Episode 39 with Imke Leerink, skateboarder, social media and marketing manager from The Hague, Holland, founder of Girls Shred. 

Together we discussed her growing up and picking up a board in Utrecht, starting a myspace account called « Girls Shred » back in 2007 to connect with girl skaters near her, moving over to Facebook and Instagram to keep developing the community worldwide, doing events, meet-ups and workshops, the gnarly knee injuries she went through and is still struggling with to a certain extent, running the Instagram account daily, going to the 2019 edition of Pushing Boarders at Bryggeriets Gymnasium in Malmö, the place of women in skateboarding, the future of social media…   

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