Yes! Your life can be better! Do you know that your life can be happier, more filled with laughter and that you deserve to truly have a great time doing this thing called life? Do you really want to show up for yourself, be more creative, laugh every day, and feel free to be you? Then Lessons from a Clown is for you.

Em Stroud and Orange share how you can show up more confidently and embrace opportunities while allowing yourself to have fun and find joy again. In Lessons from a Clown, listeners hear how her clown Orange helped Em to reconnect to her real self, which allowed Em to embrace her own vulnerabilities and stop the negative talk that limited her. The world of Clowning is often misunderstood and this book explains how this craft can really affect the listener’s lives at home and at work.

Lessons from a Clown shares Em's story of 20+ years as a performer, business owner, speaker, podcaster, emcee, coach, and clown and how all these roles enabled her to develop as a woman who is living her best life filled with much laughter. For over 20 years Em has helped people develop more confidence, understand their story, find their creativity and have more fun. In a world where the complex is becoming more so, and the challenges of everyday living are becoming greater, this book will inspire listeners to be themselves have more courage, and laugh every day.

Lessons from a Clown offers five lessons: Be seen, be kind, be present, be accepting, and be playful, which taken together have the potential to shift the way you live. The book includes practical ways for you to show up for you with many ideas for you to try like the fruit salad and the rainbow diary. (Yip in this world we like to be colourful!) Regardless of your job title or how you are feeling about life right now, there is always room to laugh every day and allow more joy into your life. Lessons from a Clown is part memoir, part self-help, part stand-up. It’ll make you laugh, think and play more.