Hello Pod Squad! Today we are sharing a special episode that so many thousands of you wrote to us about.

This is an episode with Dear Sugar herself, Cheryl Strayed.

Cheryl came on and she just did what she does best. She offered us her best advice in response to your questions on co-parenting

after infidelity, on setting boundaries with friends, on reconciling with an estranged parent.

Just beautiful advice after beautiful advice.

So helpful.

Cheryl shares with us how to know when it's time to leave,

why every problem she's ever had has been solved by a list and how to use her

list strategy, which is different than most of the list strategies you've learned.

She teaches us how to be a better advice giver and how to keep floating in the direction of your own life.

And the nugget that Cheryl Strade shared with us that really stuck with us is how to gather all the courage to know and face a

true thing in your life and how to live by it. I don't know if you need to hear this I need to hear it repeated every day.

Cheryl reminds us that even though it's terrifying we are allowed to know what we know and we are allowed to act on it.

Thank you Cheryl for this reminder in this incredible episode.

The truest version of yourself is always a kindness. Living as the truest version of yourself is always a kindness.

Living as the truest version of yourself,

while I might rock some boats in the beginning,

always ultimately turns out to be the ultimate kindness

to the people in your life because freeing yourself to live

out your truth frees everyone else around you even if it hurts at first it's like a baton that you

pass on to everybody in your life, which Cheryl reminds us so beautifully of in this episode.

Let's jump in. Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things. We are extremely lucky because we have one of the wisest people in the whole universe of

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