Chris Grimes
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<p>Welcome to Serendipity Soup! The antidote to celebrity success podcasts. </p><br><p>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. </p><br><p>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. </p><br><p>Links to all the many interesting things Chris mentions in the episode are below in case you’d like to pursue them further.</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Chris's website: <a href="https://www.chrisgrimes.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.chrisgrimes.uk/</a></li><li>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’.</li><li>Chris's improv comedy show: <a href="https://instantwit.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://instantwit.co.uk/</a></li><li>Second Curve: <a href="https://secondcurve.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://secondcurve.uk/</a></li><li>The book, 'The Second Curve: Thoughts on Reinventing Society' by Charles Handy: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/23346846-the-second-curve" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/23346846-the-second-curve</a></li><li>Adam Grant: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/adammgrant/" rel="noopener noreferrer" t
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