We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle - The Time Glennon & Abby Called It Off – and Live Pod Squad Q&A!

Episode Date: July 14, 2022

1. How horrifying advice from a therapist led Glennon to end things with Abby–and how they reconnected. 2. The moments from past episodes that changed us–including Amanda’s new strategy to prevent her anxiety from creating relationship problems. 3. How we decide what to share publicly and what not to–and why we think the dichotomy of “sacred things” versus “private things” is dangerous.                 4. Simple guidance to a man who asks how to stand in the fight for women’s rights, a question from 68-year-old Donna that we can’t stop thinking about, and the story of Tish’s We Can Do Hard Things song. 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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about it. This part that we're hearing today was especially fun for us because we got to see some of your beautiful faces and of course here, your incredibly insightful questions. We also each shared the episode that we can't stop thinking about and I actually can't stop thinking about the one caller who asked Abby what it was like for her to be waiting for me to figure out if we should or should not be together. All right, let's jump back into our live one year anniversary celebration. I'm so excited to move on to our Q&A's from our Pod Squatters. We have a lot of access.

But also I'm going to do something really quick. Oh, yes. If you have any of the questions you want to call in because we just want to keep this for the next year, as it's been this year, just like a constant conversation. And we want to hear what you want to hear about. And we want to talk about what you want to talk about. And now that we have a fancy new segment, apparently, we're going to need to do that too. Tell me more. This is the phone number 747-205307-747-205307. Boom, boom, boom, boom.

Let's hear from Karen. Hey, Glenn and Abby and Amanda. This is Karen White from Panama City, Florida. I'm curious if you have a favorite episode, the one that surprised you the most. I'll start. Cool. Go for it. My favorite episode was my hard thing, episode 70, because this is the one that you shared

about your relapse in Belémia. And, you know, I watched you process from the moment you told me that it was happening to the time that you recorded it. And that was a beautiful one step after another process, vulnerable, hard, true. And as like your protector, I like to think of myself that way, leading up to this telling of it made me very nervous. I kept asking you, are you sure you want to do this? And I have to say that as I sat in this exact seat and

I was looking at you, watching you do it, the world out there might not know, but our marriage vows of trust and communication and truth and honesty. Those are vows that run through, they're the thread and the fabric that runs through all of our life. It's what keeps the sober, it's what keeps our life moving. And I witnessing that, honoring of not just those vows, but the sacred vow that you have with your own self is it was just magic. I just felt so and pride is such a weird word like I was proud of you. I just felt so close to you. And it made me like fall in love with you in a different way and it made me trust you even more. So I don't know, it's like one of those things when you have to tell a really hard truth, we don't do it as often as maybe we should because we fear that somebody will

think that we are untrustworthy. But really, it is the stepping stone to gaining people's trust. Like, especially when it's hard. Yeah, I get that. And yes, so many people now stop me in the streets and thank me on your behalf because of their own personal situation. Oh, that's beautiful. Yeah. Thanks, babe.

I'll go. I have one. Okay, what about you, but we used to see we've been lucky enough to do four podcasts with Dr. Brane Brown. Episode 83 was mine. We were talking in that one about communicating with our partners and this phenomenon, which I'm sure will be foreign to everyone of partners seeming utterly non-plussed about things

that we have a lot of feelings about. So for example, how everything is going to get done, that needs to get done, and why it's running through. My head is incessantly and with growing alarm, and appearing to decidedly not be running through your head because apparently you can do things like, you know, take a nap. And I think that I won't be able to sleep

for the rest of my life. We're talking about that and how it all leads to anger and resentment and communication that becomes anger and resentment and communication that becomes so painful and unmanageable for everyone involved. And she said something that clicked something for me. And she said, I'm so invested in not feeling out of control or being perceived as being out of control that it's hard for me to say, I'm feeling anxious and it's easier for me to say, fuck, are you still napping?

And then she said, I wonder, is it about fear and anxiety that I'm not managing, about fear and anxiety that I'm not managing, that I'm using control and criticism to manage my own fear and anxiety. Yes, that's good. And that clicks something for me because I know that the whole phenomenon is obviously about untenable, unequal mental loads and all of that structured gender bullshit. It is that.

And it is also for me about how it is harder for me to manage my own fear and anxiety. And it is easier for me to control and criticize my partner. Then it is for me to manage my anxiety and fear. And that if I didn't start trying to manage that, that we would be a death spiral because control and criticism are not working for either of us. They're toxic for both of us. And I know that's not the only thing it is,

but I've also started in those moments, like the moments where I feel the flood and I wanna be like, my instinct is like, fuck are you still napping? Or like, oh, it must be nice. Or like, why are you not stressed about this thing? I just tell myself, like, how much of this is about my anxiety and fear? And is there a way that I can take better care of myself

in this moment? That's good. Because that is what I, it's about, I think, most of the time. How's it working? Is it working? I think it's like that tiny little interstitial moment where I realized that there might be something for me to consider, to care for myself. And incidentally, it's also caring for my partner

because the criticism and the control won't manifest as much. But it's just kind of like, oh, what's the thing under the thing? Yeah. Like you're angry, but you're angry because you have this anxiety that he doesn't have. And that's why you're angry. And you feel you don't actually want him to have anxiety. I don't want, no, he has been, you don't have the anxiety that I have.

No, but like, so I don't want like an equal distribution of the burden that I have in terms of that mental, actually anxiety that I want neither of us to have. So it's more just about like, what can you do to cope better in this situation and can you use your words? To get what you need for that thing, to get what you need. Or give it to yourself, right? Because being pissed isn't giving yourself. No, it's not. It's giving yourself another job actually. And more to do energetically,

to be angry. It's like it's a you're saying a much more fancy smart way of like the whole when I realized that it must be nice. Must be nice to take a nap. Must be nice to be a joyful happy human being. Must be nice to have hobbies and things do things you like and smile. Like what you really mean is it must be nice. I would like that. How do I get that? Yeah. Yeah. I'm so sorry. I said, what about you episode that you can't stop

thinking about? Yeah, I like saying it that way because I do have to tell you, this is extra, maybe. But I value every one of these conversations that we have so much that I actually don't like it when people say, this was my favorite. Like it. It's like, what's your favorite kid? Although we know it's not exactly that. I think it's also as being somebody who does other people's podcasts.

It's like so vulnerable. You go on their thing and then you're like, oh my God, I hope people like it. And then, and then you like watch and see if people like it. And to me, I, I know I care so much about this podcast and every person that comes onto our podcast is so unbelievably vulnerable. And I don't like the hierarchy. It was what it was. Like every conversation was so exactly what it was supposed to be. It will hit somebody exactly the way it was supposed to. It'll be somebody's most important because of this one thing that was said or because of this.

I don't do any of the favorites or for myself, it just feels really important to me. So I mean, truly, my two, I think that one that I really will never stop thinking about was the one that we did the chase and I did with Ocean Wong. Sister and I, our feelings are not heard about it at all. Yeah, I know it was so beautiful. Beautiful, beautiful.

But if you haven't listened to it, it's Ocean Wong is a poet and just like, poet isn't the right word. I mean, it is, but he's just an incredible thinker and human being and feeler and noticer and, and he's a queer person and he, my son is queer and he, my son is queer and he, my son is Japanese and ocean is Vietnamese. And we just had a talk about a lot of the racism

that ocean faced growing up and a lot of the racism that chased face that my son faced growing up. And it was a really interesting situation to think about the fact that Ocean had a mother who prepared him for all of that and chased not have that. I didn't do anything to prepare chase for being a brown kid in America. I was out in the world doing my best to like do anti-racism work. And I was not helping my son who I stared at all

day and thought about nonstop obsessively. And so it's, I have no, I'm not, I'm on the landing about it. Like I'm stunned by it. I, it is a amazing what whiteness can do. Like the way that it can just convince you that your child, your whiteness has rubbed off on him and he will not experience. It's baffling to me. It also has made me feel so close to every mother or parent who felt like they did something or missed something or screwed something up

that they will never be able to get back. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not beating myself up about it. I'm right. I just feel solidarity with every mother who's been like, oh, where was I? And I can't get that one back.

But how awesome for you to have this conversation with Ocean and Chase on this podcast. Yeah, it was amazing. It was amazing. It's just, I have not gotten any like new wisdom about it. I'm just stunned by the whole thing and it was so beautiful to me to be able to do that with chase. And then of course, the other one I can't stop thinking about is are all the ones gender with a loake. I'm completely fully obsessed with gender. Like Abby can't even handle. It's like the waiter comes over and it's like,

here are the specialists, you have any questions. And I'm like, do you feel like gender's inherent thing that was born in you? I'm so, and they're like, do you feel it? Every, every podcast, I'm like, wait, wait, it's almost, do you come in? Do you come in? Do you come in?

Do you come in? Do you come in? Do you come in? Do you come in? Do you come in? Do you come in? Do you come in? Do you come in? Do you come in? You're on the inside. It's endlessly fascinating to me. I can't stop. I just, and I'm just like, the girls friends over. I'm like, so you're a girl. You think you're a girl and they're like, yeah, and I'm like, but how do you know?

And she's like, I can't do this anymore. She's like, I'm not gonna bring my friends over anymore if you wanna get into gender dynamics in conversation. So those, a low, 74 and 75, I'm called day long. Get out of town. Oh, Day Long.

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I'm Jonathan M. Hevar. I'm a podcast producer and someone who likes fancy things. But I grew up working class. My parents were immigrants with factory jobs. And because of that, I think about class a lot. And I want to talk about it. That's what we're doing on my new podcast, Classy. And what did you all eat?

You know, trailer food. I was like, Girl, why not doing that anymore? You'll hear from people who told me awkward, embarrassing, and strangely intimate things about what class means to them. She said, you know, for the house cleaner, I hide the tag on the $6 bread. And I just thought, don't you think she knows that you're wealthy? You're hiding the tags from yourself. Classy.

A new podcast from Pineapple Street Studios. Available now, wherever you get your podcasts. question. Let's hear from Pasha. Hi, Glennon, Abby, and Amanda, my name is Pasha Marlow, and happy anniversary. And thank you for being part of my life for the last year, every Tuesday and Thursday. I'm excited to wake up, and sometimes you are in bed with me, because I've been so many on three and four in the morning, I begin to play the day's episode and you're just there on my pillow and I'm enjoying you while I snuggle in and start the day with your with your wise and witty words. I wanted to ask you as a fellow teacher, healer, therapist, coach. teacher, healer, therapist, coach.

I wanted to know whether or not it's hard for you not to share things right away. Like as soon as I learned something interesting, I just get very excited to share it with the world. I have a hard time holding it in. I have a hard time not sharing my own personal information. I tend to be extremely unfiltered and I lead with vulnerability and courage. And sometimes I wonder if anything is sacred,

if anything is private anymore, I share my grief, I share my fears, I share my angst, I feel, I share my ache. And I just wonder if you deal with that as well. Or if there are any things that you do keep private and sacred, no, that's a strange question because then you would be sharing them if you said, I'm curious if there are things you don't have to say which one. I'm going to share all the things that I keep

sacred and private. Here I go. Oh my God. I love it because that would be odd because let me be sharing them. Okay. This is fascinating for me because I feel like this is a common way of thinking that things are either private and sacred or they are things that you share. Like that there, those are mutually exclusive things. So like if you share something, it's by definition not sacred. And if it's sacred, you don't share it. And I actually think it's possible to think about it the opposite way. Sometimes the sharing of something is the honoring of it as sacred, the original meaning of sacred is like to consecrate, make whole. This is a sacred thing. And that's what I feel like often sharing what would be secrets is. I'm always surprised when people are like, oh my gosh, I can't believe you share that. But it's

because I don't think things like getting cheated on and getting left and feeling rage and resentment and struggling hard and having kids that are not what I expected them to be and having deep and painful regrets. Those are not what I understand as private things. I just think they are actually near universal human experiences. And for me, it's a way of consecrating those messy realities by taking them out of their private shadows. Yes. And putting them where they rightfully belong, which is as thoroughly human experiences.

Yes. So, I feel like what happened is that somewhere along the line, sacred came to mean this like something that must not be criticized. And that is dangerous because it asks us to defend this infallible image. And so if you admit to being human inside of your relationship or yourself or any institution, you're like breaking the rules of sacredness. But that is just loneliness and shame. Yes. Is the result of that because everything wholly is a complicated journey that we need honesty and community to experience fully. Me too.

So, I think that that Pasha's question is anything private and sacred, or do you have to share it all? It's like, for me, the best understanding of sacred that I can have is, like, to hold with great respect. And I feel like I hold myself with great respect. And it's precisely because of my respect for my own humanity and this faith that we're all connected in that humanity that I can share the things. And I trust that I am not irredeemably effed. Or that if I am, we are all irredeemably effed. your reaction. Yeah. Yeah. And I will say though that after over the last couple of months, I have been challenged in what Pasha was sharing because I am learning what it means to hold my husband

and our marriage with great respect. And there have been some things that I have shared that did not feel like it meant that mark for him. And so I'm having to learn to navigate that and also come to terms with what is holy mine. Yes. My own story, what is our story, what is his story, and this idea that holding each of those with great respect might be very different, but it doesn't mean that I respect one any less. That's beautiful. Wow. I love that. And just one more spin on it. I just want to add that as you're talking, I'm thinking the things that you said parenting is a different thing than I thought it would be being cheated on the overwhelm of life. These are all women's issues too.

There's an edge on every time somebody says, isn't anything sacred? Don't you keep it to yourself? That's what they've been saying to women forever. Like that's why during the second wave of feminism, when people start having consciousness raising groups, where people would get together and talk about their individual issues, people would be like, oh, the girls are at therapy,

they're going to their therapy. Like, why do they have to share those things? Because when women start to actually talk about their private issues, we learn that they're not private issues. That's right. Their issues and relationships, issues in parenting, issues in education,

issues in our bodies, menopause, all these things that we do, you see what we're doing with this podcast, is we might be talking about personal things and isn't anything sacred, but what we learn when we bring them forward is that their sacred is hell. They're just not shameful. They're all women's issues and when we get together and we don't stay siloed about them, and we say, yeah, they're personal and sacred, that's why we're talking about them. Then we realize that many of these problems

that we have are not personal failings, they are systematic failings. Yep. And then when we can talk about them and talk about change and so yes, to all of it. And Pasha, thank you for that beautiful question. Let's hear from Angelique. Hi, Glennon, Abby and Amanda.

My name is Angelique and my question is for Abby and my question is, I'm wondering what it was like for Abby in the waiting for Glenin. I know we all know this story and everything, but I wonder what it was like knowing that the two of you were in love with each other and not knowing whether or not you were going to end up together. And I'm wondering what would have happened if Glenin you had decided to stay, would you have been friends still, would that have even been possible? Of course, thankfully that didn't happen. I'll be deprived of this beautiful union. Okay, thanks so much for your time. I love the podcast. I love everything you're all doing and

always looking forward to the next thing, especially the next live thing, like in person. I love you. I love you. We love you. Thank you, Angelique. So I don't know if you wrote the full story about this and untamed, but do you want to tell the first bit of the story where you called?

Well, I'll tell you, you called me the blow jobs. Yeah, you called me and you told me that you'd just gone to a therapy session and that your therapist recommended to give more blow jobs. Well, okay, hold on. Context! Context. I told her I was in love with you. Yes. With a woman. She said this is just this is that idea. This is the person that there was who had been with me and Craig forever and tried to get us through the infidelity and we she had thought she had fixed us. And then I come in and say I'm in love with a woman. Basically, I was like, if you won't let me be with this woman, I'm at least not having sex with Craig anymore. I can't do it anymore.

I'm dead inside. Every time I want to die, I can't do it anymore. And she said, have you considered blow jobs? If I can't have my cake, I'm not going to eat it too. Yeah, it's what it's like. So I don't like what? And she goes, well, many women consider them to be less intimate. Anyway, this in the book, immediately, I think I have an epiphany.

In real life, it took me a minute. I was like, what is she saying? Maybe she's right. Maybe I'm broken. Maybe this isn't real. And so you called me and told me about this. But then she also said that you needed to take six months and not talk to you and not talk to me for six months. Yeah, and I remember I was sitting in the parking lot of the golf course. I was going to play golf at and I remember being like, hmm. I was enraged by the advice that she gave you.

Not the six months, the the BJ part. And I thought, okay, well, if this is what you need, I'm going to honor whatever you want, you know, the children, your marriage, that mattered to me. And I wanted to honor it. And so I said, okay, if in six months, you still want to pursue this, then let's meet somewhere and we will figure it out. But I want you to know something that I will not be your friend. I will not text you, I will not call you. I cannot do that.

That's not what this is. This is more important than maintaining a faux friendship. Like there's no way I can do anything other is more important than maintaining a faux friendship. Like, there's no way I can do anything other than love with you. We said goodbye. And that was a really hard day. I was heartbroken big time. And what happened next?

Pulse happened. The next day, I think. Yeah, I think it was the next day. And so the shooting in Florida, Orlando, in Orlando. Yeah, in Orlando. Orlando, yeah. Where a man walked into a gay bar

and just started shooting. And maybe it wasn't the next day. Maybe it was like a few days later. Anyway, it was right. It was close. And I still don't know what, why? I, why that just, I just remember watching it on the news and just, you went there.

You went there. I did go there. And she was texting me pictures there. And I was like, I told her that we can't be texting, but this big thing happened. And then you had told sister in and around this time. And so then one of your texts was like a nine-one-one text, you were like,

I really need to talk to you. Some really weird stuff is going on. And I'm just joking about the six months. I meant approximately six and a half hours. Yeah. And it was like I just had, I was like, oh, I can't live without her. I can't live without her.

And the whole thing, I don't know, it just made me, it was the first time I'd ever experienced anything like that while feeling part of the community to whom it happened. That's really interesting. And I couldn't relate to anybody else about it except for you. Yeah. So that was the day that we decided we were going to not go to that therapist anymore and we were going to do it. Yeah. Yeah. I love you. I love you too. I really was so sad though. I was so and I understood and I was also so heartbroken when you were like, okay, we if this is meant to be it will be in six months. I know. And but it's okay. We're here now. I know. Okay. I can see her going down a rabbit. She's right. She's got a

wild car right now. So upset. So upsetting. But note to everyone from people who are huge, huge supporters of therapy. It is important to remember, you have to have a sense of self that rejects things that are hurtful to you. You are not allowed to turn off your intuition and yourself just because somebody has a degree. Not every therapist is for every person. Right, you have to find the right therapist for you. Okay, let's hear from Kyle. Hello, Glen and sister and Abby. My name is Kyle. My wife turned me on to your podcast last fall. And I since have lapped her and now I've listened to all of the episodes and she's a few behind, you know, not trying to brag or anything. I love your show and I love what you all are doing.

My question I have for you is, so I have a lot of female friends. You know, my wife and I talk about your show a lot and we actually just saw Ashley see Ford at a speaking event last week that these things are really important to me and I'm curious as a man, what can I do in my everyday life to not only advocate for women but you know, also help men do better. Kyle. Did he say that he left his wife? Okay, that's what I thought at first. I thought this was gonna go a different direction.

But I think he said I laughed. Laugh her. Like he left her in the dust and lived listening to more podcasts. Laugh her. Is when sporty space is go fast and past. Okay. Twice.

Okay, okay, okay. Proceed, thank you. So, first of all, bless your heart, Kyle. Second of all, when Kyle was talking, I think that when a man or someone with like more power and privilege than people, anyone does in a culture, asks you to honest question like that, it is a gift to be honest back. When somebody like Kyle, I feel comfortable telling the truth to because he's earned that. Yeah. So what I'm gonna say to Kyle is the truth,

and I hope that Kyle holds it with the gift that it is as he's earned this truth. Kyle's question, and when men ask me that question, it reminds me very much of what Dr. Blay, Dr. Yabba Blay, who just please listen to Dr. Yabba Blay's episode, said to us about how she feels when white people ask her how to be an ally. What she said was that it is very confusing to her when white women always need to have seminars and IG lives and questions about like what do we do to, you know, stop the killing and stop the injustice and stop all of it. She told us that she felt like that was a confusing thing that we would need

to be taught empathy or taught what justice looks like or taught. She said when animals need to be protected or when your people need to be protected, you don't have to have diversity training. You don't have to like, you just know what to do because empathy tells you what to do because you fight like your life is on, you know, at stake because it is. But you don't see yourself in me and it says it's seem as important so that you have to have training for it. And so I think what would be amazing and important is if men would get together and figure out for themselves what they would do if their bodily autonomy were under attack, if they were being sexually assaulted at unbelievable rates,

if they were constantly at risk and constantly seconds to class citizens, what would they do? And then do that thing. Because it's a double responsibility then for women to feel all the rage, to feel to process being second class citizens, to process all of it and then to teach them what to do. And so when I feel all the time, when I feel that to men, it makes me remember that that is how I am to black women, to women of color, like whatever annoyance or rage or disbelief I have that men are not organizing like their families are on fire is the exact same way that Black women likely feel that white women are not organizing like our lives are on fire. That's right Because it's pretty simple act like it's happening to you

Like it's happening to you. Right. I like it's happening to you. That's good. If you want to know how to act, act like it's happening to you. And then it's humbling because I'm not acting like my kids are getting pulled over and shot by a cops. Like I'm not acting like that's happening to me. And so it's a challenge to all of us. And to not pretend that asking the people who are under attack, what to do, is part of doing something.

Yep. And also Kyle, love ya? Yes, good job, Kyle. We really do. I mean, I, you know, when Yama has told good job, Kyle. We really do. I mean, you know, when Yava has told us that, when she's able to share, it's because she trusts us to handle it and she, like on that podcast, she said, like Kyle, we told you that because you are a man

who we thought deserved to hear the gift of the truth. Yeah. Not for nothing. The claiming of women's bodies as a means of production of the state through the action that is very likely to come down from the Supreme Court overturning row. You don't even have to act like it's happening to you, man. It very much is happening to you. Abortion as medical care is a man's issue too. Yes, right.

Because 100% of the time, that is what's happening. Yeah, and we know men know how to get organized. 100% of the time, that is what's happening. Yeah, and we know men know how to get organized. I mean, so, you know, they're starting, doing startups all the time. Like get together and make a plan, unleash your venture capital selves or whatever it is that they, you know, like just do the organizing, figure it out and then just do it.

And that would be great. Okay, we're gonna move on to Donna. Yeah, we've got Donna. Hi, my name is Donna Ritterman and my question is, do you think any of this, including all of the podcasts, are relevant for a 68-year-old person? I think it's too late to change. And that my chance would have been a long time ago. But I'm just curious about what you think. Thank you. Donna, I love me some Donna,

and I have so much reverence for folks who are older than me. Yeah. I always have. I really feel like the stories that they carry with them are our stories. And I don't believe that it is ever too old to change. And I think what she's saying, like what I hear is, does it matter? Like what I hear from her is, I'm listening, my mind is opening, but does it matter? It's like, our culture really can do a number on an older woman.

It makes us feel like we are so irrelevant at a certain point. Like when we're no longer producing what the culture wants us to produce, whether that's children or whether that's work or whatever, it's a beautiful question. When a 68 year old woman has an awakening, does anybody hear it? I love that question. I do too.

I think it's revolutionary. I do too. And I think that a 68 year old woman who is willing to be open to change gives the possibility for a 58 year old woman to know that change is possible for her in her 60s. I just think that it is all so relevant to all of us because we are discarded after the time where we can birth children or I mean we've heard the Metapos episode.

It's just my mom texted about every single episode. She listened to my mom's, hi mama, she's listening right now. Here's what I think we should do because we don't know. text us about every single episode. She listens to my mom's, hi mama, she's listening right now. Here's what I think we should do, because we don't know. I think if you are 68 years old, if you're like 65 or older, let's get a group going.

Let's do it. Email sister, say some email words. Okay, okay. And then here is what we'll do, because look, we just about like consciousness raising groups like Donna and a bunch of her badass cheetahs should just talk to each other. Yes, I will kick you off I will come to your first meeting. Oh, and kick off that goddamn sheet of Emails, okay, so if you are 60 or older.

Oh, 60, okay. Yeah, we're just, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll to receive your emails at WCDHT. That seems weird, but it's we can do her things the first letters. WCDHT pod. That's POD at gmail.com. Email us. We have enough interest. We will set up a group. Connect you all. I love the idea because remember what

Aston Applegate was talking with at the anti-aging episode. It's like the siloing of generations is the same as the siloing of of genders, of women. It's like, I want to learn from Donna. We're all walking around. We don't even learn from the people who already done all the shit we're trying to do. We're all just reinventing the wheel. I would love to learn from some donnas.

I love it. I think we might have to go to our last question. Okay. Okay. So we have Christine. Hi, Abby and Glen and Amanda. I'm so excited to celebrate the one-year anniversary of your podcast and it is also the one-year anniversary of when I started chemo. My very first chemo was last year on May 11th,

my birthday eve and I listened to that podcast sitting in the chair and I think many things hit me that day but especially the song and it still brings me to tears every episode. I just wanted to ask you how that song has been instrumental in the podcast and how it has touched you guys too. Thanks so much for all the work you're doing. Christine. Christine, I'm so grateful that we ended with this question because the amount of hard things that people have gone through this year, it's just this one little year since we

started this. I mean, people who have written to us and posted the chemo, the divorces, the losses, the deaths, the friendships, the all the things that we've gone through together, and that this community has, I don't know, we've been a little bit of a touch tree for each other during that time. And the song, just for those of you who don't know that, Tish wrote that song based on some of the Tish are daughter. Yeah. And then she is based on some of the ideas from Untamed. And then she sent it to our friend Brandi Carlisle

and Brandi produced it up. And I still, it's still, I actually can't listen to it sometimes because it makes me have too many feelings. I will, I have to be in a really good place to listen to the whole thing. So I know what you mean Christine. It's a bit of an anthem, a bit of a lullaby for all of us and Christine happy birthday. Yes, and happy making it through chemo happy being a badass. I just

being a badass, I just realized that Christine's anniversary of her chemo is today the same as our podcast and it's our birthday and it's Christine's birthday. It's like a cosmic moment. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you, Christine. And we can do our things. Happy birthday to you. Christine, we love you.

Thank you, thank you. I want to ask a favor of the pod squad. Oh, my mama is going through a health thing right now. And don't worry, I got her approval to say this, but I'm asking for prayers for my mother, Judy. And we're all actually all three of us are wearing our Mary Medallion. Because Mary is has, has Judy's back big, big, big figure and she likes prayers. And so please pray for my mama over the next week or so. She needs it and thank you. Nana, you've got cheetahs sending you all the strength and love.

And look at what you raised. You made this one. You can get through this week. We love you so much. Y'all, guess what you did? What? We did it. You did your second live event. We did it. We did it. We did it. You've done it. We love you so much. Y'all, that's what you did. What? We did it. You did your second live event.

We did it. We did it. We did it. You've done it. We love you. We love you so much. We're so grateful. We really are.

This is very real and true and important to us. And you are not alone. You are not alone. We're going to keep doing this. Yeah. We can do hard things. We can do hard things. We will see you back here just in a couple short days. Don't forget this week when life gets hard you can do hard things.

We're with you. We love you all so much. I give you Tish Melton and Brandy Carlyle. And I continue to believe that I'm the one for me, and because I mine, I walk the line. Cause we're adventurous and heartbreak So man, a final destination That we stopped asking directions Some places they've never been And to be loved we been to be loved. We need to be known. We'll finally find our way back home. And through the joy and pain that our lives bring.

We can do a heartache I hit rock bottom, it felt like a brand new star I'm not the problem sometimes things fall apart and I continue to believe the best people are free and it took some time but I'm finally fine because we're adventurers in heartbreak some man a final destination with land've stopped asking directions So places they've never been Can to be loved we need to be known We'll finally find a way back home

And through the joy and pain That our lives spring We can do hard things This world finished her rose and heart breaks on my way. But we're only in that Stopped asking directions Some places they've never been And to be loved we need to be loved We'll finally find our way back home And through the joy and pain That our lives breathe

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