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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Ep. 214: Try Giving Up Something for a Month

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.713.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Try giving up something for a month, a confession and hack related to leather pants, and a question for listeners: How do you help someone get through chemotherapy? Get tickets for Gretchen's book tour and Happier podcast live events athttp://gretchenrubin.com/events Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Order a copy of Gretchen’s new book OUTER ORDER, INNER CALM here: http://outerorderinnercalmbook.com Get the resources and all links related to this episode here:http://happiercast.com/214 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we discuss cutting-edge science, the wisdom

0:05.7

of the ages, lessons from pop culture, and our own experiences and how to be happier.

0:11.8

This week we'll talk about why you might consider giving up something for a little while,

0:16.9

and I will give a hack based on my bad experience with a pair of leather pants.

0:30.0

I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose study is happy and is good-have, it's outer order

0:36.8

and human nature.

0:37.8

I'm a New York City, and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft, who I call my sister the

0:43.1

sage.

0:44.1

That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA, and Gretchen I will try

0:49.4

to be extra wise today to move up to that name.

0:53.4

Every day.

0:54.4

Try to bring the wisdom.

0:55.4

Bring the wisdom, excellent.

0:57.0

So to remind everybody, we are taking it live and on tour.

1:00.4

We're so excited.

1:01.4

New York City, Detroit, Milwaukee, Minneapolis.

1:06.3

You can get information and buy your tickets, selling out if you go to GretchenRubin.com,

1:12.4

slash events.

1:13.4

We are so excited about the opportunity to meet some listeners face to face.

1:19.2

Yes, it's going to be so fun.

1:21.7

Yes.

1:22.7

This week I tried this at home tip is to give up something for a month.

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