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Happier in Hollywood

Ep. 124: Financial Insecurity, The Real Housewives, & Being An Only Parent: A Listener Questions Episode!

Happier in Hollywood

The Onward Project

Careers, Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

It’s a Listener Questions episode! Liz and Sarah open the mailbag and answer your questions. How does Liz feel about working at Sarah’s house? If they could be flies on the wall at someone else’s work, what would it be? How has Happier In Hollywood helped or hindered their TV writing career? Sarah and Liz give up the dirt on these and so many other questions. This week’s Hollywood Hack also comes from a listener: keep a twenty dollar bill tucked in your phone case for emergencies! The Real Housewives:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Housewives Single Mothers by Choice:https://www.singlemothersbychoice.org/ Get tickets for Liz and Gretchen's live podcast events in Chicago, Kansas City, Providence, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Charlotte and Brooklyn here:https://gretchenrubin.com/events Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Liz, I have an important question.

0:02.0

What is it?

0:03.0

Should we play hookie and go see Dott and Abby?

0:06.0

Oh my god, yes!

0:08.0

Hi and welcome to Happier and Hollywood, the podcast about how to be happier, healthier,

0:20.0

sane or more creative, more successful, and more productive in a back-biting, superficial,

0:25.0

chaotic, unpredictable, fundamentally insane world.

0:29.0

I'm Liz Kraft, TV writer and producer, living in LA, and with me is my high school friend and writing partner of 19 years, Sarah.

0:37.0

That's me, Sarah Fane.

0:38.0

On this podcast, we talk about being writers in Hollywood, how we balance a career and friendship,

0:43.0

and how to survive the war of attrition that is life in Los Angeles.

0:46.0

In this week's episode, we're going to answer all of your questions,

0:50.0

because this is a very special listener questions episode.

0:55.0

This week's Hollywood hack is from a listener, and it's one I wished I had had at the Natural History Museum the other day.

1:02.0

But before we open the mailbag, I want to remind everyone that my sister, Gretchen Rubin and I are on tour this fall with our show,

1:10.0

Happier Hour with Gretchen and Elizabeth.

1:12.0

We are having so much fun.

1:14.0

I have to say, it's a great girls' night out, it's a great mom's night out, it's a great office night out.

1:19.0

Whatever kind of night out you want to have, it's a good opportunity.

1:23.0

And I hear you show embarrassing slides, which I'm like, how can I miss that?

1:28.0

I'm going to have to go to one of these shows.

1:30.0

And Gretchen plays the ukulele?

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