Jun 12, 2026 · 17 min · 9 segments
For 200 episodes, The Sprinkler Nerd Show has explored irrigation, technology, entrepreneurship, innovation, and curiosity. This episode is different. Not because we're leaving those topics behind…
Today, as I release this episode, I'm scheduled to record a conversation with my first mentor, Doug Lewis, an Olympic downhill skier and World Cup bronze medalist.
Doug was my force mentor when I was, I don't know, six years old, eight years old, 12 years old.
And as this podcast is released, Doug and I have not recorded the episode yet.
So I can't tell you exactly where the conversation is going to go, but I can tell you that I am so freaking excited about it.
And Doug isn't from the irrigation industry.
He's from the world that you might call discipline, perseverance, mentorship, and becoming the best version of yourself.
And while lessons like that may not have anything to do with sprinklers and pipe and fittings and sensors and weather and ET, they have everything to do with your life, my life, just life.
And so it's my pleasure to bring a different kind of guest to this audience, to all of you.
And my hope is that Doug is the first of many people who can inspire us, challenge us, and help us think differently about our own journeys.
people from inside our industry and outside our industry, people who have done hard things, people who have learned difficult lessons, people who are willing to share what they've discovered along the way.
Because I think that, that right there is where this show is headed.
Today, as I release this episode, I'm scheduled to record a conversation with my first mentor, Doug Lewis, an Olympic downhill skier and World Cup bronze medalist.
Doug was my force mentor when I was, I don't know, six years old, eight years old, 12 years old.
And as this podcast is released, Doug and I have not recorded the episode yet.
So I can't tell you exactly where the conversation is going to go, but I can tell you that I am so freaking excited about it.
And Doug isn't from the irrigation industry.
He's from the world that you might call discipline, perseverance, mentorship, and becoming the best version of yourself.
And while lessons like that may not have anything to do with sprinklers and pipe and fittings and sensors and weather and ET, they have everything to do with your life, my life, just life.
And so it's my pleasure to bring a different kind of guest to this audience, to all of you.
And my hope is that Doug is the first of many people who can inspire us, challenge us, and help us think differently about our own journeys.
people from inside our industry and outside our industry, people who have done hard things, people who have learned difficult lessons, people who are willing to share what they've discovered along the way.
Because I think that, that right there is where this show is headed.
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