Ep. 285: Why It’s a Good Idea to Create a Catch-All, a Spotlight on Virginia Hamilton, and a Conversation with Susan Burton About Her Brilliant Memoir “Empty.”

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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We discuss why it’s a great idea to create a catch-all to help boost creativity, memories, and inspiration, we shine a spotlight on children’s author Virginia Hamilton, and we talk to Susan Burton about her thought-provoking memoir “Empty.” Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; podcast@gretchenrubin.com Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Get the resources and all links related to this episode here: http://happiercast.com/285 Order a copy of Gretchen’s new book OUTER ORDER, INNER CALM here: http://outerorderinnercalmbook.com Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors. Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Do The Thing, Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! 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

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast that gives you strategies and tips for how to build
0:05.1	happier habits into your daily life.
0:07.6	This week we'll talk about why it's a good idea to create a catch-all for insight and
0:11.5	creativity, and we'll talk to my friend Susan Burton about her brilliant memoir, Empty.
0:28.8	I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits, and human nature.
0:32.3	I am in my home office in New York City, and with me is my sister, the sage.
0:37.7	That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer, living in LA and Gretch.
0:43.1	I don't know if I'm wise, but I definitely like to talk a lot, so hopefully something
0:48.2	good comes out.
0:49.2	Well, before we launch and we have a couple updates, the first one comes from Laurie.
0:54.0	She says, I was looking for an inexpensive way to say thinking of you to two ladies living
0:58.6	in a retirement facility which has been locked down for two months with no visitors.
1:03.5	And I remembered this idea from your podcast.
1:05.6	I found two mugs at a dollar store and the plants and decorations at the grocery store and
1:10.5	put the mini planters on the patio of their apartment.
1:13.8	Then I called to say, look for a surprise on your patio.
1:17.4	Costs under five dollars, each delighted response from the ladies priceless.
1:22.0	Thank you.
1:23.0	And she included a picture, so one mug said, bloom where you are planted and the other
1:27.9	said life is better with a furry companion.
1:30.7	And she also put in a pinwheel in each one.
1:33.5	So it was very kind of festive looking.
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