140 episodes
Playful Humans - People Who Play for a Living Mike Montague
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5.0 • 9 Ratings
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Get the joke of the week along with ideas, information, and instigation to be a more playful human! If you need a little more fun, flow, and fulfillment in your life, we transform the burned-out and bored into energized and engaged Playful Humans. Rediscover the power of play, find out who is playing for a living, and learn how they pull it off to have the most fun possible in their life and career. Adulting is hard, and it’s easy to lose your way. But, you can beat burnout, quiet quitting, and avoid a mid-life crisis. Your imagination, creativity, humor, spontaneity, sociability, and sense of playfulness are still there! They just need to be found and awakened. Each week, Mike Montague interviews a professional who is living the life of their dreams and getting paid to play! Join the club at PlayfulHumans.com.
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Celebrate April Fools Day with Paula Poundstone and Bobcat Goldthait - Standup Comedy Your Host and MC
This special April Fool's day celebration with Paula Poundstone and Bobcat Goldthait is brought to you by Scott Edwards and the Standup Comedy "Your Host & MC" podcast!
Celebration of 40+ years on the fringe of show business. Scott shares stories, interviews, and comedy sets from standup comics... famous, and not-so-famous. All taped Live on his comedy stage at his club.
Click here to learn more about the Standup Comedy podcast!
Standup Comedy April Fools Video Archive Offer
They are about to launch a new "Video Archive" Membership sharing videos of famous...and not so famous, comics performing live on stage. See Dana Carvey, Bob Saget, Dave Coulier, and more performing live back in the '80s and '90s... Email Scott Edwards at Laughshistory@gmail.com and he'll send you a sample video. FREE!
Please tell him you heard it on Playful Humans!
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How to Find Passion and Purpose in Your Professional Life with Megan Miller, Intentional Living Expert
Megan Miller helping people realize that hustle culture needs to end! Helping your employees be more engaged with their colleagues, your customers, and themselves creates an ecosystem of passion and purpose to a degree that a spreadsheet never will.
In today’s hustle culture, where being on the go is an expectation and self-care is on the back burner, too many successful professionals feel exhausted and directionless and are craving more. Megan offers high-performing go-getters simple daily microsteps for putting attention to intention so they can start living with inspiration & fulfillment & stop sleepwalking through life.
She is also the host of the Putting Attention to Intention podcast!
Find Megan Miller at https://www.megan-miller.com/
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Playful Liberation: Mindfulness and Curiosity with Sarah Iverson
Sarah Iverson is a Wellness Coach, Speaker, and Author of Black In Color Remix. She promotes playful liberation through mindfulness and curiosity. She strives to catalyze change that celebrates individuality as well as provide inclusive opportunities that strengthen our connection to the natural world. The art of being inquisitive and embracing our own curiosities is one way to access more authenticity and happiness in our lives. Similar to sunshine, we are here to cultivate joy, authenticity, and liberation through play and art. Her platform is where marginalized and quirky people, can come and express who they truly are!
Find Sarah at https://www.curioussunshine.com/
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Senior Happiness Superhero: Unlocking the Secrets of Full Heart Living with Tom Glaser
Tom Glaser is aso known as the “Senior Happiness Superhero,” author of Full Heart Living, and Creator of Conversation Sparks. Tom is a life coach, psychologist, and speaker with over 35 years of experience. Whether counseling, teaching, or appearing in the media, his passion for helping people live their best lives flows through. A dog lover, gardener, and yoga teacher, he and his husband are based in Minneapolis but spend as much time as possible in the Southern California desert.
Full Heart Living: Conversations with the Happiest People I Know reveals how to live, with your arms outstretched and your heart wide open. Each chapter concludes with a summary of key points and optional activities that bring the concepts immediately to life. Conversation Sparks is a fun, interactive card game that helps you build lasting connections with friends and family. Improve your relationships through meaningful conversations or enhance your own self-discovery.
Find Tom at https://fullheartliving.com/
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Be BoredLess: Unlocking the Power of Play for Professionals with Acey Holmes
Acey Holmes has been playing in her education and career for two decades. She believes that our personal and professional lives can be improved with one simple priority: PLAY. Stop being bored, come play with us!
She spent much of her professional life helping children of all abilities communicate (mostly through play!). With a cliche pandemic pivot away from pediatrics to adults, she now focuses on bringing play to adults through consulting and facilitation all based in the neuroscience of play. Her fun and fully interactive workshops cover topics such as “The Power of Play at Work”, “The Neuroscience of Play”, and “Personal Play Identities”. She facilitates Failure Awards for organizations and provides strategic conference scheduling play breaks to improve the attendee and presenter experience.
When she’s not convincing adults to play, you can find her on a bike, skis, or in hiking boots on the side of a mountain somewhere! But it is probably easier to find Acey Holmes at https://playfulworkdesign.com/.
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Falling Up: The Inspiring Story of Hollywood Stuntman & Slamball Athlete, Kevin Cassidy
Kevin spent over 17 years working on some of the biggest movies in the world including 8 Marvel films (Spiderman Homecoming and Far From Home, Black Panther, Ant-man, Captain America Civil War, and others), as well as The Dark Knight Rises, SALT, The Other Guys, Zombieland 2, and many more.
Born with a facial birth defect, Kevin Cassidy battled a speech impediment and bullying throughout his youth but he was able to conquer one of life’s hardest challenges…being genuinely happy. He is a former Hollywood stuntman, school teacher, college and pro athlete in Slamball. And, is currently a current business owner, author, speaker, father, and husband. His new book Falling Down To Find Myself is available now. He is also the Owner of Ninja Nation, and ninja fitness gym in Huntsville!
Find Kevin Cassidy at KevinCass.com
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Customer Reviews
Yes! Mike Has Figured This Out!
Great concept, and Mike executes flawlessly. It’s a unique show that stands out in a crowded field, for all the right reasons. He makes his guests feel completely at home, and brings them along for a super fun ride!
So much fun!
Mike and his guests are awesome! It’s a good reminder in many different ways to have FUN.
Awesome!
This is fun and motivational! Must listen!