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In part 2 of the best of, we look back on the first year and almost 100 episodes of the podcast, I can’t believe how much we’ve covered. We’ve had nearly 200,000 downloads, supported by over 1,000,000 views on the website and had some truly remarkable and amazing guests.

In this episode - we start with the Federal Reserve, talk actual reserves, executive leadership, the role of midstream in a changing world and close with everything you wanted to know about Saudi Arabia with the author of ‘Saudi, Inc’

We picked generally the tail end of conversations where we got into the personal stuff and advice and generally, in an hour long episode, I recognize that some pieces outlast your commute, so we’ve tried to capture nuggets that I hope are new, and if they aren’t, are just great segments and amongst my favorite.

Here’s to a better 2021.... which is a fairly low bar compared to 2020!

 

#hottakeoftheday podcast Episode 95 – Best of 2020, Part II

https://youtu.be/O1Ez-WAT_i0

 

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Part II Lineup

1 - Danielle Di Martino Booth - Episode 62

2 - Johan Themaat - Episode 70

3 - Dick Massimilian - Episode 69

4 - Scott Lapierre - Episode 66

5 - Ellen Wald - Episode 79

 

 

As we look back on the first year and almost 100 episodes of the podcast, I can’t believe how much we’ve covered. We’ve had nearly 200,000 downloads, supported by over 1,000,000 views on the website and had some truly remarkable and amazing guests.

To reflect on 2020, we have some “best of” episodes, of which this is the first. We tried to cover everything that was 2020 from Coronavirus to gender and climate issues, capital raising, industry advocacy and the state of energy and oil and gas careers.

We picked generally the tail end of conversations where we got into the personal stuff and advice and generally, in an hour long episode, I recognize that some pieces outlast your commute, so we’ve tried to capture nuggets that I hope are new, and if they aren’t, are just great segments and amongst my favorite.

In fact, I wasn’t going to record an intro for this episode but I got so excited and passionate I had to grab the mic (pod only...).

Until next time, be safe, be good, and have a great day.

 

#hottakeoftheday podcast Episode 94 - Best of 2020, Part I

https://youtu.be/BZrne8bmEMU

 

Podcast Audio

 

Part I Lineup

1 - Ivor Cummins, Episode 84

2 - Stacey McDonald, Episode 81

3 - Mark Mills, Episode 71

4 - Suzanne Ogle, Episode 78

5 - Brian Mac Mahon, Episode 75

6 - Dan Pickering, Episode 87

 

 

This week on the #hottakeoftheday podcast, we tackle student debt, higher education and how college needs to/will change in the future. A year ago... I wrote this post on the cost, and with inflation from printing money, and people’s willingness to pay exorbitant tuition without considering ROI, Covid is likely to change all of it with half of colleges expected to close in the next 10 years.

Betsy Mayotte is the President of TISLA and joins us.

Enjoy!

 

#hottakeoftheday podcast Episode 93 w/Betsy Mayotte

https://youtu.be/_ueMgIjHDcg

 

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About Betsy

Betsy is the President and Founder of The Institute of Student Loan Advisors (TISLA). She has been working in the student loan industry doing compliance and advocacy work for over 20 years and has helped thousands of borrowers with their student loans. Most recently, she has spent the last 18 years working for American Student Assistance®, a Boston-based nonprofit organization with 60 years’ experience helping people make better decisions about financing their education and repaying student loans.

Betsy has served as a primary negotiator for several federal Title IV negotiated rulemaking sessions on topics such as the use of student loans at foreign schools, loan rehabilitation and borrower defense to repayment. In addition, Mayotte frequently conducts regulatory trainings for the higher education financing industry both in the United States and as far away as the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. She is regularly quoted in the media on student loan issues and was a frequent contributor to U.S. News and World Report’s The Student Loan Ranger blog Betsy was born and raised in Lowell, MA and currently lives in Plymouth, MA.

 

This week, I’m joined by Adam Anderson of Innovex to talk North Face, corporate decisions, the oil and gas Industry, CO2.

Lots to unpack, and the most important thing is just having the conversation.

#hottakeoftheday podcast Episode 92 w/Adam Anderson

https://youtu.be/IiuY-BpGV-c

 

Audio Podcast

 

About Adam

As Chief Executive Officer, Adam Anderson led the way in forming Innovex and continues to lead their efforts in bringing efficient and innovative solutions to the oilfield. He also held that executive position at Team Oil Tools. Previously, Adam was with Baker Hughes from 2002 and served in senior management roles including Vice President of the Western U.S. Division, President of Latin America, Vice President of the U.S. Completions Division and Country Manager for Saudi Arabia among others. Adam began his career as an engineer with WellDynamics Inc., an oil and gas completions and production technology company. He holds a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Colorado School of Mines and an MBA from Duke University.

 

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Oil and gas companies aren’t great at branding. We make a ubiquitous product that consumers purchase based on need more than price (natural gas and oil) but marketing is essential to brand building. Both your own personal brand and they of your company. This week we are joined by Clay McDaniel, that CEO of RIPL who yells building brands, the beauty of their app to help do it and life lessons he wished he’d known when he was younger.

Enjoy!

 

#hottakeoftheday podcast Episode 91 w/Clay McDaniel

https://youtu.be/qQWwRzf18qE

 

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About Clay

Clay McDaniel is a digital media and technology marketing executive who currently serves as CEO at Ripl, Inc., a pioneering mobile marketing software company with apps used by hundreds of thousands of small businesses worldwide.

Clay founded one of the early national social media marketing agencies and now focuses on helping millions of small businesses grow online instead of just a few of the big brands.

This week, I invite the co-host of the first podcast I ever went on and for founder of Digital Wildcatters.

We talk GPAs and viral posts; what you learn from field, Bitcoin, asset bubbles, building a media company and what two people he would like to have a few rounds with in the octagon.

You won’t want to miss it.

#hottakeoftheday podcast Episode 90 w/Collin McLelland

https://youtu.be/PLzJg7f8CXs

 

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This week I’m joined by Jeremy Ryan Slate of “Command Your Brand”. As social media and the interconnected world I which we live evolves, taking charge of your imagine, your network and your voice are essential.

Jeremy and I talk university and the ROI, the toughest job he’s ever had, what the best employees and hires have as a trait, his upcoming book and his own very successful podcast “Create Your Own Life.” You feel out of control? Take a listen. A lot of wonderful nuggets.

Hope you enjoy.

 

#hottakeoftheday podcast Episode 89 w/Jeremy Ryan Slate

https://youtu.be/AoKj6uj8dlc

 

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About Jeremy

Jeremy Ryan Slate is the founder of the Create Your Own Life Podcast, a show to help people create life on their own terms at a world-class level. He studied literature at Oxford University, and is a former champion powerlifter turned new media entrepreneur.

At the age of 19, Jeremy had a near death experience as a routine surgery led him to receive last rites from a priest.  He recovered and graduated with his masters degree into one of the worst job markets in history.  He ended up working 16 hour days painting houses and managing a gym.  When he landed his “dream job” as a teacher, he quickly realized it was not what he wanted to be doing with his life.  That's when his entrepreneur journey and the Create Your Own Life Podcast was born.

The Create Your Own Life Podcast aims to bring world class people to help mentor his audience to create life on their own terms.  It has been downloaded over 2.5 million times. Jeremy has interviewed over 500 entrepreneurs he greatly admires including Grant Cardone, Danica Patrick, Seth Godin, Tucker Max and Robert Greene.  He’s also a featured writer for Influencive and Business.com. After his success in podcasting, Jeremy Slate and his wife, Brielle Slate, founded Command Your Brand Media to help entrepreneurs hone their message and impact thousands with the power of storytelling.

 

Excited to have Casey Merriman of Energy Intelligence on the podcast this week. We talk OPEC, Exxon (the company it was, is and wants to be), natural gas, M&A and Fundamentals vs animal spirits.

I hope you enjoy.

 

#hottakeoftheday podcast Episode 88 w/Casey Merriman

https://youtu.be/60yiMx2_0zk

 

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About our Sponsor, Kuiper Law Firm

The Kuiper Law Firm is a Multi-Jurisdictional full service oil and gas law firm with offices in Houston, Denver, Dallas, Midland, Oklahoma City, and Lafayette. The Firm is licensed to practice across most producing states, retains significant experience in every producing basin, and provides skillful representation across a wide variety of matters including title examination, regulatory representation, acquisitions and divestitures, contract review, midstream dedication, and many other aspects of onshore natural gas and oil operations.

Kuiper Law Firm strives to create a better experience for clients by providing effective, efficient, and personable representation by attorneys that understand and know the oil and gas industry. Not only does the firm have extensive experience representing industry operators and participants, but most of Kuiper’s attorneys began their careers employed by operators. This hands-on experience allows delivery of legal services that are truly effective and efficient for our oil and gas clients.

Through the difficult market presented by this past year, Kuiper Law Firm remains committed to serving oil and gas clients. Alex Kuiper founded Kuiper Law Firm with a vision of accessible expertise, efficient and quick service, and a client base revered as friends. Recognizing the many hardships on industry professionals today, the firm actively participates in free educational events available to all, welcomes questions from industry professionals we may address in our blog, and is available to all, clients and non-clients alike for guidance in these challenging times.

 

About Casey

Casey Merriman

Editorial Director, Western Hemisphere

Head, Competitive Intelligence Service

Energy Intelligence

Casey Merriman is Energy Intelligence’s Western Hemisphere Editorial Director and head of its Competitive Intelligence Service, providing strategy-led company and comparative analysis across the oil and gas industry’s leading producers. Energy Intelligence has been a leading independent provider of insight, analysis and data on the global energy industry for over 60 years.

She joined Energy Intelligence in 2008, covering the US corporate oil and gas sector and rise of shale. She has edited several Energy Intelligence publications, including EI Finance, Petroleum Intelligence Weekly and Energy Intelligence Premium.

Prior to joining Energy Intelligence, Casey covered US NGL and clean product markets for Argus Media and worked under Amy Myers Jaffe at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy’s Energy Forum. Casey graduated cum laude from Rice University with a B.A. in Political Science.

When not writing about oil and gas, Casey is usually found on a bike, playing bass or baking with her 10-year-old daughter. Her NFL fandom has also expanded to include her husband’s beloved Steelers, offering some respite from the frustration that is being a Texans supporter.

This week on the pod, we connect with Dan Pickering, CIO of Pickering Energy Partners, who’s been having a great November. We talk long oil, equities, OPEC, valuation, and why we have seen flows into energy companies and chat - will it continue?

You won’t want to miss this one!

 

#hottakeoftheday podcast Episode 87 w/Dan Pickering

https://youtu.be/KWEiW9F-KUI

 

Podcast Audio

 

About our Sponsor

The Kuiper Law Firm is a Multi-Jurisdictional full service oil and gas law firm with offices in Houston, Denver, Dallas, Midland, Oklahoma City, and Lafayette. The Firm is licensed to practice across most producing states, retains significant experience in every producing basin, and provides skillful representation across a wide variety of matters including title examination, regulatory representation, acquisitions and divestitures, contract review, midstream dedication, and many other aspects of onshore natural gas and oil operations.

Kuiper Law Firm strives to create a better experience for clients by providing effective, efficient, and personable representation by attorneys that understand and know the oil and gas industry. Not only does the firm have extensive experience representing industry operators and participants, but most of Kuiper’s attorneys began their careers employed by operators. This hands-on experience allows delivery of legal services that are truly effective and efficient for our oil and gas clients.

Through the difficult market presented by this past year, Kuiper Law Firm remains committed to serving oil and gas clients. Alex Kuiper founded Kuiper Law Firm with a vision of accessible expertise, efficient and quick service, and a client base revered as friends. Recognizing the many hardships on industry professionals today, the firm actively participates in free educational events available to all, welcomes questions from industry professionals we may address in our blog, and is available to all, clients and non-clients alike for guidance in these challenging times.

 

About Dan

Dan Pickering is the Chief Investment Officer of Pickering Energy Partners (PEP). PEP manages client assets via energy strategies focused primarily on public markets and private equity.

Prior to PEP, Mr. Pickering served as the President of Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. and Chief Investment Officer of TPH Investment Management.

Dan has spent 26 years as an energy portfolio manager, researcher and analyst, first at Fidelity Investments (where he managed ~$1 billion of energy sector funds), then as Head of Research at Simmons & Company and as the founding partner of Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Dan currently serves as the portfolio manager of the PEP Energy Equity Opportunities Fund and on the Investment Committee of PEP’s Energy Co-Investment and private equity strategies.

Dan grew up in Missouri, has a BS in Petroleum Engineering from the Missouri School of Science and Technology and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Personal Anecdote/Tidbits

Dan sits on the Board of Trustees for Texas Children’s Hospital, the Texas Children’s Hospital Foundation, the Advisory Board of Midway Companies and the Houston CFA Society. Dan is also the Houston Board Chair of the Posse Foundation, a national non-profit organization focused on providing skills training and full college scholarships to young leaders in Houston’s public schools. Additionally,

This week, as part of our series of “guests we love” (but let’s be honest, we love all our guests) we welcome Harris Kupperman of Praetorian Capital to the show. He talks about the themes of investing he had last time (tankers, home builders), updates the bitcoin theory, and gives some ideas on event driven investing.

 

#hottakeoftheday podcast Episode 86 w/Harris Kupperman

https://youtu.be/yM8FWhoN22c

 

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About our Sponsor, API Control Systems

 

Since 1989, API Control Systems has provided quality control system design, manufacturing, and installation services primarily for the oil & gas industry.  From drilling, to upstream production, midstream transportation, and hydrocarbon processing markets, you can rely on API for all of your Oil & Gas Industry control systems needs.

Be sure to visit API Control Systems, and when you call them ask for Lucas Comeaux and tell him you want the special DRW discount.

 

About Kuppy

Harris Kupperman is the founder of Praetorian Capital, a hedge fund focused on using macro trends to guide stock selection.

Mr. Kupperman is also the chief adventurer at http://AdventuresInCapitalism.com, a website that details his investments and travels.

Additionally, Mr. Kupperman is the Chairman and CEO of publicly traded Mongolia Growth Group (YAK: Canada and MNGGF: USA).