Improving joy & connection with a smile 😀 Want to improv’e your life? Say “yes, and” advance your personal & professional goals with improv chooseimprove.com @chooseimprove 🧭 Entrepreneur since age 13 🤣Improv comedian 🔴TED Speaker 🖊Writer of funny and not funny things 🤦‍♀️Recovering venture capitalist 📖 author of “Straight from the investors mouth” 🦄 former Director at “unicorn” 🖊 illustrator 🍨 Gelato expert 🍅 Food pun aficionado 🧠 mental health advocate 💜Philanthropist 🟦🟨Michigan alum GO BLUE! 🎭 Improv and sketch comedy at The Second City, The Groundlings, UCB 🎤 Standup comedy at The Punchline, The Setup SF, Lady Laughs Comedy Festival, and Gilda Radner’s Laughfest 🧠 Neuroscience at Duke Founder of Improve, improving lives with improv comedy techniques backed by research. It’s fun AND it works! 🤣🧠 Say “yes, and” find me @maryimproves on Instagram & Twitter Other things I want to talk about 🦷 Fascia flossing 🧘‍♀️ Katonah yoga 🐴 Horseback riding 🤕 Vasovagal 🤕 EBV 🐕 🏝 Dog beaches 🌱 Growing food 😴 Parasympathetic nervous system