372 SelfWork: Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone: A Conversation with the "Failfluencer" Erin Diehl
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
I've never laughed harder than in this interview with the self-proclaimed "failfluencer" Erin Diehl!
Erin is a Top 1% podcast host, Founder & CEO of improve it!, and one of the most electric keynote speakers in the world, using her work as an improvisational actor to teach you and me how our bodies are trying to give us messages about the healing that needs to happen. She's been on global stages with companies like Amazon, LinkedIn, and The Obama Foundation.
As a graduate from Clemson University, a former experiential marketing and recruiting professional, and a veteran improviser from the top improvisational training programs in Chicago--including The Second City, Erin can speak to anything from how every day of your life is an "improv scene" to the moment she discovered her chronic back pain was a result of unresolved emotional trauma.
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| 0:00.0 | This is self-work and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:07.0 | At self-work we discuss psychological and emotional issues and what you can do about them, |
| 0:15.3 | whether that's self-acceptance, taking action, or changing your attitude. |
| 0:19.6 | Eight years ago, I extended the walls of my practice to reach those of you who might already be |
| 0:24.2 | knowledgeable about mental health treatment but also to those of you who might say |
| 0:28.4 | you'd never darken the door of a therapist and yet you're here I'll answer your questions while I invite you to take a few |
| 0:35.8 | minutes for your own self-work. |
| 0:40.9 | So can I tell you a fun thing about laughter? I actually interviewed on my |
| 0:45.6 | podcast the founder of laughter yoga and he lives in India and we started the call |
| 0:52.2 | he goes we're just going to start this call and |
| 0:54.9 | we're just gonna laugh and so it was literally us just like |
| 0:58.8 | like just like and you're like, this is so silly. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm not sure I've ever laughed more than in this interview with Aaron Deal. She's a top 1% podcast host, founder, and CEO of |
| 1:17.0 | Improv It and one of the most electric keynote speakers in the with companies like Amazon, LinkedIn, the Obama Foundation. She has an energy and message to share |
| 1:36.4 | with the world that creates lasting ripple effects for change and she'll bring at least three |
| 1:41.9 | to four laugh out loud moments to your day |
| 1:43.7 | even though as she calls herself a fail-fluencer and urges us to make failure a |
| 1:49.5 | habit and to heal yourself through humor. As a graduate from Clemson University, |
| 1:55.0 | and she's a former experiential marketing and recruiting professional, |
| 1:59.0 | she's also a veteran improviser |
| 2:01.0 | from the top improvisational training programs in Chicago, including |
| 2:05.0 | the Second City. |
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