Family Roles: Which Part Did YOU Play?

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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428. Family Roles: Which Part Did YOU Play? Amanda, Abby, and Glennon take a close look at the roles we’re assigned—or take on—within our families of origin. They unpack how these childhood roles stick with us, shape who we become, and continue to influence our relationships and choices long into adulthood. -The six different types of family roles and how to identify yours; -The gifts and pitfalls of each role; and -The signs of an unhealthy family system. 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, love bugs to we can do hard things. Coming to you, coming to your earballs are me, Glennon Doyle, my sister, Amanda Doyle,
0:26.8	and Abby Wambach, okay? Are you going to continue to mock me? I wish that's why you could see
0:34.5	Abby, who like a seven-year-old who needs attention is
0:40.1	mouthing every word that I say right now.
0:43.8	Okay, stop.
0:44.2	Yeah, she's mimicking.
0:45.2	She's trying to make.
0:46.0	Actually, that's a perfect segue.
0:49.3	Today.
0:49.7	Like a seven-year-old desperate for attention rolls right on in full speed to our topic today.
0:57.9	Which is something we have not yet discussed, which is strange that we haven't because we are obsessed with figuring out why we are all the way we are.
1:09.6	When we ask this question, why am I the way that I am?
1:15.3	There are a little so many answers, but one idea is exploring the family roles that we all
1:24.6	played as children and then continue into our adulthood.
1:30.3	So this topic is so important, so exciting, so depressing.
1:39.2	Sister, illuminating.
1:41.6	Illuminating is what it is.
1:43.0	To me, I'm going to say how I think about this
1:46.9	in a couple sentences, and then you're going to take over and give us what it actually is.
1:53.3	Okay. Okay. My feeling is that at some point we wake up in our like, I don't know, maybe some people do it earlier in their
2:03.5	20s or 30s, most of the people I know in our 40s, like come to, I don't know. It's like life has
2:10.8	been so chaotic. And then at some point in our 40s, it slows down enough to be like, wait,
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