Create A Clown Presence; Don Colliver

Mindfulness Mode

Bruce Langford

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness:alternative Health, Spirituality, Education

4.8 • 540 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Don Colliver is a teacher, speaker, writer, and comedian with over twenty-five years of experience helping audiences utilize the power of authenticity, vulnerability, and connection. Don teaches public speaking at Google and speaks for companies including Adobe, Cisco, and Medtronic. He toured as a Clown for contemporary circus Spiegelworld, performed with the Blue Man Group, and is listed in the Cirque du Soleil performer database. Don graduated from Boston University and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. When he’s not helping speakers engage with their audiences, he can be found hiking through the redwoods. You can reach Don at www.winktechtalks.com. Listen & Subscribe on: iTunes / Stitcher / Podbean / Overcast / Spotify Contact Info Company: Colliver Communications Website: www.winktechtalks.com Book: Wink: Transforming Public Speaking with Clown Presence By Don Colliver Most Influential Person Alan Watts Effect on Emotions Mindfulness has helped me deal with my emotions because I can physicalize them. And I love picturing where fear sits and describing it. That is very helpful in removing some of the motivation that it puts through my body. Thoughts on Breathing Breathing is the most important thing when it comes to presenting. And it's not what very technical people want to hear, because it feels very esoteric and not heavy. But the fact is, it's made the biggest difference in me like deep breathing box breathing, fire to big presentations. Suggested Resources Book: Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds By David Goggins Book: The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety By Allan Watts App: Insight Timer Bullying Story I was bullied a little bit in elementary school. And I think if grown up, Don's brain was back there it becomes so much about the bully, I'm so much more focused on that person. And what do they want? It's hard to just simply step back and look at it from a 10,000-foot view and be like, can I just avoid this situation, this comes into clear focus these days because, at the end of each year, I'll do an evaluation of the year rather than do goals for the next year, or commitments or anything like that. I just look through the prior year, and find the top three negative experiences top three positive experiences. And then I try and put the top three positive experiences on my calendar, like ASAP, make a commitment, and put the deposit down. And then for the neg negative experiences, I just see like, is there a way I can minimize the opportunities even have these experiences? Related Episodes Get To The Damn Point; Lewis Chaney The Best Way Out Is Always Through; Joze Piranian Power Matters As We Search For Truth; Christian de la Huerta Special Offer Are you experiencing anxiety & stress? Peace is within your grasp. I’m Bruce Langford, a practicing coach, and hypnotist helping fast-track people just like you to shed their inner bully and move forward with confidence. Book a Free Coaching Session to get you on the road to a more satisfying life, feeling grounded and focused. Send me an email at bruce@mindfulnessmode.com with ‘Coaching Session' in the subject line. We'll set up a zoom call and talk about how you can move forward to a better life.

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0:00.0	Mindfulness mode. There's things getting in the way of your message, but that doesn't mean you're wrong.
0:08.0	Welcome to mindfulness mode and today we're going to be talking about some interesting things including clown presence and what that means.
0:17.0	We're going to be talking to a teacher, a speaker, a writer. He's a comedian with over 25
0:23.3	years of experience helping audiences utilize the power of authenticity, vulnerability, and
0:29.9	connection and the power of humor when you're speaking. So this is going to be interesting.
0:36.4	He toured as a clown for contemporary
0:38.6	circus Spiegel World and performed with the Blue Man Group. And so this is going to be super
0:45.5	interesting. We're here with Don Colliver. Don, are you in mindfulness mode today? I'm in
0:50.9	mindfulness mode, Bruce. Thanks for having me. Yeah, my pleasure. So Don, what does mindfulness mean to you?
0:57.0	Uh, yeah, mindfulness. Well, I'm pretty straight down the arrow of mindfulness.
1:03.0	I'm a meditator, a longtime meditator, and it just means being in the present and not in the future of the past.
1:12.1	And I am rarely in that place, but I try to be in that place.
1:17.7	Yeah.
1:18.3	Well, you've certainly had some very interesting experiences, including touring as a clown.
1:24.7	That must have been pretty fascinating.
1:26.6	And what did that teach you about mindfulness when you started touring as a clown, that must have been pretty fascinating. And what did that teach you about mindfulness
1:29.4	when you started touring as a clown? Well, clown in general requires you to be absolutely
1:38.2	present with the audience every second. You can't be worried about next week or last week or anything like that because you
1:46.6	need to be ready to make the most out of anything that happens. Like if somebody drops a glass,
1:51.5	if someone something happens, you need to be ready to drop your plan and immediately play with
1:56.6	that at any time. So it forces you to be in very mindful of the present. Wow. Yeah. And so then you were
2:04.6	part of the Blue Man group. And was that after touring as a clowner before? Uh, that was after. That was
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