In this final installment of interview with memoirist, speaker, and screenwriter Sarah Montana, we dive into where’s she’s headed–who her role models are, what’s perking up her ears, and how she’s taking what she learned as an advocate on the front lines in the writer’s strike and applying it to her own career.

Why Sarah no longer has role models, per se, and what she looks to for inspiration instead

Having a varied social diet

How Sarah is learning to ask for what she wants

How growing up in a conflict averse household makes negotiating hard

Staying involved in the writer’s union now that the strike has passed

The book series she’s been reading out loud with her husband, which she calls “the most fun I’ve had in a really long time”

The playlist that alway turns Sarah’s energy around (in a good way)

The special energy of transitional times of day, like twilight

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