(BEST OF) Kerry Washington’s Family Secret

Aug 4, 2026 · 1h 6m

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0:00Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things.

0:02Pod Squad, this best of feels especially right to bring back to you now because we've been hearing from so many of you who are in the middle of a quiet reckoning with your own stories.

0:15Maybe it's happening in therapy.

0:17Maybe it's happening while parenting.

0:19Maybe it's happening because you're getting old enough to look back and realize there are parts of our lives we've never fully understood or had the time, space, or wisdom to truly think about for the first time.

0:33We spend years wondering why we don't trust ourselves, why we second guess our instincts, why something has always felt slightly off, even when everyone around us insisted everything was fine.

0:46And then sometimes, a truth arrives.

0:48Not a truth that breaks a family apart, really, but a truth that finally lets everyone stop pretending.

0:55In this conversation, one of my favorite humans, Carrie Washington, shares the stunning story of learning a long-held family secret and what happened when she finally chose herself and truth over the story she'd been handed to continue pretending.

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