We Can Do Hard Things - Podcast Rankings and reviews

i’m very late to this pod party! this podcast found its way into my life just when i needed it most, at a time of breakdown and re-creation of my life. these people make me incredibly proud to be a human, a beginner, and a lover of my life. thank you for your complexity, your honesty, and your steadfast commitment to healing. thank you for bringing andrea gibson into my life. thank you for utilizing your platform to speak up for palestine. thank you, glennon, for the enneagram episodes and for being brave enough to walk this earth as a sibling 4. thank you for sitting with your shame and confronting addiction. you are models of radical acceptance and vulnerability. thanks for lighting up my path as i welcome grief, slow down, and do the hardest work of my life.

I’ve listened to WCDHT for years now and love the range of emotions from insight to tenderness to spit out my water laughing that each episode seems to offer.

I very much believe no one is coming to save us and we need to build the world we want to live in and embody. These podcast conversations are helping us imagine what that world would look like.

And, get practical about how to extract patriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalism from within ourselves (i.e. hustle culture, fat phobia) so we can individually and collectively lead ourselves to a more holistically healthy and joyful world.

And as someone who works with people who have chronically battled food via my Truce with Food process, I especially appreciate Glennon’s willingness to seek recovery for her anorexia and be able to vocalize her recovery process in these episodes so clearly.

Because of where our cultural narrative is around food, it’s hard to articulate that it is and isn’t about the food. For example, I LOVED when Glennon realized she had defined discipline as control (my clients come to realize this too!). Because once you can see this, you can also see you do have a choice to self-author new values as it’s not that discipline isn’t needed, it’s just that discipline as control isn’t sustainable, effective, or fulfilling.

I think WCDHT is implicitly helping so many of us realize we can redefine values like discipline - whether with our bodies, recovery, parenting, or grief (love the Dan Levy, Laura McKowen and Dr. Becky episodes!) as devotion to what we want to see created and alive in the world.

As a podcast host myself (Insatiable), I know podcasting is a labor of love. I hope Glennon, Abby, and Amanda continue to midwife us to a new world order.

I listened to this podcast beginning with the first episode on it’s inaugural launch day. Almost three years later and I still am an avid listener. They bring so much value, nuance, humor, and enlightenment to important conversations. I have used so many ideas they brought to my attention to improve my quality of life, friends, and my clients (I’m a life coach). They are the only “must listen” out of the dozens of podcasts I’m subscribed to. I’ve listened to every episode.

The real question is…why did it take me this long to write a review? I literally thought I did this YEARS ago 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

I have been listening to these wonderful humans for years, starting during some very hard times in my life. I am always moved or inspired by the things Glennon, Abby, and Amanda share, and having a small circle…it helps to hear them processing so many of the same emotions life brings. We can all have a thousand different situations that lead us to go through such similar emotional experiences, and to hear them share what they’re learning is such a gift. They’ve created a community where we truly see so many hard things are greatly lightened by opening up to ourselves and others. I never miss an episode and share them with my sister all the time…I’m a late diagnosed neurodivergent woman and I relate to so much. Thank you, ladies. ❤️

I have listened to every episode since you launched the podcast. Loved and learned so much. But your last episode about the Israel Palestine conflict broke my heart. I don’t understand how a group of women who stand up for so many people could put out content that makes Jewish women feel so betrayed. Please read Night by Elie Wiesel or The Postcard by Anne Berest and then do a follow-up episode that addresses your Jewish audience with tenderness and compassion.

I have been an avid listener of this podcast for years and am so disappointed in the direction it’s taken. As a person whose community was destroyed by Hurricane Helene I’ve never been more aware of how we need each other. People is all we have, no matter who we vote for. Yet Amanda, who I’ve always respected most, is going to put her friend on blast who didn’t vote the way she wanted and therefore didn’t “protect” her. I think you all are a big part of the divisiveness problem in this country and are so privileged that you can dump friends because they vote a certain way since you don’t need them to help you for example… in a natural disaster. The way my community came together to survive the hurricane had nothing whatsoever to do with politics. Maybe you should start listening to people who have real problems including threats to their essential needs and see how they feel about their neighbor. You guys are coming off as extremely elitist and it’s unhelpful and insulting.