We Can Do Hard Things

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.

1. Glennon’s radical acceptance that she’s always going to be a midnight person in a sunshine world.

2. Our favorite movies and music—and what they reveal about our personalities.

3. Why Abby is objectively hot, but please don’t say that to Glennon at parties.

1. The one question to ask yourself when deciding whether it’s time to quit something.

2. Why Glennon actually believes that quitting each day is necessary for her survival.

3. The big quits that led Abby to Glennon.  

4. Amanda’s unexpected great relief—and hope for your relief—in learning about how we’re all just as happy as we’re ever going to be. (And how, as expected, Glennon disagrees.) 

5. Rethinking the ending of a marriage as a positive quit and how to talk to friends going through it.

1. If you’re like 75% of women, Amanda’s hot tips for setting yourself up for success in the bedroom.

2. Detoxing from religious purity / sex shame culture, and raising kids with a healthier relationship to sex. 

3. The one sex subject that’s a hard no for Abby and Glennon.

1. Glennon, Amanda, and Abby discuss their sex origin stories and how that shapes their current sex fears.

2. Glennon’s high-pressure situation of sex with Abby for the first time—and how it didn’t go quite as you’d expect.

3. The biggest sex challenges in Glennon, Abby, and Amanda’s marriages now.

4. What Amanda regrets about her past sex life—and how she’s already worried about what she’s going to regret when she’s eighty.

5. How Pod Squaders taught Glennon and Abby about “lesbian deathbed.”

Glennon and Amanda decided to add a second episode each week after Glennon’s big move to California—in the first Thursday episode, they discuss:

1. Glennon’s experiment of Saying Yes to anything the universe invites her to.

2. How much screen time is too much screen time?

3. Are we all just Pendulum Parenting (over-correcting parents’ mistakes and screwing our kids up in the equal and opposite way our parents screwed us up)?

1. The 5 things Glennon wishes she’d known during those early days with young kids.

2. Why it’s important to let our kids see us mess up, cry, and lose it every once in a while.

3. How to let go of Expectation Parenting and embrace Treasure Hunt Parenting.

4. On teaching kids the most important lesson: How to disappoint everyone else (including you) before they disappoint themselves.

5. Why if you’re listening to this podcast worried about how you’re parenting, things are likely already okay.

1. Craig’s first two thoughts the moment Glennon sent him “the text.”

2. How Glennon and Craig told the kids they were divorcing. 

3. The big mistake Glennon and Craig agree they made in the early days of blending their family.

4. What Craig says is the most annoying thing about co-parenting with Glennon, and the best thing about co-parenting with Abby.

5. How Craig really feels about Glennon writing their stories.