TPM Episode 90: Sean Pettit, Pro Skier, Snowboarder
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.8 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Pro Skier Sean Pettit’s career started with a move from Quebec to Whistler. From there, he became a child prodigy, the freeride kid who could do anything on his skis. We pick up our conversation from 2016 (I include 10 minutes of our old conversation for background) and talk about his focus from skiing to snowboarding, injury, his lifestyle clothing brand and more.
Sean Pettit Show Notes
2:00: How quickly he became pro and how that happened
5:00: Struggling in Whistler, getting sponsored and being smaller
13:00: Superproof and Red Bull
16:45: Evo (Use the code TPM10 for 10% off at checkout)
RESQWATER (enter the code resqwatertpm for a 20% discount on a 12 pack)
Outdoor Research: (Get 15% off you’re order with the checkout code POWELL15)
19:00: Sean’s house today, cliffhangers, and hurting his knee snowboarding
27:38: Skipping a movie part for Instagram and what his sponsors thought of it
33:00: Superproof, his ‘Keep your Tips Up’ reality show, and working the carnival circuit
40:00: Contracts and snowboarding
45:00: Spy Optics: Get 20% off on their site Spyoptic.com using the code TPM20.”
The 10 Barrel Brewery: My favorite is 'Out of Office' Pilsner
46:30: Powder’s article about Pettit and sponsors thoughts on snowboarding
52:30: Michael Jordan comparison and what’s next
57:00: Inappropriate Questions
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | You don't know you better ask somebody. |
| 0:02.0 | You listen into the Powell Movement. |
| 0:11.2 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:14.3 | I'm your host, Mike Powell, |
| 0:15.8 | and this week I'm stepping back to the first podcast I ever did. |
| 0:20.5 | My guests on the show is Sean Petit, and he is the first guest that I ever had when I had a show on Powder magazine. |
| 0:27.1 | Sean was one of those child prodigies who was able to take the ski world by storm at age 11, and he's never looked back, until now. |
| 0:35.3 | Sean's career has taken a turn sideways. |
| 0:40.2 | He's now focusing a lot of his time on snowboarding and people seem to be taking notice. So how this podcast is going to work this week is I took a |
| 0:46.8 | journey back into time and I re-edited 15 minutes of my original podcast with Sean. It's amazing how bad |
| 0:53.7 | that first podcast sounds to me when |
| 0:55.7 | I listened to it today, so it was nice to clean it up. What I'm going to do is deliver you the |
| 1:00.7 | important information regarding Sean's early career, and then Sean and I pick back up where we left |
| 1:06.4 | off for the rest of the podcast. Before we get into it, I want to ask you to follow me on Instagram at the Powell Movement, |
| 1:13.5 | and this week and every week throughout the next couple of months, |
| 1:16.6 | I'm going to be giving away a pair of spy sunglasses each week. |
| 1:20.5 | To win them, check out my promoted Instagram posts for Sean Pettit that comes out this Monday. |
| 1:26.3 | Tag three friends who will like the podcast in the |
| 1:28.7 | comments and I will randomly select someone who commented and send them a pair of spy discord |
| 1:34.4 | whitewall sunglasses. If you don't want to comment on Instagram, you can always head over to |
| 1:39.3 | the Powell movement.com and sign up for my newsletter. Those who do will be entered into a drawing on November 1st for another pair of spy sunglasses. |
| 1:47.9 | That's what I have for you. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Mike Powell, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Mike Powell and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.