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About Your Host

Holly Shaw, Certified Hypnotherapist  is a performance coach, creativity researcher and stand up comedian.  Growing up in Indianapolis, IN she convinced her parents she needed to go to Chicago to get her own agent and has spent a lifetime in film, T.V. and on professional stages all over the world as an actor, dancer, and director.

Spending the last 20 years in the San Francisco Bay Area, making art and learning the art of healing, she now works as a Creativity Coach and a Certified Hypnotherapist and has helped hundreds of artists, from Emmy award winning and Grammy nominated artists to world class choreographers overcome their anxiety, stage fright, impostor syndrome, and creative blocks so that they can create original work and totally crush it onstage again and again without feeling like they're selling out or losing their sanity.

In 2016, Shaw wrote and released her book, The Creative Formula: Compose, Choreograph, and Capture Your Masterpiece  which has become an Amazon bestseller.  In 2018 she launched the Performers & Creators Lab podcast which was named one of 2019's most outstanding podcasts by Databird Research. She teaches regularly at the SAG/AFTRA offices in L.A. and SF and runs creative laboratory workshops like the Comedy Lab Open Mic and is the producer of The Comedy Edge live stand-up show on the waterfront in Oakland where she lives. Follow her on Instagram to stay up to date: @hollyshawspritely

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