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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

More Happier: The Power of Personal Style, a Great Proposal Story, and Less Email Spam

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

We talk about yet another lesson from the Real Housewives: the power of a personal style. We also share a lovely marriage proposal story that involves stationery products, as well as a quick hack for reducing email spam. Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Follow on social media: @GretchenRubin on YouTube @GretchenRubin on TikTok @GretchenRubin on Instagram @GretchenRubin on Threads @LizCraft on Instagram @LizCraft on Threads Get the podcast show notes by email every week: happiercast.com/shownotes Get Gretchen Rubin’s newest New York Times bestselling book Life in Five Senses to see how she discovered a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, luck, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. Now available wherever books are sold. Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app.  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Must remember do not forget

0:08.0

remind me to bring photo ID

0:11.0

reminder set babe can you make sure I don't forget Photo ID. Reminder, set.

0:13.0

Babe, can you make sure I don't forget my photo ID when I vote?

0:17.0

All right, love.

0:20.0

However you remember, you'll need photo ID to vote on the 2nd of May.

0:24.7

Find out more at Electoralcommission.org. UK slash voter ID. Hello, we're here for more happier, a podcast where we get more happier.

0:49.4

Every other Saturday, join us for some weekend listening while we kick back and get more

0:55.0

happier with a little bit of a looser vibe. Hey Elizabeth, hey Gratch. Today

1:00.4

we'll talk about yet another lesson from their real housewives because there's just so much to learn and we'll share a great example of happiness in action.

1:09.6

But first, something making us more happier. Elizabeth, what is making you more happier?

1:15.6

Yeah, Gretch, so what's making me happier

1:17.4

is something super practical, which is blocking spam

1:21.7

from my cell phone.

1:23.2

Okay.

1:24.0

So a while back, I started unsubscribing

1:27.8

from everything that came to me that was spam,

1:30.3

but what I realized is that, yes, you can unsubscribe from things you've signed up for whether on purpose or not on purpose and they will stop sending you things but if you unsubscribe on actual spam it doesn't necessarily work and in fact it seems to me like it makes it worse somebody told me it's because it shows that you're an actual person so then yes they send you more

1:56.0

but mom showed me that you can just block the sender so you're not unsubscribing, you're blocking the email address.

2:06.7

Ah. And so I have been doing that and it works. I'm actually getting less spam.

2:13.0

So the fact is by unsubscribing, you were just indicating,

2:16.0

hey, there's somebody at the other end of this email

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