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We Can Do Hard Things

19. SISTER ACT: Who is Amanda—and seriously, how does she know all the things?

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.841.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

1. The Pod Squad is peeved that Glennon refers to Amanda as “Sister”—so what should we call her? 2. How Glennon and Amanda both spent their college weekends in jail—but for very different reasons. 3. Getting to know Amanda and her innate obsession with the link between our personal experience and our location within systems of power. 4. What’s making life a little easier for the Doyle sisters this week. 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

Welcome back everybody. So every once in a while, someone comes up to me and says, I love

0:15.0

you're saying I can do hard things. It helps me so much. And I always say, oh my gosh,

0:20.4

that's not what I said. I never said I can do hard things. I do not believe I can do

0:25.8

hard things. So the important part of that is the we. The we can do hard things, right?

0:33.1

That there's this idea that all of us together make life somehow easier. That life is this

0:41.6

extremely lonely thing that happens to us that we go through all alone. I know remember

0:48.3

Tish came to me one night in my room in the middle of the night and she said, Mommy, I'm

0:53.7

alone in here. And I said, No, honey, you're I'm right here. We're right here. Right here.

0:58.8

And she said, No, I mean inside my skin alone in here. I know, which is the human condition.

1:05.2

Right. We're all so alone in here. But the we and we can do hard things reminds me that

1:12.5

we're alone together that we're doing these hard things next to an alongside and at the same time

1:21.5

as all these other people who are having this human experience. And so actually none of us are alone.

1:28.8

And sister and I have been talking about that concept so much in regards to this podcast

1:36.2

because the most exciting part of this podcast besides the fact that I get to talk to my sister

1:44.0

every day about things that I don't know. We maybe haven't talked about in a decade or ever.

1:51.4

Is the community that's building around this podcast? I mean, the comments you are writing, the

1:58.5

the voicemails you are leaving, the posts you are making, the questions you are asking, it's just

2:05.9

we just spend our entire afternoons reading what you have to say.

2:10.8

This pod squad, I know I love the word the term pod squad sister things it's the cheesiest thing

2:17.5

in the world. So whatever. But we have been so excited about you that well, as you know, we decided to

2:25.6

do another episode every week just to celebrate this community. And just to talk about the things

2:31.9

that you're saying and asking. So here we are. The pod squad episode and sister. Yes. What I want to

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