Reese Witherspoon on Friendship: What, Like It’s Hard? (Best Of)
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Hello, everyone. I'm Abby. Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things. And we have a real treat for you today because we're talking to our dear friend and truly the friend of women everywhere. Correct. Reese Witherspoon.
Reese Witherspoon. is an award-winning actress, entrepreneur, producer, and New York Times bestselling author. She won an Academy Award for her portrayal of June Carter Cash in Walk the Line, which is one of my all-time favorite movies. And later nominated in that same category for, you may have heard it, Wild, in 2014, which she also produced. Witherspoon also starred in beloved film Sweet Home Alabama. I love that so much. I know, Legally Blonde.
Oh, get out of here with that. Jesus.
an election, me, as well as award-winning television series, Big Little Lies, Little Fires Everywhere, and The Morning Show, which turned gay. Best moment of our life. Abby and I celebrated that moment on the couch like it was ours, like we wrote it. Yes, yes. And it was my first moment of gaydar. Remember, I saw it coming before you. You did, actually. Okay. In 2016, she established Hello Sunshine, a media brand that has changed the world for sure. Big time. And content company dedicated to female authorship and storytelling across all platforms and I'm going to calm down. Hello Sunshine is also home to Reese's Book Club and Reese's YA Book Club, which focuses on storytelling with women at the center.
Hello Sunshine is now the cornerstone of a larger media company called Candle Media. Are you tired?
Very. She's got to be very tired.
I am. I am tired. I'm a little tired, but I love my job so much. I wake up every day and I just get excited to talk about it. I mean, are you kidding me? I could just tell stories for a living. And it's just a dream. But thank you for that lovely intro. I'm just... you know, sometimes you're just like working and you forget that you've done other things. And I'm like, oh, that's so nice.
I know. And it's like, not that you've just done things, you've done incredible things. Like all of the things that we just talked about are like our favorite movies and our favorite experiences that we share with each other. It's just incredible to us.
Yeah. And after doing all of those fantastic movies, it would have been Certainly okay for you to be like, I've done what I'm going to do for you.
Yeah. Thanks, Hollywood. Bye.
But then you changed the whole landscape for everybody. And we're going to get into that. But before all of that, before you exploded the planet with your existence, you were born in March of 1976. You and I were born two days apart. Wow. I know. We're both Aries. You may have seen it. That is really something. We both got pregnant in our early 20s and got married. We both had more babies, then got divorced. And now we are both remarried with blended families and careers. So I want to start with this question. What do you see as the difference between 23-year-old Reese and 46-year-old Reese? Hmm.
Oh, gosh. Well, even when you just said that, it kind of brought tears to my eyes thinking about when I was 22 and finding out I was pregnant. And I remember reading Love Warrior and just feeling like, oh, my God, I had all those feelings. I was so scared. I was so scared. And like not knowing what to do and not knowing what it was going to do to my career. And I had people in my ear going. I don't know. I don't know what you're doing. And just having to make a decision or making choices when you're that young and you don't know who you are yet. I think back about it a lot. I think back about how I got through having a newborn when I was 23 years old and my friends were partying and going to clubs. And I was...
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