Ep. 136: Down With Exclamation Points!

Happier in Hollywood

The Onward Project

Careers, Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Down With Exclamation Points! Are Liz and Sarah riding a dragon or a camel? They update listeners on their 2019 exam development motto — Ride The Dragon. Then they check in with their former assistant, Mary Mehrkens, who offers advice to assistants (or anyone) between gigs. She also shares one of her new boss’s favorite apps: Fantastical. This week’s Hollywood Hack will help your emails seem more professional: eliminate exclamation points! Period. Happier In Hollywood is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts — Happier With Gretchen Ruben, Do The Thing, and Side Hustle School. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! Mary Mehrkens: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5766534/ Dayna Lynn North: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0635998/ 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	Rudolph the Red Nose reindeer had a very shiny nose, shiny nose
0:09.0	And if you ever saw it, you would even say it
0:15.7	Glow like a light bulb all over the other reindeer
0:22.3	You still have to call him names, I'm not a pucky dog
0:26.8	Very pretty
0:30.0	Hi and welcome to Happier in Hollywood
0:35.6	The podcast about how to be happier, healthier,
0:38.2	Sandar more creative, more successful and more productive
0:41.6	In a backbiting superficial chaotic, unpredictable, fundamentally insane world
0:47.0	I'm most crafty TV writer and producer living in LA
0:50.0	And with me is my high school friend and writing partner Sarah
0:53.0	That's me, Sarah Fane
0:54.4	On this podcast we talk about being writers in Hollywood
0:57.1	How we balance a career and friendship
0:59.1	And how to survive the war of attrition that is life in less angeles
1:03.1	In today's episode we're going to revisit our team development model of the year
1:08.1	Ride the dragon
1:10.1	Have we been writing?
1:11.1	How's it going?
1:12.1	Where are we in the process?
1:13.1	We will reveal all
1:15.1	Then in from the outer office we'll check in with our former assistant Mary Merkins to hear about life post-happier in Hollywood
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