Hello Sunshine's Lauren Neustadter
The Writers Panel
Ben Blacker
4.7 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Producer Lauren Neustadter, President of Film and Television at Hello Sunshine, discusses building a brand from the ground up, meeting a tumultuous marketplace with optimism, the best way to present your material to buyers, her love of reading and writers, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, it's me Ben Blacker, the creator and host of the writers panel. |
| 0:04.1 | Thanks so much for listening. |
| 0:05.7 | Thanks for sticking with us. |
| 0:07.9 | All these many years. |
| 0:09.7 | It's been a lot of years. |
| 0:11.3 | And it's still fun. |
| 0:12.2 | I still enjoy having these conversations, and I hope you still enjoy listening to them. |
| 0:17.9 | If you do enjoy them and if you want to support the show and me doing the show, |
| 0:22.8 | because it is, you know, a bit of work, please go over to benblacker.substack.com and become a |
| 0:29.6 | paid subscriber over there. It is, you know, five bucks a month or something like that. I think |
| 0:34.1 | it's $5 a month. And, you know, you'll be supporting the podcast. You'll also be |
| 0:38.9 | getting access to our live Zoom Q&As that we do pretty much monthly. We get some |
| 0:46.9 | amazing writers who have come out and done those folks from Robert Cargill to Beck and Woods, |
| 0:52.4 | to Sarah Gamble. |
| 0:56.0 | Just like terrific, smart writers who have been at this for a while and have great advice. |
| 1:02.0 | You guys come on the Zoom with them. |
| 1:04.1 | They answer your questions. |
| 1:05.6 | It's usually about an hour. |
| 1:07.6 | And it's always so inspiring and helpful. |
| 1:12.4 | So if you want to be a part of that, and like I said, if you want to support the podcast, then subscribe to the newsletter and become |
| 1:17.6 | a paid subscriber as well at benblacker.substack.com. I really appreciate it. And that sort of leads |
| 1:25.3 | me to what we're going to talk about this first quarter, which is, |
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