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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, full cast
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NEW YORK TIMES AND #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The #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.

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 • Dr. Alexandra Solomon • Cheryl Strayed • Sonya Renee Taylor • Ocean Vuong • And many others

* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of additional information about the authors and Wayfinders.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2025 Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Amanda Doyle (P)2025 Random House Audio
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Critic reviews

“Gathering insights from Michelle Obama on staying in love, Chelsea Handler on getting over a broken heart, and Martha Beck on overcoming anxiety, this book offers a cheat sheet to living.”—Oprah Daily
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I didn’t understand the concept of the 20 questions. There were a lot of excepts / quotes / stories by people. The 3 main authors but also others sprinkled throughout. I didn’t feel like a consistency at times with the topics discussed. I was thinking this was a book for empowerment and a call that “we can do hard things”. I use to listen to the podcast but haven’t in several years. I wouldn’t even compare this to the podcast from what I recall. I just didn’t get as much from this book as I had hoped and perhaps it was due to the audio format.

Book may have been better as kindle / physical

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This is likely better if you read the physical book. I found it hard to follow with the different voices and back and forth. I am a huge fan of Glennon, Abby and Amanda - they are the Tias we all want with loads of wisdom to share. My opinion: skip the audio version and read the physical book.

Hard to follow on audio

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Cannot wait to listen to this one over and over again - just like I do with the podcasts! As always, I’m blown away, inspired, feeling all the feelings and so grateful that these three beings have come together to gift us with their work.

Truly a guide to love and life

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Forever grateful for the podcast and the wisdom that comes from it. Thank you for creating this book for us. I will come back to it again and again.

The last line will stay with me forever.

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I love all the different voices and contributions! So glad I went with the audio version.

Nicely done, thank you!

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There are A LOT of helpful life lessons in the pages of this book. I highly recommend purchasing a hard copy so that you can write in the margins, highlight important passages and see the words that are meaningful to you. Otherwise the message is poured out in a ceaseless scrolling, not landing in a place of knowing, instead barely breaking the surface of acknowledgement like an endless loop of cat memes.

Reads like a self help Instagram feed

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This was a wonderful compilation of wise lived experiences that we can all benefit from. Whether it’s an idea or helpful method or simply sharing how people navigated hard things, this was a lovely “hear”.

Great insights!

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I loved the unique listening experience. It was wonderful to listen to the different voices and perspectives from the different contributors. I would recommend this book to anyone I care about and even to those I don’t know. It is life changing and I have a feeling I will walk away with different fruits when I experience this book in different seasons of my journey.
I want my daughter to keep this book close to her on her journey.

Best Book for my soul!

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The wisdom, the joy, the pain, the community, the sisterhood in this book. I can’t even begin to say how much it moved me. All of my sisters and friends will be receiving copies next week. This is such important work—thank you for loving us enough to give us this gift.

Laughed, cried, sent copies to multitudes

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Glennon, Abby, and Amanda have once again shared their philosophy about how to survive this “brutiful” life. Like their podcast (with a very similar name), they bring in different people and perspectives to discuss what’s important for becoming/coming into our most true self. This book is a thoughtful guide through the hard questions of life to help each of us grow and discover ourselves.

A guidebook to this brutal/beautiful “brutiful” life

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