HHH011 Interview with Lynn Chen

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Lynn Chen is an actor, a writer, and a body image activist. I met Lynn when I moved to Los Angeles a couple years ago and she reached out through email, we had lunch together, and became quick friends. In addition to her YouTube channel which mostly explores different restaurants around LA, she also hosts a monthly…

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HHH10 Interview with Richard Lawson | Vanity Fair Film Critic

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In this episode of Hilah’s Happy Hour, I got to talk with Richard Lawson, the film critic for Vanity Fair! I “met” him through my YouTube channel (he wrote me up this little blurb in the March issue of VF) and now we’re Twitter buddies. We talk about how he got into the critic business, what…

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HHH09 Interview with Josh Elkin

I met Josh Elkin a few months back when we taped an episode of Chopped together for Food Network. (Our episode airs March 28.) The shoot day was kind of a whirlwind, but we did get to hang out enough that I could see he is a genuinely nice and warm person and a really…

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HHH08 Interview with Rachel’s English

Rachel’s English is an educational YouTube channel teaching American English pronunciation to ESL students. Even as a native speaker, I find her videos very interesting and entertaining. In this interview, we cover her start as an opera singer and how that led to teaching English pronunciation then we give some great advice and discuss New Yorkers…

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HHH07 Interview with Adriene Mishler | Yoga with Adriene

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Adriene Mishler is the fantastic yogi and teacher of Yoga with Adriene. We’ve been friends for about 10 years and my husband Chris is her production partner for the yoga channel. We also made this “Prenatal Yoga” video series together when I was pregnant with my son. In this episode, we talk about how acting and…

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HHH06 Interview with Skyy John, Tipsy Bartender

I met Skyy John, the Tipsy Bartender, at VidCon a few years ago when we shot a cocktail video in his hotel room in Anaheim. Sounds a little scandalous maybe but it was completely sweet. Skyy is a bartender and all-around entertaining guy who uses his channel to demonstrate crazy, weird, funky cocktails along with…

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HHH05 Interview with Jen Phanomrat – Just Eat Life

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I first “met” Jen through her first YouTube series Tasty Memories which she and her boyfriend and production partner Leo made together. I was instantly charmed by her vibrant smile and her slightly filthy humor. Then, of course, the delicious family recipes she shares. As two people who love food, love life, and dearly love…

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HHH04 – Interview with Nataly Dawn

Hilah’s Happy Hour Podcast episode 4: My interview with Nataly Dawn! This was a really fun podcast to record. Nataly has been a friend of mine for about four years, since her husband Jack Conte launched Patreon, to be exact. She made her big musical debut on YouTube as half of Pomplamoose, and has since…

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HHH03 – Interview with Mel Joulwan

Episode 3 of Hilah’s Happy Hour Podcast! Mel Joulwan has been a great friend of mine for several years and she also happens to be a hugely successful paleo cookbook author. She and her husband Dave published Well Fed, Well Fed 2, and Well Fed Weeknights. In this interview, Mel and I talk about taking…

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