“If my brain doesn’t think it’s about to die, I’m not fully alive.”

Kevin and Jamie talk with Jake Parrish about growing up in East Texas, learning hard skills early, and spending years in oil and gas work where attention, precision, and risk were part of everyday life. Jake shares what it was like welding pipelines across Texas, living on the road, and navigating a career where experience is earned the hard way.

When a shift to remote work brought him back home, it also reopened a door he thought was closed — the door to wakeboarding. Jake walks through returning to board sports after years away, competing again, traveling internationally, and eventually helping bring a sanctioned wakeboarding event back to East Texas.

This conversation is about work ethic, adrenaline, identity, and what happens when you choose a path that keeps you engaged instead of settling into autopilot. 

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