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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Ep. 45: Home for the Holidays – Kansas City Edition

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2015

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Ep. 45: Elizabeth and I are both home for the holidays, back in Kansas City. We start the episode in our favorite KC diner, Winstead's, then talk to some special guests. Want to get in touch? @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; podcast@gretchenrubin.com; happiercast.com/45; 774-277-9336. 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 that gives you strategies and tips for how to

0:06.0

build a happier life.

0:07.5

This week is the home for the holidays, Kansas City Edition.

0:11.6

We're very happy to be coming to you from one of our very favorite Kansas City places.

0:17.0

Yes, we're at Winsteads.

0:19.0

It's so exciting.

0:20.9

We will talk about that and hear from surprise guests coming up.

0:30.0

I'm Gretchen Ruben, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits in human nature.

0:40.5

Usually, I'm in New York City, today I'm in Kansas City, and with me is my sister Elizabeth

0:45.5

Graft.

0:46.5

That's me, Elizabeth Graft, a TV writer and producer living in LA, and for the moment,

0:52.3

home for Christmas.

0:54.3

Well, so I'm very excited to be in Kansas City.

0:57.0

I got here a few days before Elizabeth, so we had a couple days of peace and quiet before

1:01.5

Elizabeth and her team arrived.

1:03.1

Yeah, and I mean, I was working right up until the night before we came Monday morning,

1:09.2

so I didn't really feel like the Christmas season started until that plane landed in Kansas

1:14.5

City.

1:15.5

I didn't even, as I've mentioned on a previous, I haven't been great with Christmas this

1:21.7

year.

1:23.4

But now you're here, the Plaza lights are on.

1:26.3

Oh, yay, someone's here to take our order.

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