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Insights on laughter, leadership, and team culture direct from our founder
May 7, 2025
Connection, Connection, Connection!
Little known fact, I grew up in the restaurant business. After we relocated to Connecticut from New York City, my father turned his avocation as a commercial real estate broker into a full time job. Analyzing and selling restaurants was his passion. He, and by extension our whole family, became very aware of the singular importance of location. Leaving a restaurant with a two hour wait or one with a room of empty tables, one of us would inevitably blurt out, “Location, location, location!”
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April 30, 2025
Laugh It Off: Is This Really an Employee Wellness Tool?
Laughing It Off: Is this really an Employee Wellness tool?
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April 24, 2025
How To Talk to A Person with Dementia
I taught my memoir class for Avocet this week. Although I’ve been meeting with this same fourteen people weekly for four years, most of our classes are on ZOOM. I hadn’t seen them IRL for at least four months. I also have a few new students, one of them who is 98, who I had never met in the flesh. Full disclosure, it took me a minute to adjust. It was as if I’d been watching “The Golden Girls,” in my office and suddenly I was sitting at a table with Beatrice Arthur, Estelle Getty and Betty White!
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April 18, 2025
Disconnect to Connect: 5 Ways to Put Down your Phone and Get Present!
I taught my memoir class for Avocet this week. Although I’ve been meeting with this same fourteen people weekly for four years, most of our classes are on ZOOM. I hadn’t seen them IRL for at least four months. I also have a few new students, one of them who is 98, who I had never met in the flesh. Full disclosure, it took me a minute to adjust. It was as if I’d been watching “The Golden Girls,” in my office and suddenly I was sitting at a table with Beatrice Arthur, Estelle Getty and Betty White!
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April 9, 2025
“We’ll get through this as a family."
That line — “We’ll get through it as a family” — is one of the last lines we hear Thomas Ratliff say in the season finale of The White Lotus. Given everything that’s happened up to this point, it really makes you pause and think… Will they?
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April 2, 2025
5 Books to Help You Laugh in Stressful Times
Tricky times to try to lighten the mood, am I right? As such, I’ve put together a list of books for managing the headline drama. I don't mean to be hyperbolic but it’s feeling…what’s the word? Rampant.
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March 27, 2025
Caregiving Tips You Can Use Now
I’ve been working on a talk I’ll be giving about using comedians' tools to create connection through cognitive decline. The audience there will be a mix of caregivers and people who don’t yet know that they will be.
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March 13, 2025
Women Making Alzheimer's History!
I know I’m late to the party on International Women’s Day, but March is still Women’s History Month!! Probably no surprise to many of you, I’m going to give a shout out to those women whose missions are all about bringin
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March 6, 2025
Employee Engagement - Do I Have To?
Talking to people at work, on ZOOM or in-person can feel like tiptoeing through a minefield now. Even Mike White can’t resist holding up a mirror to how hard it is to avoid confrontation - among "best friends" in season 3 of White Lotus. If engagement between people with decades of history together is being presented this way, imagine how loaded it can be with people you’ve just been put on a work team with!
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February 26, 2025
5 Facts About Laughter that Make a Difference
People often say to me, sure laughter is nice, but why are you such a zealot? I decided to organize some of my reasons here! Feel free to reach out to me with any comments or questions @danikleinmodisett.
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February 19, 2025
Leader Humor
Last week I discovered the catchy phrase “leader humor,” an accepted shorthand for leader who use their sense of humor to lead. I first saw it referenced in a LinkedIn post by my friend and colleague Dr. Belinda Chiu. It’s a thing! I felt so validated reading this distinction about it:
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February 10, 2025
Laughter + Sleep = Brain Health!
This just in, sleep matters. Not just for our beauty, as the saying goes. In fact instead of the popular “beauty sleep,” given the sleep statistics on Alzheimer’s prevention, maybe we could rebrand “beauty sleep,” to “br
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