(BEST OF) Our Most Hilarious Episode EVER: Embarrassing Stories Comic Relief!
episodePreviously titled “Our Most Hilarious Episode EVER: Embarrassing Stories Comic Relief!” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 4, 2026
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What embarrassing stories do Glennon, Abby, and Amanda share?
Hey everybody, welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things. Okay, I'm really excited about today because we need it. We have been discussing some very serious and hard things lately on the pod, as we should, but we should also laugh. So today we're restoring some balance by revisiting our most embarrassing stories. I have to tell you that this episode is an episode that I think made the most people the most joyful. We are sharing today some of the most mortifying moments of our lives, along with your voicemail confessions that had us all cry laughing. literally peeing in our pants in solidarity. Our theory is that when we share the stories that make us want to disappear, we realize we're not alone at all.
We really hope that this hour gives you a good laugh because you deserve it. And if you've got any new embarrassing stories, please, please, God, you must tell us. We need this. If you have a new embarrassing story, leave us a voicemail at 747-200-5307. That's 747-200-5307. Here we go. we have a real experiment to do, which is so exciting and fun. We had Jenny Lawson on, brilliant, hilarious, Jenny Lawson recently. It was our 100th episode, go back and listen to it. And she talks and writes so much about the power of humiliation, the power of sharing our mortifying moments With the goal of connecting us further and making life funnier and more universal.
And it's so funny. And clearly we could use some LOLs at the moment. But also, it made me think of the Brene Brown episode where she was talking about how she talks about all of the... horrible things she thinks to her kids because she thinks that normalization is the antidote to shame. And it's so interesting because our mortifying stories often make us feel ashamed, but sharing our mortifying stories normalizes that. and is the cure to shame.
Right. Exactly. So that's what we're going to do. That's our experiment. We asked a long time ago for the pod squad to send us their most embarrassing, mortifying stories.
How do voicemail confessions add to the humor of the episode?
What you need to know pod squad is that Abby and sister and Alison and Dina and I have been listening to these stories yesterday. We could not, we weren't recording. We weren't doing, all we were doing was listening to your stories one at a time, peeing, like peeing. I haven't laughed. You know, that kind of laugh that just like makes you feel like you're a kid again. And just like, you actually are not, who needs a juice cleanse when you could just laugh like that. Exactly. It's a cleanse. It's a cleanse. I do think that laughing hard can be just as much of a cleanse as crying hard is kind of what I figured out yesterday. So we're hoping our experiment is we're going to tell some of our mortifying stories.
We're going to hear from the pod squad's mortifying stories. And we want to see if at the end of this hour, you feel a little bit more connected, a little bit more joyful, and a little bit less sucky. Okay. Just a little less sucky is what we're going for.
It's a low bar people.
Yeah. Okay. So who wants to start? Who wants to share their embarrassing stories? First, sister, why don't you go?
I like how I was voluntold. Okay, so I have one that just happened a couple months ago because it's hard to narrow down my embarrassing stories. So I'm just going to go sequentially. The most recent one was I was on a call with our accountant. And what we need to know about her for purposes of this is that she and her little doggy are thick as thieves. He has airline statuses, definitely cared for better than my children. So we're on this Zoom meeting. It was when I was in the process of adopting our dog Seamus from this rescue group that rescued golden retrievers. And so we were in the process of applying to rescue him.
What is the significance of normalizing our worst moments?
But he wasn't actually Seamus. He had a different name. And she's so excited because she loves the dogs. And so she says, what's his name? And I, for no ascertainable reason, proceed to go into a diatribe in which I said, I promise you the things I said were true. Don't judge us. This is not going to be his name. We would never choose this name.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What embarrassing stories do Glennon, Abby, and Amanda share?
0:00–2:54
2
How do voicemail confessions add to the humor of the episode?
2:54–4:51
3
What is the significance of normalizing our worst moments?
4:51–7:35
4
What mortifying moments do listeners share through voicemails?
7:35–10:38
5
How does humor help in coping with embarrassing situations?
10:38–14:05
6
What strategies do the hosts suggest for dealing with humiliation?
14:05–19:10
7
How do the hosts relate their stories to broader themes of shame?
19:10–21:49
8
What final thoughts do the hosts have on embracing our embarrassing moments?
21:49–1:02:54
Speakers
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