The Power of Rethinking Everything with Dr. Yaba Blay (Best Of)

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

1. Why the construct of beauty is oppressive, but the essence of beauty is freedom. 2. What living with integrity looks like. 3. Why Dr. Blay doesn’t need any more allies—and what she really wants from an accomplice. 4. How “Karens” have been around for centuries—and the direct line from “Miss Anne to Karen.” 5. Dr. Blay’s greatest hope for her granddaughters—even if she doesn’t like 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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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to we can do hard things.
0:14.1	It's a good day.
0:15.6	One of my favorite days.
0:16.3	I'm very excited.
0:17.3	She's very excited.
0:17.8	We're all very excited.
0:18.5	I'm already sweating from excitement.
0:20.0	Sissy, I know you've been real excited for this day. excited. She's very excited. We're all very excited. I'm already sweating from excitement.
0:28.2	Sissy, I know you've been real excited for this day. Yeah. Very much so. Yeah, because I have had a secret friend that you don't know. All right. I know it's so, but, but I do. You know, she just doesn't
0:36.3	know that I'm her friend. Yes. Because I have watched everything that she's ever done but I do. You know. She just doesn't know that I'm her friend.
0:37.7	Yes.
0:38.1	Because I have watched everything that she's ever done and read everything she's ever done.
0:42.4	But so I have a friend.
0:44.1	Yeah.
0:44.5	She just doesn't have the same friend in me.
0:46.6	Yeah.
0:47.0	It's a one-sided friendship.
0:49.7	But today we're going to make it two-sided because today one of our favorite humans on this planet Earth is here. And it is a great honor of yours to meet her. Okay. Dr. Yaba Blay is an author,
1:08.5	producer, scholar, and consultant born and raised in New Orleans,
1:11.9	Taganean parents.
1:13.7	Dr. Blay earned two master's degrees and then a PhD in African American Studies.
1:18.5	Her first book, One Drop, Love that book.
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