Compare ‘The Gisele Show’ and ‘Jonna’s Body, Please Hold’

Thanks for checking out my new show, “The Gisele Show!” We’ve specifically created a version of “The Gisele Show!” for the Cancer Community – patients and survivors, their families and friends, health care workers, doctors and nurses.

pink-ribbon In this show I become the loveable and kooky Gisele Nett, an honest optimist from Germany, weaving her charming tales, sketches, and assorted absurdistry. Gisele is a cancer survivor, too, and the show includes tales of her cancer journey, her double mastectomy, and coming to terms with her treatment-altered body – themes relevant to the Cancer Community.

If you’ve enjoyed “Jonna’s Body, Please Hold,” you’ll love “The Gisele Show!”, too. It has similar themes, and is a completely new and different show that you can proudly share with audiences who’ve already enjoyed “Jonna’s Body.” If you’ve never seen “Jonna’s Body,” check it out as well as “The Gisele Show!” Both are perfect for Cancer Community events of all kinds. Both are warm, funny, and inspiring, and will leave your audience feeling enlivened, moved, and joyful.

Compare the two shows:

	“Jonna’s Body, Please Hold”	“The Gisele Show”
Running Time	Flexible: 45 min – 1 hour	Flexible: 30 min – 1 hour
Style	Jonna as many characters	Jonna as one character, in many contexts
Story	Jonna’s cancer journey, told from the point of view of her body, which is like a hotel filled with all sorts of body-part tenants.	While competing on a TV game show, sweet/silly Gisele recounts stories from her life, including her breast cancer and treatment and adjusting to her new body.
Technical Needs	12’x12’ front-lit performing space Lavaliere Mic Armless Chair Optional: sound system for audio cues	12’x12’ front-lit performing space Lavaliere Mic Sound system for audio cues
Great for Audiences	Cancer community events of all kinds Survivor celebrations Support Groups Medical conferences Doctor and Nurse groups (patients perspective) Medical students Empathy training
More details	Click for webpage	Click for webpage
	“Jonna’s Body, Please Hold”	“The Gisele Show”

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The Gisele Show – The Audience’s Experience

We recently had a performance of The Gisele Show at a Cancer Survivor celebration event, where I was the featured speaker.

What I love about Survivor events is the change in the audience from BEFORE I perform to AFTER I perform. Beforehand, everyone’s coming in, taking a seat. Often folks are tired from their treatment, perhaps emotionally tired, too. Also, maybe they’re a little guarded. “What exactly are we going to see?”

This is totally understandable. I have been there; I TOTALLY get it.

Then I got going on stage, doing the show. I could feel the audience start to relax. I could feel them enjoying Gisele, relating to the stories, and enjoying the freedom to laugh and giggle. From up on stage it felt like we were all on a cool ride together.

By the end of the show, it was like a whole new crowd had replaced the old one! People were smiling, laughing, hugging me on the way out, sharing their own stories with me and with each other. We were together in warmth and connectedness. It’s a great experience, and I feel so lucky I get to be with audiences in that way.

Here are some of the great and happy audience comments I’ve gotten about The Gisele Show.

It’s so funny! You are amazing! – Estela Riela

Amazing. So amazing. Such a great show and such a crowd pleaser. Truly, you have a gift, and Gisele is a gift to us all. – Jon Stahl

Your show was brilliant. – George Finley

I need to see that show again !! I laughed until my belly hurt, and then I laughed some more !! – Melissa Maki

Very inspiring and refreshing! Lightheartedness, amazing stage presence…a great character. – Roxanne Abell

Your creativity and colorful imagination inspire me to reconnect with my own gifts. – Eleta Engelbrecht

The Gisele Show is impishly delightful and heart-warming. Jonna’s performance glows with authenticity. – Diana Fowler

The Gisele Show is simply delightful, sweet and so funny. Loved it. I would recommend Jonna to anyone. She is quite talented and very refreshing to watch. – Francine Zorehkey

Thanks, everybody! Yay, I love you, too!

Love, Jonna

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Funny Motivational Speaker for Girls and Body Image

Hi everyone!

We recently had a performance of The Gisele Show at Belding High School in Belding, Michigan. I was the cancer keynote speaker featured during their Cancer Awareness Week.

In particular, I always love being a motivational speaker for youth audiences, especially adolescent and teenager girls. Why? Body image and body acceptance! Holla if you’re happy with your body! (Hey, why’d it get so quiet out there?)

belding-gisele-IMG_2586 Kids get overwhelmed with media images and messages about what their bodies are ‘supposed’ to look like. I shudder to think about all the pressure put on them to achieve and maintain some completely unrealistic and damaging physical ‘ideal’.

That’s why I love sharing The Gisele Show with them. Yeah, a funny, REAL story about my cancer experience, with a focus on body acceptance after my mastectomies. And there I am, standing on stage in live performance, with my boy-chest (clothed, of course; it’s not that kind of show!). What!?? You mean a woman can be happy and creative without double D’s??!!! It’s true!

My secret plan is that by wrapping that message in a funny, fast paced, upbeat show, I can sneak in some self-acceptance to the kids in the house. So, shhhhh, Holla quiet!

Lots of love,

Jonna

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“Jonna’s Body” MOVIE screening April 18 in Tarzana!

April 18, 2013
8:00 pm	to	10:00 pm

Join us for a great movie, great conversation, and delicious refreshments when Good Life Academy presents a screening of “Jonna’s Body, Please Hold” – THE MOVIE, followed by a conversation with Jonna and director Adam Bluming. Lovely!