Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast about how to be happier. This week we'll

talk about why to practice mise en place and we define mise en place and why I'm

so passionate about canvas tote bags.

I'm Gretchen Ribbon, a writer whose studies happiness could have it to

human nature. I'm in New York City and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft and I

have to say I'm a little unhappy that I won't be seeing Elizabeth and her family

for Christmas this year. It's an off year so she will not be in Kansas City.

That's right. I will be in Whittier. Also fun. That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer

and producer living in LA and Gretchen happy birthday. Today is your birthday.

Thank you. Thank you Elizabeth. What a nice sister for remembering. Yeah. I don't

think I remember to send you something but I'm saying surprise gifts in the mail so

that'll have to do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. You've sent me some cool surprise gifts so

that will do. Now Elizabeth we are going to do something very fun for the new year. We're

partly inspired by our cool outpouring of Spotify suggestions and how fun that was to see

what everybody picked and how it would like a happiness booster was. For January we

want to do the same where everybody can join us for a happier 2017 on Instagram. So now

we're going to try something on Instagram. So you and I are going to share a photo every

day of something that is boosting our happiness, helping us with our good habits, filling

us with gratitude, any kind of happiness boosting thing. So follow us on Instagram at Gretchen

Ruben and Atlas Kraft and it's Liz Kraft, right Elizabeth? Yes. Liz Kraft. Yeah. Because

Elizabeth sometimes she has a lot of you have a lot of a KAs. I go back and forth. Yeah.

If you have many iterations of your name. So share a photo every day of something that helps

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