Macklepenny Media is the creative house of Robin Macklepenny — writer, speaker, and recovering software manager. The throughline is simple and a little stubborn: we're all misfits, and we're always stronger together. Books that make you groan, talks that make you think, and games that make you grin.
▶ Meet Bothead Read the storiesShaggy-dog stories for modern times: each one a long, lovingly-built path to a pun so groan-worthy you'll want to inflict it on someone you love. (An enemy works too — we don't judge.) Once a story's in your head it's yours to keep, retell, and pass off as your own. That's the deal.
"You are giving these stories a home (however temporary) in your mind. Once there, they become your own to do with as you please."
Robin speaks and teaches on one stubborn idea: strength lies in vulnerability. Drawn from decades of being managed badly (and, now and then, beautifully), these talks and classes help teams drop the armor, trust each other, tell better stories, and remember that we're always stronger together. Misfits especially welcome — turns out they make the best MVPs.
Available for talks, workshops, and leadership classes.
Here's the pitch: take a brain, put it in a jar, bolt the jar to a tank, and send it to the park to play capture-the-flag. Who does that? We do that. Bothead's Field Day is a gleefully unhinged multiplayer romp — grab the flag, grapple-tag your rivals, and bend the rules of reality with a deck of mods (yes, there's an Upside Down; no, we won't apologize). Lose your head. It's fine — Bothead lost his ages ago. That's what the jar's for.
Macklepenny Media is a small family collective. We make things we believe in, and we try to leave the place a little kinder than we found it.
Author of Aunty Robin's Story Time, speaker on leadership and vulnerability, and the misfit-in-chief behind Bothead Studios. Firm believer that we're always stronger together.
Artist, vocalist, and musician — and a tireless advocate who works to feed and shelter people experiencing homelessness. Proof that creativity and compassion belong together.
Grief counsellor, life coach, and fiber artist. She helps people through the hardest passages and makes beautiful things by hand — steady proof that care, too, is a craft.
Our open-source, public-welfare sibling — free, private tools like AVSecure, owned by no one.
New stories, new games, new trouble. We're just getting warmed up.