Nathan Minns is the founder of Green Light Improv, a professional training company that cultivates resilience, enhances creativity, and improves communication, all while inspiring connection through improv comedy. Beginning as an actor in 2015, Nathan soon realized that his acting training was positively affecting other work skills, from creativity and confidence, to communication and decision-making. Ultimately, the change he saw in himself led him to create Green Light Improv in 2019. Green Light Improv inspires connection through improv comedy. The company doesn't teach improv comedy, but instead uses improv comedy as a tool to teach other work and life skills. In 2022, Nathan quit his job and is now working full-time to spread applied improv training. An Ohio State University graduate, Nathan has previously spent most of his career in the startup ecosystem as an employee and a 3x founder. How does this all work with his ADHD? Can Improv Comedy work via your ADHD too? Enjoy!  In this episode Peter and Nathan Minns discuss:   00:40 - Thank you so much for listening and for subscribing! 01:01 - Intro and welcome Nathan Minns! 02:50 - So Improv is a cult right? What got you into it? What got you excited? 05:51 - Can improv positively affect your mental health? Focusing on 2 things tandem? 07:10 - What is the reason people with neurodiverse brains are drawn to the improv community? 07:50 - How do you feel on stage? Why do you continue to practice improv? 08:30 - What kinds of folks are you working with; what all is your  Green Light Improv company doing? 09:45 - Can you share an example you’ve experienced in where a new client ‘gets it’ for the first time, as you did? 12:40 - Is it about the 8 people you’re in a room with, or the eventual audience? 13:48 - Neurodiverse brains. Conversation engineering and management. Improv is a team sport. 14:48 - How can people find more about you?  Web:  https://greenlightimprov.com  Personal: https://nathanminns.com Socials:  @ linkedin.com/in/minns on LinkedIN and via YouTube 15:06 - We should talk about improv as a tool and subject again- than you Nathan!!  Guys, as always thanks so much for subscribing! Faster Than Normal is for YOU! We want to know what you’d like to hear! Do you have a cool friend with a great story? We’d love to learn about, and from them. I'm www.petershankman.com and you can reach out anytime via email at [email protected] or @petershankman on all of the socials. You can also find us at @FasterNormal on all of the socials. It really helps when you drop us a review on iTunes and of course, subscribe to the podcast if you haven’t already! As you know, the more reviews we get, the more people we can reach. Help us to show the world that ADHD is a gift, not a curse!  15:49 - Faster Than Normal Podcast info & credits. — TRANSCRIPT via Descript and then corrected.. somewhat: [00:00:40] Peter: Hey everyone. Peter Shankman is with you today. Welcome to another episode of Faster Than Normal, the podcast where we talk about ADD, ADHD, Autism, Executive Function Disorder, anything and everything having to do with the neurodiverse brain, we here look at all of those things as gifts, not as curses, and we're thrilled that you're here. I am joined today by someone who I've been talking about improv both in my books and on the podcast and in my courses and things like that. As something that you kind of have to do. And why do I say that? Because improv allows you to focus on improving yourself from the inside out. An ex-girlfriend who used to do improv all the time, and I never really got it. And one day she invited me. She said, just come take class. And look, I was a drama major growing up. I went high school, the whole thing. I took this class and the simple act of having to think inside your own head in real time, massively, massively opened up my brain. and I was a fan, have been a fan ever since. So we're talking to Nathan Mi