Ep. 438: Convergence & The Control Your Algorithm Challenge

Happier in Hollywood

Lemonada Media

Careers, Business, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Liz and Sarah have been pingponging around on various projects for months. Now several of their projects are converging, and it’s controlled chaos! In Take A Hike, they issue the Control Your Algorithm October Challenge. Stop doomscrolling and get more good in your feed! Next, Liz and Sarah introduce their brand new segment — Disproportionate Joy. Sarah’s getting joy from Violet’s new swim meet times and Liz is giddy about certain members of her Survivor Fantasy League. This week’s Hollywood Hack will save you money AND is good for the environment: Shop your favorite brand’s secondhand section. Finally, Liz recommends Lena Dunham’s Substack newsletter, Good Thing Going. Sign up for Liz & Sarah’s free weekly Substack newsletter at https://happierinhollywoodpod.substack.com. It will come right to your inbox! 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, andSide Hustle School . If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! LINKS: Legend Planner: https://amzn.to/3KN9q1K Clare V Le Resale: https://leresaleclarev.com Patagonia Worn Wear: https://wornwear.patagonia.com Apiece Apart Archive: https://archive.apieceapart.com/ Lululemon: https://likenew.lululemon.com/ Eileen Fisher Renew: https://www.eileenfisherrenew.com/ The North Face Renewed: https://www.thenorthfacerenewed.com Levi’s Secondhand: https://www.secondhand.levi.com/ Lena Dunham’s Good Thing Going newsletter: https://goodthinggoing.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips Photo by Lance Grandahl on Unsplash See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So, Liz, I have to confess, I did not work on the pitch deck over the weekend.
0:11.1	That's totally fine. I didn't even consider working on it.
0:14.7	I planned to, but it did not happen.
0:22.7	Hi, and welcome to happierier in Hollywood, the podcast about how to be happier, healthier,
0:27.4	saner, more creative, more successful, and more productive in a backbiting, superficial,
0:32.4	chaotic, unpredictable, fundamentally insane world. I'm Sarah Fane, a TV writer and producer living in
0:39.2	Ohio right outside of L.A. And with me is my high school friend and writing partner Liz.
0:44.4	That's me, Liz Kraft. On this podcast, we talk about being writers in Hollywood, how we balance a
0:49.8	career and friendship, and how to survive the war of attrition that is life in Los Angeles.
0:54.7	Today we're going to talk about the convergence of all of our projects. It's controlled chaos.
1:01.4	Then and take a hike, we have a challenge for listeners. We are also introducing a brand new
1:07.0	segment today. This week's Hollywood hack is good for the environment and for your budget.
1:12.1	Plus, Liz has a newsletter recommendation. Yes. But first, Sarah, we want to remind everybody
1:18.6	that we're doing the first five on substack. We always talk about how the first five pages of a script
1:25.8	are the most important and that we usually can tell if we want to meet with a writer first five pages of a script are the most important, and that we usually can tell
1:29.2	if we want to meet with a writer within five pages of reading their script. And so we're doing a
1:34.6	thing where you can send in your first five pages and have the chance for us to analyze it
1:41.4	on video over on substack. We're going to pick one first five a month for our yearly
1:47.6	paid subscribers. So we've already started getting pages. So that'll be starting up very soon.
1:54.7	Yeah. So if you want to send pages for the first five, you can email us at happier in Hollywood
1:58.7	at gmail.com. And to subscribe to the substack, just go to our
2:02.2	website, happieronholywood.com, scroll down to the bottom and put in your email address.
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