We Can Do Hard Things

1. How to know when it’s time to get out or stick it out – and the quit that set Abbi on course to meet Ilana and create Broad City.

2. The life lessons of improv comedy: How to get out of your head, trust your choices, and make something together. 

3. Abbi and Abby share similar but opposite stories about relationships that changed their lives (and whether to tuck or untuck shirts). 

4. Why reimagining A League of Their Own was the Next Right project for Abbi – and how its label as a “queer show” frustrates her. 

About Abbi: 

Abbi Jacobson is a co-creator, co-showrunner, executive producer and star of the critically acclaimed show A League of Their Own. Prior to this, Abbi co-created, wrote, directed, executive produced and starred for five seasons in Broad City. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller I Might Regret This, and is currently adapting “Go Like This,” a short story by Lorrie Moore.

IG: @abbijacobson

1. How to eliminate walking on eggshells around family, and avoid feeling badly about ourselves or our people. 

2. Amanda shares the first time she broke her family’s biggest holiday tradition—and how it’s now one of her most precious memories.

3. Abby remembers watching her mom stress out by “perfecting” every holiday detail—and the change she made to minimize her own holiday stress. 

4. How carrying around a cup of hot tea serves as Glennon’s super shield.

Back by popular demand, it’s more mortifying stories! Glennon, Abby, and Amanda share more of their most embarrassing moments – and cry-laugh in solidarity with Pod Squaders’ new and hilarious voicemail confessions.

No digging deep.

No paradigm shifts to be found.

It’s Easy Fridays.

1. The good, the bad, and the ugly of Gary Chapman’s The Five Love Languages.

2. How expressing the way we give and receive love can identify misalignments with our partners, friends, and family.

3. How to explore – beyond our “love language” – our deep fears and needs underlying them. 

4. Glennon, Abby, Amanda, and Pod Squaders share the specific, hilarious things that make them feel most loved.

1. What we are really fighting about when we’re fighting about the dishwasher.

2. We can stop asking whether what’s missing is a “want” or a “need” – and the question to ask instead. 

3. How to use what most frustrates you about your partner to bring you closer.

4. How to start thinking of our partnerships as our own mini political systems.

5. What to do if your partner won’t go to therapy, or if you’re feeling invisible in your relationship.

About Dr. Guralnik:

Dr. Orna Guralnik is a psychoanalyst and writer, who serves on the faculty of NYU PostDoc, National Institute for the Psychotherapies, the Stephen Mitchel Center, and the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Studies in Gender & Sexuality. Her writing centers on the intersection of psychoanalysis, dissociation, and cultural studies. She has completed the filming of four seasons of the Docu-series Couples Therapy, airing on Showtime.

TW: @DrGuralnik

IG: @ornaguralnik

1. Alex’s four most effective healing techniques that you can start today. 

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

By popular demand, Jessica Yellin, founder of News Not Noise, returns to update us on the top takeaways from the midterm election yesterday. 

About Jessica: 

Jessica Yellin is the founder of News Not Noise, a Webby Award winning independent digital media brand dedicated to giving the audience information, not a panic attack. She is the former chief White House correspondent for CNN and an Emmy, Peabody and Gracie Award winning political correspondent for ABC, MSNBC and CNN. Her first novel, SAVAGE NEWS is available from HarperCollins. You can find the News Not Noise Letter on Bulletin and the News Not Noise podcast wherever you get your podcasts. 

TW: @JessicaYellin

IG: @jessicayellin

Make this podcast part of your VOTING PLAN TODAY! 

A clear, digestible explanation of what this Election means for you – and why your vote matters: 

1. What is most likely to happen today;

2. Who will control Congress, and what they’ll do with that control; 

3. What will happen with abortion and reproductive justice; 

4. Why the polls could be all wrong; and 

5. A reason to be hopeful.

Referenced resources: 

Ballotpedia

USAFacts Midterm Map 

About Jessica: 

Jessica Yellin is the founder of News Not Noise, a Webby Award winning independent digital media brand dedicated to giving the audience information, not a panic attack. She is the former chief White House correspondent for CNN and an Emmy, Peabody and Gracie Award winning political correspondent for ABC, MSNBC and CNN. Her first novel, SAVAGE NEWS is available from HarperCollins. Follow her on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @JessicaYellin. You can find the News Not Noise Letter on Bulletin and the News Not Noise podcast wherever you get your podcasts. 

TW: @JessicaYellin

IG: @jessicayellin

In this behind-the-scenes episode, Glennon, Abby, and Amanda react immediately after dramatically ending an interview because the guest was disrespectful to a member of their team.