Judy Croon

Hi there, I'm Judy Croon - Canada's Keynote Humourist. Welcome to 'Laugh Long and Prosper' Shelf Help with a Smile. Stress Busters with a Smirk. You get the point. So let's get Started... It’s Friday so that means today is Psychic Friday! My guest today is Ursula Darby. What image comes to mind when you think of a psychic medium? Dark rooms, crystal balls, strange shady characters? Well then you have not met Ursula Darby. Ursula is changing the way people think of psychics and mediums. There is nothing mysterious or strange about her. She is straightforward, honest and a whole lot of fun! Ursula has been a medium and a psychic since she was very young. Experiences with spirit started as a child and have shaped her into an effective and conscious communicator with the other side. She delivers messages to loved ones from people in spirit. Using her psychic abilities, Ursula reads her clients' past, present and future in detail. All sessions with Ursula are filled with compassion, understanding and h

Recently, my courageous friend Jim Ducharme was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Jim isn't sure how much time he has left so he asked me to help him share his message about life, hope, purpose and love. We always said we would do a podcast together. I'm sad that this is it. As a lot of us face the great 'unknown' with Covid, Jim KNOWS what his fate it. Here is his message. Please send love, good vibes and prayers Jim's way.

Hi there, I'm Judy Croon - Canada's Keynote Humourist. Welcome to 'Laugh Long and Prosper' Shelf Help with a Smile. Stress Busters with a Smirk. You get the point. So let's get Started... Today is Friday...which means..drumroll please, It's Psychic Friday. Today, I chat with twin psychics, Sunhee and Chinhee Park of http://www.ESPsychics.com about predictions for 2021! Check it out! Sunhee and Chinee Park are twin psychics out of LA who just happen to be two of the top rated psychics in the States. Check out their fantastic website at http://www.ESPsychics.com Korean, identical twins Chinhee and Sunhee Park are both psychic, mediums, empaths and energy healers. Born in Seoul, Korea, they were adopted by an Italian and Irish family at the age of two. Chinhee in Korean means “Big Heart” and Sunhee means “Full of Life”. Their two energies combined are enough to give one person a burst of positive, healing, and loving energies. For more information about the Laugh Long and Prosper podcast, you can reach m

Hi there, I'm Judy Croon - Canada's Keynote Humourist. Welcome to 'Laugh Long and Prosper' Shelf Help with a Smile. Stress Busters with a Smirk. You get the point. So let's get Started. Today is Monday which Means it’s time for Just Another Mindful Monday. My guest today is Helen LaLousis Helen is CEO OF Face OFF Productions, Inc & Founder of Billy the Bull -The Anti-Bullying Champion. As CEO of Face OFF Productions, Inc., she has used her lifetime of entrepreneurial experience to position this company as one to watch. Helen learned the ins and outs of business as a teenager, working closely with her uncle to build a successful retail jewelry business. Face OFF is a boutique entertainment company based in New York focused on designing projects that elevate consciousness and inspire the recognition of human achievement. Over the last decade, her company has featured a host of new talent, molding their product and introducing them to the people and circumstances that would launch their performance career. As

Hey there, I'm Judy Croon. Canada's Keynote Humourist. Welcome to Laugh Long and Prosper. Shelf Help with a Smile. Stress Busters with a smirk. You get the point. So let's get started. Today is Friday- so you know what that means? Psychic Friday! Yay. My guest today is Sylvia Plester-Silk. Sylvia and I chat about visiting the Akasha - a spiritual form of reading that has been around for thousands of years. We talk about Sylvia's readings with clients, past lives and 2021 predictions! Sylvia Plester-Silk, RSW is an intuitive Social Worker who integrates traditional therapy with Akhashic Readings and energy work to help individuals transform to a life that is fully On Purpose. Way back in ancient history, in 1998, she graduated from the Social Work program at Ryerson University. While working for multiple community agencies, she has assisted thousands of individuals through addictions, mental health and trauma to finding their way. While she was powerful in this work, her results became exponential when she

Laugh Long And Prosper 'Just Another Mindful Monday ' with Meditation Coach Cara Coulson-Part 3 What do Masterclass, James Patterson, Judd Apatow and Gone with the Wind have to do with setting intentions? Give Laugh Long And Prosper a listen and find out! How PAINFUL are resolutions? Okay, maybe I am projecting but Meditation Coach Cara Coulson gives us something to think about as we head into a new 2021- Resolutions vs Intentions. BIG difference. Cara Coulson is a Meditation Coach. Cara Coulson has worked in education since 1993. In 2008, she completed a 200 hour yoga teacher certification through Yoga Alliance, and for the next 3 years ran a successful private yoga education company. In 2011, Cara began working as a contract faculty member at Durham College, and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. In 2015, she completed a Master of Arts in Education with a focus on the mental health of post secondary students. Cara specialized in student anxiety, and tested if 4 weeks of meditation for te

Laugh Long And Prosper #BringItOn2021 Hi there, I'm Judy Croon - Canada's Keynote Humourist. Welcome to 'Laugh Long and Prosper' Shelf Help with a Smile. Stress Busters with a Smirk. You get the point. So let's get Started. I don’t know what was scarier in 2020…Donald Trump or Covid. Certainly, both of them have had me cowering in my house for a few months at the beginning of the year. But then I felt inspired by Joe Biden: the little engine that could. Slowly but surely, his campaign started to gain traction throughout the year and lo and behold, he and Kamala Harris won the US Election. I felt inspired by Joe Biden for many reasons. His old-school talk about having ‘steel in your spine’ made me want to strike a Rosie the Riveter pose and start saving kittens out of trees. I was also inspired by ‘The Joe Biden Jog’. You know the jog -the five or six little steps that Joe does just as he’s about to take the podium. I now do the ‘Joe Biden Jog’ myself whenever I’m on one of my slow daily walks and I thin

Hey there, I'm Judy Croon. Canada's Keynote Humourist. Welcome to Laugh Long and Prosper. Shelf Help with a Smile. Stress Busters with a smirk. You get the point. So let's get started. Time to heal. After 2020 - Psychic Nikki says 2021 is when we, as individuals and as a planet, start to slowly get better. After all, it's the 'Age of Aquarius' - brought on by a Saturn/ Jupiter alignment. For those of you who felt like your life hit a pothole in 2020 and had your alignment completely thrown off – have no fear. Saturn, Jupiter and Canadian Tire are here. Psychic Nikki says this is going to be great time for our planet. We are going to have an ocean make-over as we start to really clean up our blue marble. Nothing like a little global pandemic to scare us into action. Better late than never though, right? Psychic Nikki says it may take a while so we have to be patient. We will probably still be wearing masks and Zooming in slippers until the fall but there is a big payoff in 2022. That’s when she says it wi

Cara Coulson is a Meditation Coach. What does Harry Potter have to do with mindfulness??? A lot, in fact. Check out what Cara has to say about 'resetting' and 'reframing' and JK Rowling! Many people are wondering what is going to happen to them, where is their life going, is Covid going to end? Through meditation and mindfulness, Cara helps her clients, young and old. Cara Coulson has worked in education since 1993. In 2008, she completed a 200 hour yoga teacher certification through Yoga Alliance, and for the next 3 years ran a successful private yoga education company. In 2011, Cara began working as a contract faculty member at Durham College, and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. In 2015, she completed a Master of Arts in Education with a focus on the mental health of post secondary students. Cara specialized in student anxiety, and tested if 4 weeks of meditation for ten minutes a day would create a perception of anxiety reduction in self identified college students with anxiety. The res

Hi there, I'm Judy Croon - Canada's Keynote Humourist. Welcome to 'Laugh Long and Prosper' Shelf Help with a Smile. Stress Busters with a Smirk. You get the point. So let's get started! Today is Friday so that means it's time for Psychic Friday on Laugh Long and Prosper!! On this episode, I chat with Psychic Cindy Bachly Cindy can be reached at her email: cbachly@yahoo.com or you can phone her at 416-498-0970 Thanks for tuning into Laugh Long And Prosper For more information you can go to my website http://www.JudyCroon.com

How has Covid-19 effected you? Cara Coulson is a Meditation Coach. Many people are wondering what is going to happen to them, where is their life going, is Covid going to end? Through meditation and mindfulness, Cara helps them 'reset and reframe'. Cara Coulson has worked in education since 1993. In 2008, she completed a 200 hour yoga teacher certification through Yoga Alliance, and for the next 3 years ran a successful private yoga education company. In 2011, Cara began working as a contract faculty member at Durham College, and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. In 2015, she completed a Master of Arts in Education with a focus on the mental health of post secondary students. Cara specialized in student anxiety, and tested if 4 weeks of meditation for ten minutes a day would create a perception of anxiety reduction in self identified college students with anxiety. The results were overwhelmingly positive. Throughout the past years of teaching and learning Cara has developed a deeper unde

The Gift of Humour 2020. Let’s face it. It’s been a challenging year. Covid has forced us to mask up, distance and sanitize our hands until they are raw. We’ve had to isolate, bubble and some of us have had to learn so much new technology, we could probably talk Apollo 13 down. We’ve faced more ZOOM meetings that we care to think about. Thank goodness for the front line and essential workers who have done everything to keep the rest of us safe. Without them, we would be lost -or worse. Compared to other global catastrophes - war, earthquakes, tsunamis- Covid asked the majority of us to do one thing: stay home. Watching Netflix is not a hardship. It has brought us gems like the latest season of the Crown, and of course, the Queen’s Gambit. If you haven’t seen The Queen’s Gambit, may I say it has renewed my passion for tranquilizers. I mean chess. I’m not good at chess. I have to take a nap after four moves, but this mini-series has inspired me to become a better player as well as, step up my wardrobe g

Sylvia and I chat about visiting the Akasha - a spiritual form of reading that has been around for thousands of years. Sylvia Plester-Silk, RSW is an intuitive Social Worker who integrates traditional therapy with Akhashic Readings and energy work to help individuals transform to a life that is fully On Purpose. Way back in ancient history, in 1998, she graduated from the Social Work program at Ryerson University. While working for multiple community agencies, she has assisted thousands of individuals through addictions, mental health and trauma to finding their way. While she was powerful in this work, her results became exponential when she added energy therapies to her work. In the mid-1990’s Sylvia brought energy work into the hospital she worked in and into mental health agencies to assist individuals to heal with ease. Since 2004, she has been working independently with individuals, groups and more recently, since 2010, organizations. During the fall of 2019, she embarked on a life changing trip t

Is the world going to end? I know…not exactly the most hilarious, side- splitting way to open a conversation or a comedy show, for that matter. Ah, remember the good old days when we used to do comedy shows??? Relax, Chicken Little. I bring some good news, even as I write this after a see-saw US election that still hasn’t been completely resolved. This good news comes in the form of two amazing books that coaxed me out from underneath my comforter and back into the real world. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress by Canadian psychologist Steven Pinker, and Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World – And Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Swedish physician and statistician Hans Rosling. Both books are really uplifting and perfect for the challenging times that we are going through. Maybe it’s all fake news? I don’t think so. These books are based upon facts. Remember when we used to care about facts? Also, each book comes with a heavy hitter list of end

Humankind by Rutger Bregman: Part Two A few more examples to show you just how awesome humans really are. Covid, the economy, the un-presidential debate, Tiger King’s Carole Baskin competing on Dancing With The Stars - there is a certainly a lot of frightening news lately. Are things just getting worse?? Last month, I reviewed the book Humankind by Rutger Bregman. It gave me hope. Bregman provided examples throughout history that proved the awesomeness of humans in times of distress. If you’ve got six and a half months of Zoom, mask and sanitizer burn-out, perhaps a few more of the author’s stories will help lift your spirits. During grade school, you were probably asked to read William Golding’s Lord of The Flies. It is the story about a group of boys stranded on an island. Over a period of time, they end up turning on each other and supposedly displaying the worst of mankind. Bregman actually found a real-life Lord of the Flies example in 1966. Six schoolboys from the island of Tonga stole a boat

Space Odyssey 2020: Covid, technology and virtual presentations. Admit it. How many of you got dragged into the virtual presentation world, kicking and screaming? How many of you had nightmares of sweat dripping down your forehead one minute before the green light came on in front of a virtual roomful of clients? How many of you felt like Dave from Space Odyssey 2001? “HAL, open the pod bay doors!!” “I’m sorry Judy, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” “All right, HAL. I’ll go in through the emergency airlock.” “Without your space helmet, Judy, you’re going to find that rather difficult.” Okay, so maybe this was my imagination going overboard. For the past few years, I have been encouraged by friends and clients to do more video presentations. As a comedian and motivational speaker, I have always enjoyed live presentations and conferences. In the past, I had been speaking and coaching virtually with some of my clients but then Covid hit. The game changed overnight. There wasn’t an option to do conferences

Recently, I read a terrific book – Humankind by Rutger Bregman. Bregman asked, ‘What did Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt have in common?’ They all read a book called The Psychology of the Masses by French author Gustave Le Bon. Le Bon’s main premise is that when all hell breaks loose, humans turn into barbarians. We turn on each other. Chaos is created and as a result, an enemy’s attack is made easier. The flames of fear are good for the oppressor. Though this ‘survival- of- the- fittest’ mentality may be the case for a small percentage of people, Bregman gives numerous examples throughout history that prove the contrary. His stories and statistics prove that overall, the kids are alright – humans are pretty darn amazing. Bregman provides the example of the bombing of England during the second World War. In 1940, Hitler sent 348 Luftwaffe bombers to London. He probably hoped panic and chaos would make the English more vulnerable and easier to overthrow. British authorities wo

Hey Brain, Is Your Pilot Or Flight Attendant Talking To You? At the beginning of the year, I started with 12 resolutions – one for each month. Then COVID-19 struck. My journal became more about coping during a pandemic vs a ‘things to do’ blog. I have to admit that, like everyone else, I freaked out. Conferences and comedy clubs were shut down. I know this is nothing compared to what a lot of people are dealing with but for me, it was my way of life for many years. As I faced the abyss of unknowing, a very obvious answer smacked me right in the face. What was I teaching others for years??? ‘Relieving stress with HUMOUR’!!! Uh- should I not take my own advice?? So, I found myself leaning on all the funny people around me. Yes, the humour was dark at times but I know now that that was all part of our right, bright, creative brains trying to get us to calm down. Laughter is a great way to trigger our right, bright, creative brain and parasympathetic nervous system. Our parasympathetic nervous system is t

Comedy, Creativity & Crisis The Beginning At the beginning of 2020, I decided that I was going to make twelve resolutions (one per month) instead of one big resolution at the beginning of the year that ran the risk of fizzling out by January 3rd. In January and February, I got a couple of good things done. Then Covid-19 struck and suddenly, like everyone else, I waited and wondered, ‘What was going to happen next?’ The world hit ‘pause’ and my yearly ‘things -to – do’ list turned into more of a personal survival guide. After a few months though, something rather unexpected happened. Creativity kicked in. I probably should have panicked more but, instead, I took a deep breath and I started to write. I started working again on jokes and writing projects that I had put off for years. There must have been something in the air because so many people that I knew felt the same way. They were writing. They were creating. They wanted to collaborate. Caveman Brain Since the beginning of time, creativity and

8 Months 8 Resolutions – Play Your Pan with a Smile At the beginning of this year, I committed to making 12 resolutions – one per month. Then Coronavirus struck. I actually managed to keep up my monthly goals but suddenly, it seemed more important to replace a regular list of ‘things to do’ with ‘things that were getting me through’ a global pandemic. One of my pandemic survival ‘go to’ tools has been carving out a new routine. Part of my new daily routine includes an evening tradition of banging pots with my neighbours. There’s a regular gang of us who step out every night for two minutes at 7:30 pm to bang pots, pans, drums and whatever other loud utensils we can get our hands on. You would think that, after all these weeks we would be able to take our show on the road. No, we are NOT perfect (in fact, some nights we are probably ear- shatteringly awful) but, like many other neighbourhoods across the globe, it is our small token of appreciation for all the front-line workers who are doing their best to