254. Dolly Parton: How to Make Decisions (Even If They Break Your Heart)

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In this special episode, Glennon, Abby, and Amanda sit down with icon Dolly Parton for a heartfelt conversation about how to start something new at 77, how she mothers the world, and how she broke her own heart when Elvis asked to record her hit song. Plus, the advice Dolly would give to Glennon and Abby’s daughter, Tish, as she enters the music business. About Dolly: Dolly Parton is the most honored and revered female country singer-songwriter of all time and was recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Achieving 27 RIAA-certified gold, platinum, and multi-platinum awards, she has had 26 songs reach #1 on the Billboard country charts, a record for a female artist. Parton became the first country artist honored as Grammy MusiCares Person of the Year. She has 48 career Top 10 country albums, a record for any artist, and 110 career-charted singles over the past 50+ years. On October 17th she is releasing her second coffee table book in a trilogy called “Behind The Seams: My Life in Rhinestones” and on November 17th her highly anticipated 30-song rock album, “Rockstar.” To date, Parton has donated over 213 million books to children around the world with her Imagination Library. Her children's book, Coat of Many Colors, was dedicated to the Library of Congress to honor the Imagination Library's 100 millionth book donation. TW: @DollyParton IG: @dollyparton

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0:00.0	I chased desire, I made sure I got what's mine.
0:11.3	Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things and Happy Dolly Ween.
0:17.6	Okay?
0:18.6	Today, you are not going to believe this, but Dolly Parton is here.
0:24.6	Uh, Dolly is going to tell us how she makes her toughest decisions.
0:30.2	By trusting her gut, even when it breaks her heart, that will blow your mind.
0:36.9	She's going to teach us how to be brave enough to try something brand new at 77.
0:43.6	And she's going to tell us how she's been mothering the world her entire life
0:47.3	through just amazing projects, like lately the imagination library,
0:52.3	where I think sister, does every kid in the freaking country get a book from Dolly Parton?
0:57.5	Is that a thing?
0:58.7	It is for promoting literacy in early education.
1:04.4	So if at a lot of, you know, like child development centers and places under resource places
1:12.0	throughout the country, you just sign up and then you get a book every month to your house.
1:17.2	It's wild.
1:17.8	And she started that because her dad could not read and never went to school.
1:24.0	And so didn't have a chance to learn to read and write.
1:26.3	So she created that in his honor, very, very cool.
1:30.0	Oh, God, Dolly kills me.
1:31.8	Okay.
1:32.1	And before we begin, I'm just going to say that my favorite Dolly Parton,
1:35.0	quote, ever is this as follows my whole family knows somebody asked her how she feels
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