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We Can Do Hard Things

249. The Best Advice We’ve Got on Loneliness & Jealousy

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.842.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Who do we go to for advice? And do we really even WANT advice — or just a good listener? Glennon, Abby, and Amanda tell us who they each go to when they don’t know what to do next — and offer their best advice to Pod Squaders dealing with loneliness and the unexpected jealousy of their partner's affection for a pet.

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0:00.0

Hello, lovebugs. Welcome back to We Can Do Her Things. Today, this is the plan. We're going

0:17.4

to give you our best advice, okay? Not like advice that we've gathered from other people.

0:25.1

Listen to some challenges that you all have sent to us via email or voicemail.

0:31.9

And we are going to give you our best advice. Okay, we're not saying it's going to be good advice.

0:37.2

Yeah, just our best. What we're saying is we're going to give you our best ideas and advice. So,

0:42.0

before we start, let's take a minute and talk about advice. Who do you trust to give you good advice?

0:49.9

Can you think of people that when you have a problem, you know that person will give me good advice?

0:57.6

I mean, I obviously won't say you two for sure. You both are brilliant advice givers. But outside

1:04.1

of you two, I would say Liz and Alex. Yes, same. Those are my two. Liz Gilbert, Alex,

1:10.5

why? What is it about? Let's first take Liz. What is it about her that makes you trust her advice?

1:18.7

I think because she's gone through a lot of stuff in her life and has proactively went in search

1:26.8

of figuring some of that stuff out. Both Alex and Liz aren't, well, that just happened.

1:35.7

I'm not going to like go in any kind of search and analyze like they are the most proactive about

1:45.2

understanding themselves and the world and how those two can compete against each other and with

1:51.0

each other. Yeah, it's like if you were going to trust somebody to tell you about the world,

1:57.0

you would trust an adventurer like someone who had gone out and seen a lot of different places.

2:02.6

And Alex and Liz are both people who are adventurers of the human experience. They dig in.

2:08.6

Yes. They do recovery. They do therapy. They do talking to people. They do like their adventures

2:14.4

of the soul. Yes. And so when you bring them a problem, it's almost like they're like, please.

2:19.8

I know. I've done it a few times where I brought everything. I brought this one thing to Alex that I

2:24.4

was so, I was devastated. I was devastated about it. And she reframed that shit in two seconds.

2:32.8

And the way that she heard my story, she was unaffected. Yeah. And I was like, how is this person not

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