REAL TALK: How can we begin to use conversation as a key to unlocking each other?

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

1. Five communication ideas that might help us connect more deeply with people. 2. How Glennon feels that “everyone is talking but nobody is listening to each other ever” and why that’s one of the reasons most of us feel lonely. 3. The conversation strategy that Glennon and Abby use at the dinner table with their kids and friends. 4. Why we love talking about ourselves—and when it helps (and when it hurts) our relationships. 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	And to be loved we need to be known.
0:07.9	Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things.
0:10.3	I am so grateful that you're back here.
0:13.3	The main reason I'm grateful is that I really love recording this podcast.
0:18.7	I get to have these great conversations with my favorite people on earth, Abby, Amanda,
0:26.2	and all of you.
0:28.3	And I get to do it without leaving my house.
0:32.6	That's why I became a writer.
0:34.4	I've spoken about this to all of you before.
0:38.4	But you know that I am a highly sensitive introvert.
0:45.4	And so what that means is that I love people, but not in person.
0:55.4	I feel deeply for you and for me and for the whole world.
1:00.4	I would die for you, but I would not like meet you for coffee.
1:06.6	Okay.
1:09.6	The way this manifests in my life is that I love humanity.
1:16.8	But actual humans are tricky for me.
1:21.1	Okay.
1:22.1	One of the major reasons that humans are tricky for me is what we are discussing today.
1:29.3	Okay.
1:30.3	Abby has heard me discuss this world problem, incessantly.
1:37.0	Okay.
1:38.3	And the problem is this, every time I go out into the world, it strikes me freshly that
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