Mean Girls & Mothers-in-Law: HOW TO DEAL

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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423. Mean Girls & Mothers-in-Law: HOW TO DEAL Amanda, Glennon, and Abby talk parenting through kid conflict, why girls are taught to avoid confrontation, and how to raise kids who trust themselves. They dig into the real longing beneath criticism—especially with mothers-in-law—and why getting vulnerable is braver than getting loud. Plus, Abby shares how her acceptance of failure made her a clutch performer—and what that means for the rest of us. 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 to We can do hard things and welcome to our favorite hour.
0:17.0	And this is our favorite hour because this is the hour where the three of us get to
0:23.1	ignore our own problems by focusing on yours. Okay. Oh, that's what I do all the hours.
0:30.8	I know. I know. I know. But this is the hour we get to do it on purpose. Okay. Okay. We don't
0:37.3	have to pretend like we're not doing it during this hour. Right. Exactly. This is the hour we get to do it on purpose. Okay. Okay. We don't have to pretend like we're not doing it during
0:38.8	this hour. Right. Exactly. This is the hour where we have asked our beloved pod squad to send us
0:46.1	emails or voicemails containing just struggles they're having, questions they're swirling around, just what is in their life
0:57.7	that they are struggling with. And they have written to us, they have voicemailed us,
1:03.4	and we have collected a group of questions from an incredibly beautiful group of pod squatters.
1:09.8	And we are all gathering together. I want you to
1:12.3	imagine us all sitting together in one little family room. We are snuggled up. We've got our
1:16.7	tea and our blankets and we are fixing each other's problems, even though we cannot fix our own.
1:21.8	And that is what we are doing today. So let us begin with Nicole.
1:26.5	Hey, Abby, Glennon and sister.
1:29.3	This is Nicole.
1:30.9	I am from East Tennessee.
1:33.0	So appreciate my cornbread accent.
1:36.2	You're welcome.
1:37.7	So I have a hard thing.
1:40.2	So I need some advice on teenagers.
1:44.2	So I have a daughter, she Ella, she is 12 and a half, and she is having a hard realization that girls are just mean.
1:56.8	They're just mean girls.
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