TPM Episode 164: Matt Belzile, Pro Snowboarder, Investor
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Matt Belzile is a professional snowboarder based in Whistler. These days, most know Matt as one of the Manboys, Matt's crew in Whistler that does everything together. While Matt has found a comfortable home creating yearly video projects with the Manboys, he's not new to the game at all, he's been a paid professional for over 15 years and while there were the standard bumps in Matt's snowboarding career, Matt has become one of the best pro's at investing his money and making it work for him. We talk about it all and it's a good one.
Matt Belzile Show Notes:
2:00: Corona Virus, Ottawa, and skiing to snowboarding
7:30: Local hero's, quitting gymnastics, and going to college
13:00: Whistler, Westbeach, and K2
19:00: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code powell30
Evo: The best online experience in action sports with retail to back it up
686 Technical Apparel: The best outerwear in the world
21:30: Being Canadian, The Standard let down, and weird stuff with brands
29:00: Money, going pro, investing, and Sean Pettit
35:30: Spy Optic: Get 20% off on their site Spyoptic.com using the code TPM20
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
37:15: Partying, Videograss, and Manboys
45:00: His body, what's next and sponsors
48:00: Inappropriate Questions with Jody Wachniak
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the fucking Powell Movement. Your place to hear Mike talk shit. |
| 0:12.4 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. I'm your host Mike Powell and this week my guest is a nice and polite Canadian. |
| 0:23.9 | I'm talking about professional snowboarder Matt Belzeal. |
| 0:28.8 | If you don't know about Matt, maybe you've heard about his crew, the man boys, and have seen the style that Matt and gang bring to the back country every year with their movie |
| 0:33.0 | projects. |
| 0:34.2 | On the podcast, we talk about how Matt grew up a shy gymnast in a small town in Canada, then headed to Whistler for the first time, and when he got there, he loved it so much, he dropped out of college and stayed. |
| 0:46.5 | We also talk about getting hooked up with sponsors pretty quickly in Whistler, the feeling that he had when he thought he was going to lose all of his sponsors, how he is one of the smartest pro snowboarders out there when it comes to making his money work for |
| 0:57.8 | him. And of course, we talk about the man boys and even a little Sean Pettit. Before we get into it, |
| 1:03.6 | I want to ask you to do a few things for me. First, click subscribe wherever you listen to me. To do that, |
| 1:09.7 | go to my podcast page on the player, locate the subscribe button, and click it. |
| 1:14.7 | I also want you to follow me on Instagram at the Powell Movement and shoot me an email with any feedback questions or concerns that you may have. |
| 1:21.6 | My email is Mike at the Powell Movement.com and I will get back to you. |
| 1:25.9 | Finally, please support my great sponsors who make this show happen. |
| 1:29.9 | They are Evo, Stanley, SpyOptic, 686, and the 10 Barrel Brewery. |
| 1:35.1 | Now, let's talk with Matt Belzeal. |
| 1:38.2 | Well, I'm glad it didn't really work out for us to do this podcast in person. |
| 1:42.3 | The podcast was supposed to happen a couple days ago, |
| 1:44.5 | but you wanted to bump it out a few days because you were down with the sickness. And this one's |
| 1:48.8 | hit you pretty hard. What's going on? Yeah, I'm not one until like a sickness kind of stopped me |
| 1:55.5 | from living my life. But man, this one was gnarly yet. I was like bed bound for a couple of days. |
| 2:02.3 | Did you go to the doctor? |
| 2:08.5 | No, it wasn't to that point. I kind of figured I'd give it a couple days and see how I felt. |
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