Let Our Sundance-Winning Film Remind You What Love Is with Megan Falley

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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383. Let Our Sundance-Winning Film Remind You What Love Is with Megan Falley Glennon, Abby and Amanda sit down with poet and friend, Megan Falley, to discuss the magic that is their Sundance Award-Winning documentary film, Come See Me in The Good Light. The documentary follows Meg and her partner, Andrea Gibson, as they navigate a year of life, love, and living through an incurable cancer diagnosis. -How to make a gift of your suffering -Why seeing yourself through the loving eyes of another can be life-changing -Why frat guys are finally relating to queer poets -What this movie has to do with body image and loving yourself On Megan Falley: Megan is a nationally-ranked slam poet and the author of three full-length collections of poetry – most recently her book “Drive Here and Devastate Me”. Since transitioning to writing prose, excerpts from her memoir-in-progress have won several first- and second-place national prizes. She runs an online writing workshop called “Poems That Don’t Suck” which has been heralded as “a degree’s worth of education in 5 short weeks.” On Andrea Gibson: Andrea is one of the most celebrated and influential spoken word artists of our time. Best known for their live performances, Andrea has changed the landscape of what it means to attend a “poetry show”. Andrea’s poems center around LGBTQ issues, spirituality, feminism, mental health, and social justice. Andrea is the author of seven books, most recently “You Better Be Lightning”. Previous appearances on the pod: 215. The Bravest Conversation We’ve Had: Andrea Gibson 245. An Unforgettable Double Date with Andrea Gibson & Megan Falley 265. Megan Falley Knows What Love Is 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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0:46.6	Megan Falley is a nationally ranked slam poet and the author of three full-length collections of poetry.
0:49.7	Most recently, her book, Drive Here and Devastate Me.
0:54.5	Since transitioning to writing prose, excerpts from her memoir and progress have won several first and second place national prizes. She runs an online writing workshop called Poems
0:59.4	That Don't Suck, which has been heralded as a degrees worth of education in five short weeks.
1:05.7	Andrea Gibson is one of the most celebrated and influential spoken word artists of our time.
1:11.7	Best known for their live performances, Andrea has changed the landscape of what it means to attend a poetry show.
1:17.3	Andrea's poems center around LGBTQ issues, spirituality, feminism, mental health, and social justice.
1:24.2	Andrea is the author of seven books. Most recently, You Better Be Lightning.
1:29.1	Megan Fowley and Andrea Gibson are the subjects of the most beautiful doc we have seen,
1:37.2	which hopefully you will see soon, called Come See Me in the Good Light,
1:42.0	which just won the Festival Favorite Award at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival that we were all at.
1:50.7	Welcome, Meg, Fally.
1:53.4	Yeah, buddy.
1:55.5	Fally, Fally.
1:56.2	Yay.
1:56.6	Fally.
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