Pranks I’m Afraid Will Get Lisa David Olson Killed

<p>Business humorist and the author of the new book <a href="https://amzn.to/2PnHYeT"><em>Laughs On Wry: An Improviser's Memoir</em></a>.</p> <p>Show notes: <a href="https://ww.markgraban.com/mistake54">https://ww.markgraban.com/mistake54</a></p> <p>My guest for Episode #54 is <a href="http://lisadavidolson.com/">Lisa David Olson</a> a business humorist and the author of the new book <a href="https://amzn.to/2PnHYeT"><em>Laughs On Wry: An Improviser's Memoir</em></a>. She's an appropriate guest for today, given that it's the first day of National Humor Month.</p> <p>Later this month (April 12th), my guest will be Art Bell — creator of the Comedy Central channel (which is celebrating its 30th anniversary today). I wish I had an entire month of funny guests… but there's two for you.</p> <p>Lisa is a speaker, author, podcaster (“<a href="https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/stranger-connections-lisa-david-olson-IW5HVd8obka/">Stranger Connections</a>“), and creative partner, who loves coffee and pranks! (the exclamation point is hers).</p> <p>In today's episode, Lisa shares her “favorite mistake” of not writing her book earlier because she thought nobody would read it. I think <em>my</em> favorite mistake from the conversation was Lisa talking about a prank at her workplace, a police station, that I'm afraid could get her killed if she repeats it. We talk about those mistakes and topics including:</p> <ul> <li>Why are you afraid of scaring the introverts?</li> <li>Humor as her escape from a traumatic childhood</li> <li>Helping businesses (and individuals) reignite their ideas… and their projects — how?</li> <li>Humor as a connector</li> <li>The risk of making mistakes when trying to use humor at work?</li> <li>What are you doing for fun?</li> <li>Humor as a gift vs something that can be developed?</li> </ul> --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/favorite-mistake/support" rel="payment">https://anchor.fm/favorite-mistake/support</a>