Untamed with Glennon Doyle | #1 New York Times Bestselling Author

#251 •  Glennon Doyle shares how to love in the time of coronavirus. This mother of three and #1 New York Times bestselling author of LOVE WARRIORCARRY ON, WARRIOR, and UNTAMED (March 2020) chats with host Ellie Knaus about mother issues, anxieties, honoring our boundaries, and feeling all the feelings while housebound.

Moments after hopping off the phone with Glennon, we discovered my immunocompromised husband Adam has a high fever and is now in self-quarantine in our bedroom. I didn't realize it at the time, but this was exactly the conversation I needed to have in order to step bravely into this unknown. Luckily the kids are being hilarious though this mess. Follow along @atomicmoms.

Xx Ellie Knaus

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New memoir, 'Untamed' by Glennon Doyle, Dives Into What Happens When Women Find Their Voice

on Good Morning America


Untamed: Available Now

Untamed will liberate women – emotionally, spiritually, and physically. I believe Glennon was born to write this book, just this way, at just this moment in history. It’s phenomenal.” 

—Elizabeth Gilbert

Some books shake you by the shoulders while others steal your heart. In Untamed, Glennon does both at the exact same time.” 

—Brene Brown

“Doyle might just be the patron saint of female empowerment... Here she inspires other women to listen to their intuition and break free of what cages them... Her memoir has a message as clear as a ‘go’ signal: Find and honor your truest self.”

– People Magazine (Book of the Week)


Crib Notes

  • A Third Memoir by Glennon Doyle? Yes, and Here’s Why - The New York Times

  • Glennon Doyle Knew She Was Different. Abby Wambach Helped Her See It - The Wall Street Journal

  • Glennon Doyle's New Memoir 'Untamed' Calls Bullsh*t On The Patriarchy - Bustle

  • “The best-selling, Oprah-endorsed author Glennon Doyle points out in her newly released memoir, “Untamed”, that ‘it’s easier for the world to love a suffering woman than a joyful woman.’” - USA Today 


About Our Guest: Glennon Doyle

You can connect with Glennon Doyle on Momastery, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter

Glennon Doyle is the author of UNTAMED, the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir LOVE WARRIOR, which was selected as an Oprah’s Book Club pick, as well as the New York Times bestseller CARRY ON, WARRIOR. An activist and thought leader, Glennon was named among SuperSoul100’s inaugural group of “awakened leaders who are using their voices and talent to elevate humanity.” She is the founder and president of Together Rising, an all-women led nonprofit organization that has revolutionized grassroots philanthropy – raising over $20 Million for women, families and children in crisis. She lives in Florida with her wife and three children.


#164 • Meet Kate Bowler, our new podcast mom friend. She's funny, sweet, and  really, really smart, but in like a 'very humble and also loves reality shows' kind of way. UGH. I'm so mad I don't live in North Carolina so we can be friends IRL and play with our four year-olds together. She teaches at Duke Divinity School. She's a historian specializing in the American prosperity gospel: think televangelism. And she bravely challenges the strongly held religious belief that "everything happens for a reason" in her New York Times bestselling memoir EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON: AND OTHER LIES I'VE LOVED. Because, let's be honest, you'd have to be insane to think there could be any possible "reason" for this beautiful, vibrant mother living with incurable stage 4 cancer to have her life cut short. She is not going to get better. And she is letting us all in on her journey.

We discuss the challenges in finding a mom crew, how our children teach us to live more simply, and also the "simplicity trap" (I really think I'm onto something here. And yes, I still want this.) And she shares honestly about living with an incurable disease. Glennon Doyle, author of #1 NYT Bestseller Love Warrior writes "I left Kate's story feeling more present, grateful, and a hell of a lot less alone." I felt similarly after our conversation.

I am so grateful for this memoir (she reads it herself on audible!), her podcast, and our chat together.

Xx Ellie Knaus