Hello and welcome to Happy to Be Here, the show for recovering perfectionists and the

perpetually curious about what to read, eat, watch, think about, and delight in wherever

you might happen to be. I am your host, Greta Johnson, and I am so excited that you are here.

We have entered a new year, and for a lot of folks, that provides the illusion of a fresh

start.

I know a lot of people really like resolutions.

I've talked about this before.

I'm generally, you could say either conflicted or just like negative about them, just because I feel like

they can get really hairy, really fast so often they're about being better and doing more

and stopping bad habits and generally depriving yourself, which I don't love.

I will say last year I did resolve to be bitchier, which was kind of fun. Honestly, I wish I had

leaned into that a little bit more. But anyway, today we are talking about a whole new approach.

I'm calling it the 87% club and it's all about doing less, giving less and caring less about

things that don't actually matter. Are you a person who usually

gives 110%? Well, I need you to stop it. The 87% Club is something that my friend Shannon Downey

and I came up with earlier this summer. My name is Shannon Downey. On the internet, I am known as

badass cross stitch, and I'm a full-time art activist, an author,

educator, all the fun things. All the fun things. And you and I have been dear friends for several

years now. Ages now. Life times. I mean, in this day and age, it does feel like a lifetime. Shannon and I talk about a lot

of different things, but because we are both people who are lucky enough to have creative jobs

as our livelihoods, we talk a lot about work together too. And there was a moment over the summer

where Shannon told me about a new gig she had. She had been paired with someone who was

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