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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Ep. 514: Host Better Holidays, Tips for Reading More in 2025 & Some Big Podcast News

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

We discuss how to make hosting more fun and less work by reflecting and making notes after each gathering; we include specific tips from our own experiences as well as creative suggestions from listeners. We also answer frequently asked questions about the "Read 25 in 25" challenge to help us all make reading a daily habit in the new year. Plus, we share terrific holiday hosting hacks from listeners.  Resources and links related to this episode: "Habits for Happiness" course Read25in25 Design Your Year Rolling cart Elizabeth is rereading: Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York Maitre D' by Michael Cecchi-Azzolina (Amazon, Bookshop)  Gretchen is reading: North Woods by Daniel Mason (Amazon, Bookshop)   Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app.  Find the transcript for this episode on the episode details page in the Apple Podcasts app.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.2

Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we talk about ideas and strategies for becoming happier.

0:40.8

This week we'll talk about why it's useful to look back after hosting a major gathering.

0:46.1

And along the same lines, we'll share a lot of imaginative, helpful hacks from listeners about ways to make hosting easier and more fun.

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Music listeners about ways to make hosting easier and more fun. I'm Gretchen Rubin, writer studies, happiness, good habits, secrets of adulthood, human nature.

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Joining me today from Los Angeles is my sister Elizabeth Craft and Elizabeth, Merry Christmas!

1:19.6

Merry Christmas! That's me, Elizabeth Craft, a TV writer and producer living in LA, and Gretch, this year we we're not together but next year we will be yeah and

1:29.6

we got to have Thanksgiving together so we did just get a chance to celebrate together that's great

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now before we jump in we have some updates one big update well it's a big update for us is that we are

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switching podcast networks we are switching podcast networks. We are switching to

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