Jan 31, 2024
I’m catching up with my Aunt Marie about everything that’s happening in life. She asks me, “Do you have any performances or events coming up?”
I do. Our annual three-day immersive speaker bootcamp is coming up at the end of February. For those three days, I get to be on stage helping people take their speaking...
Jan 24, 2024
It’s 2016 and I’m putting on a high-stakes speaking and storytelling workshop. One of the attendees “Shawn” is the CEO of a tech company, and he’s not buying the idea of using storytelling to raise money and land deals.
I say to him, “Give me two days. But you’ve got to play all in. Are you in?”
Despite...
Jan 17, 2024
It’s 2015, and I’ve just started training in Improvisational comedy. Every Wednesday night, I attend Alan Irwin’s Improv classes at Santa Barbara Improv.
Weeks turn into months, and my fondness for Improv grows into an addiction. I want to learn more, absorb more, and grow faster!
So I start keeping a notebook of...
Jan 10, 2024
I’m at the main TEDx event, sitting in the theater next to a lady who’s captured my attention. Her name is Carrie, and she’s impeccably dressed. I can’t help but fixate on her outfit!
So as I’m chatting with her, I compliment her on her dress. She thanks me and says she’s a designer who makes custom dresses...
Jan 5, 2024
I’m teaching an Improv class where everyone is doing an exercise called “Headlines”. We’re standing in a circle on stage, and one by one, we each share an outlandish headline we’ve made up on the spot.
But there’s a twist: each person has to start their headline with the last word from the previous...