Hi, I'm Glen and Doyle. I'm so grateful to be here and so very grateful that you've

come to join me. This is the first episode of We Can Do Hard Things, which means this

is the first time I've ever done this. So let me set the scene for you. I'm sitting here

at home in Naples, Florida in my office in front of this fancy microphone that I really hope is

working. It's early in the morning and my wife, Abby, and the three kids are still asleep.

I'm in my PJs and I've got a huge mug of steaming hot coffee, which is my favorite thing.

My second favorite thing, my bulldog, honey, is sleeping at my feet.

You know, since I got sober 19 years ago, these early mornings have become my very favorite

time of day. Because soon the world will wake up and I'll slip right into all of my roles

and I'll forget my soul completely, like I do every day. But I'm mornings like this,

just for a bit, it's quiet enough to remember. I think my hope, my great hope for this podcast

is that no matter when during the day or week you listen, that We Can Do Hard Things will become

a time each week where you will remember the you beneath all your roles.

So my kids and I have a word for how I feel right now, which is skydid.

Skydid is how I feel when I'm making myself vulnerable and I'm trying something new for the first

time. It's half scared, half excited, you know, that butterfly feeling. That's how I feel this

morning, talking to you for the first time, scared, but also excited because this feels like a

returning, this talking directly to you in this way. It feels like a homecoming for me.

Because 19 years ago, after more than a decade of addiction, I found myself freshly sober,

newly married, and dripping with children. I couldn't find time in the day to shower,

much less to get to the recovery meetings that had saved my life. And I started to seriously

panic because I knew I needed those meetings. Those rooms were the first places I ever felt like

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