DEC 27, 2017

• “I was doing many things, not realizing that I was wanting to be in a relationship with fear.” (2:18)
• “I was not allowing the “more” through my very tight perfection.” (15:04)
• “What we’re really trying to do is be human.” (30:30)
• “I knew that was in me. I knew that it had to get fed and expressed.” (36:30)
• “Who would want to teach. You want to be on the stage acting.” (40:37)
• “Then there was just the stillness. And then they started coming.” (101:30)
• “If I really felt I was doing it all, I think I would be very happy to take the praise and go ‘oh, aren’t I amazing.’”(1:10:-2)
• “I hold the space for it, with all my force.” (1:10:45)
• “There was the you writing it, and now there is the you speaking it, and when you speak it, things surprise you.” (1:21:40)

Kelly Kimball is an incredible teacher who helps people take risks. She works with actors to express their authentic self. She got out of a marriage that stifled her passion, which left her to create a boutique acting studio named Kimball Studio that she started 20 years ago in NYC. In the time since then, she has built a ridiculously creative, supportive, loving and rising community. It’s important to note, she’s a little woo-woo, in the best way, an she’s a self-proclaimed witch, her grandmother even called her Witchy-Poo, and she knows so much about astrology, tarot and all the things you know about when you know about things like that. **She’s even going to let me pull a tarot card during our conversation.” Her advice is endless because her life has been so damn big.

Kelly’s formal training includes a BFA from Denison University (DU Award for outstanding performance by a woman) and a certificate of Merit from the London Shakespeare Studio.  While at Denison, she was a founding member of the improv comedy group Burpee’s Seedy Theatrical Company with Steve Carell. Kelly learned to direct by working on Broadway under Mike Nichols, Neil Simon and Gordon Davidson.  She has directed original theater works for The Lab Theater, The Performance Workshop, and The HBO Aspen Comedy Festival.  Kelly has written and produced on pilots and series for NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX and WB.

• Why actors are so courageous (5:10)
• Why people resist (10:35)
• Why perfect is not perfect (13:50)
• Eye transplants are genderless (25:08)
• How she teaches regular people to deal with fear (29:18)
• How to access your download of knowing (40:30)
• Kelly’s morning routine (45:18)
• Advice on fear from her parents (47:08)
• What makes a good life coach (1:02:42)
• Kelly’s advice to everyone, straight from the Tarot (1:18:20)
• Wins Exercise - to do before the New Year (1:19:45)

• How curiosity drives expression (6:30)
• Why she created Ballistics – her signature acting class (12:15)
• Opening line exercise (17:33)
• The power of the period at the end of your name (31:00)
• Most important points about posture for corporate presenters (31:40)
• How playing the perfect wife in real life helped her leave her marriage (37:55)
• How she found out she was a witch (49:55)
• How Kelly cast a spell on her Studio to create a supportive community (59:00)
• Kelly’s 7-line pitch (1:14:30)
• The Fool Card (1:24:50)

Curiosity

https://www.backstage.com/advice-for-actors/backstage-experts/why-actors-need-explore-their-curiosities/

Aristotle

http://www.ancientgreekphilosopher.com/2015/07/17/aristotles-courage-a-clear-and-short-explanation/

3 Ways to Get More – Online Class

https://www.getmorebrave.com/pages/get-more-brave

Pemah Choudron – Glorious and Wretched

https://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/04/pema-chodron-life-is-glorious-and-wretched/

Harold Pinter

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Herbal Essences with Lanie

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The Dirty Life

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Kimball Studio

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Thomas J. Leonard

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DEC 20, 2017

• "More money doesn't always mean better." (12:00)
• “Stay down there for a little bit. Stop struggling to get back to the top. Maybe there is something to learn down there for a little bit.” (15:40)
• “The fear was [me] becoming irrelevant.” (18:17)
• “I don’t know, but then again I have to reframe – well, it’s ok.” (19.07)
• “I like for everybody in that room to feel like they’re with me.” (29:48)
• “Make a decision and there’s an experience there.” (35:17)

Holly Rilinger is a badass. Sitting across from her in this interview, it’s just like when I go to one of her classes, she is everything you want an instructor to be, she is motivating, she is so fit, she is SO fit. She is a Nike master trainer, she teaches a class called lifted that she developed, she has a book called Lifted, she was on a reality TV show, she was a former WNBA player, she was a superstar coming out of James Madison, and she made what she thought was the next big great decision for her career and man, was it a crash and burn. This interview is all about how she dealt with that time and how she’s dealt with other moments of fear in her life and what risk-taking looks like for her.

Before becoming a fitness expert, Holly Rilinger came to be named the #1 Freshman point guard by USA TODAY, the All-Time Leading Scorer at James Madison University, and a Strength and Conditioning All American … https://www.nike.com/us/en_us/e/cities/nyc/articles/brahaus/holly-rilinger

• How to get over “instructor fear” (3:43)
• What happens when people avoid relationships by working too much (4:30)
• Separation between work and personal life (7:40)
• Having more money and more responsibility doesn’t always create joy (10:34)
• What happens when you distrust yourself (13:12)
• Why our initial reaction may not be the best one (14:29)
• Calling on your breath as an anchor to yourself (23:56)
• The making of a great fitness instructor (28:11)
• Advice for when you are IN the fear place (34:00)
• Dealing with the fact that failure is coming (35:42)

• Smooth move – the way her girlfriend won her over (2:35)
• Outside expectations affecting how we behave (6:00)
• What Holly’s rock bottom looks like (9:09)
• What too many cooks in the kitchen can mean for your life (11:20)
• Takeaways from the tough place – the “space down there” (15:20)
• What (her) anxiety feels like (17:36)
• How did Holly know she would be ok? (18:50)
• LIFTED – Why meditation and training is the best combo (22:55)
• What a TV show gives you – and takes away (27:08)
• Holly’s 7 Line Pitch (33:57)

Your Gut Feeling https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rosalie-puiman/your-gut-feeling-fear-or-_b_6667194.html

What is the science behind fear? https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/intense-emotions-and-strong-feelings/201711/the-flavors-everyday-anxiety

Six Characteristics of Resourceful People That Bring Them Success https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/272171

Nine of the Best Ways to Boost Creativity https://lifehacker.com/5990617/nine-of-the-best-ways-to-boost-creative-thinking

How Curiosity Give Your Memory a Boost https://curiosity.com/topics/how-curiosity-gives-your-memory-a-boost-curiosity/

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Bandier https://www.bandier.com

Lifted: 28 Days to Focus Your Mind, Strengthen Your Body, and Elevate Your Spirit http://amzn.to/2yYYwLZ

Dana Flynn – Laughing Lotus http://nyc.laughinglotus.com/teachers/

3 Ways to Get More Brave – Online Class https://www.getmorebrave.com/pages/get-more-brave

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DEC 14, 2017

• “I coach players who want to be great; they think they can be.
• “Fear hinders progress in every way. We have all been paralyzed by fear. Been driven by consequences versus going toward the goal.” 
• “Comfortable is not living. Life is supposed to have edges.”
• “Bravery is everywhere, it’s just masked under uncertainty.”

Courtney Banghart was a superstar athlete, an Ivy League grad - she went to Dartmouth and majored in Neuroscience. She had no idea or intention that she would play basketball in college much less become one the brightest coaching stars in the college game today. She is intense. She is quick and I swear she talks in sound bites, which must be the biggest part of the reason her players are so pumped to play for her. She is both down-to-earth and otherworldly, clearly in what she would call her zone of genius. She shifts the energy of the room when she walks into it and you know, this is no ordinary woman.

Helping to guide Princeton to unprecedented heights, the 2015 Naismith National Coach of the Year, and named one of Fortune Magazine’s 50 Greatest Leaders, Courtney Banghart will be in her 11th season as head coach of the women’s basketball team in 2017-18. The winningest coach in program history, Banghart has amassed a 208-87 (0.705) overall record with a 113-27 (0.807) mark against Ivy League opponents. [more ...] - http://bit.ly/2j3V4Kl

• Crossfit can help you get used to the fear moment, and go anyway (14:25)
• We are paralyzed more by emotional risks than physical risks (15:40)
• The head and the heart need to have equal voices when making the best decisions (18:35)
• Living through fear allows you to be present, and memorable (20:50)
• Knowing enough vs. caring enough - how only one can help quiet insecurity (22:30)
• We are driven in two ways: driven to success or driven not to fail (29:32)
• Tips on going up against your own success (31:39)
• If you want an interesting relationship, stay in it. (31:58)
• Courtney's list of the most important characteristics of a great leaders (35:30)
• How to coach individuals to become a team (36:15)

• Babies R’Us was her FEAR 101 (2:45)
• When she went from being a bad sport to a good sport (5:29)
• Fear creeps in for young athletes when things start to matter more (7:50)
• How Courtney beat feeling paralyzed by fear during the process of making the biggest decision of her life - going to college (8:35)
• How she tackles insecurity and intimidation by “working through things” (11:40)
• How the allure of getting her Master’s paid for turned into her profession (18:20)
• Why she refused to turn down the possible for fear it wouldn’t work out (21:20)
• How she thought being honored as one of the Fortune 50 Greatest Leaders in the World was her college friend playing a joke (24:14)
• How she showed her team she was ALL IN by passing up opportunity to meet Barack Obama (27:53)
• Why being bone-tired is when Courtney is happiest (33:20)
• How being in the moment led to hitchhiking across Alaska and bungee-jumping in Switzerland (39:30)
• Courtney’s 7-line Basic Pitch (47:00)
• How her childhood vacations - where she could witness her parents “live in action” - helped her and her 2 siblings find their Zone of Genius as adults (48:00)
• Why Courtney wants teenagers to the elderly be ALL IN (51:53)

Mistakes Don't Have to be Setbacks: 3 Ways to be Resilient https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201703/mistakes-dont-have-be-setbacks-3-ways-be-resilient

What is the science behind fear? https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/intense-emotions-and-strong-feelings/201711/the-flavors-everyday-anxiety

3 Ways to Get More – Online Class https://www.getmorebrave.com/pages/get-more-brave

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Princeton Women’s Basketball http://www.goprincetontigers.com/index.aspx?path=wbball

Naismith Award - 2015 NCAA Coach of the Year http://www.ivyleague.com/news/2015/4/7/4_7_2015_2956.aspx?path=wbball

Fortune - 50 Greatest World Leaders (2015) http://fortune.com/worlds-greatest-leaders/2015/

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We are all scared. Dealing with that fear is not about reducing it or trying to eliminate it or tucking it away. It’s about facing it. Brave Your Fear tells the stories of how people are meeting their fear with brave action.