Choose Your Own Adventure With Jolenta Greenberg and Kristen Meinzer

First Draft Episode #241: Kristen Meinzer and Jolenta Greenberg

Kristen Meinzer and Jolenta Greenberg, co-hosts of the By the Book podcast and co-authors of How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books. They also co-host the We Love You and So Can You podcast.

Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode

• Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies. Kristen previously produced Gretchen’s Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast!
• The Movie Date podcast that Kristen co-hosted
• Marie Kondo, author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
• The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner
• The Goodreads study about who writes self-help books (men) and who reads them (people who identify as women)
• Why Good Things Happen to Good People by Stephen Post, Jill Neimark, and Otis Moss
• So You Want to Start a Podcast, Kristen’s book about, duh, how to start a podcast!

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