#76: How to Be Happier (and More Profitable) with Gretchen Rubin

The Amy Porterfield Show

Amy Porterfield

Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is a New York Times bestselling author, as well as a speaker, blogger, and recognized expert on the topic of happiness. A happiness expert? Oh yes, there is such a thing. Gretchen Rubin takes the topic very, very seriously. She put her Yale education to work with the goal of finding out systematic ways that people can cultivate, achieve and maintain happiness in any facet of their lives. The book that came out of her study, The Happiness Project, took the world by storm. Book clubs adopted it, college professors assigned it, psychiatrists recommended it to their clients. This topic really resonated with everyone who read it. It’s an amazing title and I strongly recommend you give it a read. Not surprisingly, my talk with Gretchen turned out to be one of my favorite interviews ever. It went in some surprising directions, offered tremendous food for thought, and really hit home for me in terms of how to define success. Honestly, this interview is so rich that I don’t want to summarize it too much here. You really should listen to the whole thing. In the meantime, you can download our free giveaway for this week, which Gretchen herself designed. It’s a PDF guide called “Working Better Than Before,” and it’s meant to help you understand your work habits and gain insight into how you can maximize your creativity and productivity. (You can also use it to help your clients!) As soon as you can, click here to listen to the full episode. Gretchen’s insights will help you set a foundation that makes every aspect of your business stronger…and makes you a lot happier in it! And don’t forget to download the freebie for this week, “Working Better Than Before". It helped me a ton (which I talk more about in the podcast) and I know it will do the same for you. EPISODE FREEBIE Get Gretchen's PDF "Working Better Than Before" FREE DOWNLOAD

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0:00.0	You're listening to the online marketing made easy podcast episode number 76.
0:06.2	Welcome to the online marketing made easy podcast business advice so easy you'll feel like you're cheating and now your host Amy Porterfield.
0:16.2	Hey there Amy Porterfield here welcome to another episode of the online marketing made easy podcast.
0:30.8	So this is the summer of interviews for me. I've been batching my interviews doing so many of them and I'll get back to doing solo shows as well because I really enjoy doing the solo shows.
0:40.7	They feel like many trainings that I get to create but I've been doing a lot of interviews because I wanted to talk about topics where I'm not necessarily the expert but the topics really peak my interest and I knew that they would for you as well.
0:53.6	And I always try to bring you interviews that are related to you growing your online business.
0:58.7	Now today we're not going to be talking about the nuts and bolts of online marketing. So it's not going to be a how to or a step by step type of training.
1:07.5	However, it's going to be equally if not more important today. We are talking to New York Times best selling author speaker and blogger.
1:16.0	Rechen Rubin now you likely know Gretchen from the 2009 debut of her smash hit book the happiness project such an amazing book.
1:26.7	It really hit a nerve with the public because once that book came out tons of book clubs popped up still today.
1:33.5	The book's not brand new and still today you see book clubs all over talking about this book.
1:38.9	You see actually professors assigning it to their students in college.
1:43.6	Psychiatrist who are recommending it to their clients as well. I mean it really runs the gamut.
1:49.5	So if you don't have the happiness project book, I definitely encourage you to pick it up.
1:53.6	But today we're not actually talking about happiness with Gretchen.
1:58.3	Although it tends to always come back to wanting to make sure your life is full of happiness.
2:03.4	But today we're actually talking about something a bit different.
2:06.8	We are talking about habits and how you actually understand yourself to be and how that relates to the habits and the success you have with sticking to those habits.
2:18.8	So this is such an interesting conversation we had. I prepared a bunch of notes for it like I always do.
2:24.6	And I was ready to dive into each of these questions.
2:27.4	But then sometimes the conversation took us in a different way.
2:30.4	And I'm always a little bit nervous with interviews to be completely honest.
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