Episode 39 - Imke Leerink

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…    Intro (00:13)  Getting started (01:13)  First inspirations, first videos (04:49)  Working in graphic design (11:38)  Starting Girls Shred on Myspace (13:36)  Injuries (19:13)  Girls Shred moving to Instagram and next steps (39:56)  Events and meet-ups (43:47)  Running the IG account (51:21) Place of women in skateboarding (59:57) « Death » of social media (01:10:06)  Most valuable lesson learned from skateboarding (01:15:13)  Friends questions (01:15:53)  Conclusion (01:40:08)   For more information and resources: https://linktr.ee/beyondboards