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The Powell Movement

TPM Episode 349: Andrew Alexander King, Climber, Surfer, Humanitarian, Influencer

The Powell Movement

Mike Powell

Athlete, Oakley, K2, Hobbies, Ski, Skydiving, Mountains, Redbull, Leisure, Sports, Sking, Basejump, Moto, Powdermagazine, Snowboard, Outdoors, Extreme, Powder, Biography, Party, Olympics, Snow, Fun, Music, Xgames, Skate, Basejumping, Podcast, Skatepark, Snowboarding

4.8824 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Andrew is a corporate professional with a sick resume who’s currently manufacturing a climbing and surfing career... complete with travel budgets, retainer, and opportunity. When you look at Andrew, he’s part athlete, part explorer, part humanitarian, part activist, and an influencer. While Andrew is not a pro-level athlete, he does have an incredible story, athletic chops, and the marketing mind to package himself and his “Between Worlds Project” (that will make him the first African American to climb the seven summits and seven volcanic summits), as an ambassador to watch. The podcast talks about his incredible story that took him from Detroit, Georgia, Hawaii, Maine, Mass, and beyond.

Andrew Alexander King Show Notes:

4:00:  His media barrage, his Detroit upbringing, moving to Georgia, racism,  Europe, and Hawaii

20:30:  Rollerblade: They invented inline skating and make the best skates on the planet.

Outdoor Research: The best outerwear in the world comes from OR and is built in the PNW

Elan Skis:  Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better.

23:30:  Learning to swim, surf, and do all the Hawaiian things, localism, surfing Nazarre, height, getting a scholarship to the University of Maine, and drinking

42:00:  Stanley:  Get 30% off site wide with the code pmovement

Peter Glenn Ski and Sports:  Over 60 years of getting you out there. 

Best Day Brewing:  All of the flavor of your favorite IPA or Kolsch, without the alcohol, the calories, and sugar.

45:00:  Climbing the White Mountains, travel to climb, climbing in Walmart boots, all in costs, and selling his story

60:00:  Brands, how he’s climbing the mountains and ego 

67:00:  Inappropriate Questions

Transcript

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0:00.0

Have a seat on your porcelain throne.

0:02.3

It's time to talk some shit on the Powell movement.

0:13.5

Welcome to the Powell movement.

0:16.8

I'm your host Mike Powell, and this week is different for me.

0:20.5

And I'm not talking about me personally.

0:22.6

If you want the personal update, my life still sucks and it seems to be getting sadder every day.

0:27.6

But I'm trying not to think about that so I can get through this intro.

0:30.6

And this week is different because of my guest.

0:33.6

Here's the backstory.

0:34.6

In April or May, I was hit up by a PR agency, and they pitched me on an

0:39.0

athlete they wanted me to podcast with. They let me know that his name was Andrew Alexander King,

0:44.2

and here's the pitch. Hi, I'm working with Santa Monica-based African-American climber,

0:49.1

big wave surfer, and explorer named Andrew Alexander King, who became the first athlete to climb the Himalayas

0:55.4

and surf Nazare in one winter season on December 6, 2022.

1:00.5

He was honored as one of the most influential people in the outdoors by Outside Biz Journal last

1:05.0

June, featured in Outside magazine, KTLA, Spectrum News, CBS, CNN, Fox LA, ESPN's Anscape, Muscle and Fitness, entrepreneur, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot.

1:17.2

So Andrew has a shit ton of earned media recently.

1:20.6

And this pitch also included information on Andrew's Between Worlds Project.

1:24.8

Here's the pitch on that.

1:26.2

Andrew was set out to be the first African-American

1:28.6

to climb the world's 14 tallest peaks and volcanoes in the name of bringing attention to any

1:33.4

community slash organization who are trying to break the glass ceiling. It is important to him

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