Martha Beck: Move Toward Joy Today!

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Today, we’re sharing our first conversation with one of our favorite teachers – Martha Beck. We talk about letting go of control, cultivating joy, strategies for making hard decisions when we’re scared, and learning to recognize and pursue what feels like freedom. Discover: -How do we tap back into living by our inner compass after living by consensus and following outer voices for so long? -What Martha said to Glennon and Abby when they told her they were in love but scared to move forward—and how that advice changed their lives. -How to make a plan to cultivate joy when it feels like you are army-crawling through life. About Martha: Dr. Martha Beck is a New York Times bestselling author, life coach, and speaker. She holds three Harvard degrees in social science, and Oprah Winfrey has called her “one of the smartest women I know.” Martha is a passionate and engaging teacher, known for her unique combination of science, humor, and spirituality. Her most recent book, The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self, was an instant New York Times Best Seller. IG: @themarthabeck 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 Pod Squad Squad. We have a goodie for you today. So when I first fell in love with
0:08.8	Abby, I was the happiest I'd ever been in my life.
0:13.9	And I was also deeply afraid.
0:16.5	It was like I felt this incredible warmth
0:19.7	and comfort and freedom for the first time time but my mind was spinning with fear.
0:26.4	So what I did, among other things, is that I called my friend,
0:31.3	he was today's guest, Martha Beck, and I told her all the reasons why I was
0:36.8	desperately in love, and then I told her all the reasons why I couldn't be in love, why this could never happen, why my entire
0:46.6	life would fall apart if I did it all of these spinning fears that I had. And Martha
0:52.0	said to me, okay Glenn, stop stop I need you to get back in your body and I need you to tell me what feels warm
0:59.1	that moment changed my life and changed the way I live every day. So I want to offer you the gift of
1:06.8	Martha Beck. Today we're sharing our first episode with the Martha Beck.
1:14.0	Martha shares her best words of wisdom on self-love.
1:15.0	She talks to us about following our inner compass
1:18.0	and making hard decisions like the one I made to be with Abby.
1:21.0	She helps us tap back into living by our inner compass after living
1:24.9	by consensus and following outer voices for so long. Thank you Martha, thank you
1:31.4	Pod Squad.
1:32.9	I hope you love this episode as much as I did. Welcome to We can do hard things and I just want to tell you that I'm super excited today because we have someone with us who has helped and changed millions of lives, but mine in particular.
2:02.0	She is personally walked me through some of the trickiest times that I've had and I'm excited.
2:10.0	The person that we is here today.
2:13.0	Well, first of all, I'll stop being mysterious and tell you that her name is Martha Beck.
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