TPM Episode 92: Ryan Runke, Sports Agent
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.8 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2018
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Runke has an insane resume but his path to becoming a successful sports agent is as far from traditional as it gets. Runke looks different, acts different, and has done things his way for a long time and it seems to be working. On the podcast we talk his team sports days, transitioning to a dirtbag team manager and who morphed into a professional agent to the actin sports stars. They don’t make many like Runke...
Ryan Runke Show Notes:
2:00 Growing up in Kansas as a jock and then getting into skateboarding
7:30: What do his parents think when he moves to Colorado and making the untraditional way
10:00: Colorado, shop life, and getting a gig with a travel guide
14:15: 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)
16:25: Hood, Shop life in Colorado and having a kid
21:00: Moving to California and getting a gig with Velvet and Version
24:30: Getting bought by K2, getting hired by K2, and the K2 Days
33:15: 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
34:30: Moving to VT, Rome, and real snowboard companies
40:00: Red Bull, The Art Of Flight, and money
46:00: Agent life, what it’s like to win a gold medal
50:00: Inappropriate Questions
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Grab a cigarette and a beer. You ain't going nowhere. Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:12.5 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. I'm your host Mike Powell, and this week we have a business episode. |
| 0:19.7 | My guest is sports agent Ryan Runke and we talk about |
| 0:23.2 | how the hell he's done all that he has in his life. Ryan took the non-traditional route to finding |
| 0:28.9 | success in the world of snow and he's had some amazing jobs along the way to becoming an agent. |
| 0:34.4 | And when I say agent, don't think of Jerry Maguire. The only thing Ryan Runkey has in |
| 0:39.3 | common with Tom Cruise is that he's one of those guys that you either love or hate. There aren't |
| 0:44.3 | too many people in the middle with Runkey, and most people love him. Before we get into the show, |
| 0:49.2 | I want to ask you to follow me on Instagram at the Powell movement. And speaking of Instagram, I'm going to be running a bunch of contests on the gram this season. |
| 0:58.7 | Make sure you look at the image I put up each Monday to find out what you need to do to enter and win. |
| 1:04.2 | If social media contests aren't for you, don't worry. |
| 1:07.4 | There's more. |
| 1:08.5 | You can sign up for my number two's letter on my website, and that |
| 1:12.0 | will get you entered for a drawing of spy sunglasses. I will do that drawing on November 1st as well. |
| 1:18.1 | So if you didn't know, spy is a sponsor of the show, and I need to thank the rest of my |
| 1:22.4 | amazing sponsors. They are Evo, Rescue Water, Outdoor Research, and the 10 Barrel Brewery for making the show happen. |
| 1:29.7 | Please use the codes and the ads to save some money on things you're going to need this winter. |
| 1:33.8 | And now, let's talk to Ryan Brunkey. |
| 1:37.9 | So life of the sports agent allows you to work from home a little bit? |
| 1:41.8 | My life as a sports agent means I work from home 100%. |
| 1:44.9 | I do not go to the office. |
| 1:47.4 | I have an office of my house. |
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