The Hunter Owen Podcast

Scott King is the COO of Triangle Development, specializing in developing apartment buildings. He and Hunter talk about his childhood in Jackson, Mississippi, where he learned how to fly before he learned how to drive a car, his brief stint playing baseball for the Millsaps Majors, the injury that ended his baseball career, and how he helped steer his company to be more than just a construction co...

Caroline Johnson is an attorney for the Mississippi Division of Medicaid. Before that, she competed in Miss Mississippi where she was 3rd alternate. She and Hunter talk about that experience, her Graves' disease diagnosis and battle, her journey into legal practice, and much more. -------- Follow Caroline! https://www.instagram.com/johnerly3/ https://www.facebook.com/caroline.conerly/ --------...

Taylor Nicholas is the executive director of Great City Mississippi, a nonprofit that "connects and accelerates efforts improving quality of life for future generations in Mississippi by helping to build a strong capital city in Jackson." He and Hunter talk about his time serving as a bureaucrat in Washington, DC in various capacities, what brought him back to Mississippi, his current business ven...

Blake Johnson is the director of marketing at Marsh & McLennan Agency, but perhaps he is more widely known for receiving small residuals checks from NBC Universal for the time he and his twin brother acted in The Chamber as kids. He and Hunter talk about what that experience was like, the shenanigans he and his twin brother Sid got into growing up, and how he found his current role in the insu...

Jim Page is the head baseball coach at Millsaps College and has been since 1989. He and Hunter talk about his journey to coaching, his funniest and most memorable moments as a coach, what it was like coaching his sons, what it was like coaching Hunter, and more. -------- Follow Millsaps Majors Baseball! https://gomajors.com/sports/baseball https://www.instagram.com/millsaps_baseball/ https://x.com...

Brooke Smith is the assistant director of the CARES Center at Canopy Children's Solutions, where she helps meet the needs of children all around the state of Mississippi deal with their traumatic situations through different types of therapy. She and Hunter talk about her parents' divorce, how she lost her front teeth as a teenager, the long list of places across the country she's lived, how excit...

Kyler Moppert is the man who started Surcee Designs and Lost Hat Co. However, don't call him the founder or CEO, and definitely don't call him an entrepreneur. He's way past that phase. He and Hunter talk about how he was raised by his mom without ever meeting his dad, how Lil Wayne helped him get through college after flunking out, what he wants to leave for his children, the times he went to jai...

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS DISTRESSING THEMES, INCLUDING MENTIONS OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE, ADDICTION, SELF-HARM, AND SUICIDE. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS STRUGGLING WITH ISSUES RELATED TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR ADDICTION, CALL SAMHSA'S NATIONAL HELPLINE AT 1-800-662-HELP (4357) OR TEXT YOUR ZIP CODE TO HELP4U (435748). IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS STRUGGLING WITH ISSUES RELATED...

Randy Jones is a dentist and the owner of Magnolia Smiles Family Dentistry. In this episode, he and Hunter talk about how Randy got his competitive edge playing football in high school and uses it to apply to his dental practice, growing it to five locations. Randy also speaks on how that manifests itself in the form of a dental experience organization rather than a dental service organization. --...

Will Umphlett is a dentist and the owner of Capital Dental in Jackson and Madison, Mississippi. He and Hunter talk about why he chose dentistry well into his thirties, what it was like buying his practice right before the COVID-19 debacle, his love of films and early aspirations of becoming a filmmaker, his growing presence on TikTok, and much more.  -------- Follow Will! https://www.capitaldental...

Nelson Byrd is the founder and owner of Landscape Design Studio, specializing in turning backyards into oases of peace and tranquility. He and Hunter converse about what led him to where he is now, including being laid off twice before staring his company, his borderline obsession Jersey Mike's sandwiches, how his twins smeared forbidden fudge all over their room, his overall positive outlook...

David Seago is a retired oral surgeon who is now a resource teacher at Jackson Preparatory School. Among other things, he talks with Hunter about his traumatic brain injury he suffered due to being run over, how he went on to complete an Ironman and continue his oral surgery practice, facing the disturbing events of his childhood, the retinal cancer that forced him to retire from surgery, his tran...

Johnny Allen is the EVP of MINER, which sells loading dock supplies and doors. He also owns A & S Interiors, which he recently bought with his wife. That business sells windows, shades, shutters, and upholstery. Hunter and he talk about his time playing baseball at Mississippi State, how his kid is always wanting to buy land despite not knowing how to read, how he was an underground fighter in...

Hollye Henderson is the owner of CrossFit JXN, an eight-time CrossFit Games Regionalist/Semifinalist, and a former soccer player for Mississippi College, now Mississippi Christian University. She and Hunter talk about her obsession with achieving her goals, her injuries, how women tear their ACLs during their periods, the problems with CrossFit, what got her into CrossFit after soccer, what life w...

Chad Berry is a C.P.A. and owns Berry & Associates, P.A., a boutique accounting firm with offices in Madison, Mississippi, Dallas, Texas, and Little Rock, Arkansas. He and Hunter talk about his time running cross country and track and field for Ole Miss, how he got last place in the SEC cross country meet, how he doesn't love accounting or running, his injuries through college, how being a fat...

Keaton Page is an insurance agent for Farm Bureau, but respectfully, that's the least interesting thing about him. He played baseball under his father Jim Page at Millsaps College and was the head coach at Coyote Fitness in Madison, Mississippi. He and Hunter talk about Keaton's injury that got him a fifth year, what it was like to have his baseball season canceled due to the COVID-19 fiasco, how...

Weber Herbison is a dentist and author who owns Herbison and Reynolds Dental Clinic in Forest, Mississippi. Before that he played baseball for Delta State Fighting Okra in Cleveland, Mississippi when they were the top-ranked Division II baseball team in the country. He and Hunter talk about his past, how going to church landed him the offer to play college baseball, why he chose to be a dentist in...

Michael McElroy is a Senior Coach for Mayhem Individual Performance Coaching. He has lived a storied career in CrossFit both as a competitor and as a coach, having made the CrossFit regionals three times as an athlete and having coached some of CrossFit's best. He and Hunter talk about training for the CrossFit Games together, his relationship with Rich Froning, horses mating, his short-lived golf...

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS DISTRESSING THEMES, INCLUDING MENTIONS OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND ADDICTION. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS STRUGGLING WITH ISSUES RELATED TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND ADDICTION, CALL SAMHSA’S NATIONAL HELPLINE AT 1-800-662-HELP (4357) OR TEXT YOUR ZIP CODE TO HELP4U (435748). -------- Martin Palomo is the CEO at Argent Wealth. He and Hunter talk about his...

Nate Hughes is the Lead Pastor at Vertical Church in Gluckstadt, Mississippi. Before that he played football at Azusa Pacific University in California with his twin brother Nick. He and Hunter talk about what it's like having an identical twin brother, growing up in a dysfunctional family full of addiction and how he overcame that, his journey in ministry, some light conspiracy theories and more....

Marcus Washington is an assistant coach for Holmes Community College's men's basketball team. He has played at almost every level of basketball, having gone from JUCO, to Division I, to playing semi-professionally in New Mexico. He and Hunter talk about all of that, what led him from playing basketball to working in a Nissan plant to playing basketball again to coaching, and much more. ---...

Sid Johnson is the Underwriting Manager for FCCI Insurance Group. As a kid, he acted with his identical twin brother Blake in the feature film The Chamber . Spoiler alert, his character is killed off in the first five minutes. He and Hunter talk about how he and Blake used to switch places all the time growing up, his daughter's rare Joubert syndrome diagnosis, and much more. -------- Follow S...

Tyler Thompson is the Founder and Creative Director at Thompson CRTV, an independent videography, photography, and ad agency. Before that, he spent 17 years as a children's pastor at Word of Life Church. He and Hunter talk about what made him decide to leave ministry to pursue his new creative outlet, how he continues to mentor youth pastors, what it was like starting an independent business from...

Jacob Haralson is the Chairman of the board at Ross & Yerger Insurance. He and Hunter talk about how he gains an advantage in selling insurance by living out of a sprinter van, how he went from unemployed to where he is now, and the time he shot his older brother on purpose. -------- Follow Jacob! https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-haralson-95930822/ -------- Follow Hunter! https://t.co/fbSjLS5...

Charles Box is a film and television director and producer from Plant City, Florida. He's an alum of the prestigious Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University, and before that he served in the United States Marines. His feature directorial debut, Harmless , on which Rimes served as first assistant director, is currently making its way to film festivals around the world. -------- F...