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3 Everyday Benefits of Dungeons and Dragons
The explosion of geek culture in the last twenty years has brought Dungeons and Dragons into the limelight. Gone are the days when it was relegated to dark and dusty basements. Gone are the days when people would assume that it was some kind of devil worshipping...
Coaching for Geeks Levels Up Dating – Welcome Kurtis Kehoe!
Kurtis Kehoe joins the Coaching for Geeks team to add his expertise and experience to our dating coach services. You're in for a treat with Kurtis Kehoe as our new dating coach! With his quirky sense of humor and unique experience with the matters of the heart, you'll...
How to beat the Carpal Tunnel of Love
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome! It has nothing to do with fish. Or underground tunnels. Coaching for Geeks’ brand new health expert - Operating Department Practitioner Robert House – explains what the hell Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is - and what you can do about it: As...
How to Dungeons and Dragonsify your CV or Resume
How to make a creative CV - your Character Sheet Now that we've covered the basics, it’s time to learn how to have some fun with it and stand out from the crowd - with a creative CV! In a world where resumes and CVs (I’ll probably use both interchangeably since I’m...
How to Make Long Distance Relationships Work – Podcast 57
Rami The Gutsy Geek is not a fan of long distance relationships. His longest one lasted a month, and she only lived one city away. But many geeks meet their significant other online, at conventions or events, and date across cities, countries, and continents. In this...
CfG at MCM London Comic Con – May 2018
Coaching for Geeks Returns to MCM Comic Con – This Time It’s London Yeah we smashed our way through MCM Birmingham Comic Con back at the NEC, back when it was snowing, back when I had a big team there with me. We’re heading to the Excel Centre in London for MCM London...
Magical Loopholes – D&D Tips with James Gifford
Magical Loopholes – the Dungeon Master's Dilemma Magic, by its very definition, is mysterious. And yet in many fantasy tabletop games (including Dungeons & Dragons), it is defined quite clearly in the rulebook – spell duration, components, targets, spell...
Breaking into the Film Industry with Colin Wallace – Podcast 56
Robin met Colin at Insomnia62. Colin was at the SpecialEffect community party and wearing a bear kigu. Naturally Robin spoke with him almost immediately to find out who he was and what he was doing dressed as a bear. 4 weeks later and here's Colin Wallace to talk...
Be the Peacock! You Have The Power (Pose)
Be the Peacock. Seriously. You already are. We all are (sorry ladies but this metaphor doesn’t work so well with Peahens, but hey, gender fluidity means you can absolutely be a peacock). I should probably explain... So there’s this guy. Feathers down....
How To Write A CV – The Basics
Happy Monday! But is it for you? Or are you stuck in a job you hate? In that case, we're here to help you on your first step to a better job - with a better CV! Whether you call it a CV or a resume, (we’ll call it a CV here for I am English and Curriculum Vitae is our...
A Career in Esports: Interview with James Banks – Podcast 55
James Banks has been in esports for years. From a player in Counter Strike, Street Fighter V and Tekken, to his current place as a top commentator and host. His career has taken many turns, including engineering and journalism, and taken hm around the world. Robin met...
Do Geeky Interests make you more Attractive? – Podcast 46
We had some awesome guests for podcast 46! Brad and Mike from 'Too Old to Date' joined Rami. Sometimes people get divorced. Sometimes you find yourself in your thirties and hopelessly lost in the new world of dating. Sometimes you turn all of that into a...
420 Special – Coach Austin on Fitness and CBD – Podcast 54
Happy 420! We're a couple of days late but this episode of the Coaching for Geeks Show was recorded on the most baked day of the year, even beating out the day Mary Berry returns to our screens with the Great British Bake Off. Coach Austin has been...
Our Top 7 Games from EGX Rezzed 2018
GAMES GAMES GAMES! EGX Rezzed is the UK’s biggest indie games event, the weird younger brother of EGX (formerly EuroGamer Expo) and took place at London’s Tobacco Dock 13-15 April. Robin Bates, CfG’s founder (who went to the very first EGX when it was in an old...
Tabletop Warlords – Salute 2018 – Convention Survival Guide
Aaah Salute. The first con of this year, and the first time that I've personally gone along to it. What is it? Salute is a tabletop wargaming convention, featuring various companies selling miniatures, paints, and tabletop accessories, and/or giving live demos of the...
Tim Schafer Developer Session at EGX Rezzed
Tim Schafer is a god. Not an actual one, but in my eyes he, well ‘can do no wrong’ would be a lie but which deity ever gets things 100% right? See Greece, Rome, God of War, the holy wars, the dark ages… You get the picture. The man who worked on The Secret of Monkey...
Con-Virgin with my Inner Weirdo
For a number of years now, the concept of Comic Con has been something I have been aware of but had never invested much time into. My knowledge of it was probably because ‘geek culture’ has become more widely adopted in today’s society and also thanks to The...
LA Games Conference 2018 Speakers Announced
LA Games Conference Agenda & Speakers Announced for May 8th Event Annual Industry Confab Brings Together Top Leaders from NBCUniversal, Blizzard, Super League Gaming, EA, Zynga, Twitter, and Many More at the W Hotel in Hollywood Digital Media Wire today yesterday...
Gamification 101 (or How I Turned my Dead Facebook Group Around Using Stickers)
This blog post first appeared in the Coffee With Dan Facebook group Cast your mind back, Wayne’s World style, to July of this year; Spider-Man: Homecoming had just come out and I had written a piece on it that I was fucking proud of. **Crickets**...
An introduction to eSports with Jeff Simpkins of Barrage – Podcast 53
eSports! Coaching for Geeks founder, Robin Bates, is a complete an utter eSports N00b. At least he was until he went to Insomnia62 and PAX East... Eyes opened to the world of professional gaming he sought wisdom, and found it in Jeff Simpkins from Barrage eSports (or...
PC Gamer Weekender, Part 3 – Panels, Workshops, and MORE GAMES!
PC Gamer came up with a solid show for their first effort at Olympia; while you'd expect the games themselves to be the focus there was a lot of associated activity that was both fun and thought-provoking. Panels covered diverse topics such as careers in games...