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🗓️ 5 July 2025
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In a recent Secrets of Adulthood Substack Live conversation, I talked to the terrific Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action (the nation’s largest grassroots group fighting gun violence. We discuss insights from her latest book and how we've arrived at several of our own Secrets of Adulthood, including why it’s important to ask yourself whether your life goals are your own or someone else's, the cost of indecision, and when to double-back or double-down.
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0:00.0 | Lemonada. |
0:02.7 | Hello, we're here for more happier, a podcast where we get happier. A few weeks ago, I launched a |
0:23.2 | Substack Live series, which features my conversations with other writers and thinkers about their |
0:28.7 | own secrets of adulthood. And my inaugural guest was the terrific Shannon Watts, founder of |
0:34.2 | Mom's Demand Action, the nation's largest grassroots group fighting gun violence, |
0:38.8 | an executive, highly engaged citizen and writer, and today we are bringing that conversation to you. |
0:44.9 | I talked to Shannon about why it's important to ask yourself whether your life goals are your own or someone else's, |
0:50.6 | the cost of indecision, and when to double back or double down. |
0:54.1 | It was a fascinating conversation with Shannon. |
0:56.9 | Hope you enjoyed this episode. |
1:00.9 | Hello, everybody. |
1:03.4 | Hi, I'm Gretchen Rubin. |
1:04.9 | I am so excited to be here for the Secrets of Adulthood live video. |
1:10.6 | First one. First one. |
1:11.6 | First, inaugural. |
1:13.3 | In inaugural one. |
1:14.5 | Inogural one. |
1:16.1 | So I started a substack very recently, and on that substack every week, I'm going to have a |
1:21.4 | secret of adulthood teaching story where I tell a story or relate like a joke or a scene from a novel, whatever it might be, |
1:32.5 | and talk about a secret of adulthood that I think it illustrates. |
1:35.1 | I've always loved secrets of adulthood, and I'm really excited to have this newsletter |
1:38.6 | as a way to have kind of a more reflective place to put those out into the world. |
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