Hey everyone, welcome back to the show. I'm Lorian McKenna, and today we're talking with Carol

Kirschner. Carol is one of the top entertainment career coaches in Hollywood and an author and public speaker who runs

two prestigious programs for writers, the Paramount Writers Mentoring Program and the WGA Showrunner Training

Program. Through her work work Carol seeks to help creative

professionals build successful careers in the industry. She is also the author of

the Hollywood Game Plan, a book that teaches how to land a job in film, TV, and

digital entertainment with concrete steps and exercises that will

help upcoming creatives get their careers on track.

So welcome to the show, Carol.

Thank you. You know that that introduction almost sounds like I wrote it.

I only added one thing which was you did I like to size this because I think it's so important in your book that people know that there's actual like

action they can take when they're interacting with the book because I always think that's a more fun way and a more

engaging way to hang out with the book sometimes right I'm going to go do some

exercises but before we get into a deeper conversation about your book we're

going to do what we do called Adventures and Screenwriting we We're going to talk about our week, so I'll go first.

So this week, I've been thinking a lot about how to focus on things I'm good at rather than dwelling on the things that I need to improve or fix or that I think are broken.

And I've been working with a lot of writers recently asking them to adjust their point of view and I thought, hey, as a teacher and a mentor, perhaps I should apply this to myself.

So I've been thinking about it and so much of our I think the way we grow up how we're

unculturated to think is that we are never good enough somehow like we have to be

better we have to be perfect

and good at all the things and even especially as a writer there's so many levels of

craft that we're supposed to know all the things character dialogue structure how to be in the industry like all these things we're supposed to be excellent at and so when we think about it we're like I'm not good at that I'm bad at that

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