Ep. 446: Thanksgiving Listener Hacks Bonanza!

Happier in Hollywood

The Onward Project

Careers, Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Happy Thanksgiving! Liz and Sarah share a veritable cornucopia of practical hacks from listeners. Some faves? Use a hotel room pants hanger to clip the curtains closed. Put whitening mouthwash in your water flosser. Attach a house key to your dog’s leash. And so many more!

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0:22.1	Lemonada.
0:27.8	Sarah, what did you make for Thanksgiving dinner?
0:34.5	I always bring dessert to my friend Leslie's, and I made a Basque cheesecake.
0:36.5	I did a practice of it a couple weeks ago.
0:40.4	It turned out very nicely. So that's what I'm bringing. So good. Yum. Hi, and welcome to Happier in Hollywood, the podcast about how to be
0:52.0	happier, healthier, saner, more creative, more successful,
0:55.1	and more productive in a backbiting, superficial, chaotic, unpredictable, fundamentally insane world.
1:02.9	I'm Sarah Fane, a TV writer and producer living in Ohio right outside of L.A.
1:07.3	And with me is my high school friend and writing partner Liz.
1:12.4	That's me, Liz Kraft.
1:17.3	On this podcast, we talk about 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. Today, we are going to
1:24.2	share practical hacks from listeners. That's right. The whole episode is going to be hacks. It is delicious, Sarah. You posted this in our Facebook group. Does anybody have any good life hacks? And I mean, it just, I've never seen responses come so fast and furious. Yes, they're amazing and they're all very practical. These are not the
1:47.0	transcendent kinds of hacks about life. These are practical everyday hacks. Sarah, before we dive in,
1:55.0	we want to say, happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Happy Thanksgiving. And also, I want to give a shout out to my dad, his birthday is
2:03.4	tomorrow. So happy birthday, dad. I know he'll be listening. Happy birthday, Mr. Craft.
2:09.7	Okay, Sarah, shall we get into our hacks? Now, we've tried to group them so that they're of a piece.
2:17.4	And we were going to start with everyone's favorite travel hacks. Now, we've tried to group them so that they're of a piece. And we were going to start with
2:19.0	everyone's favorite travel hacks. Yes, the first one comes from Laura. She keeps a bootbox
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