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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

More Happier: Happier Podcast Book Club: Bestselling Author Kate Bowler [Revisited]

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

For the Happier Podcast Book Club we’re revisiting our conversation with our friend and bestselling author Kate Bowler about her moving, funny, thought-provoking new memoir, “No Cure for Being Human.” In this wide-ranging chat we discuss her writing process, work as a “calling” vs “career” and why we can be more honest in writing than we can out loud. Resources and links related to this episode: #Read25in25 Elizabeth is listening to: Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer (Amazon, Bookshop)  Gretchen is reading: Zen Inklings by Donald Richie (Amazon)  No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear (Amazon, Bookshop).  Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app.  Find the transcript for this episode on the episode details page in the Apple Podcasts app.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Music Hello, we're here for more happier, a podcast where we get more of the happier

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podcast. Today, we're revisiting one of our Happier Podcasts book club episodes. This one is

0:53.4

with bestselling author and my friend Kate Bowler.

0:57.9

I mean, this conversation has really stuck with both of us. Yeah. I mean, Kate has such a

1:04.3

unique ability to speak about difficult subjects, but with such honesty and such humor. I feel when she talks, like, I feel like

1:13.9

my heart opening up. I mean, she really is unique that way. Yeah. If you're looking for a

1:21.1

memoir to keep up with your hashtag read 25 at 25, her book, No Cure for Being Human and Other Truths I Need to Hear is a captivating

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read. No, we're revisiting this episode from 2021.

1:36.6

And now for the conversation about the book. Two years ago, we launched our Happier Podcast

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Book Club, and today we will talk

1:46.1

about our most recent choice, the wonderful memoir by Kate Bowler, called No Cure for Being Human.

1:54.5

Yes, here is the official description. It's hard to give up on the feeling that the life you

2:00.4

really want is just out of reach,

2:02.6

a beach body by summer, a trip to Disneyland around the corner, a promotion on the horizon.

2:08.2

Everyone wants to believe that they are headed toward good, better, best.

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