This Moved Me

048: Jane Leyden Cavanaugh – On the Connection Between Humor and Truth

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On this week’s This Moved Me, I talk with Jane Leyden Cavanaugh – speaker, improviser, comedian – and spiritual guide. Yes, that’s right – Jane is a hilarious prophet. So, we dove in to talk about the important connection between the truth and the funny.   In the show we talked about:  Jane’s time at the Groundlings – learning what funny really is When she finds the true in the funny – building her prophetic voice The importance of vulnerability in this work The power of imagery – inspired by Parker Palmer’s Let Your Life Speak And the realization that we have to find our wisdom and insight by doing the work ourselves.   TMM MOMENTS: Jane: This powerful quote by George Bernard Shaw: “This is the true joy in life – being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a might one; being thoroughly worn out before you are throw on to scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances.”   This quote has inspired Jane’s purpose to speak with a prophetic voice – a