Ep. 396: Fear Of Failure To Be Compelling

Happier in Hollywood

The Onward Project

Careers, Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Inspired by the CIA (yes, really), Liz and Sarah talk about the notion of a “failure to be compelling.” From now on, they’re going to put every pitch through the Compelling Machine. In Take A Hike, they suggest organizing an Ask An Expert session in your field. It benefits the asker AND the expert. Then, in The Craft (& Fain), Liz and Sarah share why a question they were asked at lunch with one of their favorite executives is a good conversation starter — “Who do you admire in your business?” This week’s Hollywood Hack is extremely practical: Memorize at least two phone numbers. Finally, Liz recommends watching The Day of the Jackal on Peacock. LINKS: The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA: Mundy, Liza: 9780593238172: Amazon.com: Books The Day of the Jackal trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shsIx-ZVL0E 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, and Side Hustle School . If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! Photo by Pop & Zebra 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	Okay, Liz, you know how I'm on day three of a prolon fast? Yeah. Well, guess what I just got in the mail?
0:09.6	A box of John Kelly chocolates. Like, I literally, I looked at the box. I went, John Kelly chocolates.
0:18.3	Oh. Oh. Okay. Well, you can have them when you're tons. Oh, my God. I put them like way,
0:25.9	way, way high on a shelf because I also don't want Violet to get to them. Exactly.
0:36.6	Hi, and welcome to Happier in Hollywood, the podcast about how to be happier, healthier,
0:41.0	healthier, saner, more creative, more successful, and more productive in a backbiting, superficial,
0:46.2	chaotic, unpredictable, fundamentally insane world.
0:50.2	I'm Sarah Fane, a TV writer and producer living in Ohio right outside of L.A.
0:54.6	And with me is my high school friend and writing partner Liz.
0:57.7	That's me, Liz Craft. On this podcast, we talk about being writers in Hollywood,
1:02.5	how we balance a career and friendship, and how to survive, the war of attrition that is life in Los Angeles.
1:09.0	Today, we are going to talk about the failure to be compelling.
1:13.9	Then we're going to explore the joy of asking an expert for both the asker and the expert.
1:20.4	And in the Craft and Fane, we ask, who do you admire in the business?
1:24.8	We also have a phone number hack, and Liz has a TV recommendation, but first
1:30.1	we have an update. Yes, we just want to remind everybody that when we asked for gift ideas for
1:36.3	teens and tweens, we got so many amazing ideas. We collected them and made a whole post in our
1:43.4	Facebook group, or you can look at the show
1:46.2	notes for 395 if you want to see the list. It is not a podcast episode. It is just a list of
1:53.5	gift ideas. We have both used it extensively. And thanks to everybody for all of those great ideas.
2:02.0	The teens and tweens in our lives are going to be much happier this holiday season.
2:06.3	Yes, absolutely.
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