Ep. 99: Eat It With Grace

Happier in Hollywood

The Onward Project

Careers, Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Liz and Sarah talk to Hollywood career coach Carole Kirschner about having a game plan. Her advice? Have it on the stage and on the page! Then in Take Two, they revisit being rewritten — it’s not just a TV writer thing! Lawyers and other professionals experience it, too. This week’s Hollywood Hack comes from The Fix writers’ assistant, Laura Snow: widen the net to further your career when you’re feeling stuck in an overcrowded field. Finally, Sarah reveals her horse stables Celebrity Sighting: Lisa Vanderpump! Links:The Fix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkJhX-ccM5kCarole Kirschner: https://www.carolekirschner.com/Hollywood Game Plan: https://www.amazon.com/Hollywood-Game-Plan-Digital-Entertainment/dp/1615930868CBS Diversity Writers Mentoring Program: https://www.cbscorporation.com/diversity_institute/writers-mentoring-program/WGA Showrunner Training Program: https://www.wga.org/members/programs/showrunner-trainingJoss Whedon: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0923736/Angel: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162065/?ref_=nm_knf_t4Lisa Vanderpump: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0888838/?ref_=nv_sr_1 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	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:04.1	Do we have any idea how we're tracking?
0:06.5	No idea. Who do we even call about that?
0:09.3	I don't know. Is it marketing or promo?
0:12.4	Complicity current?
0:14.8	Do we really want to know?
0:16.6	Maybe we don't want to know.
0:23.8	Hi and welcome to Happier and Hollywood.
0:26.2	The podcast about how to be happier, healthier,
0:28.6	sane or more creative, more successful and more productive
0:32.2	in a backbiting superficial, chaotic,
0:34.7	unpredictable, fundamentally insane world.
0:37.9	I'm Liz Kraft, a TV writer and producer, living in L.A.
0:41.6	And with me is my high school friend and writing partner of 19 years, Sarah.
0:46.2	That's me, Sarah Fein.
0:47.8	On this podcast, we talk about being writers in Hollywood, how we balance a career
0:51.6	and friendship and how to survive the war of attrition that is life in Los Angeles.
0:55.9	In this week's episode, Sarah and I talked to entertainment career coach,
1:00.0	Carol Kerstar, about having a game plan in Hollywood.
1:04.5	Then in take two, we revisit being rewritten.
1:08.7	This week's Hollywood hack can help you further your career when you're
1:12.1	feeling stuck in an overcrowded field.
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