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We Can Do Hard Things

Answers to Life's 20 Questions

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We Can Do Hard Things

By: Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Amanda Doyle
Narrated by: Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Amanda Doyle
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Brought to you by Penguin.

The #1 SUNDAY TIMES bestselling authors and award-winning podcasters Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, and Amanda Doyle created We Can Do Hard Things the guidebook for being alive — to help fellow travelers find their way through life.


When you travel through a new country, you need a guidebook.

When you travel through love, heartbreak, joy, parenting, friendship, uncertainty, aging, grief, new beginnings – life – you need a guidebook, too.

We Can Do Hard Things is the guidebook for being alive.

Every day, Glennon Doyle spirals around the same questions: Why am I like this? How do I figure out what I want? How do I know what to do? Why can’t I be happy? Am I doing this right?

The harder life gets, the less likely she is to remember the answers she’s spent her life learning. She wonders: I’m almost fifty years old. I’ve overcome a hell of a lot. Why do I wake up every day having forgotten everything I know?

Glennon’s compasses are her sister, Amanda, and her wife, Abby. Recently, in the span of a single year, Glennon was diagnosed with anorexia, Amanda was diagnosed with breast cancer, and Abby’s beloved brother died. For the first time, they were all lost at the same time. So they turned toward the only thing that’s ever helped them find their way: deep, honest conversations with other brave, kind, wise people.

They asked each other, their dearest friends, and 118 of the world’s most brilliant wayfinders: As you’ve traveled these roads —marriage, parenting, work, recovery, heartbreak, aging, new beginnings—have you collected any wisdom that might help us find our way?

As Glennon, Abby, and Amanda wrote down every life-saving answer, they discovered two things:

  1. No matter what road we are walking down, someone else has traveled the same terrain.
  2. The wisdom of our fellow travelers will light our way.


They put all of that wisdom in one place: We Can Do Hard Things—a place to turn when you feel clueless and alone, when you need clarity in the chaos, or when you want wise company on the path of life.

We are all life travelers. We don’t have to travel alone. We Can Do Hard Things is our guidebook.

Featuring wisdom from: ALOK • Sara Bareilles • Dr. Yaba Blay • Kate Bowler • adrienne maree brown • Brandi Carlile • Brittney Cooper • Brittany Packnett Cunningham • Kaitlin Curtice • Megan Falley • Jane Fonda • Stephanie Foo • Ashley C. Ford • Ina Garten • Roxane Gay • Andrea Gibson • Elizabeth Gilbert • Dr. Orna Guralnik • Tricia Hersey • Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson • Luvvie Ajayi Jones • Dr. Becky Kennedy • Emily Nagoski • Esther Perel • Ai-Jen Poo • Cole Arthur Riley • Cheryl Strayed • Sonya Renee Taylor • Ocean Vuong • And many others

© Abby Wambach, Amanda Doyle, Glennon Doyle 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

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I so wanted to love this. I had it on pre-order and Untamed was so revelatory. This is just quite dismal navel gazing interspersed with occasional hectoring lectures. There are loads of voices of women I respect and am interested in (Cheryl Strayed, Brene Brown etc) but they are just choppy little bits and hard to assimilate when you don't hear their name till afterwards. I think it's possible that it might be better as a print book? It's very heavy going though and in places contradictory in it's attempts to be as intersectional as possible. I've got about half way and I don't think I can bear much more. No overall narrative arc - you could listen to the sections in any order and they would make no more or less sense, which also makes it harder to keep going with.

Bit disappointing

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I will try and read the print version but the choice to have so many random voice actors do the quoted parts was too overwhelming for my Auditory Processing Disorder. I don't understand why they didn't just ask the people quoted to record their parts.

Truthfully this felt more like a spreadsheet than a guidebook.

I returned it despite being on preorder and loving Untamed and the podcast

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I love Glennon, Abby, and Amanda, I follow their podcast religiously, and when they announced this book I knew I had to get it.

This isn't a normal self development book, there's no path to follow in it, no exercises, no advice. There are simply amazing people sharing their wisdom.

To start with I was annoyed; I wanted advice, but half way through I started just letting it flow over me.

I think a physical book might be good, you could open it intuitively and just read, and maybe you get the guidance you need.

It's not like a normal book, but it's worth giving a try.

A different kind of book

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This is life wisdom! Tell everyone! Wish that I myself had known all this before reaching midlife. The content of this book is all ancient knowledge- but modern society and culture has sadly forgotten all about what makes people thrive.

The points on how to lead a good life

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I listened to the book in one wkend . I didn't think I needed to buy the book as well but knew when I went to the book shop and I couldn't find a book I was drawn to because I needed to buy a copy of the book as well. it's the kinda book I can imagine reading every 6 months and getting something different from it each time . I never hold onto books I always donate or pass them on. I know this book I won't want to pass it because I will need it for different times

The bravery and courage

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I love their podcast and was so excited for this book. What a disappointment and was awful to listen to. A messy audio experience. Really regret buying this.

Such a disappointment

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