Ingrid Fetell Lee, Author of JOYFUL: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness

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🗓️ 4 October 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Listen to this life-changing interview with author, Ingrid Fetell Lee. Ingrid explains the 10 simple ways you can use your environment to add more joy to your life! Simple yet utterly profound!!! Her non-fiction book, JOYFUL: THE SURPRISING POWER OF ORDINARY THINGS TO CREATE EXTRAORDINARY HAPPINESS, is well-written, thought-provoking and surely the next big thing.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books, the podcast featuring interviews with writers of all types.
0:16.8	Today's episode of Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books has been sponsored by Nenis Treats. That's N-E-N-E-S treats.com,
0:25.1	a family-owned and operated crumbcake business based in Charleston, South Carolina, which my in-laws have a little bit to do with.
0:31.8	That's Nenystreetsets.com. Get your crumbcakes on Ninniestrereats.com or Goldbelly and enjoy.
0:39.8	Hi, I'm excited to be here today with Ingrid Fettel Lee, who is a joy expert.
0:44.7	She started as a design director at IDO, a global innovation firm and was a founding faculty member
0:50.8	at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
0:53.1	She's been featured in the New York
0:54.4	Times, Wired and Fast Company, among others. Apparently, last year's TED Talk got her a standing
0:59.9	ovation. Yes. The mini version of the TED Talk, which everybody listening should go to YouTube
1:05.9	and watch, has 12 million views online, and it will brighten up your day. With a master's in industrial design from
1:12.2	Pratt Institute and a bachelor's in English and creative writing from Princeton University,
1:16.6	Ingrid has established yourself as a leader in the design field. Her popular blog, the Aesthetics of
1:21.5	Joy, showcases her work and ideas and she currently lives in Brooklyn. So welcome, Ingrid.
1:26.3	Thank you. Thank you for having me. I have to say I had a case on IDEO at my business school, and I thought it was like the coolest company ever. It is. It is. It's an amazing place. Yeah. You come up with just innovative ideas, or what does it do? So, yeah, IEO is an innovation, design and innovation company, and works across disciplines. So, you know,
1:47.3	everything from designing medical devices to redesigning the way that an entire education system
1:53.9	works. So applying the ideas of design, the methods of design to some of the world's
2:00.1	biggest challenges.
2:02.1	Yeah. Awesome.
2:07.6	So how can you tell listeners how you stumbled upon this sort of life-changing idea,
2:11.2	which is the premise for your book, that joy, and I should have said the book,
2:15.9	is called Joyful, the Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness.
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