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.
Amelia Brodka Exposure 2026
When opportunities for women in skateboarding were disappearing, Amelia Brodka decided to create a contest of her own. What started with 34 skaters has grown into Exposure, an annual contest and gathering of women and gender-expansive skateboarders from around the world. This week, Amelia joins As…
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Who Gets to Decide?
What makes someone valuable in skateboarding? Who gets to make that call? And what happens when the future of skateboarding looks nothing like its past? This week, we're looking for answers in an unlikely place: professional basketball. Skaters, stay with me here.
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What the Data Says with Maddy Brown
Maddy Brown, better known as WNBA Data, joins us to talk WNBA playoffs, making statistics interesting, what the numbers can (and can’t) tell us about sports, and the growing role of data in women’s sports. Then we bring it back to skateboarding: an industry that has historically relied less on dat…
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Rosie Archie
Rosie Archie joins us to talk about growing up in Canim Lake First Nation, finding skateboarding, building community and starting Nation Skate Youth. Plus, the 11th annual Stop, Drop & Roll goes down in Vancouver this weekend. Thank you Rosie!
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Margie Didal
From learning how to kickflip the second time she ever skated in flip-flops, as one does — to representing the Philippines at the Olympics, Margielyn Didal has had an incredibly impressive skateboarding career. Margie joins us to talk about growing up in Cebu, competing before she owned a skateb…
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GLWT News Desk: Podiums + Video Part Roundup
Red Bull Bowl Rippers Marseille Rockstar Energy Open SLS Tempe Takeover Paige Heyn x Phoenix Mercury The Bunt Jam Unity Fest + Exposure Secret Lynn — Thief of Joy Kylie Frank and Werka Choromańska new Etnies promo video Slam Skateboarding x Big Heart’s State of MindChina trip - Felicity Tur…
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Beatrice Domond
Beatrice joins us to talk about growing up in Florida, finding her place in skateboarding, the complicated weight of being the first, leaving FA, and starting something new Desire 2911. Plus, a little bit of New York vs. San Francisco skating.
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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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