Meet Chris Alan

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Chris Alan. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Chris below.

Hi Chris , you’ve got such an interesting story, but before we jump into that, let’s first talk about a topic near and dear to us – generosity. We think success, happiness and wellbeing depends on authentic generosity and empathy and so we’d love to hear about how you become such a generous person – where do you think your generosity comes from?

From my parents, they grew up pretty poor and ended up doing well for themselves. We were typically the more well off family in our neighborhood and we always made sure to help out others. My father is one of 18 kids and grew up EXTREMELY poor and said if it was wasn’t for the generosity of others there were times they wouldn’t have, food, clothes, a place to live a TV, etc.

Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?

I am a stand up comic, writer and content creator. My passion is doing stand up comedy and making people laugh. I love connecting with people in the format. I have moved into the youtube space and began telling stories, experiences and thoughts about my 20 years in the United States Air Force.
I began my comedy journey 10 years into my military career. I fell in love with it and at times, I took my new comedy “career” more serious than my military career. I had finally found something that I was passionate about and good at and I dove in all the way and have been obsessed ever since.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

I believe starring this career at 28 gave me an edge maturity wise than people starting in their early 20s, I also believe being active duty for 10 years and being put in numerous uncomfortable and unfamiliar situation also helped when navigating new comedy scenes and networking with other comedians. Resiliency is preached heavily in the military as well and being resilient in this business (or any business for that matter) has helped tremendously.

Do you think it’s better to go all in on our strengths or to try to be more well-rounded by investing effort on improving areas you aren’t as strong in?

You have to invest in your weak areas when opportunities present themselves. You may run into a situation where your strengths cannot help you and you haven’t worked on anything else, youre going to fail. You need to have a couple differnt pitches in your bag so to speak. For example being a stand up comic and being able to work clean is a good thing. I prefer to not work clean, it’s not me, it’s not authentic for me to speak that way BUT I have done more clean shows as of recently and in the past I wouldve had to turn the gig down and lose out on money. I am not a fan of doing clean show but its saved me financially a few times.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: @chrisalancomedy
• Twitter: @chrisalancomedy
• Youtube: @chrisalancomedy

Image Credits

Jesse Dufault
James Godwin