Good Luck With That: A Podcast About Skateboarding
A weekly podcast focused on women and gender-expansive skateboarding. It highlights stories from the past, present, and future that rarely get mainstream attention. The show blends cultural history, real-time news, and space for difficult conversations. It aims to provide context and nuance for topics that are often oversimplified.
Episodes
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 skateboard, SLS, X Games, winning the Asian Games, making the Tokyo Olympic final, b
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 Turner & Liv Lovelace Liv Lovelace +
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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 decided what was “marketable,” and the cost of surviving inside it. Walking aw
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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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 where it gets in the way. Early childhood attempts at Frankensteining the perfect specimen (via bugs)
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 comes next.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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 & Chiba recap, Championship Finals next week in New Orleans - Shout out Amelia Brodka
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 young daughter and betting on herself to become a professional skateboarder. Everything from Ja
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 Farrar -SQUEAKY — Bill Strobeck : Efron Danzig & Orin Curtis -Abnormal Communications:
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 back on a board after chemotherapy. Plus: astrology and tarot as a practice versus as a
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. Let's go Knicks. Plus, it's back tail summer.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
GLWT News Desk
Ruby Lilley — Today Tomorrow Forever pro part. Jessie Darnall makes her debut. Fiona Wessely — Phi Phi. Lau Willems insane new part for THERE. Ciel Carillo sums up her recent footage with the quote of the week: “I moved to SF, and it’s brutal and awesome.” Plus: the ASICS women’s video project is heating up, World Skate Rome is around the corne
Ruby Lilley: All Terrain Trying
- Wheels of Fortune 13 1. Niko Sugimoto 2. Hina Maeda 3. Evie Prichard - Skateboarding Hall of Fame inducts Alexis Sablone and Vanessa Torres - Leo Baker's new part for Tacky Joy Factory: Dead Name Then we get to know our new favorite PRO Ruby Lilley — All Terrain Trying — out now.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dear Skate Gods: Four Wheels. Two Axles.
We got the band back together. Just the crew this week, catching up before heading to WOF. - Ruby Lily goes PRO for Foundation - Kylie Frank wins the Olympic video contest - THERE Skateboards on tour And a viral parenting clip that broke the internet in maybe the worst way. Plus Nora's Muna concert review and so much more Four wheels. Two axles. Xoxo, GLWTSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in
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 Then we get into it with Kristin.Our Mother Teresa of skateboarding. Her histo
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 always will be.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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 it. We also recap: Asian Skateboarding Championships Podium Tampa Pro highlig
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 “marketable,” and the cost of surviving inside it. Walking away from the Olymp
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 episode. Stay Tuned! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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 accelerated fast — through the contest circuit, street skating, travel, and the physical toll that c
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 the IOC is reminding everyone exactly why we loved DIY culture in the fir
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 happens when the industry decides looking the other way is easier.See omnystudio.com/listene
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 skateboarding, bringing big promises and bigger questions. Who benefits? Who gets left out?
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 chaos, and buying her mom a house in the same year.We
Nicole Hause, “Just Call Me Dickie”
We’ve got Nicole Hause Pro skater, co-founder of Loop Hardware, and host of the No Big Deal podcast - calling in from Miami, mid–Freedom Tour. We talk skating, starting over, living out of a suitcase, and the personal growth that happens when you stop doing what everyone else wants you to do. Plus: a few stories from the Nicole + Nora roommate era and her signature skill: making a mome
Acrobatics + Combat
Skateboarding is classified by the Olympics as an “acrobatics + combat” sport — which is both terrifying and… kind of accurate. This week, Ashley Rehfeld is joined by Mimi Knoop and Alex White on the sports desk to unpack: Brazil World Skate prep, SLS results, whether skateboarding is a sport or just athletic anarchy, and why the future can hold both street cultu
Nora vs. The Internet
We’re back from winter break. Lunar New Year timing, so technically we’re early. (Sure.)This week, Ashley Rehfeld, Nora Vasconcellos, and Alex White catch up on what the group text could not contain: a terrifying stalker situation that sent Nora into the court system, the surreal task of reading your comment section to a judge, and the safety cost of when your job requires having a pub
Natalie Porter: Girl Gangs, Zines & Power Slides.
This week on Good Luck With That, Ashley sits down with Natalie Porter — skateboarder, librarian, historian, and author of Girl Gangs, Zines & Power Slides: A History of Badass Women Skateboarders. Natalie’s work spans more than two decades of research documenting women’s skateboarding history not as a footnote, but as a through-line. We talk about rage as fuel, the power of
The Good Part of It All
This week, it’s a host-only catch-up that accidentally turns into a State of the Union for women’s progression across everything: skateboarding, surfing, and the weird new reality where the podium is basically a youth movement. Nora takes us inside Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch (secret-ish Red Bull project, plus a quick detour into Blue Crush lore and why “Pipeline&rsquo
Women’s Skate Contests: A 60-Year Story.
Live from La Paloma Theater during Exposure weekend, we time-travel through the heroic history of women’s skate contests from the 1960s to 2025: babysitting offers instead of sponsors, Judi Oyama bombing hills at 70, CB era, winning a car and immediately crashing it, X Games walkouts, equal pay fights, All Girl Skate Jam, WOF, Exposure, the absolute stunning fashion of it all, and so much mo
Fabiana Delfino, Superstition Is a Sport
We talk Down Straight Up! Vol. 4, van-trip politics, period reality, elbow chic, superstitions, starting LOOP Hardware, and why “trust the skater” is the whole business plan. More women in the van, more clips, more money. Wild, right? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Good Luck Debutante Ball
Welcome to Good Luck With That, a weekly podcast about women and gender-expansive skateboarding, hosted by Ashley Rehfeld, Nora Vasconcellos, Alex White, and Mimi Knoop. In our very first episode, we talk about why this space matters. We get into Exposure, the rise of the tween prodigies, and the absolutely unhinged things we’ve all done in the name of “opportunities,” and what i
Introducing: 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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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