Good Luck With That: A Podcast About Skateboarding
Good Luck With That: A Podcast About Skateboarding
A weekly show centered on women and gender-expansive skateboarding, highlighting past, present, and future stories that rarely get the mic. Part cultural record, part real-time news brief, and part holding space for harder-to-hear truths where context and nuance can live.Social links:
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Latest Project Choosing Joy: Leo Baker
Revisiting when Leo Baker joined GLWT. This episode covers a lot of ground. Two-time Super Crown champion. Eight X-Games medals. First trans person to have a signature shoe on Nike. A body of work and video parts that we're still talking about. We get into being shaped by an industry that decid…
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Amelia Brodka
Ashley and Alex catch up with Amelia Brodka to talk life on the road with the X Games League, broadcasting skateboarding, the league’s inaugural season, the changing business of competitive skateboarding, her own X Games origin story, the return of vert, and what’s ahead for Exposure.
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One Tiny Wet Hippo
This week Ashley, Nora, and Alex catch up after a busy stretch of travel to cover the X Games League finale, Sky Brown's historic week, bad internet opinions, and one tiny wet hippo.
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Alexis Sablone
We've had a lot of new listeners finding the show lately, thank you! It felt like the right time to revisit one of our favorite conversations with Alexis Sablone. One of the most respected to ever do it. Chiseled into our skateboarding Mt. Rushmore. We talk process to obsession, where it helps and…
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Lau Willems
Lau Willems is having a breakout year. We talk about growing up skating in Belgium, leaving a career in engineering, and going all-in on skateboarding. We also get into the story behind her L.A.U. Unity part, filming Postcards From Lisbon with Adidas, navigating online hate, joining THERE, and what…
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GLWT Hard-Hitting News Desk
- Rockstar Energy Open — Video Qualifier Open. (Ria Tanno Breakout video submission) - Jackalope Canada preview - Adjacency Bias Conference - Street League Takeover: Rio & Tempe - World Skate adds Vert World Championships. Could Vert become an Olympic discipline? - X Games League.— Sacramento …
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Ariana Spencer
News Desk Chloe Covell wins the first Olympic qualifier of the LA 2028 cycle in Rome First-ever Women of Washington takeover at Washington Street X Games League debuts in Sacramento on June 26 Show & Tell Ariana Spencer joins GLWT. We talk about moving from the Midwest to California with her youn…
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GLWT News Desk: Hot Off the Press
World Skate Rome Podium: Mizuho Hasegawa — 96.33 - Highest Score in WST Women's Park History! -Rayssa Leal Named to TIME100's List of the Most Influential People in World Sport -The Una Farrar Half Cab Wafflecup -Thrasher x Spitfire Presents SF Burning : Elissa Steamer, Breana Geering, Una Fa…
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Cata Díaz
Cata Díaz left Chile at 18 with a three-month visa and never went back. She's been building a life city by city ever since — Barcelona, London, Los Angeles, Miami, and now New York. She talks about finding skateboarding through a skate shop job at 16, surviving cancer at 22, and what it took to get…
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Elisa Martini
Born and raised in Queens, Elisa Martini is holding it down at NYU while spending every spare minute chasing clips and hunting for spots. We talk about growing up first-generation Albanian, balancing school and skating, and why the love of skateboarding has very little to do with a name on a board.…
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