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    145. Geena Davis: How to Thelma & Louise Your Life

    145. Geena Davis: How to Thelma & Louise Your Life

    FromWe Can Do Hard Things

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    145. Geena Davis: How to Thelma & Louise Your Life

    FromWe Can Do Hard Things

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    64 minutes
    Released:
    Nov 1, 2022
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    1. The politeness curse – and how it almost killed Geena.  

    2. Geena’s brilliant “Oops…” strategy to get folks to act decent.  

    3. Abby thanks Geena for the monumental impact of A League of Their Own on her life.

    4. The story behind the iconic ending of Thelma and Louise.

    5. The hilarious story of why Geena’s mom chose her name – setting her on an unlikely feminist path.  

    CW: Brief mention of sexual assault

    About Geena: 
    Geena Davis is a two-time Academy Award winning actor and has appeared in roles that became cultural landmarks including Muriel Pritchett in The Accidental Tourist, Thelma in Thelma & Louise, and Dottie Hinson in A League of Their Own. She is also a world-class athlete, a member of the genius society Mensa, and is now recognized for her advocacy for women and girls as Founder and Chair of the Emmy-winning non-profit Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, which engages film and television creators to dramatically increase the percentage of female characters, and reduce gender stereotyping, in media made for children. Her memoir, DYING OF POLITENESS, is available now. 

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    Released:
    Nov 1, 2022
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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.