Ep. 467: Let’s Celebrate Mimsy May!

Happier in Hollywood

Lemonada Media

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Careers

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Every week on the podcast Liz and Sarah mention “how they balance a career and friendship.” They usually talk about the career part, but today they’re leaning into friendship. Find out what they’re doing just for fun and female bonding. In Take A Hike, the fun continues with the announcement of Mimsy May. Sarah and Liz are embracing whimsy in May, and they think you should too! Next, in The Craft (& Fain), they talk about the importance of separating the “creator” and the “editor.” This week’s Hollywood Hack is for the birds: the Mademax Solar Bird Bath Fountain. Finally, Liz recommends Famesick: A Memoir by Lena Dunham. Sign up for Liz & Sarah’s free weekly Substack newsletter at ⁠https://happierinhollywoodpod.substack.com⁠. It’ll come right to your inbox! Sign up for Sarah’s free weekly Substack newsletter Chickening Out at ⁠https://happierinhollywood.substack.com⁠. It’ll come right to your inbox! Get in touch on Instagram: ⁠⁠@Sfain⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠@LizCraft⁠⁠ Get in touch on Threads: ⁠⁠@Sfain⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠@LizCra⁠⁠ 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. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! LINKS: Mahjong Pajamas: ⁠https://amzn.to/4cmsq2L⁠ Oxford Red Women’s Steady State SuperLoft Jogger: ⁠https://shop.lululemon.com/p/womens-steady-state-superloft-jogger/dk9wcfq3p3?cid=EM_TR_20260416_391711_TX_OC_US_WOMEN_SGV2_1_0_0_0_0_TRANSCARD-1-1&ismcid=A7BB6D07-2D05-4CA8-AAF0-1439AB5C9AC7&mcid=A7BB6D07-2D05-4CA8-AAF0-1439AB5C9AC7&utm_campaign=EM_TR_20260416_391711_TX_OC_US_WOMEN_SGV2_1_0_0_0_0&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=SFMC&color=72757⁠ Rage Consumes Me Cat T-shirt: ⁠https://amzn.to/4tmQsAB⁠ Block Shop: ⁠https://www.blockshoptextiles.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoqRf9lkohFDR8mvB1NsFoeKReBTFFqucOngagunrX2DCT1RCzHH⁠ Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within: ⁠https://amzn.to/4u4CzqV⁠ Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones Deck: ⁠https://amzn.to/4tsWIXC⁠ Mademax Solar Bird Bath Fountain: ⁠https://amzn.to/4mDbkB0⁠ Famesick: A Memoir by Lena Dunham: ⁠https://amzn.to/4tcz8OB⁠ Las Culturistas podcast with Lena Dunham: ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/las-culturistas-with-matt-rogers-and-bowen-yang/id1092361338?i=1000761509517⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Lemonada.
0:05.8	Liz, what if the lifestyle you built online suddenly became a nightmare you couldn't escape?
0:13.1	That is the premise of yesteryear, the darkly funny gripping debut novel from Carrow Claire Burke.
0:20.5	It follows Natalie, a picture-perfect tradwife influencer
0:24.2	with millions of followers until one day she wakes up in 1855 and realizes the reality of that life
0:31.7	is nothing like the fantasy she's been selling. And from there, it becomes this intense, twisty, turny story where her only goal is to
0:41.1	escape by any means necessary. Carol Claire Burke is also the co-host of the podcast Diabolical Lies,
0:48.5	and she built a huge following on TikTok talking about feminism and media literacy, especially
0:53.7	around the whole Tr tradwife conversation.
0:56.5	The book digs into big themes, motherhood, womanhood, religion, social media, and how performative
1:02.6	values can spiral into something much darker.
1:05.8	Yesteryear is available now in print, audio, and ebook. Go check it out wherever you get your books. Liz, it's going to be
1:13.1	raining when you and Corrine are here. So bring something for rain because we're going to walk to
1:18.2	the restaurant. I saw that. I must say I'm disappointed. I know. It'll be beautiful, though. Yes.
1:34.0	Hi and welcome to happier in hollywood the podcast about how to be happier healthier healthier sane or more creative more successful and more productive and a backbiting
1:38.6	superficial chaotic unpredictable fundamentally insane world i'm Craft, a TV writer and producer living in
1:45.8	L.A. and with me is my high school friend and writing partner, Sarah. That's me, Sarah Fane.
1:51.1	On this podcast, we talk about being writers in Hollywood, how we balance a career and friendship,
1:56.3	and how to survive the war of attrition that is life in Los Angeles. Today we're going to talk about something we mention every episode but rarely dive into
2:05.9	the friendship part of balancing a career and friendship.
2:10.0	Then and take a hike, we are announcing Mimsy May and revealing what we are doing for it.
2:15.3	We also have A The Craft and Fane inspired by Natalie Goldberg, the author of Writing Down the Bones.
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