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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Ep. 340: Very Special Episode! Ask Us Anything

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Every tenth episode is a Very Special Episode, and this episode is an “Ask Us Anything.” We answer listener questions about our parents, career insights, our favorite hacks, why Gretchen calls Elizabeth “my sister the sage,” and more. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; [email protected] 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/340 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

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0:00.0

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0:32.7

Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we explore strategies and solutions for

0:37.6

building happier lives. Every 10th episode is a very special episode, and this is episode 340.

0:44.7

So for this week we're doing an Ask Us Anything.

0:59.6

I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits and human nature. I am yet again

1:05.7

right here in my home office in New York City and joining me today from LA is my sister, the Sage.

1:11.6

That's me, Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA. And Gretchen, I think we have a

1:17.6

question today about how I got that nickname from you. Of course, shadowing.

1:24.2

Now, before we launch in, a quick update. In episode 339, we talked about an idea for using helium

1:31.2

balloon shaped like champagne bottles to make an occasion more festive. However, we heard from

1:38.0

several listeners who pointed out why this is not the greatest idea. Yes, and Virginie, who's a

1:44.6

wildlife ecologist, summed it up by saying they can kill terrestrial and aquatic animals by

1:51.2

starvation or entanglement, can cause power outages and deplete the finite sources of helium.

1:57.2

So that made us think twice about the helium balloons. Indeed. So we are on the hunt for more

2:04.0

good ideas for easy ways to make an occasion more festive and how to add that note of whimsy.

2:11.2

And now let's get to it. Our very special episode. Yes, we thank you so much to all the listeners

2:17.2

who said in questions. It was so fun to read through them. And the first one comes from Alexandra,

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