How to Make The Ordinary Come Alive with Amanda Doyle

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Glennon shares an encore conversation that she and Abby had with their favorite person and co-host: Amanda Doyle! This episode, originally titled, How to Face Your Biggest Fear with Amanda Doyle, examines the relationships, decisions, and travels that led Amanda to today – from hitchhiking across Ireland, to prosecuting child sex offenders in Rwanda, to making the biggest decision of her life in an Ethiopian airport – they dive into Amanda’s lifelong fear of the ordinary. About Amanda: Amanda Doyle is Glennon Doyle’s Business Manager and co-host of the We Can Do Hard Things podcast with her sister Glennon Doyle and sister-in-law Abby Wambach. She is Vice President, General Counsel, and a member of the Together Rising Board of Directors. In these roles, Amanda is responsible for overseeing and advising on legal matters, including risk management, policy development, and programmatic affairs, as well as cultivating new initiatives and relationships to strengthen the organization’s impact. A former attorney at the law firm of Hogan Lovells and Legal Fellow with International Justice Mission, Amanda lives in Falls Church, Virginia with her husband and two children.

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0:00.0	Hi Pod Squad, today I am offering you one of my favorite episodes of all time.
0:10.5	We can do hard things, but we can also do easy things, like revisiting a message that may have hit us in one place before, but hits us in a completely new way today. This episode might just do that for you. It's an episode about
0:26.7	how to face your biggest fears. And it is with my favorite person on the planet, besides my wife, Amanda Doyle.
0:39.8	In this episode, Amanda talks about her relationships, the biggest decisions in her life,
0:46.7	why traveling alone was the place she felt most alive and comfortable throughout her entire life.
0:54.2	Her time hitchhiking across Ireland,
0:57.0	her time prosecuting child sex offenders in Rwanda,
1:00.8	how she made the biggest decision of her entire life in an Ethiopian airport and
1:05.9	how exactly she ended up on a horse in the middle of a parade in Costa Rica.
1:10.9	Can you tell she's had a very different life than I have?
1:15.4	I love this woman. I love this episode. It's just a really gorgeous
1:21.0	exploration of her lifelong fear of the ordinary and
1:26.4	quest to the extraordinary and how this part of her life is
1:31.5	settling into the beauty of the ordinary. Take a listen. Okay, welcome back to we can do hard things folks.
1:54.3	Aye here, a little swit a rue. It's usually glenin but I'm just giving her a little rest because guess what we got on
1:58.9	the docket today.
2:00.5	I'm so delighted and also a little bit nervous because this is like a new thing that we're
2:09.1	doing because we're actually interviewing the most amazing person that I've ever met.
2:15.0	We say this, but this is actually,
2:18.0	this is true.
2:19.0	I've never said the most amazing.
2:20.6	Yeah, that's true.
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