Fast Company

The host of a late-night comedy show about sports is using her platform to take on some not-very-funny issues.

“Garbage time” is what happens in a blowout game when teams send in their second-string players. It’s also the name of former YouTube vlogger Katie Nolan‘s weekly sports and pop-culture comedy show, which premiered in early 2015 and airs on cable channel Fox Sports 1. Though Garbage Time With Katie Nolan is shot in a closet-size New York studio, it’s gained outsize attention thanks to the outspoken Nolan, who’s the only woman to solo-host a national sports opinion show.

Fast Company: Garbage Time breaks the format of traditional sports programming. Instead of doing commentary or news, you’re asking NFL star Odell Beckham Jr. to do dramatic readings from Mad Men or ranking the staleness of hockey-stadium pretzels. How did you develop that approach?

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Cubicles were (and still are) widely hated. But as their walls came down, a host of distractions and interruptions flooded in.

I still remember my first cubicle fondly, even though it was many years ago. It was my place in the big world of my company. My name plate was tacked up outside, and I decorated the inside with a few photos and inspirational quotes. On my desk, I laid out any files I needed, kept my stash of essentials like Kleenex close at hand, and stowed some chocolate in a drawer.

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Maverick Collective members commit private funds toward investing in women around the world.

“It was overwhelming, actually,” recalls Kate Roberts, CEO of the philanthropic initiative the Maverick Collective, of the emotions that flooded in when she gave birth to her daughter in 2011. As a senior vice president at the not-for-profit Population Services International (PSI), she knew the challenges women face all over the world, including gender-based violence and lack of access to contraception. And she knew that despite all the rhetoric about investing in women, just two cents of every development dollar actually goes toward programs for girls.

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In the gaggle of beauty vloggers and the fans who love them, Beautycon CEO Moj Mahdara sees much more than just pretty faces.

When digital entrepreneur Moj Mahdara became CEO of Beautycon in 2013, the company was a small startup that hosted conferences for online beauty influencers and their fans. Under Mahdara’s watch, Beautycon has bloomed into a full-grown multimedia company with a subscription service, an online hub and global conferences that attract crowds of up to 12,000 people. She spoke with Fast Company about taking young, beauty creators to London and Dubai, and how the web is way ahead of traditional media when it comes to diversity.

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After taking the torch from George Lucas, the veteran producer immediately got to work building a new future for Star Wars.

In retrospect, it made perfect sense. If George Lucas was going to step away from the empire he built, he had to entrust the next chapter of Lucasfilm’s existence to someone who wouldn’t be the least bit fazed by the prospect of shepherding multibillion dollar cultural touchstones.

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BuzzFeed sits down with the POTUS to chat about the Supreme Court.

President Obama is addressing the nation via two of our most quintessentially young and tech-forward platforms: BuzzFeed and Facebook Live.

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Despite the headlines, some people think the new SEC investing rules may do more harm than good.

Today is a big day if you are hoping to become a wealthy venture capitalist. The SEC has enacted new rules making it possible for nonaccredited investors to invest their money in early-stage startups. This means that people making less than $200,000 are now able to use online investing platforms to bet on companies they think could hit it big, which has never before been possible.

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For more than a dozen years, I’ve protected my idea like a state secret—until someone else finally beat me to it this week.

It finally happened.

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Average salary increases this year are expected to clock in at a meager 2.9%. Here’s how to know what you’re really worth.

You know the drill: You work hard, get noticed, and are rewarded with a big, fat raise on an annual basis. That’s how it goes, right?

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The Elvie has all the sophistication and elegance of an Apple product—but it’s for your vagina.

Last week, in the first-ever sex issue of her newsletter, Gwyneth Paltrow shared her list of must-have items for optimal sexual fulfillment. Paltrow is known for selling $1,295 pinky rings on Goop, her e-commerce site, and including things such as solid-gold dumbbells on her holiday gift guide, so it came as no surprise that some of her recommendations this time around were absurdly opulent. Goop‘s recommendations included a $15,000 24-karat gold dildo, a $535 Agent Provocateur cat whip, and a $395 Kiki de Montparnasse necklace that doubles as a nipple clamp.

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