Episode 24

So growing up here and now living here and working here, what are some of the more notable changes that you've seen in the Permian over the last seven to 10 years?

I think the obvious ones are what we all see, you know, the traffic and the building and the development.

Those are the easy things to see.

But I think most recently the more notable change that I'm super optimistic and, you know, happy about is a mindset change here, which we can't really have.

We can't provide the best solutions to all of Midland's challenges and opportunities, all the Permian Basin's challenges.

challenges and opportunities if we don't have the right mindset to approach those and To say a little bit more about that You know, I think I think Midland is going through what a lot of us have called the great crew change which is you know this big age gap that has existed between demographics of, say, 60 and older and then 40 and younger.

And that's give or take a few years maybe on each side.

And that's basically, you know, my dad is almost 70 years old.

I'm 39.

So I think I and my family are kind of emblematic of that.

And the mindset shifting from what we were and what we've had to the younger mindset of people like myself that have families, children, and that we're running businesses and we're trying to grow into the future, it's not just what we had and what we were, it's what can we do and what can we become.

And I think that and I'm sure there's a lot more to talk about inside of that.

But I think that's the biggest change that I feel like we're really at the midst of a tipping point with.

Yet at the same time, when you're closest to that pivot point and that tipping point, things might be the most difficult.

Which is why I'm super excited to be plugged in with organization like PSP and the broader community and people that are pushing for change.

what we can be and what we should be and what we should be able to provide to people that live here.

So I think the mindset's changing and there's a lot of good things ahead of us because of that.

I'm sure you have many favorites of the changes that have occurred.

Are there a couple that really stand out, especially as an athlete, for you to see the Athletic Syndicate open and Beale Park being expanded? That's just in athletics, but I know it goes beyond that.

What are some of your favorites?

Yeah, I think, you know, those that you just mentioned are some of my favorites.

Also, I think some things that didn't happen are some of my favorites, too.

Some of our maybe political failures of the past.

We failed several school bonds.

We failed a big Hogan Park renovation.