Ep. 42: We Want Volunteers, Not Recruits!

Happier in Hollywood

Lemonada Media

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Careers

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

It's pilot production time! As Liz and Sarah prepare to shoot their pilot for ABC, The Fix, they share their hiring philosophy: "Volunteers, Not Recruits!" Only hire people who WANT to be there -- not people who have to be convinced. Then they discuss how -- from the mundane to the cosmic -- timing is everything. Finally, Liz and Sarah reveal this week's old fashioned Hollywood Hack: get a library card! (This is not your mama's library!) 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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	Hey guys, I just got an email they wanted to pre-call before the call.
0:07.6	Who's on the pre-call?
0:09.2	The same people that are on the comments call.
0:11.8	It's all the same people on the pre-call in the call call?
0:14.8	Yeah.
0:16.2	That makes sense.
0:22.8	Hi and welcome to Happier and Hollywood, the podcast about how to be
0:26.0	Happier, healthier, sane, or more creative, more successful and more productive
0:30.0	in a back-biting superficial chaotic, unpredictable, fundamentally insane world.
0:36.0	I'm Sarah Fane, a TV writer and producer living in LA,
0:39.0	and with me is my high school friend and writing partner of 18 years Liz.
0:43.0	That's me, Liz Kraft.
0:45.0	On this podcast we talk about being writers in Hollywood, how we balance a career
0:49.0	and friendship and how to survive the war of attrition that is life and most
0:53.0	angiomist.
0:54.0	Today we're going to talk about why it's important to have volunteers and not recruits.
0:59.0	We'll also discuss the importance of timing.
1:02.0	They do say timing is everything.
1:04.0	It is.
1:05.0	Finally we've got a Hollywood hack that some might call old-fashioned, even downright quaint.
1:10.0	But first, in episode 39 we talked about Robert Evans' advice on how to make it.
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