Produced by People & Company
Hosted by Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, Whitney Ogutu, Mia Quagliarello, Maggie Zhang, Marjorie Anderson & Kai Elmer Sotto
An interview hosted by Bailey Richardson and Maggie Zhang with Evan Hamilton, the Director of Community at Reddit, a network of hundreds of thousands of communities who come together over shared interests.
We talked with Evan about how he has built trust with moderators at scale.
Read MoreAn interview hosted by Mia Quagliariello, Maggie Zhang, and Mira Zhang (Maggie’s little sister) with Ashley Hackworth, a savvy community builder who’s a leading force in A.R.M.Y. (adorable representative MC for youth), the K-pop supergroup BTS’s incredibly loyal, benevolent, and powerful fan base.
We talked with Ashley about how fans gather initially around BTS’s music, and then stay and unite for bigger causes.
Read MoreAn interview hosted by Bailey Richardson with Adam Bedoian, the Community GM at Latitude Margaritaville in Daytona Beach. It’s one of Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville-themed retirement communities.
We talked with Adam about how the beloved song comes to life, and how to build a thriving community of neighbors.
Read MoreAn interview hosted by Bailey and Maggie with Shana Sumers, Head of Community at HER social app, the largest community and dating app for LGBTQ+ womxn and queer people.
We talked with Shana about how the HER community has pushed Shana as a moderator, role model and leader, and how she supports superusers to take on moderation roles in the community.
Read MoreAfter an early career in grassroots climate organizing, Casper earned masters degrees in Divinity and Public Policy from Harvard. While there, he started a reading community around the Harry Potter texts, that has grown to more than 70 chapters and millions of podcast listeners around the world.
In this episode, we will go deep on two things Casper knows a lot about: rituals and communal reading.
Read MoreToday we’re talking to Erin Wayne, or @Aureylian as she’s known on the internet. Six years ago, Erin was brought on as the first pure community hire at Twitch.
We’ll dig into the story of how Erin came to work at Twitch, her early projects there, and two remarkable community programs she’s led: Twitch ambassadors and meetups.
Read MoreToday we're talking to Courtland Allen, the founder of Indie Hackers, a primarily online community for independent entrepreneurs. By “independent” I mean these are people who are building businesses that make their money from customers. (They're not backed by investors.)
We sat down to talk to Courtland about getting his community off the ground, why they are open and explicit about revenue numbers with one another, and how he’s approached building a business with Indie Hackers.
Read MoreSince the very first CreativeMornings event in Brooklyn over ten years ago, the grassroots events have spread to more than 200 chapters around the world—everywhere from Louisville to Tehran.
Our very own Kevin Huynh, employee #1 at CreativeMornings, sat down with current Chief Community Officer Kyle Baptista and Head of Community Lisa Cifuentes to learn more.
Read MoreAlmost five years ago, Carly Ayres started a community in Slack called "100s Under 100," a play on the Forbes "30 Under 30" list and other similar awards. The group brings together a vetted collection of designers, everyone from senior creative leads at big companies like Dropbox to high school students looking for feedback on their college applications.
We get questions about community "watering holes" all the time. People want to know what platform they should use to bring their people together, or what they can do to actually make a digital space engaging. Carly has figured all of this out and more.
Read MoreIn this episode we talk to Aria McManus, an artist and creative director who started Downtown Girls Basketball in 2013. The team for women and people who don't identify as male "who are specifically bad at basketball,” started as a wild idea when Aria got 30 of her artist and designer friends out to play together.
In the six years since, that core group has ballooned to a rotating crew of 400+ of women. Every week they come together to get exercise, relive their love for basketball, and, most importantly, goof off with other creative, fun-loving women. We sat down with Aria in the Lower East Side to learn more.
Read MoreOn July 24, 2010, thousands of people around the world uploaded videos of their lives to YouTube to create Life in a Day, a cinematic experiment to document a single day on earth. All in all, 80,000 submissions containing over 4,500 hours of footage from 192 nations were edited into one 90-minute film of raw, first-person scenes from real people around the globe, echoing the experience of YouTube itself.
In this episode we talk to YouTube's first film community manager, Sara Pollack, to learn more about a film YouTube made called "Life in a Day."
Read MoreTen years ago, Nobu Adilman, Daveed Goldman and their friend Amanda Burt hosted a choir at a surprise birthday party. Today, that choir has evolved into a community, meeting weekly to sing in Toronto's most iconic music venues and beyond. Many of their songs have gone viral, from Prince and David Bowie tributes, to sing-alongs led by famous musicians like David Byrne, Rufus Wainwright, and Patti Smith.
Read MoreLast year, the World AeroPress Championship (W.A.C.) season brought together more than 3,000 competitors at 120 events in over 60 countries. But the idea started with much humbler beginnings—three coffee geeks and a cake in a small room in Norway.
We interview the CEO, Tim Williams to learn more about what makes the competition special and what structure he and his team offer organizers from HQ.
Read MoreWe speak with Dr. Chad Nelsen, the CEO of Surfrider about how Surfrider got started in Malibu, California, and what they’ve done to expand the organization and its impact around the globe. Chad started working at Surfrider when he was 28 years-old and fresh out of grad school. At that time the foundation had just six employees and 20 chapters. Today, there are 190 Surfrider chapters and clubs and over 500,000 activists and supporters worldwide.
Read MoreIn this episode, we interview Hector Espinal, co-founder of WRU Crew, an exceptional run club in New York City. As many as 100 diverse runners gather at the same spot on Mondays at 7:00 pm then take to the streets to hoots and hollers of support from folks in the neighborhood.
How did Hector build something so special? We sat down with him in Central Park to learn more.
Read MoreTo learn more about how Little Free Library grew from one man in Wisconsin to 80,000 stewards worldwide, we caught up with Margret Aldrich, who leads Marketing & Communication for Little Free Library and wrote "The Little Free Library Book."
Read MoreWe interview, Dan Madsen who grew the Star Wars Fan Club to 180,000 members, the Star Wars Insider magazine to more than 500,000 subscribers, and hosted Celebration I, bringing tens of thousands of Star Wars fans from around the world together for the first time.
Read MoreIn this episode, we'll speak to Lola Omolola about FIN, the private Facebook group she started for Nigerian women. Today, FIN has 1.8 million members and gets hundreds of post applications every day. The Facebook group is managed by 10 volunteer moderators.
But how did Lola get the first conversations started? How did the first members find out about FIN? We called her in Chicago to learn more.
Read MoreToday we talk to Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of The Cloud Appreciation Society. Members pay $15 to join in exchange for a badge and certificate with their member number. Today, there are over 45,000 members around the world. How did Gavin build something so special? We called him at his home in Somerset, England, to find out.
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