“You waste years by not being able to waste hours” -Amos Tversky

Check out Lauren Lee’s anticipation of how her brain and her work life will change as a first time mom.

In this video, our co-founder and CEO Anna Love discusses how bringing our whole selves (Love and All) to work can really up each other's game. It changes our sense of responsibility to each other and makes our lives more seamless and less segmented.

In this short video, Stoked Head of Innovation, Brent Taylor discusses how difficult it can be to come into innovation work and start prioritizing your sense of curiosity over the sense of expertise you’ve spent years honing and accumulating. The ego loves to know things much more than not know and be curious.

Every quarter we make time for our team to gather, review work we’re doing, find inspiration, re-connect, and hopefully just relax and have some fun! In September of 2020, after a (globally) tough start to the year, we brought our team to Nashville for team time.

In this month’s video, Brent talks about the importance of play as a critical element in learning new skills and behaviors.

In this month’s video, Brent talks about the importance of play as a critical element in learning new skills and behaviors.

Team member Kirsten Montanari shares lessons from her background in wilderness therapy and how they relate to the learning environment we strive for at Stoked.

Barbara does an amazing job of bringing in her years of experience in leadership development and telling us exactly what it boils down to. Accepting who we are now, getting a clear picture of where we want to be in the future, and doing the HARD work to get there.

Parker Gates one of the co-founders of Stoked, walks us through design thinking for problem-solving. Learn how to use design thinking methods to tackle big projects and save time, money, and energy!

Stoked got started as a friendship between two unlikely people at an unlikely place!

Jonathon, Barbara, and Jacob all give a little advice on how to maintain your creative momentum when your workplace culture makes it feel like you’re swimming upstream.

Lucas joins Parker and Jacob as they discuss being months deep into quarantine and what their personal lives look like and feel like as well as what it’s like at Stoked.

Megan joins Jacob and Parker for another lively discussion of life during quarantine!

Anna, Parker, and Jacob discuss the new normal.

Jacob walks the everyday Joe through a few ways to make great content from home just by using your phone.

Two climbers who have never met both set out to start indoor climbing gyms fifteen years ago in Nashville, Tennessee.

Stoked's first attempt at longer format story-telling, this is the story of 2 unlikely entrepreneurs who started a climbing gym in Nashville, TN and how they evolve over time as business partners, humans, and members of the climbing community.

In this short video, we walk you through the first few phases of a design project we led for TVA (TN Valley Authority) to better understand EV's (electric vehicles) and their place in the future of driving! In this video, you can see the TVA team leading empathy work, unpacking their interviews and synthesizing what they learned, brainstorming some big ideas, then building and testing low fidelity prototypes with potential users to gain feedback and a better understanding for the next phase of this project.