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🇵🇹Portugal Pt. 2️⃣ - My favorite day. No

🇵🇹Portugal Pt. 2️⃣ - My favorite day. Not just for the beauty & thrill, but lesson learned on the gift of shattered expectations, and how people can surprise you beyond belief 😌

Rewind quick: When I asked Nic his #1 Porto reco, he said hands down, mopeding around the city. (Remember this for later)

Fast forward: I sign up for a tour showing big groups, oh my! So many peeps to befriend! But when I got there — my heart sank. I was the only participant. Extrovert me crushed, and felt anxious if I’d justify his time. To this day I feel guilt for this, bc this precious man gave me one of the best days of my life.

Introducing ✨Julio✨(swipe to see him in all his cheesing glory). The best way I can describe him is he felt like my lil Portuguese dad 🥹 Immediately he was upbeat & promised the best day together. My warmup was rough - I could tell Julio had his doubts about me in that moment lolol. But sure enough, we hit the road and the rest is history…

Literally. History lessons covering hundreds of years at every stop + why Julio loves Porto so much. His love & pride was PALPABLE. We were laughing & smiling nonstop. He never made me ask for a photo - he was all over it!! (peep the video 😆)

FOUR hours later we’d conquered winding steep cobblestone, highways, bridges, dense downtown, train tracks & swerving traffic, the beach, backroads & more. We covered the WHOLE DANG MAP, Y’ALL. Yes I believed in myself, but more so with Julio believing in me: “You are GOOD Vespa driver! I’m so proud!” 🥹 I didn’t want the day to end.

Thank you, Julio, for being so encouraging, sweet and celebratory. My heart will forever remain full from this day!!! 🛵💙 I’ve learned to approach situations with more optimism & compassion.

And yes we still stay in touch on WhatsApp! 🤗

Fast forward: I told Nic the profound day it’d been - he goes: “Bro, why do you think I have the Ponte Luis bridge tattooed on my arm? It’s because that same experience was one of the best days of my life.” My mind was blown. I hadn’t realized THAT was the tattoo or effect. It feels even more special knowing another human, much less a dear friend, just gets it. Wow.

Obrigado, Júlio e #Porto!!!❤️ #portugal

Watch till the end for the most random item + my d

Watch till the end for the most random item + my dad’s expert analysis 😂 #mnstatefair #mn #minnesota #greatminnesotagettogether #minnesotastatefair #minnesotastatefair2023 #mnstatefair2023

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This is my directorial debut and I humbly ask for

This is my directorial debut and I humbly ask for your support in submitting this for an Oscar or Best Picture or Nobel Prize or however that works

#fail #balanceboard #balanceboardfail #indoboard #indoboardfail #athletic

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🇵🇹Portugal Pt. 1️⃣ - first couple days 😀

Arrived in Porto in the morning, ‘twas greeted by @good.knight.sarah at our most sickest Airbnb / home for the next month, and immediately scarfed down the Portugal famous pastel de nata 🥮 with the satisfaction of a thousand cats housing catnip at the cafe just downstairs (say that 5x fast).

“We should probably learn how to make these, mmmmmohmygod.”

“YUP” [Proceeds to book baking class with the coolest cutest of German friends @klunkerbunker @sandy_schwalbesen 🇩🇪 - who little did we know would foreshadow our trip to Madeira!!🏝️]

Got to meet up with Julia - longtime bff going back to our U of Hawaii dorm days - which made my heart —> 🥰 What are da chances she was in Porto too, hmmmm. Just one of a bajillion “coincidences” that made this trip feel divine. 😌

‘Splored the city, comfy mom sandals and all, and had the most glorious first couple nights’ sleep like I was back in the womb, since it’s country-wide commonplace to have blackout electronic shades in all bedrooms. 🌚 “Maybe my destiny here is to just get good sleep for once.” And I would’ve been just fine with that. After all, I was here on the bizarrest of whims, mostly thanks to an Encyclopedia of 1962 from my bedroom library in LA. But that’s another story. 📖

It only took those first 2-3 days to feel a magic that wholeheartedly swept me off my clinically weak ankles. ✨ Can’t wait to share the rest with y’all!

UP NEXT: More of Week 1 - Primavera Sound festival, Douro Valley, Livraria Lello, the world’s most beautiful rated McDonald’s…

#porto #portugal #oporto #nomadlife #travelportugal #yippeeeeeeeeee

Thank you @kaledotson @_kaledotson for these incre

Thank you @kaledotson @_kaledotson for these incredible BTS shots 📸 and @maxumus @seanmcdannold and the entire Extra Rad Productions team for a weekend in San Diego I’ll never forget 🥹💥🎬 I can’t wait for this gem to be released — 100% satirical which required fully dramatic acting in the best worst way possible 😂 The bloopers reel might honestly be more epic than the film loool. All with the kindest sweetest dopest scene partner, @will_truong 🥷

…And to think it all began just a month prior at the film festival, talking about our dreams and shtuff 🥹 You could tap me like a tree I feel so full of sap!! 🤍

See you guys for Pt. 2 in August 🤗

#bts #behindthescenes #film #shortfilm #actorslife #setlife #happyplace

Dear LA ~ You were really, really good to me. Whe

Dear LA ~ You were really, really good to me.

Whether little moments in my house of sunsets off the porch, roses up the walkway, or roomie chats, I loved what I got to call home.

Whether it be improv class, stand-up shows, or short films, I love who I got to call my peers and inspiration.

Whether it be hikes up the canyon, nights at the arcade, or baby showers galore, I love the friends I shared core memories with, old and new.

I loved the life I got to start there. But for now, life has called me back to MN for a bit and I’m at peace with it (hard not to be when I have the best darndest family and OG besties here). If anything, it feels more special to know I have two places to call home in this great big beautiful world. Thank you to everyone who makes me feel at home, no matter where I am. I love you.

🌎 15 cities, 4 states, 3 months, 1 life changin

🌎 15 cities, 4 states, 3 months, 1 life changing adventure. One year ago, I left MN and embarked on the best decision I ever made of going on a “nomad” adventure, still working full-time but changing cities every 2 days or 2 weeks 🚗🗺️ From breathtaking existentially consuming views to getting stranded on mountain tops to gnarly scars from treacherous surfing, to less dramatic moments like hand-making empanadas and watching birds at the beach, those beautiful nights included stays in:

🔹 Breckinridge, CO
🔸 Denver, CO
🔹 Ridgway / Ouray, CO
🔸 Moab / Monticello, UT
🔹 Flagstaff / Grand Canyon, AZ
🔸 Sedona, AZ
🔹 Lake Havasu City, AZ
🔸 Joshua Tree, CA
🔹 Isle, MN
🔸 San Diego, CA
🔹 Los Angeles, CA
🔸 Las Vegas, NV

It’s true - the more you see the less you know. But the exception is people - I now love them more fiercely than ever before, especially my family when I’m away from them ♥️ And, the humans who made the dream all possible: @srirachaforall / @sethcooksforyou for being the best travel partner anyone could ask for - from logistics to driving to letting me have the nice bed and straight up being up for ANY adventure 💥 @good.knight.sarah for inspiring me through her own nomadic living (and joining us in AZ!!) 💃🏻, and @oliviabmortensen / @mortensen_designs / @ztmortensen whose brains I also picked endlessly to make it happen 🤗

I promised myself I would scrapbook-style share posts on each place, and I epically failed after only two. I still hold hope though that I’ll share larger photo dumps and stories with y’all. In the meantime, here are 10 glimpses from about 10,000 🤠

#nomadlife #travelusa #digitalnomad #americanwest #happyhappyhappy

🎞️ 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

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