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Frank began his media career in writing and production at SNL.  He's won 30+ awards for writing/producing comedy videos for HBO, Showtime, CBS, PBS, Comedy Central and more. He launched the world’s first mobile comedy channel, featured on the front pages of Forbes, the LA Times, and in the Wall Street Journal and the NY Times. Former Adjunct Professor in Web Video at USC, UCLA and Chapman University. Certified Humor Professional through the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor.

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Doug Fletcher Lifetime Achievement Award

We reposted the very first Laughbox episode to honor Chip Lutz as the recipient of the lifetime achievement award in 2023

Thank you, Chip!  

Are you wondering about AATH? This is a brief descriptive episode about the Association of Applied and Therapeutic Humor and the pilot episode of Laughbox! 

The Doug Fletcher Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to either a member or non-member in recognition of his or her

• Dedication and service to AATH, and/or
• A significant contribution to the understanding and application of humor and/or laughter over an entire career with a definable body of work through one or more of the following: speaking, teaching/training, research, publications, and professional practice.

Stay Tuned for new episodes starting in June!

Sending a big thank you to all the organizers of the 2023 conference in Mesa, Arizona! What an amazing experience!

https://www.aath.org/

If you have ideas about how we can fund this podcast, please send an email to:

info@aath.org

Join Jim-Bob Williams and Katy BEE as they chronicle the 2023 AATH Conference with first hand interviews, sounds from the actual conference and some opportunities to giggle and guffaw! 

Hear about some of the keynote speakers, breakout rooms and takeaways from this year's conference!

For images and more info about the conference head to 

https://www.aath.org/

https://www.facebook.com/healthyhumor

Carla H Brown is a dynamic force for laughter, levity and joy on the planet! A self-proclaimed, recovering serious person, Carla chose to seek out more joy, after experiencing an auto-immune illness, which left her temporarily paralyzed. This slowing down gave her the opportunity to be fully present with the fear, worry, self-hatred and suffering going on in her mind, affecting her body. The experience gave her a passion and joy for living life to its fullest, knowing that life can turn on a dime.

The intention of her company, Living From Joy Coaching and Training, is to offer practices and tools to cultivate more joy in the body and less fear.

Through her grief counseling, she offers opportunities to welcome the disowned parts of oneself that become emotionally abandoned and rejected, through the hardships of life.

She calls this Emotional Hygiene, encouraging her students and clients to meet the cast out parts, tend to the grief, embrace the darkness and step into greater embodiment of love and joy, while releasing the habit of fear. 

As a joy coach, grief counselor, health advocate and transformational teacher, Carla  offers therapeutic, dynamic and fun in-person and online events, trainings and workshops, focusing on cultivating more joy, authenticity and connection within. 

She facilitates weekly online laughter classes, GriefYoga®, and the popular Joy Reboot, as well as working with clients one-on-one to liberate fear and embody more joy.

Her next class series, due out later this summer, offers group support for those going through health challenges, to cultivate more joy and resiliency. Her infectious laughter and humorous spin on life’s transitions will leave you giggling with delight! 

https://www.facebook.com/carlajoygirl

https://www.instagram.com/laughterjoycoach/

https://livingfromjoy.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUrKyn8DnetRfQgAueGHwOA/videos

https://linktr.ee/laughterjoycoach

Robin Phoenix Johnson

President, HEAL*ARIOUS, Founder Best Medicine Brigade

After more than 20 years of military service, Lieutenant Colonel Robin  Johnson, USA, Ret., discovered her new mission in improving people, organizations, and communities with humor.

• Level II Certified Humor Professional (Association for the Applied & Therapeutic Use of Humor
• Comedy Bootcamp Instructor, Armed Services Arts Partnership
• Volunteer at Charleston VA Hospital 
• HEAL*ARIOUS programs facilitator
• Stand-up Comedian/Voted Best Charleston Comic 2022
• Motivational Speaker
• CEO, Best Medicine Brigade
• Executive Producer
• Manager for Ashley Gutermuth

https://healarious.org/

https://bestmedicinebrigade.com/

https://www.facebook.com/bestmedicinebrigade/

https://www.instagram.com/bestmedicinebrigade/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-johnson790/

Izzy Gesell is an “organizational alchemist” who helps people navigate their internal logjams
and emerge more confident, spontaneous and effective. Through keynotes, workshops and
coaching sessions, Izzy delivers meaningful material in an enjoyable way. His unique
approach to personal and organizational development is rooted at the intersection of Improv,
Facilitation and Coaching.
Among the first to use Improv Theater concepts as tools for personal and organizational
learning, he is the author of “Playing Along: Group Learning Activities Borrowed From
Improvisation Theater,” Instructional Moments: Facilitating with Applied Improv The
Resilient Caregiver: A Path to Manage Stress & Change Through Humor & Play & a co-
author of Humor Me: America’s Funniest Humorists on the Power of Laughter,
His video course for LinkedIn Learning, “Leading With Applied Improv,” was their first on the
topic and their first shot as a live-action workshop. His other LinkedIn courses are “Humor in
the Workplace” and “Building Your Team.”
Izzy has earned the CSP (Certifed Speaking Professional) designation from National
Speakers Association. Less than 15% of NSA 4,000 members are CSPs. He also has a BA in
Psychology, an MS in Education and a P…. that’s 1/3 of a PhD.
Offer for Listeners: Use coupon code 15offreads for 15% off any book in my shop:
Let’s Connect!
Linkedin Izzy Gesell
Facebook IzzyG & Co
Twitter: @improvizzy

Kate McGlynn, aka Katy BEE is a first year Humor Academy student with AATH and the founder of a new Non-profit Joy First Foundation - https://www.joyfirst.org/ - which is dedicated to bringing, evoking, creating, and offering joy to all living beings. Joyful Moments are online and in-person spontaneous moments appreciating and being grateful to others with standing ovations, surveys, gifts, like noses, kazoos, awards, certificates, and more. Joy FIrst also offers donated clown visits to organizations supporting families, and kids in need, like senior centers, shelters, police stations, veterans services, and random people because EVERYONE needs a Moment of Joy. The Tour of Joy is ongoing and you can support the tour as spontaneous moments are being offered from her trailer, on the road, or with Joy Ambassadors. You can also be a host, or a joy ambassador and collaborate with Joy First Foundation. She also offers Laughter Yoga, Juggling and Hula Hoop Shows, Joy Coaching and more!

Scroll down for all the Joy First Links to Follow

I am living proof that the application of applied and therapeutic humor can help to heal the mind, body and soul!
At the age of 60, while feeling depressed, physically unwell and living in a new state, I needed to find ways to be of service and to find joy - seemingly an impossible situation to change having a negative mind set.
And then I found Laughter Yoga!

Forget flying, invisibility or teleportation – the best superpower to covet is humor. Jennifer Keith’s superpower has been and always will be humor – in many forms.

As a certified Humor Professional and current president of the international Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor, Jennifer discovered the brain remembers two things – trauma and humor. Using her G.R.I.T. method of using humor to process trauma and loss, Jennifer finds ways to fix the funny bone and find the funny faster when surrounded by disappointing and upsetting events. If your brain is remembering the difficult times anyway, why not cushion them with a little bit of light, levity, and laughter?

Jennifer has degrees in English, journalism, theatre, technology, and educational leadership, proving that she doesn’t want to nor should any of us grow up or stop learning. This published author and newly-TEDx’d speaker encourages you to take funny bone breaks – integrating humor into daily life, career, and family situations which can transform situations from barely tolerable to memorably positive. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferjkeith/

https://www.facebook.com/jenniferjkeithauthor/

Fixingthefunnybone.com

Jenniferjkeith.com

Daughter - E.G. Keith - age 12, author of Havoc and Serenity in The Magics series

egkeith.com