How I Built Resilience: Sarah Harden and Lauren Neustadter of Hello Sunshine

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Guy Raz | Wondery

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4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Hello Sunshine—a production company founded by Reese Witherspoon—has created TV shows Little Fires Everywhere, The Morning Show, and Big Little Lies. Fresh off 18 Emmy nominations, Hello Sunshine's CEO Sarah Harden and Head of Television & Film Lauren Neustadter are hopeful they will find a way to begin filming again safely, despite COVID-19's impact on Hollywood this year. These conversations are excerpts from our How I Built Resilience series, where Guy talks online with founders and entrepreneurs about how they're navigating turbulent times. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:32.0	As you know, we're talking with entrepreneurs and other business leaders about how they're thinking creatively and doing their work differently right now.
0:40.0	And today we're going to hear from two executives at Hello Sunshine, CEO Sarah Hardin and Lauren Newsstatter, head of TV and film.
0:49.0	Hello Sunshine is a production company whose mission is to highlight female lead films, TV shows and books.
0:56.0	It was founded four years ago by actor Reese Witherspoon and it's already a big name in Hollywood.
1:02.0	In fact, hours before we went live, the television academy announced this year's Emmy nominations and Hello Sunshine did pretty well.
1:11.0	Ripped from the headlines, breaking news, 18 Emmy nominations this morning.
1:17.0	This shows include Little Fires Everywhere, The Morning Show, Big Little Lies, Lauren, Sarah, welcome.
1:23.0	Good morning, good morning. Congratulations, 18 Emmy nominations.
1:28.0	Thank you. We're so excited. It was a great day.
1:31.0	Yeah. So first of all, for people who don't know about the production company, tell us about Hello Sunshine.
1:36.0	A little bit more about it.
1:37.0	Well, look, I think, you know, the company was founded with a driving mission and really a gap in the marketplace that resold, which was to put women at the center of these stories.
1:47.0	And I think when we started the company, we sort of embraced the complexity of wanting to do that in storytelling formats.
1:54.0	And, you know, with Reese's book, particularly, you know, Reese is a huge reader.
1:59.0	She reads all the book picks and we love elevating female narratives from books and in other ways as well.
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