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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difficult for female CEOs and women in the C-suite. It's tough, but I think I'm going to show up with my whole self and hopefully create value for everybody here, but also create space for more women to sit in these seats, you know? And do it as you. But it's not what I thought I'd be doing. I never thought I'd be doing this. I grew up in the corporate world. I don't
lines, but I've been in the business for 30 years and I've watched what works. I know what stories work. I can read a book and I can tell you that's a good movie. That's not going to be a movie. And I can tell you exactly which studios will buy it and who's not interested. And I can say, okay, that's going to be a TV show. That's a movie, but that's a podcast.
I just know from copious amounts of reading and understanding and analyzing the business. I don't think I felt empowered until I met my husband and he said, And I was so frustrated about women not having better parts and better scripts. And he's like, babe, you read more than anybody I know. Literally, you tear through books. Why don't you just buy some of them and start developing them?
And I was like, I guess I can. And I said, should I do it with a studio? It's like, no, self fund yourself. Like he just gave me incredible amounts of support, but also business acumen. Half the time I say stuff that he says, I'm sure everybody's annoyed with me. We do that too.
But I can see it between y'all too. I mean, even when I, Abby, the Wolfpack speech, I was like, oh, stuff in there feels like Glennon. But then that's so Abby. And I love that speech. The metaphors in it are so beautiful. And I think great partnership is about what you pull from each other, what you love about your person, what they see in you, you don't see in yourself.
And I'm telling you, he is my number one fan. He's like...
Oh, the whole freaking world. No, I haven't really told anybody that, but I made a pact with myself not to film anything for nine months. And that's really hard for me. And I know that sounds like, Oh, nine months. Like that's really hard for me. I have a very busy brain. I like to have that sense of accomplishment. I like to be on set.
My girlfriend goes, I really like it when you're not doing acting and filming. And I was like, But I love it. She was like, no, I know you like to do what you do. But it has been a challenge for me. But it was a challenge where I wanted to get quiet. And you can't find your next steps forward when you're racing around and making yourself busy and not giving yourself space to think about, who am I?
What do I want next? What does the next chapter of my life look like? It's huge. I feel... I have time and space to do it. And a lot of times when I feel uncomfortable, I just go to work. Yes. I gotta not do that. I gotta not do that.
I love your dorky self. It makes me so happy because I'm just such a huge dork. When I love people, I just, it comes out of my face, out of my body, out of my arms. I just, I like explode with joy and love for people.
And it's a lot. It's a lot to deal with.
I don't know.
I kind of do. Exactly. I think I'm too much.
Please say that again.
Why are we told that? That was untamed for me was this unlocking of... All of the constructs that don't hold water for me anymore, this idea of the perfect woman or the perfect, yet showing up in society with everything that is weighing down on us, it's just crushing. You understand why women are burned out and tired and don't feel appreciated because we're always told we're not enough.
I think we're always told we're not enough or sit down and shut up. That's right. Mm-hmm.
But Abby, let me ask you this. You never get in a conversation with somebody. You have like a heated argument with somebody or a really passionate argument and you never sleek away going, God, I wish I hadn't said all that.
Yeah, I think the reason, I think there's a million reasons why she resonates with people, right? Her drive, her ambition, her determination. you know, beyond what people thought of her. But I don't think there's a person on earth who hasn't felt underestimated.
It was really important to me as we were building that story that we have this scene with her mom and dad where her dad says, honey, you can't go to law school. That's for boring, boring, ugly people. Yeah.
And then her boyfriend dumps her and says, what are you doing here?
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