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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Kristin Ebeling
Kristin Ebeling joins GLWT this week.First, we hit the news desk: THERE Skateboards drops Oops Red Bull’s Nowadays surf film featuring Sky Brown Is Mariah Duran on Vinyl? Summer contest season officially begins and it's JAM packed And why everyone should probably just go to Wheels of Fortune The…
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Alexis Sablone
Alexis Sablone joins GLWT. One of the most respected to ever do it. Chiseled into our Mt. Rushmore. We talk process, obsession to perfectionism. Where it helps, where it doesn’t. Early childhood attempts at Frankensteining the perfect specimen (via bugs). And why skateboarding is just cool and it a…
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GLWT goes to NYC
On the ground at the Deep Blue Sports & Entertainment Business of Women’s Sports Conference: what skateboarding looks like next to mainstream sports. WNBA Draft watch party and a full-circle moment with Sheryl Swoopes. Plus, talk on the growth of women’s sports and what skateboarding can learn from…
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Leo Baker
Leo Baker joins 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 decided what was “mark…
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Between Two Ledges: GLWT Mini News Desk
SLS LA Takeover, Chloe Covell with the win Paige Heyn joins Rockstar Hayley Wilson x ActionsREALized x In Pieces org Momiji Nishiya drops her Adidas Tekkira Cup part Converse Skateboarding welcomes Nelly Zyarzcka to the team Alexis Sablone x Sneeze Magazine collab Back next week with a full …
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THE HUMBLER Samarria Brevard
Samarria Brevard joins GLWT. Riverside kid turned global street-skating powerhouse. Multi X Games medalist. 2014 Women's Street World Champion. The first Black woman on the cover of Thrasher Magazine. Pro for Hoopla, Enjoi, and now Meow. In this episode, Brevard reflects on a career that acceler…
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Annie Guglia
This week, Annie joins GLWT. Olympian, community builder, and president of Canada Skateboard. We get into how she found skateboarding, the Montreal scene, and her master’s thesis We’re Not In It For The Money — breaking skateboarding into three camps: Nostalgics, Pragmatics, and Promoters. And why…
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Jill Perkins: The Skater's Snowboarder
Jill Perkins joins GLWT. Every skater's favorite snowboarder.From Rookie of the Year to Rider of the Year. We get into what that ride actually looks like up close. The work, the slams, and the mental weight of doing it at the highest level. Then it gets real. Accountability, speaking up, and what h…
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Skateboarding Enters Its League Era
We hit the week’s headlines. World Skate Brazil delivered a full Japanese podium sweep, something no one was ready for (except Japan). Phoenix Am, Slappy, May I Have This Dance, Lau Willems, Love and Unity, and whispers of an ASICS women’s project. Then: XGL.A new league structure lands in skateboa…
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Vitória Mendonça: STU Women’s Skater of the Year
Vitória Mendonça is having a moment. Fresh off Women’s Skater of the Year at Brazil’s STU Awards and a new part in Element’s Search video, Vitória joins GLWT to talk about growing up in Campo Grande, Brazil, moving to São Paulo to be in the mix, turning pro in the middle of absolute Copenhagen Open…
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