{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Everything's Funny With Helen Keaney","title":"#4 - Susan Haber","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2583,"description":"Susan Haber spent 30 years as a Hollywood talent agent, packager and brand strategist. She started at International Creative Management (ICM), assisting in the representation of Katie Couric, Larry King, Jay Leno, Connie Chung and Suze Orman. She went on to package and sell Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, build Ty Pennington’s career (including a multimillion-dollar Sears deal), and sell Chelsea Handler’s first book, My Horizontal Life. She also launched Mario Lopez’s run as host of Extra. Today she is still a licensed agent in Beverly Hills, and through The Haber Breakthrough she teaches women entrepreneurs the strategies she used to build careers in entertainment.\n\nHelen and Susan go back decades, and they tell the story of how they reconnected by chance on the set of Comics Unleashed. Susan explains how she went from struggling actress and single mom to agent by asking a temp agency to set up meetings at every major agency in town. She talks about popping Chelsea Handler’s reel into a VCR and knowing right away, and about the meeting where a would-be client started channeling someone at the table. They also cover what agents actually do all day, why waiting for the phone to ring no longer works, and how social media ended the industry’s ageism. Helen also reveals what a comedian, a host and Sheryl Crow were paid for one 1990s pharmaceutical gig. Susan explains why Rihanna, not Fenty, is the brand, and why you don’t get what you don’t ask for.\n\nFind Susan:\nWebsite: https://www.thehaberbreakthrough.com\nPackages: https://www.thehaberbreakthrough.com/susans-packages\nOnline Community: https://www.skool.com/the-haber-breakthrough-9259/about\nSubstack: https://thehaberbreakthrough.substack.com\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/susanhaber\nTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@susanhaber1\nYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SusanHaber\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-haber-6944694","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/zsZLo0m8wGZtkedFv6uloVatTUqetp3G1GUJnmnR3ns/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mZjY0/MTMzZjNjYmM0OTBi/Y2Y1YzkwZjdkNzEy/OGJjNS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}