Good morning, fellow artists! Welcome to another exciting edition of my weekly Hollywood blog. If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you already know these terms. We talk about the DOIN, career administration, career administration meetings, and Zoom writing sessions all the time, and usually, we take them seriously.
While these words sound lofty and powerful on paper, the reality of executing them is sometimes less glamorous and a little more chaotic than I sometimes let on. Keep reading below 🙂
Since we are flying through 2026, I thought it would be fun to take a step back and give my regular vocabulary a much-needed reality check. For everyone who has been following my journey, here is what the work actually means when you pull back the curtain. Welcome to the Multi-Hyphenate’s Dictionary. 10 definitions below.
1. DOIN [doo-in] (noun) The powerful, strategic business plan for my career that keeps me on track by essentially yelling at me through a megaphone whenever I veer off course. Love you. Mean it.
2. Career Administration [kuh-reer ad-min-uh-strey-shuhn] (noun) The highly disciplined, consistent actions I take to achieve my short-term and long-term goals, which actually looks like multitasking with eight arms across three screens, drowning in open tabs, and aggressively managing documents while wearing the exact same shorts, shirt, and Madonna Celebration Tour hat in my office.
3. Career Administration Meetings [kuh-reer ad-min-uh-strey-shuhn mee-tings] (noun) Weekly career accountability meetings with your awesome partner, which consist of 2% troubleshooting tech issues, 2% trying to remember where you saved that to-do list from last week, and 96% mutually agreeing that you both are stars.
4. Zoom Writing Sessions [zoom rahy-ting sesh-uhns] (noun) 5% troubleshooting tech issues, 15% checking in on each other’s sanity, and 80% pure creative magic.
5. Multi-Hyphenate [muhl-tee hahy-fuh-nit] (noun) A Hollywood professional who seamlessly operates as an actor, writer, and executive producer, resulting in a permanent state of professional split-personality disorder—where actor-me begs writer-me to write a project for them, and then writer-me pitches producer-me to fund the whole damn thing.
6. Solo Preparation [soh-loh prep-uh-rey-shuhn] (noun) The grueling, hours-long process of research, writing, scene analysis, and rewrites that in reality looks like pacing around your office for seven straight hours passionately acting out your scenes until your neighbors start to look at you differently.
7. Postulate [pos-chuh-leyt] (verb) The “Top of Mount Everest” of your business plan; a powerful prediction of where your career is ultimately headed, fully understanding that the path to industry success is never a straight line, but a chaotic series of wild zig-zags, sudden detours and pivots, unexpected stops, and complete resets. Buckle up!
8. Audit [aw-dit] (noun) A new addition to my vocabulary defined as the act of honestly assessing my progress each quarter, which actually means peeking through my fingers in absolute terror as I scroll through my DOIN. Just kidding.
9. Powerbase [pou-er-beys] (noun) The official command center where big Hollywood career moves are strategically engineered and executed. Though known more commonly and less excitingly as “an office,” it is a sacred space where the magic occurs and where I occasionally stare at the computer wondering whether my Madonna hat is channeling the right executive energy today.
10. Welcome to another exciting edition of my weekly Hollywood blog (a complete sentence of relief)—which is actually code language for: “Holy amazeballs! After 10-plus years of blogging, I was still able to generate and publish another entry!”, all while doing cartwheels down the hallway.
See you next week!
Chasing The George 