Miles of Books: Tiny Experiments + Tiny Habits

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Anyone looking to shake things up should start by listening to this episode, in which Coach Liz Waterstraat details to host Sarah Bowen Shea how small changes can make a big difference. (Call it the Lilliputian Effect!) Detailing two books—Tiny Experimentsand Tiny Habits—Coach Liz details how to make your own pocket-sized experiment, as well as highlighting the power of the pivot. She also talks up small-scale, low-effort initiatives and other ways to make lasting habit change. The hosts think, after listening, you’ll agree: Tiny is transformative! Find retreat details here. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR.We appreciate your—and their—support! Feel the Currex difference: Get 15% off with code AMR15 at Currex.com Run Portland! Use code AMR20 for $20 off registration at portlandmarathon.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks to Kurex for its long-time support. Kurex insoles are engineered for unequaled comfort,
0:04.8	performance, and injury prevention for a wide variety of sports and activities, including running,
0:09.5	hiking, cycling, court sports, and golf. For 15% off, visit Kurex.com and use code AMR 15.
0:17.0	Head out here to the Rose City to take part in the Portland Marathon on October 5th.
0:21.7	The Marathon, Half Marathon, and 10K all showcase this beautiful, friendly, funky city.
0:27.4	Use code AMR20 for $20 off registration at Portlandmarathon.com.
0:46.9	Welcome to Miles of Books. I'm your host Sarah Bowen-Shea and coach Liz Waterstrott is here to talk about non-fiction books. Hi, Liz. Hi, Sarah.
0:55.5	All right. Well, Liz, you made me literally L-O-L. You told me the theme of the two books you will be telling us about.
1:02.6	So since it's your joke, you get to tell it on air. Yes, two books. One theme. We're going,
1:08.4	let me see if I get this right. Lilliputian today. Yay. All you said correctly.
1:14.1	And can somebody just give me a kudos for working that word into this?
1:18.9	Because it's a word we all know, but how often do you get to use it in a sentence?
1:26.3	I'm going to say, I oftentimes feel like Gulliver because of my height, because I'm 511. And so sometimes on the pickleball court, if I'm playing with a bunch of shorter women, I will toss out the gulliver and lilliputian call.
1:37.4	Well, we have two books that focus on tiny things today and tiny things that can lead to big changes. And that's why I called it
1:48.0	a Lilliputian theme. Look at that. You were just, it's just rolling off your tongue now. Let's,
1:53.3	let's share with people that before we went on air, you were like, how do you say it? How do you say it? I know what it means. I know how to use it.
2:03.0	I don't know how to say it, but I have nailed it. Thank you. Nailed it. All right. First up,
2:08.5	a new book called Tiny Experiments, How to Live Freely in a Goal Obsessed World. It's by, here's
2:14.2	another thing I might not say right, Anne Laurie LeCompf.
2:18.0	Liz, it sounds like this author has an interesting backstory.
2:21.3	Yes, to sum up, she worked at Google, and then she decided to start up her own business, and she
2:28.4	failed at that, and she found herself sort of floundering, not sure what to do next.
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