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UCB founder Amy Poehler is an actress, comedian, producer, and a multimedia entrepreneur whose background in improv and willingness to "make herself uncomfortable" by taking risks has earned her a place in Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business, alongside other creative luminaries and CEOs of the world's most influential companies.
While many creative people in Hollywood are floundering in the media sea change, Poehler is surfing-which is what she's been doing her entire career, starting with her earliest days as a member of the Upright Citizens Brigade, the comedy troupe she helped form in Chicago in the 1990s. "It all goes back to improv," she says. "It's all about flexibility, about not knowing what's going to happen next. You have to listen and stay in the moment. You have to play with people who will support you. You have to get comfortable with being uncomfortable." And, of course, you have to be willing to risk it all.And what about when those risks fail? "I've failed a million times," Amy says in Fast Company. "The question you have to ask yourself is: How do you want to fail? Do you want to fail in a way that feels like it respects your tastes and value system?"
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