Standup Comedian & Keynote Speaker: Live and in Person and Live on the Web with Interactive, Dynamic Virtual Events

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Nancy Norton is a stand-up comedian and nurse, lovingly known by fans as “Nurse Nancy.”

Nancy consistently receives 5 Star Reviews from clubs and corporate clients; she knows her audiences and connects with universal truths through her intuitive, engaging style! Nancy delivers presentations and performances that are high energy, fast-paced, and hilarious.

2021 Winner “Best of the Fest” Show with Jay Leno at the Burbank Comedy Festival

2019 Champion Seattle International Comedy Competition

2018 Winner of the Boston Comedy Festival

2016 Truth Be Told Storytelling Grand Slam Champ

She tours nationally headlining clubs, festivals, conferences, and events. She has toured internationally on several USO tours to Europe, Asia, Iceland and the Pacific.

Nancy draws from a lifetime of experience. A single mom, she worked many years as a Registered Nurse, and she shares hilarious, insider healthcare anecdotes that will leave you in stitches and wanting to STAY WELL.

She has been a regular Headliner at Comedy Works in Denver since 1992 and has been featured on a variety of TV showcases: currently on Amazon Prime Video, previously on “Evening at the Improv” on A & E, Nickmom Night Out on Nickelodeon, and in her one-woman show, “The Yellowish-Green Girl” on PBS.

Nancy inspires people to a better life through laughter with her keynote, “The Power of Humor: Laugh and Grow Rich!” (There are all kinds of riches). And this keynote is often paired with her Improv Team Building Workshop, entitled: “Practicing Playful Presence.”

Nancy lives in Colorado and balances comedy, speaking, and workshop engagements with writing, producing shows, podcasts, and being a single mom to her active and creative teenage son.

Nancy adopted her son as an infant in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 2005 – a magical journey of a mother and child meant to be together that would not have had a happy ending without the help of humor.

Remember Nancy’s slogan, “No matter what, keep laughing.”

 

The Power of Humor!
LAUGHTER IN A VIRTUAL PROGRAM!

• Virtual Comedy Shows
• Virtual Keynotes
• Virtual Corporate Parties and Happy Hours

Nancy transcends the screen of the webinar platform and connects with funny bones, hearts, and minds. She has transferred her uplifting comedy and hilarious, educational, and memorable keynote presentations seamlessly to virtual platforms, and these days she is getting rave reviews from clients and attendees.

Humor is a need. Laughing boosts our immunity and our mood and gives us resilience!

Nancy has a way of combining comedy with touching real life experiences to prove how humor benefits businesses, families, relationships, and individuals, how it reduces stress and trauma triggers, and how it simultaneously increases creative problem solving, team building, bonding. Then she moves on to conflict resolution, resilience, job retention,  immunity, good health, and even overall joy.

Learn to cartoon your anxiety, pain, or fears and make life more manageable and fun even in stressful times.

Nancy’s talk, “The Power of Humor!” demonstrates how humor empowers individuals and organizations broadly, while incorporating custom material for each occasion to address specific insider jokes, pain points, and goals.

Nancy’s healthcare anecdotes will leave you in stitches… and really wanting to STAY WELL!

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Girl’s Night Out

Nancy Norton’s hilarious and unique standup comedy!

With over 20 years of headlining experience, Nancy is a favorite for Girl’s Night Out, Corporate and Fundraiser Events.

Nancy weaves her material into interactive and improvisational observations. Attendees feel Nancy’s dynamic presence.

No two shows are exactly the same. You get an amazing, unique performance.

Nancy Norton is high energy, very engaging, uplifting and memorable.

Five Star reviews show after show!

 

Nurse Nancy, Stat

Nurses deserve special treatment. Nancy is a Registered Nurse who has studied the medical, social, and work benefits of humor.

Nancy Norton has the perfect remedy for stress and burnout at work. She has a personal understanding of the challenges and rewards of being a nurse.

Combining her nursing background with being a seasoned standup comedian and keynote speaker, Nancy is the perfect match for nurses’ appreciation and education events.

Even though Nancy jokes, “I got out of nursing for the same reason a lot of people got into it…. to save lives,” she is still here to heal with humor.

Coming from five generations of nurses, Nancy instinctively knows how to give excellent care to the caregiver.

Here’s the Breaking News: MRIs and scientific studies show how important humor is to creative problem solving and stress management.

We now know that laughter is a basic need.

For best results: Apply 30 times Daily.

 

Just What the Female Doctor Ordered

For Women’s Health Conferences

As a comedian, speaker and Registered Nurse, no one fills a better prescription for women’s health conferences than Nancy Norton, RN! Nurse Nancy, Stat!

Laughter really is the best medicine and no one knows this better than Nancy.

Beyond her standup comedy, Nancy’s talk entitled: “Find Your Ahahaha Moments!” teaches the many benefits of humor and laughter, while actually gaining those benefits by learning while … laughing.

Let Nancy help you through those hot flashes, memory lapses, and irritability!

(Have Lava Lamp, will travel!) As founder of “MentalPause”, a comedy show for women of a certain age, Nancy can help you not only tolerate getting older, but actually celebrate it!

 

Humor for Healthcare

A Registered Nurse as well as a standup comedian, and speaker, Nancy Norton is passionate about sharing the value of humor, especially as it relates to health and healthcare.

Adding humor to every day helps people experience less stress, more resilience, better health, better problem solving, better relationships, and an all around better life!

Did you know that laughing is a basic human need to maintain health?

Nancy has a broad understanding of healthcare demands because she and her immediate family members havae worked in multiple, diverse roles in a range of departments in hospitals for decades: Nurses Aides, Registered Nurses, Department Heads, Security Guards, Maintenance, Home Care, Central Supply, Housekeeping, and Administration.

At every level of healthcare humor is needed, and Nancy will show how and why we can all benefit from sprinkling more laughter on every slice of our pie chart of life!

 

Stay Away from Home Mom

Parenting and Adoption Conferences

Nancy Norton understands the complex demands of raising children in our busy world. She wants to help parents recharge and have more fun.

Nancy calls herself a “Single-Stay-Away-From-Home-Mom.”

She adopted her son as an infant, and after she went through an exceptionally challenging divorce a year later, gained full custody of her son. But she had no home, no full-time job and no child support.

After the initial shock and sleep deprivation, Nancy has been finding ways to de-stress and lighten-up every day ever since.

With her talk, “Find Your Ahahaha Moments!” all parents can learn ways to gain perspective and have more fun with our kids.

“Practicing Playful Presence” is Nancy’s improv workshop. In it we experience how to create deep bonds and dissolve conflicts and power struggles quickly.

Kids just want to have fun! Practicing playful presence can make our daily chores less painful and less laborious – and actually more fun for the whole family.

 

Every Cloud Has A Silly Lining

Coping with Anxiety, Fear, Stress and Trauma

Nancy Norton shows us how to cartoon our pain to the point of laughter and gain empowerment through life’s stresses and traumas.

Although we can’t always change what is causing us anxiety, pain and stress, we can definitely take charge of how we respond to those events.

That is where power lives.

Nancy shares personal stories about how humor has helped her succeed in some big ways during stressful times: for example, how she managed to adopt her son when she was abandoned in Nepal for months by an unscrupulous adoption agency.

Learn how humor enabled her to shift painful feelings from being a victim of domestic abuse to finding her true, joyful self again — laughing through some of the hardest times of her life.

Nancy started using humor to heal pain of feeling emotionally alone at a young age. As she shares, “I needed more attention as a child. I wasn’t born the 9th of 11 children, but I was born the fourth of three.”

She learned at an early age how to take her pain and play with it, and she would love to share this message of empowerment with others.

You may cry at times, but you will ultimately laugh. And that is what Nancy wants for you at the end of every day. Laughter really is the best medicine.

Science has proven that adding humor and laughter to every day will help us experience less stress, more resilience, better health, better problem solving, better relationships, and an all around better life!

 

 

Laugh and Grow Rich

Businesses Benefit from Humor Too

Let’s get down to some serious business with laughter.

Humor! It’s not just for fun anymore.
Businesses thrive in a milieu of humor.

Creative problem solving is just one of the many benefits of humor that are vital to a successful business.

Studies show that CEO’s who use humor make more money.

Humor attracts others and bonds them with us. Sharing a laugh demonstrates empathy and understanding, improving sales and increasing job retention of employees.

Learn why your business needs humor and how to use it effectively – and laugh while you’re learning.

 

BREAKOUT SESSIONS and WORKSHOPS

Practicing Playful Presence

Nancy loves conducting fun, bonding, memorable, educational, and cathartic breakout sessions, and she custom designs them to the group.

These exercises reinforce the teachings of “Find Your Ahahaha Moments!” and show how to apply the value of humor by being present through accessible and engaging improvisation exercises.

Improv, put simply, is about being present. You do not have to be funny to do improv; you just have to be present. Funny is a common side effect.

The present moment is where the anxiety is lost and the joy is found.

May you be in the present moment . . . for now!