The Bearded Baker, Allan Hursig, joined the podcast in February of 2021 to discuss his transition out of oil and gas and into entrepreneurship.  Check out Allan’s products: -- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebeardedbakertx/ -- Website: https://thebeardedbakertx.com/ After his layoff from the oil business, Allan picked up baking as a hobby by watching YouTube & Food Network shows. He started off baking and selling his (now famous) custom sugar cookies to friends and family. Over the course of a few years, he outgrew the kitchen in his house and recently opened his own store in the Heights neighborhood of Houston, TX. He’s expanded his offering into other types of cookies and cakes. But his #1 seller is still the one-of-a-kind, delicious sugar cookies.

Jonathan Kemp joins us to share his childhood dream of working in Mission Control at NASA in Houston, TX. His journey started as a Process Engineer in oil and gas before pivoting to the Space Industry in the Space City. Jonathan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-kemp-a9094518/ Pale Blue Pot by Carl Sagan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO5FwsblpT8) President JFK's Rice Speech (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZyRbnpGyzQ)

Ryan Torregrossa joins us to explain his journey transitioning from oil and gas landman to renewables landman. Ryan’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-torregrossa/ Ryan’s Music & Finance blog: https://www.covercalled.com/ Need private piano or guitar lessons (video or in-person)? [email protected]

You’ve probably seen Jeremy Jenson’s posts or name on LinkedIn. Born, raised, and residing in Houston, TX, Jeremy is the owner of Encore Search Partners. He founded the company in 2010 specializing in oil and gas placements, where he’s had great success for many years. Since the downturn in 2015, Jeremy has worked to expand their industry coverage to legal services and wealth management (among others). He’s seen the ups and downs in the oil business first hand as he’s placed top professionals in many of the industry’s largest firms. I really appreciate his openness and perspective on business, careers, and mindset. My big takeaway was that Jeremy’s focus since dropping out of college is to be compensated for his work by how much revenue he can generate. It’s an incredible lesson for many petrotechnical experts that were high salaried employees with very little impact from direct “revenue generation”. I hope you enjoy the episode as much as I did! And if you did enjoy the podcast, consider rating it 5* in iTunes and leaving a review.

Ana Peternell joins the podcast to discuss her 17-year career as a Petrophysicist & LWD tool expert and transition to full-time real estate investor and agent as the leader of Peternell Property Group in the Houston, TX metro.

Reed Stiles explains his transition from Senior Reservoir Engineer at ConocoPhillips to first engineer and partner at a financial technology startup in Houston. It's a fascinating story of "jumping without a rope" from a solid corporate job to a completely uncertain startup. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reedstiles Know of someone that would be a great interview for the podcast? Email [email protected]

Anne Brennan shares her story of starting her career in Business Development and Software Sales supporting the oilfield after graduating with her Masters in Geoscience. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-brennan-364a64b1/ Be on the lookout for Enverus’ Seekers Program coming this summer. Know of someone that would be a great interview for the podcast? Email [email protected]

Tyler Treser shares his exciting career transition from offshore mudlogger in the Gulf of Mexico to a software sales engineer in San Francisco. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylertreser/ Email: [email protected] Know someone that should be interviewed next? E: [email protected]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewfrancsis/ Matt Francsis is a former Geologist turned Data Scientist at Tessella. I was introduced to Matt after he published a LinkedIn post outlining his 7-12 months of intense effort that it took to transition to a Data Scientist role. This post went viral (over a million views) and really puts into perspective how rare it is to see detailed reports of how petrotechnical specialists transition to other industries. I really appreciate how candid Matt is with his story and I'm very grateful that he spent some time sharing his journey for the podcast. Have questions? Want his take on things? Looking for a Data Science job? Reach out to Matt on LinkedIn.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hudsonchen/ Hudson Chen is a Chemical and Petroleum Engineer turned Hiring Expert based out of Houston. He leveraged his technical background to become the #1 recruiter at Houston's fastest growing job placement firm. Hudson realized that LinkedIn would be crucial for his brand and has amassed an impressive ~30,000 followers, which he frequently utilizes to market and place people in permanent, full-time Chemical industry positions. He's a great story-teller on LinkedIn and our conversation was full of valuable details that will help any jobseeker (current or future).