The following podcast contains explicit language.

Sarah, given what we have been through the last week,

I cannot imagine doing this job without a partner.

Oh, I know. I don't know how people do it.

I need you, Liz.

I need you more.

Hi, and welcome to Happier and Hollywood, the podcast about how to be

happier, healthier, saner, more creative, more successful, and more productive,

in a backbiting superficial, chaotic, unpredictable, fundamentally insane world.

I'm Sarah Fein, a TV writer and producer living in LA, and with me is my high school friend

and writing partner of 18 years, Liz.

That's me, Liz Kraft. On this podcast, we talk about being writers in Hollywood,

how we balance a career in friendship and how to survive the war of attrition that is life in

Los Angeles. Today, we'll share a true tale of professional perseverance, which is the fancy way

of saying we really struggled on episode two of the fix. Like really struggled. It was

painful. It really was, but we prevailed, and we're hoping that talking about it will help us

and you, the next time our jobs get hard and overwhelming. Then we'll reveal a soothing Hollywood

hack that's convenient and necessary, especially when you're as stressed as we are right now.

And finally, we have a very exciting, vicarious celebrity sighting.

But first, we have an update. We're just a couple episodes away from our special

happier, labor day episode. And it's not just us, all the podcasts in the Onward family,

happy with Gretchen Rubin, which I co-host, side hustles school with Chris Gillibot,

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