Ep. 255: Leaning Into A Lean Budget

Happier in Hollywood

Lemonada Media

Self-improvement, Careers, Education, Business

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Liz and Sarah share strategies for making a lean TV budget work and discuss putting them into action on Fantasy Island. At every stage of the process, there are ways to make smart adjustments—from keeping above-the-line costs down, to writing to locations, to shooting double up days, to accepting they’ll never have a recognizable needle drop. Limitations foster creativity…right?! Then, in HIH WFH, Liz and Sarah share their favorite technique for staying sane during all-day Zooms: schedule breaks. Finally, this week’s Hollywood Hack will help you meet your next big deadline: book a hotel stay! 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 Episode 241: The Nimble Life https://happierinhollywood.com/episode241/ Episode 246: Take the Room & Fantasy Island Music Supervisor Melany Mitchell https://happierinhollywood.com/episode246/ 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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0:57.1	Hi and welcome to Happier and Hollywood. The podcast about how to be happier, healthier,
1:01.2	sane, or more creative, more successful, and more productive,
1:04.5	and a back-biting superficial, chaotic, unpredictable, fundamentally insane world.
1:10.3	I'm Sarah Fein, a TV writer and producer, living in Ohio right outside of LA.
1:15.4	And with me is my high school friend and writing partner Liz.
1:18.8	That's me, Liz Kraft. On this podcast, we talk about being writers in Hollywood,
1:23.4	how we balance a career and friendship and how to survive the war of attrition that is life
1:28.7	and less angelist. In today's episode, we're going to discuss strategies for dealing with our
1:34.1	lean budget on season two of Fantasy Island. Then in H-I-H-W-F-H, Happier and Hollywood
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