16. QUITTING: When is it time to let something or someone go?

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

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. 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	You stopped asking directions
0:05.0	Some places they've never been
0:12.0	Hi everybody, thanks for coming back to We Can Do Hard Things.
0:16.0	This episode is about the power of quitting.
0:21.0	It's about quitting as self-care and as an act of self-love
0:26.0	and as resistance.
0:29.0	We recorded this episode before Simone Biles stepped away from an Olympic moment
0:35.0	in order to protect her own mental, physical, and emotional health
0:39.0	and judging by the world's reaction to her know,
0:43.0	we think we're on to something with this conversation
0:46.0	because the world loses its damn mind
0:50.0	when a woman decides to abandon the world's expectations of her
0:54.0	instead of abandoning herself.
0:58.0	When a woman decides to disappoint the entire world
1:02.0	before she disappoints herself,
1:04.0	when a woman values her own experience above our experience of her.
1:10.0	When a woman says, I am more than what you can get from me.
1:14.0	I choose me.
1:16.0	And judging by the response to Meghan Markle's know,
1:19.0	today Omiosaka's know and to Simone Biles know,
1:24.0	the world especially loses it.
1:26.0	When the woman who dares to insist upon him or tech to her own humanity
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