No. 1 New York 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. 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 50 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:
- No matter what road we are walking down, someone else has traveled the same terrain.
- 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 Vaid-Menon; Sara Bareilles; Yaba Blay, Ph.D.; 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; Orna Guralnik, Psy.D.; Tricia Hersey; Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson; Luvvie Ajayi Jones; Becky Kennedy, Ph.D.; Emily Nagoski; Esther Perel; Ai-Jen Poo; Cole Arthur Riley; Alexandra Solomon, Ph.D.; Cheryl Strayed; Sonya Renee Taylor; Ocean Vuong; and many others.
Abby Wambach is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, FIFA World Cup champion, six-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award and one of Time magazine’s Most Influential People. She is a founder of Treat Media, an award-winning media company that makes art for humans who want to stay human. Abby is the author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller Wolfpack and the New York Times bestseller Forward. Named one of the 50 Most Powerful People in Podcasting, she is co-host of the chart-topping podcast We Can Do Hard Things, which has received over a half billion plays. Abby is an executive producer of the Sundance Award-winning film Come See Me in the Good Light, part owner of the NWSL’s Angel City Football Club, and sits on multiple boards.
Amanda Doyle is a founder of Treat Media, an award-winning media company that makes art for humans who want to stay human. Named one of the 50 Most Powerful People in Podcasting, Amanda is co-host of the chart-topping podcast We Can Do Hard Things, which has received over a half billion plays. She is an executive producer of the Sundance Award-winning film Come See Me in the Good Light. Amanda was vice president and general counsel of Together Rising, a nonprofit organization that distributed more than $55 million to women, families, and children in crisis. Amanda practiced law at a global corporate firm and as a legal fellow with International Justice Mission in Rwanda, securing land rights for women and accountability for child victims of sexual violence. Her academic and political work sits at the intersection of social, institutional, and interpersonal systems of violence, oppression, and liberation—laser-focused on practical justice in everyday lived experience.
Glennon Doyle is the CEO and founder of Treat Media, an award-winning media company that makes art for humans who want to stay human. She is an author, podcaster, producer, and philanthropist. Her books include the No. 1 New York Times bestseller Untamed, which has sold more than 3 million copies; the No. 1 New York Times bestseller Love Warrior, an Oprah’s Book Club selection; the New York Times bestseller Carry On, Warrior; and Get Untamed: The Journal. Glennon, named one of the 50 Most Powerful People in Podcasting, is co-host of the chart-topping podcast We Can Do Hard Things, which has received over a half billion plays. She is an executive producer of the Sundance Award-winning film Come See Me in the Good Light. Glennon was founder and president of Together Rising, a nonprofit organization that distributed more than $55 million to women, families, and children in crisis.
