Shanna Germain (she/her) is one of the co-founders of Monte Cook Games (MCG). As a veteran tabletop game designer and an award-winning erotica author, she has forgotten more about building and using safety tools than many of us will ever learn. Join us as Shanna reveals how discussions about consent and boundaries at our tables lead to healthier tabletop gaming experiences!

00:01:20 - Who Is Shanna Germain?
00:08:48 - No Thank You Evil (aka How Yoshi Made Shanna Happy Cry)
00:14:13 - The Importance of Pre-Negotiation | TTRPG = BDSM
00:20:08 - Why Consent Needs to Be Invited To Our Games
00:26:30 - A Quick and Dirty Guide to Shanna's Consent in Gaming Checklist
00:29:15 - Establishing Boundaries & Improving Communication at the Table
00:39:33 - How Better Communication Increases a Game's Accessibility
00:45:17 - Safety Tools As Building Blocks For Self-Advocacy
00:52:34 - Tools and Tips For Empowering Your Table
01:00:01 - Closing Remarks

Resources
The Poison Eater - https://www.montecookgames.com/store/product/the-poison-eater/
Consent in Gaming Checklist - https://www.montecookgames.com/consent-in-gaming/
Cypher System - https://www.montecookgames.com/store/product/cypher-system-rulebook-2/
As Kinky as You Wanna Be - https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/As-Kinky-as-You-Wanna-Be/Shanna-Germain/9781627780629
No Thank You Evil - https://www.montecookgames.com/store/product/no-thank-you-evil/
We Are All Mad Here - https://www.montecookgames.com/store/product/we-are-all-mad-here/

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Credits
Guest - Shanna Germain, https://www.shannagermain.com/
Production by Victor Media Group, Inc. - https://victormediagroup.co/
Original Music by Byson - https://spoti.fi/3eoC47l
Creator / Host - Clara Mount (@bubblegum_titan on Twitter)
Executive Producers-- J.B. Adams and Gerard Mitchell
Sound Editor - Anna Hughes
Production Assistant - Bishop Clarke

Each chapter of Sachin Jaitly’s career reads like a new adventure. He has served as a corporate financial executive, tech entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. With each new role, he encounters satisfying successes as well as challenging defeats, and gathers valuable lessons that can be applied to not only career and business, but to life. Sachin Jaitly currently serves as founder and general partner at Morgan Creek Digital, where he manages investments in early stage Web 3 companies that leverage blockchain, AI, digital assets, and cryptocurrency. Listen and learn from his perspective on the future of cryptocurrency, the demise of FTX, the prospect of cryptocurrency regulation, and advice for entrepreneurs.

01:10 -- Guest intro, understanding blockchain and the crypto market
10:07 -- The collapse of FTX
18:56 -- Regulating crypto
21:27 -- Backstory, lessons from managing vending machines
28:43 -- Crummer experience, attraction to finance
35:13 -- Career journey, learnings from creating flexReceipts
46:40 -- Career and business advice, life lessons

Resources
Crummer Graduate School of Business -- https://www.crummer.rollins.edu/
Morgan Creek Capital – https://www.morgancreekcap.com/
Morgan Creek Digital – https://www.morgancreekcap.com/morgan-creek-digital/
Tessera Venture Partners – https://www.tesseravp.com/
flexEngage – https://www.flexengage.com/

Credits
Guest -- Sachin Jaitly, https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjaitly/
Production by Victor Media Group, Inc. -- https://victormediagroup.co/
Creator / Host -- J.B. Adams
Executive Producer -- Gerard Mitchell
Technical/Production Design -- Angel Colon
Technical/Production Assistance -- Hao Do, Dassika Gilkey, Jaianne Gilkey
Audio Editing -- Manni Simon

Sereia Spinner (they/them) is a sensitivity consultant, burlesque performer, avid LARPer, a historian. In all that they do, Sereia specializes in bringing important truths to the spotlight while motivating others to do the same. In this episode, Sereia speaks on the need for sensitivity consultants in creative projects, why LARPs should care about making their communities inclusive, and how to make your LARP more accessible to people of color.

00:00 - Intro
02:02 - Play & Games As Survival Skills
04:40 - Sereia’s First Forays Into Gaming
04:50 - “What is D&D but text based rp spoken out loud with dice?”
06:28 - How Sereia Found LARPing
12:30 - A Sensitivity Consultant Is Born
18:10 - Why Games Need Sensitivity Consultants
27:54 - LARPing in Color
31:46 - Consulting as an Act of Care
36:34 - Getting More POC in LARPs
42:46 - The Necessity of Intentionality & Accessibility in LARP
50:54 - Final Thoughts

Resources
LARPing in Color: Consultant List -- https://larpingincolor.com/consultants

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Credits
Guest -- Sereia Spinner, sereia.mcdaniel@gmail.com
Production by Victor Media Group, Inc. -- https://victormediagroup.co/
Original Music by Byson -- https://spoti.fi/3eoC47l
Creator / Host -- Clara Mount (@bubblegum_titan on Twitter)
Executive Producers -- J.B. Adams and Gerard Mitchell
Sound Editing -- Anna Hughes
Production Assistance -- Bishop Clarke

In his long career, U.S. Army Lieutenant General Mark Hertling (Ret.) has met and worked with presidents, monarchs, and military leaders from around the world. But he has also faced times of great adversity, including life-and-death combat situations, and moments that require the courage to “speak up for what’s right.” Mark Hertling currently serves as adjunct professor of strategic leadership at the Crummer School, and provides leadership development to physicians in healthcare organizations. Listen and learn from his perspective on the conflict in Ukraine, the current mental health crisis, what it means to be American, and what is worth fighting for.

01:32 -- Guest intro, discussion of the conflict in Ukraine
06:08 -- Leadership on the world stage, comparing Zelenskyy and Putin
08:45 -- The post-pandemic mental health crisis
14:18 -- What it means to be American, what’s worth fighting for
23:35 -- Backstory, attending U.S. Military Academy at West Point
29:45 -- Career journey, leaders “not allowed to have a bad day”
34:16 -- Mark Hertling’s Crummer experience, Growing Physician Leaders
43:52 -- Career advice, becoming a military analyst at CNN

Books
Growing Physician Leaders by Mark Hertling -- https://tinyurl.com/5n7e3bf

Resources
Crummer Graduate School of Business -- https://www.crummer.rollins.edu/
Medscape article on physician suicide -- https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/806779-overview
USO article on military suicides -- https://www.uso.org/stories/2664-military-suicide-rates-are-at-an-all-time-high-heres-how-were-trying-to-help
Profile of Christina Maslach, Ph.D. -- https://psychology.berkeley.edu/people/christina-maslach
U.S. Military Academy at West Point -- https://www.westpoint.edu/
Mark Hertling’s Twitter, @MarkHertling -- https://twitter.com/markhertling/status/1559941585542041602
Mark Hertling profile at CNN -- https://www.cnn.com/profiles/mark-hertling-profile
American Battlefield Monuments Commission -- https://www.abmc.gov/

Credits
Guest -- Mark Hertling, https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-hertling-dba-57987066/
https://crummer.rollins.edu/faculty/mark-hertling/
Production by Victor Media Group, Inc. -- https://victormediagroup.co/
Creator / Host -- J.B. Adams
Executive Producer -- Gerard Mitchell
Technical/Production Design -- Angel Colon
Technical/Production Assistance -- Hao Do, Dassika Gilkey, Jaianne Gilkey
Audio Editing -- Manni Simon

Natalia Warren was studying for her second master’s degree when a painful medical condition changed the course of her life and led her to patient advocacy. She currently serves as the chair and co-founder of the Not A Dry Eye Foundation, the only patient-driven, non-profit foundation focused on raising awareness of Dry Eye Syndrome. Listen and learn from Natalia Warren’s experience with dry eye, as well as her perspective on the conflict in Ukraine, the need for patient advocacy in the American healthcare system, and her advice for non-profit organizations.

01:22 -- Guest intro, discussion of Your Dry Eye Mystery Solved
10:00 -- Backstory, what it means to be Ukrainian
14:58 -- Professional journey, becoming a patient advocate
25:43 -- Natalia Warren’s Crummer experience
29:31 -- Advice for non-profits

Books
Your Dry Eye Mystery Solved by Steven L. Maskin and Natalia A. Warren -- https://tinyurl.com/37xvauub

Resources
Crummer Graduate School of Business -- https://www.crummer.rollins.edu/
Not A Dry Eye Foundation -- notadryeye.org
Come Back Alive (Ukrainian Army Charity Fund) -- savelife.in.ua
National Bank of Ukraine -- bank.gov.ua
Dr. Steven L. Maskin -- drmaskin.com
Amazon Smile -- smile.amazon.com

Credits
Guest -- Natalia Warren, https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalia-warren-9733241/
Production by Victor Media Group, Inc. -- https://victormediagroup.co/
Creator / Host -- J.B. Adams
Executive Producer -- Gerard Mitchell
Technical/Production Design -- Angel Colon
Technical/Production Assistance -- Hao Do
Video and Audio Editing -- Anna Hughes

Shannon McDowell (she/her) is a board game inventor and puzzle designer who was hired to research and mitigate cultural bias in the puzzles for the 2019 Red Bull Escape Room World Championships. Shannon walks us through how she became a professional puzzle designer, how cultural biases manifest in escape rooms & puzzle design, and how to design puzzles that are challenging while remaining inclusive.

00:02:07 - How We Connect Through Games
00:04:28 - Meet Shannon
00:10:21 - “We Haven’t Seen Everything That’s Possible”
00:17:36 - Cultural Bias in Escape Rooms
00:20:26 - Five Categories of Cultural Bias in Puzzles
00:24:55 - How to Make a Bad Escape Room
00:38:18 - How Hints Can Make or Break A Puzzle
00:50:55 - On Physical Accessibility in Escape Rooms
01:01:00 - The Value of Inclusivity in Gaming

Resources
Shannon’s publications - https://www.shannonmcdowell.ca/publications-media
Shannon’s free puzzles - https://www.shannonmcdowell.ca/puzzles
SCRAP Entertainment Inc - https://realescapegame.com/about/
2019 Red Bull Escape Room World Championship - https://www.redbull.com/gb-en/events/red-bull-escape-room-world-championships-final
Cryptex Hunt - https://cryptexhunt.com/2022/

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Credits
Guest - Shannon McDowell, https://www.shannonmcdowell.ca/
Production by Victor Media Group, Inc. - https://victormediagroup.co/
Original Music by Byson - https://spoti.fi/3eoC47l
Creator / Host - Clara Mount (@bubblegum_titan on Twitter)
Executive Producers-- J.B. Adams and Gerard Mitchell
Sound Editing - Anna Hughes

TW: sexual assault and abuse, grooming, bullying, threats, talk of suicide, racism.
Raquel Skellington (she/her), the world’s first full-time professional LARPer, tells the story of how she built her career, survived a traumatic public character assassination during the peak of cancel culture, and now represents some of the biggest companies in the LARP sphere. She also shares her thoughts about being the first pro LARPer as a woman of color, and what that means for her.

00:02:06 -- Meet Raquel!
00:13:02 -- “LARP fundamentally changed me”
00:22:49 -- Becoming a professional LARPer
00:39:38 -- When modeling and LARPing converge
00:47:59 -- Surviving a racially fueled public attack
01:06:51 -- Recovery and growth
01:21:21 -- What keeps Raquel going

Games
Sims series -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims
House of the Dead 2 -- https://bit.ly/39cqL25
Civilization series -- https://bit.ly/3zpXWK9
Paladins -- https://www.paladins.com/
Dystopia Rising -- http://www.dystopiarisinglarp.com/
Dammerung -- https://www.larpcoop.com/dammerung

Other Resources
Calimacil -- https://calimacil.com/?aff=117
Ateliers Nemesis -- https://ateliers-nemesis.com/en/
Drachenfest US -- https://www.drachenfest.us/

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Credits
Guest -- Raquel Skellington, https://raquel-skellington.carrd.co/
Production by Victor Media Group, Inc. -- https://victormediagroup.co/
Original Music by Byson -- https://spoti.fi/3eoC47l
Creator / Host -- Clara Mount (@bubblegum_titan on Twitter)
Executive Producers -- J.B. Adams and Gerard Mitchell
Sound Editing -- Anna Hughes

Elaine Gómez (she/her), Puerto Rican game designer at Brass Lion Entertainment, shares how game design can be a tool for exploring and celebrating culture, and how she’s leaving a legacy of accessibility through her work in the video game industry.

00:01:19 -- Meet Elaine!
00:15:11 -- A beautiful storybook
00:20:40 -- Game design philosophy
00:29:20 -- Leaving your mark as a designer
00:39:36 -- Representing cultures with sensitivity
00:51:22 -- The importance of accessibility design
01:03:21 -- The industry needs to learn to share
01:15:15 -- Getting started with accessible design

Games
Child of Light -- https://bit.ly/3wqQwUR
Assassin’s Creed 3 -- https://bit.ly/3815A2g
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey -- https://bit.ly/3FYHbH8
Mulaka -- https://www.lienzo.mx/mulaka/
The Last of Us -- https://bit.ly/3G6gnVy

Other Resources
Brass Lion Entertainment Careers -- https://brasslionentertainment.com/careers/
AbleGamers -- https://ablegamers.org/
Accessible Player Experiences (APX) -- https://accessible.games/accessible-player-experiences/

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Credits
Guest -- Elaine Gómez (she/her), @chulatastic or http://www.elaine-gomez.com/
Production by Victor Media Group, Inc. -- https://victormediagroup.co/
Original Music by Byson -- https://spoti.fi/3eoC47l
Creator / Host -- Clara Mount (@bubblegum_titan on Twitter)
Executive Producers -- J.B. Adams and Gerard Mitchell
Sound Editing -- Anna Hughes