Welcome to Serendipity Soup! The antidote to celebrity success podcasts.

This month's guest is Chris Grimes. Chris talks eloquently about what it means to be a motivational comedian; the phrase coined by a friend to try to describe what on earth it is that Chris spends all day doing. It means he’s an actor, a teacher, a trainer, a comedy improviser and a coach.  

He and I first met on a training course, where he was role playing a person I was having trouble dealing with at work. Over lunch we hit it off and before I knew it I’d volunteered to help him make a short comedy film.  We cover a lot of ground, but the main things I took away from my time chatting with Chris were his positive ‘can do’ mentality – or ‘yes, and’ mentality as it’s known in the comedy improvisation world he inhabits – and his sense of being calm, self-aware and confident without being arrogant. I hope you find the same.  

Links to all the many interesting things Chris mentions in the episode are below in case you’d like to pursue them further.

• Chris's website: https://www.chrisgrimes.uk/
• Scroll down to Chris’s newsfeed and on the second row you’ll find the comedy short we worked on. It’s called ‘Knock Knock’.
• Chris's improv comedy show: https://instantwit.co.uk/
• Second Curve: https://secondcurve.uk/
• The book, 'The Second Curve: Thoughts on Reinventing Society' by Charles Handy: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/23346846-the-second-curve
• Adam Grant: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adammgrant/
• Dave Cornthwaite and 'Say Yes More': https://davecornthwaite.com/sayyesmore
• Chris's podcast, 'The Good Listening To https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-good-listening-to-the-story-behind-your-story-show/id1535342326
• Pixar's film 'Soul': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_(2020_film)
• 'Freddie Flintoff: Hidden Side Of Sport'. Sadly not available on iPlayer though. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019gbpk
• The Daily Stoic: https://dailystoic.com/
• Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
• The ‘dolphin model’: https://thecodecleaner.medium.com/something-on-the-dolphin-model-f141e9c4e56b

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