#73 Erin Diehl: The Fail-fluencer Behind The Business of Joy—Laughing Through Limbo — Part Two
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What is Erin Diehl's background and journey?
Hi, everyone. Welcome to our show, Chief Change Officer. I'm Vince Chan, your ambitious human host. Our show is a modernist community for change progressives in organizational and human transformation from around the world. Today's guest is Erin Deal, founder and CEO of Improve It, a company that uses improv to help teams grow and thrive. Like me, she's also a top podcast host. From a young age, Erin dreamed of becoming a talk show host. Why did she choose that path? And how did her journey lead her to combine improv and business? I told Erin, you are in the business of joy. But beyond joy, we also talked about failure. Erin calls herself a fail-flu-lancer. a blend of failure and influence.
This two-part series dives into her unique approach to joy, failure, growth, and learning. No more waiting. Let's get started. I understand one of your key workshops focuses on failure, and you even coined the term Bellfluencers, a blend of failure and influencers. I'd love to dive into this topic, but from a personal perspective, could you share your own experiences with failure? Not so much the workshops you facilitate or the lessons you teach, but your personal journey. How you've dealt with, navigated, and grown from failure over time. If you like, feel free to share specific stories and give us an overview of your journey with failure. Either way works.
yeah so this is actually a keynote that i do called f words at work and there's no swearing vents okay there's no swearing spoiler alert the f words are all about failure plus the frequency of failure equals the fundamentals of success and truly the reason i even created this is because i was living a crash course myself in failure I created this content in 2021 and it was coming off of the pandemic in 2020. I'm sure you can remember. I'm sure our listeners can remember where they were in March of 2020 because it was a global pandemic, right? No matter where you were in the world, you were affected by COVID-19. And so at that time, myself, I was going through a period of time, which I call the three P's.
And I could also call them the three PUs because it was the stinkiest period of my life. I had just delivered and had given birth to a miracle baby boy. And when I say miracle, then it's a miracle. There was a lot of science involved, if you will. My husband and I went through many years of infertility. We also had a shared genetic mutation. And It was a really long battle to conceive our son.
What are the three P's of Erin's experience with failure?
And he had just been born in July of 2019. And so I came back to work in December of 2019. And then at about two months of work, when T-double hockey broke loose and as a business started to pivot and pivot. So my first P was pivoting. And we were pivoting so much. I was legit pivoting. Taking everything that we had done in person, this completely in-person, completely face-to-face, completely human-to-human professional development company had to become completely virtual overnight in order to survive. And so on top of being a new mom and figuring that out, I was perpetually pivoting our business, which led to my second P, which is people-pleasing, which... is a pattern I've had my whole life. I grew up moving around a lot. And so how I got people to like me was being a giver and a pleaser. And I also used comedy as some of the mechanisms I used to please people. I was the person that was the clown, right? That walked in and made you laugh. And in 2020, I really saw this pattern take over.
How does Erin define her 'WTF' moments?
And I was at the time giving to this newborn miracle who was my son. I was giving to my family and my mom who was recovering from a stroke, by the way. I was giving to my team who was fearful for their jobs. I was giving to my peers who are small business owners who were closing their doors, laying off their staff. I was giving to my clients. and helping them navigate these contracts that we had with them and how to figure out our next steps. But I was truly giving and giving to everyone except myself, which led to the third P, which was pain. And I'm not talking about, ouch, I stubbed my toe type pain.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is Erin Diehl's background and journey?
0:11–4:15
2
What are the three P's of Erin's experience with failure?
4:15–5:29
3
How does Erin define her 'WTF' moments?
5:29–9:01
4
What is the significance of failure in personal growth?
9:01–11:18
5
How can we transform failure into wisdom?
11:18–13:34
6
What practical advice does Erin give for managing pain and failure?
13:34–17:03
7
What is the mind-body connection in the context of healing?
17:03–18:47
8
How can listeners apply Erin's methodology in their lives?
18:47–22:56
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