TPM Episode 355: Cory Côté, Designer, Artist, Entrepreneur

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

4.8 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Cory Côté's career has included some of the most interesting jobs with the biggest players in the business. His story starts with a difficult childhood, where he used team sports to take him from Canada to Washington and then transitioned from athletics to art. From gigs with Ames Bros to record labels to designing (in-house and out) for some of the most influential brands in action sports...You've seen Cory's art and work. These days, Cory has Mystery Made, his brand and design house in West Seattle. On the podcast, we talk about the road from Canada to crushing it. Brandon Ramirez asks the Inappropriate Questions.

Cory Côté Show Notes:

3:00: Singapore, Canada, rough childhood, sports, and college soccer

11:00: Cornish, Tooth and Nail Records and Ames Bros

21:00: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code winteriscoming

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

24:00: Getting a job with K2, learning to snowboard at sales meetings, differentiating brands and keeping secrets.

30:00: The benefits of doing the job of 10 people, the end of US production, the China experience, becoming design manager at K2 and Shepard Fairey

39:30: Peter Glenn Ski and Sports: Over 60 years of getting you out there.

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41:30: Original Penguin, lawsuits, inspiration trips, and leaving K2

49:00: Starting Mystery Made, staying in snow, learning the business end, and odd hours

54:00: Inappropriate Questions with Brandon Ramerez

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, while I always seem to be complaining about the bad shit going on in my life,
0:23.4	my wife, Ange and I have started to be more positive about the hand we've been dealt.
0:27.3	While the cards are still the same, last week we experienced a truly incredible spiritlifting moment
0:32.8	that all happened for two reasons.
0:35.0	One, because Anne's made it happen.
0:37.1	And two, because there are some
0:38.6	amazing people in this world and you never know who they're going to be. This life-changing
0:43.1	experience all happened because of a podcast. See, the day Anne's was diagnosed with stage
0:48.5	four cancer, she bought us tickets to her favorite podcast's live show. The This Is Important
0:53.6	podcast is made up of the dudes
0:55.2	from the Workaholics TV show. And if you haven't seen it, it's weird and it's funny and I
0:59.9	highly recommend watching it. I don't listen to the podcast, but Ann's bought me a ticket and I was
1:04.8	along for the ride. So we arrived at McCall Hall and there was a question box that Anne knew all
1:10.1	about, where fans submit a
1:11.7	question and they pull some of the best ones out of the box and read them to the 3,000 people
1:16.2	in attendance. Anne wrote a letter, and it really stuck out because she's really creative. And
1:21.2	holy shit, they closed the show by reading her letter. It started with the words, the day I was
1:26.8	diagnosed with stage four cancer,
1:28.6	I bought tickets to this show. And then I was able to record the rest so you can hear what they had to say.
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