TPM Episode 371: Mark Mackay, From Ski Rep to Country Music Star
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Mark Mackay is a country music star in the making, but his background as a ski rep makes him the perfect new business episode. His road to Nashville included stints with Rossignol, Dynastar, and Atomic, all by the time he was 20. He was the head sales rep in California when Atomic started exploding, he had a dream job, he was young, and he left it all for the lucrative world of medical sales. Soon after, he had a life-changing epiphany on a paddleboard and, within an hour, quit his job, broke his lease, and went all in on being a country music star, and so far, it's been working.
Mark Mackay Show Notes:
3:00: Not partying, sports, skiing, music, Rossignol, Dynastar, Atomic, O'Neill
20:30: Stanley: Get up 60% off at Stanley1913.com
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Elan Skis: Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better.
23:30: Amer Sports takeover, American Idol, leaving skiing for medical device sales, having a life epiphany, starting over with music in LA and the hustle or the music business.
41:00: Peter Glenn Ski and Sports: Over 60 years of getting you out there.
Outdoor Research: Click here for 25% off Outdoor Research products (not valid on sale items or pro products)
44:00: Toby Keith, selfishness, losing money on the road, singing the National Anthem AT&T Park, his Ted Nugent break via legend Doc McGee, the pandemic, signing with a major label, and revenue streams
66:00: Inappropriate Questions with Craig Wingard
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. |
| 0:17.1 | I'm your host Mike Powell, and I've just returned from Whistler, a place I used to spend a ton of time at. |
| 0:22.9 | And man, that place is a bubble of awesomeness. |
| 0:25.8 | The mountain, while it needed a few dumps, was the most fun mountain I've skied this year. |
| 0:30.5 | But the trip sure had its moments. |
| 0:32.5 | We started in Vancouver, and that's when we realized that the cracking in Angie's feet were going to be a problem. |
| 0:38.6 | See, her chemotherapy has her skin all messed up, and her feet, well, it's a combination of mini-cut |
| 0:45.4 | crevasses, per se, on the bottoms of her feet, and then ingrown toenails everywhere else. |
| 0:50.7 | It's such a strange side effect, which really impacted our ability to walk anywhere. |
| 0:55.8 | Ange powered through it and made the most of the trip, but she was in a lot of pain, so we were dealing with that. |
| 1:01.8 | And then, when we get to Whistler, at 1 a.m. the first night, we wake up to Keaton puking in the kitchen of the condo. |
| 1:08.6 | After an hour of cleaning and Keaton in the bathroom puking, |
| 1:11.6 | we realized that he was down with a bad case of food poisoning. Looks like I'm going to be skiing solo |
| 1:16.5 | in the morning. So I wake up, I walk to the gondola, and when I'm going through the maze, |
| 1:21.3 | the RFID thing, I get stopped by a lifty. Looks like I had both Keaton and my pass on me, and it scanned Keaton's. They must |
| 1:28.7 | have thought I was breaking the law. But no, I explained myself, I showed my other pass, |
| 1:33.0 | and I had to go wait in a line to talk to people. This took about an hour, and I was finally |
| 1:37.5 | told I was good to go and that Keaton's pass would be loaded back up with his two full days to go ski the next day. So I ski, it was awesome, |
| 1:45.3 | I go hot tub, I get a burger from splits, and I'm loving my Whistler time. The next morning, |
| 1:50.4 | Keaton's feeling better and it's time to go ski again. So we go to the gondola and Keaton's |
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