Ep. 259: Back To Basics

Happier in Hollywood

Lemonada Media

Self-improvement, Careers, Education, Business

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

What’s missing around your workspace? Liz and Sarah discuss the importance of having solid basics—Sarah needs a good chair, Liz needs pens! Then, in A Day In The Life, Liz and Sarah take listeners through a typical day of showrunning Season Two of Fantasy Island. From cut notes to COVID hurdles to delivering scripts on tight deadlines, this year has been all about staying nimble. Finally, this week’s Hollywood Hack is earth-friendly (and easy!): the Lomi Kitchen Composter. LINKS Happier Podcast 95: Practice Mise-En-Place https://gretchenrubin.com/podcast-episode/podcast-95-mis-en-place/ Happier in Hollywood Episode 241: The Nimble Life https://happierinhollywood.com/episode241/ Lomi Kitchen Composter https://pela.earth/lomi 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! 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	This morning Violet's writing prompt was to write the 10 most interesting things
0:05.2	about her. Do you want to hear them? Of course I do. Okay. I like to sing. I
0:10.7	can rollerblade. I have a lot of pets. I am a good helper. I am a great baby
0:15.4	sitter. I am a strong swimmer. I am a good writer. I can draw. I am funny. I
0:20.6	love Starbucks. I love that you wrapped it up with Starbucks. That's amazing. That
0:30.1	was the ultimate. Yes. Hi and welcome to Happier and Hollywood. The podcast
0:40.1	about how to be happier, healthier, sane, or more creative, more successful, and
0:43.5	more productive. In a backbiting, superficial, chaotic, unpredictable, fundamentally
0:48.6	insane world. I'm Sarah Fain, a TV writer and producer living in Ohai right
0:53.4	outside LA. And with me is my high school friend and writing partner Liz. That's
0:57.4	me Liz Kraft. On this podcast, we talk about being writers in Hollywood, how we
1:01.8	balance a career and friendship and how to survive the war of attrition that
1:06.2	is life and Los Angeles. In today's episode, we're going to discuss why it's
1:10.8	important to think about the basics. Then in a day in the life, we'll take you
1:15.7	from start to finish on a typical day of running season two of fantasy
1:20.4	island. And finally, this week's Hollywood hack is Earth friendly. But Liz,
1:25.6	first we have an update. We got the greatest email from Janet. She said, I have
1:30.6	the ultimate pairing. Is that the right word if you're doing three things at once?
1:35.1	I have my feet in Sarah's foot massager under my desk and I am watching Liz's
1:39.7	favorite show, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills on my tablet while doing
1:43.6	the dreaded task of paying bills. Never thought I'd say this. I love paying bills.
1:50.8	And she said, love your podcast even though I'm an aerospace engineer. We have an
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