S2E2 Jill Sherer Murray - Jump and You Will Become the Net

LGOtv: Big Talk

Mar 2 2021 • 1 hr 3 mins

What can you learn from improv, and how does it teach 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."