More Happier: No “Guilty” Pleasures & Returning to the Treadmill Desk

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We talk about why it can helpful to trust our interests and inclinations about what to read, watch, or listen to, without imposing a lot of judgment on our choices.

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0:00.0	Lemonada.
0:02.7	Hello, we're here for more happier, a podcast where we get happier.
0:16.4	Join us for some weekend listening.
0:18.6	It's more observations and reflections with a little bit of a looser weekend vibe.
0:23.2	Hey, Elizabeth.
0:24.3	Hey, Gretch.
0:25.3	Today we'll talk about loving something without judgment.
0:28.4	And we go deeper on the psychology of the treadmill desk.
0:32.6	But first, something making us happier.
0:34.8	Elizabeth, what's making you happier?
0:36.8	Gretch, what's making me happier is the
0:39.0	short trip that we both took to Kansas City last weekend. Yes, we did. I saw Eliza. She was in town,
0:47.7	and we were taking her out to dinner, and she mentioned that you guys had just decided to go to
0:51.9	Kansas City, and I said, oh, well, when are you going?
0:55.4	Maybe I'll hop on your trip.
1:01.7	Because remember, I talked about giving myself a demerit because I couldn't figure out any dates for Kansas City.
1:02.0	Yes. My brain wasn't working.
1:04.0	So I said, okay, forget it.
1:05.8	I'm not going to try.
1:06.7	I'm just going to jump on Gretchen's trip. And it was, of course, so much fun as Kansas City always is.
1:13.3	I mean, to me, summer is Kansas City.
1:16.7	The air in Kansas City is what I associate with summer.
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