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April 22, 2024

Comedians Who Do More than Make Us Laugh

What do Pitbulls, The Cerebral Palsy Foundation and Comedians have in common in 2024? Comedians who care about them! Funny people who have put their talent where their mouths are to generate tremendous support! How lucky is Laughter On Call to have the chance to sit down with Rebecca Corry, Josh Blue and Zoe Friedman and hear from each of them what their organizations do? Very lucky indeed!

April 18, 2024

How do we Care for the Caregiver?

In comedy we talk a lot about timing so I’m very conscious of the recent report released by the Alzheimer’s Association and the fact that I’m heading to San Francisco this week to run two caregiver workshops. A new digital caregiver resource called Kinary has invited me up to bring some comic relief and share specific tools for self-care and creating connection through all stages of cognitive decline. I’ll be honest, these are my favorite workshops to run, getting me back to the heart of what we do. Two statistics revealed have given this trip even more urgency.

April 10, 2024

International Moment of Laughter Day!

Some holidays feel like they are designed to make me roll my eyes - National Beer Day (missed it! April 7), National Flash Drive Day (went by in flash - ba dum bum - April 5) and one there’s still time to honor, National WAGYU Day - June 21st! PHEW! I understand, picking a special day to recognize something is a positive marketing tool. I likely wouldn’t have thought to eat the most expensive meat in the world in June without a calendar nudge.

April 3, 2024

April Fool's Recap - Keep It Light

You know that feeling when you’re swimming with someone, jumping around and splashing each other in the water? And then to be really funny, they hold your head under the water? Your playmate presses down on your shoulders and just laughs and laughs until, I don’t know, they can make you turn blue? Ha ha ha. Yeah, um, I have never found that funny.

March 28, 2024

We’re baaaack!! Reflections on the WBENC National Conference

Yes! We made it back from our big excursion to Denver to host the closing brunch for WBENC’s All-Time Top Corporations for 25 years! I will not lie I had some butterflies in my stomach leading up to this. The team at WBENC could not have been more organized, supportive, clear and helpful, everything you wish for in a collaboration. My first idea for how to structure the two hours was to anchor the brunch in the letter M. We would recognize motivation, momentum, metamorphosis, and other marvelous M words, including mother.

March 16, 2024

March "Madness" For Women in Business

When you hear March Madness most people think of the NCAA - and yet there's another kind of "madness" going on for women this March. The madness of celebrating diversity and inclusion! According to the Women's History Alliance, celebrating Women's History Month this year means recognizing women "...throughout the country who understand the need to eliminate bias and discrimination from individuals' lives and institutions for a positive future."

March 6, 2024

Laughter Is Blind

I admit it, I’m hooked. After weeks of “will they or won’t they” - or in my case two long nights - tonight we find out who is actually going to marry a person they met after a courtship in pods where neither could see each other.

February 28, 2024

Wellbeing that Works!!

Thursday we had an illuminating conversation about workplace wellbeing initiatives with three wise panelists, Raelynn Douglas, Larissa Bartlett, and David Schneiderman. To kick it off, I was curious how we think about well-being beyond the dictionary definition.

February 14, 2024

Alzheimer's, Tech and Apps, Oh My!

I can’t believe it’s been four years since my mother’s passing. Or that my inability to make her laugh would launch me on a mission to help anyone I could feel less alone with shared laughter. I obviously also didn't know that a month after she died the world would be shut down from COVID and feelings of isolation would be felt on a global scale.

February 7, 2024

5 Reasons the Grammy's Got it Right

To be clear, I don’t like watching awards shows. They often feel like a fabulous party I wasn’t invited to. I enjoy the boundary-pushing outfits though, and am especially entertained by the awkward conversations on the red carpet.

February 2, 2024

A Nobel Prize Winner and a Comedian Walk into a Bar...

“Female musicians, it can be convincingly argued, have historically faced considerable discrimination,” the recent Nobel Prize winner Claudia Goldin and fellow researcher Cecilia Rouse wrote in a study in 2000.

January 30, 2024

We Made the Rochester News!

Laughter On Call brought compassion through comedy to Jewish Senior Life in Rochester.