Insecurity, Anger, ADHD & Abby’s Retirement (Best Of)

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In today’s beautiful, vulnerable, and funny conversation, Glennon, Abby, and Amanda reveal what each feels most insecure about. Plus, Amanda connects with a member of the Pod Squad on raising a kid with ADHD and her shift that changed everything; Glennon talks about anger as a guard dog and her discovery while rock climbing on “vacation”; and Abby explains why retirement from soccer was one of the hardest times of her life and how she navigated that massive life transition. 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 back to We can do hard things, people.
0:16.2	Thank you, love.
0:17.9	Hi, everybody.
0:18.8	Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things. I already said it. I know you did. It was really
0:23.9	lovely. How are you two doing? You first, babe, how are you feeling this morning?
0:30.9	I'm actually feeling good. For whatever reason, I feel like the last month, I've been kind of like,
0:37.3	like teetering on not good, but not bad.
0:41.7	Okay. And now I've rose into the good stage. Oh. To what do you attribute it? We went on a little
0:49.4	short trip last week. A little vacation, just you and me. You mean the vacation during which we found ourselves rock climbing?
0:58.9	Yes, you opted into that.
1:00.5	So I just have to remind you.
1:02.7	She opted in, folks.
1:04.9	And we were wearing harnesses and carabiners.
1:09.1	And you were a better rock climber than me. I was like a
1:14.1	mountain goat. You were. Yeah, I was. Really? Yes. Yeah. No offense to the mountain goats out there.
1:20.6	Yeah. When I got really up on that rock, I thought, Glenn and Doyle, your only hope. There's no going back. No one can help you. So you just have to concentrate and you have to make it through this. At which time, I started focusing very hard on survival. I used my little carabiner. I carabined myself to the wire.
1:46.4	I stayed very, very focused.
1:49.0	What would you say about the presence that was required of you during that time?
1:53.1	It was good.
1:54.6	Wasn't it like it was a force?
1:57.2	It was strong to fairly strong, like my portfolio.
2:01.3	But it's like a forced presence.
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