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🎞️ 2023 Filmapalooza International Film Festi

🎞️ 2023 Filmapalooza International Film Festival - my heart is still bursting with joy 🥹♥️ Beyond grateful to the Strong Sevens team for always believing in me and inviting me to bring your films to life on screen. To make it this far and soooo close to Cannes is a feat!!! 🏆 THANK YOU especially to my newfound besties from San Diego, Nova Scotia, Scotland, and South Africa who adopted me as a sole attendee into what we made our own little family 😭 The fact that we are already collaborating on new work together just shows the beauty of what this event is all about – finding your people & making magic together.

CONGRATS to all the teams who made it from all over the globe and THANK YOU @48hourfilmproject!!! We’ll be back 😉🎬🌎

#48postingpalooza #film #shortfilm #actor #actorlife #writer #womeninfilm #losangeles

[Part 1] A Millennial walks into a chiropractor’

[Part 1] A Millennial walks into a chiropractor’s office…

(First time telling this bit, don’t hate)

#standup #standupcomedy #comedy #millennials #genz #chiropractor #30af #30s #womenincomedy

Some fun snippets from the 48 Hour Film Project we

Some fun snippets from the 48 Hour Film Project we shot last summer, “Natural Selection” 🏕️ Written & directed by Spencer Knott & @kevinmnoonan. My castmates’ comedic genius came through in so many other highlight-worthy scenes but alas, I am obligated to share the parts in which a casting director said I look “absolutely adorable” with “baby cheeks that could take Hollywood by storm” (ok she didn’t say that second part but let’s be real, these cheeks could store enough acorns for a winter and no A-list actress can say the same amirite 🐿️) Anywho, enjoy!!

P.S. This work won us Best Picture Runner-Up, Best Director, Best Cast Ensemble, Best Supporting Actress (🙋‍♀️), Best Supporting Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Costume Design, Best Sound Design, and Audience Choice. As always, I’m darn shucks proud to work with this amazing winning team over and over. Thank you for always trusting in me and one another 🥲

#shortfilm #48hourfilmproject #actor #actorslife #comedyshort #comedy

Thaaank you all for the birthday wishes. Not every

Thaaank you all for the birthday wishes. Not every trip around the sun gets to be a stupendous year, but YOOO THIS PAST YEAR F’N ROCKED MY SOCKS OK 🔥🧦🎸

Of course there’s always bad with the good & vice versa. Don’t let these little squares fool anyone that it hasn’t been challenging. What I can share is that God’s provision has been eminent throughout. It’s like all the s***** things still get orchestrated into something beautiful and for that, I am in constant awe.

Gratitude is an understatement for every memory with every human this past birthday year. Here’s just a few that stand out 🤠
- 🌎 Stayed in 16 cities, 13 of those in 3 months as part of the nomad adventure with THE best travel partner ever @srirachaforall along w/guest appearances from @good.knight.sarah hehe💃🏻 (oh man I’m so behind on recap posts 🥴)
- Blessed as an auntie AGAIN 💙👶🏽
- Stopped spreading myself so thin with people and cultivated the deeper friendships I’ve always wanted 😌
- 🎤 Made a few exceptions to my 1.5-year long stand-up comedy hiatus: having the honor to host my first theater show for the hilarious @jrdguz in MN; opening for @williemacc & @virzitriplets at HOC; performing at @comedystorelj (thanks to your encouragement @officialnickbk); and with @mateenstewart where I met so many of my new LA friends. Thank you, guys 🥹
- 9 weddings 🎊 Congrats y’all!!!
- 7 unplanned months living with my madre that wound up being the most special time we’ve ever shared ❤️ (including her 70th in NYC!!🗽)
- 5 award-winning short films w/the best & kindest crews 🎥
- 3 work productions w/ @monoagency spanning TV, Social, CGI/VO that I’m so immensely proud of and get to be shared with the world soon!!! 🎬
- 1 inaugural family trip up north! 🌲
- 1 girls birthday trip to AZ 🏜️
- 1 incident of getting our SUV stuck sideways in a ditch atop a snowy mountain close to dusk with no cell phone signal and learning life be like dat sometimes 🏔️
- Relocated to LA 🌴

Whew. I love unpredictability. Excited for the unknown ahead 🕶️

#nomadlife #travel #intention #godisgood #standup #comedy #acting #actorlife #setlife #filmmaking #gratitude #losangelesactors #lacomedy

🏆 WE DID IT — WE’RE A TOP 15 FINALIST! WE’RE GOING TO FILMAPALOOZA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL! 🎉 (Where the Top 8 go to CANNE freaking FILM FESTIVAL! 🎞️)

As if the honor of being involved in this crew’s magic wasn’t enough, they had yours truly play the lead role. 🥲 (Playing someone smarter than I’ll ever be — a doctor)

The competition was fierce, to the tune of 70 total global submissions, all of which had been Best Picture Winners or Runner-Ups in past 48 Hour Film Projects in their respective region or country. But we did it, and even “we” sounds selfish because I owe it all to the Strong Sevens team:
• Directors & Writers Spencer Knott and Kevin Noonan @kevinmnoonan
• Producers Sam @itssambr0 & Ben Brodsky @_benbrodsky of Brodsky Productions @brodskyproductions
• Cinematographer Jay Chase-Jacobus
• and the dozens of other folks who helped in those 48 beautiful hours — everything from lighting to set design to homemade lasagna, chili, and cookies (S/O Mama Brodsky) — you are all gems. Complete and udder gems. And last but not least, my lovely on-screen partners-in-crime:
• Dante Jamar Pirtle @dantejamarisfocused
• Ernest Howard @e.nosense
• Along with John Edel, Joe Facente @joe_facente, Natasha Brownlee, Sonya Barthel @_sonyaaab_, and of course your creators, Spencer & Kevin.

Please send us your positive vibes that we advance to Cannes and as always, thank you everyone for your constant encouragement and support, and THANK YOU to this team. 🤍

#Film #acting #filmapalooza #actorslife #twincities #bts #yeswecannes

Thank you @wendymay for capturing these new actor

When your madre turns 70, you plan a trip to New Y

When your madre turns 70, you plan a trip to New Yahk! 🗽🌇 🚕🍾🎉 We had such a blast and I will cherish these memories forever. There’s 248 trip photos & videos on my phone so enjoy these 10 and know that we frolicked through:

- Central Park 🌳
- Rockefeller Plaza ⛸️
- Broadway (5th row at Almost Famous which was INCREDIBLE) 🎭
- Rooftop restaurants 🍝
- The Planetarium, my fav!! 🪐
- American Museum of Natural History 🦕🐘🦋
- Front row at the @comedycellarusa where I saw one of the best lineups of my life!!! You better believe we were picked on 😂 and also flirted with 🤔
- Times Square (one of my all-time most viewed stories was how the guy’s buttcrack got immortalized in the photo)🍑
- Empire State Building 🛕
- 9/11 Museum 🇺🇸😔
- Not Central Park where we ate the world’s largest (and stalest) pretzel 🥨
- St. Patrick’s Cathedral ⛪️
- In general the streets where we caused a ruckus wherever we went, as a good mother/daughter couple should 😎

Grateful for a madre like you 🥲 Cheers to your best decade yet!!! ✨

#newyork #nyc #motherdaughter #birthdaytrip #belatedpost

Happy Friday, we’re less than a week till Thanks

Happy Friday, we’re less than a week till Thanksgiving when you get to unite with your siblings and reminisce on all the beautiful memories together 🧍🧍‍♂️💃🏻 I dare you to share your best sibling comebacks 🗣️😆

#standup #comedy #standupcomedy #siblings #brothers #family #womenincomedy #funny #humor #selfdefense

There’s a million reasons to say you shouldn’t

There’s a million reasons to say you shouldn’t pack up your home and hit the road. But at the end of the day, if your heart is in the right place & lights up at just the thought of going, and your gut responds “we’re at peace with this, dawg,” then JUST SAY YES.💥

Sure, answering some big questions first is important - is your job fine with you working remote, will my family be ok without me, can I afford it… and will my travel partner be ok with my IBS 🤡💨 But you also can’t live your whole life people-pleasing those who abide by the status quo because their comfort zone lives within it. (Read that twice 🤓😎)

My comfort zone is not knowing what’s ahead. Predictability scares the living fūć%!ng daylights out of me. (Even walking around the same path too often stresses me out. I have to consistently find new trails because only then do I feel at ease and fully myself.) I like being intentional but constantly at distance with expectations. Set those free and you’ll be at max volume to receive. 🌄

Hard to believe I started this “nomadic“ life 6+ months ago already (and have barely posted anything to show for it lol). I’ve been back in MN longer than I was traveling, which is kinda mind blowing, the perceptions of time of each. Moving cities on average of every 4 days while still working full-time was certainly not sustainable, and I have been trying to use this time to decompress (keyword: trying). But I’m already planning for the next adventure in January 🤗 More to come! In the meantime, I hope this inspires at least one person. God Bless you, friends. ♥️

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📸: all shot across Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and California

#nomadlife #travel #millennials #travelusa #nomad #adventure

MINNEAPOLIS! 🔹This coming Sunday, October 2nd -

MINNEAPOLIS! 🔹This coming Sunday, October 2nd - 7pm @ House of Comedy (inside Mall of America)🔹Come hang out and laugh with (and at) me and my disproportionately large head (*ahem* the poster) as I have the honor of being a featured guest for the one and only (well three, actually) @virzitriplets!!! 👨‍👦‍👦(“How many parentheses is she gonna use?” Great question)

Also featuring hilarious special guest and The Floor is Lava alumni @williemacc! 🌋

It’d mean the world for y’all to come out and watch what may be my last show in Minnesota before I move 🥺 I know a Sunday feels ~like omg so late~ but please don’t be lame. It’s all I ask. *Looks at half-written letter to Santa* Plus a few other things, but mostly that.

Ticket link on poster! See you there fraaaaands! 🫶🏼

#minneapolis #minnesota #thingstodominneapolis #standupcomedy #standup #comedy #womenincomedy @houseofcomedymn

Sharing this hot-cookie-take until it’s no longe

Sharing this hot-cookie-take until it’s no longer relevant till 2023 #mnstatefair #mn #hottake #sweetmarthascookies #minnesota #minnesotastatefair #fairfood #🍪

The life advice I never knew I needed 🍩 — BI

The life advice I never knew I needed 🍩

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BIG thank you to @jrdguz for the opportunity to host!

*Please know my mom is not the lady. It’s very important that she knows no one thinks that 😅

For the comics - a reminder that it’s never too late to revamp old jokes! This is the first real bit I ever wrote, but I changed the POV and added several new tags to make it fresh. Now I actually enjoy telling it again (even if it upsets some of my Christian friends 🙈)

Have a wonderful day, on purpose ✨

#standup #comedy #womenincomedy #standupcomedy #lifeadvice #relationshipadvice #funny #humor #jellydonut

Nomad cities #2 and #3 — DENVER/ARVADA & COLORAD

Nomad cities #2 and #3 — DENVER/ARVADA & COLORADO SPRINGS 🏞 (Pt. 1) — After the weekend in Breckinridge with friends, we headed to our first “real” nomadic living situation in Arvada, just 10 mi outside of Denver. This wound up being the longest we stayed anywhere, by a long shot! (Two weeks vs the 3-6 day average for the next ~18 stays). The first day it started to hit hard what exactly I’d committed to for the next 3 months, and I remember thinking how refreshing that sense of not knowing what’s ahead thrilled me and about 2% scared me. But we found our groove quickly and I owe a big chunk of that to Seth, from helping set up my standing desk to teaching me his awesome recipes and all the help leading up to this, with the packing, driving, planning and everything in between. (Lesson learned that the time we thought we’d gain from extracting ourselves from social situations back home, was just replaced by logistics, planning, and travel time!) Our first night we had our first toothbrush party and if that video ain’t friendship idk what is. 🪥🫧

Denver was filled with the visitation of old friends and new (a 9-year gap since I’d seen @catanner92 - last time he had long red dreads), from hiking the Burro trail of Golden Canyon State Park, to bouldering at the gym, breweries, comedy shows (S/O @geoffreyatm for killing, per usual), and walking about town. Made a new friend chatting in the beer line, @ceciliahansen who @kiddecat9 and I then took her for her first time climbing! Kind of surreal thinking how I introduced Emily to climbing years ago, and she’s now light years better than me and it’s an integral part of her life, and THAT makes my heart happy. 🧗‍♀️Btw — even the kiddie outdoor playgrounds had miniature climbing walls lol. Ceci also took me to Golden for some hiking and of course, when you’re having all that fun you forget to take any pictures together.

We then visited an old buddy of mine from high school (6 yrs since we’d seen each other) and his lovely gf in CO Springs for Garden of the Gods and more. The photos don’t do it any justice. And the fooood omg.

More photos & anecdotes to come in Pt. 2! Plus a dozen more cities to recap😆 #nomadlife

It’s that time again! Tune in TODAY, July 12th a

It’s that time again! Tune in TODAY, July 12th at 5pm CT / 6pm ET. Link will be added to my bio and story. We’ve had great turnouts in the past — let’s see if we can break 1,000 attendees this time! Thank you @fishbowlapp for the opportunity 🐟

Event description:

Professional folks will tell you that when it comes to networking, you should be — well, professional. But what they don’t talk about is the power of using humor, how to harness it, and how it can give you the edge in a competitive world of job searching and relationship building. Learn from two humor experts whose skills in business, advertising, and stand-up comedy will offer a unique perspective on a tale as old as time: networking.

Got shadowbanned on TikTok for this so IG algorith

Got shadowbanned on TikTok for this so IG algorithm & friends please don’t let me down 😅 Just a girl who loves God trying to be a good friend and enjoy Jen’s bachelorette weekend (if we’re being honest I did feel gross throughout most the performance, but all the other ladies’ reactions made it worth it 🤪) #eyesdownprayersup

Happy Friday, y’all. Go live your best life.

Happy Friday, y’all. Go live your best life.

The older I get, the deeper my gratitude and love

The older I get, the deeper my gratitude and love for this woman grows. From teaching me how to cherish the little things, to how to see the positive through everything, and seeing God working through it all — these things I’ll always carry with me. I’ve so appreciated the gift of getting to know her better, understand her better, and grow together, especially these last several years. Madre/Ma!/Mommy-O, I love you more than words can describe. Thank you for the adventure far and wide, inspiring me to always go after my dreams (even if it means not being there in person today to say it, for the first time in my life), for all that you do, say, and mean. HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!!! 💐💕😘🥂

Nomad city #1 — BRECKINRIDGE, CO 🏔 — Upon p

Nomad city #1 — BRECKINRIDGE, CO 🏔 — Upon pulling an all-nighter getting everything out of my apartment and into storage, flew into Denver and drove straight to Breckinridge (see last video of the loopiness that ensued between naps🥴), gaining 10,000 feet of elevation and went skiing the next day ⛷ and somehow didn’t get altitude sickness 😀 (Hydration comin’ in clutch!!💦) Broke my 15-year-no-skiing-streak and had THE coolest ski instructor and ski-mates. 🎿

As we travel, I’m trying to show y’all mini Airbnb tours, too! 🏘 Our place was 5 min walking from the chairlift, lofted, and fit all of us perfectly. We made THE BEST 🍔s of my life no joke (Wagyu beef FTW) and hopped downtown nearby to have literally the best chicken I’ve ever had (Harissa chkn FTW) along with other nummy stuffs🍹 Was hard to believe that my room overlooked a freaking mountain which completely disappeared out of view when we got dumped with gorgeous snow. ❄️

Lastly, got to stop in Frisco (not pictured). Hard to believe this was just the beginning of the mountainess beauty that lay ahead…

Hard to believe I embarked on this venture exactly 1 month ago 🤯 — feels like a year in the best way possible. Grateful for every new experience and friend so far. Shout-out mi amigo Seth for making this all possible!!

We’re 10 cities deep so more coverage to come soon ✨

#nomadlife #digitalnomad #nomadic #remotework

Happy Monday 🤎 In the midst of all that’s goi

Happy Monday 🤎 In the midst of all that’s going on in this world, I’d like to unite us with this little sliver of vulnerable relatability. While it likely won’t bring world peace (as one TT commenter has predicted), I hope it brings a laugh. If not from watching, perhaps from reading the hundreds of comments on TT from dudes telling me about their joyous morning bowel movements. I even got a few marriage proposals. Lucky me!

Brownie points if you know what music video I used all the clips from 🤘🏼

Fun fact: these shots were for blocking only, until I made a longer version and wore pants that were more flattering. Then when I got sick with the flu I said eff it and posted it. Had no idea it’d gain the traction that it did - a reminder that perfection isn’t necessary to resonate or be successful!

#wfh #workfromhome #officehumor #morningcoffee #corporate

✨30th Birthday✨ Pt 1 - Started off the day wit

✨30th Birthday✨ Pt 1 - Started off the day with lunch & Pink Lady drinks with Madre 🥂, got ready for the Hawaiian Bday Luau 🌺 and in classic Lisa fashion had to push the start time back twice and still drove 80 all the way there (some people still beat me 😂), had the merriest freakin time of my life surrounded by so many loved ones ❤️ including handmade Better Than Sex Cake and hand carved piña colada (thank you Ari & Hector!), floppy cup, hula-ing - highlight was scream announcing my brother’s arrival and taking Fireball shots in front of everyone 🕺🏻💃🕺🏻🥃 (more Luau pics to come! 🌴) - thank you Austin & Jansen for hosting!!!; the following night had the best family dinner I think I’ve ever enjoyed - so much laughter and joyous energy, with the most lovely ambience and tastiest food at Monello 🍝, followed by birthday cake and balloons. Wow just wow. Feeling wildly grateful. Pt. 2 to come 😁

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