I walk through a fire, I came out the other side.

Hello family, this is Amanda.

I'm coming to you in our collective time of morning and rage to do the only thing that

we can do in this moment, just to see each other and hear each other and take an image

of where we are and to build community around a shared commitment and relentlessly resolve

to fight forward and to take tender care of each other as we do.

In today's podcast, we're going to talk about where we are, where we're going, and to

give ourselves four real concrete steps we can take to turn all this rage into action.

Before we get there, I want to acknowledge how shocking it actually was, even though

we knew it was coming, to see in black and white our constitutional right to bodily autonomy

eviscerated by the stroke of a pen.

The first person I saw after hearing the decision over ruling row was a friend, when

we saw each other, we silently hugged and cried, and I was so pissed by our tears.

These two strong, resilient women, furious that they held that power over us and abused

it and that it was now ours to carry.

So I meet you in this dizzying time, vacillating between feeling defeated, enraged, despondent,

renewed, resolved, and defiant.

I feel real fucking defiant.

Today on We Can Do Hard Things, it's clear that community connected and shared purpose

and care is as important as it's ever been.

We're going to use this community and we're going to be there for each other.

I want you to know that two weeks ago we had invited and scheduled the incomparable Monica

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