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We Can Do Hard Things

231. Life-Changing Wisdom You Need to Hear

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Self-improvement, Education, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.842.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Today, Glennon, Abby, and Amanda dive into the Pod Squad’s words of wisdom: How to identify bad advice;  How to stop “walking on eggshells”;  When to not tell your kids you’re proud of them (and what to say instead);  The advice about masturbating that Glennon can live by.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things.

0:14.1

Everyone was so excited about the advice episode that we decided to do a whole other episode

0:20.4

just completely based on the Pod Squad's advice.

0:23.4

The best advice they've ever received, the most life-changing advice they've ever received.

0:27.5

And we're throwing in some of the worst.

0:29.4

Oh, yes.

0:30.4

Yes.

0:31.4

Sometimes the worst advice ever turns into the best advice ever, because when you hear

0:38.4

the worst advice, quick example, Pod Squad, this is the worst advice I've ever received

0:43.7

that turned out to be life-shifting for me.

0:49.7

There's a lot of backstory here, but let's just fast forward to the part where I'm sitting

0:53.2

in front of the therapist saying, all right, I'm in love with a woman.

0:58.0

Her name is Abby.

1:00.9

This was my marriage there, but I was trying to sit in my relationship with Craig.

1:05.8

All right.

1:06.8

So she says to me, this is just a distraction.

1:11.8

This is not real.

1:13.9

I want to die inside when she says this to me.

1:17.5

And I break down a bit and I say, well, if I cannot be with Abby, then I cannot ever

1:25.8

have sex with my husband again.

1:30.4

And I said, every time I lay down to do it, I feel like I'm dying inside.

1:39.9

And she says, okay, have you ever considered blow jobs?

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