The One Way to Get the Truth from Someone (Best Of)

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Amanda shares the one proven way to get the truth from someone – plus: Why Glennon calls her lying style “The Puppeteer” – and why you’ll never know what Amanda’s really feeling. Amanda defends our right to lie, and debunks myths about how we can tell if someone is lying. What’s the difference between lying and controlling, manipulating, and filtering the truth? Glennon’s fear of judgment from the next generation, and How to foster real connection in a world where lying is normal. For the first part of our conversation, check out ⁠242. We’re All Liars: What’s Your Lying Style?⁠. 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 back to We can do hard things. If you have not, go back to liar, liar pants at fire.
0:17.7	Yes, everyone's pants are on fire. Go back and listen to episode number 242, where we're talking about lying and truth and what the hell is lying and why are we all liars. And we're talking to you about what our particular lying style is in hopes that you might figure out what your particular lying style is so that you can have
0:41.2	more compassion for yourself. Yeah. And we're going to end it with hot take about the only way
0:50.7	that they've identified for how to prevent people from lying to you. Oh. Wait for it.
0:57.2	It's a good one. Oh, I don't know that thing. And also I'm thinking, why would you want that thing?
1:03.1	Well, this is why you have to use it carefully. Why would you want no one to lie to you? That feels so
1:08.3	scary to me. No, no, no, not no one to lie to you. If there's a particular person and context where you don't want someone to lie to you about something.
1:15.1	Okay. Great. Okay. Ooh, that's so exciting. Okay. We in the last episode, Abby identified
1:23.3	her lying language as bullshitter. Bullshitter.
1:29.2	Like just someone who makes shit up.
1:32.1	Briefly, how would you describe it, babe?
1:37.9	In my need to want to seem smarter than I am to know more than I do.
1:41.3	Everything that comes on my mouth sometimes is not fact driven.
1:42.2	Okay.
1:43.4	It's puffery.
1:44.7	And that makes total sense that you came from the soccer world.
1:47.5	If people had to be like,
1:48.3	you think you're going to win this game.
1:49.5	Of course,
1:50.0	you had to be like,
1:51.0	hell yeah,
1:51.6	we're going to win this game.
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