Ep. 406: Stop The Stewing!

Happier in Hollywood

The Onward Project

Careers, Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

We’ve all tortured ourselves by stewing over something we said or did — or didn’t say or didn’t do. It’s time to stop the stewing! Liz and Sarah’s advice? If you think you’ve offended someone, reach out. In Take A Hike, Liz and Sarah talk about a reader who reframed taking a walk as “genius activation,” and it’s inspired them to reframe things in their own lives with whimsical monikers. Sarah’s now thinking of picking up poop as “yard beautification” and Liz is calling Orange Theory Fitness “kangaroo time.” This week in Hits & Bombs, they give two Hits. One to Sarah for getting a new printer for her house, and one to both of them for planning more work lunches. Then Sarah has a printing hack: Make things smaller to print them, which saves paper and makes documents (like recipes) easier to manage. Finally, Liz recommends the new season of Mike White’s The White Lotus on HBO.

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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/

LINKS:

Epson EcoTank ET-2803 Wireless Color All-In-One Cartridge-Free Supertank Printer: https://amzn.to/3EFMLlj

The White Lotus Season 3 trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwQRkOK5KC4

Survivor Season 37: David vs. Goliath (featuring Mike White):

https://amzn.to/4i4MshZ

Walton Goggins: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0324658/

The Shield trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klSVH4dJrGU

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0:00.0	Guess what? Discover's accepted at 99% of places that take credit cards nationwide. You heard right 99%. If you don't think so, maybe it's time to face facts. You're stuck in the past. Based on the February 2024 Nilsen report, learn more at discover.com slash credit card.
0:21.8	Lemonada.
0:29.0	Yeah, it took a whole day to just deal with getting my flat tire fixed.
0:36.5	Oh my God, Sarah, we have so many potholes, and every time I see one, I'm like, oh, God, don't be Sarah.
0:39.3	Don't have a tire blow on this thing.
0:40.8	I'd avoid at all costs.
0:50.7	Hi, and welcome to Happier in Hollywood, the podcast about how to be happier, healthier,
0:54.7	saner, more creative, more successful, and more productive, and a backbiting,
1:02.3	superficial, chaotic, unpredictable, fundamentally insane world. I'm Sarah Fane, a TV writer and producer living in Ohio right outside of L.A. And with me is my high school friend and writing partner Liz.
1:07.6	That's me, Liz Kraft. On this podcast, we talk about being writers in Hollywood,
1:12.1	how we balance a career and friendship, and how to survive the war of attrition that is life in
1:17.4	Los Angeles. Today, we'll talk about how we can eliminate needless stewing. We all stew,
1:24.8	and it sucks. Then, in Take a Hike, a substack reader's experience of reframing reminded us how helpful it can be to redefine something we don't necessarily love.
1:37.1	This week in hits and bombs, we have two hits, no bombs.
1:41.1	Plus, we have a printing Hollywood hack, and Liz has a recommendation.
1:45.9	But first, Sarah, we have a little update. We wanted to give a shout out to Alicia Mueller,
1:52.2	who's a script supervisor in Atlanta, friend of the pod, Brooke Turner, who we all know and love,
1:59.7	was on set on the show she's working on in Atlanta,
2:03.2	and the script supervisor came up and said, I know you from happier in Hollywood.
2:08.1	That is so cool.
2:09.4	I know. It made us so happy.
2:11.6	Yes.
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