Ep. 29: From Adderall To Athleisure: Finding Balance With Author Melissa De La Cruz

Happier in Hollywood

Lemonada Media

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Careers

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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They say "writing is rewriting," and this week Liz and Sarah talk about The Bad Draft. They've finally managed to finish a draft of their pilot script, but will it ever be... good? How do they move forward and dig in to make it not just good but great? Then they talk to Young Adult author extraordinaire Melissa De La Cruz (The Descendants series, Alex & Eliza, Pride And Prejudice And Mistletoe)about her experience with the popular prescription drug Adderall. Taking it helped her be insanely productive -- but at what price? Liz and Sarah also share this week's Hollywood Hack: rain pants! Finally, Liz shares the MANY celebrity sightings she had at the Hollywood Film Awards -- including Angelina Jolie, Harrison Ford, and Sean "Puffy" Combs. 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	Okay, here it is. Oh God. Now we have to read it. Yep. What if it's terrible?
0:08.1	It's gonna be terrible. It's okay. It'll be good someday. Yes.
0:17.4	Hi and welcome to Happier and Hollywood. The podcast about how to be happier, healthier,
0:22.4	sane, or more creative, more successful, and more productive in a backbiting,
0:27.0	superficial, chaotic, unpredictable, fundamentally insane world. I'm Liz Kraft, a TV writer and producer
0:34.0	living in Los Angeles, and with me is my high school friend and writing partner of 17 years, Sarah.
0:40.5	That's me, Sarah Fane, also a TV writer and producer living in LA. On this podcast, we talk about
0:45.6	what it's like to be writers in Hollywood, how we balance a career and friendship, and how to
0:49.6	survive the war of attrition that is life in Los Angeles. Today we'll discuss the bad graph. Don't
0:55.0	worry, we'll explain what that is later. And we'll talk to our friend and young adult author,
0:59.6	extraordinaire Melissa Dela Cruz, about her blockbuster career and how it was nearly sidelined by the
1:05.8	drug Adderall, which is not only hugely popular in Los Angeles, but all over the country.
1:11.7	Are the benefits worth the risks? I am pretty sure the answer to that question is no.
1:16.8	Probably. We've also got a Hollywood hack and a celebrity sighting in which I see common
1:22.5	perform for the second time in the last six weeks. That is insane. All right, before we get to that,
1:28.8	we want to tell you all about a resource, one of our listeners informed us of. In episode 23, we
1:34.4	talked about Harvey Weinstein and the epidemic of sexual harassment in the United States. Part of
1:39.1	that ongoing discussion is about the difficulty in doing anything if you're being harassed at work.
1:45.2	Yes, and we got a voicemail from a listener who was sexually harassed while working at the
1:51.8	Justice Department of all places, irony there. And she informed us that the EEOC, which is the US
2:00.2	Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was available to help her and they can help anyone who's
2:06.0	employer has more than 15 employees. They were fantastic to her and the thing is you don't have to
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