ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Happy To Be Here is a new interview podcast for the recovering perfectionist and the perpetually curious, full of conversations that make you feel right at home and allow you to learn a little bit about almost anything.
Host Greta Johnsen (formerly of Nerdette) invites you to meet journalists, chefs, authors, and all kinds of excellent humans who will delight and inspire you. Packed with recommendations for stuff to eat, read, watch, and enjoy, this show is great for helping you make sure you actually take it easy this weekend, wherever you might happen to be.
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
30 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
685 episodes
since May 25, 2013
episodic
explicit content
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~57.61% of listeners are from United States.
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US
57.61%
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GB
10.74%
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CA
5.46%
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AU
5.27%
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NZ
2.08%
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IE
1.54%
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IN
1.16%
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DE
1.06%
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IL
0.96%
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ZA
0.96%
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JP
0.96%
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SK
0.91%
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FR
0.82%
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SG
0.77%
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HK
0.72%
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ES
0.72%
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NL
0.62%
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CZ
0.58%
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MX
0.53%
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BR
0.43%
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NO
0.43%
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DK
0.38%
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KR
0.38%
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CH
0.38%
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BE
0.33%
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PH
0.29%
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KE
0.24%
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AE
0.24%
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PT
0.24%
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AR
0.19%
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AT
0.19%
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PL
0.19%
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LV
0.14%
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TW
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FI
0.14%
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NG
0.14%
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MY
0.14%
Others
1.92%
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Host Greta Johnsen talks with journalist and documentary producer Lindsay Holmes. Her new book is called The Case for Quitting: The Surprising Benefits of Opting Out.
It’s an exploration of quitting in many different forms. Whether it’s a job, a relationship, or something else in your life th…
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Host Greta Johnsen talks with Anna Holmes, a writer and editor who founded the feminist website Jezebel. She’s also a former advice columnist for the New York Times series “Work Friend.”
In 2015, Anna was asked to give a commencement speech for an all-girls boarding high school in New York. As she …
At first glance, the question about whether you’d ever call a friend out of the blue is pretty low-stakes. But as it turns out, this is a topic that’s extremely divisive. Host Greta Johnsen talks to New York Magazine’s Kathleen Walsh, who recently wrote an essay for The Cut called “I Should Be Allo…
This month's GRETAGRAM book club selection is Exit Party, the new novel from Station Eleven author Emily St. John Mandel.
Like her other novels, this is a story that spans genre and time. It opens with Ari Waker, the villain from Emily's novel The Singer's Gun, as she goes to a party at the end of…
The September GRETAGRAM book club selection is Mary H.K. Choi’s Pool House, an exquisitely claustrophobic novel about a TV family and the mess that lies just under the surface.
Host Greta Johnsen unpacks the novel with Inkoo Kang, a TV critic for The New Yorker. She brought many wonderful insights …
This month's GRETAGRAM book club selection is Mary H.K. Choi's Pool House, a novel about mothers and daughters, about seeing and being seen, and about desiring and being desired. This novel isn’t necessarily soapy, but it’s definitely MESSY, and it's quite a ride. Mary has written several YA novels…
The 87% Club is a series of episodes that explore the case for giving less energy to things that don't matter, so we have more time to spend on things that do.
This week, host Greta Johnsen talks to writer Priyanka Mattoo, the author of the wonderful essay collection How To Be Less Useful: The Joy…
This week, host Greta Johnsen talks with Ayurvedic doctor, coach, and podcast host Sweta Vikram, who "helps high achievers move through burnout, grief, and overwhelm."
Today’s episode is largely about perfectionism when it comes to rest. So many of us think that time off is an all-or-nothing deal -…
As part of a monthlong series about doing less, host Greta Johnsen talks to a theater director and an author about attention, achievement, effort, and ease.
First, Greta speaks with Michaela Goldhaber, a Bay-Area playwright, director, and dramaturg who is also involved in disability justice work t…
Host Greta Johnsen starts a month-long miniseries for the 87% club with an interview with author Veronica Roth. She’s written more than a dozen books, most notably the Divergent series.Her latest book is called Seek the Traitor’s Son (print | audio), a book that she approached very differently from…
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