Ep. 339: Forging A Path Through Chaos

Happier in Hollywood

The Onward Project

Careers, Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Liz and Sarah discuss their plan to forge a clear path amidst the post-WGA strike chaos. That includes committing to finishing a first draft of their novel before Christmas! In Take A Hike, they talk about the benefit of creating a discussion agenda. Then Liz and Sarah give themselves a Bomb for letting the HIH website falter, and listener Laura gets a Hit for reaching out about fixing it. This week’s Hollywood Hack will improve your Zoom meetings: put parchment over your ring light to prevent a reflection in your glasses. Finally, this week Liz and Sarah have a joint recommendation — Mayim Bialik’s video about what it feels like to Jewish right now. Get in touch on Instagram: @Sfain & @LizCraft Get in touch on Threads: @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, and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler . If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! LINKS: Happier Ladies podcast: Happier LadiesAzizi Williams Kenzi Enright’s dad’s dIscussion agenda: Dad's incredible 'discussion' agenda for bar meetups goes viraldailymail.co.uk Mayim Bialik video: mayim bialik on Instagram: "I recorded this last night and have decided to post it a little bit before the West Coast starts preparing for Shabbat. Wishing you all a safe weekend."instagram.com Big Fat Positive Podcast: How Big Fat Positive Podcastbigfatpositivepodcast.com Photo by Jan Kopřiva on Unsplash 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	Oh, I have a thing I may want to put on our holiday gift list.
0:05.0	What is it?
0:06.0	It's a skin device, but I'm not going to put it on now.
0:12.0	I need to like see you in a month and you can decide if my skin is
0:18.8	Improved enough that this thing should go on the list
0:22.4	Well, that might be too late.
0:24.0	I may have to go on our 2024 list.
0:27.0	I'm definitely a treat.
0:29.0	Okay. Hi and welcome to Happier in Hollywood the podcast about how to be happier
0:39.2	healthier sane or more creative more successful and more productive in a back-biting,
0:44.3	superficial, chaotic, unpredictable, fundamentally insane world.
0:49.3	I'm Liz Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA,
0:52.3	and with me is my high school friend and
0:54.2	writing partner Sarah. That's me Sarah Fain. On this podcast we talk about being
0:58.6	writers in Hollywood, how we balance a career and friendship and how to
1:02.1	survive the war of attrition that is life in
1:04.7	Los Angeles.
1:05.7	Today we're going to discuss how we can choose a clear path amidst chaos.
1:11.2	Then we have a take a hike about creating a discussion agenda. This week's
1:15.9	Hollywood hack is a solution to the problem of the ringlight reflection in
1:21.0	your glasses. Praise B. Sarah, this is playing me for years now. Plus we have a joint recommendation.
1:28.8	But first, Liz, we have an update. We got a letter from two sisters, Azizi and Malika, and they have a podcast called
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