116. Our Most Embarrassing Stories

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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1. Glennon, Abby, and Amanda share the most mortifying moments of their lives. 2. Pod Squaders’ hilarious voicemail confessions, which had Glennon, Abby, and Amanda cry-laughing in solidarity. 3. Our new go-to strategy when humiliated (it involves prosthetic penises). 4. We test our hypothesis that sharing our most embarrassing experiences makes us feel less alone. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And it took some time, but I'm finally fine.
0:10.2	Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things, which is our social experiment.
0:15.7	It's a human experiment and our hypothesis here is that we can make life for ourselves
0:23.7	and you just a teeny smidge easier by talking about hard things.
0:31.6	So that's what we are really trying to do here, okay?
0:35.9	We are actually trying to easier burden by talking about the burdens and things.
0:43.0	We're not trying to make your life harder.
0:45.0	So if we have been, send us a little note.
0:48.4	But today, we have a real experiment to do, which is so exciting and fun.
0:57.6	We had Jenny Lawson on, brilliant, hilarious, Jenny Lawson recently.
1:02.7	It was our 100th episode.
1:03.9	Go back and listen to it.
1:06.3	And she talks and writes so much about the power of humiliations, the power of sharing
1:13.6	our mortifying moments with the goal of connecting us further and making life funnier and
1:23.2	more universal.
1:26.2	And it's so funny and clearly we could use some LOLs at the moment, but also it made me
1:34.6	think of the Brunei Brown episode where she was talking about how she talks about all
1:40.8	of the horrible things she thinks to her kids because she thinks that normalization is
1:49.7	the antidote to shame.
1:53.7	And it's so interesting because our mortifying stories often make us feel ashamed, but sharing
1:59.8	our mortifying stories normalizes that and is the cure to shame.
2:07.1	Right.
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