Ep. 447: Networking Up: It’s Scary! (Do It Anyway)
Happier in Hollywood
The Onward Project
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Executive Coach and Friend of the Pod Michael Melcher joins Sarah to discuss the benefits of networking up. Making connections with higher ups is intimidating but worth it! Michael stays on as Guest Host to discuss the idea of an Admin Night— which is, essentially, a group Power Hour. Then, in Take Two, they discuss their current personal canaries in a coal mine. This week’s Hollywood Hack is Slidelock Carabiners! Finally, Sarah recommends the novel Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel and Simon Haisell’s accompanying Slow Read.
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Michael Melcher:
https://m2leaders.com/team/michael-melcher/
Your Invisible Network, by Michael Melcher:
Slidelock Carabiners:
Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel:
Simon Haisell’s Footnotes and Tangents:
https://footnotesandtangents.substack.com
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| 0:30.2 | I just think we have to make a decision soon about the rooster. |
| 0:31.9 | I've already made it. |
| 0:33.1 | We're keeping the rooster. |
| 0:36.5 | It's going to be so loud, honey. I don't care. |
| 0:37.7 | It's cute. |
| 0:38.3 | It's going to be like really loud. |
| 0:40.0 | But it's pretty and it looks like Emmy. |
| 0:42.0 | Five in the morning. |
| 0:43.6 | I don't care. |
| 0:44.2 | You're the one with the bedroom closer to the rooster case. |
| 0:53.5 | Hi and welcome to happier in Hollywood, the podcast about how to be happier, healthier, |
| 0:58.6 | saner, more creative, more successful, and more productive in a backbiting, superficial, |
| 1:04.4 | chaotic, unpredictable, fundamentally insane world. |
| 1:08.3 | I'm Sarah Fane, a TV writer and producer living in Ohio right outside L.A. |
| 1:13.1 | And usually, I would say, and with me is my high school friend and writing partner Liz. |
| 1:17.8 | But Liz is under the weather, and we have a guest today, so it is just me. |
| 1:23.3 | 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. |
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