Ep. 246: Take The Room & Fantasy Island Music Supervisor Melany Mitchell

Happier in Hollywood

Lemonada Media

Self-improvement, Careers, Education, Business

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Do you have a room in your home that’s reserved for guests? Liz and Sarah discuss the merits of staking a claim and taking up space. Then, in Hollywood Jobs, they talk with Fantasy Island’s Music Supervisor Melany Mitchell about how she became a Music Supervisor, what the job entails, and how she transports audiences through music, all while working with a lean budget. Next, in Amplify, Sarah shares a new favorite cookbook — Nom Nom Paleo Let’s Go! Simple Feasts & Healthy Eats by Michelle Tam and Henry Fong. Finally, this week’s Hollywood Hack is a great gift idea that will help you help others: the Changing The Present Charitable Gift Card. Get in touch on Twitter: @sarahmfain & @elizabethcraft Get in touch on Instagram: @Sfain & @LizCraft Visit our website: https://happierinhollywood.com Join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/HappierinHollywood/ 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 Rubin, Side Hustle School, Do The Thing, and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler . If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! Links: Melany Mitchell https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2903260/ What Is a Music Supervisor? Understanding the Role and Responsibilities of a Hollywood Music Supervisor https://www.masterclass.com/articles/what-is-a-music-supervisor#what-are-the-responsibilities-of-a-music-supervisor Nom Nom Paleo Let’s Go! Simple Feasts & Healthy Eats by Michelle Tam & Henry Fong https://nomnompaleo.com/letsgocookbook Changing The Present Charitable Gift Card https://changingthepresent.org/products/charitable-gift-card-digital 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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, you're cheesy.
0:06.8	Violets outside. This is one more benefit of working from home. Lots of
0:13.2	whiny dogs.
0:20.7	Hi and welcome to Hatter and Hollywood. The podcast about how to be happier, healthier,
0:25.8	sane or more creative, more successful, and more productive in a backbiting, superficial, chaotic,
0:31.4	unpredictable, fundamentally insane world. I'm Liz Kraft, a TV writer and producer,
0:37.1	living in LA, and with me is my high school friend and writing partner Sarah.
0:41.6	That's me, Sarah Fane. On this podcast, we talk about being writers in Hollywood, how we balance
0:46.4	a career and friendship, and how to survive the war of attrition that is life in Los Angeles.
0:51.9	In today's episode, we're going to discuss taking up space, literally, and especially as we continue
0:59.3	to work from home. Then in Hollywood jobs, we've got a special guest, fantasy islands, music,
1:06.8	supervisor, Melanie Mitchell. Next, an amplify will highlight a new cookbook that features simple
1:13.4	feasts and healthy eats. And finally, this week's Hollywood hack will help you help others. Yes. So,
1:22.1	Liz, we got some great responses. Yes. Before we dive in in episode 245, we talked about a comment
1:29.3	that Dante Spanotti made on our first pilot about how every day he was accomplishing miracles
1:36.0	and yet people still wanted more. And we asked if listeners had that same experience. And we got
1:41.8	some great responses. Trisha said, hi, I work in elementary education where we regularly work
1:49.4	miracles on a shoestring budget, yet no one is ever satisfied. What makes it especially frustrating
1:55.6	is that the people who are most vocal about their dissatisfaction haven't been in a classroom
2:00.6	since they were students, have no knowledge of child development and expect everything to be
2:05.6	done the way it was when they were kids instead of evolving based on research. There was a brief
2:11.4	period last year when the schools all went virtual and parents got a small taste of what we do when
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