989 episodes
Happier with Gretchen Rubin Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project
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4.7 • 717 Ratings
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Gretchen Rubin is HAPPIER, and she wants you to be happier too. The #1 bestselling author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before gets more personal than ever as she brings her practical, manageable advice about happiness and good habits to this lively, thought-provoking podcast. Gretchen’s cohost and guinea pig is her younger sister, Elizabeth Craft, a TV writer and producer living in Los Angeles, who (lovingly) refers to Gretchen as her happiness bully. Part of the Audacy Network.
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Avoid Avoidance, “Planned Maintenance,” a Cooking Hack, and Books on How Things Work
Ep. 481. We talk about why it’s helpful to try to avoid avoidance, and why “planned
maintenance” is more effective than “unplanned maintenance.” Plus we share a
hack for making cooking easier and faster, as well as many suggestions from
listeners of excellent books about how things work.
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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.
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Little Happier: Are You “Practicing the Piano” or “Playing the Piano?”
When it comes to happiness and human nature, the words and metaphors we choose have a surprisingly large influence over our actions.
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Get the podcast show notes by email every week: happiercast.com/shownotes
Get Gretchen Rubin’s newest 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 - order here.
Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app.
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Why Ketchup Is Magic, and More on Delights of Taste from "Life in Five Senses"
Listen to a bonus episode featuring an excerpt from Gretchen Rubin's latest bestselling book, Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World. This excerpt comes from the chapter Tasting: The Taste of the Tea and the Cake, or Why Ketchup is Magic.
Audio excerpt courtesy of Penguin Random House Audio from LIFE IN FIVE SENSES by Gretchen Rubin; Read by the author. © 2023 by Gretchen Rubin ℗ 2023, Penguin Random House, LLC
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Ep. 480: Hacks, Hacks, and More Hacks from the Proverbs of the Professions
In this Very Special Episode, we share hilarious and insightful “proverbs of the
professions”—the collective wisdom of people in particular roles or professions
about how to manage the dilemmas of life. We include proverbs that come from
parents, poker players, doctors, ski instructors, and many more.
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
@GretchenRubin on ThreadsGet the podcast show notes by email every week: happiercast.com/shownotes
Get the resources and all links related to this episode here: http://happiercast.com/480
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.
Hacks for Facing Life’s Challenges: Proverbs of the Professions:
https://gretchenrubin.com/articles/hacks-for-facing-lifes-challenges-proverbs-of-the-professions/
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Little Happier: Funny Reminders to Beware of Unintended Consequences.
Three amusing examples—from the worlds of pickpockets, farmers, and archeologists—illustrate the point that we must beware of unintended consequences.
Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com
Follow on social media:
@GretchenRubin on YouTube
@GretchenRubin on TikTok
@GretchenRubin on Instagram
@GretchenRubin on Threads
Get the podcast show notes by email every week: happiercast.com/shownotes
Get Gretchen Rubin’s newest 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 - order here.
Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app.
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More Happier: The Power of Personal Style, a Great Proposal Story, and Less Email Spam
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
Customer Reviews
Happiness Gold Star for this podcast
I have been enjoying this podcast for the last few years and find that in every episode there is a thoughtful idea, hack or moment of reflection that I can immediately build into my own life to cultivate happiness. I like all the different formats of the podcast and feel that the two hosts are really invested and thoughtful about the quality of the content they are producing.
The happiness trifecta but particularly the list of yearly goals has helped me over the last few years to really refine what I want to achieve and what will maximise my happiness and my #24 list is going well.
A huge gold star to Gretchen and Liz for the time, effort and energy they put into creating this podcast and community around it - it brings me so much pleasure and I highly recommend it.
This makes me MORE Happier!
I have been listening to this podcast for many, many years and for many years I have been meaning to write a review but as Gretchen says, things that can happen at anytime happen at no time so I’m finally doing it!
This podcast has gotten me through depressive spells, times of anxiety and also just been an utter joy to listen to during happy spells. Listening to the two sisters talk you feel like you are in the safety of your old friends. During walks and long car journeys, hearing their relatable voices has made my ears and my life so much happier. THANK YOU GRETCHEN AND ELIZABETH!
Love it
Only discovered it recently but I really love it ! Read the book, got my own journal, my 24 for 24 and my word of the years butterflies I’m ready to go ! Just working through the back catalog, look forward to new ones each week! Love Kim from Cornwall in the uk ! Keep up the great work ladies !