FUN: We’re Finally Figuring It Out with Catherine Price

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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300. FUN: We’re Finally Figuring It Out with Catherine Price Pod Squad! Do you remember back in the very first days of the pod when we talked about FUN? It was episode 4. Now, hundreds of episodes later, we’re finally ready to give fun the long, deep dive and consideration it deserves. Abby is excited, Glennon is interested, and Amanda is skeptical, but we’re all here, ready to learn and maybe even to have a little fun. Thankfully, Fun Expert (how cool is that title?) and author of, The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again, Catherine Price is here to be our fun ambassador and to teach us all how to draw more fun and fun opportunities into day-to-day life! Discover: -The difference between real fun and fake fun; -The mental load’s impact on fun; -The three necessary ingredients for fun and how find your “Fun Magnets;” plus -Abby, Glennon, and Amanda’s stand out fun moments and how they plan to create more of that in their lives. Check out these other episodes, too: 4. FUN: What the hell is it and why do we need it? 62. The Big Lies & the Truth About Happiness with Dr. Laurie Santos 63. How to Live a Little Happier with Dr. Laurie Santos 216. How to Find DELIGHT Today (and Every Day) with Ross Gay On Catherine: Catherine Price is the author of The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again. She is also an award-winning health and science journalist, founder of Screen/Life Balance, and author of How to Break Up With Your Phone. She runs a substack newsletter called “How to Feel Alive” and her TED Talk, Why having fun is the secret to a healthier life, has been viewed close to five million times. IG: @_catherineprice X: @catherine_price

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0:00.0	Hello fun people welcome back to we can do hard things.
0:14.8	Together we are diving into something near and dear
0:19.3	to my cold dead heart and that is why do we feel half dead inside and how can we feel alive again?
0:30.0	And I feel strongly that that particular set of questions is among the most important we can be asking and answering together in this community because seriously
0:40.1	How are we going to know what is ours to do, what our particular lives were meant for,
0:45.0	how to unleash the love and gifts that only we can give.
0:48.0	How are we going to stay strong and upright and have joy inside of this ridiculous world if we are half dead inside of us.
0:55.6	What the good news and the bad news seems to be friends is that we have to be fully
1:01.6	alive to live fully alive,
1:02.6	to live fully.
1:05.4	So we are going to return to a mystery
1:08.0	we've been exploring since the very earliest days
1:10.1	of this community and this podcast, and that grand mystery is fun. In fact, almost three years ago,
1:19.1	our fourth episode ever of this podcast is titled Fun. What the hell is it and why do we need it?
1:27.0	This week we have two episodes for those of us who not only feel like we don't have time for fun
1:32.1	but couldn't even begin to tell you what
1:34.0	would be fun if we had the time for it. Catherine Price is here with us today and
1:39.2	she is here to spread the word that fun is not a distraction from our problems. It's a solution.
1:48.0	Snaps. That gets Abbey Snaps. We are going to walk through fun killers, fun magnets, why fake fun can be worse than no fun at all,
1:57.3	why having fun can feel like just another burden and how to start feeding ourselves the fun we are starving for even if we don't know
2:06.5	we're hungry.
2:07.8	Catherine Price is the author of The Power of Fun, How to Feel Alive Again. She is also an award-winning health and
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