From the Clark Ford studio in Oxford, Mississippi, MBW Digital proudly presents the Oxford Exxon podcast.

I'd say thanks for tuning in, but why am I going to give you a round of applause for something that you're supposed to do, to be frank?

And now, here are your hosts, Chase Palm.

And broadcast school is really paid off.

And Neil McCrady.

I deserve to be on team. Welcome in to this edition of the podcast today.

Vice President of the Grove Collective, founder Total NIL, and about a thousand other hats,

including recently Mrs.

Mizzeres, Ryan Rawlison. Lauren Rawlison here

with us today, formerly Hazleton. Good to be with you. I'm just kind of curious. You've got all

kind of stuff going on. You've got your own professional situation in so many different ways.

Did we think about keeping our name? How did we kind of make that switch?

Yeah. First off, thanks for having me, Chase.

Honestly, it wasn't a hard decision. I was like, I don't think I'm going to

define it because our last names are both super long. So I'm like, that's going to get

confusing. But I made my LinkedIn post of like reintroducing myself so people didn't get lost in the confusion

of the name change. So we didn't we didn't do the long hyphenation.

Obviously we're going to get Ryan on here in a little bit. Hopefully that is the that's the plan for

today's show. I'll let you tell it and I will probably won't make him repeat it

but how what's what's you guys story a little bit before we get into you yeah so actually

I'm on the board for M Club and I was asked by Jessica Lynch if I could help her with an event

the LSU weekend a few years ago and all my friends were in

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