S11 EP20 How to Be Happy and Still Be You with Special Guest Gretchen Rubin
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
What is happiness to you? And does knowing what itis mean you have control over it? These questions are quite personal and not so easily answered. We want to thank today’s guest, Gretchen Rubin, for sharing her wisdom on the elusive topic of happiness. Gretchen is an extremely distinguished author, speaker, and founder of The Happiness Project. So she knows a thing or two about happiness! Oh, and she hosts a wildly successful podcast with her sister too. We love that!
In today’s episode, we dive head first into happiness with Gretchen. Want to know how to be as happy as you can be, given who YOU are? If you feel like being unhappy is your default setting or if you have ever asked yourself, “Was I born this way?” this episode is for you. Do you want to know what your natural tendency is, and why you act the way you do? Knowing who you are will help you get a better understanding of your own happiness. Want to know how to survive change and loneliness? Don’t we all? Tune in to hear Gretchen’s invaluable tips. We’ll start you off with this one: you don’t need to change. There’s nothing wrong with you! xoxo
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(00:00:00) Welcome Gretchen Rubin to the podcast.
(00:05:00) Gretchen’s beginnings and journey from law student to happiness expert.
(00:09:27) What IS happiness anyways? Can we define it?
(00:14:50) Can you control our own happiness? What if bad stuff happens?
(00:19:23) Gretchen bestsellers: “Better Than Before” and “The Four Tendencies”
(00:27:10) Why you shouldn’t fight your fundamental natural tendency.
(00:36:09) Why we need to know ourselves for better communication and how not to judge others but see them.
(00:41:34) Change is hard. Her transition from empty nest to open door.
(00:50:48) Is being unhappy a default human setting?
(00:58:48) Do we need hobbies to be happy?
(00:00:00) Where to find and hear more from Gretchen Rubin.
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| 0:00.0 | I mean, if there's one thing that I've learned about happiness, like more and more, |
| 0:03.3 | the more I researched it is there's just no magic one size fits all solution. |
| 0:07.4 | And anybody who says, like, do these seven things, I'm like, maybe, but maybe you need to do |
| 0:14.1 | just the opposite or you need to do five and not the other two because people really are different. |
| 0:23.0 | Hey, everybody. We've had some of the most incredible guests coming to you these past |
| 0:28.5 | couple months. The amount of expertise and knowledge on these cutting edge topics is something |
| 0:36.3 | we really hope that you enjoy. And if you do, it would make a |
| 0:41.0 | huge difference to us if you could rate, review and subscribe the podcast. It helps us to get |
| 0:46.2 | more guests, better experts, and talk about all of the things that are really important to you. |
| 0:53.1 | So give us a love. Give us a lot of love, and don't forget to subscribe so you get all |
| 1:00.0 | our new episodes. |
| 1:01.7 | Hi, everybody, and welcome back to the Six-Size Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm Rachel, and you won't even believe who we have for you today. |
| 1:11.8 | The happiness guru, unbelievably successful, author, podcast, host, and incredible entrepreneur |
| 1:21.3 | of a woman. |
| 1:23.1 | Gretchen Rubin is here. |
| 1:24.6 | Thank you for being with us, Gretchen. |
| 1:26.4 | I'm so happy to be talking to you. Gretchen Rubin is here. Thank you for being with us, Gretchen. I'm so happy to be talking to you. |
| 1:29.3 | Gretchen is the host of Happier with Gretchen Rubin with 220 million downloads. You probably have heard an episode or two. |
| 1:39.8 | If you haven't, get on there. She's got a fantastic pod. |
| 1:48.0 | Tons of awards and award mentions. |
| 1:55.7 | Oprah Daily, Entrepreneur Magazine, Readers Digest, like everybody is on to the value of this podcast. |
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