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Glennon Doyle reacts to Ivanka Trump reading her Donald Trump criticism
Glennon Doyle reacts to Ivanka Trump reading her Donald Trump criticism

Daily Telegraph

time6 hours ago

  • Entertainment
  • Daily Telegraph

Glennon Doyle reacts to Ivanka Trump reading her Donald Trump criticism

Don't miss out on the headlines from Celebrity Life. Followed categories will be added to My News. US author and podcaster Glennon Doyle tackles life's biggest questions, the 'self-help' label – and the Trumps. Stellar: Your new book We Can Do Hard Things was created with the backdrop of a very difficult time for yourself, your wife Abby Wambach and your sister Amanda Doyle, who co-wrote this book and host the popular podcast of the same name with you. You were dealing with an anorexia diagnosis. Abby had lost her beloved brother. Amanda had a breast cancer diagnosis. What was navigating that time like for you? Glennon Doyle: My sister and my wife are my people. Maybe because I depend on the two of them [so much], I don't actually have many friends in a wider circle. I'm used to one of them being steady. When I got my new anorexia diagnosis – I've been dealing with eating disorders since I was 10 – I felt humiliated. Embarrassed. I couldn't believe I'm still dealing with this. I felt like everyone in my life was gonna be like, get over it. But it felt like I was drowning and I looked over at the shore and both the lifeguards were passed out. My lifeguards were also having their own moment. US podcaster and author Glennon Doyle has addressed Ivanka Trump's recommendation of one of her books. Picture: Getty Images Ivanka Trump, the daughter of US President Donald Trump. Picture: AFP Glennon Doyle (continued): It feels like a very bad design of life that when trauma comes, that's the time that we can't remember anything we know. That's the time we can't call up all the wisdom we've learnt about how to make it through. That sucks. Trauma causes this little mini dissociation. Unfortunately Abby felt the same way and so did Amanda. So we were just kind of staring at each other blinking. And this cool thing happened. I started writing down little sentences or quotes or paragraphs that we had said to each other on the podcast and sending them to my sister to help her through the cancer thing. Listen to the full interview with Glennon Doyle on Something To Talk About below: Then she started writing down things about grief for Abby. And we had this little file going around. And Abby started writing things down for me about bodies. We kept this file that we were just using as an anchor outside of ourselves, which is funny because I've spent my entire life telling people that they have all the answers inside of them. I'm no longer positive that's true. Three months later, my friend was going through this horrible break-up and I sent her the file we had about grief. And she wrote back and said, 'Glennon, can you make me this for all the categories of life? This is what I need.' And I thought, yeah. I actually can do that. And that's how it started. That's how the book was born. Glennon Doyle, right, with wife Abby Wambach pictured in Beverly Hills last November. Picture: Getty Images Stellar: The book is an exploration of 20 questions that we all wrestle with throughout our lives, and features conversations you've had with 118 'of the world's most brilliant wayfinders'. How did you pull that off? Glennon Doyle: Some of the passages are from texts between friends, but most of them are from conversations that we had on our podcast. Over time the conversations we had on that podcast really rewired our minds and hearts and the way we saw the world. As we pored through those conversations, we realised people are really talking about the same 20 questions over and over again from their particular slice of life. So all I had to do was to wrangle all these people and say 'How about this incredible, brilliant thing that you said be put in print?' And most of them were like, 'Great. I sound very smart in that.' The people in this book are some of the most open-minded, justice-minded, love-minded and community-minded people on earth. We've got a lot going on in this country [the US] right now. It really feels like the whole idea of self-help and individual optimisation has failed us. And so what I'm very proud of is that this book is about collective wisdom. It's about: we can't figure this out by ourselves, we have to look at the world from as many different perspectives as there are people. And I just think that's why it's resonating so much here. It's about the collective. 'I think she probably didn't get all the way through.' Glennon Doyle on Ivanka Trump (pictured). Picture: AFP Ivanka Trump, right, with her husband Jared Kushner in Miami in May. Picture: Getty Images Stellar: You're often referred to as a self-help guru. Would you agree with that assessment? Glennon Doyle: Don't get me started on the self-help. I have so many male counterparts who write about the same things that I write about, who write about power and power dynamics and life and relationships even, and politics and community. Do you think that any of them are ever labelled 'self-help'? My books will be in the self-help aisle. My counterparts, men, will be in leadership. Do you ever hear a man's work described as self-help? No, no, no. Because men, they're good to go. They just need some leadership skills. Women are just a mess, and they just need help with their little selves. That distinction is in every area, right? That's the literary version, but even, [with] our bodies, men are taught to bulk up [and get] bigger, bigger, bigger and women are taught to get smaller. Money. Men are taught to invest. Women are taught to save. Every single category is about men. Just get bigger, get bolder, go for it. And women … Self-help. You're not even ready to leave the room. Just get smaller and smaller and fix yourself before you can even approach the world. So yes, I have many issues with the self-help title and I think it has a lot to do with gender. The whole navel-gazing thing is so interesting. Like, God forbid a man do a little bit of self-reflection. I would like some men to look harder at their navels. Honestly, I think that would do us all a little bit of good. Stellar: In your home country of the United States, does it feel like a time when people are searching for answers and feeling more isolated than ever? Glennon Doyle: It's a nightmare here. It's awful. We're seeing our neighbours be rounded up in front of us. I see it with my own eyes all the time. I was just in children's immigration court watching two-year-olds represent themselves, separated from their families. My family and every LGBTQ family I know is terrified. Parents with trans kids are leaving if they can. It's a really scary time here. With this book, we did a tour. I didn't want to do that. That's so much 'leaving of my house'. Not just answering my door, but standing on the actual stages. The incredible thing was, I think we have this feeling in the States right now, a lot of media is being suppressed and so it can feel like you're the only one who cares or the only one who's afraid or angry or wishes for something better. And this tour was so important to me because it was auditoriums and theatres full of people who were so hopeful and so angry and so united and so beautiful. They say hopelessness is just the feeling that nobody else cares, that you're alone. And so that tour that we did with the We Can Do Hard Things book, I think reinvigorated a lot of us and just reminded us there are still a lot of people here who care, and who will not stand for what's going down right now here. Listen to the full interview with Glennon Doyle on Something To Talk About below: Stellar: You have used your platform to advocate for many causes, including speaking out against the Trump administration, particularly during the election campaign in 2024. Recently Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka posted on Instagram a picture of herself holding your memoir Untamed. How did that moment sit with you? Glennon Doyle: You're the first person to ask me about that. My team sent it to me. I was stunned. I just didn't process it completely. I can tell you honestly that my best guess is she didn't read it all the way through. There's an entire essay about her dad in it that is about how unbelievable it is that this man is being seen as a leader of what is supposed to be Christian nationalism. So I think she probably didn't get all the way through. But all I can say is, I hope that she does read it. I hope she reads it really, really carefully. That's what I'll say about that. We Can Do Hard Things: Answers To Life's 20 Questions ($36.99, Penguin Random House) is out now. Listen to the full episode of the Stellar podcast Something To Talk About featuring Glennon Doyle out now, wherever you get your podcasts.

‘You're the first person to ask me about that': Glennon Doyle on body image, resilience and Ivanka Trump
‘You're the first person to ask me about that': Glennon Doyle on body image, resilience and Ivanka Trump

News.com.au

time4 days ago

  • Health
  • News.com.au

‘You're the first person to ask me about that': Glennon Doyle on body image, resilience and Ivanka Trump

Author and podcaster Glennon Doyle tackles life's biggest questions, the 'self-help' label – and the Trumps. Stellar: Your new book We Can Do Hard Things was created with the backdrop of a very difficult time for yourself, your wife Abby Wambach and your sister Amanda Doyle, who co-wrote this book and host the popular podcast of the same name with you. You were dealing with an anorexia diagnosis. Abby had lost her beloved brother. Amanda had a breast cancer diagnosis. What was navigating that time like for you? Glennon Doyle: My sister and my wife are my people. Maybe because I depend on the two of them [so much], I don't actually have many friends in a wider circle. I'm used to one of them being steady. When I got my new anorexia diagnosis – I've been dealing with eating disorders since I was 10 – I felt humiliated. Embarrassed. I couldn't believe I'm still dealing with this. I felt like everyone in my life was gonna be like, get over it. But it felt like I was drowning and I looked over at the shore and both the lifeguards were passed out. My lifeguards were also having their own moment. Glennon Doyle (continued): It feels like a very bad design of life that when trauma comes, that's the time that we can't remember anything we know. That's the time we can't call up all the wisdom we've learnt about how to make it through. That sucks. Trauma causes this little mini dissociation. Unfortunately Abby felt the same way and so did Amanda. So we were just kind of staring at each other blinking. And this cool thing happened. I started writing down little sentences or quotes or paragraphs that we had said to each other on the podcast and sending them to my sister to help her through the cancer thing. Listen to the full interview with Glennon Doyle on Something To Talk About below: Then she started writing down things about grief for Abby. And we had this little file going around. And Abby started writing things down for me about bodies. We kept this file that we were just using as an anchor outside of ourselves, which is funny because I've spent my entire life telling people that they have all the answers inside of them. I'm no longer positive that's true. Three months later, my friend was going through this horrible break-up and I sent her the file we had about grief. And she wrote back and said, 'Glennon, can you make me this for all the categories of life? This is what I need.' And I thought, yeah. I actually can do that. And that's how it started. That's how the book was born. Stellar: The book is an exploration of 20 questions that we all wrestle with throughout our lives, and features conversations you've had with 118 'of the world's most brilliant wayfinders'. How did you pull that off? Glennon Doyle: Some of the passages are from texts between friends, but most of them are from conversations that we had on our podcast. Over time the conversations we had on that podcast really rewired our minds and hearts and the way we saw the world. As we pored through those conversations, we realised people are really talking about the same 20 questions over and over again from their particular slice of life. So all I had to do was to wrangle all these people and say 'How about this incredible, brilliant thing that you said be put in print?' And most of them were like, 'Great. I sound very smart in that.' The people in this book are some of the most open-minded, justice-minded, love-minded and community-minded people on earth. We've got a lot going on in this country [the US] right now. It really feels like the whole idea of self-help and individual optimisation has failed us. And so what I'm very proud of is that this book is about collective wisdom. It's about: we can't figure this out by ourselves, we have to look at the world from as many different perspectives as there are people. And I just think that's why it's resonating so much here. It's about the collective. Stellar: You're often referred to as a self-help guru. Would you agree with that assessment? Glennon Doyle: Don't get me started on the self-help. I have so many male counterparts who write about the same things that I write about, who write about power and power dynamics and life and relationships even, and politics and community. Do you think that any of them are ever labelled 'self-help'? My books will be in the self-help aisle. My counterparts, men, will be in leadership. Do you ever hear a man's work described as self-help? No, no, no. Because men, they're good to go. They just need some leadership skills. Women are just a mess, and they just need help with their little selves. That distinction is in every area, right? That's the literary version, but even, [with] our bodies, men are taught to bulk up [and get] bigger, bigger, bigger and women are taught to get smaller. Money. Men are taught to invest. Women are taught to save. Every single category is about men. Just get bigger, get bolder, go for it. And women … Self-help. You're not even ready to leave the room. Just get smaller and smaller and fix yourself before you can even approach the world. So yes, I have many issues with the self-help title and I think it has a lot to do with gender. The whole navel-gazing thing is so interesting. Like, God forbid a man do a little bit of self-reflection. I would like some men to look harder at their navels. Honestly, I think that would do us all a little bit of good. Stellar: In your home country of the United States, does it feel like a time when people are searching for answers and feeling more isolated than ever? Glennon Doyle: It's a nightmare here. It's awful. We're seeing our neighbours be rounded up in front of us. I see it with my own eyes all the time. I was just in children's immigration court watching two-year-olds represent themselves, separated from their families. My family and every LGBTQ family I know is terrified. Parents with trans kids are leaving if they can. It's a really scary time here. With this book, we did a tour. I didn't want to do that. That's so much 'leaving of my house'. Not just answering my door, but standing on the actual stages. The incredible thing was, I think we have this feeling in the States right now, a lot of media is being suppressed and so it can feel like you're the only one who cares or the only one who's afraid or angry or wishes for something better. And this tour was so important to me because it was auditoriums and theatres full of people who were so hopeful and so angry and so united and so beautiful. They say hopelessness is just the feeling that nobody else cares, that you're alone. And so that tour that we did with the We Can Do Hard Things book, I think reinvigorated a lot of us and just reminded us there are still a lot of people here who care, and who will not stand for what's going down right now here. Listen to the full interview with Glennon Doyle on Something To Talk About below: Stellar: You have used your platform to advocate for many causes, including speaking out against the Trump administration, particularly during the election campaign in 2024. Recently Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka posted on Instagram a picture of herself holding your memoir Untamed. How did that moment sit with you? Glennon Doyle: You're the first person to ask me about that. My team sent it to me. I was stunned. I just didn't process it completely. I can tell you honestly that my best guess is she didn't read it all the way through. There's an entire essay about her dad in it that is about how unbelievable it is that this man is being seen as a leader of what is supposed to be Christian nationalism. So I think she probably didn't get all the way through. But all I can say is, I hope that she does read it. I hope she reads it really, really carefully. That's what I'll say about that.

Exploring Life's Tough Questions: Insights from 'We Can Do Hard Things'
Exploring Life's Tough Questions: Insights from 'We Can Do Hard Things'

IOL News

time20-06-2025

  • Entertainment
  • IOL News

Exploring Life's Tough Questions: Insights from 'We Can Do Hard Things'

A soulful roadmap for navigating life's toughest questions, 'We Can Do Hard Things' weaves powerful insights, raw vulnerability, and humor into a guide for living with courage and connection. A soulful roadmap for navigating life's toughest questions, 'We Can Do Hard Things' weaves powerful insights, raw vulnerability, and humor into a guide for living with courage and connection. What stood out to me was how each author offered a unique view on strength and healing. Glennon Doyle shows that courage means showing up, even when it's hard. Abby Wambach shares the value of discipline and inner teamwork, drawn from her time as an athlete. Amanda Doyle adds depth by showing how asking tough questions can lead to personal growth and real-world change. Together, their voices offer encouragement to stay brave, honest, and committed. I chose to engage with this book by answering its twenty questions myself because it felt less like a wise friend telling me what to do and more like a mirror reflecting my own thoughts, fears, and hopes back to me. This approach made the experience personal and transformative, allowing me to connect authentically with both the material and my own journey. This powerful guidebook is created by three remarkable women who are not only bestselling authors but also award-winning podcasters and activists. Rather than offering easy answers or advice, this book invites us to explore life's hardest questions through honest self-inquiry. We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions by Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, and Amanda Doyle invites us to face those questions head-on with radical honesty and compassion. The 20 Questions and My Honest Reflections 1. Why am I like this? I am the sum of my experiences, choices, and the ways I've learned to cope. Every part of me has a history and a reason for being. 2. Who am I really? I am a person in progress—always learning, always changing, always trying to be true to myself beneath all the labels and expectations. 3. How do I know when I've lost myself? I notice I've lost myself when I stop listening to what I need and start living for what others want. When I feel numb, disconnected, or restless, it's a sign. 4. How do I return to myself? I come back to myself by being still, spending time with my dogs, or doing something that makes me feel alive. I check in with my feelings and allow myself to be honest. 5. How do I figure out what I want? I pay attention to what excites me, what I look forward to, and what brings me peace. Sometimes I ask myself: if no one else had an opinion, what would I choose? 6. How do I know what to do? I rarely know for sure. So I trust the next small step, listen to my gut, and remind myself—clarity loves action, even if it's messy. 7. How do I do the hard thing? I remind myself why it matters, break it down into manageable steps, and let myself ask for help if I need it. 8. How do I let go? Letting go is a process. I practice loosening my grip little by little and remind myself that holding on often hurts more than releasing. 9. How do I go on? I focus on just the next breath, the next step. I let myself believe that things can get lighter, even if only a little. 10. How do I make peace with my body? I treat my body with kindness, listen to its needs, and try to appreciate what it allows me to experience. I remind myself it's my home. 11. How do I make and keep real friends? I show up as myself, try to be honest and present, and make space for others to do the same. I nurture friendships with time, care, and openness. 12. How do I love my person? For me, loving my people such as my dogs, my friends and my family means being present, showing affection and making time for connection. 13. Sex. Am I doing this right? Sexuality is a lifelong experience for everyone. It evolves with age and experience. Desire awakens differently in each of us and there's no single right way—only what feels true and respectful for me. 14. Parenting. Am I doing this right? Though I'm not a parent, parenting weighs heavily on my heart. I care deeply for my nieces and nephews and often wonder if I'm doing enough to support them. I'm reminded that the greatest gift might simply be my willingness to be present, open, and patient, a reminder that love is the foundation even when I don't always know the right move. 15. Why can't I be happy? Happiness isn't constant. I remind myself it comes in moments and it's okay to feel everything else too. I try to notice the small joys. 16. Why am I so angry? Anger often shows up when something matters to me or when I feel unheard. I try to listen to what my anger is telling me about my needs or boundaries. 17. How do I forgive? Forgiveness is a journey. Sometimes it means letting go of resentment for my own peace even if I can't forget or excuse what happened. 18. How do I get unstuck? I get unstuck by changing something small—my routine, my scenery, or my thoughts. Sometimes just taking one step helps me find momentum. 19. How do I feel better right now? I pause, breathe, move my body, or spend time with my dogs. Even a small act of kindness towards myself can help. 20. What is the point? The point is to be here, to experience life fully, to love and be loved, and to keep growing—even when it's hard. How This Book Stands Apart There are countless self-help books out there, but this one stands apart because it doesn't pretend to have all the answers. Instead, it honours uncertainty and invites you into an ongoing conversation with yourself. The authors share their vulnerabilities openly, making their message feel deeply authentic and relatable. The mix of perspectives from writing and sport adds richness and shows how courage and growth can look different for everyone. Simply put: this book doesn't hand you answers; it hands you the courage to keep asking the questions that matter most. The Power of Self-Inquiry Self-inquiry is the heart of this book and the engine behind real change. In a world that pushes quick fixes and external validation, self-inquiry asks you to slow down and truly listen to your inner life. It helps you understand your patterns, needs, and desires without judgment. This deeper awareness allows you to make choices that align with your true self rather than reacting out of habit or pressure. Self-inquiry is not about solving everything once and for all—it's about cultivating a lifelong relationship with yourself based on curiosity, kindness, and courage. Who Is We Can Do Hard Things For? This book is for anyone wrestling with life's big questions, those moments when you feel stuck, overwhelmed, or searching for more meaning. If you are tired of quick fixes or motivational fluff and want something real, honest, and reflective, this book is for you. *We Can Do Harding Things is available at Exclusive Books.

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