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Improvly Speaking
Dayna Gowan is a speaker, improviser, and Facilitator of Fun, and the Founder of Improvly Speaking. Each episode, she brings you golden, beautiful, delicious nuggets of wisdom about public speaking, improv, performance, creativity and anything in between. Learning public speaking and improvisation skills has changed her life and made her a more confident speaker, colleague, and friend. Listeners will be inspired to face their public speaking fears, try new things, flex their creativity muscles, and say “Yes, and…” to challenges and roadblocks in both their personal and professional lives.
Improvly Speaking
Bringing Your Authentic Self to the Stage with Neil Curran
Our first international guest, Neil Curran, joins the podcast all the way from Dublin, Ireland! Neil is a professional improviser and communications and teams expert who has performed in shows and festivals all over the world. His signature show - Neil+1 - brings an audience member up to the stage to perform the improv show with him! (Would you be up for that as an audience member??)
When he's not on stage as an improviser, Neil facilitates interactive corporate trainings about authentic speaking and presenting, conscious communicating and influencing, storytelling in business, creativity and innovation, and much more!
This is a podcast of platitudes, as Neil points out throughout the episode. Both improv and public speaking trainings are riddled with platitudes, like make your scene partner look good, don't try to be funny, and be more authentic on stage, but what do all these overly used statements mean?
In this episode, Neil dives deeper beyond the surface level of these platitudes and explains what they mean in more context for performers and speakers. He also shares how he helps presenters become more confident at speaking as their authentic selves and not relying so heavily on the presentation slides.
Neil's passion for improv and teaching/facilitating is infectious! You can tell that he loves what he does, and he loves sharing the joy of improv with others...even the unsuspecting audience members who come to watch his shows only to then become the +1 part of the show.
You can find out more about Neil here:
- Website - https://www.lowerthetone.com/
- IG - @improvneil - https://www.instagram.com/improvneil/
- Twitter - @improvneil - https://twitter.com/ImprovNeil
- Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/neilplus1/
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/curranneil/
- Improv Fest Ireland - https://improvfestireland.com/
- Camp Improv Utopia - https://improvutopia.org/
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Want to learn more about Improvly Speaking? Here are all the ways to get in touch:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/improvlyspeaking/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daynagowan/
- Email: Dayna@improvlyspeaking.com
- Website: https://www.improvlyspeaking.com/
- Join the Mailing List - https://www.improvlyspeaking.com/mailing-list
- Pod Mom Gear: https://improvlyspeaking.threadless.com/
- WhatsApp Group - Reach out to Dayna for the link! :)
