376. Best-selling author Gretchen Rubin joins Dan Hesse to discuss how we can be happier and make those around us happier

The Mentors Radio Show

In this episode of THE MENTORS RADIO, Host Dan Hesse talks with New York Times #1 Best-Selling author Gretchen Rubin as she provides lessons and tips on how to live a better life by being happier and making those around us happier.

Gretchen Rubin is one of today’s most influential and thought-provoking observers of happiness and human nature. She’s a highly acclaimed writer, known for her ability to distill and convey complex ideas—from science to literature to stories from her own life—with levity and clarity.
Gretchen has an affinity for new tools and platforms, and has cultivated a vast, passionate audience who actively engages with her and her work across many channels. With millions of copies of her New York Times bestselling books sold, more than 220 million downloads of her Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast, an enthusiastic following on her newsletters and social media, helpful and beautifully designed products, and the award-winning Happier app, Rubin engages her audience wherever they are and wherever they want to be. An experienced and sought-after speaker, she makes regular appearances across the media landscape.
As the founder of The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin has helped create an ecosystem of imaginative products and tools to help people become happier, healthier, more productive and more creative. “There’s no one-size-fits-all solution,” she explains, “so there’s no ‘right’ way or ‘best’ way. We have to choose the way that work for us.”
She’s been interviewed by Oprah, eaten dinner with Nobel Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman, walked arm-in-arm with the Dalai Lama, had her work reported on in a medical journal, been written up in the New Yorker, and been an answer on Jeopardy!
After starting her career in law, Gretchen realized she wanted to be a writer while clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Raised in Kansas City, she lives in New York City with her family. Listen to the show broadcast on Salem Radio in San Francisco or via live-streaming on iHeart Radio worldwide… You can also listen on ANY podcast platform, including Apple podcast, iTunes, Spotify, TuneIN, Stitcher, Google Play and all the others. Sign up for the podcast here.

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GRETCHEN RUBIN:

• BIO: BIO: Gretchen Rubin
• WEBSITE: https://gretchenrubin.com/
• BOOKS:
  • The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closet, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, by Gretchen Rubin
  • The Four Tendencies: The Indespensable Personality Profiles that Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People’s Lives Better, Too), by Gretchen Rubin
  • Life in Five Senses: How exploring the world got me out of my head and into the world, by Gretchen Rubin
  • Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of our Everyday, by Gretchen Rubin
  • Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter and Organize to make more room for happiness, by Gretchen Rubin
  • Happier at Home, by Gretchen Rubin
  • 40 Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A brief account of a long life, by Gretchen Rubin
  • 40 Ways to Look at JFK, by Gretchen Rubin
• PODCAST: Happier, with Gretchen Rubin
• APP: Happier app
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