# Rachel Shukert

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Podcast: [Living To Write](https://stenobird.com/podcast/living-to-write-5781823)
Published: 2026-02-24T10:27:07+00:00
Episode link: https://rss.com/podcasts/livingforwriting-storysummit/2574365
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## Resource

This episode features Rachel Shukert, showrunner behind The Baby-Sitters Club (Netflix) and executive producer on The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu) , charting her fascinatingly unconventional path from New York memoirist and playwright to Hollywood showrunner. Is television overstaffed right now? What’s the best way to get yourself into a writers’ room? How should writers think about the anxieties that both propel them and get in the way? Brian and Bailey discuss all this and more with Rachel, including what she learned from her first chaotic writers’ room, what it was really like producing GLOW alongside Jenji Kohan, and how she has kept building her television career through Nine Perfect Strangers (Hulu) and most recently The 'Burbs (Peacock) . Produced by Brian Landwehr and Bailey Patterson 1IoJcK62EnPRcPNjz7Yg Links mentioned in this episode: Everything Is Going To Be Great by Rachel Shukert https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Going-Great-Underfunded-Overexposed/dp/0061782351 Have You No Shame? by Rachel Shukert https://www.amazon.com/Have-You-No-Shame-Regrettable/dp/0345498615

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