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    Happier with Gretchen Rubin

    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. 

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    Little Happier: When Your Life's Work Chooses You: The Beauty and Burden of a Calling Jan 06, 2025
    Show notes

    From circus performers to doctors to writers to social workers, we can experience a "call"—an irresistible pull toward certain work that can feel both like a gift and a burden. While a calling provides clarity and fulfillment, it can also leave little room for choice, demanding sacrifice and persistence regardless of success.

    Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com

    Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app.

    Find the transcript for this episode on the episode details page in the Apple Podcasts app.

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    More Happier - "24 Things That Please Me" and Why Making That Kind of List Makes Us Happier Jan 04, 2025
    Show notes

    We review the list of “24 things that please me” that Gretchen created as one item in her “24 for 24” list. We discuss why those things are pleasing—and why making this kind of list can help us feel more gratitude, optimism, and happiness.

    Resources and links related to this episode:

    • Read 25 in 25

    Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com

    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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    Ep. 515: Revealed! Our “25 for 25” Lists of 25 Big & Small Things We Want to Do in 2025 Jan 02, 2025
    Show notes

    As part of the “Design Your Year” tools, we reveal our “25 for ‘25” lists of the twenty-five things we want to accomplish in 2025. Some are fun, some are demanding; some quick, some complicated; some new, some repeats.

    Resources and Links related to this episode:

    • Design Your Year
    • 25 for 2025 list resources
    • Happier in Hollywood free newsletter: HappierInHollywoodpod@substack.com
    • Happier app: the-happier-app.com
    • Elizabeth is reading: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Amazon, Bookshop)
    • Gretchen: Same!

    Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com

    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: The Art of Reframing: How Loss Can Become Protection Dec 30, 2024
    Show notes

    A concept from Japanese culture reframes what seems like pure misfortune—the loss of a beloved engagement ring—into an act of invisible grace and protection.

    Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com

    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: Answering your happiness questions Dec 28, 2024
    Show notes

    We share a preview of the new 2025 “Habits for Happiness” course. Each month, course participants will be able to ask questions about designing, tracking, and sticking with their habits for the year. These will become exclusive call in episodes for our participants, but this first episode is available here to everyone.

    Resources and links related to this episode:

    • Habits for Happiness Course 2025 - Get personalized support from Gretchen and her team to make 2025 the year you finally make your habits stick with this new course.

    Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com

    Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app.

    Find the transcript for this episode on the episode details page in the Apple Podcasts app.

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    Ep. 514: Host Better Holidays, Tips for Reading More in 2025 & Some Big Podcast News Dec 25, 2024
    Show notes

    We discuss how to make hosting more fun and less work by reflecting and making notes after each gathering; we include specific tips from our own experiences as well as creative suggestions from listeners. We also answer frequently asked questions about the "Read 25 in 25" challenge to help us all make reading a daily habit in the new year. Plus, we share terrific holiday hosting hacks from listeners.

    Resources and links related to this episode:

    • "Habits for Happiness" course
    • Read25in25
    • Design Your Year
    • Rolling cart
    • Elizabeth is rereading: Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York Maitre D' by Michael Cecchi-Azzolina (Amazon, Bookshop)
    • Gretchen is reading: North Woods by Daniel Mason (Amazon, Bookshop)

    Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com

    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: When One Song Can Express Contradictory Emotions Dec 23, 2024
    Show notes

    The Fleetwood Mac song “Songbird” illustrates the truth that with a great artwork, its power often lies not in expressing a single emotion, but in speaking to various, and sometimes even seemingly opposite, human experiences.

    Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com

    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: Bonus: I Read “The Snow Queen” to You, Pt. 2 Dec 21, 2024
    Show notes

    As a holiday gift to listeners, I’m reading aloud “The Snow Queen,” one of Hans Christian Andersen’s most famous fairy tales. Last week was Part One; this week is Part Two.

    Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com

    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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    Ep. 513: Revealed: Our Annual Challenge for 2025! Plus We Review 2024’s #Write24in24 Challenge Dec 18, 2024
    Show notes

    As part of “Design Your Year,” each year we announce an annual challenge based on the year—a habit that will help us and listeners to be come happier. We review our experience with last year’s “Write 24 in ‘24” challenge and reveal the challenge for 2025. Plus we discuss some of the tools and strategies we’ll use to help ourselves stick to this excellent challenge.

    Resources and links related to this episode:

    • "Habits for Happiness" course
    • #Write24in24
    • #Read25in25
    • One-Sentence Journal
    • bookshop.org
    • Happier™ app
    • 2025 "War and Peace" Slow Read
    • Four Tendencies Quiz
    • Don't Break the Chain tracker
    • "What's Your Neglected Sense?"
    • Elizabeth is rereading: Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York Maitre D' by Michael Cecchi-Azzolina (Amazon, Bookshop)
    • Gretchen is reading: Was She Pretty? by Leanne Shapton (Amazon, Bookshop)


    Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com

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    Little Happier: When Everything Changes, What Remains? The Mystery of Persistent Identity Dec 16, 2024
    Show notes

    From the Ship of Theseus to the Grand Shrine of Ise, from the Tin Woodman to our own constantly renewing bodies, humans have long wrestled with a profound question: When something is replaced piece by piece, is it still the same thing?

    Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com

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