Episode 16 with Oliver Percovich, skateboarder and founder of NGO Skateistan. Together we talked about him growing up skating in Australia and Papua New Guinea, moving to Afghanistan in 2007 and introducing skateboarding to local kids, how he developed that idea into the successful and highly acclaimed global skateboarding, education, girls empowerment program that is Skateistan, their expansion strategy for 2022, the "Learning how to skateboard in a warzone (if you're a girl)" documentary...  

Thanks for the nice chat Oliver!

Thank you Julian Dykmans and Louisa Menke for sharing surprise questions for Oliver!

You can help Skateistan to reach their 2022 goals of expanding to 20 different locations and reach up to 4,500 students each week by donating on their website skateistan.org.  

• Intro (00:14) 
• Growing up (01:28) 
• Studying chemistry in college (10:55) 
• Launching Skateistan and what Oliver was doing prior to that (12:21) 
• Documentary “To live and skate in Kabul” (30:23) 
• Were parents sometimes reluctant to have you teach skateboarding to their children, especially girls? (31:33) 
• Finding/recruiting staff (36:05) 
• Moving the HQs to Berlin (38:51) 
• Situation in Afghanistan nowadays (41:56) 
• A new chapter: aim of 20 locations and 4,500 students a week in 2022 (45:46) 
• “Learning how to skateboard in a warzone (if you’re a girl)” documentary (52:31) 
• Best way to help/support Skateistan (56:29) 
• Most valuable lesson learned through/from skateboarding (58:38) 
• Questions from friends (01:00:18) 
• Conclusion (01:03:47)  

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