How This Works

Skipper Chong Warson

15 June 2021  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 8 mins

5 whys, color, design, five whys, home, listening, making how this works, new york city, podcast, san francisco, storytelling, success, work, writing

In this episode, the script is flipped and Laura puts the questions to Skipper - topics include storytelling, making How This Works, life at home, and a variety of other topics

Call for questions

7 June 2021  |  Season 1  |  45 secs

Skipper asks for listener questions for the last episode of the first season

Sarah Sudhoff

1 June 2021  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 23 mins

art, houston, performance artist, photograph, photographer, photography, sarah sudhoff

In this episode, Skipper chats with Sarah Sudhoff about her work as an artist and her background as a photographer

Piper Payne

20 April 2021  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 14 mins

audio mastering engineer, cryptocurrency, mastering engineer, music, nashville, nfts, non-fungible tokens, piper payne, quality control, sound, vinyl

In this episode, Skipper chats with Piper Payne about her work as an audio mastering engineer

Kait Scalisi

6 April 2021  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 58 secs

consent culture, kait scalisi, passionbykait, pleasure, sexual health, sexual pleasure, shame

In this episode, Skipper chats with Kait Scalisi about sexual pleasure, sexual health, and consent culture

Sally McRae

30 March 2021  |  Season 1  |  50 mins 1 sec

coach, nike, nordictrack, pro, professional, race, run, runner, running, soccer, ultrarunner, ultrarunning

In this episode, Skipper chats with Sally McRae about being a runner and specifically an ultrarunner as well as a coach for others

Kat Hantas and Nicole Emanuel

23 March 2021  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 7 mins

#girlscalltheshots, 21seeds, infused tequila, kat hantas, nicole emanuel, sarika singh, spirits, tequila

In this episode, Skipper chats with Kat Hantas and Nicole Emanuel about tequila, infusing tequila, and building a tequila empire in 21Seeds

Dr. Laura Sicola

16 March 2021  |  Season 1  |  58 mins 58 secs

authenticity, language, listen, listening, respond, speak, speaking, speaking to influence, vocal impact productions, voice

In this episode, Skipper chats with Laura Sicola about how to use your voice to its best effect

Cassandra Carlopio

9 March 2021  |  Season 1  |  56 mins 7 secs

australia, go-in, los angeles, meditation, psychologist, relaxation, sleep, sleep medicine

In this episode, Skipper chats with Cassandra Carlopio about meditation, sleep, and how to use these to great effect in the midst of everything that's going on in our world today

Ben Falk

2 March 2021  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 2 mins

ben falk, design, living systems, permaculture, resilient, vermont

In this episode, Skipper chats with Ben Falk about permaculture and its impact on the larger environment, and how that impacts our personal lives

Kacie Lett Gordon

23 February 2021  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 13 mins

balance, fuck it all, gender equity, having it all, podcast, storytelling, success, woman

In this episode, Skipper chats with Kacie Lett Gordon about what it means to have it all

Chris Landon

16 February 2021  |  Season 1  |  48 mins 41 secs

director, genre, horror movie, horror movies, screenwriter, writer

In this episode, Skipper chats with Chris Landon about his lifelong love of horror movies and how that's played into his work as a screen writer and film director

Carl Welty

9 February 2021  |  Season 1  |  58 mins 16 secs

acjachemen, architect, architecture, banning ranch, passive solar, regenerative design, sustainable, sustainable design

In this episode, Skipper chats with Carl Welty about being an architect and his work in sustainable design

Thejus Chakravarthy

2 February 2021  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 12 mins

brushfire, change, culture, instructional systems design, people, problem, technology, the flywheel and the lever, work, workplace

In this episode, Skipper chats with Thejus Chakravarthy about how we can manifest change, both from a point-of-view of learning/work as well as in our personal lives

Nova Stanley

26 January 2021  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 7 mins

art school, artist, brooklyn, college, high school, illustrator, instagram, social media, trans male, transgender

In this episode, Skipper talks to Nova Stanley, a high school student from Brooklyn who's studying illustration at one of the top fine arts schools (during the pandemic) and his experience as a transgender male

Stephanie Krivitzky

19 January 2021  |  Season 1  |  59 mins 39 secs

day, freelance, getting things done, life, logistics, people, project, put, spend, talking, understanding, work

In this episode, Skipper chats with Stephanie Krivitzky about how she gets things done — in the context of being a creative director, designer, and a person in the world