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We Can Do Hard Things

54. Unexpected Joy: How do we redefine success so we can find joy?

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.841.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

1. Glennon, Abby, and Amanda share how opening up and being vulnerable on the podcast has changed their lives. 2. What your preparation style says about your personality—and how some people bring their “magic” while others bring index cards. 3. Abby recalls “the biggest bomb of her life”—and why she was nervous to join Glennon and Amanda on We Can Do Hard Things. 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

And through the joy and pain that our lives bring, we can do a heartache.

0:14.7

We are back, you are back, we are all back.

0:19.5

Here we are together again, but we can do hard things.

0:24.0

It's almost the end of the year, which is so wild.

0:26.9

It's insane.

0:28.2

And so we have been thinking about this year.

0:30.7

We actually sister, and Abby and I spent a lot of time together this past week.

0:34.5

And we've been talking so much about the unexpected joy of this year,

0:41.4

which has been this podcast, this time together, this community,

0:49.1

this completely new creative project for us.

0:53.9

It's really led to us thinking about how this all began,

0:58.7

about how this podcast, as we can do our things podcast,

1:02.2

that has come to me so much to us began.

1:05.4

And so I was thinking a lot about how many months ago,

1:09.5

and you know that I have no idea how many months ago it could have been one or 13.

1:14.1

So see how many months has it been?

1:15.6

When we started dreaming this thing up, you first brought it up in February.

1:20.6

And then I just skillfully avoided it, writing back about it for a solid month.

1:26.2

So I just kept kind of being like, look, an eagle to try to distract you from it.

1:31.4

But then you started, you, you became unrelenting about it in like April.

1:37.6

OK, so that makes perfect sense.

1:39.2

Because I think it was right around this time last year,

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