from “Miss Anne to Karen.”

5. Dr. Blay’s greatest hope for her granddaughters—even if she doesn’t like it.

431. How to Let Go of “Not Enough” with Melissa Arnot Reid

Melissa Arnot Reid—the first American woman to summit Everest without supplemental oxygen—opens up about her journey from a difficult childhood to discovering true self-worth, revealing how even the highest peaks can’t quiet the voice of unworthiness within.

-Why Everest became Melissa’s classroom, not her accomplishment-How imagining her own funeral saved Melissa’s life

-How Melissa’s shift from “I’ve done enough” to “I am enough” changed everything.

-Why Glennon completely relates to Melissa’s story of scaling Everest

Melissa Arnot Reid is the first American woman to summit Everest without supplemental oxygen. It was her sixth summit of the highest ground on earth, cementing her place in mountaineering history. In doing so, she became a media star, in demand from many publications, television shows, and organizations looking for inspirational speakers. She continues to work as a mountain guide as well as running The Juniper Fund, the non-profit she co-founded.

Her new book, ENOUGH: Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest, is available now.

430. The Trick to Finally Becoming an Adult

Glennon, Abby, and Amanda revisit the six family roles, uncover which ones they've each lived out, and share how they're working to heal and grow beyond them. 

-How shifting some of their family roles is shifting Glennon and Amanda’s personal dynamic;

-The schism rejecting a family role can create; 

-Why apologies you get from your family of origin might not be resonating; and 

-How Glennon stopped thinking she was born ‘broken’ and how you can, too.