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How do you deal with the resilience to persevere? I developed that rather.

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How I developed it? Well, I think it just happened from a young age. I have always been very

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optimistic and not one to really give up. So whenever I look at something and some there's

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a wall that just obstructed itself, right? There's something in my way. Well, there's got to be a way

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over the wall or around the wall or under the wall. There's not just one way through. You don't just

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have to headbutt it until it cracks. There's always going to be a way around or a way through

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or some way that you're not looking at it. Talk to other people. Talk to people. You're never going

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to have no one in your corner, right? There's always going to be someone somewhere, even if

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it's a friend you just made. You just tell them a little bit about what's going on and a different

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perspective will help shift what you're looking at as well. In my corner, I know I always have

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my mom who is one of the most optimistic people ever. When I told her that I left the Texas

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Rangers and was going to do this out on my own, she paused for a moment and said,

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I've got your back 100%. What do you need? And there was no hesitation. There was a moment to

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collect herself and be like, he just won a World Series ring with the Texas Rangers and now

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he's leaving them. And I got the World Series ring and I said, okay, this still isn't my passion.

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This is awesome. I appreciate my time. I need to go somewhere else and find what I love to do.

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And it was just a, my mom took it and said, okay, let's go. And so just knowing that I have

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somebody that optimistic and that on my side in my corner, it just gives me the resilience

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to persevere through anything that comes at me.

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Whoa. All right. You just blew my mind in a lot of different ways. First off, it's amazing that you,

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I'm going to focus on the virtue real quick because the virtue to me is bigger than the

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bomb that you just dropped. The virtue of being a solutions oriented individual versus problem.

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You're looking at how to solve the problem rather than just staring at the problem. Like you can

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easily see that. You just mentioned the World Series and the ring. What the heck?

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Yeah. I've never told you that.

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Teach me what I don't know about what just happened, Payton.

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Yeah. Give me one sec.

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I just discovered a whole new part of you and guess who's, guess who's a Texas Rangers fan

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and always has been Texas Rangers fan.

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So in this box, let me see if I can catch the glare just right.

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Texas Rangers World Series champions. It's got my name on it, man.

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There's the certificate of authenticity.

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And then let's see if I can open it in a way that looks good on me.

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Let's see if I can open it in a way that looks good on camera.

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How, what? I mean, so are you a baseball player?

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No, never really been a baseball fan, which is crazy. And I told them that up front.

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So what did you do with the championship ring? Help me understand this.

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My name on it too. Children's in black. I was a part of the organization when they won.

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I worked for the Texas Rangers for about a year. I worked for their full season last year in 20,

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what year is it? 2023. And that's when they won their first World Series ring.

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So now I have a first edition World Series ring from the championship ring.

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World Series winning championship, Texas Rangers.

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That is so awesome. Oh my goodness. And to be a part of that, the organization at large,

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I mean, that's one of the greatest things about sports clubs and why they're so good at driving

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revenues and building legacies. They are so inclusive on understanding the value of everybody

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who participates. And so you were, you were doing production with them or what were you doing?

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I was the audio visual coordinator for the stadium. I wasn't technically working for the

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Rangers. I was working for their stadium operations team. And so I was setting up microphones,

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speakers, TVs, projectors, lights, for any event that was going on inside. And normally it was

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going off whenever there were away games or there were no games happening. People would rent out the

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stadium for their party or for their business corporation or their business meeting or whatever

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it was. They want to use our meeting rooms. Absolutely. You want to rent out the field?

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Definitely. You want to talk to your people while you're on the field? They're going to need a

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microphone and speakers. And so they would talk to me about what they need and how soon they need it.

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I would talk to them about whether one microphone is really good enough. One set of speakers is

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really good enough for the field. It's not. So then I would have to talk them into expanding

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their budget, whether they can do this or whether they can afford that or whether we need to scale

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down the size of the room if we're not going to use the whole field, just this portion or whatever

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it is. And so it was always a different task and it was always booking a month out. And so I'm trying

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to stay on top. And the whole time I'm there, I'm just a one man team. I'm emailing everybody a

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month in advance about what they're needing and then trying to keep up to date with them.

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I'm also setting up, operating, and then tearing down events, sometimes multiple events in a day

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that I'm having to manage. And every once in a while I would say, hey, I need a second hand.

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And they would have to pull it from another branch or another section of the operations team that

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wasn't AV related. They would just say, you need somebody to stand at the board, right? I'm like,

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yeah, kind of. And yeah, thanks.

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Yo, I got to put it on there, man. Like, oh my gosh, that's so cool.

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Yeah. It was just a lot of work for one man and it wasn't my passion. And so I decided I needed to

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take a step back and go a different way.

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But there it is. It wasn't your passion yet that resilience to persevere and make that happen.

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And Peyton, this is one of the most unfair advantages you could possibly have in terms

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of driving your vision forward. And so that is epic. So I'm so excited for you.

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And then hearing you talk about the size of the room and the equipment that you need, et cetera,

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it's so easy to see how visionary you are in the process too. And it's like watching one of those

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children who's super into Legos and they can tell you all about what they're going to build.

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And you're like, oh my gosh, like, hello, Einstein right here.

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It's very much seen in the picture.

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Yeah. You've got to see the bigger picture and be able to work the small thing at the same time.

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You know what their vision is. You know what they're working towards, but you need to focus

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on this one small piece. Like you can't build a house without building the support first.

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You have to start at the bottom and build all your way up and knowing what they want

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the top to look like. Everything has to look perfect.