Improvising Adulthood

Life is an improv show — you create it one choice at a time.

A guide to creative living, IMPROVISING ADULTHOOD invites you to embrace the idea that life is an improv show — something you create one choice at a time — rather than an exercise in living up to other people’s scripts.

Expect personal stories and creative prompts that help you apply the wisdom of improv to your own life, from the work you do to the people you spend time with and the experiences and places you explore.

Embracing life-as-improv will help you:

  • Embrace life’s unpredictability.

  • Question inherited “scripts” and societal rules, and write your own.

  • Tune into your “yes” so you can live with intention.

  • Realize the power you have to carve your own uniquely fulfilling path.

If you’ve been waiting for permission to live life on your own terms — this is it.

  • Amanda delivers the book we all could have used during our coming of age journey.

    Kimberly Wilson, psychotherapist and author

  • "Improvising Adulthood" is a giant little book...It's a quick read and yet a deep and wise guide for anyone facing a choice. A pivot. A new direction. A purpose.

    Lisa Gates, “Career Story Sleuth” and a Top LinkedIn Voice

  • "Improvising Adulthood" is about unlearning the societal scripts you’ve inherited and learning to listen to your own "hell yes."

    Jay Moon Fields, author & LinkedIn instructor

If you're curious about the 'prov

If you're curious about the 'prov

That’s me and my husband Jordan, doing — what else? — an improv show together. We were voted audience favorites at SXSW for a talk we gave about applying improv to life and work.

I went on to write “Improvising Adulthood”; today, he leads improv trainings for companies, together with his business partner, Sarah Filman. Book a training from their company, The Improv Mindset, and join one of their free monthly drop-in sessions!