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The Independent
6 days ago
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- The Independent
Ivanka Trump promotes book by author who criticized her dad by saying ‘if Trump wins, we lose'
Ivanka Trump appeared to distance herself even further from the MAGA movement after promoting a book written by an author who actively campaigned against her father during the 2024 election cycle. The president's eldest daughter, who served in an advisory role in Trump's first administration, posted a shot of Untamed, Glennon Doyle's 2020 memoir, amongst a collection of photographs documenting the highlights of her week. The post appeared on Ivanka's Instagram story. Doyle, a well-known self-help author who is married to the retired U.S. soccer star Abby Wambach, previously took to the same platform just before last year's presidential election to warn, 'If Trump wins, we lose,' also expressing her fears that 'our daughters will have fewer rights than our mothers' under the current administration. Since working closely with her husband, Jared Kushner, in Trump's first administration, the couple has chosen to spend time away from Washington DC and played little to no part in Trump's election victory in 2024. Election Day 'will determine whether we will – or will not – have the right to make decisions about our bodies and our lives,' she wrote in the October post. 'And whether future generations will have fundamental freedoms.' That followed Doyle's attendance at last August's Democratic National Convention in Chicago. 'When the votes are being counted, we will watch knowing we did everything, everything in our power to keep our children, your children, all children protected from Donald Trump and JD Vance having any power at all over their planet, their families, their bodies, their futures,' she wrote in another post at the time. Doyle also provided regular updates about her fundraising efforts to support Harris and Tim Walz in the latter stages of last year's election, and even hosted Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren on her podcast, "We Can Do Hard Things," on Election Day, while wearing a Harris-Walz camouflage cap. Her memoir recounts how she 'learned that a responsible mother is not one who slowly dies for her children, but one who shows them how to fully live.' According to The Daily Mail, Ivanka Trump is an avid reader with broad tastes, which perhaps explains her willingness to overlook Doyle's political affiliation. Her recent reading list has included Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, The Women by Kristin Hannah, The Tell by Amy Griffin, The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, and The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Duran. While in 2024, she told podcaster Lex Fridman that she had recently read and appreciated Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence, and The Creative Act by record producer Rick Rubin.
Daily Mail
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Ivanka Trump promotes book written by top foe of her father
Ivanka Trump promoted a book on Instagram that was written by an author who has been critical of her father, President Donald Trump. In a post captioned 'This week in Miami,' the first daughter shared photos of her workouts, her food, her family, her friends and a book she is reading: Untamed by Glennon Doyle. Doyle, a popular self-help author, is a massive critic of the president's. She campaigned heavily against him last year. 'If Trump wins, we lose,' Doyle wrote on Instagram a few weeks before the November election, adding 'out daughters will have fewer rights than our mothers.' She used the post to blast Donald Trump's record on women's rights and abortion rights. And, in August, Doyle shared a photo on Instagram at the Democratic National Convention voicing support for Kamala Harris. Doyle's memoir 'Untamed' recounts how she 'learned that a responsible mother is not one who slowly dies for her children, but one who shows them how to fully live.' In the book, the host of the 'We can do hard things' podcast also discusses her coming out as a lesbian. She is married to soccer player Abby Wombach. Publisher Weekly noted of Doyle's memoir: 'This testament to female empowerment and self-love, with an endearing coming-out story at the center.' Ivanka Trump does not share a lot of book recommendations on her popular instagram account, which as 8.3 million followers. DailyMail reached out to Trump's office for comment. Ivanka Trump has distanced herself from politics in her father's second term unlike his first, where she moved to Washington DC and worked as a senior adviser in the White House. Currently, she lives with her husband Jared and three children in Miami. Shortly before Donald Trump was inaugurated for a second term, Ivanka had a candid conversation with The Skinny Confidential podcast, where she said she just wanted be her father's emotional support this time around. 'I'm most looking forward to just being able to show up for him as a daughter and be there for him, to take his mind off things and like watch a movie with him or watch a sports game, to know that he can be with me and be himself, and just relax,' she said. 'It's the world's loneliest position, the enormity of the decisions you're making on a daily basis, how transactional everyone is with you,' she added. 'So it's a very lonely perch.' 'I went through years of craziness,' she said of her first tenure in the White House and noted she couldn't stand the 'darkness' of the political world. 'Unfortunately, the two are not, you know, there is a darkness to that world that I don't really want to welcome into mine,' she said. Author Glennon Doyle is a fierce critic of President Donald Trump Ivanka Trump told podcast hosts Lauryn Bosstick and Michael Bosstick that her experience in the White House was a 'very emotional time.' 'You become a little bit calloused,' she said. 'It's a very dark, negative. And some people love like the gladiator aspect of it,' she noted. 'The fight - that was never me.' 'Oh my gosh, I don't think I saw sunlight for four years,' she said of being an adviser to the president. But she said the main reason she's not returning to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is her children Arabella, Joseph And Theodore. 'The main reason I am not going back to serve now is, I know the cost. And it's a price that I'm not willing to make my kids bear,' she said. 'My primary goals were just to like, be the best freaking mom,' she said. 'Every time I had to miss something, I'm like, I will never let this happen again in the minute I leave the White House.'
New York Times
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Glennon Doyle and the ‘We Can Do Hard Things' on the Inspiration Behind Their New Book
Susan Hagen, 48, was practically vibrating with excitement. She would soon be in the same room with three women who had helped her through some of the shakiest, most vulnerable moments in her life, even though they didn't know it. Hagen, a New Jersey resident, had braved the pouring rain and Times Square crowds to attend a sold-out talk by the best-selling memoirist Glennon Doyle; her soccer Hall of Famer wife, Abby Wambach; and Amanda Doyle, Glennon's sister and co-founder of the women's media company — hosts of the podcast 'We Can Do Hard Things.' 'The podcast has gotten me through so many things,' Hagen said, noting that she had read Glennon's 2020 memoir, 'Untamed,' no less than four times. Much like the author, Hagen got divorced and came out as gay in her 40s. The books, the podcast, all of it helps her feel as if she is not alone, she said. It's a sentiment I heard again and again when speaking to fans (mostly women) who filled the Town Hall theater in Manhattan on Monday — the woman in her 70s who, like Glennon, has been in eating disorder recovery for years; the queer woman in her 40s who, like Wambach, is navigating the ups and downs of stepparenting; the lawyers who give 'Untamed' to clients reeling from the messiness of divorce.
USA Today
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Glennon Doyle hopes 'We Can Do Hard Things' book shows adversity is 'the human experience'
Glennon Doyle hopes 'We Can Do Hard Things' book shows adversity is 'the human experience' Show Caption Hide Caption Abby Wambach on USWNT critics: They're missing out SportsPulse: USWNT legend Abby Wambach claps back at critics of the women's team. In an interview with Trysta Krick, she makes the case that Megan Rapinoe and the 2019 team may have the biggest impact of any U.S. team. USA TODAY An interview with the hosts of the award-winning podcast 'We Can Do Hard Things' feels like one of the show's hundreds of episodes. Bestselling author Glennon Doyle, her gold-medal soccer icon wife Abby Wambach and her advocate sister Amanda Doyle have assembled to talk about the launch of their book, 'We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions' (available now), which accumulates knowledge dispersed through their podcast, which launched in 2021. They talk about hard topics, grappling with mortality and existential fear. Yet the discussion, had so freely and openly, feels like a gift. It's like by hearing about their lives and earned wisdom, we've been given tools to better tackle the ongoing home-improvement project that is our own lives. "The biggest and most fearful thing that I can think of, where all of my fear and worry and anxiety stems from ... is the idea of what happens when we die,' says Wambach, whose older brother, Peter, died in December 2023. 'What I have learned is I have to accept that this is the thing that I will not understand, and it will also happen to me. My fear is being scared for my last moment.' 'That's so interesting, Abby,' Amanda Doyle, a founder of Treat Media, replies. 'Because if you extrapolate from that, if you're like, 'My biggest fear is living my last moment scared,' then it's also like shouldn't our biggest fear be living all of the moments scared?" 'That's exactly right,' Wambach says. The 'We Can Do Hard Things' book assembles the knowledge and experience of not only the famous podcasts hosts, but their esteemed guests such as Martha Beck, Brené Brown, Tracee Ellis Ross, Kamala Harris, Michelle Obama, Esther Perel, Gloria Steinem and Kerry Washington. The catalyst was a string of misfortune. 'Within a year, Amanda was diagnosed with breast cancer, I was diagnosed with anorexia, and Abby lost her brother Peter," says Glennon. "We were really just spinning out all together at the same time, which hadn't happened before.' Usually one of the three could be 'the anchor for the others,' she adds. 'It's really like we had to create an anchor outside of ourselves.' The book is sectioned into 20 existential questions, seeking to provide wisdom for queries like 'Who am I really?' 'How do I return to myself?' and 'How do I let go?' as well as share insight on topics like love, sex, anger, forgiveness and parenting. 'We're all traveling as if we're the first ones, but that is just so silly,' Amanda says. When we see issues as 'brand new challenges, we think they are personal challenges. We think the fact that I am struggling in my marriage, in this particular issue, means there's something either wrong with me or wrong with my marriage, as opposed to having Michelle Obama saying — as she does in this book — the reason you're struggling with that is because it's the hardest thing on the planet to do.' Keeping sight of those revelations once the adversity is over is another battle, says Amanda. "The things that I went through with my cancer where I was like, 'Surely I'll always remember that this is the point. Surely I will carry this deep reservoir of calm within my soul,' and 30 seconds later it's gone,' she says. Adding this book 'was a place to put all of those things that were like, 'Please, please let me not unlearn this thing. I know I will unlearn it, and so it'll be here when I need to relearn it.'' Wambach wants to spotlight the chapter on parenting, 'because it's so prevalent in my consistent, day-to-day life,' she says. 'A lot of us parents and our parents were taught that parenting is about the kids, and I actually think that parenting is about the relationship I have with myself first, before I go to my kids with anything parenting-wise. And that is what the wayfinders of this book, in this chapter, constantly remind me.' Glennon's intentions for the book align with those of her previous writing and appearances, she says. She wants readers to understand 'what you think is your deep, personal shame is in fact the human experience. Most of the problems you think you have, you don't have problems, you just have a life.'
