It can be hard to set work-life boundaries when you know someone else could easily replace you.

This week Zack Arnold, award-winning editor (Cobra Kai, Empire, Glee) talks of the article he wrote Dear Hollywood: We Don’t Want to “Go Back to Normal.” Normal Wasn’t Working, and shares how he learned to set boundaries to create a healthy work-life balance in the industry.

Listen to Zack tell Tanya how reduced set hours saves production money, when to say no, and how his company, Optimize Yourself teaches how to overcome burnout.

Show notes:

Optimize Yourself

Optimize Yourself Podcast

Setting Boundaries in the Industry – Kory Pollard

Dear Hollywood: It’s Time For An Intervention About The Hours We Work

Parkinson’s Law

Zack's Guides 

Key points:

1:17- How he got started as an editor

7:04- Experience during COVID

9:33- About Optimize Yourself

12:33- How to monetize his passion

16:46- How have people responded to your article Dear Hollywood: We Don’t Want to “Go Back to Normal.” Normal Wasn’t Working

20:47- Changes to help reduce hours

22:56- Clock-in/clock-out old way of thinking

25:16- Parkinson’s Law

27:57- How to overcome someone taking advantage of your time

29:40- When to say no

31:49- Indicator of being taken advantage of

35:35- The word Lucky

41:10- How much creative control he has as an editor

45:05- Having to use bad takes

48:37- The questions you ask determine the quality of your life

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