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Unfiltered conversation
Current relationship topics discussed with honesty, maturity, and room for disagreement.
The monthly relationship experience · DFW
Fire
& Ice.
Real conversations with real people. One room where singles, married couples, and divorced voices meet—without scripts, filters, or easy answers.
What to expect
Not a panel.
A live exchange.
Fire & Ice puts real relationship questions in the center of the room. Expect candid viewpoints, respectful tension, laughter, audience moments, and practical truth from people who have lived different sides of love.
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Multiple perspectives
Single, married, and divorced voices—not one answer pretending to fit every life.
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Audience interaction
Questions, live reactions, and moments designed to bring the room into the conversation.
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Entertainment & energy
Featured talent, social connection, and a polished night-out atmosphere between the real talk.
Founders, creators & hosts
The voices that
set the temperature.
Founded and created by Dr. Darolyn Brock and Dr. Shantuan Coleman. Hosted monthly by Dr. Coleman, with Author A. Rackstraw as co-host.
Co-Founder · Co-Creator
Dr. Darolyn Brock
A founding voice behind the Fire & Ice experience, helping shape an intentional space for grown conversation, connection, and truth.
Co-Founder · Co-Creator · Host · FIRE
Dr. Shantuan Coleman
Engineer, educator, author, speaker, and cultural entrepreneur. Dr. Coleman brings warmth, directness, and the questions people are thinking—but may not say first.
Co-Host · Divorced perspective
Author A. Rackstraw
An author and recurring panel voice who brings candid and fiery candor, lived experience, and a distinctly different perspective to the heat of the conversation.
The main panel
Different lives.
One honest table.
The core panel returns every month. Rotating guest appearances phase in throughout the year, bringing fresh lived experience and new angles to each featured topic.
Single perspective
Danielle “Danny” Bush
Founder of Fun on the Run, bringing the perspective of a single woman navigating relationships, standards, and modern connection.
Married perspective
Che & Malik Jackson
A married couple sharing the work behind partnership, communication, commitment, and building together.
Divorced perspective
Author A. Rackstraw
A co-host and panelist offering reflection from marriage, divorce, accountability, and what comes after.
Monthly guest appearances
Apply to Be FeaturedNew panel voices will join selected conversations each month.
Tickets
Choose your
seat in the room.
Designed as an intimate monthly experience. These launch prices create an accessible entry point while preserving a premium hosted experience.
General Admission
$25
Your seat for the full conversation.
- Live panel experience
- Audience interaction
- Entertainment access
Preferred Seating
$40
Get closer to the conversation.
- Priority seating section
- Full live experience
- Post-show photo opportunity
Reserved Table · 4
$150
Bring your circle and sit together.
- Reserved table for four
- Full live experience
- Group photo opportunity
Ticket prices are an editable launch recommendation and can change by venue, featured entertainment, or special edition.
Book Fire & Ice
Bring the conversation to your audience.
Request the complete Fire & Ice experience or invite an individual founder or host for a speaking engagement, moderated conversation, interview, podcast, or special appearance.
Your booking contact:
Sage Sterling · Fire & Ice Publicist
Sage coordinates every inquiry for the full experience and individual founders or hosts.
Text Sage SterlingJoin the experience
Bring your voice, talent—or business.
Fire & Ice features grounded people with a real point of view, polished entertainers who elevate the room, and select vendors who add value to the guest experience. Choose the opportunity that fits you.
Submitting does not guarantee placement. Selected applicants will be contacted with the monthly theme, date, expectations, fees, and next steps.
The Fire & Ice collection
Wear it.
Sip it. Live it.
Bring the conversation home with official Fire & Ice merchandise in the signature black, white, red, and silver palette.
Official apparel
Fire & Ice Logo Shirts
$25
Black or white
Contact Dr. Shantuan Coleman for sizes, availability, and ordering.
Official drinkware
Fire & Ice Cups
Glossy black or white
Choose your energy. Contact Dr. Shantuan Coleman for pricing, availability, and ordering.
Books by the creators & host
Take the conversation home.
Fire & Ice is led by three authors. Request current titles and signed copies directly. Book covers, prices, formats, and direct purchase buttons will be added as each author's sales information is confirmed.
Dr. Shantuan Coleman
Explore available books and request purchasing information or a signed copy directly from Dr. Coleman.
Request Dr. Shantuan's BooksDr. Darolyn Brock
Request Dr. Brock's current titles, ordering details, and signed-copy availability.
Request Dr. Darolyn's BooksAuthor A. Rackstraw
Connect with Author A. Rackstraw for available titles, ordering details, and signed copies.
Request Author A. Rackstraw's BooksContact Fire & Ice
Connect with the right person.
Booking is coordinated by Sage Sterling, our Publicist. Partnerships, media, shop, books, entertainment, and vendor inquiries are handled by the Fire & Ice leadership team.
Sage Sterling · Publicist
Sage coordinates booking inquiries for the complete Fire & Ice experience and individual founders or hosts.
Dr. Darolyn Brock
Dr. Shantuan Coleman
For press interviews, podcasts, media coverage, photography and video requests, website and social media inquiries, official merchandise, and book orders:
Author A. Rackstraw
Artists, performers, DJs, poets, featured entertainment, and vendor applications:
Past flyers
The conversation
in pictures.
Explore past Fire & Ice campaign flyers and the visual story behind the experience. Select any flyer to see it full size.
The archive will grow with each monthly edition.
Your question. Our next conversation.
Put a question
in the room.
What should Fire & Ice discuss next? Submit a relationship question for a future event, live exchange, or audience conversation. Questions may be edited for clarity.