Dear Skate Gods: Four Wheels. Two Axles.

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 [https://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 appreciation corner - Postcards From Lisbon now streaming, featuring Lau Willems & Lilli Werner - Nora Vasconcellos on the road with Adidas - If you're in Boston, go say hi!   Next week's guest: Lau Willems. XOXO, talk soon - GLWT See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

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 Jacuzzi vs Converse trips, filming video parts, managing self-doubt to the realities of being one of the few women in the van. And a few dream sponsors make an appearance too.  See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

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: Ep. 6 : Jenn Soto & Anna Shea -Jenkem Piece on European Skate Shops -New artist segment: Yeoubi"Lullaby" music video featuring Lizzie Armanto and Allysha Le See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

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 superstition, and all the emotions in between.   See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.