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Life is freaking hard. We are all doing hard things every single day – things like loving and losing; caring for children and parents; forging and ending friendships; battling addiction, illness, and loneliness; struggling in our jobs, our marriages, and our divorces; setting boundaries; and fighting for equality, purpose, freedom, joy, and peace.
On We Can Do Hard Things, Glennon Doyle, author of UNTAMED; her wife Abby Wambach; and her sister Amanda Doyle do the only thing they’ve found that has ever made life easier: Drop the fake and talk honestly about the hard things including sex, gender, parenting, blended families, bodies, anxiety, addiction, justice, boundaries, fun, quitting, overwhelm . . . all of it.
We laugh and cry and help each other carry the hard so we can all live a little bit lighter and braver, free-er, less alone.

We Can Do Hard Things Glennon Doyle and Audacy

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Life is freaking hard. We are all doing hard things every single day – things like loving and losing; caring for children and parents; forging and ending friendships; battling addiction, illness, and loneliness; struggling in our jobs, our marriages, and our divorces; setting boundaries; and fighting for equality, purpose, freedom, joy, and peace.
On We Can Do Hard Things, Glennon Doyle, author of UNTAMED; her wife Abby Wambach; and her sister Amanda Doyle do the only thing they’ve found that has ever made life easier: Drop the fake and talk honestly about the hard things including sex, gender, parenting, blended families, bodies, anxiety, addiction, justice, boundaries, fun, quitting, overwhelm . . . all of it.
We laugh and cry and help each other carry the hard so we can all live a little bit lighter and braver, free-er, less alone.

    What ADHD Feels Like with Jaklin Levine-Pritzker

    What ADHD Feels Like with Jaklin Levine-Pritzker

    294. What ADHD Feels Like with Jaklin Levine-Pritzker

    ADHD coach and mental health advocate, Jaklin Levine-Pritzker, shares about her late-in-life ADHD diagnosis and what ADHD feels like day to day. Jak reveals the unique challenges faced by those – especially women and non-binary people – who don’t fit the stereotypical ADHD mold. We discuss the emotional impacts of ADHD, its benefits, and how people with ADHD can design a life that serves their brain's unique wiring instead of conforming to a neurotypical world.  

    Plus, Jak offers valuable advice for relationships between neurotypical and neurodivergent people.

    Also, check out: Ep 220 Why So Many Women Don’t Know They are Autistic with Katherine May and Ep 82 Hannah Gadsby: How to Communicate Better.

    About Jaklin:
    Jaklin Levine-Pritzker is an ADHD coach, mental health advocate, and founder of Authentically ADHD LLC – empowering thousands of ADHD’ers. Jak offers ideas on healing internalized shame and tools to build a life that actually works for the ADHD brain.

    She is passionate about normalizing and de-pathologizing what being human means, particularly a neurodivergent (and queer!) human.

    IG: @authenticallyadhd
    Website: http://www.authenticallyadhd.com

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    • 1 hr 14 min
    The One Question to Finally Let Go of Control with ALOK

    The One Question to Finally Let Go of Control with ALOK

    293. The One Question to Finally Let Go of Control with ALOK
    Alok Vaid-Menon is back exploring belonging, beauty, community, and the freedom in letting go of the need to control. Buckle up, podquad, this episode will change your life! 

    Discover: 


    How we can embrace the absurd chaos of life instead of struggling against it;

    The way to find energy to keep going through stress of life and politics;

    Why ALOK responds to hate with love, not because they want to be the bigger person, but because they want to win;

    How to create your own personal beauty playlist; and

    The power of being a living contraction, and how to find people who keep letting you change forever.     


    After you listen to this episode, be sure to check out our two prior episodes with ALOK: Episode 74 – ALOK: What makes us beautiful? What makes us free? & Episode 75 – ALOK: How do we interrupt trauma? How do we heal?

    Alok Vaid-Menon is an internationally acclaimed author, poet, comedian, and public speaker. As a mixed-media artist their work explores themes of trauma, belonging, and the human condition. They are the author of Femme in Public, Beyond the Gender Binary, and Your Wound/My Garden; and the creator of #DeGenderFashion: an initiative to degender fashion and beauty industries. 

    Alok is the subject of the documentary short film ALOK, which kicked off this year’s Sundance Film Festival Short Film Program and was directed by filmmaker Alex Hedison and executive produced by Jodie Foster.
     
    IG: @alokvmenon

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    • 1 hr 10 min
    What These Palestinian & Israeli Activists Need Us to Know: Standing Together’s Sally Abed & Alon-Lee Green

    What These Palestinian & Israeli Activists Need Us to Know: Standing Together’s Sally Abed & Alon-Lee Green

    Episode 292. What These Palestinian & Israeli Activists Need Us to Know: Standing Together’s Sally Abed & Alon-Lee Green 

    Sally Abed, an elected leader at Standing Together and Alon-Lee Green, the National co-Director and a founder of Standing Together, talk us through what is happening in Palestine and Israel right now, their own stories of growing up and living through it, and how we can help in their mission to bring liberation, equality, and peace to all who live on the land:

    - Why Palestinian liberation and Jewish safety are completely interconnected; 
    - Who’s really benefiting from the U.S. sending billions of dollars to the Israeli government;
    - The myths Americans have been taught about the Palestinian-Israeli crisis; 
    - Why Sally says it is vital that Americans not “sit out” the upcoming elections; and
    - How we can help the PEOPLE on the land today to secure a ceasefire, end the Israeli occupation of Palestine, bring the hostages home, and secure peace, liberation, and safety for all. 

    On Standing Together: 
    Standing Together is a grassroots movement mobilizing Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel in pursuit of peace, equality, and social and climate justice. While the minority who benefit from the status quo of occupation and economic inequality seek to keep us divided, we know that we — the majority — have far more in common than that which sets us apart. When we stand together, we are strong enough to fundamentally alter the existing socio-political reality. The future that we want — peace and independence for Israelis and Palestinians, full equality for all citizens, and true social, economic, and environmental justice — is possible. Because where there is struggle, there is hope.

    - To Learn More: https://www.standing-together.org/en
    - To Join their Mission: https://www.standing-together.org/friends 
    - To Give:  https://www.standing-together.org/donatehere
    - If you can attend their NYC event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fighting-for-peace-and-justice-standing-together-nyc-fundraiser-registration-849180350287

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    • 58 min
    Dr. Ford Debrief: Glennon & Amanda are Fired Up!

    Dr. Ford Debrief: Glennon & Amanda are Fired Up!

    Episode 291. Dr. Ford Debrief: Glennon & Amanda Are Fired Up

    Glennon, Abby and Amanda dive into their questions, struggles, and reactions to yesterday’s powerful interview with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford – including asking Why Are We Asked to Do the “Right” Thing for a System that Refuses to do Right by Us?


    How Amanda opened the dialogue with her kids about consent, sexual violence, and what happens when our leaders do the wrong thing – and how you can do the same;

    How those in power exploit our innate willingness to sacrifice; and 

    Whether we need to free ourselves from the burden of “Doing the right thing.” 


    Don’t miss our interview with Dr. Ford: Episode 290. Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Speaks Out

    CW: sexual assault and harassment .

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    • 47 min
    Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Speaks Out

    Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Speaks Out

    Episode 290. Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Speaks Out

    We all remember the moment we held our breath as Dr. Christine Blasey Ford courageously raised her right hand and spoke her truth in the Kavanaugh hearings.

    She takes us back to that moment – what led to it, and what followed:


    Why we should stop saying, “trust women” & “I believe you” – and what to do instead;

    Why we should shift our faith to the  “other them;” 

    How Professor Anita Hill made Dr. Ford’s courage and testimony possible; and

    The hope and heartbreak of being a woman in America. 


    Please come back tomorrow for a special episode debriefing this powerful conversation!

    Dr. Christine Blasey Ford is a professor of psychology at Palo Alto University and a clinical professor and consulting biostatistician at the Stanford University School of Medicine. On September 27, 2018, Dr. Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding her sexual assault in connection with the Committee’s consideration of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s lifetime confirmation to the United States Supreme Court. Following her testimony, Ford and her family endured constant intimidation, harassment, and death threats forcing them to move out of their home, living in various secure locales with guards. In 2019, she was named one of the 100 most influential people in Time 100.  Dr. Ford’s memoir, ONE WAY BACK, is available today.  

    CW: Sexual assault and harassment

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    • 1 hr 1 min
    289. The Sports: The Kind of Embarrassing Psychology of Winning & Losing

    289. The Sports: The Kind of Embarrassing Psychology of Winning & Losing

    Today we are talking about THE SPORTS. Podsquader Naomi calls in – confused, and slightly embarrassed – about how distraught she is over the loss of her new favorite sports team, asking how to handle it and what, exactly, is going on with her? 

    Glennon, Abby and Amanda attempt to answer: What IS it about The Sports that makes it so damn emotional?   

    We go into:

    The psychology of why our bodies are taken over when our favorite team (or our kid!) is playing; 

    Glennon’s recent suboptimal moment with a referee, 

    Why Amanda truly believes she is has a JOB while watching games; and 

    The way Abby creates an “energy shift” to help her kids win.



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    • 51 min

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MadameLilac ,

Standing Together episode

Thank you so much for dedicating an episode to the struggle of the Palestinians. I know you will inevitably receive quite a bit of misdirected backlash for this episode, which I’m sorry for. As a Palestinian American and avid listener of your show I am so grateful that you have invited guests who have shed light on the situation not only in Gaza, but in Israel and Occupied Palestine, from a point of view outside of the incredibly biased mainstream US news. The terrible mistreatment of Palestinians has been largely ignored in the mainstream west for decades - and has made those of us who are members of the Palestinian diaspora feel quite isolated and gaslight by the media in the US - and I am so so thankful for figures such as yourselves for using your platform to provide heart-centered, intelligent insight and education to your audience members who truly may not know the details of the injustices that are US funded occurring in Israel against Palestinians.

I love all of your episodes, I connect with them so deeply (especially as an enneagram 4 ☺️) and your support of organizations such as Standing Together completely confirms for me that you all have hearts of gold ❤️

Bluebeads ,

Thank you

I’m a new listener- listened to your Palestine and Israel episode. Thank you!!! I’m now eagerly looking and wanting to listen to all of your other episodes! A new refreshing favorite podcast I can get behind!

blarn410 ,

Very disappointed

I used to be obsessed, and I feel a bit heartbroken. I’m uncomfortable with more recent episodes. I feel like this podcast has turned into Glennon worship. Recent talk about Together Rising has made it sound like Glennon started the charity by herself. I don’t love the idea of an HBO show about her. Now she’s promoting her daughter’s EP. This all feels a little self-aggrandizing. More disturbing, I don’t like the way Glennon celebrates her depression. Many depressed people (and I am one of them) think at one time or another that their disease makes them special. That it makes them understand the world better. Glennon seems to believe she is just more sensitive and feeling — or better— than the rest of us. And that’s why she’s so sad. No. Depression is a disease and it kills. Please do not glamorize it or call it “godness”. Thoroughly enjoyed Glennon getting checked multiple times in the most recent Israel/palestine ep. Because she has the foreign policy and political views of a 16-year-old. She is simply unsmart. Certainly too dumb to ask intelligent questions of intelligent people.

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