S2E1 "Alive and Clear" with Agnar Jón Egilsson [Flateyri, Iceland]

Casual Ecstasy with Katie Barbaro

Welcome to Season 2 of Showing Up Messy! It's just like Season 1 except it will be released from all over the world, starting with this episode in a little town called Flateyri in the Westfjords of Icelend. I got stuck in a snowstorm there for a bonus day and had the pleasure of meeting my first international guest, Agnar Jón Egilsson, an improvisor, actor, and director from Reyjkavik. Agnar was teaching a 2-week improv class to a group of Icelandic students aged 17-62 doing an imersion-style "communal college" program, and he generously invited me to co-teach one of his classes with him. Afterwards we had this talk, where he shared about his experience of waking up to his life when he quit drinking, how he practices mindfulness and trust through improv, and about how the "doing" culture of Icelanders. I said, "that's so beautiful" about 50 times during our conversation because everything Agnar says is full of refreshing honesty, insight, and humility. Enjoy!!