235. Tracee Ellis Ross: How to Make Peace in Your Own Head

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Abby shares one of her all-time most impactful conversations – delving inside the “wonderful, dangerous” mind of Tracee Ellis Ross covers: 1. Tracee’s go-to strategies to stop questioning herself, to pick herself up when she feels unlovable, and to tether herself to her truest self. 2. How she made peace with the fact that she’s “not everyone’s cup of tea” – and stopped trying to change the things about her that others don’t like (but she does). 3. Inside Tracee’s 50th birthday party – the honor of being “Fifty and Free,” and what moved her to sing her mother’s song in her mother’s dress. 4. Tracee’s recent personal journal entry rejecting the lie that a woman’s purpose is to be “chosen” – and how she creates a beautiful, full life outside the roles of mother and partner. 5. Tracee’s incredible view of friendship: How to be brave enough to become a barnacle in your friends’ lives, and to find your Cauldron people About Tracee: Tracee Ellis Ross is an award-winning actress and producer best known for her roles in ABC’s award-winning comedy series BLACK-ISH and GIRLFRIENDS. For her role as “Rainbow Johnson” in BLACK-ISH, as a comedic leading actress, Ross won the Golden Globe Award in 2017 as well as nine NAACP Image Awards. She was nominated for five Emmys and two Critics Choice Awards. Ross is the CEO and Founder of Pattern, a haircare brand for the curly, coily and tight textured masses. Ross recently executive produced and narrates Hulu’s THE HAIR TALES, a docuseries about Black women, beauty and identity through the distinctive lens of Black hair. Upcoming, Ross will be producing a ten-episode podcast “I Am America,” which aims to break through the noise during this divided time in our country in an effort to create space and to heal. TW: @TraceeEllisRoss IG: @traceeellisross 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 to we can do hard things. Yes, this is Abby. Today, we are re-airing one
0:14.6	of my favorite of all time. We can do hard things episodes. It is episode 167. Tracey
0:23.6	Ellis Ross, how to make peace in your own head this episode aired on January 10th. First
0:31.2	of all, I think that famous people aren't that interesting because of their fame. And also,
0:47.2	I like to get a sense if they're real or if they're just performing. And Tracey Ellis Ross
0:54.2	is exactly who she is. She's wonderful. She's kind. And this episode and the conversation
1:02.9	we had, it was one of my favorites for a lot of reasons. But I think it clearly demonstrates
1:09.8	the human that she is and the work that she's done. To me, why I felt so compelled by her
1:19.1	was because she seems to me like somebody who has done work in her life. And as figured
1:27.3	out a way to move through her life, even a wildlife, like it feels like she lives a very
1:34.6	in the spotlight life. And I thought that her way and the story she told, I mean, the
1:42.3	fact that after big events, she's already planning her self-care, her radical idea of
1:47.8	self-care for post-events. That was life-changing for us. Listen to this episode. It's beautiful.
1:55.9	I love Tracey Ellis Ross and enjoy.
2:04.8	And I continue to believe that I'm the one for me.
2:15.0	Hi, hi, Tracey Ellis Ross. You all welcome to We Can Do Hard Things. I'm going to really rush
2:20.7	through the intro because today we have one of my favorite people. Is that not true? It is
2:28.8	on this entire planet. Tracey Ellis Ross is an award-winning actress and producer best known
2:36.3	for her roles in ABC's award-winning comedy series Blackish and Girlfriends for her role as Rainbow
2:43.2	Johnson in Blackish as a comedic leading actress. Ross won the Golden Globe Award in 2017 as well as
2:50.6	nine NAACP image awards. She was nominated for five Emmys and two critics choice awards.
2:57.9	Ross is the CEO and founder of Pattern, a hair care brand for the curly, coily, and tight textured
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