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.

Helen 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.

Find Susan:
Website: https://www.thehaberbreakthrough.com
Packages: https://www.thehaberbreakthrough.com/susans-packages
Online Community: https://www.skool.com/the-haber-breakthrough-9259/about
Substack: https://thehaberbreakthrough.substack.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/susanhaber
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@susanhaber1
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SusanHaber
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-haber-6944694

Missy Hall is a stand-up comedian, speaker, actress, and breast cancer survivor from Delaware, known as the “Queen of Happy Things.” She didn’t start stand-up until her mid-40s, while she was also teaching middle school. Her first stand-up performance was a one-woman show recorded live, released as the album Miss Representation, and it made the Grammy entry list for Best Comedy Album. Her albums since include Fifty Shades of Fifty, which has more than a quarter million streams, and Scoot Up, which plays on SiriusXM. She was named to Best of the Fest at the 2019 Burbank Comedy Festival, was a finalist at the 2018 Big Sky Comedy Festival, and tours with Funny Women of a Certain Age and Ladies of Laughter.

Helen and Missy met on a river cruise in Germany where neither of them wanted to talk shop, and within minutes they found out they had almost everything in common. They talk about using happiness as a coping mechanism, starting over in a house with no kitchen, and being married three times, plus the Social Security clerk who heckled Missy about it. They also get into why surprise-party comedy gigs never work, how Missy books her shows through gig sites, and life near Joe Biden in Delaware. And finally, the story behind “Holy sh*t, Helen.”

Find Missy:
Website, tour dates & newsletter: missyhallcomedy.com
Hallway Chats, every Tuesday at 8pm ET on Facebook Live: Missy Hall Comedy
YouTube: Missy Hall Comedy

Carole Montgomery is a stand-up comedian, writer, director, and producer with nearly 50 years in comedy and dozens of TV credits from the 1980s comedy boom, with her first big break coming on Showtime’s Comedy All Stars hosted by Don Rickles. After her son was born, she began a 10-year run in Las Vegas, first hired by Steve Schirripa at The Riviera and later at The Luxor. She’s performed at the Montreal Just for Laughs, Boston, and New York comedy festivals, and counts her 11 comedy tours for Armed Forces Entertainment as her proudest work. In 2017 she created Funny Women of a Certain Age, a showcase of female headliners over 50 that grew into three Showtime specials. The first, which premiered in March 2019, made history as the first TV comedy special to feature female comics over 50, and all three specials were rereleased by Comedy Dynamics in March 2025.

Helen and Carole talk about how a wish made in a hotel bathroom turned into a decade-long Vegas residency, surviving the comedy condos of the ’80s (chair under the door included), and why going on last doesn’t make you a headliner. They get into viral fame versus real stage time, what it actually means to “kill,” the double standard behind asking women to “work clean,” Carole’s house rule that kids could curse only if it was funny, and the Today Show appearance that aired the weekend the world shut down for COVID. Plus: what’s next for Funny Women of a Certain Age.

See Carole live: Funny Women of a Certain Age with Carole Montgomery, Kerri Louise & Tammy Pescatelli, Saturday, October 17th, 2026 at 7:30 PM at the Paramount Theatre in Middletown, NY.
Tickets: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/300064E24440979B middletownparamount

Find Carole:
Funny Women of a Certain Age: funnywomenofacertainage.com
Instagram: @carolemontgomerycomic