ClassicallyTrained Podcast – life and leadership lessons from video games – interviews with thought leaders and gaming industry professionals
Nathan Barnatt is an actor, comedian, dancer, and filmmaker. He’s been in many videos, movies, shorts, and known for High School USA!, Kirby Buckets and Talking Classics as Keith Apicary. After a performance on Comedy Central’s “Gong Show” Andy Dick … Continued
Steve Kamb is the founder of NerdFitness.com, a worldwide fitness community dedicated to helping nerds, desk jockeys, and self-aware robots level up their lives. He’s also the author of the upcoming book, Level Up Your Life, that gives people a blueprint … Continued
Arnie Roth is an American Grammy Award-winning conductor, composer, and record producer, best known for conducting numerous concerts for video game music. He is also a classically trained violinist and a member of the Grammy Award-winning music group Mannheim Steamroller. … Continued
If you are a gamer, you realize the power of video games to inspire, excite, and even teach life lessons. This special episode is dedicated to all the gamers who realize the amazing potential for good within one of our … Continued
Carrie Dieterle is Chief People Officer at Insomniac Games, Inc. She is part of the senior leadership team, and is responsible for creating a comprehensive human resources vision, strategy and organization to support the achievement of the company’s mission, objective and … Continued
Danny Peña is the Founder and Host of Gamertag Radio. Gamertag Radio (GTR) is an independent online gaming website dedicated to the gaming community that was founded in 2005, and intended to help to unite all gamers. Every week GTR … Continued
Head of restoration for Digital Eclipse – the team that is responsible for the upcoming Mega Man Legacy Collection (available this summer on Playstation 4, Xbox One, PC, and Nintendo 3DS in the winter). He is also a writer, journalist, … Continued
I remember my first graduation. I remember a graduation speech as well, but I can’t say I remember much else about it. Just last week I had the opportunity to be the keynote speaker for the graduation of the 2015 … Continued
Interview with Greg Toppo Greg Toppo is USA TODAY’s national K-12 education writer. He’s been with USA TODAY since 2002 and was a 2010 Spencer fellow in education reporting at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Previously, Toppo was a … Continued
Patrick Scott Patterson (Scott to his friends) is a Multi-Media personality specializing in video gaming and pop culture. His work appears across a wide variety of media, including live speaking engagements, television, film, radio and more. Patterson fell in love … Continued
