Ep. 87: From The Mailroom: A Listener Questions Episode

Happier in Hollywood

The Onward Project

Careers, Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Liz and Sarah answer all your questions about the entertainment industry in this very special Mailroom episode! What are some qualities of a script they can’t put down? How do they handle all the no’s that come before a yes? What does it mean to break a story? Liz and Sarah dive into all this and more! Links: The Happiness Project Experience: https://courses.gretchenrubin.com/happiness/?ref=8 The Fix: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dkJhXOz: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118421/ All About Us: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0858424/ The Shield: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286486/ For the People: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6437276/ Jane Espenson: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0260870/ Photo by Samuel Zeller on Unsplash To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sarah, we need to replace our 2018 team word with our 2019 word.
0:05.7	Oh yeah, no more expand now we're exploding.
0:17.6	Hi and welcome to Happier and Hollywood, the podcast about how to be happier, healthier,
0:22.5	sane, or more creative, more successful, and more productive,
0:26.2	in a back-biting superficial, chaotic, unpredictable,
0:29.6	fundamental, insane world. I'm Liz Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA,
0:35.2	and with me is my high school friend and writing partner of 19-year Sarah.
0:40.4	That's me, Sarah Fein. On this podcast, we talk about being writers in Hollywood,
0:44.5	how we balance a career and friendship, and how to survive the war of attrition that is
0:48.9	life in Los Angeles. Today, we're dedicating the entire episode to our mail room segment,
0:55.0	we'll answer all your questions about the entertainment business.
0:58.6	Yes, thanks to all of you for asking questions about the booze, as they say,
1:03.1	via Facebook and email, we'll take a deep dive into all things entertainment.
1:08.2	And if you haven't joined our Facebook group already, please search for Happier and Hollywood
1:12.3	and click to join and be sure to post your mail room questions there or send us an email
1:16.6	to Happier and Hollywood at gmail.com. We love answering mail room questions.
1:21.4	All right, first Liz, we have a quick update. Your sister, Gretchen Rubin,
1:25.5	is launching a new online course. Yes, my sister and co-host of Happier is launching an
1:31.4	online course called the Happiness Project Experience. Of course, she wrote the book, The Happiness Project,
1:38.0	10 years ago, and for years, people have been wanting some sort of course about how to do their
1:45.2	own Happiness Project. And so it's finally happening. The Happiness Project Experience gives
1:50.8	structure and ideas to participants who want to create their own Happiness Projects. Over 12
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