# #323: Rachel Lee Goldenberg - Follow Your Excitment

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Podcast: [Funny In Failure](https://stenobird.com/podcast/funny-in-failure-1031063)
Published: 2026-01-26T04:30:00+00:00
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## Resource

Rachel Lee Goldenberg is a Los Angeles-based writer/director. Her most recent film, Swiped (2025), stars Lily James as tech founder Whitney Wolfe, and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Swiped is Goldenberg's 10th feature, her other most recent film is Unpregnant (2020), a buddy comedy about abortion access. She began her career directing B-movies, culminating with A Deadly Adoption (2015) a meta Lifetime movie starring Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig. She also directed the pilots and additional episodes of Minx (2022) and Tiny Beautiful Things (2023), along with episodes of a dozen other show. She won an Emmy for producing Between Two Ferns: President Obama (2014). We chat about winning an Emmy, Funny Or Die and how Will Ferrell helped get her first agent, directing and crazy stories on set, working at the Asylum, following excitement, Swiped, working with low budgets plus so much more! Check Rachel out on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rlgoldenberg ------------------------------------------- Follow @Funny in Failure on Instagram and Facebook https://www.instagram.com/funnyinfailure/ https://www.facebook.com/funnyinfailure/

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