Ep. 418: Liz’s Face Blindness Challenge & Career Lessons With Laverne

Happier in Hollywood

The Onward Project

Careers, Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Liz and Sarah talk about one of Liz’s biggest work hurdles — mild face blindness. It can be quite awkward when she doesn’t recognize someone they just had a meeting with! Then they introduce an exciting new segment — Career Lessons With Laverne — in which Career Coach extraordinaire, Laverne McKinnon, shares her insights about career grief, career pivots, and career transitions. Today’s topic? Sprouting versus blossoming. This week’s Hollywood Hack will help you bond with coworkers: Create inside jokes. Finally, Liz recommends The Four Seasons on Netflix.

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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.

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Happier In Hollywood on Substack:

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Laverne McKinnon — Moonshot Mentor:

https://www.lavernemckinnon.com/

The Four Seasons trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKTwtIL4xyk

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0:41.4	Liz, I am getting hungry just thinking about half-baked harvest quick and cozy. It's the latest New York Times best-selling cookbook from Teagan Gerard. This book is filled with over 120 recipes for delicious soul-warming comfort food like maple bacon pancakes, garlic butter steak bites, sheet pan mac and cheese. It's the perfect Mother's Day gift. Hint, hint.
1:06.0	If you or anyone in your life ever needed a belly full of comfort and a plate bursting with fresh
1:12.4	unexpected flavors half-baked harvest quick and cozy is for you available wherever books are
1:19.5	sold lemonada okay sarah question when I come up for our Hive 25, are we going to get up and hike in the morning to an Ohio hike?
1:35.9	I'm yes. I'm going to say yes. Let's plan to. That would be good. We should. If it's like crazy hot, no, but otherwise.
1:42.5	Okay. I will bring my hiking clothes.
1:44.6	Okay.
1:50.1	Hi, and welcome to happier in Hollywood, the podcast about how to be happier, healthier,
1:54.7	saner, more creative, more successful, and more productive in a backbiting, superficial,
2:00.2	chaotic, unpredictable, fundamentally insane world.
2:04.2	I'm Sarah Fane, a TV writer and producer living in Ohio right outside of L.A. And with me
2:09.9	is my high school friend and writing partner Liz. That's me, Liz Kraft. On this podcast, we talk about
2:16.2	being writers in Hollywood, how we balance a career and friendship, and how to survive the war of attrition that is life in Los Angeles.
2:23.9	Today, we are going to talk about one of Liz's biggest work challenges, and I will share one of mine as well.
2:31.0	And we are so excited to have career coach Laverne McKinnon back on the podcast today.
2:37.7	We love Laverne's insights so much that we've given her her own segment, career lessons with
	...

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