Lion in the White House: A Life of Theodore Roosevelt by Aida Donald and Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins.
What vacation spot is on your bucket list?
The Seychelles.
If you could domesticate a wild animal, what animal would it be?
Rocky Mountain [bighorn] sheep, Dall sheep, or Stone’s sheep.
What’s the first thing you do when you get home after a long day at work?
Plop down, talk to the wife, and just relax.
What do you do in your free time?
I go fishing, go to my cabin at China Poot [Bay] to just get away from it all.
Lion in the White House: A Life of Theodore Roosevelt by Aida Donald and Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins.
What vacation spot is on your bucket list?
The Seychelles.
If you could domesticate a wild animal, what animal would it be?
Rocky Mountain [bighorn] sheep, Dall sheep, or Stone’s sheep.
What’s the first thing you do when you get home after a long day at work?
Plop down, talk to the wife, and just relax.
What do you do in your free time?
I go fishing, go to my cabin at China Poot [Bay] to just get away from it all.
Off the Cuff
here she was, perhaps the only 90-year-old woman ever to set foot on a Cook Inlet offshore platform. John Hendrix brought his mother to his workplace last year, and he wishes more Alaskans could see the “invisible economy” of oil and gas.
“If we were spending $52 million in downtown Kenai or Anchorage, it’d be a couple big structures,” Hendrix posits. “But if you spend in the middle of Cook Inlet or the North Slope, no one sees it except a very small population.”
Hendrix is a population of one, the only CEO of an Alaskan-owned gas explorer, ever since his HEX acquired Furie Operating Alaska in 2019. To cultivate more peers, he’s leading by example. “We have a lot of non-Alaskans taking a lot of risk, so I think it’d be good to help and mentor other Alaskans wanting to get into this world.”
John Hendrix: For a Homer guy, it’s probably The Twisted Goat… In Anchorage, it’s probably the Rustic Goat [no relation].
AB: Dead or alive, who would you like to see perform live in concert?
Hendrix: The Rolling Stones.
AB: What charity or cause are you passionate about?
Hendrix: Boys and Girls Club, the Senior Center (which we host every year for a fundraiser), and the Boone and Crockett Club, North America’s oldest conservation club, founded in 1887 by Teddy Roosevelt.
AB: Is there a skill you’re currently developing or have always wanted to learn?
Hendrix: I have a nice grand piano at the house, and it’s a shame I can’t play it.
AB: What’s your greatest extravagance?
Hendrix: Going to a ball in front of the Sphinx and pyramids… I did it multiple times when I was working in Egypt.
AB: What are you superstitious about?
Hendrix: I don’t like black cats walking across me at night.
AB: What’s the most daring thing you’ve ever done?
Hendrix: I jumped out of a plane when I was 18… I almost lost my college scholarship doing it… I didn’t know it was against the rules.
AB: What’s your best attribute and worst attribute?
Hendrix: I believe you can do anything if you put your effort and your dedication into it, and sometimes that drive gets me into trouble.
