QUITTING: When is it time to let something or someone go? (Best Of)

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

1. The one question to ask yourself when deciding whether it’s time to quit something. 2. Why Glennon actually believes that quitting each day is necessary for her survival. 3. The big quits that led Abby to Glennon. 4. Amanda’s unexpected great relief—and hope for your relief—in learning about how we’re all just as happy as we’re ever going to be. (And how, as expected, Glennon disagrees.) 5. Rethinking the ending of a marriage as a positive quit and how to talk to friends going through it. 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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0:23.6	Adobe Express, the quick and easy create anything app. Hi, everybody. Thanks for coming back to We Can Do Hard Things.
0:44.9	This episode is about the power of quitting.
0:50.0	It's about quitting as self-care and as an act of self-love and as resistance.
0:58.6	We recorded this episode before Simone Biles stepped away from an Olympic moment in order to protect her own mental, physical, and emotional health.
1:09.0	And judging by the world's reaction to her no, we think we're
1:13.6	on to something with this conversation. Because the world loses its damn mind when a woman
1:20.8	decides to abandon the world's expectations of her instead of abandoning herself.
1:27.1	When a woman decides to disappoint the entire world before she disappoints herself,
1:33.3	when a woman values her own experience above our experience of her, when a woman says,
1:40.6	I am more than what you can get from me. I choose me.
1:45.8	And judging by the response to Megan Markles, no, to Naomi Osaka's, no, and to Simone
1:52.1	Biles know, the world especially loses it when the woman who dares to insist upon and
1:58.1	protect her own humanity happens to be a black woman. Let's get
2:03.3	started. Thanks for being here. Today we're going to talk about something that's near and dear to
2:14.2	my heart. And that is quitting. I was raised by a football coach,
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