Connected Social Conversations – Dan Istrate

Actor/Director Dan Istrate shares his thoughts on presence, connection, and social leading and following.  Dan grew up in Romania and has lived for the past 25 years in the United States. He’s had thousands of both painful and hilarious experiences of language and culture translation and mis-translation, working on both stage and screen in a wide variety of creative collaborations.

Socially, his way of being seems to invite other people to be more open, more brave, more playful, more free. It’s something that’s hard to describe in words but it’s an area of leading and following that we nevertheless experience every single day. It just might transform how you see simple conversations all around you, with friends, at home, with strangers, and even maybe especially on dates. If you’re someone who feels at all anxious about talking to people, or like me feels that they are still recovering from the pandemic, this episode might be especially helpful.

• "If you think about the fact that you cannot really influence the way people perceive you–in that idea I find freedom."
• "We think that the words are the thing, but the thing is the vibration."
• "The conversation can feel better if it is anchored in the depths of our being." 
• "The most beautiful thing in the world is to connect with another human being." 

Episode References
S1 E 15 - Lead/Follow Relationships in Live Theater Performance - Dan Istrate
https://leadfollow.buzzsprout.com/1735834/9621693-lead-follow-relationships-in-live-theater-performance-dan-istrate 

Connect with Dan Istrate:

Website: www.danistrate.com

IG: @DanIstrateDC

FB: Dan.Istrate.796