4.7 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Observing my own parents—and realizing why they make sure good houseguests—helped me discover a Secret of Adulthood: “Be full of desires and easy to please.”
Get in touch: [email protected]
Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app.
Find the transcript for this episode on the episode details page in the Apple Podcasts app.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Did you know that infants are ready to learn sign language? |
| 0:03.5 | Two-year-olds are ready to learn the basics of science, and three-year-olds are ready to learn coding? |
| 0:08.9 | Your child is ready to learn, and at Primrose schools, teachers make the most of this time by creating a joyful, purposeful learning experience unlike any other. |
| 0:19.4 | For instance, have you heard of the Primrose Friends? In every |
| 0:23.8 | Primrose school classroom, teachers use these 12 lovable puppets to make character development |
| 0:30.2 | joyful, meaningful, and memorable. From exploring generosity with Benjamin the Bear to practicing honesty with Peanut the Pony, |
| 0:40.6 | every friend plays a special part in helping children learn important values while having |
| 0:46.9 | plenty of fun along the way. We can all use some friends like that. You can learn more at primrose schools.com, now enrolling infants through |
| 0:57.7 | children age five. That's primrose schools.com for more information. Elizabeth, you know, we are always |
| 1:06.9 | talking about the small things that we can do that make a big impact, not just in our own |
| 1:11.3 | lives, but for the planet as well. And that's why I'm such a big fan of our food recycler, Mill. |
| 1:17.2 | Mill is the one easy thing that makes reducing food waste effortless. Mill is the cleanest, easiest way |
| 1:24.3 | to prevent food waste at home. It makes keeping food out of the trash as easy as |
| 1:29.2 | dropping it in. Toss in your scraps, forget about it, no smell, no mess, no effort. You can keep |
| 1:34.7 | filling it and filling it for weeks. You might even skip a garbage day or two. Mill turns your |
| 1:39.6 | food scraps into nutrient-rich grounds you can use in your garden or compost, or Mill can pick them up and get |
| 1:44.9 | them to a local farm. And an added bonus, wasting less food feels really good. All the guilt and |
| 1:51.2 | stress I used to feel when cleaning out my fridge is gone. Mill makes it easy and even joyful to |
| 1:56.9 | reduce food waste, taking a global problem and turning it into a simple daily step at home. |
| 2:03.2 | But you have to live with Mill to really get it. Good thing you can try it risk-free and get $75 off with code happy. |
| 2:11.0 | Visit mill.com slash happy. That's mill.com slash happy. |
| 2:19.5 | Lemonada. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.