How do you deal with the resilience to persevere? I developed that rather.
How I developed it? Well, I think it just happened from a young age. I have always been very
optimistic and not one to really give up. So whenever I look at something and some there's
a wall that just obstructed itself, right? There's something in my way. Well, there's got to be a way
over the wall or around the wall or under the wall. There's not just one way through. You don't just
have to headbutt it until it cracks. There's always going to be a way around or a way through
or some way that you're not looking at it. Talk to other people. Talk to people. You're never going
to have no one in your corner, right? There's always going to be someone somewhere, even if
it's a friend you just made. You just tell them a little bit about what's going on and a different
perspective will help shift what you're looking at as well. In my corner, I know I always have
my mom who is one of the most optimistic people ever. When I told her that I left the Texas
Rangers and was going to do this out on my own, she paused for a moment and said,
I've got your back 100%. What do you need? And there was no hesitation. There was a moment to
collect herself and be like, he just won a World Series ring with the Texas Rangers and now
he's leaving them. And I got the World Series ring and I said, okay, this still isn't my passion.
This is awesome. I appreciate my time. I need to go somewhere else and find what I love to do.
And it was just a, my mom took it and said, okay, let's go. And so just knowing that I have
somebody that optimistic and that on my side in my corner, it just gives me the resilience
to persevere through anything that comes at me.
Whoa. All right. You just blew my mind in a lot of different ways. First off, it's amazing that you,
I'm going to focus on the virtue real quick because the virtue to me is bigger than the
bomb that you just dropped. The virtue of being a solutions oriented individual versus problem.
You're looking at how to solve the problem rather than just staring at the problem. Like you can
easily see that. You just mentioned the World Series and the ring. What the heck?
Yeah. I've never told you that.
Teach me what I don't know about what just happened, Payton.
Yeah. Give me one sec.
I just discovered a whole new part of you and guess who's, guess who's a Texas Rangers fan
and always has been Texas Rangers fan.
So in this box, let me see if I can catch the glare just right.
Texas Rangers World Series champions. It's got my name on it, man.
There's the certificate of authenticity.
And then let's see if I can open it in a way that looks good on me.
Let's see if I can open it in a way that looks good on camera.
How, what? I mean, so are you a baseball player?
No, never really been a baseball fan, which is crazy. And I told them that up front.
So what did you do with the championship ring? Help me understand this.
My name on it too. Children's in black. I was a part of the organization when they won.
I worked for the Texas Rangers for about a year. I worked for their full season last year in 20,
what year is it? 2023. And that's when they won their first World Series ring.
So now I have a first edition World Series ring from the championship ring.
World Series winning championship, Texas Rangers.
That is so awesome. Oh my goodness. And to be a part of that, the organization at large,
I mean, that's one of the greatest things about sports clubs and why they're so good at driving
revenues and building legacies. They are so inclusive on understanding the value of everybody
who participates. And so you were, you were doing production with them or what were you doing?
I was the audio visual coordinator for the stadium. I wasn't technically working for the
Rangers. I was working for their stadium operations team. And so I was setting up microphones,
speakers, TVs, projectors, lights, for any event that was going on inside. And normally it was
going off whenever there were away games or there were no games happening. People would rent out the
stadium for their party or for their business corporation or their business meeting or whatever
it was. They want to use our meeting rooms. Absolutely. You want to rent out the field?
Definitely. You want to talk to your people while you're on the field? They're going to need a
microphone and speakers. And so they would talk to me about what they need and how soon they need it.
I would talk to them about whether one microphone is really good enough. One set of speakers is
really good enough for the field. It's not. So then I would have to talk them into expanding
their budget, whether they can do this or whether they can afford that or whether we need to scale
down the size of the room if we're not going to use the whole field, just this portion or whatever
it is. And so it was always a different task and it was always booking a month out. And so I'm trying
to stay on top. And the whole time I'm there, I'm just a one man team. I'm emailing everybody a
month in advance about what they're needing and then trying to keep up to date with them.
I'm also setting up, operating, and then tearing down events, sometimes multiple events in a day
that I'm having to manage. And every once in a while I would say, hey, I need a second hand.
And they would have to pull it from another branch or another section of the operations team that
wasn't AV related. They would just say, you need somebody to stand at the board, right? I'm like,
yeah, kind of. And yeah, thanks.
Yo, I got to put it on there, man. Like, oh my gosh, that's so cool.
Yeah. It was just a lot of work for one man and it wasn't my passion. And so I decided I needed to
take a step back and go a different way.
But there it is. It wasn't your passion yet that resilience to persevere and make that happen.
And Peyton, this is one of the most unfair advantages you could possibly have in terms
of driving your vision forward. And so that is epic. So I'm so excited for you.
And then hearing you talk about the size of the room and the equipment that you need, et cetera,
it's so easy to see how visionary you are in the process too. And it's like watching one of those
children who's super into Legos and they can tell you all about what they're going to build.
And you're like, oh my gosh, like, hello, Einstein right here.
It's very much seen in the picture.
Yeah. You've got to see the bigger picture and be able to work the small thing at the same time.
You know what their vision is. You know what they're working towards, but you need to focus
on this one small piece. Like you can't build a house without building the support first.
You have to start at the bottom and build all your way up and knowing what they want
the top to look like. Everything has to look perfect.