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Do you feel the energy around you? Do you know how different energies affect you? Would you like to get in touch with the energy of gratitude? Energy is something most of us can't see, but we can feel. In this episode Leslie Meisel Ellis, a reiki practitioner, actor and teacher of the creative arts, discusses the importance of energy in our lives and walks us through a beautiful guided meditation for connecting with the high vibration of gratitude. This episode is the perfect remedy to calm your mind and relax your body, so you can truly feel the energy of gratitude and feel blessed and alive!
My dear friend, Leslie Meisel, joins me this week in the diner. She is an actor who has appeared on Broad City, RISE, Difficult People, and a director. Recently she has also become a practicing reiki master! We talked about whether you should order steak at a diner and a fun quirk about her related to Grease 2. I loved hearing about how Leslie's acting dreams started and the mental ups and downs of trying to pursue it. We then reminisced about one of the most random jobs either of us has ever had when we worked for The Ride in Times Square. We then shifted to a powerful talk about Leslie's transition from doing more acting/directing work to doing more spiritual and healing work. Leslie now does Reiki and I had no idea what that is so I got an education! What a beautiful, funny, and sincere episode; please enjoy it with a side of fries! About the Guest: Leslie Meisel is a Certified Reiki Practitioner (attuned by Joan Volpe PH.D, Reiki Master, Shaman). She is also an actor, writer, director, teacher and in college worked at a bowling alley thinking it would be exactly like Grease 2*..........................it wasn't. Leslie came to discover Reiki through her own healing journey about 10 years ago when working with Joan. Once she saw the benefits of this method in her own life, learning the art became a wonderful passion and mission to assist others in achieving healing in their own lives. As far as the acting/directing/writing part of Leslie's life, she was previously co-host of the monthly show COUPLES SKATE at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre NY, a cast member on the UCB house team CHARACTERS WELCOME (Season 1 & 2). On screen, Leslie has worked with Ed Burns, Michael Imperioli, Dane DeHaan, and appeared on the NBC show RISE, Difficult People, Broad City, Netflix's The Characters, and the feature film Bachelorette (w/Rebel Wilson & Kirsten Dunst). As a director, she has worked on many shows at the UCB Theatre, including AzN Pop!: Live in Concert!, All In Favor, United Federation of Teachers with Natasha Vaynblatt (IFC, Funny or Die, McSeeney's), co-directed Stone Cold Fox: Sexy Idiots with Aaron Burdette, (Man Seeking Woman, The Onion), several Maude sketch teams, co-director/writer of He Said She Said with Kate Riley-Zelensky (MTV, Two Guys Named Josh) and worked with Bridge & Tunnel‘s staged show for Montreal's Just For Laughs Festival (Kristen Bartlett; Full Frontal with Samantha Bee). *Leslie is one of many "Martys" who always wanted to be a "Rizzo"... which is why she may think that Grease 2 is MUCH better than Grease. Connect with Leslie and learn more: http://www.lesliemeisel.com/ (http://www.lesliemeisel.com)(website) https://www.instagram.com/meiselleslie/ (@meiselellis) (Instagram) https://www.northportwellnesscenter.com/practitioner/leslie-ellis-reiki (https://www.northportwellnesscenter.com/practitioner/leslie-ellis-reiki) (reiki) About the Host: Friends! Here's a somewhat stuffy bio of me: I am an author, professional speaker, coach, host, and entrepreneur. My first book, Leading Imperfectly: The value of being authentic for leaders, professionals, and human beings, is available wherever people buy books. I speak internationally to willing and unwilling attendees about authenticity, vulnerability, and leadership. My clients include American Express, General Electric (GE), Accenture, Yale University, The Ohio State University, and many others. As a speaker, I am doing the two things I loves the most: making people think and making people laugh! I host my own events multiple times a year. They are 2-day events called Living Imperfectly Live (and sometimes they are 1-day virtual events). They are a space where humans from every walk of life can come together to be part of a community on the pursuit of badassery. The goal is to help attendees start living the life we say we want
HEY GANG! As a special season two bonus episode, we are dropping the COMPLETE conversation we had with Brian Wecht and Leighton Gray of Leighton Night!!! This - like most of our guest eps - would only be available to our Patreon subscribers, but we LOVED this episode and this talk we had so much, we're dropping the whole ep to everybody for free. Enjoy! And thanks for listening. Oh podcasting, will, animation cells, Captain Crunch, inheritance, nerd stuff, collectibles, records, comics, antiques, valuing old stuff, Funko pop, Beanie Babies, ebay, Image comics, spiderman, the ‘Nam comic, Amazing Stories “Gather Ye Acorns,” 30 Rock, Apollo Apollo, how we know each other, UCB Theater, Kurt Braunohler, Ninja Sex Party, Neutrino improv, Leslie Meisel, horror, 30 rock lines, The Office renaissance, Brian Baumgartner, Kevin Malone, cameo, relationship sweet moments versus plain comedy, Jack Donaghy, Taxi, horror scores ambient sound, Infocom text adventure games, He-Man action figures, on card action figures, Bob the Goon, Dragon magazine, purging collections, collecting compulsion, commoditize everything- social media, podcasts, any free time, Masters of Horror, watching everything, reading everything, Fringe, starstruck, Mads Mikkelsen, Hannibal, media diet, CSI, Manhunter, Criterion collection, Brian Cox, Anthony Hopkins, Cannon Canon, Tough Guys Don't Dance, David Cronenberg, Crash, Phil Hale, Empire of the Sun, J.G. Ballard, The Sopranos, intervention episode, Parks and Rec, A Quiet Place, Alicia Wit, Dune, Stevie Van Zandt, Scorcese, therapy, Netflix, Lilyhammer, New Jersey, comforting accents, memories, Carolina, NYC pride, LA shame, LA film sites, David Lynch, Rough House, Halloween, Pig, Nicolas Cage, anxiety, being present, mindfulness, self worth, self love, breaking up with your phone, social media feelings, twitter, shame, 12 step for social media, Kenan Thompson, David Ortiz, depression, shame for feeling feelings, validation outside one's self, self-loathing, reconsidering considering, criticism for taste, truth is not black or white, false humility, liberal shaming, chan online cruelty, movie reviews, critic journalist personalities, Pixar morals, fluidity of personal truth, online recipes, Hunter S Thompson, book adaptations, Altered States, Carlos Castaneda, Time Life Mysteries of the Unknown, What's Poppin, binary thinking, tolerating complexity, cannot logic out of life, sleep, beanie baby divorce. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/whatsthatfrom)
Oh podcasting, will, animation cells, Captain Crunch, inheritance, nerd stuff, collectibles, records, comics, antiques, valuing old stuff, Funko pop, Beanie Babies, ebay, Image comics, spiderman, the ‘Nam comic, Amazing Stories “Gather Ye Acorns,” 30 Rock, Apollo Apollo, how we know each other, UCB Theater, Kurt Braunohler, Ninja Sex Party, Neutrino improv, Leslie Meisel, horror, 30 rock lines, The Office renaissance, Brian Baumgartner, Kevin Malone, cameo, relationship sweet moments versus plain comedy, Jack Donaghy, Taxi, horror scores ambient sound, Infocom text adventure games, He-Man action figures, on card action figures, Bob the Goon, Dragon magazine, purging collections, collecting compulsion, commoditize everything- social media, podcasts, any free time, Masters of Horror, watching everything, reading everything, Fringe, starstruck, Mads Mikkelsen, Hannibal, media diet, CSI, Manhunter, Criterion collection, Brian Cox, Anthony Hopkins, Cannon Canon, Tough Guys Don't Dance, David Cronenberg, Crash, Phil Hale, Empire of the Sun, J.G. Ballard, The Sopranos, intervention episode, Parks and Rec, A Quiet Place, Alicia Wit, Dune, Stevie Van Zandt, Scorcese, therapy, Netflix, Lilyhammer, New Jersey, comforting accents, memories, Carolina, NYC pride, LA shame, LA film sites, David Lynch, Rough House, Halloween, Pig, Nicolas Cage, anxiety, being present, mindfulness, self worth, self love, breaking up with your phone, social media feelings, twitter, shame, 12 step for social media, Kenan Thompson, David Ortiz, depression, shame for feeling feelings, validation outside one's self, self-loathing, reconsidering considering, criticism for taste, truth is not black or white, false humility, liberal shaming, chan online cruelty, movie reviews, critic journalist personalities, Pixar morals, fluidity of personal truth, online recipes, Hunter S Thompson, book adaptations, Altered States, Carlos Castaneda, Time Life Mysteries of the Unknown, What's Poppin, binary thinking, tolerating complexity, cannot logic out of life, sleep, beanie baby divorce. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/whatsthatfrom)
When a sitcom star is contacted by his long-lost relatives, he discovers that gaining a new family is a lot more than he bargained for. Written by David Ebert. Performed by David Ebert, Julia Kelly, David Koechner, Mark Gessner, Leslie Meisel, Amy Warren, Tom Stephens and Amanda Hunt. The Truth Instagram Twitter
When a sitcom star is contacted by his long-lost relatives, he discovers that gaining a new family is a lot more than he bargained for. Written by David Ebert. Performed by David Ebert, Julia Kelly, David Koechner, Mark Gessner, Leslie Meisel, Amy Warren, Tom Stephens and Amanda Hunt. The Truth Instagram Twitter
Joanna thought she was prepared for her new baby. But the baby has plans of her own. Written by Marina Tempelsman Performed by Ann Carr, Erica Schroeder, David Ebert, Katie Hartman, Louis Kornfeld, Leslie Meisel, Erica Hernandez, Ariel Gitlin, Boris Khaykin, and Tallie Medel. The Truth Instagram Twitter
Joanna thought she was prepared for her new baby. But the baby has plans of her own. Written by Marina Tempelsman Performed by Ann Carr, Erica Schroeder, David Ebert, Katie Hartman, Louis Kornfeld, Leslie Meisel, Erica Hernandez, Ariel Gitlin, Boris Khaykin, and Tallie Medel. The Truth Instagram Twitter
Joanna thought she was prepared for her new baby. But the baby has plans of her own. Written by Marina Tempelsman Performed by Ann Carr, Erica Schroeder, David Ebert, Katie Hartman, Louis Kornfeld, Leslie Meisel, Erica Hernandez, Ariel Gitlin, Boris Khaykin, and Tallie Medel. The Truth Instagram Twitter
Myq hangs out with Lizz Winstead and Leslie Meisel on the KATG Network
Myq's 10 minute satellite with Lizz Winstead and Leslie Meisel
All across the nation, people are pouring a glass of that cold white stuff and drinking it down. This week, we'll sit down to chat with Commerce Banks, the man with the world's strongest bones. He has an interesting story, you'll definitely want to hear. After that, we'll talk with a very tiny, young girl who has been stricken with one of the most severe cases of lactose intolerance ever recorded, Gammy Flash-droids. Of course, we'll dive head first into the twitter trends and our nation's headlines, and we'll once again be paid a visit by our good friend, Hank Schlitz, aka The Befuddler. All that and more, plus music from the Foo Fighters. This week, on America Won't Shut Up! This week's episode stars Jim Santangeli (twitter.com/jimsantangeli) and Leslie Meisel (twitter.com/lesliemeisel). Hopefully, you already know who these two are, but if not, we recommend typing their names into your search engine of choice. You won't be disappointed.