This week you’re going to meet Charlette "Charly" Ford, a seasoned entertainer, executive producer and curator of the You’s A Fool Improv and Variety Show in Atlanta, GA. She’s one of the most playful people I’ve ever met! When Charly’s around, it’s nearly...
Kay Ross believes that life is an improvisation game and a playground of possibilities. She is an improv performer and an Applied Improvisation trainer; a bodyworker/healer; the Head Tour Guide in The Playground of Possibilities (that’s her project about guiding...
Gary Ware is concerned about your plan to work an all-nighter to finish that project. You might want to listen to his advice, because he's been where you are. Gary is the founder of Breakthrough Play, where he helps teams be more creative, confident, and...
Was 2020 supposed to be “your year”? Of course, sometimes things don’t go the way we want them to, but 2020 has been a little much. A lot of what’s going on in the world right now can make us feel helpless and hopeless, but Jeff Harry has a message for you. How we...
According to Andrew’s daughter, he is “a librarian who teaches grown-ups how to play”, which is far more important than any “real” job description. That said, he is also a National Teaching Fellow in the UK, working part-time in a university library, as well as...
Play is something most therapists recommend, but it's not very often you get to play IN therapy. That's what you get when you work with Jamie Lynn McCoppin. Jamie is a registered drama therapist, life skills coach, and Founder of Spark of Play. She has been using...
Can adults really play? Like kids play? Your Brain On Adulting After a certain point, we important adults with our very important work can lose contact with our childlike imaginations. We feel guilty at the mere thought of leaving our cares behind and doing...
The midlife crisis. It’s a cliche. It’s about aging, fear of death, existential dread, regret. It’s a reliable way to make light of something we all feel just beneath the surface as we reach that “certain age” (which is different for everyone). I have a theory. I’m...
In this episode, I'll talk about how I finally became an adult who plays. A playful mindset came so easily to us as children, but we adults build up lots of roadblocks keeping us from it. Incorporating play has been a process. It wasn’t as easy as just deciding to...
Science tells us how important play is for kids – for the development of their minds and ability to adapt. But what about adults? Once we reach the age of adulthood, and often even in the midst of adolescence, play is left behind. Ben Ross (a.k.a. The Flying...
When we were kids, everyone thought it was important for us to play. They even set up this weird thing called “recess” where we could encounter the awesome world of the playground. They knew it was good for us then, but what about now? As adults, no one seems to...
Keeping your feet on the ground is the number one cause of boring, uninspired lives. In addition to taking care of ourselves and our families, we have every right to play and lead fun, fulfilling and interesting lives. It's one thing to know that and another to...
This week we get ready for a new round of upcoming guests by exploring the eight “Play Personalities” from Dr. Brown’s book, Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul. I look at the play personalities as a kind of menu. Some of...
It's one thing to know how important it is to play and another to work it into a busy schedule. Hear how Audrey "Mourning" Wood took on boredom. She's been a member of the L.A. Derby Dolls Sirens team since 2011 and was a member of All Stars from 2012-2015. She's a...
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