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Henri and Blake believe Improv has the power to change lives, maybe even the world, and as they'll find out on "Improvise Till You Make It!", there is no shortage of improvisors out there who agree with them! Through compelling, personal, and often tragically funny interviews, Henri and Blake discover how The Improv Mindset has changed the lives of their talented guest improvisors, while using these conversations as fuel for some intermittent improv comedy as hilarious as it is poignant. Cur ...
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#14: Make Strong Choices with Dad's Cologne
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Dad's Cologne, an improv trio based in Richmond, Virginia, USA, are making quite a splash with their instagram page dedicated to improv memes, @dadscologne. Through scheduling conflicts, faulty equipment, and crummy internet connections (we apologize in advance for the less than stellar sound quality), we were very lucky to get the chance to sit do…
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#13.2: Find Your Fun with Josh Simpson and Jake Jabbour
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This is PART 2 of a very special episode full of FIRSTS for "Improvsie Till You Make It!" In our first ever trans-atlantic (or trans-pacific, depending on how you look at it) podcast recording, we talk for the first time with not one, but TWO amazing improvisors, and it's an episode so full of juicy insights and hilarious improv, we had to break it…
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#13.1: Find Your Fun with Jake Jabbour and Josh Simpson
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This is a very special episode full of FIRSTS for "Improvise Till You Make It!" In our first ever transatlantic (or transpacific, depending on how you look at it) podcast recording, we talk for the first time with not one, but TWO amazing improvisors, and it's an episode so full of juicy insights and hilarious improv, we had to break it into our fi…
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#11: Seek Common Ground with Andrea Bjork
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Andrea Björk (rhymes with jerk) is a designer, animator, comedian, improvisor, podcaster, and writer whose career path has been as unique as her nationality (she's one of only 330,00 Icelandic people on the planet!) Her humor and wit coupled with her eloquence and experience behind the mic make for one of the most informative and easy to edit episo…
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#10: Listen and Support with Blake Worrell
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Blake Worrell, also known as "Big Blake" in this neck of the woods, is a rapper, producer, director, and award winning filmmaker whose striking stature and radiating charisma only serve to further highlight his soft spoken nature and beguiling kind-heartedness. He holds a very dear part in our own improv history as the driving force behind the crea…
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#9: Make Everyone Else Look Good with Justin Credible
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Justin Credible, a man who lives life with the pedal well and truly to the metal, is perhaps the personification of the the concept of, "Yes, And..." He began his lifelong career in the film industry as a child actor, and has at some point or another performed just about every job required on a film set, from gripping to directing, from writing to …
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#8: Focus on Relationships with Jess Rohmann
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Soon-to-be-Dr. Jess Rohman is an epidemiologist who believes as much in the value of improv as she does in the need for understanding and controlling the spread of disease, and even brings improv to the lecture hall as a tool for teaching her students through role play. Her experience on-stage as an improvisor and off-stage as a scientist carefully…
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Carl Clancy's 5 years in Berlin have been starkly divided into two parts: pre-improv and post-improv. What started out as the typical hedonist's homecoming experienced by most new Berliner's, his lifestyle took a drastic turn when he discovered improv and simultaneously discovered he could go to sleep every night of the week and still enjoy his lif…
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Inbal Lori, whose self-proclaimed very small head precludes her from wearing literal hats, nevertheless wears many metaphorical ones as an actress, writer, and improvisor. Like so many immigrants who settle here, her love affair with Berlin started as nothing more than a quick visit. She reveals some of the things that she loves most about this cha…
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#5: Relate to the World through Empathy with Jakob Wagner
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Jakob Wagner, man of many hats, many deals, and many talents, brings this episode to life with his skills as an improvisor, actor, rapper, comedian, and storyteller as he shares and overshares about his uranium-like emotional antennae (you read that correctly), and his one-and-only conspiracy theory. We get into the nitty gritty of what empathy mea…
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#4: Trust Yourself and Others with Matilde Keizer
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Matilde Keizer, a cornerstone of the English improv scene in Berlin, wears as many hats as she has nationalities. Writer, actor, impovisor, teacher, coach, chef, as well as Comedy Cafe Berlin's greatest cheerleader and ally, she's the epitome of, as she puts it, "The Super Cool Fun Millennial Hyphenate Life." After surprising us with the shockingly…
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#3: The Base Reality with Gaston Stabiszewski
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Gaston Stabiszewski (pronounced stah-bih-shev'-ski) is a writer, actor, director, filmmaker, improvisor, and musician, or, as the art world refers to such Jacks-and-Jills-of-all-trades, a total Gaston. Fresh off the back of an award-winning trip to Paleochora Lost World Short Film Festival where his short film Luftholen - Take a Breath picked up th…
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This week we explore the concept of "Yes, And..." with actor, director, instructor, improvisor, and general ray of sunshine Brian Kapell. To say Brian is an experienced improvisor is as much an understatement as saying he's a really friendly guy. He's a former executive director of ComedySportz, a global network of companies that transform the worl…
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Julia Joubert is a journalist, broadcaster, improvisor, and podcaster who's podcast, What's the Mate?, has become a magnet for gathering the best and brightest of Berlin's thriving English improv scene. After a riveting discussion about our wardrobe choices for the kinky Berlin party we attended the night before this episode's recording, Julia expl…
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Pilot: What is The Improv Mindset? with Kevin Napier
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We're joined on our first episode by Kevin Napier, writer, improvisor, and performer extraordinaire! Kevin shares with us what 18 years of improvising has taught him about The Improv Mindset, and how that relates to his super-normal super power. His tales of how doing improv has influenced the way he lives his life lead us down an improv rabbit hol…
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