Hello and welcome to the nutrition diva podcast. I'm your host Monica Reinagle

and today we are talking to Habit and Happiness Guru, Gretchen Rubin, best-selling author of

happier and better than before and co-host of the wildly popular

happier podcast.

I'm so happy to be talking to you.

So you have a new book out,

outer order, inner calm that talks about how to declutter and organize your life in order to make more room for

happiness.

And you have been on tour all over the country for the last couple of months and listeners

can find out more about live events that are still

happening on your website at Gretchen Rubin.com and unlike a lot of authors you

actually really enjoy live events. I do. I need a lot of time in silence and

reading and writing. You know I go to a library that's right by my house often with my

laptop but I also love to talk to people in real life and hear what

they're thinking and what they're saying and what their questions are and so I

really I really do I really do enjoy getting on the road and getting to see a bunch of people.

It must be so fun to hear back from people who have put your strategies into play in their lives

to hear how it changed how they live their lives.

No, absolutely. And in fact fact one of the reasons that I wrote

outer order in her call was I've noticed over the years you know because I wrote the happiness project which was my first

kind of tackling of the subject of happiness 10 years ago and I just

noticed over and over that whenever the subject changed to anything related to

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