People always ask me how they can be funnier. Are you just born with it? Big answer on that: Nope. Becoming funny is a practice just like any other creative art or really any other job. To be honest I wasn’t consistently funny until my 30s when I switched from focusing on being a “normal” actor, to creating and writing and performing in our show, Broad Comedy.
Read More"I Really Miss College"
What do you get when you cross 100 eager college a cappella group alumni, a 35th reunion show, and a 4-hour indoor rehearsal?
Covid.
But we were all in agreement. #WorthIt.
Read MoreI’m sitting here watching the Olympics with a bottle of Advil in one hand and a fairly decent wine in the other, as they talk about how distressingly old the 35-year-old athlete is and what a marvel it is that she can still stand without, you know, her knees breaking or her hair falling out mid-performance, and my snarl is so apparent that my husband asks me what’s wrong.
So I thought it would be a good time to list all the reasons that being in one’s 50s is so freakin’ amazing… lest I forget and this snarl becomes permanent like a facelift gone wrong.
Read MoreI’ve just started reading the most delightful, interesting book by Ingrid Fetell Lee called “Joyful: The surprising power of ordinary things to create extraordinary happiness”…
Read MoreHey Jeff, We Made You Something
And I thought I felt guilty about spending money on monthly pedicures...
Here's a fun fact: Jeff Besos literally could have fully funded COVAX, paying for 2 billion vaccines for people in low-income countries, instead of taking a joy ride for the time it takes to boil an egg. Or he could have paid to keep 37.5 billion people from starving this year. (To death... did I mention to death? I'm pretty sure starving meansyou die.)
Read MoreOh I’m so disappointed I just want to cry. What’s a feminist superhero fan suppose to do with that??? Like a kid, I climbed into bed to watch the new Wonder Woman, filled with anticipation, and within minutes was like, What the fuck? (I said “what the fuck” when I was a kid. I learned it from my 80-year-old aunt so I was allowed.) It’s like I opened a present on Christmas morning only to find a doll instead of a Lego set. Not that Gal is a doll in any way. She’s fantastic. No, so maybe it’s like getting a Learn How To Read book rather than Choose Your Own Adventure that respects your intelligence level? I dunno. I’m at a loss here. Can you tell this film has scrambled my brain? I’m actually dumber than when I sat down to watch it.
Read MoreI’m holding my breath.
I’ve been noticing it more and more and catching myself. It’s literal but more importantly it’s figurative. I’m holding my breath until the election. I’m holding my breath until the pandemic is over. I’m holding my breath until my kid gets into college. I’m holding my breath until my kid leaves home.
Read MoreAs you can imagine, the subject of “allowing myself to grieve” has come up a lot since this pandemic began. Even though I’m having a really centered and creative time during our stay-at-home orders, there is absolutely a lot of grieving going on, from our own, smaller losses (like not being able to get my hair cut!), to the epic, heartbreaking loss of life affecting the whole world.
Read MoreIt’s that time again: the end of the first month of a new year. Oof.
All the January 2020 blogs you've been reading all month are talking about how to fortify yourself to get what you want this year. “Find Your 2020 Vision!” “Get Your Plans On Track!” “Buckle Down and Rev Up Your Goals!!” “Turn Your Passion Into Money!” “How To Get EVERYTHING You Want By January 30th!!!!!!”
But what if you don’t know what you want???
Everyone’s talking about focusing on what matters most…. But what if you just want to find something that you’re excited about but have no idea whatsoever what the hell that is?
What if everything has recently fallen apart?
What if you’ve outgrown everything you used to love?
What if you’re no longer able to actually do what you love?
What if you’re feeling, oh, say, a little dead inside???
Here’s How To Suss Out What You Are Excited About and Could Possibly Grow To Have A Passion For…
Read MoreWhen improv comedian and author Katie Goodman was training as a yoga teacher, she realized she was drawing from the same skills she’d learned in performing and teaching improv. “Being flexible, being present, gagging your inner critic, taking creative risks, finding a connection with other people—it was all the same stuff,” she says.
Read MoreWhat a great surprise to have this land in my inbox! I taught an improv workshop last week, and one of the participants really overcame her fears surrounding improvisation, and as soon as she dove in… she loved it!
She wrote a blog about it, and I wanted to share it with all of you!
Read MoreSo it’s that time of year and if you’re like me, you’re exhausted and ready for a holiday.
However, before you head into a week of supposed gratitude, let’s do something different this year: Let’s be UN-grateful first.
And here’s why. Gratitude lists, like you’ve probably heard me say about affirmations, can backfire. If you’re trying to make yourself believe something you just don’t feel, it’s going to have the opposite effect.
Read MoreLadies and gentlemen, meet the one, the only, Olivier Renaud.
(Drum Roll. Red nose squeak.)
Oli is in our Improvisation For Life Workshop Certification Program right now and he is going to knock your socks off.
Which is a problem.
If, say, you’re a clown and you need to keep your giant floppy shoes on.
This former Cirque De Soleil acrobat, clowning maestro, and self-help workshop-leader freakin’ genius is absolutely killing it, and we decided to share his experience with you, in his own words…
Read MoreThere’s this feeling I experience, after a show, a workshop, a training anything big and perform-y that I’ve been planning and gearing up for. It’s like this narcissistic satisfaction that comes over me that just makes me feel like there is a point in being here after all. (On this earth, I mean.) Because, yeah the point is to help other people, right?
Read More“Pick up those emotional puppies by the scruff of the neck, and put them in the crate.”-SARAH KNIGHT
Today I had the chance to talk with Sarah Knight, NY Times best selling author of Calm The F*ck Down as well as The Life Changing Magic Of Not Giving A F*ck. She is referred to as an anti-guru and we got to talk about improvising a life. Sarah’s writing is hilarious. It’s self-help at its most irreverent…
Why entrepreneurs always move onto the next thing…and why you should not stay to slog it out- even when your mother is like “But you’re finally making money!”
Does this sound like you? You’re bored easily. You always have new ideas. You’re not sure which ones to pick. You start things and never see them to completion. You’re making everyone who works with you crazy. Okay, creative people… what the hell is going on with us?
Read MoreSo many of you are interested in how on earth to stop doing the job you hate and create an entrepreneurial life where you are the boss of yourself, where you’re creating a career that will sustain you financially, and one in which you loooooove your work. I’ve taught a class for several years called Quit Your Day Job and in that class I’ve noticed over and over so many similarities about the fears of becoming an entrepreneur. I want to help you work through some of them and see not only if the entrepreneurial life is for you, but to also help you save tons of wasted time reinventing the wheel and having difficult fits and starts, when you could really be moving ahead to making your career dream a reality much faster and with less stress and anxiety.
Read More“You’ll never know what you’re capable of until you start horrifying yourself and leaping expecting the net to appear.” — John Fugelsang
I am so excited to share with you my recent interview with comedian, actor, pundit and SiriusXM host, John Fugelsang. John is one of my dear dear friends and one of my favorite comedians. John has been murdered on CSI, he’s interviewed two beatles on separate continents in the same week, and he famously once got Mitt Romney’s advisor to call Governor Romney and etch-a-sketch on CNN. He hosts “Tell Me Everything” on weekdays. We talk about about improvisation, comedy, politics, spiritual life, the improv of parenting and more.
Read MoreI’ve been getting a lot of business questions from my readers asking advice on how to build their business, their tech systems, and a team to help support them when they don’t have a lot of cash to invest as a creative entrepreneur...
So, I thought I would put together a little list of what I did when I was starting to help give you some guidance!
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