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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Happier with Gretchen Rubin: An Interview with Tom Rath (Plus Gretchen’s Favorite Office Supply!)

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.713.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2015

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Ep. 15: Be a tourist in your own city, a talk with Tom Rath, the challenge of snooze alarms, Gretchen's deep appreciation of clear plastic sleeves to organize papers, and Elizabeth's bad habit of asking the same question repeatedly.  Want to get in touch? @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; podcast@gretchenrubin.com; happiercast.com/15; 774-277-9336. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast that gives you ideas for building happier habits

0:07.3

into your daily life.

0:09.1

This week we'll talk about why you should try being a tourist in your own city, and

0:14.1

Elizabeth another exciting milestone is we have our very first interview.

0:18.9

Yay!

0:30.0

I'm Gretchen Ruben, a writer whose study is happiness, good habits, and human nature.

0:34.6

And I'm not alone in this quest.

0:37.1

With me is my sister, Elizabeth Kraft.

0:39.9

Hi Gretchen, I'm in a very celebratory mood today as you should be because our last

0:46.8

episode put us over a million downloads.

0:50.6

I know that's so exciting!

0:51.8

Yay!

0:52.8

Thank you, Liz!

0:53.8

Thank you!

0:54.8

Thank you, thank you everyone for listening.

0:57.3

It's incredibly exciting.

0:58.5

We've only been doing it for a few months.

1:00.8

Yeah, I know, so here's to the next million.

1:03.2

Excellent.

1:04.2

Okay, Gretchen, before we get into try this at home, I need you to do an update for us.

1:10.1

In episode 14, you confessed to having hostess neurosis.

1:15.4

You were, had your daughter, Eliza, 16th birthday party coming up, and you were suffering

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