Content warning that in today's very special episode, we reference the existence of past sexual

abuse and ongoing eating disorder recovery. Please take care of yourself.

Welcome to We Can Do Hard Things, everybody. Today, we are sharing our conversation, our beautiful,

funny, deep, healing, epic conversation with

the epic, Jane effing Fonda. This conversation with Jane feels especially right for this

moment because so many of us are asking the same questions she's been

answering publicly with her life. How do we keep aging without disappearing? How do we stay awake

to our bodies, to each other, to the truth while our country feels so chaotic and overwhelming?

How do we stay brave day after day, year after year?

Jane reminds us that getting older doesn't mean getting quieter.

It means getting whaler, getting braver, getting louder.

She reminds us that the goal isn't perfection, it's alignment,

it's integration, it's matching your insides with your outsides. And that activism isn't something

you do once you have your life all sorted out. You just show up as you are. You join a movement

that moves you and you speak your mind.

In this conversation, Jane shares how she left her body as a child and spent decades finding her way back home,

while also fighting again and again and yet again for democracy, for justice, for the planet.

Jane Fonda is a human blueprint, an embodied courage in showing up,

and she is a lifeline for this moment. Let's go. Okay, welcome to We Can Do Hard Things.

We're not doing a normal bio today because we don't have a normal person.

So where we would normally read our guest bio, we're doing something different today

because today we have the unbelievable honor of hosting Jane Effing Fonda.

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