565: Lisa Menna - Fully Rested but Never Resting

Lisa Menna is a popular magician and activist who has pioneered in a male-dominated profession on account of her skills and talents. She was called as the Most Influential Female Magician of the 20th Century by BBC world service. She received success in 1990s for performing as a trade show magician known as ‘The Darling of Dot Com’. She was the first women to lecture and perform at FISM and was the only women to have been invited to perform in every theater of Hollywood’s Magic Castle.

Menna founded an NGO named Cause to Wonder in the year 2011 and aims to bring about social change. She has conducted some of the notable programs in countries like Antigua, Ethiopia, US Virgin Island, Sicily and India. Her NGO also coordinates with the curiosity based events from all around the world.

Lisa performed in 2019 for the 100th anniversary of the United Nations ILO on international women’s day in Geneva.

Papua New Guinea tribes and a white woman magician. Using curiosity to spread vital information. Close up magic in the jungle. Lisa Menna Performs in the jungle.

In this week’s episode, Lisa talks about her magical life that has taken her around the glove performing magic and developing the non-profit “Cause to Wonder” organization. She gives some great advice, encouragement and inspiration to female magicians in this episode, too. Lisa transitioned her success as a trade show magician into helping those in third world countries to have cleaner water supplies and treat women humanely within their communities.

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524: 2019 Genii Convention - Day Four Update

Saturday October 5

12:00 am To 7:00 pm Dealers Open

8:15 am To 9:00 am Basic Training Breakfast Ian Kendall

9:15 am To 10:15 am David Kaye Show/Lecture

10:30 am To 11:30 am Michael Vincent Lecture

11:30 am To 12:30 pm 49 Boxes

1:00 pm To 2:30 pm Close-Up Show 2Your Host: Max Maven

John Lovick, Anna Deguzman, Eric Jones, Gaëtan Bloom

2:45 pm To 3:30 pm Dominique And Alexandra Duvivier Duo Show

4:00 pm To 4:50 pm Ben Seidman One Man Show

5:00 pm To 6:00 pm 49 Boxes

7:00 pm To 9:15 pm Gala Show

Your Hosts: Nick Diffatte And Lucy Darling

Romany, David Kovac, Jay Johnson, John Archer

9:45 pm To 10:45 pm Dominique Duvivier Lecture

Time stamps for this podcast:

00:00:17 - Lisa Menna talks about her passion project

00:15:02 - Katrina Koetch talks about her experience as the person who volunteered her urine for the Piff and Pops show last night

more time stamps later when I have time

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108: MAGIC Live! 2013 - Day 3

Day three was another fun and exciting day that began with the Opening Session hosted by Justin Flom A highlight of the show was Xavier Mortimer's incredibly innovative routines. He is currently featured in the Cirque du Soliel show here in Vegas, "Michael Jackson One".. But it was Wayne Dobson being interviewed by Jeff McBride which received a standing ovation.

00:00:07 – Tom Vorjahan, Daniel Herron and Eddie Wade give a recap of the Documentary Live 1 show from last night that featured the Long Beach Mystics hosted by Stan Allen and Mike Caveney. It featured David Deeble, Victor and Diamond, Michael Weber, Dana Daniels, Mark Kalin and Jinger, Armando Lucera, Kevin James, and James Hamilton (as Alexander Hamilton).

00:08:33 – I give a short review of the General Session that was hosted by Justin Flom and featured Master Payne, Bill Abbott, Xavier Mortimer, and Wayne Dobson being interviewed by Jeff McBride.

00:13:00 – I chatted with random people dining at the In ‘N Out and how much they enjoy this place. It is one of my regular, mandatory places to dine while in Las Vegas.

00:15:02 – Simon Coronel talks about creativity and how he developed his routine.

00:26:00 – Photo time with Criss Angel

00:26:50 – David Hira talks about this convention and conventions in general and their appeal to different age groups.

00:34:45 – Scott Hunstler was one of the winners on the Sunday night Welcome Party. He talks about what he won. Mark Weidhaas, S.A.M. Past President, and Errol Lipschitz, from Vancouver, talks about their experience of this convention.

00:39:56 – We viewed the documentary about Ricky Jay’s life, Deceptive Practices. Here I get to talk with a few people who know Ricky and have a perspective and opinion on the movie. It isn’t anything like Siskell & Ebert, but I think you will enjoy this discussion by Peter Samelson, Tim Felix and Jon Stetson.

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