Ep. 409: Secrets Of Adulthood With Gretchen Rubin

Happier in Hollywood

The Onward Project

Careers, Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Liz and Sarah talk to Gretchen Rubin, aka Liz’s sister, about her fantastic new book of witty and thought-provoking aphorisms, Secrets of Adulthood: Simple Truths for Our Complex Lives. Some favorites: What can be done at any time is often done at no time. Easy children raise good parents. Accept yourself, and expect more from yourself. Choose the bigger life. This week’s Hollywood Hack is one of Sarah’s favorite skincare products — Biossance toner. Finally, Sarah recommends the podcast Sleep With Me.

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LINKS:

Secrets of Adulthood: Simple Truths for Our Complex Lives by Gretchen Rubin: https://amzn.to/3R3mJLL

Biossance toner:

https://amzn.to/4kl0luD

Sleep With Me podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pizzarizzo-brick-builder/id740675898?i=1000697222640

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0:00.0	Lemonada.
0:05.7	Are we ready for our notes call this afternoon?
0:09.3	I mean, I guess. I'm very nervous.
0:11.6	It feels like a long time since we've had an official notes call.
0:16.4	I know. I guess it's good because that means something's done.
0:19.6	Very true.
0:20.9	And, of course, writing is rewriting, so we'll be rewriting.
0:24.8	Oh, yeah.
0:30.6	Hi, and welcome to Happier in Hollywood, the podcast about how to be happier, healthier,
0:35.6	saner, more creative, more successful, and more productive
0:38.7	and a backbiting, superficial, chaotic, unpredictable, fundamentally insane world. I'm Liz
0:45.6	Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in L.A., and with me is my high school friend and writing
0:50.9	partner, Sarah. That's me, Sarah Fane. On this podcast, we talk about being writers in Hollywood, how we balance a career and friendship
0:58.2	and how to survive the war of attrition that is life in Los Angeles.
1:02.5	Today we're going to talk to Gretchen Rubin, aka my sister, about her new book, Secrets of
1:08.5	adulthood.
1:09.0	This week's Hollywood hat comes from my long and involved
1:11.8	quest to find the perfect skin care products. And I also have a soporific podcast recommendation.
1:19.2	Yes, but Sarah, first we have an update about substack and how to navigate substack. Yes, we got an email
1:26.8	from a listener who wanted to get our newsletter, but who did not want to
1:32.0	have to deal with the substack app, which I think probably is the case for a lot of people,
1:37.6	because how many apps do we all actually need on our phone?
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