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talkaboutitCrushing xMissfitsFor the last episode of Crushing, Alie and Liza of Missfits surf and yours truly talk surfer boys (we love to hate ‘em), being a twin, and being an entrepreneurial badass. Our advice? FOCUS ON WHAT YOU WANT. Put yourself out there and get in the ring. In love and life, you create your moment. Don’t wait. Try new shit and get after it. There’s no limit to how you perceive what you do. Yeah, we’re all insecure and we all doubt ourselves and what other people think of us. It’s hard to figure out who you ar...
2023-06-131h 12
The ChangeupMarialidia Marcotulli, Founder of WithitgirlThis week's guest is the founder of With it Girl, Marialidia Marcotulli.With it Girl is a multifaceted, multi-generational platform with a goal to amplify the voices, work, visions and ideas of women in skate, surf and active lifestyles. The With it Girl community engages in conversations that further the narrative around action sports, prioritizing community, diversity and creativity. We talk about the important decision to relaunch With it Girl nearly 20 years after shutting it down originally, the differences and similarities between generations of young adults and how she approaches every new opportunity with curiosity.
2023-04-2431 min
talkaboutitUK Girl Skate Retreat| Danni GallacherMeet the Skate Retreat, Europe's first luxury skate retreat for women, trans, and non-binary skaters and their allies to learn, connect and grow through skateboarding. They host lessons, workshops, and retreats. Their focus is not just skateboarding but also self-growth and nature connection.
Bridget traveled 3,836 miles from Chicago, Illinois, to the home of the Skate Retreat: Sheffield, England. I could immediately feel that this place was very special. There was a beautiful, optimistic, and calm energy flowing through the air. Owls sang their unique songs, and dragonflies flew around us. Surrounded by 42 acres of forest and autumn leav...
2023-01-1813 min
talkaboutitSHOWING UP ︱xVans Pipe Masters ︱Grace StiberthAs Withitgirl gears up to attend the Vans Pipe Masters in Hawaii 2022, Lena and Grace discuss the theme of what it means to show up. Grace herself works with Withitgirl doing social media outreach, strategic planning, and event coverage. On top of talking about Grace growing up, her move to California, and her passion for photography, we discuss how she will offer a new perspective to the likes of other female photographers by showing up and making waves at Pipeline.
Host : Lena Damico
2022-12-0613 min
talkaboutitCrushing xVioletBuckyFanZineIt was a blast to sit down with Withitgirl’s Violet Reed and to learn about Violet’s zine, Bucky Fan Zine. In this episode, Violet and I chat about how social media has impacted alternative culture and how alternative culture has changed yet stayed the same nonetheless. Violet’s advice to her middle school self? Keep crushing! There’s more on the horizon.
PS It's no surprise that Violet has the most epic playlist to accompany our conversation.
Just press play and playlist also here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5BDTbQSIarqSXGPgeqVfwk?si=f575edfcd90040c1
2022-11-171h 03
CrushingCrushingxBuckyFanZineCrushing x Withitgirl Talkabout it Collab #2
It was a blast to sit down with Withitgirl’s Violet Reed and to learn about Violet’s zine, Bucky Fan Zine. In this episode, Violet and I chat about how social media has impacted alternative culture, and how alternative culture has been changed, yet stayed the same nonetheless. Violet’s advice to her middle school self? Keep crushing! There’s more on the horizon.
PS Its no surprise that Violet has the most epic playlist to accompany our conversation. Just press play.
@buckyfanzine on Instagram!
2022-11-171h 03
CrushingCrushingxBethORourkeThis is the season premiere and the first episode of Crushing's collaboration with Withitgirl's podcast Talkaboutit. I had the pleasure of sitting down with Beth O’Rourke last week for the first episode of the collab. Beth’s crushing on the mystery of existence & I’m proud to have her take me on a journey through new discoveries in this interview. Check out my write-up on the new collaboration and the future of Crushing on the Withitgirl website.
2022-09-291h 08
talkaboutitCrushing xBethORourkeIn collaboration with the Withitgirl podcast talkaboutit, Maija, the host of CRUSHING, will be interviewing people who are CRUSHING on something rad and CRUSHING IT at what they’re doing! Maija starts off with a creative and brand strategist, filmmaker, and photographer, Beth O’Rourke, who was just in New York where her film debuted at the Women’s Surf Film Festival in Rockaway Beach, one of the beaches she grew up surfing at!
Beth O’Rourke unveiled a pleasantly unexpected way of thinking to me, and it was a gift to have her guide me through the disc...
2022-09-281h 08
talkaboutitTaking the Plunge | Founder JessJessica Thornton Murphy, the founder of Plunge, celebrated the two-year anniversary of the creation of her company. Located in San Francisco, California, Jess first began her creative endeavors with Plunge at the beginning of the 2020 pandemic. Like Jess, many of us can relate to the difficulties of adjusting to indoor life while struggling to find inspiration and productivity. The slow pace of pandemic life, however, roused Jess to create Plunge. Using her experience from the many people she’s met, and jobs and experiences she’s had, her creations began to involve artfully made 100% cotton, Jacquard-woven towels (meaning woven on a...
2022-08-0729 min
talkaboutitOnWord | Breaking the BarrierBreaking the Barrier chronicles Chicago-based OnWord Skate Collective’s undertaking to build and bring a portable public skatepark to city parks and other public spaces that are void of such structures. The collective was formed in the early months of 2021 by Lid Madrid, T Smith, Cath Hodge, Deb Hwang, and Bridget Johnson. Most important to OnWord is to provide a safe space for the historically under-represented people of the skateboarding landscape: women, LGBTQ+ and non-gender-conforming (NGC) skaters –not to forget either the younger or older subsets as well. These skateparks also provide (smaller) obstacles catering more to beginners thereby elim...
2022-06-1937 min
talkaboutitCAPI Pre-Launch | The Curve of TimeOn June 9th from Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, four women will throw their rain boots, crab traps, and sun hats on a small 28 foot North Pacific to embark on a two month trip through the waters of British Columbia. Annie Means (21), Emery Hansell (23), Uhane Johnson (22), and Erin Beaudoin (23) are setting out to follow the course first set 100 years ago by the writer and BC icon, Muriel Wylie Blanchet. Means, a videographer and student who inspired the project, will skipper the boat.
In the early 1900s, Blanchet and her husband purchased a boat: the Caprice. After her hu...
2022-05-2943 min
talkaboutitLaura Weinbach | Foxtails Brigade11-year-old Evelia Rosenblum of Oakland, California recently had a chance to sit down and interview Laura Weinbach of the band Foxtails Brigade. Also from Oakland, Foxtails Brigade has been described as “orchestral indie-pop”. Their 38-minute interview gives a unique perspective into Laura’s creative process, what influences and inspires her songwriting, and what finger she thinks she could live without.
Check out the full video of the interview on our withitgirl youtube channel.
https://www.withitgirls.com/
2022-05-1635 min
talkaboutitSEABLUE Collective | Conscious MarketplaceSeaBlue Collective started as The Ocean is Female, a women-run, and women-supported Instagram page highlighting female surfers worldwide. SeaBlue launched when founders Clarissa Kusel, Tiare Hogerman, and Lauren Sander were frustrated with the amount of plastic they would pick up in the ocean while surfing. The SeaBlue Collective was born with the vision to create a shopping place for individuals to purchase sustainable items, from clothing to utensils to beauty products, in an effort to stop mass production and plastic use at the source. Taking her company to graduate school at USC, Clarissa met Lauren Sander, another founder of...
2022-03-1832 min
talkaboutitFresh Eyes | Taylor BringhurstTaylor Bringhurst is a California Native whose experience in design has led her to create a fun and groovy art style. Initially, Taylor was a fashion student in Los Angeles but often found herself discouraged by all the minuscule details that had to go into her work. After learning to surf when she was 18, Taylor found herself discovering her passion for digital design, taking inspiration from her newfound surf community and artists such as Matisse and Georgia O’Keefe. Taylor’s focus on fashion and detailed work has transformed itself into fun and free-flowing shapes and colors. She finds grea...
2022-02-0721 min
talkaboutitAn Inside Job | Anna WhiteAnna White is a triple threat—artist, musician, and writer—working to create a more accessible platform for indie artists outside of the US. Beginning her career as a contributor for the prolific Rookie Magazine, Anna has been at the helm of multiple creative projects, including the Nearness Project, collaborative response to quarantine isolation, and her new record label and artist support initiative, Inside Joe Records. As Anna provided insight into her many creative endeavors, I learned about her ambitious attitude and how connection and bringing people together is key to her approach. Community and collaboration are a common thre...
2021-12-3039 min
talkaboutitINFOGRAPHICS of the INVISIBLE | Xaviera LopezXaviera López, best known for her short and visually captivating animations, first gained recognition for her work on the famous social media video platform Vine. While using both technical and physical processes to obtain the intricate movements of her animation, López loves to use her connection to nature and natural forces to bring imagined inanimate objects, beautiful feminine forms, and curious creatures to life. In doing so, López takes inspiration from her years of growing up in Chile as a child, and the beautiful landscapes and political history that surrounded her (these can be seen in her...
2021-10-1319 min
talkaboutitKWMR Withitgirl Interviewed by Curio-CabinetWithitgirls interviewed LIVE by Jeffrey Manson for KWMR Community Radio
2021-09-2131 min
talkaboutitBUCKTOOTH |Anti-Brand FashionBucktooth is a collective started by three friends (Emily, Emma, and Sarah) trying to make slow fashion a more inclusive space. Recently we got the chance to zoom with Emily and Emma (⅔ of this “anti-brand”) and talk with them about finding their own personal styles, sustainability, trend cycles, thrift tips and tricks, body image, TikTok, and more! ~Justine
Music by Tennessee
Podcast produced by: Christian Kerchenski
See more at: http://withitgirls.com & @withitgirl on all other platforms
2021-08-201h 14
talkaboutitTalkaboutit TrailerTalkaboutit is a withitgirl produced podcast with the goal of amplifying the voices, visions, and ideas of women in surf, skate, and art cultures. We seek to supplement mainstream media which, on the surface, has a tendency to be noninclusive, and corporate.
Withitgirl functions as a website, zine, and community and engages in conversations that further the narrative around surfing and skating through prioritizing community, creativity, and diversity.
Music by Tennessee
Podcast produced by: Christian Kerchenski
See more at: http://withitgirls.com & @withitgirl on all other platforms
2021-08-1901 min
CrushingCrushingxMolsWithitGirlThe Liquid Space: Strength and Softness Together
Press play to hear me and Marialidia Marcotulli Phd. talk about her creative journey. In this episode we discuss Withitgirl, her childhood in Venezuela and her education in the States, empathy, water as a learning tool, and the power of not curating everything so tightly.
Check out @withitgirl on Instagram!
2021-04-271h 01