Carlen Altman is a creative multi-hyphenate, storyteller, and certified integrative health practitioner
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blending irreverent humor, art, and radical curiosity to explore taboos, consciousness, technology, mental health, neurodiversity and biodiversity - aimed with the goal of personal + planetary well-being.
about
Raised in New York City, Carlen Altman is an award-winning filmmaker, comedian, storyteller, public speaker, artist, and inventor whose work bridges media, humor, sensitivity, spirituality, environmentalism, wellness, design, and cultural change.
She is the daughter of an artist and ‘70’s standup comedian icon, Uncle Dirty aka Bob Altman (but sadly, not a nepo baby, jk lol)
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Her creative path has included on-air presenting and writing at MTV News, HBO’s High Maintenance, her award winning film The Color Wheel, stand-up comedy, and pioneering projects like The Jewish Rosary™ — featured on The Today Show and carried by Urban Outfitters.
Her work has been seen in outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, ELLE, The Sundance Channel and more.
She has performed standup comedy, improvisation and storytelling at places like Caroline’s (New York), The Comedy Mothership (Texas) and The People’s Reset (Mexico)
education
On the educational and training front, Carlen holds a B.A. from Oberlin College, with a concentration in Psychology and Environmental Studies — along with certification as an Integrative Health Practitioner from IHP (‘2022) and double certifications in Spiritual Psychology and Advanced Spiritual Psychology (‘2019) from the University of Santa Monica.
She also has trained extensively in comedy with Upright Citizen’s Brigade, The People’s Improv Theatre, HB Studio NYC.
Today, through her various projects -Earth To Carlen, 1-800-EARTH, and How To Get Your Sh*t Together, she is building a “New Paradigm of Humor and Healing.”
the plot twist
After what she lovingly calls an “inconvenient spiritual awakening” in 2017 following the death of her father and antidepressant withdrawl, Carlen stepped away from mainstream entertainment, activism, and society to begin a decade long healing journey - studying detoxification, somatic and nervous system regulation, spirituality, and the deeper roots of personal and planetary imbalance.
CURRENT OFFERINGS
She uses comedy, storytelling, public speaking, media, and radical curiosity to help people imagine new ways of healing themselves, their communities, and the planet.
-Individual 1:1 sessions
-Corporate/Business sessions
Based between the U.S. and Mexico, Carlen is available for select speaking engagements, collaborations, 1:1 sessions, and longer-term consulting projects.
