Reese Witherspoon
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157 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 10 May
Reese Witherspoon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So I just told him, I was like, oh, I'm going to talk to Abby. And he was like, what are you guys going to talk about?
You know, our feelings. He was like, why would you want to talk about that? That's right. That's what we do here. First of all, I say to my husband a lot, I thank God that Glennon Doyle is in the world. I thank God that Cheryl Strait is in the world, that Liz Gilbert is in this world.
And I'll include Ann Patchett and a whole other group of people who, when I don't know where to turn, I look at your writing and your books and it just grounds me and makes me feel like I'm not alone anymore. And that everything that I've been pushing forward towards, which is sometimes exhausting, you know, and it sounds like everybody you talk to, I was listening to your podcast with Bose.
It's tiring to push a rock up a hill, you know, and have it roll back on you all the time. And then, but sometimes you get a gain and then you're like, we got a gain. And then sometimes you get a loss and you're like, oh my God, am I going to push that rock again? Jesus, I can't. And I cry a lot. Yeah.
But I was telling my husband about something in Love Warrior that really resonated with me, and it changed the way I am a friend, which was you describe telling your story to different people and the different responses that they have. One is the fixer. One is the shover. One is the comparer. And it was the light bulb for me that...
I can't remember which one I used to be, but I was definitely one of those people who was like, not this too shall pass. But I was like, well, you know, I've got an incredible therapist or, you know.
And I just think, gosh, if I could just help, then everything would be better. But it really spoke to me that part of that book that was about actively listening as a friend, sitting in quiet, understanding, sitting next to someone or hearing them or really seeing them is so much more valuable. I just never saw anybody describe it that way. And it was really a revelation to me.
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No, you didn't. They'd probably be like, you travel too much.
Friendship is so much, but it's a deposit and a withdrawal system. I think about that a lot. You can't take a withdrawal if you haven't made a deposit.
And I think about that a lot because, you know, I think people in my position and y'all's position, it's like, there's a lot of people who want to withdraw. There is. And people who have bright light or energy or caregivers or are caretakers, they give, they give, they give, right? But you got to make sure someone's putting a deposit into your friendship.
And then every once in a while, re-evaluate. Is this more withdrawal than deposit? Where is the balance here?
Gosh, I feel like it's a very similar thing. It is, right? I can look at a group of people and... I just know the two or three people I'm supposed to get to know better. It doesn't mean that we're going to have this incredible connection, but I watched the way people interact with people, their use of language. I think it's really important to me because I'm a words person looking at that.
Are they here to withdraw or deposit or stay neutral? This is a funny story, y'all. I trained for this movie where I played a NCAA championship softball player. don't laugh.
I had this really great coach and she was like a 12 time NCAA champion coach. And I thought, well, first of all, anybody who's had coaching at that level, just the positivity that they put in these young athletes is incredible. I thought if I'd had that when I was 22, I wouldn't have to read a hundred self-help books. I read a hundred self-help books when I was 20, 22, 23.
And she said something really smart about friendship. Her name is Coach Inquist. Do you know Coach Inquist? Yeah. She's amazing. And she said, Reese, you're going to meet three different kinds of people in life. third of the people are going to lift you up. They're going to believe in your dreams. They're going to encourage you. You're going to encourage them.
And a third of the people are going to be totally neutral. They're just neutral. And you don't care about them. They don't care about you. No harm, no foul. And then the other third are going to try and drag you down.
actively, whether they know it consciously, unconsciously, they are here to pull people down and they're going to try and pull you down. And she was like, avoid the bottom third. Yeah. And I talked to this, like my kids about it all the time about finding friendships that lift you up, see you care about you care about your children, care about your mom and your dad and your family.
Um, you know, try and bring and attract those kinds of people in your life. And avoid those bottom third. Because they're coming for you, man. They're coming for your light and your energy. Yes. Yeah. It's really good.
I have to be brave. And for me, being brave is like just jumping. Like I imagine myself as a little kid jumping two feet in a cold pool. And you know, once you get in there, it's not as cold as you thought it was. That's right. I also think about other people like, must be terrifying to have to stand alone in a room or I think, oh, I'm going to go say hi. Why not?
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