Good morning, fellow artists! Welcome to another exciting edition of my weekly Hollywood blog. Okay, okay, so I didn’t take an important meeting while on the toilet (well, I did once… more info about that in just a second.) However, I did conduct my weekly career administration meeting during my lunch break at my pillar job. My awesome admin partner is working on a feature film for the next several weeks, and so he’s unable to meet during our normally scheduled Monday times. When he announced his awesome win and realized Mondays would be a no-go, I think we both experienced a bit of separation anxiety, LOL. However, recognizing how important our admin meetings are, we looked at other potential meeting times to keep our momentum going. I’m glad we did this because we are in a good workflow, and we don’t want it to stop. So, we decided that Saturdays or Sundays during my lunch breaks would work.
On Saturday, December 6th, 2025, we held our first career administration meeting during my lunch hour. Sitting outside in the courtyard made conducting business exhilarating. It reinforced that nothing stops us from advancing our goals, regardless of the setting. I remembered that some of the most important meetings happen in unexpected places—on a golf course, at a party—even, as hinted in my blog title today, the toilet. Keep reading below 🙂
Now about that meeting on a toilet…When I took Richard Lawson’s Professional Development Program 1.0 course, he assigned us a film project called “Target Project.” The purpose of this film project is to reach out to someone in Hollywood you admire and interview them. The person you target should resonate with you, hopefully having a career you would like to have as well. In this way, the interview becomes personal, and you tailor the questions to really learn something from your guest. I targeted a successful, Emmy-winning actor, writer, and executive producer who graduated from Vassar College. I admire his career, and I would love to have one like his. Because my person was incredibly busy, I had to plant the seed weeks in advance in order to 1) get him to agree to do this filmed interview and 2) set up a time to conduct the interview. Keep reading below 🙂
Long story short, it got down to the wire. The project was due in a couple of days, and I still hadn’t secured a meeting with him. I was working as a bartender in West Hollywood at the time, and I felt the impending, looming deadline quickly approaching. All of a sudden, in the middle of my shift, I received a phone call from his office. I literally stopped everything I was doing and ran into the bathroom, into a stall, and took the phone call. And in that stall, we scheduled a time for us to do the interview! I was thrilled. I was ecstatic. I believe I executed several fist bumps in the stall as we solidified and confirmed the time. I secured an important interview in a bathroom stall…next to a toilet! Keep reading below 🙂
The lesson: if something matters, you’ll take the meeting anywhere to advance your goals! Where is the most unique, hilarious, or odd place you’ve conducted a meeting? Let me know in the comments below! Keep reading below 🙂
See you next week!
Chasing The George 