253. Is it Real Love or Spider Love? With Martha Beck

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Brilliant life coach, Martha Beck, works her magic for our Pod Squad. In this treasure trove of profound insight and practical guidance, Martha teaches us how to find purpose in midlife, how to use our longing as a map, and how to know for sure if what we have is real love. If you’d like to go back and listen to the episodes mentioned in today’s conversation, check out episodes: 252. Martha Beck Helps Amanda Let Go 238. How to De-Stress: Relaxation Intervention for Amanda (and You)! 121. Martha Beck & Rowan Mangan: Polyamory & Throuple Life 67. How to Get More Joy with Martha Beck 66. How to Come Home to Yourself with Martha Beck About Martha: Dr. Martha Beck is a bestselling author, life coach, and speaker – offering powerful, practical, and entertaining teachings that help people improve every aspect of their lives. She is known for her unique combination of science, humor, and spirituality. For over two decades she has been, in the words of NPR and USA Today, “the best-known life coach in America.” Her published works include several self-help books and memoirs, including New York Times and international bestsellers Finding Your Own North Star, The Joy Diet, and Expecting Adam. Martha’s most recent book, The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self, was an instant New York Times Best Seller. TW: @TheMarthaBeck IG: @themarthabeck 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.
0:13.2	We are not going to waste a moment because as promised, the Martha Beck, the world's favorite
0:21.1	life coach is back with us to God, just work her magic in response to some of our Pod Squadders
0:33.7	challenges. I do life coach the hell out of me if you miss that episode, don't let your
0:38.4	lesson do it. She coached the shit out of me. You were perfect in every way Amanda.
0:46.2	So what we're recording right now is three bits. We're three bits. You sister Abby and me,
0:51.2	and then Martha is our self. No pressure. You have to listen to the last episode to know what she
1:00.4	means. That's right. That's right. Go back and listen to the last episode. And then I feel like
1:05.5	now we can have our big bonfire where everybody's raising their hand and asking Martha questions
1:10.3	and then getting Martha's brilliance. Dr. Martha Beck is a best-selling author, life coach and
1:16.4	speaker offering powerful, practical, and entertaining teachings that help people improve every
1:21.1	aspect of their lives. She's known for her unique combination of science, humor, and spirituality.
1:26.9	For over two decades, she has been, in the words of NPR and USA Today, the best-known life coach in
1:32.7	America. Her published works include several self-help books and memoirs, including New York Times
1:38.4	and International Best Sellers, Finding Your Own North Star, and Expecting Adam. Martha's
1:43.5	most recent book, The Way of Integrity, Finding the Path to Your True Self, was an instant New York
1:48.4	Times best-seller. Let's get it started. Let's start the bonfire with Heather. Hi, my name is Heather
1:55.7	and I'm 47 and I've been divorced for I think 13 years and my kids are all raised and out of the
2:04.4	house and I don't think that I'm going to find my person in this lifetime on earth and so I am
2:12.9	trying to figure out kind of my purpose for the next space here kind of how to proceed and to find
2:21.2	meaning and value in myself and in helping others and I don't believe that it is in what I've done
2:31.3	since I was 21 and graduated from college. My question is like how do you find your next steps
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