HAPPYISH HOLIDAYS: Our Top Three Hacks

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

1. How our second holiday hack—“Be unsurprised”—eliminates walking on eggshells around family, and leaving holiday gatherings feeling badly about ourselves or our people. 2. Amanda shares the first time she broke her family’s biggest holiday tradition—and how it’s now one of her most precious memories. 3. Abby remembers watching her mom stress out by preparing and perfecting every holiday detail—and the change she made to minimize her own holiday stress. 4. How carrying around a cup of hot tea serves as Glennon’s super shield. 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	I'm here and and so are you. You came back. What are you doing? Oh, sorry. That is really
0:24.6	good. I think that's how I sound. I know it. Do you know that I actually think about
0:31.4	this a lot that what we are doing with our lives right now is broadcasting our voices
0:37.2	into people's brains and my voice has been my biggest in well, no. Has been one of my biggest
0:45.2	insecurities because people my whole life have made fun of my voice so much. They have. Oh my god.
0:50.6	Yes. Like I at one point the first ever TV thing I did. I had these agents who actually afterwards
1:05.0	after the thing pulled me aside and said I had to have training on my voice to change it because
1:12.7	it was so annoying. I felt awful about it because they said you no one will listen to you. Like
1:20.8	it's painful. You have to talk low and slow. Maybe that's why people like listening to my voice
1:27.4	because I sound like a guy. Like what the hell is that about? Yes. That's what they were saying.
1:32.1	Talk more like a guy because then people will listen to you and take you seriously. Also,
1:36.5	I have no idea. People like listening to me talking. Yeah. You're so confident. That's why people love
1:42.7	listening to me. Anyway, the point is actually lots of people like listening to my many mouse
1:49.2	on him. Yeah. How you like me now? Exactly. Here we are. We can do hard things like work with our
1:54.2	weaknesses. Thank you for coming back to listen to my horrible voice. I love your voice. Thank you.
2:03.7	Don't let anybody tell you you're not perfect. You're perfect. Okay. So anyway,
2:08.0	speaking of scary things, the holidays are officially upon us.
2:18.0	So right after Holly and I thought I said, Chase, meam, we speak. He's Jen. What does he
2:25.1	Gen Z? Yeah. So we and I'm a mom. So we speak in memes. You speak in Gen Z and millennial. Right. Meams. Meams.
2:33.7	And so I sent him one that said, now that Halloween's over, we can go into this really scary
2:39.1	holidays where we have to go see our families in the truly scary holidays. Yes. Yes. Yes. So I
2:46.5	think that every year we as a human species, we just we just we have we're like the Ted Lasso thing.
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