For this new episode of the podcast I am joined by Colleen Berg, director strategic insights at The Palmerston Group.Colleen is a fellow strategist based in Canada, as well as a tabletop roleplaying gamer who regularly plays Dungeons & Drag

Playing Ironsworn Solo RPG Part 4: Narrative Structure and Improvisation

May 14th, 2021 58m 43s

This is a sequel episode to the series playing the Ironsworn solo roleplaying game, if you're new to it I recommend going back to the first episode in which I create the character I am playing, Terilius the Iron Monk.In this series while pl

Go Luck Yourself with Andy Nairn, CSO and co-founder of Lucky Generals

Apr 24th, 2021 1h 18m

For this episode of the podcast I'm joined by Andy Nairn, Chief Strategy Officer and Co-founder of Lucky Generals, an award winning creative agency based in the UK and USA.Andy is one of the most respected and awarded brand strategists in t

Playing Ironsworn Solo RPG Part 3: Random creative input

Mar 28th, 2021 1h 1m

This is a sequel episode to the series playing the Ironsworn roleplaying game, if you're new to it I recommend going back to the first episode in which I create the character I am playing, Terilius the Iron Monk.In this series while playing

Surrealism and Creativity, Playing Itras By with Ashley Derrington and Dina Ramse

Aug 13th, 2020 1h 30m

For this episode of the podcast I'm exceptionally joined by not one, but two guests, AND I hand over the reigns to Dina, who led us in playing a lovely demo of the Norwegian surreal tabletop roleplaying game Itras By.I happened to exchange

Happy Together with Marcelo Kuhn, Co-Founder at The Dojo

Aug 5th, 2020 1h 6m

For this new episode of the podcast, I am joined by Marcelo Peretti Kuhn, Co-Founder of The Dojo, and among other discussion points we demo the atmospheric tabletop roleplaying game Happy Together by French game designer and photographer, Gaël

Space & Mindjammer RPG with Uma Rudd Chia; Creative Director, best-selling author, and global keynote speaker

Jul 3rd, 2020 1h 6m

I am joined by Uma Rudd Chia today. Uma is a creative director, best selling author, global keynote speaker, and founder of the Female Idea. Originally from Malaysia, Uma lived worked internationally, and is now based in Singapore.We had th

Music & Apocalypse World RPG with Eric Woning

Jun 2nd, 2020 1h 5m

Hi, and welcome to another episode of the Ice Cream for Everyone podcast, where play meets strategy. And both as an edited audio file (cleaned up sound, mostly) as well as on video for the first time!I am joined by Eric Woning, a brand and

Playing Ironsworn Part 2: System & Feeling embarrassed

May 21st, 2020 1h 3m

Growth Marketing & Gambling with Rohan Kale

May 17th, 2020 1h 2m

I hope you and your close ones are safe in the midst of the worldwide pandemic, take care - and don’t hesitate reaching out, whether you have any questions about your brand and marketing communication strategy, or if you want to chat about any

Playing Ironsworn Part 1: Character Creation, Brand Personalities

Apr 4th, 2020 1h

I'm pretty excited about this new episode, I'm looking forward to hearing what you think of it. I've had plans to begin recording a tabletop roleplaying game while musing about brand strategy and a few other topics, and it's finally beginning!

Confined in Paris

Mar 28th, 2020 27m

A month has gone by in a flash since the last episode I published, and the world has massively changed since - at least much of the world has, as the COVID-19 virus has been declared a global pandemic. In France we have been confined to our ho

Quill RPG Author and Trollish Delver, Scott Malthouse

Feb 27th, 2020 1h 7m

We are back to a more traditional episode of the podcast this month, it follows the episode I recently published playing Quill, a letter-writing roleplaying game for a single player - you can go back to that one first if you'd like though it's

Playful Visit at The Louvre Museum

Jan 20th, 2020 1h

I am experimenting new types of episodes for the podcast and would love to hear what you think of this one, given it's a first time for me.Before Christmas, I went out one day with my Zoom H5 audio recorder and recorded my observations visi

Playing Quill, A Letter-writing Roleplaying Game for a Single Player

Jan 3rd, 2020 1h

Happy new year, I hope you had an amazing time over the holidays!!I can't believe it's 2020 already. Now I really feel old, still thinking of "the Twenties" as the 1920s now nearly twenty years into the 21st century. I'm sure people thought

Summer update on the way from Chicago to Paris

Jul 5th, 2019 13m 42s

Well for a change I'm kind of behind on all sorts of things (mainly the podcast, newsletter, and other similar side projects and ideas - like designing a board game, that hasn't gotten any love in a while. But I digress) I was about to fly fro

Brewing the Sour Stouts of Roleplaying Games with Jason Pitre, Designer & Publisher at Genesis of Legend

Jun 12th, 2019 1h 5m

I first met Jason at GenCon in 2018, and have been meaning to have a conversation about his game designing since. We had a brilliant chat about coffee roasting, roleplaying game writing and design, some of his history, what he believes his gam

Being helpful & enthusiastic with Jessica Greenwood, Chief Strategy Officer of R/GA US

Jun 5th, 2019 52m 31s

I had a brilliant and lively conversation about the value of being helpful, enthusiasm, the craft of writing, storytelling, today's media landscape, and more with Jessica Greenwood, Chief Strategy Officer of R/GA.Jessica was a journalist be

Brave Storytelling with Ama McKinley, Freelance Strategy Consultant

May 21st, 2019 1h 6m

I am happy to share the inspiring and fun conversation I had with Ama McKinley a few weeks ago. I came across her Linkedin profile while browsing as I sometimes do, read her profile, some of her writing, and reached out given she seemed to ha

Master P for Planner with Steve Bayley, Creata Strategy & Insights Director

May 10th, 2019 1h 11m

Steve reached out a couple of months ago with an interest to be on the podcast, he seemed like he was up to a lot of interesting things so we organized meeting up for chat.We ended up unexpectedly talking about rap and hip hop, Steve's circ

Designing Marketing Experiences with Jennifer Severns, AMA Chief Experience Officer

May 6th, 2019 1h 2m

I've had an excellent conversation about design with Jennifer Severns, including some fun geeking out on Marvel superhero movies (tiny spoiler for Captain Marvel, FYI) and video games.Jennifer is the Chief Experience Officer at the American

Soulful Brand Design with Jim Pietruszynski, Partner & Chief Strategy Officer at Soulsight

Apr 24th, 2019 1h 7m

I invited Jim to be a guest on the podcast and he was gracious enough to invite me to chat in person at the lovely Soulsight offices in Chicago's downtown Loop.Soulsight is an award-winning branding agency working with some of the largest

Living Playfully with Emma Worrollo, Founder & Chief Creative Officer of The Pineapple Lounge

Apr 19th, 2019 1h 4m

I had a fantastic conversation with Emma Worrollo, Founder and Chief Creative Officer of The Pineapple Lounge. It's a research agency specializing in better understanding children, teens, families, and helping brands connect with them.I cam

Revealing Uncomfortable Truths with Mark Pollard, Strategy Writer

Apr 10th, 2019 1h 22m

I'm pretty sure a lot of people will be looking forward to this conversation, and for me it's sort of been a while coming. I met up with Mark Pollard over a couple of years ago in London, had just bought a new digital audio recorder I didn't r

The Case For Boredom with Rob Estreitinho, Senior Strategist

Apr 3rd, 2019 1h 8m

This new conversation with Rob Estreitinho went by in a flash, it was a brilliant chat and I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed recording it. I even wondered if it was a little abrupt in my managing the end of it, but I was j