114. Reese Witherspoon on Friendship: What, Like It’s Hard?

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

1. How to make the first friendship move – and how to move on from a friendship with kindness and clarity. 2. The advice Reese passes down to her kids about the three types of people you meet in life. 3. Reese’s Hollywood experience as a young woman – and the solidarity she found in the Time’s Up movement. 4. How Elle Woods – in all her iconic glory – hilariously showed up while Reese was on real-life jury duty. 5. Where Reese, Abby, and Glennon come down on Glennon’s take that most women feel they are either too much or not enough. About Reese Reese Witherspoon, is an award-winning actress, entrepreneur, producer, and New York Times bestselling author. She won an Academy Award® for her portrayal of June Carter Cash in Walk the Line and was later nominated in that same category for Wild in 2014, which she also produced. Witherspoon also starred in beloved films Sweet Home Alabama, Legally Blonde, and Election, as well as award-winning television series’ “Big Little Lies,” “Little Fires Everywhere,” and “The Morning Show.” Other film credits include Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time, Universal Pictures’ animated musical comedy Sing and Sing 2. In addition to her acting and producer roles, Witherspoon is an author and entrepreneur. In 2016, she established Hello Sunshine, a media brand and content company dedicated to female authorship and storytelling across all platforms. Hello Sunshine is also home to Reese’s Book Club and Reese’s YA Book Club, which focuses on storytelling with women at the center. Witherspoon recently sold Hello Sunshine to Blackstone in September 2021. Now Hello Sunshine is the cornerstone of a larger media company called Candle Media. Witherspoon is an advocate and activist for women’s issues across the globe. TW: @ReeseW IG: @reesewitherspoon

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. I'm Abby. Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things. And we have a real
0:16.8	treat for you today because we're talking to our dear friend and truly the friend of
0:21.4	women everywhere. Reese Witherspoon is an award-winning actress, entrepreneur, producer and New
0:32.8	York Times best-selling author. She won an Academy Award for her portrayal of June Carter Cash
0:38.3	and Walk the Line, which is one of my all-time favorite movies. And later nominated in that same
0:43.7	category for, you may have heard it, Wild in 2014, which she also produced Witherspoon
0:50.2	and also starred in Beloved Film, Sweet Home Alabama. I know legally blonde. Oh, get out of
0:55.9	here with that. An election, me, as well as award-winning television series, Big Little Lies,
1:02.5	Little Fires Everywhere, and The Morning Show, which turned gay. That's the moment of our life.
1:10.6	Abby and I celebrated that moment on the couch like it was ours. Like we wrote it. Yes, yes.
1:15.8	And it was my first moment of GADAR. Remember I saw it coming before you. You did actually.
1:21.4	In 2016, she established Hello Sunshine, a media brand that has changed the world for sure. Big
1:29.2	time. And Content Company dedicated to female authorship and storytelling across all platforms.
1:35.4	I'm going to calm down. Hello Sunshine is also home to Reese's Book Club and Reese's YA Book Club,
1:42.6	which focuses on storytelling with women at the center. Yes. Hello Sunshine is now the corner
1:48.3	stone of a larger media company called Candle Media Reese. I mean, are you tired? Very. She's
1:55.1	got to be very tired. I am. I am tired. I'm a little tired, but I love my job so much. I wake up
2:03.8	every day and I just get excited to talk about, I mean, are you kidding me? I get to tell stories
2:09.0	for a living. And it's just a dream. But thank you for that lovely intro. I'm just,
2:16.6	you know, sometimes you're just like working and you forget that you've done other things.
2:20.4	So I'm like, oh, that's so nice. I know. And it's like not that you've just done things. You've
2:24.3	done incredible things like all of all of the things that we just talked about are like our
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