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How to Handle Anything
Mary Lemmer
21 episodes
6 days ago
Welcome to How to Handle Anything, the podcast where we talk about, well, how to handle anything. There’s one certainty in life, and that’s that it’s filled with *uncertainty.* One of the things that helps us navigate chaos and change is the ability to improvise. This podcast is all about how we create, adapt, navigate change, and improvise in our own lives and work, so that we can handle anything. Join us for conversations with entrepreneurs, business leaders, athletes, entertainers, and more about their stories in how they improvised and navigated change in their lives and work.
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Welcome to How to Handle Anything, the podcast where we talk about, well, how to handle anything. There’s one certainty in life, and that’s that it’s filled with *uncertainty.* One of the things that helps us navigate chaos and change is the ability to improvise. This podcast is all about how we create, adapt, navigate change, and improvise in our own lives and work, so that we can handle anything. Join us for conversations with entrepreneurs, business leaders, athletes, entertainers, and more about their stories in how they improvised and navigated change in their lives and work.
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Self-Improvement
Education
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Alice Lemmer on Being in the Moment, Embracing Change, and Mary's Dog
How to Handle Anything
36 minutes 1 second
1 year ago
Alice Lemmer on Being in the Moment, Embracing Change, and Mary's Dog

This week’s episode features Alice Lemmer (aka Mary’s Mom).


Alice Lemmer is a mom, dog whisperer, and volunteer who has brought a pretty awesome improviser into the world (that’s Mary in case that isn’t clear :)


Prior to retiring she worked at places including Edward Jones, the Michigan Disability Rights Coalition, Iorio Gelato, Hotel Information Systems, Lansing Community College, and the American Red Cross. She has a Bachelors of Science in Child Development, Child Psychology, and Spanish from San Diego State University.


During this episode we discuss…


  • What inspired Alice to take an improv class
  • How taking improv classes has helped her in her life
  • Mary’s dog, Magi’s emergency vet visit and how Mary’s mom handled it
  • How Mary’s mom reminds Mary to improvise
  • Improvising as a mom and teaching kids how to accept versus fighting the reality around them
  • Embracing the “scenes we’re in”
  • Children are natural improvisers
  • How to foster more of the ability to improvise as we get older
  • Adapting to new environments, like living in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan after San Diego
  • Embracing change
  • Alice’s “mom-ism” that inspires presence
  • Worrying
  • Balancing caring and concern with presence
  • How improvising has improved her relationship with her adult children 
  • How the world would be better if everyone took improv classes — spoiler: it involves listening!
  • The gift Mary’s mom always asks Mary to get her as a holiday/birthday gift


From Alice, when asked how improv has improved her life offstage, “Improv has improved my mental flexibility and ability to ‘pivot mentally. It has improved my outlook by helping me to ‘see the whole picture’ and choose the perspective that is positive and empowering.”


Connect with Alice on LinkedIn and Facebook.



If you liked what you heard, Subscribe, write a review, tell a friend. If you didn’t like what you heard, well, try again next time. Each episode is different and we’re always improving (see what I did there?!) 


Visit www.chooseimprove.com for resources and ways to improve in your life and work. 

Join us for at chooseimprove.substack.com for weekly improvisations and monthly virtual sessions to practice improvising in your life.

Connect with us on Instagram @chooseimprove and linkedin.chooseimprove.com 

How to Handle Anything
Welcome to How to Handle Anything, the podcast where we talk about, well, how to handle anything. There’s one certainty in life, and that’s that it’s filled with *uncertainty.* One of the things that helps us navigate chaos and change is the ability to improvise. This podcast is all about how we create, adapt, navigate change, and improvise in our own lives and work, so that we can handle anything. Join us for conversations with entrepreneurs, business leaders, athletes, entertainers, and more about their stories in how they improvised and navigated change in their lives and work.