172. Can Expressing Gratitude Really Change Our Lives with Nancy Davis Kho

“I would look at the next name on the list and I would spend a whole week just thinking about what specifically have I learned from this person. What good advice have they given me? When did they help me? How am I different because I know them?” — Nancy Davis Kho
IN THIS EPISODE:
  • How Nancy Davis Kho executed her year-long project of writing one letter of gratitude a week
  • What was hard, easy, and surprising about the project
  • How we can start a similar gratitude project
  • The project’s lasting impact on Nancy
  • Nancy’s observations from her experience interviewing mid-lifers on her podcast
ABOUT MY GUEST:
Nancy Davis Kho is a speaker, author, and podcaster whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and Salon.com. She is the author of The Thank You Project: Cultivating Happiness One Letter of Gratitude at a Time, published by Running Press in December 2019.

On her podcast Midlife Mixtape, Nancy covers “the years between being hip and breaking one”. Midlife Mixtape won a 2020 Iris Award as Podcast of the Year and was included in Wall Street Journal’s list of 8 Podcasts for Anyone Nervously Facing Retirement.

Nancy and I talked about her experience and takeaways from the year-long project that was the basis of her book. She offers such practical tips about how and where to start, and why she encourages midlifers especially to undertake a similar project.

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172. Can Expressing Gratitude Really Change Our Lives with Nancy Davis Kho
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