TPM Episode 413: Greg Lutzka, Pro Skateboarder, Entrepreneur
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.8 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Greg Lutzka has had a long skateboarding career that has taken him worldwide, but Greg is so much more than just a skateboarder. He's a businessman, an entrepreneur who makes way more money through his investments and businesses than he ever did skateboarding, and he loves to talk about that side of this life. On the podcast, we talk about hockey skateboarding, moving out west to become pro, sponsors, contests, investing, business, and so much more.
Greg Luzka Show Notes:
4:00: Punk kid, Midwest skateboarding and hockey,
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23:00: Other sports, his many sponsors, e-mountain biking, and investing
42:00: Elan Skis: Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better.
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42:00: More sponsors, moving out west, making it, video parts, covers, contests, and photos
72:00: 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. |
| 0:13.4 | Welcome to the Powell movement. |
| 0:16.9 | I'm your host Mike Powell. |
| 0:18.4 | And this week in the drama that is the life of the Powell family, |
| 0:22.1 | well, we wait, our fingers are crossed, hoping that Anne gets into this experimental treatment |
| 0:27.3 | for her cancer. |
| 0:28.8 | We'll find out on December 19th if she gets in, and if she does, well, it's another round of |
| 0:34.7 | much-needed hope for us. |
| 0:36.5 | Having a sick one is such a challenge, especially when there's so much left in life to do. |
| 0:41.6 | So hopefully we can get into this trial. |
| 0:43.6 | What I do know, and this has kind of become my mantra in life lately, is something will happen. |
| 0:48.6 | That's the mantra. |
| 0:49.5 | Something will happen, is it going to be good, is it going to be bad? |
| 0:52.0 | I don't even know. |
| 0:53.0 | I just know the outcome is that something's going to happen. That's the deal. And on the interview front, something happened that I didn't think would. |
| 1:00.1 | Years ago, I would see pro skateboarder Greg Lutzka post about his skateboard life. But the really interesting part of that to me was his business life. |
| 1:08.7 | The dude had so many deals going on left and right and they |
| 1:11.3 | were all big ones like Harley Davidson here, a skate shop there, podcast here, he was just |
| 1:16.9 | doing everything with big brands. I texted him multiple times to try to get him on the show |
| 1:22.3 | because his life was that interesting to me, but all I got back was crickets. Well, four years later, and out of the |
| 1:29.1 | blue, his agent emails me and is like, hey, would you like to interview Greg? I was like, |
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