This episode's guest is Clay Brett. Clay is a partner at Baker Botts, and leads a broad transactional practice, representing private equity investors, private credit investors, portfolio companies and financial institutions in M&A, capital form

#209: How to Not Lose Money - Aleksey Chernobelskiy

Jun 14th, 2024 49m 17s

This episode's guest Aleksey Chernobelskiy. Aleksey has a background in managing a $10 billion commercial real estate portfolio at STORE Capital and is currently a principal at Centrio Capital Partners. With Centrio, Aleksey focuses on helping

#208: Serial Entrepreneurship - Chris Koerner

May 28th, 2024 1h 4m

This episode's guest is Chris Koerner. He is a serial entrepreneur and loves the art of building businesses. Chris has founded and built multiple companies across different industries and currently manages them in his holding company. This epis

#207: How to Grow a Brand - Hans Lorei

May 16th, 2024 56m 4s

This episode's guest is Hans Lorei. I met Hans in the short-term rental space, and have been following him as he's grown a massive interior design brand across social media the last 8 months. Interior design has always been one of the most impo

#206: Building a Successful Restaurant Business - Joey Morris

Apr 17th, 2024 1h 11m

This episode's guest is Joey Morris, one of the co-founders and partners of a popular restaurant group based in Oklahoma City. Joey is also my cousin in-law, and every time we get together at family gatherings I've always enjoyed talking busine

#205: GasBizGuy - Chris Hellgeth

Apr 1st, 2024 1h 8m

This episode's guest is Chris Hellgeth the man behind the GasBizGuy Twitter account. I was excited to get Chris on the podcast since we have both made our careers in the hydrocarbon marketing space. This episode we discuss the retail gasoline d

#204: Oil & Gas Market Dynamics - Matt Marshall

Mar 19th, 2024 33m 37s

This episode's guest is Matt Marshall the President of AEGIS CTA. Matt is an oil and gas markets guru and it's a luxury to be working with him and his team at AEGIS. In this episode, we discuss the current oil and gas market dynamics, and get M

#203: Simple Modern - Mike Beckham

Mar 11th, 2024 1h 12m

This episode's guest is Mike Beckham the founder and CEO of Simple Modern, an industry leading producer of premium drinkware and lifestyle products. We discuss the various stages of entrepreneurship and the sacrifices it takes to build a succes

#202: In the Dark - Brian Gitt

Feb 21st, 2024 1h 1m

This episode I have returning guest Brian Gitt. Brian has been a fan favorite and I was happy to have him back on the show to talk about his new book "In The Dark: Fixing Energy Policies that Hurt People and the Planet." During the conversation

#201: Ancova <> AEGIS Merger - Bryan Sansbury

Feb 2nd, 2024 1h 13m

This episode's guest is Bryan Sansbury the CEO of AEGIS Hedging. If you haven't heard the news, AEGIS recently acquired my energy company Ancova. This was a massive life event for me and my co-founder. We started the business 10 years ago as a

#200: Wellings Capital - Paul Moore

Nov 15th, 2023 49m 29s

This episode's guest is Paul Moore with Wellings Capital. Paul is a seasoned entrepreneur and has started companies across multiple industries. Paul has a ton of real estate experience and has written multiple books on different asset classes i

#199: Scissortail Pipe - Cody Spaulding

Oct 30th, 2023 57m 49s

This episode's guest is Cody Spaulding the founder of Scissortail Pipe. Cody is a local OKC guy and an oilfield entrepreneur. He cut his teeth working for a larger oilfield service company, then eventually went out on his own and built a pipe

#198: Uranium, Oil & Gas, Commodities - Scott Willis

Oct 6th, 2023 1h 1m

This episode's guest is Scott Willis with Grizzle. Grizzle is a media driven investment firm that provides research and investment products for its clients. Scott's company has leaned hard into social media content to provide value for their cl

#197: Peony Lane Wine - Ben Justman

Sep 26th, 2023 1h 1m

This episode's guest is Ben Justman, the founder of Peony Lane Vineyards. Ben is making some amazing wine using natural processes at the highest winemaking elevation in the country. He is also accepting Bitcoin for the sale of his products and

#196: Techvestor STRs - Taylor Jones

Sep 16th, 2023 1h 2m

This episode's guest is Taylor Jones with Techvestor, a large scale vacation home short term rental fund. Taylor is always posting some amazing STR content on Twitter showing his company's properties and the strategies they use to scale a fast

#195: Where Green Meets Red - Daniel Turner

Aug 27th, 2023 59m 1s

This episode we have returning guest Daniel Turner, the founder of Power the Future. Daniel is always great to have on the podcast and discuss the craziness going on with our energy policy decisions. This episode we dive into multiple topics re

#194: Invictus Macro Update - Mike Singleton

Aug 23rd, 2023 58m 10s

This episode's guest is Mike Singleton, the founder of Invictus Research, a macro research firm. He regularly puts out great macro videos talking about what is going on in the markets.This episode we discuss the recent macro numbers coming out

#193: Selling Oil, Natural Gas, & NGLs | Ancova View | - Annalea McMillan & Jon Chaney

Aug 19th, 2023 1h 1m

This episode I had on two of the Rockstars that work for Ancova (our energy business) to discuss our new Commercial Management Platform "Ancova View."We discuss the complexities of selling oil, natural gas, and NGLs, and how there is a data pro

#192: Shipping, Commodities, & Real Estate - Calvin Froedge

Jul 28th, 2023 1h 13m

This episode's guest is Calvin Froedge, the founder of Marhelm, a maritime transport analytics platform.Calvin came on the podcast last year on an episode where we had a two person panel and since then I'd been wanting to get him back on the sh

#191: Go Summer - Paul Kromidas

Jul 17th, 2023 1h 4m

This episode's guest is Paul Kromidas the founder of Summer. Paul and his team have created a "try it before you buy it" vacation home business where they provide multiple ways to acquire a short-term vacation rental. Paul is an Airbnb alumni,

#190: Few Understand this Market - Michael Gayed

Jul 7th, 2023 1h 5m

This episode we have returning guest and friend Michael Gayed, the founder of the Lead Lag Report. Michael is one of my favorite content creators with his no BS takes on the market and the fact that he is in the arena duking it out everyday wit

#189: STR Investing - Blake Rocha

Jun 30th, 2023 56m 12s

This episode's guest is Blake Rocha (aka MrFiveToEight). Blake started off riding the meme stock craze then cashed out and started investing in short-term rentals. He has a huge social media following and puts out a ton of content. His flashy s

#188: Carbon Talk - David Heikkinen

Jun 24th, 2023 1h

This episode we have returning guest and former co-host of the Talk Energy Insights podcast, David Heikkinen. Heik recently started a new role as Executive Vice President at Carbonvert, where they are advancing the future of carbon capture proj

#187: Bitcoin Under Attack - Marty Bent

Jun 14th, 2023 1h 6m

This episode we have returning guest Marty Bent, the founder of TFTC podcast and partner with Ten31 Investments and Standard Bitcoin Mining. Marty is one of the guys that originally sent me down the Bitcoin mining rabbit hole and has one of the

#186: Equal is Unfair - Yaron Brook

Jun 7th, 2023 1h

This episode's guest is Yaron Brook the author of the book Equal is Unfair, the Chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute, and the host of the Yaron Brook show. I read Yaron's book back in 2014 and it sent me down the Ayn Rand rabbit hole reading her