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Gretchen, welcome to the Unmistakable Creative.

Thanks so much for taking the time to join us.

Oh, well, thank you for having me. I'm very excited to have this conversation. Yeah, it is my pleasure to have you here. You know, I have known about your work for such a long time, you know, long before I ever started doing anything online. And somehow we have, you know, crossed past numerous times, but never actually met until we finally did at Podcast Movement. So it is really, really cool to have you here. So on that note, for people in our audience who may not be familiar with your work and who you are, can you tell us a bit about yourself, your story, your background, and how that has led you to everything that you're up to in the world today. Okay. I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and I started out my career in law. I was actually clerking for

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, which is a pretty cool job as law jobs go, when I realized I really

wanted to be a writer. And so for more than 10 years now, I've been a professional writer. I'm best

known for my book called The Happiness Project.

And so my last three books, I wrote a biography of Kennedy and one of Churchill.

My first book was called Power, Money, Fame, Sex, a User's Guide.

That was a fun book to write.

But my last three books, The Happiness Project, than happier at home, and my most recent book called Better Than Before,

which is all about habit formation, have all been kind of in this area of human nature.

How do we make our lives happier, healthier, and more productive?

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