Caroline Frame is proving it’s never too late to follow a dream. A wife + mother, homeschooler, and founder of Courtyard Theatre Productions – a theatre company for kids; she talks about the power of empathy + storytelling, creativity with kids, and the best advice she’s ever been given. You will love her raw honesty, her passion, and wisdom.
In this episode:
• Caroline & Randy go way back.
• How a class called Speech & Debate turned into a life’s passion for the theater.
• Broadway dreams never die, they just morph.
• Caroline is living the dream with her kids.
• Learn why she ignored the pit in her stomach to chase her calling.
• Despite the high cost of producing theatre, Caroline found a way to make it work and still give all the profits to charity.
• Theater uses creative imagination to develop empathy and self-discovery.
• Randy gained a lot of confidence through high school theater.
• Why storytelling is so important for people to explore their identity.
• Caroline’s spirituality inspires her work.
• Imaginative person
• You have what it takes to tell the story within you.
• Unearthing creativity & learning the power of storytelling is powerful for any person, regardless of age.
• Their creativity in their storytelling tells a deeper story of their fears and hopes or dreams that they may have never been able to verbalize before that moment.
• Caroline gets real about parenting.
• Encouraging her kids’ creativity sometimes means kicking them out of the house.
• What keeps Caroline & Misty both up at night.
• Husbands can put the worrisome stuff in a box while women tend to have all the boxes out at any given moment.
• How Caroline & her husband have unschooled their kids this year.
• What marriage has taught Caroline about scorekeeping. Even Steven.
• Negativity is a hurdle to having a life that you can revel in; but thankfulness crushes negativity.
• It was a glorious string of moments that led Caroline to think, “This is it.”
• A Broadway star had Caroline pushing middle school girls out of the way to get close.
• Connecting with her family over a dinner-time ritual equals romances the ordinary.
• Falling asleep and a good smoky eye…
• Caroline passes along the best advice she has ever received.
• Misty was a weirdo on Instagram.
• How we helped Caroline feel cool for a moment, okay so it was really Johnnyswim.
Caroline said:
Parenthood has shaped how I enjoy life… we’ve become like this blob that we just like each other. Tweet This
I love theater. It transports you, it transforms you, and it changes your perspective. Tweet This
Anytime we can laugh together, that is a great moment. Tweet This
Misty said:
Most think that people who go after their dreams are fearless, but really they’re just the people who do it anyway. Tweet This
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