Jill Sherer Murray shares what you can learn from improv, and how it teaches you to let go of what you hold most dear. Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Jill Sherer Murray – Writer, Dreamer, Releaser.
Timestamps:
1:42 – Does having a background in comedy help you with letting go with mid-life crisis? With putting your weight in Shape Magazine?
3:55 – “I think every child should take Improv…”
6:39 – “They have no idea that in 30 minutes they’ll be hopping on one leg, and smacking each other in the butt…”
9:30 – How does someone with a control tendency find themselves in improv?
11:38 – “If we knew what would happen on the other side of an epiphany, we might have not taken action on it.”
14:48 – “I saw a huge opportunity for feeling.”
21:45 – “I stood up in front of the room at Weight Watchers at 12 years old.”
23:08 – “I felt like, for one of the first times in my life, I was actually talking to my mother woman-to-woman.”
23:35 – Reconciliation doesn’t have to be couple’s therapy.
29:22 – “I don’t expect myself to be done. I no longer put that pressure on myself.”
36:50 – “Jump and you are the net.”
39:39 – “I got out there on that stage and I thought to myself, ‘This is home.’”
41:30 – “I didn’t change your life, you changed your life.”
44:07 – “Those notes give me chills.”
50:48 – “It was important to me to not talk in a ‘fluffy’ way to people. To give them tangible ideas for how they could think about letting go, understand what it meant.”
56:35 – You don’t have to give any of the trophies back.
59:22 – “It’s not just about listening to other people. It’s about listening to the truth inside of us.”
Jill Sherer Murray is an award-winning author, journalist, and communications expert, a TEDx speaker, and founder of “Let Go for It,” a brand that improves people’s situation through the mantra of letting go. Her TEDx Talk, “The Unstoppable Power of Letting Go” has three million views and breaks down her own journey of letting go to successfully move forward. She wrote her bestselling book, “Big Wild Love: The Unstoppable Power of Letting Go,” released in May, for those who reach out from all over the world for advice after seeing her Talk. Jill studied improv at the famous Second City in Chicago. And wrote a popular blog called “Diary of a Writer in Mid-Life Crisis” for the former Wild River Review magazine. She also let go of just about everything to put her weight in Shape Magazine as part of a year-long assignment to document her weight loss journey.
Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.
She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing, and mentoring others.