1. The amazing life hack that has Glennon and Abby replying “Yes” to social invitations.

2. Glennon acknowledges her sexual fantasies … and TRIES (but fails) to share them.

3. Glennon talks about how she “knew what to do” the first time she and Abby were together.

4. The best and worst parts of Glennon and Abby’s big California move.

1. How Abby discovered she was gay while out to dinner with her parents at a Macaroni Grill.

2. The moment Glennon knew for sure she was queer (in an Amish Boogie Nights bathroom)—and the song that sealed the deal.

3. How, as a straight, cis woman, Amanda never had to wrestle with her sexuality, why she thinks that stunted her exploration.

4. How Glennon’s failed Van Gogh visit inspired Amanda’s next sex steps.

1. The viral note Glennon wrote to herself in her car this week—and how the world’s response confirmed that we’re all struggling right now.

2. How we tend to either Avoid the world’s pain or Be Consumed by it—and how to survive the overwhelm by embracing the Third Way.

3. What Glennon fears most as her oldest child leaves for college.

4. Why we can’t let the fact that we can’t fix everything keep us from doing something—and how Together Rising began.

1. Glennon describes how she’s feeling as her oldest leaves for college—and the survival strategy that’s getting her through.

2. The life secret someone told Glennon in early sobriety that changed her life.

3. Amanda discusses the only two strategies that are proven to help us cope with our emotions and become more resilient. 

4. How hard feelings always reveal something to you about you.

5. How the life hack Glennon calls “Save as Drafts” has saved her relationships.

1. Amanda presents a case for “summer rain” love—and rejects “lightning love” as the highest form of romantic love.

2. Glennon’s theory for when to speak up and when to shut up.

3. How Abby’s experience in a mostly male meeting showed her that “silent solidarity” is a cowardly lie.

4. The trick Glennon uses to communicate with highly sensitive kiddos. (Abby swears it works every time.)

1. Five communication ideas that might help us connect more deeply with people.

2. How Glennon feels that “everyone is talking but nobody is listening to each other ever” and why that’s one of the reasons most of us feel lonely. 

3. The conversation strategy that Glennon and Abby use at the dinner table with their kids and friends.

4. Why we love talking about ourselves—and when it helps (and when it hurts) our relationships.

1. Glennon lets f-ing loose about the misogyny in our cursing lexicon—and how it reveals our hidden conditioning. (Note: Don’t listen with the kiddos.)

2. The connection between how little girls are taught to avoid conflict with each other and how adult women are called “catty.” 

3. What Glennon really means when she says she’s a feminist—and why she’s baffled when a group fighting for their own equality turns on another group fighting for theirs.

4. Why Glennon says that the teenage years may be her favorite parenting era yet.

1. How, in the business world, Amanda is labeled as aggressive and dominant—and why that’s a gender trap.

2. Abby’s experiences of being publicly misgendered—and how that makes her feel.

3. Why is gender the last place we’re agreed it’s acceptable to make identity assumptions?

4. Why do we tell people who they are before they’re even born—and a thousand different ways every day after?

5. Why Glennon says two women in a marriage, handling their own business, rocks the patriarchal boat.  

1. The Pod Squad is peeved that Glennon refers to Amanda as “Sister”—so what should we call her?

2. How Glennon and Amanda both spent their college weekends in jail—but for very different reasons.

3. Getting to know Amanda and her innate obsession with the link between our personal experience and our location within systems of power.

4. What’s making life a little easier for the Doyle sisters this week.

1. Why are we conditioned to spend so much of our precious time and energy on our appearance?

2. Why is it that when men put work into the world, the world asks if his work is worthy—but when women put work into the world, the world asks if she’s worthy? 

3. Why is half the population’s face allowed to exist as is, while the rest of our faces “need” to be covered in concealers, colors, botox, etc., etc....?

4. How is it that the ultimate way to insult a woman is to say that she’s “let herself go”?

5. The better “beauty” standard for women that is liberating Glennon right now.