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    74. ALOK: What makes us beautiful? What makes us free?

    74. ALOK: What makes us beautiful? What makes us free?

    FromWe Can Do Hard Things

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    74. ALOK: What makes us beautiful? What makes us free?

    FromWe Can Do Hard Things

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    Length:
    65 minutes
    Released:
    Mar 1, 2022
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    “The days that I feel most beautiful are the days that I am most afraid.”
    “What feminine part of yourself did you have to destroy in order to survive in this world?”
    “Why have we been taught to fear the very things that can set us free?”

    About ALOK: 
    ALOK (they/them) is an internationally acclaimed writer, performer, and public speaker. As a mixed-media artist their work explores themes of trauma, belonging, and the human condition. They are the author of Femme in Public (2017), Beyond the Gender Binary (2020), and Your Wound/My Garden (2021). They are the creator of #DeGenderFashion: a movement to degender fashion and beauty industries and have been honored as one of HuffPo’s Culture Shifters, NBC’s Pride 50, and Business Insider’s Doers.

    Instagram: @alokvmenon
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    Released:
    Mar 1, 2022
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    I’m Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed – the book that was released at the very start of the pandemic and became a lifeline for millions. I watched in awe from my home while this simple phrase from Untamed – WE CAN DO HARD THINGS – the mantra that saved my life twenty years ago, became a worldwide rally cry. Because we experienced the hardship of the pandemic collectively, many of us finally acknowledged what was true before COVID and will be true after: That life is freaking HARD. We are all doing hard things every single day – things like loving and losing caring for children and parents; forging and ending friendships; battling addiction, illness, and loneliness; struggling in our jobs, our marriages, and our divorces; setting boundaries; and fighting for equality, purpose, freedom, joy, and peace. On We Can Do Hard Things, my sister Amanda and I will do the only thing I’ve found that has ever made life easier: We will drop the fake and talk honestly about the hard. Each week we will bring our hard to you and we will ask you to bring your hard to us and we will do what we were all meant to do down here: Help each other carry the hard so we can all live a little bit lighter and braver, more free and less alone.