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1. Amanda presents a case for “summer rain” love—and rejects “lightning love” as the highest form of romantic love.
2. Glennon’s theory for when to speak up and when to shut up.
3. How Abby’s experience in a mostly male meeting showed her that “silent solidarity” is a cowardly lie.
4. The trick Glennon uses to communicate with highly sensitive kiddos. (Abby swears it works every time.)
1. Five communication ideas that might help us connect more deeply with people.
2. How Glennon feels that “everyone is talking but nobody is listening to each other ever” and why that’s one of the reasons most of us feel lonely.
3. The conversation strategy that Glennon and Abby use at the dinner table with their kids and friends.
4. Why we love talking about ourselves—and when it helps (and when it hurts) our relationships.
1. Glennon lets f-ing loose about the misogyny in our cursing lexicon—and how it reveals our hidden conditioning. (Note: Don’t listen with the kiddos.)
2. The connection between how little girls are taught to avoid conflict with each other and how adult women are called “catty.”
3. What Glennon really means when she says she’s a feminist—and why she’s baffled when a group fighting for their own equality turns on another group fighting for theirs.
4. Why Glennon says that the teenage years may be her favorite parenting era yet.
1. How, in the business world, Amanda is labeled as aggressive and dominant—and why that’s a gender trap.
2. Abby’s experiences of being publicly misgendered—and how that makes her feel.
3. Why is gender the last place we’re agreed it’s acceptable to make identity assumptions?
4. Why do we tell people who they are before they’re even born—and a thousand different ways every day after?
5. Why Glennon says two women in a marriage, handling their own business, rocks the patriarchal boat.
1. The Pod Squad is peeved that Glennon refers to Amanda as “Sister”—so what should we call her?
2. How Glennon and Amanda both spent their college weekends in jail—but for very different reasons.
3. Getting to know Amanda and her innate obsession with the link between our personal experience and our location within systems of power.
4. What’s making life a little easier for the Doyle sisters this week.
1. Why are we conditioned to spend so much of our precious time and energy on our appearance?
2. Why is it that when men put work into the world, the world asks if his work is worthy—but when women put work into the world, the world asks if she’s worthy?
3. Why is half the population’s face allowed to exist as is, while the rest of our faces “need” to be covered in concealers, colors, botox, etc., etc....?
4. How is it that the ultimate way to insult a woman is to say that she’s “let herself go”?
5. The better “beauty” standard for women that is liberating Glennon right now.
1. Glennon’s radical acceptance that she’s always going to be a midnight person in a sunshine world.
2. Our favorite movies and music—and what they reveal about our personalities.
3. Why Abby is objectively hot, but please don’t say that to Glennon at parties.
1. The one question to ask yourself when deciding whether it’s time to quit something.
2. Why Glennon actually believes that quitting each day is necessary for her survival.
3. The big quits that led Abby to Glennon.
4. Amanda’s unexpected great relief—and hope for your relief—in learning about how we’re all just as happy as we’re ever going to be. (And how, as expected, Glennon disagrees.)
5. Rethinking the ending of a marriage as a positive quit and how to talk to friends going through it.
1. If you’re like 75% of women, Amanda’s hot tips for setting yourself up for success in the bedroom.
2. Detoxing from religious purity / sex shame culture, and raising kids with a healthier relationship to sex.
3. The one sex subject that’s a hard no for Abby and Glennon.
1. Glennon, Amanda, and Abby discuss their sex origin stories and how that shapes their current sex fears.
2. Glennon’s high-pressure situation of sex with Abby for the first time—and how it didn’t go quite as you’d expect.
3. The biggest sex challenges in Glennon, Abby, and Amanda’s marriages now.
4. What Amanda regrets about her past sex life—and how she’s already worried about what she’s going to regret when she’s eighty.
5. How Pod Squaders taught Glennon and Abby about “lesbian deathbed.”
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