Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast that gives you strategies and tips for

building happier habits into daily life. This week we'll talk about why you

should ask yourself the question, what happens if I ignore this? And we'll talk

to a terrific special guest, Melissa Hartwig, of the Super Popular Whole 30

program.

I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits, and human

nature. I'm a New York City and with me in spirit, though not in body is my

sister Elizabeth Kraft. That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer,

living in LA and Gretchen today I'm going to try to be more relaxed and funnier

because I got an email from someone who observed that I sounded more relaxed and

was funnier in the live podcast than I usually sound. So I'm gonna I'm gonna

try to push it and push my relaxation level. Well I wonder if part of that is

because when you do this in LA it's 730 in the morning and doing that was

seven at night and you're a night person so you probably just were a lot more

alert. That could be some of it, yes. But anyway it was a it was a fun

observation. Yes. Elizabeth you know it's very exciting we are coming up on our

one-year anniversary of podcasts. Yes, unbelievable. So to celebrate we're going to

do an episode where we highlight stories from listeners from you about changes

you've made over the past year. So is it how have you made yourself happier? How

do you feel better than before? What have you used? What has worked for you? We'd

love to hear your stories. Yeah and we have a lot of these stories already

because our listeners send in so many great ones but if anybody wants to be

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