Ep. 552: Start Your 100-Day Countdown, Try Substack & the Power of Engaging

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

There are about 100 days left in the year, and we discuss why starting your 100-day countdown can make you happier. We also explore a hack that will help you read, learn, and get entertained, and we share interesting responses from listeners about the power of engaging. Resources & links related to this episode: For the Happier Podcast Book Club: All the Way to the River: Love, Loss and Liberation by Elizabeth Gilbert (Amazon, Bookshop) Joshua Rothman's New Yorker article "A.I. Is Coming for Culture" Listen to the new podcast Since You Asked with Lori Gottlieb and Gretchen Rubin Happier in Hollywood Substack Secrets of Adulthood Substack "Fall in Love with Your Next Novel" Quiz Elizabeth is reading: Actress of a Certain Age by Jeff Hiller (Amazon, Bookshop) Gretchen is reading: The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman (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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1:06.2	Lemonada.
1:07.5	Music Lemonada.
1:23.3	Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we talk about strategies and suggestions for how we can all live happier lives.
1:35.2	This week, we'll talk about starting the 100-day countdown to the end of the year, and we'll share a hat for getting a source of great new material to read, and we'll make an exciting announcement.
1:40.3	I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer who studies happiness, good habits, human nature, secrets of adulthood.
1:45.3	I'm here in my little home office in New York City, and joining me today from Los Angeles is my sister, Elizabeth Kraft. And Elizabeth, we are very excited about this announcement.
1:49.4	That's me, Elizabeth Craft, a TV writer and producer living in L.A. And yes, Scratch, this is big.
1:56.3	Yes. So we are announcing our next choice for the Happier Podcast Book Club, and that choice is Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir all the way to the river, love, loss, and liberation.
2:09.5	And you have probably been hearing about this book, because Elizabeth, would you agree that there has just been enormous buzz around the publication of this memoir?
2:17.0	Oh, my God, there is so much buzz.
2:19.3	The book was just chosen for Oprah's book club.
2:22.2	So, great minds think alike.
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