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After 5 years of talking about all things feminism, geekdom, and LGBTQIA+ issues, the time of Geek Herring has come to an end. In this episode Amanda and Moni talk one final time about their decision and what led to this point.We are forever grateful for every single person who listened to our ramblings. Hopefully we'll see or hear you in one way or the other out there. So long, and thanks for all the fish!Forever geekily yours,Amanda & MonikaFollow Geek Herring Productions on Twitch!! | Subscribe to Geek Herring Productions on YouTube ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

It's time to talk about Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3! What we loved about it, what we didn't like so much, and whether or not we actually cried.P.S. We still hate Chris Pratt.What did you think? Join us in Discord to chat your feelings!Check Out Geek Herring!Follow Geek Herring Productions on Twitch!! | Subscribe to Geek Herring Productions on YouTubeLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Support Geek Herring on Patreon!If you've enjoyed this episode, please check out some of our others! Geeking Out About Wakanda Forever: Just Incredible. Geeking Out About She-Hulk: The Power of Women Supporting Women Geek Girl Reviews Ms Marvel: A Fun, Cultural Masterpiece with Jasmin Joe Star Find Out MoreLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Join us on Discord!!You can find us Online / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter / Patreon!Geekily yours,Amanda & Monika ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Geek Girl in the News looks at the awesome or not so awesome news that will make you go either: "YAY" or "OMG I can't believe that." The latest and greatest geek girl news from May 2023 covers the Phillip Schofield scandal, Target caving into hate groups, the terrifying reality of abuse female gamers face, a look into the PlayStation showcase, a whole bunch of The Little Mermaid hype, why we still think Emma Watson is the freaking best, and the weirdest but most awesome update coming to Dead By Daylight.We'd love your take! Let us know in the comments of wherever you see this episode!In this episode of Geek Girl in the News, we covered these news stories: Elderly couple wins at Wii Bowling tournament in wholesome gaming moment Phillip Schofield admits he lied about relationship with junior colleague Target is Caving to Hate Groups By Burying Its Pride Collection Half of British female gamers experience abuse when playing online PlayStation Showcase: Spider-Man 2 leads PS5's 2023 games lineup The Little Mermaid hooks audiences with whale of an opening weekend Emma Watson reveals why she stepped away from acting after 'Little Women' Nicolas Cage will feature in Dead by Daylight Check Out Geek Herring!Subscribe to Geek Herring Productions on YouTubeJoin us on Discord!!Follow Geek Herring on Twitch!! | Join the Geek Herring Book ClubLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Support Geek Herring on Patreon!If you've enjoyed this episode, please check out some of our others! Geek Interview: Inclusive Games Journalism with Ed Nightingale Geeking Out About Wakanda Forever: Just Incredible. Geek Girl Reviews Heartstopper: Queer Joy & LGBTQIA+ Rep Done Right Geekily yours,Amanda & MoniSupport Geek Herrin u ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Have you ever thought about the sexual content you consume? We're joined by our resident sexual content expert, Gemma Glitter, to talk about ethical pornography and sexual service consumption. What is ethical pornography? How can we consume sexual content in a manner that doesn't result in exploitation? Where can we find ethical pornography? And how can we support sex workers? We answer all these questions and so much more.If you got as much information out of this episode as we did, please let us know on social or in our Discord!Resources Mentioned Language Matters Suggested Sources for Free Feminist Porn Gemma's Personal Favourite Feminist Porn Site Global Sex Worker Action Projects SWARM  Maggie's  SWOP  ESWA  Check Out Geek Herring!Follow Geek Herring on Twitch!!Subscribe to Geek Herring Productions on YouTubeLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Support Geek Herring on Patreon!If you've enjoyed this episode, please check out some of our others! Geek Girl Reviews Money Shot: The Pornhub Story Geek Girl Reviews Surviving R. Kelly: What a Piece of Sh*t Bodies and Radical Self-Love with Gemma Find Out MoreLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Join us on Discord!!You can find us Online / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter / Patreon!Geekily yours,Amanda & Monika ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Charity Twitch streamers have such a positive impact! In fact, it's such a good avenue for charities to explore, many charities have opted to hire folks to liaise directly with streamers for huge fundraising campaigns.We're joined by Jay, a charity Twitch streamer, content creator, and Gaming Partnerships Executive for War Child UK. They talk about their experiences raising money on Twitch, making a difference with War Child UK, and all about War Child UK's charitable contribution to this world.This is an excellent, super inspiring episode that we definitely hope you love as much as we did recording it!Find Out More About War Child UKAbout JayJay (he/they) is a queer, neurodiverse, and salty content creator and charity-fundraising-gremlin from War Child UK. They are also a member of the fundraising team Cosmic Heart. Jay has been making content on Twitch for three years, and has been a fundraiser their whole adult life. Jay is just an absolutely massive nerd.Find Jay/ErinusTV on TwitchFind Jay/ErinusTV on Twitter | InstagramCheck Out Geek Herring!Follow Geek Herring on Twitch!!Subscribe to Geek Herring Productions on YouTubeLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Support Geek Herring on Patreon!If you've enjoyed this episode, please check out some of our others! Geek Interview: An Insight into Second Wave Feminism with Professor Taliep Geek Interview: Redefining Genres with New York Times Bestselling Author Madeleine Roux Geek Interview: Life as a Professional Feminist with Virginia Mendez from The Feminist Shop Find Out MoreLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Join us on Discord!!You can find us Online / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter / Patreon!Geekily yours,Amanda & Monika ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We are joined by the one and only absolutely incredibly inspiring Demeternoth! She is a content creator and Twitch streamer, focussing on deep discussions and MMOs. We have a fantastic conversation about the trials and tribulations of content creation, what it's like being a visible woman, and how we are all changing the world one day at a time.We also had some amazing community questions:From Cyrub_KoC on Twitter: Deme, as a fellow content creator, how do you gather the motivation to continue creating? I've hit a pretty bad wall and I don't know how to get back into the groove of creation. Any tips?From TitansCreed on Twitter: Why are you so coooooooooool?About DemeternothDemeter-likethegoddess-noth is your local bifactional, bisexual MMO streamer.Find Demeternoth on TwitchFind Demeternoth on Twitter | Instagram | YouTubeCheck Out Geek Herring!Follow Geek Herring on Twitch!!Subscribe to Geek Herring Productions on YouTubeLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Support Geek Herring on Patreon!If you've enjoyed this episode, please check out some of our others! Geek Interview: An Insight into Second Wave Feminism with Professor Taliep Geek Interview: Redefining Genres with New York Times Bestselling Author Madeleine Roux Geek Interview: Life as a Professional Feminist with Virginia Mendez from The Feminist Shop Find Out MoreLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Join us on Discord!!You can find us Online / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter / Patreon!Geekily yours,Amanda & Monika ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Join hosts Moni and Amanda as they celebrate Amanda's birthday with some of their favourite card game: Ask Deep Questions!These are the questions asked in this episode: What is the most memorable gift you've ever received? How do you motivate yourself? If you had to give a talk about something you're NOT known for, what would it be about? If you could re-live a single moment of your life, which one would you pick? What do you do, even though you don't want to? What is your relationship with flirting? What is a piece of advice you have received, that you were glad to take? What courageous conversation have you been avoiding? What are the brightest and darkest thoughts on your birthday? In what way do you feel incomplete? If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? What are you most grateful for in your life? Join us in Discord to chat with us!Check Out Geek Herring!Follow Geek Herring on Twitch!!  | Subscribe to Geek Herring Productions on YouTubeLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Support Geek Herring on Patreon!If you've enjoyed this episode, please check out some of our others! Geek Herring & Chill: Setting Boundaries & Intentions, Seeing Dead People, Seeking Advice, and More! Geek Discussion: Our PCOS Stories, or How Medicine Says FU to People With Uteruses Geek Herring & Chill: The Games We're Playing Find Out MoreLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Join us on Discord!!You can find us Online / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter / Patreon!Geekily yours,Amanda & Monika ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Money Shot: The Pornhub Story is about, well, porn. But it's also not. It's about sexual exploitation, legal sex work, and the laws that have muddled everything up.With some thoughtful and knowledgeable from our community, we discuss this documentary in-depth, what FOSTA and SESTA mean for the sex work industry, and, above all, condemn the sexual exploitation on Pornhub and so many other pornography sites. Rest assured, we're going to dive into this topic, specifically sex work and ethical pornography, in a future episode.Find Money Shot: The Pornhub Story on NetflixFind Follow This: Whore's Day on NetflixWhat did you think? Join us in Discord to chat your feelings!Check Out Geek Herring!Follow Geek Herring Productions on Twitch!! | Subscribe to Geek Herring Productions on YouTubeLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Support Geek Herring on Patreon!If you've enjoyed this episode, please check out some of our others! Geek Discussion: A.D.I.D.A.B. (All Day I Dream About Boobs) Geek Discussion: You Do You (aka Why The Patriarchy Can S*ck It) Geek Girl in the News: Abuse at GDC, Filibustering for Trans Rights, & Illegal Street Harassment in the UK Find Out MoreLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Join us on Discord!!You can find us Online / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter / Patreon!Geekily yours,Amanda & Monika ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Geek Girl in the News looks at the awesome or not so awesome news that will make you go either: "YAY" or "OMG I can't believe that." The latest and greatest geek girl news from March 2023 covers the abuse allegations and drink spiking that took place during March's GDC, a better response from Resolve Esports about transphobic hate comments their athletes received, the absolute awe we all feel about Senator Cavanaugh filibustering from Trans Rights, the great news from the UK that street harassment will soon be illegal, that the 90s are coming back with the 30 year reunion of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers on Netflix, Daniel Radcliffe is gonna be a dad, and Bonnie Wright is starting an environmental TV show!We'd love your take! Let us know in the comments of wherever you see this episode!In this episode of Geek Girl in the News, we covered these news stories: Abuse allegations emerge in the wake of GDC 2023 GDC 2023 attendees were reportedly subjected to abuse, assault, and drink spiking Resolve Esports Twitter Response “I Will Burn This Session To the Ground”: We're in Awe of the Nebraska Senator Filibustering for Trans Rights Wolf Whistling, Catcalling, Other Forms of Street Harassment Set To Become Illegal in the U.K. The Original ‘Mighty Morphin Power Rangers' Are Reuniting on Netflix!!! ‘Harry Potter' star Daniel Radcliffe and Erin Darke expecting first child Bonnie Wright and Pattie Gonia are Making a TV Show! Check Out Geek Herring!Subscribe to Geek Herring Productions on YouTubeJoin us on Discord!!Follow Geek Herring on Twitch!! | Join the Geek Herring Book ClubLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Support Geek Herring on Patreon!If you've enjoyed this episode, please check out some of our others! Geek Discussion: Attending Mass Events as Women and Marginalised Genders Geek Discussion: Morals in Entertainment: When do you walk away? Geek Interview: Winning Gold Medals and Championing Diversity & Inclusion in eSports with Emma ‘Emzii' Rose Geekily yours,Amanda & MoniSupport Geek Herring ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Clarkisha Kent joins us to discuss her brand new book, Fat Off, Fat On: A Bit Bitch Manifesto. We had the pleasure of reading this book before its release, and it was really cool getting to chat with her about her writing and creative process.CW for childhood and family trauma, which is a big topic in her memoir. We briefly discuss family dynamics and trauma in this episode, too.Clarkisha shares her writing process, how she came to write her memoir before the western she's dreaming of, and what it's like being a first-time published author.About Clarkisha KentClarkisha Kent is a Nigerian-American writer, culture critic, former columnist, and author. Committed to telling inclusive stories via unique viewpoints from nigh-infancy, she is fascinated with using storytelling and cultural criticism not as a way to “overcome” or “transcend” her unique identities (as a fat and queer Black African woman), but as a way to explore them, celebrate them, affirm them, and most importantly, normalize them and make the world safe enough for people who share them to exist.Fat Off, Fat On: A Big Bitch Manifesto on GoodreadsFind Clarkisha Kent OnlineFind Clarkisha Kent on Twitter | InstagramCheck Out Geek Herring!Follow Geek Herring on Twitch!!Subscribe to Geek Herring Productions on YouTubeLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Support Geek Herring on Patreon!If you've enjoyed this episode, please check out some of our others! Geek Interview: Winning Gold Medals and Championing Diversity & Inclusion in eSports with Emma ‘Emzii' Rose Geek Girl Reviews Ms Marvel: A Fun, Cultural Masterpiece with Jasmin Joe Star Geek Interview: Geek Interview: Geek Joysticks with Ed and Ben from Swapping Joysticks Find Out MoreLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Join us on Discord!!You can find us Online / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter / Patreon!Geekily yours,Amanda & Monika ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This International Women's Day, we wanted to talk about the women we love and are utterly inspired by. Hear us chat about our mum's, the fabulous women we work with, the inspirational older geeks we love, Lizzo, and trans women!Join us in Discord to chat about the women who inspire YOU!Check Out Geek Herring!Follow Geek Herring on Twitch!! Subscribe to Geek Herring Productions on YouTubeLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Support Geek Herring on Patreon!If you've enjoyed this episode, please check out some of our others! Geek Discussion: You Do You (aka Why The Patriarchy Can S*ck It) Geek Discussion: Geeky Ways to Stay Fit Bodies and Radical Self-Love with Gemma Find Out MoreLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Join us on Discord!!You can find us Online / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter / Patreon!Geekily yours, Amanda & Monik ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Happy Valentine's Day, Geeks! We wanted to talk about all the games, books, movies, and other forms of media we love that centre love! HOWEVER, that's not really what we talk about at all. So, join us as we talk about some of our most memorable Valentine's Days, our love languages, friendship (and making friends as adults), and more!Join us in Discord to chat all about love!Check Out Geek Herring!Follow Geek Herring on Twitch!! Love Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Support Geek Herring on Patreon!If you've enjoyed this episode, please check out some of our others! Geek Roundtable: Love in Every Form Geeking Out About She-Hulk: The Power of Women Supporting Women Geek Girl Reviews Heartstopper: Queer Joy & LGBTQIA+ Rep Done Right Find Out MoreLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Join us on Discord!!You can find us Online / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter / Patreon!Geekily yours, Amanda & Monika ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

PCOS, or Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, is a metabolic condition that so, so many women have, including hosts Amanda and Moni. In this episode, we talk about our own experiences with it, how we have coped over the years, and the long, frustrating journey with medical doctors.Let's get into what PCOS is, how it impacts the lives of the folks who have it, why the medical system consistently fails us, and then some shaving tips!We also talk about Dr. Felish Gersh, Amanda's PCOS doctor crush, and recommend checking her out, especially her book!Join us in Discord to chat about your experience with PCOS!Check Out Geek Herring!Follow Geek Herring on Twitch!! Love Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Support Geek Herring on Patreon!If you've enjoyed this episode, please check out some of our others! Geek Discussion: You Do You (aka Why The Patriarchy Can S*ck It) Geek Discussion: Geeky Ways to Stay Fit Bodies and Radical Self-Love with Gemma Find Out MoreLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Join us on Discord!!You can find us Online / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter / Patreon!Geekily yours, Amanda & Monik ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

You're not the same as anyone else, so why would you try to live your life to someone else's standards? We're so tired of the patriarchal society's defined linear path and the shame people feel (and GET) if they're not following along it perfectly.Fuck. That. Noise.You do you, boo. Live life on your own terms. March to the beat of your own drum. Do what makes you happy. Remember, it's okay to change your mind. It's okay to be different. It's okay to do your own thing.We got this thing called life.Join us in Discord to chat about doing what brings YOU joy!Check Out Geek Herring!Follow Geek Herring on Twitch!! Love Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Support Geek Herring on Patreon!If you've enjoyed this episode, please check out some of our others! Geek Discussion: Fit is a Feminist Issue with Geek Girl Strong, Robyn Warren Geek Interview: Loving the Skin You're in with Frank the Pegasus Bodies and Radical Self-Love with Gemma Find Out MoreLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Join us on Discord!!You can find us Online / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter / Patreon!Geekily yours, Amanda & Monika ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Us geeks love to get fit, too! And we love to have fun while doing it. Virtual Reality, FitBits, Apple Watches, Wii Fit, Ring Fit, accountability groups, and SO MUCH MORE. We think it's safe to say that both Moni and Amanda love Beat Sabre... but that's not the only geeky fitness hack they use. Amanda loves some Just Dance and some good ol' fashioned boxing, and Moni's been keeping up with yoga for over a year!We'd love to hear how you get fit, especially if you use any kind of video game or geeky accountability!Join us in Discord to chat about how you use geeky stuff to get fit!Check Out Geek Herring!Follow Geek Herring on Twitch!! Love Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Support Geek Herring on Patreon!If you've enjoyed this episode, please check out some of our others! Geek Discussion: Fit is a Feminist Issue with Geek Girl Strong, Robyn Warren Geek Interview: Loving the Skin You're in with Frank the Pegasus Bodies and Radical Self-Love with Gemma Find Out MoreLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Join us on Discord!!You can find us Online / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter / Patreon!Geekily yours, Amanda & Monika ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Happy New Year!We can still say that, right? Since this is our first podcast of 2023? Sure we can! We make the rules 'round here.We wanted to take some time to talk about all the things we're excited about this year. Both things are going on in our personal lives and in the geeky world at large.So without further ado, let's get excited!Join us in Discord to chat about what you're excited about in 2023!Check Out Geek Herring!Follow Geek Herring on Twitch!! Love Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Support Geek Herring on Patreon!If you've enjoyed this episode, please check out some of our others! Geeking Out About the End of 2022: Christmas Plans and Big Reflections Geeking Out About Geek Herring Productions! Geeking Out About Wakanda Forever: Just Incredible. Find Out MoreLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Join us on Discord!!You can find us Online / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter / Patreon!Geekily yours, Amanda & Monika ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

As we gear down for some muuuuuch needed time off, we thought a good old fashioned Christmas episode was in order! It's tradition, after all.This year, we talk about what we're both doing over the holidays. Amanda's pretty busy and Moni's pretty chill - just standard for them both, really! But then Amanda poses the questions to Moni:What are your 3 top happiest moments this year?andWhat are the top 3 things you're proudest of this year?So it turned into quite a long episode and we really enjoyed recording it.Let us know your top moments from 2022 on social media or in our Discord!What did you think? Join us in Discord to chat about your thoughts on this MASSIVE topic!Check Out Geek Herring!Follow Geek Herring on Twitch!! Love Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Support Geek Herring on Patreon!If you've enjoyed this episode, please check out some of our others! Geek Herring & Chill: Merry Ho Ho Ho from Us to YOU! Geek Holidays: Monika's Grinch is Melting! Geeking Out About Self Care Find Out MoreLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Join us on Discord!!You can find us Online / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter / Patreon!Geekily yours, Amanda & Monika ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Jennifer Lawrence made some pretty controversial comments about women in action movies. Mainly - that she paved the way since no one had ever cast a woman as the lead in an action movie before. While she's factually incorrect, let's unpack the truth behind her statement!We get super into this, but in essence: while many action stars came before Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games (Sigourney Weaver, Sarah Conner, Charlie's Angels, Angelina Jolie... the list goes on and on), her role started a revolution.The Hunger Games was a masterpiece that started a whole new genre of women in dystopian action films, mainly geared towards a YA audience.So, while we totally acknowledge that her comments were factually inaccurate, they are also kind of true. Also, we just think Jennifer Lawrence is the BEST, please let celebrities make blunders, we don't need to drag everyone. Especially since she clarified her statement in a further interview.What did you think? Join us in Discord to chat about your thoughts on this MASSIVE topic!Check Out Geek Herring!Follow Geek Herring on Twitch!! Love Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Support Geek Herring on Patreon!If you've enjoyed this episode, please check out some of our others! Geeking Out About Wakanda Forever: Just Incredible. Geek Girl Reviews: Wonder Woman 1984…. Because -Someone- Has To Geek Girl Reviews Mulan: The Good, The Bad, The Controversy Find Out MoreLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Join us on Discord!!You can find us Online / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter / Patreon!Geekily yours, Amanda & Monika ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Geek Girl in the News looks at the awesome or not so awesome news that will make you go either: "YAY" or "OMG I can't believe that." The latest and greatest geek girl news from November 2022 covers the sad loss of Noodles the Pug, Brendan Fraser being everyone's King and taking a stand for #MeToo (and rightfully so), an update on the morality police in Iran and what that might mean, Kevin McHale's thoughts on joining a Glee reboot, D&D's change to more inclusive language, and Twitch's new Shield Mode safety measure!We'd love your take! Let us know in the comments of wherever you see this episode!In this episode of Geek Girl in the News, we covered these news stories: Today is a No Bones Day. Noodle the Pug Has Passed Away. Noodle and the No Bones Day Brendan Fraser Won't Attend Golden Globes if Nominated, and for a Very Good Reason Uncertainty over Iran's morality police after official's 'disbanded' remarks Kevin McHale Refuses to Join a ‘Glee' Reboot as Artie: I ‘Shouldn't Be Playing a Character in a Wheelchair' Why It Matters That ‘D&D' Is Replacing the Term ‘Race' Twitch implements Shield Mode to improve hate raid protection Check Out Geek Herring!Join us on Discord!!Follow Geek Herring on Twitch!! | Join the Geek Herring Book ClubLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Support Geek Herring on Patreon!If you've enjoyed this episode, please check out some of our others! Geek Interview: Inclusive Games Journalism with Ed Nightingale Geek Discussion: Morals in Entertainment: When do you walk away? Geek Interview: Geek Interview: Geek Joysticks with Ed and Ben from Swapping Joysticks Find Out MoreLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Join us on Discord!!You can find us Online / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter / Patreon!Geekily yours, Amanda & MonikaSupport Geek Herring ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Wakanda Forever is finally out! And we are getting right into it this super spoilery episode - so please come back to this one if you haven't seen Wakanda Forever and are worried about spoilers!Mild Spoilers Below!We talk about the overarching theme of grief that permeates this film. Shuri, Namor, and Ramonda all embody different expressions of grief. We talk about revenge and anger and how these emotions are also ways that grief can manifest.But this movie isn't all sadness - though you definitely want to bring tissues because man, what a fucking cryfest, seriously!!There is also SO MUCH Black Girl Power in this. Honestly just these women out here absolutely wiping the floor with their excellence, intelligence, and casual badassery.We also love the change the MCU made to Namor/(originally The Submariner) - Did you know he's one of the very first Marvel characters, having been introduced in the comics in 1939?? While they've kept some original aspects - his cute af ankle wings - and took some creative liberties with them (they fucking FLAP, yo), they've changed his origin story to be from Mesoamerica and this change ROCKS. We love the stories told, the history and oppression in this storyline. It's a hard watch, at times, but these stories need to be told how they actually were.No White Saviours!For the rest of our thoughts, definitely tune in to this episode!What did you think? Join us in Discord to chat about your thoughts on this MASSIVE topic!Check Out Geek Herring!Follow Geek Herring on Twitch!! Love Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Support Geek Herring on Patreon!If you've enjoyed this episode, please check out some of our others! Geeking Out About She-Hulk: The Power of Women Supporting Women Geek Girl Reviews Ms Marvel: A Fun, Cultural Masterpiece with Jasmin Joe Star Geek Girl Reviews Moon Knight: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Arab Superheroes, and Egyptian Iconography Find Out MoreLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Join us on Discord!!You can find us Online / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter / Patreon!Geekily yours, Amanda & Monika ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We're making changes over in Geek Herring land! We're so proud to announce the creation and launch of Geek Herring Productions: our very own community-driven network of awesome shows and events.Geek Herring Productions is a community-driven Twitch stream and Discord channel with talk shows, podcasts, TTRPGs, education, film nights, book clubs, workshops, games, and more. All from our amazing, inclusive community, for our epic community.We already have two amazing shows confirmed on Geek Herring Productions.WHAQ is a live-streamed talk show where hosts, Gemma & Liz, discuss queerness, its beauty and its challenges. WHAQ is all about good, educational discussions with some sass and sarcasm thrown in for good measure. Expect lots of curiosity from Liz (baby gay) and lots of real life experience from Gemma (gayer than they come, and has always known it), with a few segments such as ‘WHAQing Off' where we chat about what's grinding our rainbow gears, ‘WHAQ facts' where we challenge each other to a big gay game of True or False and ‘Back in the Gay' where we talk about prominent dates in queer history. Follow Gemma and Liz on Twitter and Liz on Twitch.The Crowded Tavern is an actual play Dungeons and Dragons podcast starting in January, live on Twitch, where Co-Dungeon Masters Martin Hoffmann Larsen and Amanda Sloan (yes, of Geek Herring fame, haha) are set to take you off on a fantastic world of magical and adventure. They're casting NOW for four roles - so keep your eyes peeled. Find out more about The Crowded Tavern on their website and Twitter.If you're already following Geek Herring on Twitch or are in our Discord, you don't need to do anything different - we've rebranded! But you are more than welcome to show Geek Herring Productions some love on Twitter and the brand-new YouTube channel! We are actively accepting applications for your own cool show/event/whatever ideas - join us in Discord to find out how to apply!So excited about this change, thanks for being awesome!Check Out Geek Herring!Follow Geek Herring on Twitch!! Love Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Support Geek Herring on Patreon!If you've enjoyed this episode, please check out some of our others! Geek Discussion: Why Geek Community Matters Geek Roundtable: Love in Every Form Bodies and Radical Self-Love with Gemma Find Out MoreLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Join us on Discord!!You can find us Online / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter / Patreon!Geekily yours, Amanda & Monika ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

How do you handle your morals regarding the entertainment you consume? This world is a wild place, full of dodgy people doing questionable things. So how do you navigate that?Some moral decisions are easier to make than others. H*rry P*tter and the TERF Queen? Yeah, walk away. Old Navy and their fatphobia or makeup brands and animal testing - these things maybe don't matter as much to you. Sexual harassment at game studios? Questionable. Fast fashion? Definitely a moral quandary that we can't fit into this episode!This is a big episode. There's a lot to discuss when it comes to this topic and we've really only scratched the surface. Some of our big points: you don't have to do it all choose your morals whenever it feels right put your money into causes or companies you support/who are doing good instead of corporations doing things against your morals there is no such thing as a moral billionaire don't let yourself get burnt out! take care of your emotional wellbeing in this wild climate What did you think? Join us in Discord to chat about your thoughts on this MASSIVE topic!Check Out Geek Herring!Follow Geek Herring on Twitch!! Love Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Support Geek Herring on Patreon!If you've enjoyed this episode, please check out some of our others! Geek Discussion: Our Break-Up with the Wizarding World Geek Discussion: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Cast Them Geek Girl Reviews Surviving R. Kelly: What a Piece of Sh*t Find Out MoreLove Geek Herring, please hop over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!Join us on Discord!!You can find us Online / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter / Patreon!Geekily yours, Amanda & Monika ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

In the third episode of this series, Beth and Dan interview Lizzie Fuller (Azure Solution Specialist, Microsoft), Matt Furse (Practice Development Manager, MIcrosoft) and talk Girls and Tech with Sarah Moran from Girl Geek Academy.  Links: Women in Tech - Girl Geek Academy Microsoft Mondays – Geek Academy A.I. Series – Coding in Python, Javascript & 3D modelling - Girl Geek Academy

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This week, Alice and Kim talk new releases and Frankenstein author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. This episode is sponsored by the podcast Borrowed from the Brooklyn Public Library, The Limerence Imprint of Oni Press, and Nothing Like I Imagined by Mindy Kaling. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. Nonfiction in the News Bill Bryson ‘to retire from writing’ [The Telegraph] Ava DuVernay Back In Director’s Chair For ‘Caste’; Netflix Adaptation Of Acclaimed Isabel Wilkerson’s Best Seller [Deadline] by Amanda N’Duka Jeffrey Toobin of New Yorker Is Suspended After Zoom Incident [New York Times] by Johnny Diaz and Azi Paybarah New Nonfiction A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders The Fangirl’s Guide to the Universe: A Handbook for Girl Geeks by Sam Maggs What Would Frida Do? A Guide to Living Boldly by Arianna Davis Finding Latinx : In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity by Paola Ramos Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema by Lindy West Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by Megan Rosenbloom Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Frankenstein Mary’s Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein by Lila Judge Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley’s Masterpiece by Roseanne Montillo Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters by Anne K. Mellor Reading Now KIM: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo ALICE: The Incredible Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League by Anita Orrock CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Our Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Memorial, The Sacrifice of Darkness, The Solitude of Wolverines, and more great books. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community; Kingdom of the Wicked, published by Jimmy Patterson Books; and Yen Press. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: The Fangirl’s Guide to the Universe: A Handbook for Girl Geeks by Sam Maggs Memorial by Bryan Washington Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari A Solitude of Wolverines: A Novel of Suspense (Alex Carter Series Book 1) by Alice Henderson  The Sacrifice of Darkness by Roxane Gay and Tracy Lynne Oliver Dungeon Critters by Natalie Riess and Sara Goetter A Quick & Easy Guide to Consent by Isabella Rotman and Luke Howard WHAT WE’RE READING: A Phoenix Must First Burn by Patrice Caldwell Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q Sutanto MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: The Tower of Fools by Andrzej Sapkowski Muffled by Jennifer Gennari Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band by Christian Staebler, Sonia Paoloni, Thibault Balahy War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France by Patrick Marnham   Kimiko Does Cancer: A Graphic Memoir by Keet Geniza The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway by Una Mccormack Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco Thoughts of Dog by Matt Nelson The Eyes of the Queen(An Agents of the Crown Novel) by Oliver Clements The Cold Millions: A Novel by Jess Walter Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life by Christie Tate Stories from Suffragette City by M.J. Rose and Fiona Davis  Getting to Center: Pathways to Finding Yourself Within the Great Unknown by Marlee Grace Life with the Afterlife: 13 Truths I Learned about Ghosts by Amy Bruni and Julie Tremaine Love Your Life: A Novel by Sophie Kinsella Love Is a Rogue: Wallflowers vs. Rogues by Lenora Bell  Fortune Favors the Dead: A Novel by Stephen Spotswood  Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation by Peter Cozzens  The Sustainable Economy: The Hidden Costs of Climate Change and the Path to a Prosperous Future by Robert S. Devine  Inside Story: A novel by Martin Amis Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes Face to Face: The Photographs of Camilla McGrath by Camilla McGrath Warriors of Wing and Flame by Sara B. Larson Rescue You by Elysia Whisler In the Deep by Loreth Anne White  The Sentinel: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child, Andrew Child House of Correction: A Novel by Nicci French The Forgotten Daughter: A Novel by Joanna Goodman If the Boot Fits (Cowboys of California) by Rebekah Weatherspoon Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction by Joshua Whitehead Divorcing by Susan Taubes The Unraveling by Benjamin Rosenbaum Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor, #3) by Jessica Townsend Gone: A Memoir of Love, Body, and Taking Back My Life by Linda K. Olson  Tall, Duke, and Dangerous: A Hazards of Dukes Novel by Megan Frampton David Tung Can’t Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College by Ed Lin See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

140. Alex Miles: Girl Geeks by Words and Nerds: Authors, books and literature.

Listen to my conversation with Sarah and learn: What Sarah was doing before Girl Geek Academy and what led her to this advocacy What a “hackathon” is How Sarah and her friends accidentally created the world’s first women’s hackathon The factors that created the gap between women and technology Sarah’s thoughts about what technology is How Sarah and her team also work with boys The story behind the Girl Geeks book series Sarah’s thoughts about screen time How learning technology could actually teach children social skills How Sarah keeps track of her team’s goal of inspiring one million women into technology by 2025

For the first episode of Geek Girl Reviews, Amanda & Monika talk about the book they wished they read when they were younger: Sam Maggs' (http://sammaggs.com) book "The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks" might become your holy grail of girl geekdom if you ever wanted to find out more about Fangirls and eventually want to become one. Sam Maggs - who you can find on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/sammaggs/), Twitter (https://twitter.com/sammaggs) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/SamMaggsSays) - is a Canadian expat writer living in Los Angeles who shows the reader in a fun, quirky and loveable way what it is to be a fangirl (CAN WE BE FRIENDS?), how to find geek friends and bring existing friends to the geeky dark-side, and all the things you need to know when you visit a Convention for the very first time (and all the other times after that). Not only does she give insights why Geek Girls rock, the book helps who feel a little bit like misfits amongst others, and helps them own their true selves. While there might not be a lot of new things for the hardcore-geeky hosts, they would recommend the book to everyone who isn't that knee deep into nerdism, or everyone who wants to find out more about the female identifying geeks in the world (AND WE ARE MANYYYY). You can get the book on: Amazon USA (https://www.amazon.com/Fangirls-Guide-Galaxy-Lexicon-Modern/dp/159474789X/) Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fangirls-Guide-Galaxy-Lexicon-Modern/dp/159474789X/) Amazon DE (https://www.amazon.de/Fangirls-Guide-Galaxy-Lexicon-Modern/dp/159474789X/) and at your local book shop =) If you’ve enjoyed this episode, please check out some of our others! And don’t forget to leave an iTunes review and check us out on social media: @geekherring on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/geekherring), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/geekherring), and Twitter (https://www.twitter.com/geekherring)! You can also find us on our website (https://www.geekherring.com) and over on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/geekherring)! Geekily yours, Amanda & Monika

Grønne Girl Geeks Denne utgaven av Girl Geek Radio handler om grønn teknologi! Du vil møte vår egen Girl Geek Andrea Hegdahl Tiltnes. Hun redder verden litt hver dag, og inspirerer andre til å gjøre det samme via sin instagramkonto https://www.instagram.com/andrea_redder_verden_litt/. Det hele startet da hun så Live Nelviks program på NRK https://tv.nrk.no/serie/live-redder-verden-litt/MYNT19002116/sesong-1/episode-1 , og ble gira på å ta saken i egne hender. En annen engasjert dame som hjelper oss å ta grønne hverdagsvalg, er Silje Strøm Solberg fra den unge Trondheimsbedriften Ducky https://www.ducky.no/. Silje forteller om livet som grønn gründer, og forklarer oss verdien av CO2-sparing for enkeltmennesker og bedrifter. CO2-sparing og forbruk går hånd i hånd. For å videre beskrive bedrifters bærekraft, snakker vi med en annen racer på området, nemlig Helle Moen. Hun er teknologioptimist, marinbiolog og fersk regiondirektør for EGGS Design http://www.eggsdesign.no/. Som gründer i Minhoca https://www.minhoca.no/ jobbet hun med sirkulærøkonomi i praksis, ved å gjøre avfall til en ettertraktet vare. Dette faller i god jord hos Girl Geek Gunn-Berit, som har blitt hekta på den norske gjenbruksappen Tise https://tiseit.com/. Helle forteller oss om det økonomiske perspektivet av bærekraft, og best av alt, om hvordan dette «buzzordet» tiltrekker seg de beste hodene. Til slutt skal du få møte energiske Gaylord Booto som organiserer Climathon Trondheim https://climathon.climate-kic.org/trondheim den 27. oktober. Han forteller om byutfordringen «Smart energy solutions in historic urban environment». Som han sier selv: -Climathon Trondheim vil ikke gi oss «den ene løsningen» på alle klimautfordringene. Men arrangementet vil gi oss noen av mange løsninger, som alle er nødvendige for å løse klimakrisen. Om du blir inspirert til å delta på denne maratonen i grønt entreprenørskap, husk påmeldingsfristen den 15.oktober! Podkasten er spilt inn hos Zedge podkasteria på DIGS i Trondehim. Sendingens radioverter er Girl Geeks Hilde Wormdahl, Andrea Hegdahl Tiltnes og Gunn-Berit Sæter. Teknisk ansvarlig er vår egen Hilde Wormdahl.

Women. They can be kind, caring, beautiful, sexy. They can be damaged, ruined, dirty, tragic. But which is the hero?Director James Cameron claims that Wonder Woman is a step back in comparison to Sarah Conner, that a woman needs to be damaged to be strong. Is he right?How about William Golding's classic novel, Lord of the Flies which is going to have its third film adaptation....with girls.Yup, girls.Has Hollywood become so desperate for projects that they feel they need to take a book about male aggression and attempt to say girls are the same? Why did Golding write about boys and not girls? Can strong women be equal to strong men? And are girls equally savage as boys?What do the Chicks think? Well, you'll have to listen to find out.

They're called "gateway drugs" — those first little things that get us thinking, "It's not so bad..." which lead to bigger things. And before we know it, we're hooked. Can't get enough. And we want to share it with our kids. No, not the special brownies... we're talking about science fiction, fantasy — and yes, even horror — and how in our enthusiasm, we go about sharing our madness for Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Firefly, Superman, Wolverine, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, Space: 1999, comic books, video games, and Ray Harryhausen. Do you have a favorite way of introducing the next generation to The Next Generation? Share it with us in an e-mail. scifi4chicks@scifi4me.com The panel: Mindy Inlow, Jennifer Wise, Sonya Rodriguez, Ann Laabs, James Hunt

This month, the ladies of SciFi4Chicks discuss the recent fates of two iconic women: Wonder Woman and Carrie Fisher. Nearly two months after being "hired" by the United Nations to help raise awareness of Goal 5, which seeks to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls, she is fired for "objectifying women" in her scantily clothing, basically being a pin-up girl. But let's ignore why she is a good role model for women. And speaking of role models for women, as the world mourns the loss of Carrie Fisher, what is the fate of the Star Wars films? Lucasfilms has made an official statement on the use of CGI, so how will they handle her death? We have theories and of course, many opinions. The panel: Jen Wise, Mindy Inlow, Sonya Rodriguez, Ann Laabs

Join digitalundivided for a fun talk about tech in "the hood."  Hear digitalundivided partner, Darlene Gillard with chat Pam Perry about the "digital divide." Is it a myth? Is it real? Do certain cities lag when it comes to technology and social media usage? Darlene Gillard and Kathryn Finney are the "tech superstars" who are also hosting numerous community "tech talk"  events. One event they will sit down with MC Hammer & others in Detroit at Cass Tech to chat about technology, tech ideas from urban communities, and the future of entrepreneurship in the black community.  Get the details for this free event at: Detroit Event  digitalundivided  is a social enterprise excelling at getting the urban community in the tech space! DID's forward-thinking initiatives increase the active participation of the urban community, especially women, in the digital space.  

Kvinner liker seg foran dataskjermen, men det er fremdeles menn som er hjernene bak dataprogrammene som utvikles. Kun 16 prosent av dem som studerer datateknikk er kvinner. Hvorfor mener jentene som kaller seg Girl Geeks at det er viktig med flere kvinner i disse yrkene?

Audio File:  Download MP3Transcript: An Interview with Shanna Tellerman Product Line Manager, Autodesk Date: October 3, 2011 [intro music] Lucy Sanders: Hi, this is Lucy Sanders. I'm the CEO of NCWIT, National Center for Women & Information Technology. We're working hard to encourage more girls and women to pursue computing, education and career paths. This interview series with women who have started great technology companies is very inspirational. and to be having great advice for all entrepreneurs in terms of starting companies. With me Larry Nelson, w3w3. Hi Larry. Larry Nelson: Oh boy! It's a pleasure to be here. This is a great, great series. I know your listeners want to pass this interview along to others and you know would be interested and they can listen to it at couple of different places that we'll give you at the end of the show 24/7. Lucy: Today, we have another great person to interview. The talent just keeps coming. Today, we're talking to Shanna Tellerman who is currently at Autodesk, Cloud Services and Applications, but before that she was Founder and CEO of Wild Pockets. Shanna is in a post- acquisition mode. That's a very exciting thing to have a company that you are the founder of, be acquired. Wild Pockets is an end-to -end open source solution that supports creators through the life cycle of 3D game development. I can't wait to hear more about it. It was Shanna's first technology company out of graduate school, but she attended Carnegie Mellon University, which is just a great, great school. She attended the Entertainment Technology Center. Doesn't that sound like great deal of fun? Shanna welcome. We're really happy to talk to you today. Shanna Tellerman: Thank you, glad to be here. Lucy: Tell us a little bit about Wild Pockets/Autodesk and what's happening. Shanna: My company was Wild Pockets. We were building out a 3D game engine that you could access in a web browser. What we were trying to do is make the ability to build games, 3D games specifically, easier and more broadly accessible to anybody. When my company first met with Autodesk, Autodesk is the creator of 3D tools and all kinds of products for the media world, the entertainment world, architecture, manufacturing, engineering. They saw what we were doing and saw that we had an idea that could be applicable to a lot of their different tools and products here at Autodesk. There was a lot of synergy between our teams and the company. Ultimately they decided that we should join them. Now I work at Autodesk. I'm the Product Line Manager for our new Autodesk cloud product line, something that's coming out this fall. It has been started through the summer last year. It's a really exciting new space for Autodesk. We're doing some awesome new things. Lucy: Well, that's pretty exciting. We don't often talk to people who are in that post-acquisition mode, so maybe a sentence or two about what that was all like. Shanna: This Autodesk acquisition of our company was a pretty quick experience. We had been talking to them and working with them a bit over the course of two years. Then, when I met with one of their directors of engineering, he was really an exciting person to talk to and visionary here at Autodesk. Then I would think up on what we were doing and what he was doing on a fairly regular basis. We did that a couple of times over the course of two years. Finally, they said, "We really want to move forward. We want to make their team part of our company." Once they said that, the process went really quickly. It was really about working together, figuring out the right terms, making sure investors were happy, et cetera, but we all had the end goal in mind. Within a couple of months, the whole deal was closed. Our team in Pittsburgh can move into an Autodesk office in Pittsburgh. I was in San Francisco. I had moved into their San Francisco Office. Before I knew it, I was completely part of the Autodesk Company. Lucy: Surprised. That's very good. Congratulations. Shanna: Thank you. Lucy: Shanna, why don't you tell our listeners a little bit about how you first got into technology? Everybody is always curious to know what was it that first sparked your interest. Shanna: I first got into technology during college actually. I had gone into college for fine arts, of all things. I was painting and drawing and doing very traditional art, but Carnegie Mellon is an extremely practical and tech-heavy school. It's one of the number one computer science schools across the country and a great engineering program. They have a lot of interdisciplinary programs. Even though I was in the art school, it didn't take very long before I was introduced to all of the amazing things going on in the computer science program. Specifically, I had seen this one presentation from this course called "Building Virtual Worlds." They did a big presentation for the whole school at the end of their semester. It was really like a show they put on. People were standing on stage, wearing these 3D virtual reality glasses, and taking you through like video games that were being projected live. They were playing through it in real time. I looked at that. I was like, "This is the coolest thing I have ever seen. I have to go to that class. I have to take that class, because they combine artists with computer scientists, so I would get to build these worlds, but I didn't have to know how to program them." That was really what drew me in to technology. I had played around with some of the different editing programs, Photoshop, and other kinds of programs, Director, and a little bit of the 3D tools, but it was the end result. It was looking at the incredible things that could be produced. They were both visual, but also interactive that drew me in. Lucy: Well, Carnegie Mellon does that so well. They are so well known for interdisciplinary curriculum and computing, a great place to be drawn in, I must say. One more technology question for you. When you look out, your purview of the technology landscape, what technologies do you think are particularly interesting or up-and- comer? Shanna: Well, I'm going to have to say it's really all about the cloud right now. That's what I'm excited about working on it at this very moment. It's about not having to be tied to one particular device or your laptop or your computer or your phone, but it's about being able to take the thing you're doing anywhere that you want to be. You're working on a document. You can access it from or your phone or your iPad even, you're playing a game and you log in here and then log out and then you log back in from your TV. It's in the same place and remember who you are. The cloud is providing incredible opportunities for us to be super- connected and also things that people don't really usually think about, which is it can process in compute intense data at a rate that a single machine can't. Some of the really cool things we're doing here at Autodesk includes rendering in the cloud. Rendering when you take like a 3D model and you create a photorealistic version of that 3D model with all of the perfect lighting and the materials that were just like they do in the real world. Usually you'd be an artist and you'd be sitting at your computer and maybe building a model of a house. If you want to do a rendering a bit to show the client what that house is looked like, then you had clicked the render button and then you would probably log out for the evening and let it run for hours while it creates that photorealistic rendering. When you send that to the cloud, you can scale up. You can do renderings in minutes or they can take a few hours, but you keep working on your machine, because it's not processing locally anymore. That to me is just the tip of the iceberg of the incredible things that the cloud can do. Lucy: Speaking of rendering, too, I remember about eight or nine years ago watching something I thought was pretty simple get rendered, and it did, it took forever. Larry: Yeah. Lucy: Speeding this stuff up is good. Larry: I'm more empathetic than I want. Lucy: Yes. Larry: Shanna, can you hear me? You came out of Carnegie Mellon and you formed a company. Why did you become that entrepreneur and what is that about entrepreneurship that makes you tick? Shanna: I became an entrepreneur totally accidentally. I came out of Carnegie Mellon. Actually well I was still within Carnegie Mellon. I was working on a project in graduate school that to me felt like a really had legs. It was something that we had prototyped and we had shown to our end users. They were excited about it and they wanted to start using it in the real world. I said, "Oh! How can we make that happen?" The university was not planning to continue to develop it into a commercial product. They build prototypes, they build samples, but they don't commercially distribute software. I started looking at can we get grants to the university to commercialize this or is there another path? Before I knew it, I started talking to local business people and investors. They said, "I think there is a commercial opportunity here." At which point, I said, "OK. Well, let's see if we can make this happen." Really it was my eagerness to try to get something from prototype to reality that drove me into entrepreneurship. Larry: Wow! Lucy: Well, I suppose that the accidental entrepreneur is may be more common than we think. Larry: Yes. Lucy: You know for sure. Who influenced or supported you to take that path? It sounds like people, perhaps at CMU or in the local community who you had talked to, were encouraging you to take that technology outside the university. Who else influenced you? Shanna: I had a bunch of great mentors along the way. The very first one was somebody named Randy Pausch, which perhaps you've heard. He is famous for the book he wrote and the talk he gave called "The Last Lecture." He was actually the person who ran that class that I talked about Building Virtual Worlds. He was the reason I got into technology. He was influential through my whole course into starting a company and supporter all along the way for everything I was doing. He was one of my first mentors and I recommend seeing "The Last Lecture" if you've not seen that, because he unfortunately passed away from cancer a few years ago. But before he got sick, he was an incredible teacher. Another mentor for me was someone named Jesse Schell, very well- known in the game industry. He's done a bunch of talks on something called "Gamification" and he worked at Disney Imagineering and he's now a professor at the Entertainment Technology Center, he has a game studio. He was one of my early advisers, an adviser/co-founder when we started this company. He was somebody who really was there in the early days supporting me and encouraging me and helping me figure out how to get this company up and running. Very quickly after that, I met somebody name Jake Witherell. He had been a former entrepreneur who was a local person. He was just an informal adviser and guided me through all kinds of the bumps and chaos of starting a company in the early days. Then in the later days of the company, I moved from Pittsburgh where I started the company in the area of Carnegie Mellon. I moved out to San Francisco where I started working with venture capitalists and investors in Silicon Valley. There was one woman that I met out here who was actually a Carnegie Mellon grad as well. She was an accomplished entrepreneur as well as an accomplished venture capitalist. Her name is Cindy Padnos. She was an amazing mentor for me. She helped me establish myself out here. She connected me to people to invest in the company. She also connected me with lots of partners and lots of opportunities. A really incredible woman. Lucy: She is incredible. She has a venture fund that she's forming called Illuminate Ventures. She's just a fabulous person. Larry: All of these different things that you've done, graduating and starting your own business and getting acquired. What is the toughest thing that you've had to do? Shanna Tellerman: There's a lot of tough things when you're an entrepreneur. Stacking them up and saying the toughest one is a hard thing to pick, but I would say that actually it had to be letting people go. One of the toughest things that you have to do is manage a team. A team of people works best together when the culture and the environment is right. Oftentimes you'll hire somebody and they may be really talented or really smart or really good in some way, but they just aren't fitting. They aren't fitting the team or they aren't doing the work they need to do. To have to make the call that that person doesn't belong in the company anymore is the hardest call that I've ever had to make in my life. We've had that happen a few times. I really liked and respected the people, but the fit wasn't right. I just knew that that kind of a bad seed on your team can disrupt your progress. Lucy: I think too that generally the people themselves know that they're not a fit. They're going to be happier someplace else. That's what I always used to tell myself. "I'm doing them a favor." Shanna: You do think that. You think after the fact, I hope that their next opportunity really makes them look back at this and say, I'm glad that things ended and I'm glad I was able to move on, but in the moment it is such a difficult thing when the person is unhappy. I'm one of those people who really thrives on energizing people and getting them excited and making them motivated and happy. To deliver a message that's the total opposite is really difficult. Lucy: It is difficult. I think almost everybody that I had to let go ended up being the better for it and came back and told me so. Larry: There you go. Lucy: I can tell so far in listening to you that you have a great deal of passion about the technology and about energizing people and having a great team. What other kind of advice would you give a young person about entrepreneurship? What other kinds of things do you think are really important? Shanna: The first thing that's really important is just doing it. I think that most people stumble on the idea that they're not ready, that they're not prepared, that there's one more thing that they need to do first, the time isn't right, etc., etc. My personal feeling is if you've got an idea, you're motivated to make something happen of it, the best thing in the world you can do is go for it. You're going to definitely make mistakes. You're definitely going to fumble. It may not work out, but that's not the end of the world. It's really that journey and the learning experience that you get from it that's the most meaningful. The worst thing you can do is sit around and wait until everything feels like it's perfectly ready to go. Getting yourself out there and getting something started is the best thing that you can make happen. The other thing that I would say is surround yourself with incredible people. It's the people who have been around me that have made me who I am and have made these opportunities possible. I never could've done this on my own. I've always looked to a great team of people to work with, to a great team of people to advise me, to a great team of professionals to work with whether that be legal or whether that be HR or accounting, you look for people that you trust and that you know are going to be partners through what will hopefully be a long and very fruitful adventure, but could also be difficult and strenuous at times. Larry: Once again, you've been through a number of different things. I'm very fascinated by it, as well as your company. What are the personal characteristics that you have that makes you an entrepreneur? Shanna: I think entrepreneurs are generally curious people. They are people who get excited by the world and are excited by the possibilities of what they can do to change the world. They believe in themselves that they might have the opportunity to make that happen. I think there's a bit of confidence you have to build as an entrepreneur. There's a bit of fear of nothing. You have to believe that anything is possible and that your wildest dreams could come true. I also think you have to be extremely dedicated and extremely motivated because it's a lot of hard work. You need to focus and you need to get a lot done. You're probably the kind of person, if you're an entrepreneur, who has always over-committed or overdone everything that they've tried to do because that's just the personality that you have. But number one is really that curiosity or you're the kind of person who wants to explore and wants to try to make things happen. Lucy: I think that reminds me of the word "invention," too. You're curious. You take it one step. You see what happens. You take it another step and you just keep pushing forward with that relentlessness to really get it to move. You mentioned hard work and being dedicated. That gets us to our next question around having both a work life and a personal life. How would you integrate the two? Some people would even say balance, although I think we've come to realize that there is no such thing as balance in entrepreneurship. How do you address that in your own life? Shanna: Well I think the first thing is you have to love your work, because if you're an entrepreneur you're working a lot more than most people work. It does seep into every area of your life. If you don't like what you're doing you're not going to be very happy. That's the first thing I recommend. On top of that, I do think it's important to structure in balance. My first year or two I found that I was always on, I was always stressed, I was always anxious. I didn't really take time off for myself. It had a negative result. It made me more tired. It made me less focused at times when I needed to be focused. Eventually, by the 3rd or 4th year of my company, I started realizing on the weekends I need to take a good day or so where I'm not checking email and I'm not working, maybe even two days, which for an entrepreneur is a lot, but you need that time to rest and to get your mind off of everything going on. For me, I'm pretty active. I do that through sports. I've done triathlons. I've made a lot of friends out in the Bay area who also do triathlons. It's such a beautiful place to live in, the Bay area. There's so many places to explore that I just found being outside and being around people really rejuvenated me and put a lot of balance into my life. Larry: Wow, I could get tired just watching you, I think. Lucy: I think you might be an extrovert. Larry: Lucy, she does a lot of running too. Lucy: And I'm an extrovert: Larry: You have achieved a great deal for such a young person. I have to say that while you talked about the cloud and the things that you're doing with the company right now. What do you see is next for you? Shanna: I'd like to start something again at some point in my life. Right now I'm at Autodesk. I'm loving what I'm doing here at Autodesk. If it keeps going as it is today there's a good chance I will stay here because we're getting to start all kinds of things within the structure of a big company. I could also see an opportunity where something comes along and starting another company just makes sense and I dive into that and grow something from the ground up again. I'm pretty open. I usually let things come to me and roll in as they happen. I take the opportunity when something feels right to jump on it and try it out. Larry: Wow. I love it. Lucy: I think that's great. One thing I wanted to mention when you said that Shanna has accomplished a lot. I just have to give her a shout out for being named "Business Week's" best young entrepreneurs in 2009. That must have felt real good. Shanna: Maybe. Lucy: Yeah. One other thing too that I want to thank you for is your participation in organizations around women and computing and thank you for that. Great organizations like Astia, Women 2.0, Girl Geeks, etc. Thank you for your participation with those groups. They are most excellent. Thank you Shanna. We really enjoyed talking with you. Larry, do you want to remind listeners where they can find this interview? Larry: Absolutely. A couple of really neat places, ncwit.org, up there for sure, also at w3w3.com. You can listen to both 24/7. You'll see it in our podcast as well as our blog. Lucy: Shanna, thank you very much. Shanna: Thank you very much. This is definitely the area of passion for me. I hope that more girls do get into technology. I love opportunities like this. Thank you for having me. Lucy: Thank you. Larry: Thanks for being here. Shanna: OK. Thank you. Series: Entrepreneurial HeroesInterviewee: Shanna TellermanInterview Summary: Shanna Tellerman describes herself as an “accidental-entrepreneur” who turned a course project from Carnegie Mellon University into reality in the form of her first tech company, Wildpockets. The company focused on democratizing access to game development by providing a cloud hosted game engine. It was later acquired by Autodesk Cloud Services and Applications, where Shanna currently works as the Product Line Manager. Release Date: October 3, 2011Interview Subject: Shanna TellermanInterviewer(s): Lucy Sanders, Larry NelsonDuration: 20:42

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