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.
Episodes
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: Ep. 6 : Jenn Soto & Anna Shea
-Jenke...
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 superstition, and all the emotions in bet...
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.
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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 corner, and we're making podium predicti...
- 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.
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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, GLW...
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 history with Skate Lik...
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.
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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 highlights
New Olympic pathway: 2026 U.S. Open v...
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 Olympic path to transition.&...
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!
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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 came with it. We talk about what...
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 first place.
We hit the headlines too....
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.
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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? And is this actually what skateboar...
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 get into Brazil’s skate scene, style, sponsorship politic...
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 moment… including a knee-sli...
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 culture and re...
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 public life online.
We ...
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 self-documentation, why every g...
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