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With more than half a billion plays, We Can Do Hard Things is a hilarious, raw, comforting “support system for braving the everyday.” The Pod Squad goes hard ($56 Million raised in global aid) and stays soft: meet here on Tuesdays to laugh, talk, and cry our way through the pain and magic of being human.
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1. Why Emily couldn’t stop crying (and it wasn’t because she was emotional).
2. The intervention that got Emily sober – and why Amy wasn’t there.
3. Glennon admits something that she’s never told anyone before.
4. Amy and Abby agree on the shared cost of internalized homophobia and misogyny.
About Indigo Girls:
One of the most successful folk duos in history – Amy Ray and Emily Sailers aka THE INDIGO GIRLS – has recorded 16 albums and sold over 15 million records.
Committed and uncompromising activists, they work on issues like immigration reform, LGBTQ advocacy, education, and death penalty reform. They are co-founders of Honor the Earth, a non-profit dedicated to the survival of sustainable Native communities, Indigenous environmental justice, and green energy solutions.
Their latest record, Look Long is a stirring and eclectic collection of songs that finds Indigo Girls reunited in the studio with their strongest backing band to date.
IG: @indigogirlsmusic, @emilysaliers & @amyraymusic
TW: @Indigo_Girls, @EmilySaliers & @AmyRay
1. The moment Abby – as Christen’s USWNT roommate – walked into their hotel room and knew Christen was very different than any soccer player she’d ever known.
2. The boundary that helps Christen love her people while protecting herself.
3. Christen’s take on death and how to keep the people we’ve lost alive in our lives.
4. How to show our people (including our little athletes) that we love them for who they are, not what they achieve.
5. The day Christen knew she was ready to fight for – and win – pay equity for the US Women’s National Team.
About Christen:
Christen Press is a two-time World Cup Champion and Olympian, as well as a leading forward at Los Angeles Angel City FC. An entrepreneur and advocate for inclusivity, Christen, along with US Women’s National teammates – Megan Rapinoe, Tobin Heath, and Meghan Klingenberg – launched their company re—inc, a purpose-driven, global lifestyle brand. Christen was one of the key players leading the charge for the “Equal Play, Equal Pay” campaign to highlight the pay discrepancy between the women’s and men’s national teams, which led to the new CBA agreement – and to her role as Player Representative for the US Women's National Team Players Association.
IG: @christenpress
1. How to embody your authority while also validating your kid’s experience.
2. The #1 strategy for building resilience.
3. Why consequences and punishments backfire and don’t work.
4. How to sit with your child on the “benches” of their emotions.
5. One thing you can say to your kids to build connection in any circumstance.
About Dr. Becky:
Dr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist and mom of three, named “The Millennial Parenting Whisperer” by TIME Magazine. She’s rethinking the way we raise our children – empowering parents to feel sturdier and more equipped to manage the challenges of parenting. Dr. Becky is founder of the Good Inside Membership platform, a hub with Dr. Becky’s complete parenting content collection all in one place; author of Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be, which is out this month. And her podcast “Good Inside with Dr. Becky” – was one of Apple Podcasts “Best Shows of 2021.”
TW: @goodinside
1. The 3 most important things to say to your kids and partners every day.
2. Why our kids trigger us – and a fail-proof strategy to use when you’re triggered.
3. Why “poorly-behaved kids” can be a sign of good parenting.
4. How to break family cycles by rewiring the way we were raised.
5. How to use Internal Family Systems to heal ourselves.
About Dr. Becky:
Dr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist and mom of three, named “The Millennial Parenting Whisperer” by TIME Magazine. She’s rethinking the way we raise our children – empowering parents to feel sturdier and more equipped to manage the challenges of parenting. Dr. Becky is founder of the Good Inside Membership platform, a hub with Dr. Becky’s complete parenting content collection all in one place; author of Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be, which is out this month. And her podcast “Good Inside with Dr. Becky” – was one of Apple Podcasts “Best Shows of 2021.”
TW: @goodinside
1. How to recognize when you’re dysregulated – so you can slow down and help yourself.
2. The beauty and wisdom in being judgmental, and how that saved Chani’s life.
3. The liberating idea that “The things that happened to me weren’t about me.”
4. How to set and trust boundaries in order to finally rest.
About Chani:
Chani Nicholas is a Los Angeles-based New York Times bestselling author of You Were Born For This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance.
She has been a counseling astrologer for more than 20 years, guiding her community of over 1 million monthly readers to discover and live out their life’s purpose through understanding their birth chart.
Chani runs her company with her wife and business partner, Sonya Passi. Together they launched the CHANI app, which offers a personalized, daily understanding of their birth chart.
TW: @chaninicholas
IG: @chaninicholas
1. “Weird Glennon” comes back to the pod and shares her #1 sanity strategy.
2. The rule Glennon and Abby set for their wedding week that made everything OK.
3. How Amanda stopped accepting assignments from strangers.
4. How Glennon discovered she couldn’t trust her thoughts – and found the part of herself she could trust.
5. How to know if your thinking is disordered, and how to reorient it to be more effective in your life, relationships, and world.
1. An Advocate, Commander, and Entertainer walk into a podcast – and each share how they feel about their labels.
2. Do personality types make you feel boxed in, or give you permission to be you?
3. How to decide when it’s important to work first and play later, or jump on a moment of joy and work later.
4. How Glennon as a strong F (Feeler) and Amanda as a strong T (Thinker) make business decisions together.
5. Can a personality be changed?
1. Our desperate desire to figure out: Why are we the way we are?
2. Why Abby once believed she was 100% extroverted, and the fear she uncovered that makes her think she’s not.
3. How what you think about when you see a cactus tells you a lot about your personality.
4. Why some of the best-known personality binaries are just silly – and corporately manufactured.
1. Deep dive into how it feels to not be in any of your family photos, why it happens, and how to change it.
2. A call-in question from a husband that made Amanda cry.
3. Reimagining “acts of service” and how to know whether actions belong in the “Adulting Bucket” or the “Love Bucket.”
4. Getting the kids to read over the summer went terribly, thanks for asking.
1. Five signs that you might have a boundary problem.
2. Why each of us should stop pretending we’re not a needy person.
3. How to stop arguing like a lawyer – and start communicating like a kindergartener – to get what you need.
4. How to know when to end an argument, how to exit a friendship, and how to respond to passive aggressiveness.
About Nedra:
Nedra Glover Tawwab, MSW, LCSW, is a New York Times best-selling author, licensed therapist, and sought-after relationship expert. She has practiced relationship therapy for 15 years and is the founder and owner of the group therapy practice, Kaleidoscope Counseling. Every day she helps people create healthy relationships by teaching them how to implement boundaries. Her philosophy is that a lack of boundaries and assertiveness underlie most relationship issues, and her gift is helping people create healthy relationships with themselves and others.
Nedra earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. She has additional certifications in working with families and couples and in perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, plus advanced training for counseling adults who've experienced childhood emotional neglect.
Nedra has appeared as an expert on Red Table Talk, The Breakfast Club, Good Morning America, and CBS Morning Show to name a few. Her work has been highlighted in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Vice and has appeared on numerous podcasts, including Good Life Project, Sofia with an F, and Therapy For Black Girls. She runs a popular Instagram account where she shares practices, tools, and reflections for mental health and hosts weekly Q&As.
TW: @NedraTawwab
IG: @nedratawwab
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