751 Secrets of Adulthood with Gretchen Rubin
The Terri Cole Show
Terri Cole
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🗓️ 23 August 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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On today's episode I'm interviewing special guest Gretchen Rubin, who transitioned from a successful law career to become a bestselling author, speaker, and happiness expert. She tells me all about how her quest to understand power, money, fame, and happiness led her to write bestselling books like The Happiness Project. In this episode, Gretchen shares her insights on redefining success, embracing change, and living a life aligned with your values. Tune in to explore how you can expand your own idea of success and step into a bigger life!
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there and welcome to this episode of the Terry Cole Show. |
| 0:04.3 | I think you are going to love the conversation I just had with my new friend, Gretchen Rubin. |
| 0:10.0 | She is one of today's most influential and thought-provoking observers of happiness and human nature. |
| 0:14.9 | I remember years ago starting to read her book, her books on happiness. |
| 0:21.3 | So she's known for her ability to convey complex ideas from science to literature to stories |
| 0:26.4 | from her own life with levity and clarity. |
| 0:29.4 | She's the author of many bestselling books such as The Happiness Project, |
| 0:32.8 | which is the first book that I ever read that she did many years ago, |
| 0:35.7 | Better Than Before, The Four Tendencies, which have sold millions of copies in more than 30 languages, her most recent books. book that I ever read that she did many years ago, better than before, the four tendencies, |
| 0:43.6 | which have sold millions of copies in more than 30 languages. Our most recent book is this, |
| 0:53.2 | Secrets of Adults. Secrets of Adulthood. Simple truths for our complex lives, which I absolutely loved. It was so much fun talking to her today about all of these. |
| 0:58.1 | So it's basically a book on aphorisms, which are big ideas, put in not a lot of words. |
| 1:05.9 | And really, it's an accumulation of Gretchen's wisdom that she's gathered over the many years that |
| 1:13.0 | she's been doing this. And she's such a researcher. She also has a really popular podcast that's |
| 1:17.4 | great called Happier with Gretchen Rubin. She's also the founder of the award-winning happier app, |
| 1:23.1 | which helps people track their happiness boosting habits. So how do we do it better, basically? |
| 1:29.9 | How can we be happier in our lives? |
| 1:34.7 | So I hope that you guys will love this interview |
| 1:37.7 | with Gretchen Rubin as much as I enjoyed interviewing her. |
| 1:56.5 | This is the Terry Cole show, and as you might have guessed, I'm your host, Terry Cole. |
| 1:57.3 | For over two decades, I've been a licensed psychotherapist, love and boundaries expert, and I'm also the founder of the Real Love Revolution and Boundary Boot Camp. |
| 2:06.2 | On this show, I'll bring you simple strategies based on practical psychology, inspiring expert interviews, and my own insights and observations from my time on the front lines in the fascinating world of entertainment, |
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