Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast about how to be Happier. This week is a

celebration. Unbelievable as it is, this is our fourth anniversary. So as we've

done each year, we're gonna look back on some of the most popular try this at

home, happiness hacks and favorite moments of the year that just passed.

I'm Gretchen Ribin, a writer who studies happiness, good habits and human nature. I'm

in New York City and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft, my now four-year

co-host. That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer, living in LA and

Gretchen in the world of podcasts, I guess we're seniors. Yes, yes, and I have to

say we've never missed an episode. We're very vain about that. Oh we are. Now

at some point we're gonna miss one and then we're gonna stop being able to brag

about it. Yes, we just have to enjoy it as long as we can. As long as we can. Now

Elizabeth, you have an announcement. Yes, I want to let everyone know that Sarah and I

are having a Happier in Hollywood meetup in Los Angeles March 3rd at a bar

called Idle Hour, which is in North Hollywood. It'll be from five to seven on

Sunday March 3rd. So I'd love to see everybody there and we're gonna have a

jar for everyone to put their one-word theme of the year on and a little piece of

paper and put it in the jar just for a little nice ritual. So I would love to

see everybody at Idle Hour on March 3rd. Yeah, and I will put a link in the

show notes to the information. So if you want to look that up you can just look

on the show notes for this is episode 209. I mean I wanted to let everybody know

that I'm going on tour for my book tour. Outer order, inner calm is taking me to

New York City, Boston, Kayahoga, San Francisco, Mission Viejo, San Diego, Los Angeles

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