The PlayfuLife Podcast

Title: “Philosophy of Play: Overcoming Perfectionism with Shelly Johnson”

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PLAY YOUR WAY SANE!

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Title: Unlocking Human Potential Through Play and Learning

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The Importance of Play in Early Education:

Guiding Children’s Play:

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Welcome back to The Playfulife Podcast after a two-year pause!

The Playfulife Podcast explores inspiring conversations around play to infuse more joy into your life and relationships, allowing you to savour life fully.

Today’s guest is Krystal Quagliara, I was googling my podcast and found she had one with the same name! I reached out and here we are together talking about play.

Krystal is a playfulness expert in the health and wellness coaching industry. She’s able to help her clients feel ALIVE (Actively Living in Vitality Everyday) and live a life of freedom. She meets them where they are because she understands that none of this comes easy, as her personal health is a choice she has to make daily.

Krystal is also the author of The Playful Journal and the host of her own: The Playful Life podcast. Krystal’s coaching is more than just nutritional plans and exercise. It’s life coaching that incorporates stoic virtues of wisdom, courage, moderation, and social justice with all components working symbiotically.

We delve into the concept of play and its transformative power in our lives.

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Cathy Salit on Play, Sports and Life.

Bring Play Back into Elite Sports Podcast Show Notes [55mins]

This podcast is absolute gold!

Learn how to reach your goals through play and fun. We are all performers suggests Cathy. It’s great to have directions to do something new.

Cathy Salit is a performance activist, social entrepreneur, jazz singer, speaker, executive coach, and theatrical improviser. She’s been a community organizer and radical educator since she was 13 years old, when she dropped out of school and started her own highschool in New York.

Cathy is an incredible powerhouse and great supporter of Play in raising the quality of our lives.

I’m very happy to have her on The PlayfuLife Podcast today.

– I enjoyed your recent article “It’s Time to Bring Play Back Into Elite Sports: I’m With Simone.”

It went away! Pressures and what it takes to be that incredible an athlete. There’s a lot in those environments that isn’t healthy.

Kathy talks about simple alternatives to create a space to bring teams together, they played!

We need play to make it through the difficult times. Please inject some play into competitive sports to make them more livable!

Improvisation is connecting to our surrounding and literally being able to play with it. We are generally terrified of improvisation! Improvisation is freedom.

– What does being able to let go mean to you Cathy? How to develop a greater ability to improvise and how can it improve our lives?

– What is the power of improvisation “Off Stage”?

We go deeper into Embracing Not Knowing. Jumping without a net, speaking without a script. Accept the offers that come at you.

How to cultivate friendships is strongly connected to our ability to play.

Our job in improvisation is to make our partner look good.

– Giving more value to play can raise the quality of our individual lives. The ripple effect is much greater and play increases social connection and can challenge many existing paradigms. Could you talk about this?

Some people say how do you dare to bring play in challenging situations? Kathy responds how can we NOT dare to bring in play? Play is where we find our humanity and unless we can give express humanity in new and different ways we are not going to find new solutions. We are not going to create new possibilities.

– You wrote a book Cathy “Performance Breakthrough: A Radical Approach to Success at Work”. LINK

Rapid fire round

– Can Play save the world?

– Fav 1 or 2 books on play and impro?

– Fav playful film? Being There – Peter Sellers // Mel Brookes – To Be or Not to Be

– What do you do to get you in a playful state?

– Advice for Cathy at 20?

– New projects?

– Where to find you? www.cathysalit.com — Global Play Brigade

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Writing Playfully with Bradley Charbonneau [36mins]

Very happy to have Bradley Charbonneau on the show today!

Bradley is author of 31 books, is a writing coach and author of many programs for authors such as Write Your Worst Book Ever! I met Bradley at the Playful Creative Summit and liked his approach so much I joined in with his program!

It was lots of fun and I also wrote a new book, more on that another time.

Bradley tells us how his playful approach is perfect for anyone with writers block and takes the pressure out of being “perfect” to write with a more authentic voice.

Perfectionism leads us to procrastinate and takes years to not finish a book! If you’ll like to take the frustration out of writing and have more fun with it join us for this enlightening conversation.

Its very important… to have fun with it!

Your best work comes from a lighter place, when you are in the flow. When you are not afraid of failure… and that is the state of play.

https://bradleycharbonneau.com/

– Find the Worst Book Ever 10 day course here:

https://u.repossible.com/p/wbe

Want to live more playfully?

Life Coaching

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The Science of Humour and Laughter

Today’s guest is Stephanie Davies, founder and CEO of Laughology based in the UK.

She has applied her work in a wide variety of settings, from dealing with complex public and mental health issues to building teams in high profile organisations. She is a stand-up comedian and has worked with Patch Adams exploring the relationship between health, humour, community and the arts. Stephanie is author of the book “Laughology” that we talk more about in the show.

Stephany’s mission is to get us all to laugh more.

There are lots of great take aways on in this episode of The Playfulife Podcast.

Find out:

What is the role of laughter and humour in mental health research? Steph tells us a great story about this.

Discover your inner child.

Activate the Power of a smile.

Find more about Laughology’s F.L.I.P model: Focus Language Imagination Pattern Breaking for bring in more humour and laughter in our lives with all the associated benefits.

Curiosity is so important!!!! Not just curious but Playfully Curious!

Thanks for rating and leaving a review!

http://www.laughology.co.uk

Also check out this podcast with Katie Rose White

Want more fun and fulfillment in your life? Get Anthony as your a life coach!

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What Play Persona are you?

Ben Ross writes novels, coaches and helps adults to play, guided by his spirit animal, the flying raccoon. He lives beside a forest on the edge of London.

Ben’s definition of Play:

We all have a unique way of playing. We all play in our own way.

Something may be fun for you though and not for another.

I met Ben Ross at the Counterplay Festival in Denmark in 2018. He has an inspiring blog about play and has put together a great quiz for anyone to find out there Play Persona.

Find out your Play Persona here: http://www.flyingraccoon.com/play-persona-test/

Ben has quite a deep understanding of Play and illustrates the theme of THINGNESS with us (23′).

More than giving a character to an object its realising that if you want to be really good at anything while enjoying your life you’re going to have to start considering the objects around you a bit more! Not just what you think they are but all their qualities and possible uses!

I’m going to add here that a great GRATITUDE practice is to understand how an object came into existence, where it was built…

Great tips on how to find your own special way of playing.

Ben recommends:

Anthony talked about the book, What do you say when you talk to yourself? by Shad Helmstetter

If you like the philosophy take on this episode check out the chat with Maaike the Playful Philosopher

Find more about Ben here:

We end with Ben’s favourite Zoom game that he learned from Willam Zackwood.

Thanks for listening.

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Playful Design with Alyea Sandovar

Dr. Alyea Sandovar is a gamification and play consultant at Tint Hue. She helps established business owners create deeper engagement for their online programs and turn clients into raving fans through gamification. She is also the co-founder of the Playful Creative Summit. A free summit dedicated to adding more play and creativity to the world which launches every year in April. She has a PhD is in Game Production, a Masters in Psychology, a Masters in Human Organizational Systems, and a Bachelor’s in Public Relations and Communication. She has experience with academic institutions, non profits, game studios, corporations and start-ups.

She was inspired to get into games through games she played with her Abuelita Lela in Colombia. Later as a psychotherapist she saw the power of play and games to transform the lives of her clients which led her to her studies in video games.

She believes creating playful products should not be a headache. She considers herself a spiritual being, so she aims to bring love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and determination, to every client project. She loves God, cocoa drinks, traveling, dancing and is a bit obsessed with UFOs and Sci-Fi.

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IG: https://www.instagram.com/tint.hue/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alyeasandovar/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/alyeasandovar

Websites: Playfulcreativesummit.com

Business website; Tinthue.com

Gamefication

There is no “one size fits all” each product will need its one approach.

Essentially if your company doesn’t look after its customers or it’s not really doing a good job. Gamefication isn’t going to do much.

It will just amplify what you do.

Do something good and it will amplify this!

Designing a more playfulife

This is core to our work so we asked Alyea about this.

Find the things you wish you had time for everyday and GO FOR IT!

Reward yourself!

Playfulness gives us an incredible centre, we become fully alive and enter the state of FLOW.

Alyea organises together with David Chislett the PLAYFUL AND CREATIVE SUMMIT 21-26 April 2021.

You will find our host Anthony Trahair at the conference!

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Very happy to Have Leif Hansen on the podcast.

Leif is a playful soul. He knows the transformative power of play and has found a clear way of expressing this to a more general public. (That, as we know, puts play to the end of the day if at all) Leif is a playful facilitator, has held “Lila retreats” that help people choose a better way of playing out their lives, he is now helping businesses bring out the best of themselves to work from a place of Joy.

The aspect of Lilà was something I was very interested in talking to Leif. How do we play out our lives?

Leif has offered Playful Life Podcast listeners a free copy of his “LILA (Divine Play) e-Cards” —request them here   Join Leif and other playful, heart-led visionary catalysts like yourself at TheSparkLife.org -a collective for those interested in growing enriching relationships, meaningful work, deep well-being, courageous creativity & lifelong learning. Or just jump in for the new “Playformation: Test Drive the Future” class series -first drink is free!”

Like many people that have been on the show there is a desire to bring the freedom, creativity, connection, silliness, being in nature and the magic from summer camps to the rest of our lives. If you are going to spend 40-60+ hours a week you’d like it to be meaningful and enjoyable, ideally playful.

There is a false dichotomy between PLAY and WORK.

So we can go to PLWERK – Play-learn-work or Playformation – transformation through play.

– when you are playful you do better work.

LILà – Divine Play – we are the entertainment for the gods or we are the gods in our own play.

Life is lots of suffering – seriousness – joy and Play – embracing the whole.

In a self marriage ceremony Leif vowed to be 100% serious and 100% not serious recognizing that life is a joke.

We are HUM – humble – human and humus! The divine mess :)

We are fixated on our story of reality – let’s knock that story down!

Reality is WEIRD! What the heck is this thing that we are part of?-

Lilà takes the idea of play to the ULTIMATE extreme.

Curiosity going into wonder – wonderosity!

AWKWARD IS THE NEW FUTURE.

Quote: “The truly great advances of this generation will be made by those who can make outrageous connections. And only a mind that knows how to play can do that”. Nagle Jackson

Book: Why Right Brainers Will Rule the World: Dan Pink

5 points for Leif’s work on https://www.thesparklife.org/

From thesparklife website:

We are a professional development, lifestyle and personal growth oriented collective primarily made up of emerging facilitators, teachers, coaches, presenters, leaders and other visionary catalysts who are passionate about fully enjoying our lives while engaging in meaningful service to others.

89% of us love travel, 93% of us love chocolate, 76% of us have a mindfulness practice, 67% of us dance in our underwear, and 1 guy only showers weekly.

Is achieving those bold beautiful goals attractive and aligned with your own vision and values? If so, please consider joining us, we’d love to help you level up and to add your unique magic to our mix! Read on or choose a plan at the bottom of the page.

Trying to run your own business or professional practice can be extremely liberating, fulfilling and meaningful, yet it can also be discouraging, lonely, stressful and full of overwhelming challenges.

In addition, as a change agent you’ve likely found that it can be tricky to practice what you preach regarding living a robust, balanced and fulfilling life.  (If so, don’t worry, it’s way more common than you might think!)

We believe that there are three primary challenges usually responsible for a lack of life and business momentum.  We’ve built the Spark Life collective as a solution to each of them. You may find that you relate to 1 or all 3…

While nobody ever feels a 100% daily life-satisfaction, and sometimes life can be extremely challenging and disappointing, it is essential (and feels awesome) to be part of a caring community where you can receive (and give) support regarding staying resilient, aligned and activated in moving towards your most ideal life.   It is equally essential to have a structure of supportive opportunities -classes, coaching, co-working, creative content, celebrations and more -to help keep you actively moving forward towards your dreams.

Thanks for reading, listening, commenting and sharing!!!!

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