Ep. 401: Crisis Fatigue & Sarah’s No Buy List

Happier in Hollywood

The Onward Project

Careers, Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Along with everyone else in Los Angeles, Liz and Sarah are feeling so much love for their city. But they’re also suffering from crisis fatigue. Every time they think life in L.A. is getting back to “normal,” something else happens. This time, it’s the devastating wildfires that have taken lives and destroyed thousands of beloved homes and businesses. In Take A Hike, Sarah reveals the twenty-five categories of things she is NOT going to buy in 2025. Next, in The Craft (& Fain), Liz and Sarah share a tool of the trade that’s helping them with their new Substack newsletter — Notebook LM. This week’s Hollywood Hacks come in handy when the power is out (as it has been for Sarah and many Angelinos this week): a battery-operated neck light and a wireless bottle lamp.

LINKS:

Notebook LM: https://notebooklm.google/

Carson Dual Headed COB LED neck light: https://amzn.to/3PsMzrH

Wireless bottle lamp: https://amzn.to/404dqz4

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Note: Go to the Happier In Hollywood Facebook Group for Liz and Sarah’s extensive Teens/Tweens Gift Guide. Thanks to listeners for such great ideas! Link below.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/903150719832696/permalink/3081705578643855/

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0:00.0	Lemonada
0:02.0	Sarah, one of my favorite things about the Garland Hotel is that they have a little hole in the shower wall
0:16.0	so that you can reach in and turn on the water through the wall because don't you always get sprayed with
0:23.4	water in the hotel and you don't know like how to get to the hot water so you can just reach in
0:29.4	and turn it on and not get sprayed it's ingenious i just say that's not what i usually think of
0:34.4	when i think of holes in bathroom walls. Okay.
0:38.2	That's good.
0:40.6	This is just about to shower.
0:52.2	Hi, and welcome to Happier in Hollywood, the podcast about how to be happier, healthier,
0:55.7	saner, more creative, more successful, and more productive,
1:01.8	in a backbiting, superficial, chaotic, unpredictable, fundamentally insane world.
1:07.5	I'm Liz Craft, a TV writer and producer living in L.A., and with me is my high school friend and writing partner, Sarah. That's me, Sarah Fane. On this podcast, we talk about being writers in Hollywood, how we balance a career and friendship,
1:16.0	and how to survive the war of attrition that is life in Los Angeles.
1:20.4	Today, we're going to talk about crisis fatigue.
1:23.9	Everyone in L.A. is feeling it right now.
1:26.7	And I'm going to share my 25 in 25 list, which is a little different than the list in past years.
1:34.6	And in the Craft and Fain, we'll tell you about an AI tool that we are finding useful.
1:38.9	This week, we have two Hollywood hacks that will help if your power goes off, which Sarah's did for two days.
1:46.0	And Sarah has a recommendation that will distract you from all of the crisis fatigue.
1:51.3	But first, Sarah, we have an update.
1:53.5	Yes, Liz, our substack has begun.
1:57.8	We sent out our first newsletter.
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