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Meet the team


We would like to express our gratitude to the team that made The Thrive Virtual Conference possible!


Producer

Devyn Stone

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Master (Devyn) Stone is an author, educator, and JEDI consultant. He is a Leatherman, an extrovert, a dominant, a Sons of Anarchy fan, and a foodie. He also enjoys organizing events, volunteering, moderating, speaking, and emceeing! He dreams of globe-trotting and helping people achieve the connections they desire, while they learn themselves more deeply. He has been practicing authority transfer dynamics since 2004. He earned the title "Master" and was covered in 2023 at South Plains Leatherfest. Today he lives in Detroit with his property, Guan-Xuan.

Devyn is the author of “DAMN! That’s A Nice Ash! A Comprehensive Guide to Cigar Service & Play” and “Why I Don't Own Them... Yet… ,” offering a concise and easy-to-digest guide to negotiating authority in relationships. He is the Founder of Pragmatically Kinking, an organization that provides virtual education on the practical aspects of BDSM, and THRIVE, a virtual conference dedicated to the intersection of neurodivergence, mental health, and BDSM.

Master Stone has a passion for giving and receiving education. As an educator and consultant, he offers over 40 classes and programs to organizations, groups, and events all around the world. His favorite topics to speak on include productivity, leadership, consent, event coordinating, authority transfer, and neurodivergence. He believes in diversity, not division, and actualizes that idea by promoting strongly affirming spaces and interactions. He was presented the Inferno award at FLAME in 2021, in recognition of his work providing inclusive and accessible education to the BDSM, Leather, and Kink Communities.




Moderator

UnrulyNerdGirl

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girl Calyco

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girl Calyco is a queer little service-oriented slut, and in 2011, she found and fell in love with the Leather community. Calyco eagerly volunteered for dozens of events from Orlando to Tucson, ran a monthly munch in Central Florida, and spent five fantastic years planning parties on the board of SouthEast LeatherFest before moving with her family to Washington in 2017.

Currently, girl Calyco serves her community as the Secretary of MAsT: Everett, Weekend Fun Coordinator for Leather Reign, and Registration girl for Stone Soup Kinky Camping. She also volunteers her time to several virtual events, such as MsC Worldwide and Thrive. Online and locally, Calyco educates and facilitates discussions on topics including disability & chronic illness, mental health, ageplay, sploshing, and various ways to have a damn good time!

Calyco is Owned and kept by her darling Daddy, she's got a super supportive vanilla-swirl husband, and together they reside in Tacoma, WA with their tiny menagerie of cats and rats.



Cody Coyote

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Guan-Xuan

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InquisitiveElle

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Shalimar

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Spinfrog

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Technical Support

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Marcus

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Hello there,

My name is Master Marcus Cole. I have been in and out of the lifestyle for over 20 years, in the last several years I have begun to deepen and explore my relationship to my own dominance as a way of life and being that integrates who I truly am. Also, in the last several years the universe aligned the meeting of slave joy and that began our M/s journey. I collared my slave joy in October 2018 and we have been growing our 24/7 M/s with love, dedication to communication and lots of laughter sense.

For inspiring work, I am an independent professional photographer with a studio in Seattle. I am blessed to have two thriving photography businesses. My business Marcus Cole Photography focuses mainly on vanilla portraits, boudoir, landscape and street photography. Where my business Shadows in the Light is a celebration of everything kinky and Fetish possible. Whether you would like to get solo or couple portraits done with rope bondage personalized to flatter your frame or use numerous pieces of play furniture we have as props the variations are limitless. I also do group parties and events like collaring ceremonies.

As slave joy and I grow in our M/s journey we have been seeking to expand our community and have been enjoying going to M/s and Leather conferences across the country the last few years. More recently we have found our local MAsT chapters and look forward to being a part of them regularly. slave joy and I are both wired for and committed to a monogamous relationship but value the wide variety of people and relationships around us. We would greatly like to meet more open-minded kink accepting people to build friendships with where we can be ourselves as Master and slave while enjoying vanilla activities like board or card games, BBQ's, potlucks or any number of things.

Whether you are interested in a photo shoot or would like to get to know slave joy and I better feel free to send a friend request or message!

All the best Master Marcus.



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All of you!