So it's really believing in yourself and if you can do that your audience is going to follow suit.

They're going to see you, they're going to say,

oh, she knows what she's talking about. Cats love dog food and they're going to literally join in because it's the energy that you

bring to it to that is really going to impact the people that are watching because

remember people don't really pay attention to what you say. because remember

how you make them feel. People remember how you make them feel. I'm going excited to talk to you because I'm fascinated about this whole idea of introducing

improv into our work and how we coach people and I have no idea how it's done. I've seen things like whose line is it anyways and I'm just blown away by the way that people are able to think on their feet and the situations that they can get themselves into and out of and so I'm excited to talk to you.

For people who don't know who you are, can you introduce yourself please?

Yes, I sure can.

I am Erin Deal. My, I have a dog just so you know with the name big deal. I use that

Nast name very punyly and I am the founder of Improv It and we are a company who uses improv comedy to train professionals on what we call power skills.

So I no longer call them soft skills

because they're actually the skills

that we need to succeed in business and life.

So we've been in business now for about seven years made it through the

panny Chris the pandemic and we're completely in person business who turned completely virtual overnight. Now we're sort of a hybrid of the two and it's been a wild ride but I love I love bringing this art form to companies, to teams, professionals, because it truly is an experiential way to learn and to make your so what it let me just give you a quick synopsis of how it works

it essentially breaks down the barriers that we bring to work and I like to say we all

wore masks to work before March of 2020, the hypothetical mask, right?

So this idea that I'm leading from a transactional place, I'm not somebody who is vulnerable.

I'm not a leader who can't show up

and actually care about the people that I work with.

I'm here to do a job, right?

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