177. How to Face Your Biggest Fear with Amanda Doyle

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Glennon and Abby interview their favorite person and co-host: Amanda Doyle! Examining the relationships, decisions, and travels that led her to today – from hitchhiking across Ireland, to prosecuting child sex offenders in Rwanda, to making the biggest decision of her life in an Ethiopian airport – they dive into Amanda’s lifelong fear of the ordinary. About Amanda: Amanda Doyle is Glennon Doyle’s Business Manager and co-host of the We Can Do Hard Things podcast with her sister Glennon Doyle and sister-in-law Abby Wambach. She is Vice President, General Counsel, and a member of the Together Rising Board of Directors. In these roles, Amanda is responsible for overseeing and advising on legal matters, including risk management, policy development, and programmatic affairs, as well as cultivating new initiatives and relationships to strengthen the organization’s impact. A former attorney at the law firm of Hogan Lovells and Legal Fellow with International Justice Mission, Amanda lives in Falls Church, Virginia with her husband and two children.

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0:00.0	Okay, welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things, folks.
0:15.3	Abby here, a little switcheroo, it's usually Glennon, but I'm just giving her a little
0:19.4	rest because guess what we got on the docket today?
0:24.1	I'm so delighted and also a little bit nervous because this is like a new thing that we're
0:32.1	doing because we're actually interviewing the most amazing person that I've ever met.
0:39.1	We say this, but this is actually true.
0:41.1	This is true.
0:42.1	I've never said the most amazing.
0:43.7	Yeah, that's true.
0:45.2	So today, Pod Squad, we are getting in deep with Amanda Doyle, Amanda Doyle, who so many
0:57.4	of you have asked so many questions about because she has been a bit of a enigma, wrapped
1:05.6	in a puzzle, wrapped in mystery.
1:08.2	Yeah.
1:09.2	So today we are doing, this is your life interview.
1:13.2	Oh, okay.
1:14.6	All right, sister bear, as I call her, Amanda Doyle is Glennon Doyle's business manager
1:21.7	and head of staff and a co-host of the We Can Do Hard Things podcast.
1:26.8	She is also the vice president general counsel and a member of the together rising board
1:31.1	of directors.
1:32.7	She graduated with high honors, who didn't, from the University of Virginia, where she
1:38.6	double majored in studies of women in gender and political and social thought, and wrote
1:43.9	her distinguished major thesis in defense of the Violence Against Women Act.
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