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Jan 13, 2021

Improve Your Year with Humor

Happy New Year! Though already 2021 has been filled with all sorts of unexpected happenings, some of which…

Mary Lemmer in IMPROVE

Nov 25, 2020

3 Ways to Improv Thanksgiving

If there’s any year that we’ve needed to improvise our Thanksgiving, 2020 sure is the year. Whether you’re…

Mary Lemmer in IMPROVE

Sep 17, 2020

How to Find the Funny in Any Situation

You may be familiar with the Five Stages of Grief, but are you familiar with the Four Stages…

Mary Lemmer in IMPROVE

Mar 10, 2020

How to Find the Funny in Any Challenge

Last week I shared 6 Ways to Improve How You Solve Problems and number six was “Find the…

Mary Lemmer in IMPROVE

Aug 22, 2018

Improve’s Core 4

We don’t have hard and fast rules in improv. At Improve we do have these fundamental principles that make improv more fun and meaningful for all of us:

“Yes and.” “Yes, and” is a foundational tenet of improv. It’s about taking ideas, accepting them, and building on them…

Mary Lemmer in IMPROVE

Jan 24, 2018

Improvise your way to your best year yet

As much as we make resolutions and plans, we know that regardless of the level of detail…

Mary Lemmer in IMPROVE

Aug 2, 2017

Comedians are Entrepreneurs with Better Senses of Humor

As an entrepreneur for the past 16 years, a training improviser for the past 7, as I spend more and more time building companies and studying and doing improv and comedy I see a lot in common between entrepreneurs and comedians. This…

Mary Lemmer in IMPROVE

Apr 25, 2017

My Improv Journey

I was a slave to my calendar. If something didn’t go as I planned it would throw me off into a tailspin of anxiety and anger. Though my obsessive scheduling made me an incredibly productive robot, it made me a horrible human.