037: First Improv Performance was Almost Her Last with Kymberlee Weil
She Handled It! with Arwen Becker
English - April 20, 2021 09:00 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MBSelf-Improvement Education Business arwen empowerment friend inspiration inspirationalstories mother adversity arwenbecker challenges determined Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
When Kymberlee Weil left the stage after her first improv performance, she told her comedy troop that she wouldn’t be back and apologized. She thought she bombed because even her best friend wasn’t laughing. When the night was over, she told her husband she was retiring from improv, and that comedy performance simply wasn’t for her.
Thankfully, her best friend assured her after the show that she was hilarious and she had nothing to worry about. That night, she learned an important lesson – you can’t control your audience’s face.
Since then, Kymberlee has trained hundreds of TEDx speakers, improv performers, and international speakers at StorytellingSchool.com, where she teaches people how to use high-stakes, short-form storytelling to expand their influence. She’s an NCAA Woman of the Year, a 4th degree black belt, an MBA, an author of multiple books, and the founder of an award-winning software development and licensing company.
Today, Kymberlee and Arwen discuss how improv can teach people how to power through failure, how the stories we tell ourselves impact who we are and who we become, and how the lessons Kymberlee learned in improv (and with her own coach) have helped her empower storytellers of all kinds.
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We can’t control our audience’s face or their reactions. We can always challenge ourselves to tell better stories. The more interesting the story is, the more fun it is not just to deliver it, but to hear it. Just do it, be it and don't overthink it. Make a choice and own it. Appreciate your money and save it for a purpose.Show Notes
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