We Can Do Hard Things

Today we’re sharing our electric conversation with Jane Fonda. This one feels especially right for this moment—because so many of us are asking the same questions Jane has been answering with her life: How do we keep aging without disappearing? How do we stay awake—to our bodies, to each other, to the truth—when everything feels so chaotic and overwhelming?

Jane reminds us that getting older doesn’t mean getting quieter—it can mean getting whole. Not perfection, but integration. Not waiting until you have it all figured out—but showing up as you are and doing your part.

- How she left her body as a child—and found her way back decades later

- Why the goal isn’t perfection—it’s becoming whole

- What she’s learned about love, power, and choosing herself

- How she kept showing up through backlash, surveillance, and public attacks

- Why you don’t have to be ready—you just have to begin

About Jane: 

Jane Fonda is a two-time Academy Award-winning actor (Best Actress in 1971 for Klute and in 1978 for Coming Home), producer, author, activist, and fitness guru. Her career has spanned over 50 years, accumulating a body of film work that includes over 45 films and crucial work on behalf of political causes such as women’s rights, Native Americans, and the environment. She is a seven-time Golden Globe winner and was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2021, Stanley Kubrick Excellence in Film Award as part of BAFTA’s Britannia Awards in 2019, AFI Life Achievement Award winner in 2014, and Honorary Palme d’Or honoree in 2007. 

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The world is on fire—but we still have each other. This week, Glennon, Abby, and Amanda step away from the overwhelm to talk about what actually holds us: love, family, friendship, and truth. From their Oscars experience to a listener's question about divorce, kids, and staying in love, this episode is about staying soft while doing hard things.

- Why losing the Oscar still felt like winning

- What kids really need when they sense change at home

- The difference between leaving a relationship and giving up on love

- How to tell the truth (even when it’s hard)

- Why it’s time to get off the shore and into the boat

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Pod Squad, we’ve been doing a lot of hard things—so today, in the midst of all of it, we’re offering a little comic relief to keep us laughing, keep us dancing, keep us going.

In this episode, we’re sharing our most mortifying, cringe-inducing, please-let-me-disappear moments… along with your voicemail confessions that had us cry-laughing and peeing our pants in solidarity.

We promise you: you need this. We needed this.

- Glennon, Abby, and Amanda share their most humiliating, unforgettable stories

- Pod Squad voicemail confessions that will make you laugh until you cry

- Why normalizing our worst moments is the antidote to shame

- Our new go-to strategy for surviving humiliation (spoiler alert, it involves a prosthetic penis)

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It's birthday month for Glennon and Amanda, and if you’ve ever had a birthday that made you want to crawl into bed and also throw a parade and also cry in the shower and also text every person you’ve ever loved like: ARE WE OKAY?—welcome. You are among your people.

Because birthdays are not just cake day. Birthdays are a spotlight. A pop quiz. A referendum on: Do I matter? Am I loved? Am I seen? And if the answers don’t arrive in the exact form we imagined—texts, plans, enthusiasm, proof—our brains go: Welp. That’s that.

In this episode, we’re trying to name why birthdays bring so many feels—and how to make them suck less.

- Why birthdays can feel like a setup for disappointment

- Glennon, Abby, and Amanda’s best, worst, and most revealing birthday stories

- Why birthdays can feel like a test of your worth, love, and belonging

- How to drop the secret tests and actually ask for what you want

- Simple ways to celebrate each other all year so no one is waiting one day to feel loved

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We’re told this is about bad guys, nuclear threats, and national security.

History—and this moment—tell a different story.

In this You’re Not Gonna Believe This Bullshit episode, Amanda traces America’s regime change playbook—then sits down with investigative journalist, co-founder of Drop Site News, Jeremy Scahill to break down what's really driving the current wars in Iran and Gaza.

- Trump launching strikes on Iran amid disputed “nuclear threat” claims

- The coordination of war decisions with Netanyahu—and why that matters

- Kushner’s role in Gaza reconstruction plans that look a lot like real estate development

- “Negotiations” with Iran happening alongside military escalation

- The long history of regime change—and who actually benefits

If it feels chaotic, it’s not. It’s a pattern.

About Jeremy: 

Jeremy Scahill is co-founder of Drop Site News. He was previously a Senior Correspondent and Editor-at-Large at The Intercept and is one of the three founding editors of The Intercept. He is an investigative reporter, war correspondent, and author of the international best-selling books “Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield” and “Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army.” He has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, Nigeria, the former Yugoslavia, and elsewhere across the globe. Scahill has served as the national security correspondent for The Nation and “Democracy Now!”. He continues to host the podcast Intercepted.

Scahill’s work has sparked several congressional investigations and won some of journalism’s highest honors. He was twice awarded the prestigious George Polk Award, in 1998 for foreign reporting and in 2008 for “Blackwater.” Scahill is a producer and writer of the award-winning film “Dirty Wars,” which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award.

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