Welcome to What the Funk? with Jeremy Funk. A series that highlights the unique personalities within the Oil and Gas Industry and the stories they have to share.
Plymouth roots, Detroit suburbs, and a water ski club team romance somehow turn into running a huge Eagle Ford production machine, plus parenting, hockey nights, and still finding time to chase a 14er. Matt Vivian from bpx energy shares how he went from Shell training to startup chaos to leading 1400 plus wells, why bottom up daily habits beat top down chaos, and how LinkedIn went from lurking to actually connecting with people again.
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00:00 Mid December catch up
01:17 Michigan roots and school
03:10 Getting into energy
03:30 Caroline, water skiing, family
11:14 Shell start, Houston to Denver
13:22 Questar and Bakken years
16:36 Startup grind at Rimrock
20:24 Sale, reset, and next move
22:16 Joining bpx in Eagle Ford
25:28 How bpx fits with BP
29:05 Role scope and growth
31:00 Daily priorities and reports
35:54 Weekends, trust, time off
40:18 Tech and AI habits
41:36 Life outside work
44:55 LinkedIn shift
50:59 Looking ahead at bpx and BP
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13 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT
Will Dotson
RegretShield isn’t your typical OT consulting shop, it’s a crew built on service, straight talk, and actually fixing the messy stuff that slows operators down. Will Dotson walked us through how he went from the military to building a company that’s obsessed with modernizing well pads, tightening up workflows, and giving clients the kind of communication they wish every vendor had. He opened up about the mentors who shaped him, the reality of working in OT (equal parts chaos and reward), and why RegretShield puts such a big emphasis on doing things the right way instead of the loud way. It’s a conversation full of stories, lessons learned, and the mindset that’s helping his team carve out something genuinely different in the OT world.
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00:00 - Intro
00:59 - Who is Will Dotson
06:06 - Track & Field Career
14:57 - Joining the Navy Experience
18:04 - WorldCom Insights
22:19 - Career After WorldCom
23:31 - Qualities of a Good Project Manager
28:30 - Starting Regatta Solutions Journey
33:20 - Learning from Mistakes
35:44 - Will's Early Projects Overview
38:24 - What is RegretShield
41:40 - Unique Aspects of RegretShield
46:46 - Future Vision for RegretShield
48:50 - Where to Find Will Dodson
49:50 - Outro
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23 Oct 2025TRANSCRIPT
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Host Jeremy Jensen shares his journey of building a $14M executive search firm from scratch, revealing key marketing and leadership lessons for growth.
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[…] There are other companies but you know it shows up in your inbox before 6 a .m. and it flags the the deviations to budget and where there's a deferment spike and what the downtime code is and you know make sure we have a plan for each of those things and that kind of daily management from the bottom up. And then you know from a bird's eye view of like where the numbers starting to get out of line at times or need support and we need another resource is I would say we have kind of both it's a hybrid of like bottoms up what do you need and from a top do the numbers match what the budget is and and our goals and so you know from a safety or from production or from cost you know you're looking at that it. […]
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