Why Am I Like This? | Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach

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Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Why even self-help authors can still be messy.

Glennon Doyle is the CEO and Founder of Treat Media, an award-winning media company that makes art for humans who want to stay human. She is an author, podcaster, producer, and philanthropist. Her books include the #1 New York Times bestsellers Untamed and Love Warrior; the New York Times bestseller Carry On, Warrior; and Get Untamed: The Journal.

Abby Wambach is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, FIFA World Cup champion, six-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award and one of Time’s Most Influential People. She is a founder of Treat Media, and the author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Wolfpack and the New York Times bestseller Forward.

In this episode we talk about:

A time of significant personal struggles that happened simultaneously for Glennon, Abby, and Glennon's sister, Amanda
How that led to them writing a book about the fundamental life questions they believe everyone grapples with
Why people in the self help world don’t always have their shit together
Why trauma leads to dissociation
How to “go on” after the experience of grief
Why we are the way we are
Family roles, attachment theory, and learned behaviors
The possibility of personal change
Our thoughts on the latest season of the White Lotus
And much more

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0:00.0	It's the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris.
0:07.7	Hey, gang, how we doing? There are many reasons why I enjoyed this conversation, but perhaps
0:24.2	chief among them is that I personally feel a special kinship with people who write self-help books
0:30.9	and yet who are still very willing to admit that they continued to occasionally be a fuck-up.
0:36.5	Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach are each stars in their own right.
0:40.8	Glennon is a huge best-selling author of books such as Untamed.
0:44.3	Abby is a two-time Olympic gold medalist in soccer and also a best-selling author in her own right.
0:50.2	And together with Glennon's sister Amanda, they host a huge hit podcast called We Can Do Hard Things.
0:57.0	And they are now out with a new book, also called We Can Do Hard Things, where they talk about 20 of life's biggest questions.
1:05.1	In this conversation, we talk about a time of significant personal struggles that happened pretty much simultaneously for Glennon,
1:12.5	Abby, and Glennon's sister, Amanda, which led them to writing this book. We talk about why people
1:18.6	in the self-help world don't always have their shit together, why trauma leads to dissociation,
1:23.1	how to go on after the experience of grief, why we are the way we are, family roles, attachment
1:30.1	theory, and learned behaviors, the possibility of personal change, and our thoughts on the latest
1:36.3	season of White Lotus.
1:38.2	Before we get started, I just want to let you know about something.
1:40.5	Very cool that we're going to be doing in the second half of May.
1:43.4	We are going to be doing a live second half of May. We are going to be doing
1:44.7	a live meditation mini-series each weekday from Monday, May 19th to Friday, May 23rd at 4 p.m. Eastern.
1:53.1	I will be leading a short guided meditation, and then I'll be taking your questions. The whole
1:57.4	mini-series is going to center around a set of practices that I often refer to as the Buddhist antidote to anxiety.
2:04.2	And I'm not making this up.
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